Praying for your family :grouphug: Lisa blessed wife to DH of 23 yrs Two special gifts DD 18 :Angel_anim:, DS 6 :gnorsi:

From our experience I would put her ahead - our daughter was very bright like yours they would not put her ahead and at the time I did not fight for her to be put ahead. So trying to make a long story short - school made a good effort to increase her work in the reg. classroom and put her into their gifted program, but she was bored and unhappy. - So by 4th grade she begged to be homeschooled.(which turned out to be such a blessing) She advanced at will and started college one year ahead of her peers this year and has been on the deans list and carries a 4.0. So I would put her ahead and pray that it will be enough challenge for her. Lisa blessed wife to DH of 23years :) Two special gifts DD 18 :Angel_anim: DS 6 :gnorsi:

My son loves the map skills workbooks and I love some of the scholastic professional books. I feel if your child likes them why not? Lisa DD college, DS 6

We spent for grade 1 4 days a week 1.5 to 2 hrs R&S phonics/reading/spelling with games 2 x per week 30 min. to 1 hr. read out loud together 30 min. to 1 hr. R&S math with games 2 x per week 2 days a week 1 to 2 hrs. science with experiments 1 to 2 hrs. Hist. with mapping and projects 1 day a week 30 min. to 1 hr. art 30 min. to 1 hr. music 1 hr. to 2 hrs. misc., lapbooks, write and read books, Draw*Write*Now, logic etc. Most of the time we do our science or Hist. after lunch. We went to co-op on Tuesdays for art, music, and P.E. And did field trips with one of our 2 homeschool groups when I felt the interest was there. We have finished all our material except Phonics/reading which I feel should be worked on throughout the summer for at least 3 days per week for 1 hour + out loud reading time daily. Next year we plan to keep up in the same manner because it seemed to work well for us. We may not do co-op. Lisa DD college, DS 6

We love R&S for reading, phonics and math. Adding R&S English 2 next year. It is not fancy or colorful but our son does not mind. He loves it :) And I am just a R&S fan :D Some say the math is to repetitive and I would agree, but that is what we like, we feel a solid foundation in general math goes a long way in higher math - again just our opinion. When we feel like too much rep. we play math blasters and board games then write what we did on the section we skipped. What we love about the reading your child will have read the complete bible by the end of 4th grade. The workbook and worksheet workbooks are graet!! Phonics you can make some prompts( I did) but would not want to teach without the phonics flash cards - they are a big help. Again we love these workbooks!! Abeka- Art( this is good for people like me who does not have any artistic ability), Abeka-health, and science. Abeka -History Scholastic Success with Maps 1 (plan to use 2 next year)and SOTW 1. Peterson directed handwriting ( our son is a lefty with opposite side eye dominance - he had a hard time with hand writing) Use Draw Write Now 1x per week and I fill in with Lapbooking and Scholastic write and read books. Best of luck - Lisa Blessed wife of 23 years, Twice blessed mother dd 18 college GPA 4.0 and ds 6

My problem is I always take things to sell, sell nothing and buy every bargin I find that would be of use to us :lol: Really enjoy :001_smile: This is the best time of the year :D If you are able to stick to a list please let me know how!!! :auto: Lisa wife of 23 years dd 18 dd 6 p.s. good luck!!!

What a wonderful suggestion :D - I really never thought of it! - I will have to do this the next time he decides to be mean.(which will be next Tuesday at co-op) This I think would be better than us having our son go to blows with him. Thank you Lisa

:iagree: This is a good point - the bigger problem - I am so thankful I found this forum to help us put things in perspective. I plan to ask our group charge just what is the policy because this behavior is unacceptable. Lisa

Yes we have talked about this - I did tell him to come to an adult if he is hit on and don't hit back. And sorry to say we are seeing what the group can do to him mentally and physically. So since the experience yesterday and reading what others have to say we plan to change our direction of thought and work with him on defense. And we are really not sure at this point if we are going to choose to keep him with this group. We will defiantly never do any out side activities with this boys family again. Thanks Lisa

:001_smile:We are really grateful to hear feedback that supports what we were feeling in our hearts. In fact now that it has been brought to our attention, there seems to be a lot of bulling going on in the family. Ie. the one boy had a bruise between his eyes from his older brother hitting him with a pogo stick, and constant name calling. It seems a shame that the parents allow this behavior, but we agree that our son should not be forced to fall to this level. This does not mean that we don't feel that he should not defend himself, we just think that forcing this situation upon him is wrong. We have been praying about another church and really like the idea of Boy scouts or 4-H. Blessings, Lisa

Well I will say I feel much better about independent reading. Our DD was reading books by herself by 5 and to this day I still don't know when she was ever taught to read she just did - they did not teach phonics at her school they were just learning their ABC's but walla she was reading. And I read on this forum that there are children reading independently by 6 so - this is what had me stumped. Thought maybe I was doing something wrong - we have been doing phonics and site words which he does well at but well he just doesn’t pick up a book to read independently. I never gave it a thought that he needs to build confidence or to take some books out of the book shelve and display them. So many good suggestions - thank you all :) Lisa

