I've been quite happy with EPS's The Paragraph series this year for my sixth grader's writing. I'm still quite happy with Evan Moor's Daily Science workbook as a spine for my 2nd grader. This was our second year with this product. I also use Mystery Science, library books, and kits from homeschool science tools to supplement the workbook. Geoguessr! We didn't end up doing much formal geography but this fun 5 minute a day website helped keep us working on geography during morning time anyway.

May here with a PreK and 2nd grader: PreK: My newly turned 5 year old daughter is finally starting to be cooperative for "school" in the morning. I'm still working through letter review with the Moffat Girls 7 week alphabet curriculum. I just ordered Dash into Learning's Set 1 and 2 with activity pages in the hopes of beginning learning to read soon. I don't really need another phonics program, but the illustrations intrigued me. They look like they would appeal to my daughter....then again, I thought TGaTB's preK would appeal and it did not, so who knows? For math, I backed off on Math with Confidence K and just started practicing subitizing 1-10. However, I tried one of the Wisdom Wonder Project's Singapore math video lessons from the Kindergarten series with her this week and she LOVED it. So I picked up level A (previously I skipped A and went right to B with my other three!) and we will see if we can sustain interest. 2nd grade: We finished science for the year! After completing the Evan Moor daily science workbook as well as our 2nd homeschool science tool kit, I'm calling it until August. 😅 He has a bug camp this summer, though! ELA: still finishing AAR 3. I recently ordered AAS1. Still thinking we will skip AAR 4 and maybe try to fit Memoria Press's Beatrix Potter lit guide in before August instead. Spelling can wait til 3rd grade. 🙃 we will continue growing with grammar level 1 all summer and switch to level 2 in 3rd. History: still trying to finish Story of Civilization Ancients. It may go until August but it will happen. Math: still alternating topics from Singapore Math 2A/2B and Beast level 2 books. I'm happy enough with what we will get through before August. PE: our first competition since beginning fencing a year ago is coming up in June. Nervousness!

I'll hop in! I have two in this age range: one 4 year old technically preK and one 2nd grade. PreK - this child doesn't want to do anything I ask her to, and I've mostly been gently trying and letting it go if she doesn't want to. This week, we continued working on a Moffat Girls TpT unit that goes through the alphabet in 7 weeks. I rotate through some of the activities included as well as crafts and q tip letter painting sheets, and play dough or float letter cards, etc. She already knows her letters and their sounds pretty well, so this is just review. I tried cvc words a month or so ago and she wasn't interested in blending yet. We will try again in the fall. For math, we are just working on subitizing 1-10. I'm using HWT number cards with c rods, ten frames, dominos, dice, etc. At least once a week, we play board games, like Lakeshore Learning Pop and Learn or Tiny Polka Dot. 2nd grade: We are close to finishing AAR 3. I'm unsure if I'll do 4 - he reads everything now. We are still juggling singapore math standard edition and beast academy level 2. I'll likely move on to singapre math 3A in the fall while still finishing some of beast 2nd grade, then start adding in 3rd. I also use Wisom Wonder Project videos to help teach the singapore lessons even though I could teach them myself - just a time saving measure with 3 others to keep on top of in the house. We finished Evan moor daily science workbook a few weeks ago. I had been pairing it with mystery science and let's read and find out for deeper topic exploration. Now we are working through a-maze-ing mirrors from homeschool science tools, and that should finish out the year. We are all still listening to Story Of Civilization Ancients in the car and pulling additional materials as the mood strikes. This week we made an etruscan arch using a kit from taksa toys.

We had breakfast together after Easter service. Everyone brought a breakfast casserole od some kind and I put out bacon and fruit and beverages. It went really well, much less stressful and left more time to take our kids to a few egg hunts.

We had a lot of technical issues and buffering with Apple TV when we had it, but not with other services. We use a roku TV, roku ultra, and Fire TV cube and noticed issues on all of them with Apple TV. I'm sure it's either their app (maybe poor thread management) or servers.

