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Hi MommyG, I would keep your 6 and 8 year old together. Bigger is very writing intensive. My dd (age 8 ) and I started bigger this year and the work load was so overwhelming to her I actually stopped doing the whole days work and instead broke it down to one page per day. This really helped my dd ha...

Or you can go the No grammar route. Some kids just don't get grammar at an early age. But Carrie hits em so well with such good lit. and poetry ect. that they will get a good foundation in what a good sentence sounds like. Charlotte Mason is not big on hitting them with any grammar early. I remember...

I love the one day spread.. everything for today right where I can see it all at once. A week would be to distracting. I'm guilty of reading into the next day lesson and then realizing I read to far.. but it was so interesting! then we just do both days work. I was thinking maybe you could have PDF ...

Charlotte Mason comes to out ministry every year to give a seminar... I loved her school of thought but at the time thought.. eeek i'll never be able to do it on my own... :!: I'm so glad I found HOD! And Carrie that seminar is open to the public (for a fee) when it happens this year can I post it? :)

my dd struggled with the work load.. "original thought" is not her forte. So every other genre we didn't do the work book with the reading. One month reading was for pleasure. I'm terrible arn't I? We usually didn't pull out the big monster book either on reading for fun weeks. THAT said You do need...

I used 100 ez lessons.. it does teach sight words i think "said" is the first one they teach. I came from a whole word background. That is how i was taught to read. With my dislexia it was actually good for me. tho i did read saw as was and so forth... i bet they have Dick and Jane books at your lib...

we live in a tiny house 1200 sf so we did do her school in the kitchen for a bit but that did not work out our kitchen is tiny.. so we went to ikea and got her a long desk. We put it in her room (oo bout 12 x14) with special drawers for her work and a big box for the books. Her bed is from ikea so e...

When I follow all the directions and not skip anything. Now it takes 30- 60 min But before it was more like 1.5 hours... (my dd writes very slowly, and doesn't like answering questions) I have found that I do need to keep the reading part short. or it is always a hour at least. On the really long da...

himmmmm... my dd narrates this way ok Honi tell me what was the story about. "um .. um... I was in la la land. and playing with my toes." Mom re-reads narration instructions and then the story. pausing every 2 paragraphs to point out important facts. now Honi Can you narrate it back for me? DD "well...

I also have switched to Math U See its really easy to incorporate. I wish singapore would have worked for us. But M.U.S s way less tear filled. Singapore with Carries instructions is fun! and cheaper! but singapore made leaps my kid just isn't making, so she needs those concrete objects that don't c...

Hi Laurie, I can tell You what I did I started out with Sing Spell Read and Write (SSRW). She got to know her letter names and most of the sounds. But I loved the program and DD hated it. A friend of mine at the ministry jokingly said she could teach my child to read for me if we job shared/ homesch...

one of our local christian schools here does an interesting thing... your kid can go Monday and Wednesday or Tuesday and Thursday and Friday is for special classes or field trips. On the days off, the kids do home work and copy work. When I read your post it made me think... why couldn't you do some...

My mom bundled me up and sent me outside anyway... I was a upstate New Yorker as a child. We were wet dirty and cold as children but Mom always had a hot pot of rose hip tea for us to drink. Some of my friends have to log hours and driving to and for was allowed. So she drove her kid 30 min each way...

The choices you choose are always so good. I tend to buy my books of Alibris or used books stores sales ect. I have found some wonderful books this way. If I really want it new I call a Grandma or an Aunt and tell her I want "such and such " title for dd's birthday. So my vote is for the less expens...

Netpea, you have given me the courage to post... Ok Mon. Wed, Thurs. We have appointments in the morning round trip is at minimum an hour and a half. Cause it takes soooo long anyway I tend to run to the gym, library do shopping.. and we don't get home till 11am or 1pm depending on what crops up SO....