We have been attending a co-op for the past 3 months - there is a now 7 yr. old boy who is mean and picks on our son - he even goes as far as getting the other boys to not play with our son. I have spoke with the other mothers about this and they assure me that they are speaking with their sons on keeping their hands to themselves and no name calling. But today when we attended the little boys B-day party at Bonkers the B-day boy which is the boy who doesn't want the other boys to befriend our son punched our son in the mouth and nose - we have told our son no hitting and to come tell us. The mother did make her son apologize but then her son lead the other boys in a wild game of keep away from my son - don't play with him. Which had our son trying to run and keep up then he stood up and popped his head real hard on one of the bars put a cut in the top of his head fell back on his seat and cried. My husband watched all of this and said he hit the bar real hard. And the boys were being real mean to our son. Our son is not a small child but he is a very sweet loving boy. We have always told him to do unto others as you would want them to do to you. We also realize that our son has not played with a lot of children his age. Our daughter is 18 and we are older parents 45 and 46. We do have pay dates with mostly girls because that is what God has given to our friends. And our church does not always have any children but him. ( we have been praying about this too) So he has not had a lot of contact with boys his age. The mothers today told me before this happened that boys just don't keep their hands to themselves and that they play ruff. But my husband feels that they are just mean and out of control. He said he had 3 brothers who would have never been aloud to act in such a manner. Are we overprotective or out of touch with the way 5,6,&7 yr. old boys act now days? So we are at loss of what to do - any suggestions??? Would be helpful. Blessings Lisa

Are we the only parents with a 6 yr. old ds who does not read independently? He reads fine out loud when told but does not care to read a book by himself. Any thoughts to get him to do so? Blessings Lisa wife of 23 years mother to dd 18 and ds 6 :auto:

Are we the only parents with a 6 yr. old ds who does not read independently? He reads fine out loud when told but does not care to read a book by himself. Any thoughts to get him to do so? Blessings Lisa wife of 23 years mother to dd 18 and ds 6 :auto:

Bess, It is wonderful that your Dh spoke up :hurray: - I know it might not be easy at times , but after reading Protecting the Gift -ooohhh! one needs to really be alert to their mommy vibes :) Blessings Lisa Dd 18 and Ds 6

:001_smile: I appreciate everyone’s input on spelling - I am probably going to use R&S as it has been brought to my attention that they make it to go along with the reading/phonics. I always tend to worry about everything being to much. Do you use spelling twice a week or what? Blessings Lisa

My son loves maps and if I am reading into everyones replies corerectly - we need to get the AG. And thank you to everyone who has given my sites to check out - this is going to be such a help - I am sooo excited:hurray::hurray: Blessings Lisa

Thank you to all that has replied - we purchased SOTW, vol. 1 and Ancient Civilizations history pockets - these are great! Kicking around the idea of adding the study guide. Would think it would make a complete study. Lisa Blessed wife for 23 years and mother to dd18 and ds6

Does anyone use R&S Spelling by Sound and Structure? If so likes?, dislikes? We are going into 2 grade work so reading/phonics and math is our main focus - Was kicking around the idea of adding spelling. We use R&S reading/phonics and love it! But don't have any ideas for spelling. Open for suggestions. :confused: Blessings Lisa

Sequential Spelling you can try it for free. http://avko.org/index.htm Best of luck Blessings Lisa:)

We bought our HD front load a year ago day after Thanksgiving from - Sears. We did not get top of the line, but it runs and cleans great only thing wish I would have bought one with dry clean. They had a 1 year intrest free finace offer. Good Luck. Blessings Lisa

A mother of 12 who homeschool gave wonderful advice - before your baby comes have your year planed - yes it seemed like allot but it really did help and our ds had a fine year. I actually liked it so well I make a habit of it now. Of course things don't always go just as planed, but hey that is o.k. you add stuff take stuff out and regroup a little but the main plan is still there and going strong. You are great with you children now so you will continue to be great:) Sorry about your mother not supporting you and maybe even offering to help out. I do know about this - we have homeschool for the past 10 years our ds was an Academic Honors Recipient to W.W. University and my parents did not even acknowledges it. She is a freshman and on the deans list - they still ignore it, so the other day she told my father it was her home education that prepared her for college. That is why she does so well Then with our ds 6 they again started on us to send him to school - he needs other children, he is to hyper for you to teach(now what would have school done with him - I am sure he would not be able to read). Well I do take him to co-op. And there are plenty of ladies who sit in the nursery with their babies. And other mothers love to help them with their babies and children. I say you do as you heart is telling you to do and find a good group of homeschoolers to befriend for support. You and your children deserve the best and it is clear you are the best for them :D Blessings Lisa

:w00t: Our ds 6 loves them and so do I. We usually watch a science, hist., or music DVD while we eat lunch. We also love Bill Nye, Animal Planet, DK eyewitness, Popular Mechanics for Kids, Magic School Bus, National Geography and Signing time! Blessings Lisa wife to Guy for 23 yrs., ds18 University, ds 6 R&S phonics/reading 1, math 1, music1, Abeka Hist. 1,Science 2 ,Art 2 ,Health 1, lapbooking for fun!:auto:

Appreciate all the input - it looks like such a good read. Thanks Lisa :)

The Story of the World, Vol. 1 ..... has really plagued my interest, but on their site they do not have a sample of the activity book( is there one any where I can look at?) - Do most people use the activity book and tests? And what are any thoughts for using it with a 6/7 yr old boy? He loves maping and we have used K and 1 Abeka Hist. Blessings Lisa Wife for 23 yrs. to Guy, dd 18, ds 6