My 7th grader started Megawords 1 about Christmas time. We are pretty laid back, and will complete the first level by year end. It's probably possible, then, to do a couple levels in a year if necessary, I would imagine. HTH.

My oldest asked for a refresher course in cursive and is working his way through this book. It fills the bill nicely. :thumbup:

Thanks for the offer! My dh has family in Westbank, so we usually stay there. Besides, I wouldn't want to make you clean your house - more time for curriculum shopping. :lol:

Wow! I hope that works out.

I wish I were! :crying: This will be the first year I haven't attended. The thought of ordering books without drooling over them first is too sad! Ah well, maybe next year. I hope you all enjoy yourselves immensely.

Eek! Maybe check with the other parents and find out if every season is this fraught with miscommunication. That would be a pretty tough thing to put up with every year! Given that your dd missed her first meet, I would side with sending her. Both she and her partner should have a chance to perform after working so hard all season.

Due to illness this winter, the boys watched a lot of History channel. They are all fired up about modern history now, just as we're finishing Ancients. :rolleyes:

My 12yo had no formal grammar before using Winston Grammar. He certainly has less attention span than others, and not only did he learn from it but liked it, too.

Wow, I really like the look of that one. Thanks for sharing, Laura. How nice of you to think of us. :thumbup:

We have done HWT K & 1, done copywork in 2, gone back for HWT cursive in 3 & 4, done copywork in 5 and then called it good enough. But you know, I'm not completely satisfied with anyone's letter formation, so maybe you don't want to do that, lol.

No. Not only are MUS blocks and Cuisenaire rods different colours, but they are different sizes as well. Each has its advantage. Cuisenaire rods are in actual centimeters, i.e. the white rod is 1cm and the orange rod is 10cm, which helped me get a handle on centimeters since I'm most familiar with measuring in inches and feet. The MUS blocks are scored, which really helps dc to 'see' the numbers with which they are working. I like Cuisenaire rods and would recommend them. We didn't use the Cuisenaire Alphabet Book enough that I would have purchased them solely for that purpose, though. HTH.

Absolutely.

Sue, I'd love to hear what you are planning for next year.

Next year sounds like an exciting new opportunity with your oldest! Ooo, I like that... wise, instead of slacker, lolol. I totally hear you about BC requirements. I'm hoping to keep the younger two together for the next while (say forever?) so we're only working on two strands at a time. (fingers crossed)

This is my tentative plan for gr. 9 & 10 - to use SL Core 7 over two years, along with Modern History Through Canadian Eyes, which I believe uses The Story of Canada and Canada A People's History videos. Hopefully that would cover what we need. Of course that's still a year and a half away, so who knows? :)

I used Donna Ward's CMC with my younger two. We started it the last bit of K & gr. 2 and finished up this year in gr. 1 & 3. We added a bunch of library books for the first two sections and read our way across Canada. The last few sections were a bit light, I agree, but since they are listening in to big brother's SL Core 6 read-alouds, I figured they were doing enough. I was surprised how much they liked following Bucky the Beaver through the book, playing the map game, and competing to see who could name more provinces and territories. I hope your guys like it, too!

It's a beautiful sunny day. We pull out the blanket to read in the sunshine because we're homeschoolers, we can do school anywhere, right? Until I find myself yelling because they WILL NOT stop fighting over who sits where on the blanket, after I've already begun to read. :rolleyes: So much for our soft-focus moment, lol.

Miquon and Singapore for oldest ds. I still love Singapore.

I purchased the Supplemental Workbook, and the extra worksheet for each lesson helped my ds a lot. We're now working WG 'the Lori D. way', lol. We do approx. 3 sentences a day together, and the slower pace of taking a couple weeks for each lesson has improved retention, reduced frustration and grammar is an enjoyable part of our day.

I've seen two posts on the Sonlight board where the poster's children got 1/2 - 3/4 of the way through TT Alg 2 and placed into College Algebra. I too would prefer that prolific internet users would post their specific experience, rather than referencing the Table of Contents or a child's placement test results, which are not the same as using the program in question. It leads to others making "generally accepted consensus" statements, which aren't actually first-hand at all.

On pizza, or with perogies.

What you describe - internalizing the patterns of English spelling - is the premise of Sequential Spelling. They have a free sample of the first 8 lessons at their website.

Could you point me towards the IEW resources? Thanks!

:iagree: We had to do this, too, to satisfy our insurance provider, though if it was pre-existing I don't think we would have had to; but he gave us all the specifics for clearance from the back wall, requirement for stovepipe, etc. and it was certainly worth it for the peace of mind. Every summer, we check out the stovepipes and gaskets and see what needs replacing. Other tips that others have given that I will second: - The less elbows in your stovepipe the better; better draft, less smoke - The wood you cut should be DRY, preferably seasoned from the year previous, and stored in a shed or overhang to keep rain and snow off, if possible. Some species are better than others. - When it's not burning as long, or is having difficulty, it's likely time to clean the chimney.

We have a woodstove, not a cookstove. Our only initial concerns were satisfying our house insurance providers and not losing any energy savings to increased insurance - which we were able to do. My two, relatively minor complaints now are about the pre-existing placement of the chimney and thus the stove: it would be more efficient at heating the house if it was in the centre, rather than the corner, of the house (duh). Also, if we had a basement for the stove to be in, the main floor would be toasty and the upstairs bedrooms would be cool. As we have no basement, the main floor is comfortable but the floor itself can be quite cool, and the upstairs bedrooms can get too toasty. Basement placement would also contain dust and smoke from our main living area, though that's not a huge issue. On the plus side - winter power outages are not as big a cause for concern. Drying kids snow gear and laundry on the indoor clothesline is easy. Heating our home is relatively inexpensive. It is very cozy.