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If I were you I'd slow Preparing down to half-speed (continuing with math and LA daily) to give him more time to work on his writing before he hits CTC.

Heather4Him wrote:Sounds wonderful, Carrie! I love how you always choose books and resources I've always wanted to use (like the "Penny Candy" book)

Yes!!

I'm a happy 100EZ user but if I wanted to change things up I'd definitely go to The Reading Lesson.

Fun! We'll be following you next fall!

Excellent post, Carrie!

This is so great to hear, Joy! And did you see the new discount that's available?

That's great!!

Lynn, thanks for sharing! We did the exact same experiment today and had the same result. I just went in the other room and read your post to DS and DH, who did the experiment together this evening. What great timing.

The transition was pretty seamless for us. The differences I can think of off the top of my head are slightly longer written narrations, and the weekly research is written rather than oral. But it is done as a short postcard to someone which I think is a brilliant idea. I do agree that IEW is toughe...

FWIW, Shakespeare is my son's favorite part of RTR. I was shocked.

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I thought I did too. Thanks for the assurance I'm not going crazy.

LOL, annaz, you are too funny. My computer is in the office upstairs. We school on the main floor in the dining room. There is a small netbook in there which we use for school. The netbook is blocked to all of the internet except a few select sites. (Wikipedia, the weather, etc.) My computer upstair...

I think it's a good, valid question. And I think all of us would agree that sometimes life just happens and other things take priority over finishing the school day. Having said that though, I have found one of the most valuable things we can teach our children is that some things in life are non-op...

Very interesting!