Combine or separate for Latin?

[Jweishaar]

You guys are the best! Thanks for the input. Latina Christina it is for the eldest. I think he’ll love it and I think my daughter will shine in PL without him ...

[Jweishaar]

That’s a great idea! I think I’ll try that with their spelling next year. Thanks!...

[Jweishaar]

Thanks for the advice. I was an oldest child so it hadn’t really occurred to me until recently how a younger sibling may feel. So should I have my daughter do PL and start my son on LC? I think that’s where the 2nd and 3rd grade cores would place them....

[Jweishaar]

My oldest two will be in 2nd and 3rd next year. We went through about 3/4 of PL orally this year all together. Both kids love Latin, but my daughter was only 1st this year and my 2nd grade boy wasn’t ready for the extra writing workload, which is why we did it orally.

My plan was to...

[Jweishaar]

cherylswope thanks for you help! I sent you an email with his readiness assessment....

[Jweishaar]

Thanks for the suggestions! I hadn’t even thought of splitting out the workbook aspect and saving it for next year. That’s probably exactly what I need to do. This little boy is so different from my older two (who are very similar to each other in addition to the small age gap…I got spoiled) that...

[Jweishaar]

I’m not sure where to go with my littlest boy. He’s 4.5yo and the developmental doctor we saw last year thought he was likely on the spectrum but didn’t want to give a definitive diagnosis at that point. My older two are on the spectrum but are both pretty advanced verbally and academically, so...

[Jweishaar]

We have a situation similar to momgineer. My neighbor and I have slowly built up our own co-op of 6 families that meets once a week for a bit of enrichment and social time. We generally pray, sing a song, and read one of the MP enrichment stories. Sometimes we do art and other than that we let the kids...

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How does doing math all year look for you? My husband and I are still deciding what we want summers to look like (my oldest is only in 2nd grade). We definitely don’t want a full 10 weeks off, particularly with math, but we do want summer to be a much lighter load with mostly play. We were considering...

[Jweishaar]

I just realized my first grader only has two weeks left in math for this year (we use R&S, so we’re about to finish the first 2nd grade workbook). She understands all the concepts and is solid in her math facts and skip counting. I don’t want to stop math so early in the year, but I’m not...

[Jweishaar]

My son is 8 and will be 9 on December 4th and will be perfectly placed starting grade 3 in the fall. He’s also a voracious reader and can easily read the 3rd grade novels, but I don’t think he would be ready/mature enough for the work of 4th. If she’s only going to be 8 in the fall, she’d technically...

[Jweishaar]

Welcome! I also started off with AO briefly and had many of the same frustrations and concerns as you did. We switched completely to MP this year (first and second) and it has been a huge blessing both for me and my kids. I’ve alleviated that sense of missing out on some of the AO reads by incorporating...

[Jweishaar]

Thank you for the thoughtful response! Good readers are their own sort of tricky, aren’t they? I do think my kids would like a deep dive, but I honestly don’t know how I would make that work if I were doing second and third grade literature at the same time. And they’d both want to be involved...

[Jweishaar]

Thanks for the helpful suggestions! We do use R&S and I love that my kids can do it mostly independently. Same with cursive and spelling. When I type it out, it seems like everything flows along well, but somehow in the day to day, things feel crazy and time seems tight even just covering the essentials....

[Jweishaar]

We’re currently finishing up first and second grade. My first grader has finished STT already and my second grader is finishing Little House (we did the Beatrix Potter books first). I want to love the literature guides, but I just…don’t. I see the value in them but I have a really hard time finding...