Not dealing with any specific issues here but would love a list of things that your jr. high boy likes to read. I struggle with finding good YA books - everything seems to be boy/girl or vampire related!

Our coop registration fee depends on if the parent teaches a class or not. $60 per family per semester if you do not teach a class, $45 per family per semester if you teach 1 class, $40 per semester if you teach 2 classes. Another advantage of teaching is that you get to register first before those ...

We have done Physical Science in a coop setting that meets 8 times in the fall and 8 times in the spring. Basically every other week. All reading, lab reports, tests etc. were done at home and the labs were done at coop. Worked perfectly because there are 16 modules. You would two extra modules that...

AHL and AWANA Hey mfw friends! A little advice from you HS veterans? I am planning to start AHL with my oldest daughter in january or febuary. We school year round, taking week or two week long breaks every four to six weeks. She is in journey (high school level awana) and is doing a lot of bible r...

Hi everyone! When I start MFW-K in the fall with my son, I want to create a preschool box for my 2-year-old that can be her school box, something that we get out only at school time so she will have some things to do when my son is doing his work. I'm looking for some ideas on what to add to the bo...

I have the book Using John Saxon's Math Books by Art Reed and it has some suggestions about this situation. He suggests doing the Algebra 1 book two times. Not 1/2 the lessons one year and 1/2 lessons the next but the whole book two times. The first time call it Basic Algebra and give a grade based ...

We are just finishing up RtR with my 6th grade son. I bought the tests to use with him. Sometimes we used them as actual tests, sometimes we used them as oral discussion questions, and sometimes we skipped them. I would say we used about 3/4 of them in some manner. We also just used narration someti...

My boys tend to like adventure books. Some favorites: Jason's Gold by Will Hobbs, Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George, Ivan and the Informer by Myrna Grant.

I am considering waiting until 8th grade for General Science with my second son also. I live in St. Louis area and checked online with 2 state universities and 2 top rated private universities and none of them said Physical Science couldn't count for high school science - they did exclude General Sc...

We did school as usual. But my husband and I don't usually do anything special for Valentine's Day and this year I surprised him by getting dressed up and we went out to eat all by ourselves! This is rare for us. I rented a movie for the kids and they loved their movie/pizza/game night. My oldest is...

We live in MO too. Have been homeschooling here for about 9 years. It is my understanding that we are required to have 1000 hours of which at least 600 must be core. But it is not necessary that the other 400 be non-core. So you could have 800 hours of core and 200 of non-core. They just want to mak...

My son wrote about "Does too much screen (Tv, Computer, video games etc.) time effect your mood?". He has struggled with writing this year but did come up with this topic on his own.

does anyone else have these little freak out, eek moments in school? LOL LOL. I miss doing stuff like teaching K and 1st. -crystal I'm right there with you Crystal!! We won't start AHL until 8/2 but the first time I looked through the manual etc. it was totally eeeek! But after looking at it more t...

Here are a couple we are considering for High School.

http://www.scottosplace.com

http://www.homeschoolprogramming.com

There is also a holocaust museum in St. Louis. http://www.hmlc.org I've lived in this area all my life and didn't know it existed until a few weeks ago and it has been there 15 years. We aren't quite there in our history studies, but had the opportunity to go on a field trip today. At the end of the...

We had a fun 2 weeks learning the states. I agree with Julie's "even I know those teensie Eastern states now". My 10 year old was most improved of the family. I gave 1 pt. for knowing the state and 1 pt. for knowing the correct Postal abbrev. He scored in the low 30's on the pretest and 89 on the po...

We love the CDs here!

Julie in MN wrote:I've also been pausing more often in SOTW #4, as ds fills in his outlines.

Thanks for the tip, Julie. We will be doing #4 this year.

I am agreeing with Lori & crystal. I think it would be a lot to do in just 2 days a week. We do Apologia Science lab through our co-op. It is just doing & discussing the experiments. All reading, lab reports and tests are done at home. The co-op teacher does grade the lab reports. That being said I ...

CTG for 7th grade boy Hello ladies and gent, my ds will be doing CTG this fall and I was wondering if there are any supplemental recommendations for this grade other than Apologia science, which I will add. The 7th/8th grade supplement for ECC was quite extensive, but I don't see anything like that...

My son did the On Your Own questions with me orally; by the end of the year he just did it on his own and looked up the answers on his own. We also did the review questions at the end of each chapter orally except for the definitions which he wrote out - we did this the entire year. He scored well o...

It seems like we did this a few years ago from a book called Pets in a Jar. If my murky memory is correct we cut off a piece of old pantyhose and secured it to the top with a rubberband. My boys always like these types of projects. Butterflies, ants, worms . . .

(5) Week 26 - Lewis & Clark movie A movie our family likes for Lewis & Clark is: Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West It's a National Geographic film. We first saw it at the Omnitheater at our science museum, but now it's just a regular film. I think our library used to carry it, but we had to get it ...

Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 6:45 pm If you have children that are very computer/gaming savvy this one [Quarter Mile Math] might get boring quickly. I bought it a few years ago and my boys tired of it real fast. They have preferred one called Math Blaster. I agree with Julie that variety might be the b...

Hi Amy, I work pt at a library and I can tell you that one video lost under the dresser and some late fines is NOT the worst that they have seen!! If you get someone crabby checking you in they may act like it, but believe me you are not the worst offender BY FAR. I agree that they probably have a m...

Just wondering if it has been helpful to have these cards? Any advice? pam We do not use the cards. We do not do any of the spelling games or activities even the ones listed in the book. I started using SP with my boys last year and it is the only spelling program that all three of us have clicked ...