I believe Thursday is the last day. Of course, I cannot find the page I saw it on.

It's gotten slightly better at my house, but a year ago, the kids were making cheese sandwiches with mayo, ketchup, mustard and relish. Then they started asking for cheese sandwiches without the cheese. And could not understand why the answer was always NO.

My state says you have to cover health, though they do not specify what that should include - the only topic which is specifically mentioned is bicycle safety. I found some pdf's from the State of Michigan, which I would link to for you, except they seem to have taken it down. I'm sure other states have their standards available online through the education department. I create one health unit per semester based on those topics. The units may last from 1-4 weeks. Nutrition units usually last longer because they are more fun and tasty. :-) I only slot out health 2x a week when we are working on a unit. I use books from the library and scour the internet for worksheets, since dd likes those. And for our safety unit this year, I didn't do anything formal, because I can recollect several times where dd got a lengthy discussion with dada on the how's and why's of safety for one thing or another.

I have wanted to start keeping track of what dd reads, but she is resistant to writing a lot and she reads more than what I can keep track of. Plus we have 2 toddlers, so the idea of having her put books in a basket or some such when she's done will not work well here. Your idea of bookmarks might be novel enough to get her buy-in. Would you be willing to share templates with me?

I love Kids' Art Works by Sandi Henry. It's out of print, but chances are you can order it from your public library. It doesn't tie in to kids literature, but it has great projects that generally rely on stuff you have around the house. The projects turn out very nicely, though they still look like kids did them.

Since other curricula are being suggested, have you looked at MEP? It requires you spend more time with your kid than MUS, but is a lot more challenging, IMO. It's free, so you can give it a try over the summer and see if it's a good fit.

Both dd and I are enjoying ELTL 2. It's written for three days a week, though we usually just do two and call it good. It has lovely poems, Aesop's fables, copywork, covers grammar at a reasonable pace with just enough review, and picture studies periodically, which is especially nice, because I never get to it on my own.

We used Shurley English in first grade. The jingles were fun. I completely skipped the writing portion because I didn't feel it was age appropriate. Teaching the rest of it is not hard at all, as it is scripted. After a while, all the lessons are the same, but with different examples. Occasionally, they throw in an extra activity, which you may or may not choose to do.

I stumbled on your review awhile back and looked at some of the samples. I never took Latin in high school, so have been learning with dd while doing SSL. It was a triumph looking at the samples because I could say, I know what that means! As a fun side note, Daedalus Books has a Latin translation of Ferdinand for $4.

Is this strictly ecclesiastical pronunciation, or doesn't it matter?

I've used this hole punch, and can do 15-20 pages at a time. I bought it for $20.

We will still be doing school through June, and am planning on starting year round homeschooling the last half of July, so I am in the process for a lot of things, trying to fit them in here and there. Among the things I am doing, or want to do by the time we start up again.... 1. We more or less follow WTM, although we use BFSU for science. Dd is into all things space. I asked her what she wanted to study next year, and she requested we study the sun. So, I am working on my first full fledged unit study, thinking that spending a week on the sun in July would be a nice way to get back to school. Of course, we are at a point in the cycle where there are not a lot of sunspots to observe.... 2. Reread WTM to make sure I'm not missing something. 3. More planning on how to best make use of 6 weeks on, 1 week off. I am thinking perhaps freezer meals, and some sort of schedule for cleaning. I am also thinking of teaching dd some sort of craft on our weeks off. I wanted to do that on Fridays this year, and it just never happened. 4. Reorganizing the way I organize homeschool things. I need to clean out my lesson plan binder and re-do the bookshelves.

Interesting. I've heard reports that some college admissions are really impressed with a kid having taken Latin, but that was for an engineering major, so perhaps it depends on the major? My personal experience has been 4 years of Spanish in public school, plus two more in college, and I never used it. I can sort of read it and kind of understand the gist, but no way can I have a conversation in Spanish. Latin seems to me to be much more useful in terms of understanding English, and it will be a tremendous help if you need to learn Spanish.

