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  1. Thanks for all of the input. This is a very mathy kid who loves to learn new concepts and gets things quickly. (I am not mathy whatsoever so Saxon has served us well.) If and when she goes to high school: the sequence for my older daughter was Geometry, Algebra II, Pre-Calc and then she went for AP Statitics because she is not a math lover. My younger one, the school has said can take higher level classes at a nearby private college during highschool but the logistics of that make me nervous. (They have to get to college and high school classes on time--not sure how preious students have made this work.) I would like for her to enter highschool at no higher than Algebra II so she is not at the college any earlier than Senior year if that is the route she wants to go. I'll see if I can get a copy of Jacob's to look at and see what we think. I do think there is time for Alg.II and at leat 2/3 of Advanced math at the rate she is going but just not sure if that is enough. They do test for math placement so maybe just keeping her moving forward is all I should worry about. 

  2. My 7th grade daughter is about to finish Saxon Algebra 1. Is the Saxon Geometry needed if she plans on going to a brick and mortar high school? I am under the impression that she would have to go through Advanced Math to finish geometry credits if we don't do the geometry book. Is this right? 

     

    Thanks for any advice.

  3. No advice, sorry. However I will be following ths thread to see what others say as we have a 7 year old English Springer Spaniel who has the issues you describe and she freaks out at the dorbell as well. She is generally calm and sweet but spooks easily.

  4. I'm back to homeschooling! (Thrilled to be back to homeschooling one of my daughters after a two year break.) Older daughter is a junior in a Catholic Prep School and the younger daughter we just pulled from a our K-8 Catholic school at her request. 

     

    I didn't use to post too much but I sure learned a lot from everyone here!

  5. We use it. We were burning through workbook style spelling programs and my older dd was getting sick of having lists of words that she already knew, but loved the puzzles etc.

     

    So we use it like this: we test 10 or so words a day and any they miss go on a list. When the list has 15 or so words (only 10 words for my younger dd) they study those and I make puzzles with them for fun practice. They love hangman as a practice game as well.

     

    dd13 finished the book a while ago and I am now pulling words from her MCT vocab books.

     

    It has worked very well for us.

  6. :bigear:

     

    I have a 13 year old here too. I have not figured it all out yet but here is what we have so far:

     

    Math: Saxon Algebra I and Life of Fred Beginning Algebra

     

    Language: MCT I, Lightning Lit. 8 and either Early American or British Lit., a bit of Writer's Jungle

     

    Spanish: continue with Rosetta Stone

     

    Philosophy: Sophie's World with guide and whatever else I can find that interests her.

     

     

    Undecided:

    Logic

    Latin

    History/Geography

    Art

     

    Can't wait to hear what other great stuff we need :tongue_smilie:

  7. I went through something similar late last year with my 8 year old. She had been a gymnast since she was tiny and was supposed to be competing and she decided she was done. We talked a lot about it and then she quit. She is now in full time soccer (she used to play but not as intensely) and still swims twice a week.

     

    She doesn't regret her decision so far (it has been about 7 months).

  8. We have 5 acres, a good acre or so was planted very high maintenance when we bought this place. We had crew come in weekly for a year or so until we decided to save the money and do it our selves. Now it is a couple of years later and we are just about finished tearing out the hard to manage stuff and replacing it with lower maintenance items. We do still go back and forth on the gardener issue. It would be nice but I'd rather save the money right now.

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