I have a rising 3rd grader next year. Tentative plans: Literature - Memoria Press Literature Guides for 3rd Grade Grammar / Writing - Growing with Grammar 2 Evan Moor How to Write a Super Sentence/Paragraph All About Spelling, starting at 1 Latin - MP Latina Christina (year 1 of 2 year plans) at Little Latin School Math - Continue Singapore Math. I've been using Wisdom Wonder Project as well, even though I feel confident teaching from the HIG, for time reasons. History - Story of Civilization 2nd year (Medieval period) Science - Evan Moor Daily Science 3 as a means of scheduling topics. I pull in other books and Mystery Science videos that go with the topics in the workbook. Other - Elementary Scratch Programming (by me) / Sphero coding (by me) Art and Music appreciation Fencing lessons (PE)

My 11 year old twins are in 6th grade this year, and we do: - 1-5 paragraphs a week with The Paragraph series from EPS OR Lantern English assignment (we are finishing their The Narrative class right now, then will switch back to EPS The Paragraph book 3, and may come back and do 1 more Lantern English in Q4). Usually, my son will choose to do the bare minimum, so if I say 1 paragraph that is what he does. My daughter will write as much as she likes, and it often is at least 3-4 paragraphs. -4 pages of Fix-It grammar each week -Section review for Science (typed, I make a Google form from the questions at the end of the chapter) -Phonetic zoo for spelling 3-4 times a week -Memoria Press 2nd Form latin worksheets pretty much daily, except on quiz days I think we're maybe doing less than others, but I'm pretty happy with it since I see progress and the ability to write a coherent essay from them when asked.

I agree with you - I pretty much always just use the teacher's guide for MP and select a few questions for my kids to write out in a separate notebook. We orally review the rest. It's too much writing otherwise. I did buy this one, though I'm having a hard time placing hands on it - I might not have even kept it after we finished with it a few years ago: https://blackbirdandcompany.com/product/one-true-sentence-c1-tools-of-style-1-guide/ It's pretty similar - a workbook, and I liked the concepts introduced but my kids were not excited about it. I enjoyed other resources more, either for ease of use to my kids (like growing with grammar) or because I felt like there was better teacher support (like EPS's The Paragraph). That's just one opinion though! Anything may work great for your family even if it wasn't the right fit for mine.

I have purchased several of their curricula and used none of it except the calendar of days bundle (k-1). Honestly, I had high hopes for their literature guides but found them lacking. I have much preferred memoria press or even book umbrella on TpT to what I saw in blackbird and company. Their site is lovely and definitely makes everything look very appealing but you have to be comfortable using their resources without much hand holding (compared to other homeschool curriculum) because even their teacher guides are very light on how to implement their program/guide(s). IMHO. Here's a video flip thru of a few of the lit guides:

We only do stockings so I tend to do more than I would if we were putting presents under the tree. I got my dh evergreen scented goat milk soap from etsy, a new rosary, the zelda game and watch, an Xbox game, a tile slim for his wallet, and this hot/cold foot roller massager.

Our work load varies from day to day. We do more three days a week and less two to make room for homeschool PE, a co op, and field trips. On longer days my 6th graders work about 6 hours. On shorter days maybe just 2-3.

I have a script and my insurance will cover it but I can't get anyone to fill it because of the shortage. I'm hoping by the end of the year to start it.

