My kids have always spent about an hour or two per day on structured academics, no matter what grade. We keep it light and easy and still manage...
I would suggest your daughter enroll in a cosmetology school after high school. My daughter's school (the Aveda Institute in NYC) requires a...
We're looking at Avancemos! (McDougal Littell, 2006) for high school Spanish. A used copy of the text is less than $10 on amazon. There are 4...
We used to be active with several homeschool groups in my area, but as ds13 got older he got tired of the group classes and trips. Now we only...
Here in NY we are required to test every other year between 4th and 8th grades (most of us do 5th & 7th, rather than 4th, 6th , & 8th) and every...
Ds is 13 and going into 8th grade. Math: Ds really wants to do Life of Fred (Beginning Algebra into Advanced Algebra) for 8th grade. We're...
Oh and how about the infamous message board confusion of Lose/Loose ("I think I'm gonna loose my mind") and Advice/Advise ("I'm looking for...
Nauseous actually does mean both and your meaning is usually the SECOND one listed. From Oxford: nau·seous ˈnôSHəs,-ZHəs,-ēəs/Submit adjective...
We have been creating our own curriculum for almost 10 years. Most of the time our days looked exactly like CrazyMom explained. We have always...
I agree. New homeschoolers do tend to get a bit ambitious sometimes. On paper, I'm sure this looks ideal. I wish you well, OP, but this outline...
With dd, it was around age 12 (we started when she first came out of school at age 8. Ds used the worldbook list from ages 5 to 8). That was...
I did this for years when the kids were younger. I used the Typical Course of Study from worldbook. It was a nice, general outline for each...
What a great performance! My dd also goes to a performing arts high school (LaGuardia Arts, from the movie "Fame") and everything they do blows...
People swear by THIS. My nephew's acne was just about gone in less than 2 weeks. This would be my go-to regimen for my kids if need be.
Well, for me, the pagan traditions associated with Christian holidays just makes it all the more fun for me and my family. However, we never let...
How about Daily Paragraph Editing by Evan Moor? Ds loved this. It has lots of capitalization and punctuation, as well as spelling exercises....
I didn't care for Apologia either, so we switched to Holt's Physical Science. It's a textbook and it comes with 2 CD Roms: a teacher's guide and...
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I suspected ds was dyslexic when he was 8 and changed my methods of teaching to include a lot more multi-sensory stuff. He improved steadily, but...
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