singleton here - dd is 10 :coolgleamA: homeschooled dd 22 singleton for 12 years - she now has her MBA and married :001_tt1:

Brother 2270DW monochrome laser printer :hurray:

Thank you,

DS 10 Daily: we take turns reading ~ LOF(he does work on whiteboard), Science, Hist., Health, Music, Art, Grammar Town, Poetry Book, and a free read right now is Milton Hershey. Independent work: Handwriting, Health w/s-quizzes-tests, History Scribe Music and artist notebook pages, Art work, Abeka readers, Map Trek, Hist. Lapbooks, Science lapbooks, Logic, Building Thinking Skills, Reading Detective. Together: I always go over the teacher portion of the lessons with him then assign the work. Lessons for: LLATL, AAS, MM, Abeka Reading ?, Math Detective, IEW A, Science experiments. DS likes to piddle- so I have to keep coming into the classroom and tell him "wow! thats great look you are almost finished." Otherwise he would sit all day just doing math. I expect a child to be able to work completely independent by 8th grade.

With DS his speech issues have effected his phonics, spelling, narrating, and writing. This year he finished formal speech and OT(his muscles were underdeveloped so he also had handwriting issues) That being said he is behind his peers and we are struggling to bring him up to speed. Today, I am discourage to as what writing program to use - we went back to IEW A and will write the rough draft for Prince and the Pea. Time will tell how it goes. We just finished Level 3 ASS and it is helping but, it is slow and steady. I would get her tested - Oh afterthought if anyone has any thoughts on a better writing program for a struggling child please post. Thanks

Thank you for all your responses ~ with the new year I am trying to figure out if we need to readjust our time - it always seems that compared to other home educators in our area we spend more time on school. But looking over the responses here it seems that we are pretty much on target. Also, If your ds has a problem with a subject do you add more time and subtract time from other subjects or just add time ?

This is true - glad we are not alone ~ we are always teasing that our ds has an attitude of a 13 year old girl!!

Thank you ~ for all the great ideas - it is going to be a great year!!

If there ie a thrend on this would someone please link me ;) Thank you,

Looking to start the new year on a tighter budget and would love to hear what you do to cut back. Thank you,

Other - we used Rod and Staff until grade 5.

We have taken a break from IEW and are using Winning With Writing - so far it is working out nicely.

Science kits are a good way to add hands on projects to what you are studying.

You take them with you and use everything as a learning experience. You pack a back pack with snacks, school work or fun things to do and they learn patience and real life lessons. And when they do well I always gave mine a bonus picnic lunch at the park and play time. Really before you know it your children are grown and you missed out on the special times.

Thank you everyone for the wonderful info :)

Could someone tell me is this okay? I thought you needed 50 posts to buy or sell :confused: Thank you,

The boys club my son is in is reading George S. Patton War Hero - I am looking for a hands on project to go with. Any ideas/links are welcome. Thank You,

You are welcome - we have done it for several years and enjoy it. :)

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Thank you for the taking the time to give me fantastic explanations of both programs. This is what I needed. :D

If you have used one or both of these - would you please tell me the pro and cons? Thank you

Suzanne, A good OT can make all the difference in the world. Ds 9 was DX with low muscle tone and an issue with crossing mid-line - by looking at him you would have never guessed it, but he had so much trouble with handwriting. It would take him 2 1/2 hours to write 10 sentences and that was him hard at it. They worked on his core, hand, pincher grip and crossing the mid line 5 months for 1 hour a week and then we did and still do home exercises. Wow it made such a big difference he can now write 10 sentence in less than 10 minutes and without his hand hurting him :) Pray your OT visit will go well.

Good point - this is something I never thought of. He does not like to write. Thank you

Going to check these out! Thank you