I had to look up my plans to remember what exactly I had "planned" for this year, if that tells you much of anything. 😄 For my 6th graders: ELA: -We are using Center for Lit's Elementary Literature course. I knew the 2 hour meeting time might be difficult, especially for my son, and it is. I do think it is good for them to go into a bit more depth with another instructor other than me and with some books they had already read in the past (almost all of the reading list were read prior, many as read alouds with me) -I had not PLANNED on using School Speciality's The Paragraph but picked up the first book kind of last minute and added it in for writing. This has worked very well and I am very happy with it. We are adding in a Lantern English writing class now that we have finished the first book, but I am definitely going to get the next Paragraph book to do with them when they finish their Lantern English class. So this changed in the sense that I had NO IDEA which of three options I was doing for ELA going into this school year. Everything solidified very last minute. Math: We started with Singapore Standards Edition 6A/6B but I didn't like their Algebra chapter so I supplemented with Carnegie Learning's 6th grade math book, and then picked up Hands on Equations. We are still doing Hands on Equations, though I'm starting to think we need to circle back around and pick up some more from the Singapore math. My kids love HOE and would do it all the time happily. But I'm not sure I can call this 6th grade math if it's all we get done! 🙃 History: I've added in the Oxford press books along with Story of Civilization and some read aloud chapter books. Science: Chemistry with Science Mom is going really well, and I've been happy with it. Since it is only a semester, I'm leaning toward doing a Computer Science with them in the spring, though. For my 2nd grader: He really clicked with reading a few months ago. We will finish AAR2 soon and continue to AAR3. I'm hopeful to finish it by the end of this school year. Then I'll have to decide if I want to do AAR4 or not. We're also adding in Memoria Press's story time treasures right now, and I expect by the end of the year we'll be pulling reading materials from their 2nd grade. I feel like their early stuff is so advanced that I don't mind doing it a "grade behind." He is still finishing the Beast Academy 1C/1D books. He had finished first grade Singapore math early in first grade (we started it in Kindergarten), but he just wasn't quite ready for 2nd grade Singapore so I got the Beast Academy 1A-1D kind of as they came out. He's enjoyed them so much that I plan to finish them. After that, I'm trying to decide if I should sign him up for Beast online or try Singapore 2A again. I had NOT planned any grammar or spelling really but I think by the spring I will need to add those in. Not TOO many changes overall?

I have 4 at home and we have: Fencing for my oldest three 2-3 x a week A sewing class once a week for my oldest daughter A homeschool pe class once a week, all kids can participate A homeschool zoo class once a month, oldest three A Catholic homeschool group that meets twice a month (once a month class on a religion topic, once a month social park day), all kids participate I run dungeons and dragons twice a month for my oldest two and some friends We try to meet up with friends on Wednesdays for park play, a hike, or a field trip. This ends up being about every two weeks. I feel very busy 😅

We just folded my younger son into the history my twins were doing in first grade. They happened to be on American history. This year they are all doing ancient history. I expect I will add my 4 year old in when she is first grade as well.

Check out The Paragraph by School Speciality! https://eps.schoolspecialty.com/products/literacy/grammar-writing/the-paragraph-book/pricing/eps-the-paragraph-book-1 Christian books has a preview: https://www.christianbook.com/the-paragraph-book-1/dianne-tucker-laplount/9780838826713/pd/372671?event=CBCER1 I'm doing this with my sixth graders right now, and I bought the teacher's guide. BUT... they could easily work through the student book as a workbook I think without me "teaching" it. Also, I'm loading the prompts into Google docs so they can type them if they want to... so that might help if you have a dysgraphia student.

