I read it there, last night..I was reading through their info...

I read last night on a NJ homeschool site that if people don't let the district know they are homeschooling they can be taken to court...so that has me worried.. http://jerseyhomeschool.net/?page_id=73 I'd love not to report anything.. but we really cannot afford court fees.. I'd be curious to learn if my anxiety about this is just that.. anxiety..or if it is prudent to inform the school....? I guess if one doesn't inform the school, gets called into court for truancy but has records and testing to show equivalent instruction.. there isn't an issue.. aside from fees, stress and lost time....?

My oldest hates sports.. So it isn't an issue right now, and they can't play on school teams anyway, as far as I know..nor do the districts provide anything..so from that standpoint..it seems similar....the whole no reporting thing is blowing my mind.. I guess I would send a letter of intent..if only to cover us in case someone said my kids were truant.....

Yes.. This is an issue..:( But dh commutes between 2-3 hours each way now...so having him home more is enough of a plus to make it seem less painful..

Mid central... Ogden, Newfoundland.. Or somewhere around there.. Dh needs to be close to both NYC and clients in lower Nj, but we want to be more rural than urban....we start scouting areas in person next month

So.. you don't have to report anything?? Do you know "alien" this sounds to me.. I might just hyperventilate with anxiety at no paper work (sarcasm used liberally) No grades? No Quarterly reports? No IHIPS? nothing?? Do I even have to tell them I have kids???? This is blowing my mind..

I really wasn't sure what board to put this in... We are moving to Nj late spring/ summer 2013.. I am reading the NJ homeschool regs and trying to get a sense of what is required.. I am coming from NY.. Where I have to submit a yearly letter of intent, a yearly educational plan outlining the educational goals for each subject ( my district is very anti homeschool ), quarterly reports on progress and end of year progress reports or standardized test scores.. In reading the NJ regs.. I don't see any of this.. Am I missing something? Can someone lay it out for me.. What is required for elementary school and jr high? In ny next year, I would need to submit quarterly grades for my jr high kiddo.. Thanks

we used this today, worked great.. YDS loved that he got to use the ipad..and the lesson went very quickly.

I just downloaded this.. thanks.. we are nearly done with AAR 1.. and those darn tiles were just driving me nuts.. I love it so far..

Oh this looks great.. is it as wonderful as it looks?? They have You Tube videos on how to use the app... I wish there was a try before you buy.. as it is so costly..

So, I know it isn't a HUGE deal.. I can sit and figure it all out.. go through each problem..cross reference the work text.. but really.. it would be SO much easier to just have a solution manual for the power up pages.. WHY isn't there one?? I get annoyed every time I think of it...I guess I need to get a blank one and just do all the problems myself and use that as a solution manual.. :tongue_smilie: If you use this program.. do you even correct the power ups..?

Ahh... I get it... Thanks

Hello I just picked up a copy of DITHOR teacher book and student book 2-3.. How does this work..grade wise.. if I use it in grade 2.. what do I use in grade 3? or is it meant to last for both 2nd and 3rd grades? Same for 6-8.. is it meant to just use once in that grade range or over the course of 3 years?

This is a bit of a ramble... Once a child knows how to read and is fluent enough for chapter books (be they early chapter books or later ones..) What sort of reading program (I hate to call it that..) do you use? Here is what we have done in the past.. After teaching the mechanics of reading and getting the child to the level of an independent reader.. We have tried McRuffy, Horizons, Abeka, No formal program.. just books, BJU Reading Here are our.. problems.. While McRuffy was nice.. the over emphasis on phonics in the early years we tried this tured us off. We did try their (at the time) newly released grade 4 program and it was too wordy (not the stories but the workbook assignments).. Horizons and Abeka we ditched after the early grades because I felt they beat the phonics to death.. We settled on OPG and then later when it came out AAR and those are good fits for the early years... No formal program.. did this with the other ones for a few years and they read a lot.. but I was worried about not having comprehension questions tied to the specific book they read and often found I couldn't create those questions myself.. either due to lack of time to re read every book I assigned or lack of ability to ask the questions that needed to be asked. We'd discuss a book.. but I wanted something on paper.. that could be recorded.. see them put their thoughts on paper.. as it were.. This year we are using BJU and it's ok.. the kids (grades 3 and 6) are liking the stories.. and the questions in the reading workbooks are fine.. I like how they focus on plot, details, voice etc.. I feel like they are being asked to think and reflect on what they read.. But the whole "program feel" of it turns me off... Is there a happy medium? I love it when they choose literature or I assign literature to reflect what we are learning about.. but then feel I come up short on the whole comprehension aspect...For example, I never thought to ask about character traits or how an author shows them..... Another issue I have is the cost of BJU.. their workbooks are $$ I wouldn't mind a secular program as well... but it's ok if it isn't.. Are there resources out there that are easy to compile that would address some of my concerns about comprehension that wont' take hours to put together.. which is another plus of a program... I am homeschooling 4 at this point.. and I want each child to experience a rich language arts program.. and not get short changed... (we are using IEW for writing, Growing with Grammar for grammar (and BJU English), Sequential spelling for spelling...) gosh... you made it this far and have the energy to offer insights.. thanks! Oh, I wanted to add.. we just finished up Little House on the Prairie.. and the kids loved it.. I had them do a lapbook that I printed out (free).. but it was SO much work...both in compiling and in the cutting and glueing.. lol.... but maybe if I didn't also have a formal reading program it wouldn't have felt so overwhelming..