We finished first grade last year. But the list below is generally what we ended up doing. Spelling: All About Spelling. Every day. English: We did Shurley English. The jingles were fun, but have since switched to English Lessons Through Literature. As a matter of fact, I think for my younger kids, I will completely skip the subject of "English" when they are in first grade. Phonics: Explode the Code online. I signed up for this before discovering AAS. Dd has been a good reader, but is a terrible speller. If I were to do it again, I would just go with AAS. Handwriting: Zaner-Bloser. It's pretty. History: SOTW 1. M,W,F. The projects for this are so much fun. Science: BFSU. It is so hard to get into the groove for this curriculum, but I think it is worth it. We scrunched 3 years into 2, and are going on with Vol. 2 next year. Music: Music Mind Games + some folk songs and I can't remember what else. I have since moved MMG to Morning Time and is seems to happen more often now. Art: Kids Art Works! A great book you can probably find at your public library. The projects turn out looking well, but still look like they are done by kids. ETA: I totally forgot math! We really did do it, using MUS.

Our experience with WWE and ELTL has been this: dd is resistant to a lot of writing. She got so that she would complain and groan about WWE, and we only managed to get through the first one. She asks to do English now with ELTL, and I think it is partly because the copywork is written directly above where she writes, in the size and style script she will be writing in, instead of WWE where the whole selection is up at the top of the page in 14pt font.

We are using that curriculum, too! We have a hard cover copy of Wind in the Willows. I don't know if the paperback on amazon has the color plates in it. https://www.amazon.com/Wind-Willows-Kenneth-Grahame/dp/068971310X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1495194439&sr=8-3&keywords=wind+in+the+willows+ernest

You must have missed this thread. It seems like it would be immensely useful to you. http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/641877-year-of-insects-for-6th-grader-how-would-you-do-it/

My understanding - and it could be completely wrong - is that she provides updated resources as she comes across them. One reason why there have been so many revisions is that some of the suggested resources quickly go out of print once the latest WTM is published. You might try poking around at the following link - https://welltrainedmind.com/well-trained-mind-fourth-edition/

It looks to me like you have a good solid plan. :-) When I have to turn in my evaluations to the school district, I count the history projects as art. Also, you could count some of the projects for cub scouts as art, too.

My dd is reading well, but I have learned we need to do spelling at least 4x/week to keep it fresh in her mind. If your dd still needs phonics, I would work on that every day. I whole heartedly agree with other posters about keeping writing to a minimum, and narrations, too for that matter. I try to keep it to one bit of copywork per day (about 8-10 words), 5 minutes of cursive practice about 3x per week, since she is still learning the letters, and generally not more than one narration per day.

Huh. That is weird. I know for a fact that google books used to have the third reader within the past six months, but I can't find it there either. I suppose it only proves the ephemeral nature of the Internet. I have ordered mine from the Kolbe Academy, because they didn't have first or second grade. Here is a link to the one for first grade. They have some samples to look at there. ETA: It is still weird, but you can find what titles they have by using the search terms "new fourth reader." You are looking for ones by Gilmour, since this search will also bring up a lot of other 19th century readers. The ones below were the only other ones I could find. Here is the Fourth Reader. Here is the Third Reader.

:iagree: This is how I understand it. I had a professor who used to say it is easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission. FWIW, I know a hs family in the area that had reason to believe that the school district never even looks at the quarterly reports. They accidentally turned the same report in twice and school district never said anything about it. They do, however, care about test scores and want to know what your plans are for that on the 3rd quarterly report.

Depending on what your goal is for SSL, I think it would be doable, especially if you have a portable DVD player. Otherwise, you can listen to the songs and the MP3 pronunciations they offer. As I consider doing SSL again for our younger kids, I think I would just go over the student workbook orally with them. We are about 1/3 of the way through the second book, and I can't see where writing things down is essential, unless that is how your student learns things best.

Right now, I would love to be in your shoes.

I have dd read a lesson from a grade level Catholic National Reader (very similar to McGuffy's) 1-3x a week. She's a voracious reader, but often skips over small words like "the" and occasionally mispronounces things. The plan is to continue until she no longer makes those mistakes.