Network Administrator and Computer Science teacher here

We seem to have similar age kids, so I thought I'd share our schedule. I always thought it was helpful to see other people's when I was getting started. Not that your day should look exactly like ours, but just what we do might help? I have twin 11 year old 6th graders (July birthdays), a 7 year old 2nd grader, and a 4 year old Pre-K. We are using: 6th graders - Singapore Math Standards Edition 6A / 6B + resources (note: we've done Singapore and Beast Academy their whole academic careers) Memoria Press 2nd Form Latin + Duolingo Latin - I signed them up for the self paced MPOA so they can take their self-graded quizzes and tests this year. Center for Lit Elementary Literature class School Specialty The Paragraph books with some Lantern English classes mixed in throughout the year Science Mom Chemistry in the fall (no idea in the spring yet) Evan Moor Daily Geography workbook Typetastic for typing Story of Civilization Ancients with additional materials from Investigating World History and Oxford Press the World in Ancient Times I'll add in computer science discoveries from Code.Org and Advanced Scratch Programming from Johns Hopkins CTY eventually, but I've been adding a bit at a time tile we get up to speed. This week we added Latin. 2nd Grader - All About Reading Level 2 (a lesson in the morning) + Memoria Press Storytime Treasures (time spend reading in the afternoon, use the teacher guide to highlight phonics and ask questions about the reading, NO writing) Catholic Heritage Curricula 2nd grade handwriting book for handwriting Evan Moor Daily Science + Mystery Science topics that jig jog + science books or shows that jig jog Finishing Beast Academy Level 1 books and then starting Singapore Math 2A / 2B Story of Civilization Ancients (just listening to the audio and doing some additional activities / picture books as I have time) NO spelling, NO grammar yet. His reading has really started to come along the last few months and I want to cement reading fluency before adding those. By the end of the year I will probably add Growing with Grammar (workbook, easy to do independently), and start All About Spelling 1 Pre-K The Good and The Beautiful Kindergarten Prep MEP reception tag along science and history picture books or shows, nothing formal And here is my one of my twins checklist that they use to keep on track during the week (note: this is a Google sheet I update weekly): https://drive.google.com/file/d/190zhlg5oo_9oTuqkGeKe9mcwLYIfcjbT/view?usp=sharing And here is my master homeschool planner that I put what I need to do with the kids on (note: also a Google sheet updated weekly): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c8PXAgpBIqq3u-_3RfNw1o9_llKBBtV_/view?usp=sharing Chores my kids do: Unload the dishwasher (twins take turns) Clean their rooms (everyone) Do their laundry (twins, my 7 year old is starting to learn) Take out the trash (as needed) Clean the bathrooms (on the weekends, we all split up and take a room on Saturday mornings) Put their dishes in the sink or dishwasher when they are done Make themselves (some) meals - older two I hope that this helps give you an idea of what life with 4 looks like here. It isn't easy! I also work 3 jobs part time (ends up being about 25 hours a week) so it is a lot but I feel that this is the best decision for us as a family.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm using the Standards Edition, so this level seems to only have a Teacher's Guide and not a HIG. I like the HIGs I've used better but the Teacher's Guide is somewhat helpful. This version: https://www.rainbowresource.com/category/2471/Math-6-Semester-A-Primary-Math-SE.html

I'm also using 6A Singapore Standards Edition with my twins this year, and I HATED the algebra unit! 🙂 After reviewing the teacher's guide (I really wish they had made a HIG for this level like they did the rest!), I decided I would use other resources to introduce this. We worked through Carnegie Learning's Advanced 6th grade algebraic expressions section and then I added in the Expressions & Equations section from Beast Academy 5A (which we had done LAST year, but we are going through it quickly as a review). I intend to go back to the Singapore book in another two weeks when we finish all of that, but I must say I haven't been impressed with it either. I feel like the way it is presented is confusing, even though the topic itself really isn't so difficult.

Hi Murphy. I used both Story Of Civilization and Story of the World for my twins for the ancients year - the first book in each. I did not continue to use both the next year, so I really only have that one year mapped out. I didn't use ALL of the chapters from story of the world either, but rather supplemented story of civilization with SotW. But you are welcome to look it over and see if it helps you. https://drive.google.com/file/d/13HrJL3xcZe56zJ8MpSs90luVudqq7m_f/view?usp=sharing

I'll give a second recommendation to the Evan moor daily science. It worked better than I could have imagined as a spine for science this last year for one of my kiddos. I just supplemented with some books from the library and some mystery science videos. As another option, I'm signed up for Science Mom's chemistry series this fall for my older two (more your son's age). It looks great, and you can do the course for free on their website or join their chemistry club this fall and do a combination of livestreams and recorded videos. It's also secular. Here is the link: https://sciencemom.teachable.com/p/chemistry-club

Have you tried IEW's Phonetic Zoo for spelling? The student can do it completely by themselves, but they listen to it rather than see it. There is a talk that goes along with it where they explain that when you look at a word, your brain (especially a dyslexic, ADHD, etc brain) may not put the letters in the right order. But if you listen to it spelled aloud the letters "get in" your brain in the right order. I have a mildly dyslexic/dysgraphic son who has really benefited from Phonetic Zoo. He doesn't enjoy it, but it has improved his spelling a lot.

username: Keirin pronunciation: KEYR-in. It's almost Karen but the beginning is more KEYR than CARE. origin: I hate to admit it, but a random name generator on Classic Everquest, circa 1999 😅 likes: my children, being Catholic, teaching computer science, reading books, playing tabletop games like board games or dungeons and dragons dislikes: seaweed, it was a personal failing as I was obsessed with all things Japan as a teenager but couldn't stand sushi. frequents threads about: honestly, academics most of the time. But I dip my toes in the chat board sometimes and here is the evidence. I lurk more than I post.