Here is the list I made for last year, which was STOW 3/American History focus.. Book and activity list We didn't follow STOW 3 week by week..so I would jump around a bit.. Maybe some of the titles will help you as a starting point this list may also help http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/history.htm

how do you like it compared to ZB? We are using ZB and I really don't like it at all..... do all the cursive books have the slant guide page?

Has anyone used Simple Solutions workbooks? http://simplesolutions.org/ I was intrigued...and wondered if they would be a great, mostly independent review of concepts? For example, we do all our science over the summer.. but don't really do much "Science" over the traditional school year. We don't have the time! This past summer the kids did Earth Science through Elemental Science (grammar and logic stages) However, this isn't aligned with their grade "core" for our state and they are required to do end of year testing.. Would something like this give them quick, mostly painless, review/exposure to the science common core during the year to prepare them for the few test questions asked on the standardized test? (same for history.. we study using the WTM rotation which isn't "aligned" to their grade level core state standards) I do require lots of literature reading during the year.. some science topics.. and I also have them reading Studies Weekly for Science and History for their grade...

thank you, that looks very interesting. I think we may try it next year when the olders are in 4th and 7th.

Analytical grammar looks very nice and I like the DVD option because I am so lost teaching this.. a DVD that could help teach the lesson will mean the difference between this actually getting taught and me giving up and just hoping he can figure it out on his own, I think.. Would the use of AG along with IEW SWI A provide a well rounded Grammar and Writing program for grade 6? (literature etc is covered under "reading")

So.. I don't ever.. ever.. remember any more than a basic instruction to grammar in public school.. Nouns.. Verbs.. that's about it.. I am sure there was more.. never any diagraming.. no in depth Predicate NOminatives, or the like.. Fast forward.... ODS is in 6th grade.. last year we did Growing With Grammar, the years prior we did (on and off) FLL and WWE... This year I wanted something meaty.. something in depth.. something that was all inclusive.. I chose BJU and am quite happy with the Reading and English options.. But I am SO confused about the grammar.. these past few weeks we are digging in depth about sentences.. SVDO and all that.. (what the sentence structure is in the terms Subject Verb etc) and then there are Direct and Indirect Objects, Prepositional Phrases.. Predicate Nouns.. Predicate Adjts.. Oh my heavens!! I cannot even keep them straight.. and I wonder.. How really important is stuff like this.. we will keep moving forward.. ODS actually seems to get it.. but I cannot help him with it.. it's the blind leading the blind.. I have to read the teacher guide, and then the answer key.. and refer to at least 2 other sources.. and the internet.. and wow.. So.. do you go into this sort of depth.. or what do you use?? I think that my end goal is to produce a child who can write and speak eloquently... if they can identify a prepositional phrase.. great... I can't!! (he is also doing IEW SWI A)

hugs I am having the same problem.. and intake is very similar to yours.. and I run 45 minutes 3 to 4 days a week.. I do think I am not eating enough.. but on the days where I do.. the scale goes UP UP UP the next day and I get very upset with myself.. and I am not talking about eating junk either.. good, mindful choices..

I am so sorry that you are going through this.. I voted No chemo.. BUT.. I am not you...If I was faced with this decision.. I would not do chemo.. My mother was diagnosed with a very rare form of cancer 5 years ago.. it had no real treatment options and hardly any studies done on it. She was other wise in good health.. active, mobile.. She chose to do chemo and for whatever reason.. be it either bad luck, the cancer or a combination of both of these.. the resulting neuropathy was debilitating, progressive and permanent. She ended up loosing her mobility which started a whole cascade of health issues.. the unusually progressive nature of the neuropathy puzzled her oncologist and ended up stealing her ability to move at all.. she became completely paralyzed and passed away.. even though her "Cancer numbers" were low and not rising...Given this, I would not do chemo for a cancer that had very little positive results from it....Easy to say for me.. as I am not living your diagnosis... Her cancer was not like yours.. so again.. I cannot say what you should do.. Hugs for you

I order them from longest to shortest.. so math, language arts (reading, english, grammar) then lunch break, then spelling health and handwriting, writing (which isn't every day so they get a freebie pass some days), history, art/music/piano we do science over the summer... there is a 1/2 hour break in the morning between math and LA.. IF they finish their math.. and 1 1/2 hours for lunch, recess at noon.. We start at 9 and end around 3:30

I had both of them do lesson 1 of level 1.. and there was a lot of eye rolling.. lol..I'll use the free download until our materials arrive I do think that this will work.. as my 6th grader is awful in spelling.. and we've tried so many different programs over the years.. AAS, Phonic Road, SwS, Spectrum....(not all in 1 year of course.. sticking with a program for a year)

I know this is an old thread.. but I cannot find these resources to print the answer paper on the Saxon site...??