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It's clearly past time to upgrade from our Scholastic Children's Dictionary.

Trying to find a math program for a seventh grader who is struggling through fourth grade math. We've tried at least half a dozen programs (Saxon and CTC math just this year) and each time we get a quarter to a half of the way through while he gets more and more frustrated. It's obvious while I help him that he just doesn't understand what he's doing. I feel awful and wonder if I wouldn't have done better to have just picked a program and slugged through. He did like Teaching Textbooks when we used it a few years ago, but I haven't seen their middle grades stuff.

This was wonderful of them. I went ahead and preordered.

I think I'm going to try something similar to this. Their taste in books is actually fairly decent, just not overly varied. So I'll save the structure for the area that needs the help.

I'd go with Sonlight D and E. There is plenty of material there for two years, and the literature is excellent.

I'm assuming DIRT time is guided reading time? Thank you to everyone for sharing.

Oh this looks perfect.

Do you provide your children with a structure for checking out library books like is suggested in TWTM? (One literature, one biography, so on.). Do you limit twaddle-y books? I'm revising my rules. And learning to take a second grownup for the toddler so I can help the bigs, but that's a whole nother conversation!

I just got the Story of the World audiobooks and am looking forward to listening to them on car trips with my kids (age 3-13). I know SWB recommended not using book 4 with early elementary kids though. Are there particular chapters that should be skipped due to content? Or should I just stop at the beginning of the 20th century for now?

I'd stick with books for them to read with their grandparents. You can never have too much one on one time with newer readers, and grandparents are an especially patient and enthusiastic audience.

If you use Vocabulary from Classical Roots how do you schedule the lesson over the course of the week?

Oh, wow, thanks for all the suggestions. I have some of the little kid Memoria Press recitations, and their english grammar book I should take a look at again. I followed some links from upthread and found scripturebox.com. Has anyone tried it?

What do you do? How do you organize it? Do you use apps or mp3s or a hard copy system?

Thank you for sharing this!

I purchased my copy on CurrClick, but I've also seen it on Rainbow Resource. The con is definetely the price. It's about $30-35 a year. I like it because it is gentle and more developmentally appropriate than a lot of preschool programs, but still laid out in an organized daily schedule with a couple different activities each day Here is a link to the pdf versions where you can see samples: http://www.currclick.com/browse/pub/444/Flowering-Baby-LLC

This seems to be out of print. Is anyone aware of an alternate book or updated edition?

Flowering Baby is easier to use than Slow and Steady Get Me Ready, and very gentle imo. I strongly agree with the idea of focusing more on methods (and the rationale for curriculum choices). Unlike when the first edition came out, homeschool curriculum is everywhere now. Knowledge of how to homeschool, in the nuts and bolts way that is particularly laid out in in a lot of the PHP audio is a lot harder to find. I'm really curious when the new edition will be ready? I had just convinced myself to by a 3rd edition for my tablet, as I do more of my teaching and organizing from it each year. Now I'm wondering if I should hold off a bit?

Thank you all for the ideas. Going to try and think these over and look at the ideas in the context of our family.

What and how much chores would you consider age appropriate for a 13 yob, 7 yog, and 6 yog? Chore assignments are causing a lot of conflict around here.

I'm planning to use WWS, just not sure what grammar to do with it if I don't want to use Rod and Staff.

I just got this, and yes it works on multiple devices. It's an amazing deal, with a lot of high quality books and audiobooks and some popular homeschool references.

Something that does a thorough job of teaching logic stage skills like outlining. Preferably something mostly secular and written to the student? What have you liked?

Thanks for the suggestion. That does look a lot like what I was looking for.

Anyone have a good guide to clear, logical thinking for me? I seem too often to struggle to follow or find the flaws in other people's reasoning.