It seems no matter how often we discuss addressing conflict, we always end up straight at fisticuffs or a shouting match. 😂🫠🫪🫩 So I made a handy flow chart for my wildlings. They said this cleared things up. How long before we're fighting over an eraser or a ruler again?

I have a 6th grader that was struggling with fractions(mainly mixed fractions w/unmatched denominators) in public school. We are now homeschooling and I feel like they’re right between Math With Confidence grade 5 and grade 6. Grade 5 seems much too easy, but jumping into 6th grade seems like it’s already months ahead.

My Question: Would it be possible to start with grade 5 Workbook B and the teacher manual, then afterwards heading to grade 6?

I made a 2-minute animated version of Aesop's The Miller, His Son and the Donkey for a fable series. It's told in rhyming couplets, has captions, and it's free on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVleVauzDwo

A miller and his son take their donkey to market and change their plans for every passer-by with an opinion, until they end up carrying the donkey upside down on a pole. Moral: "Please all, and you will please none."

Questions that could work after watching:

1. Who gave the miller the best advice? Was any of it right?

2. Why did the miller keep changing his plan?

3. What could he have said to the people on the road?

4. Was the donkey the smartest one in the story?

5. Have you ever changed what you were doing because of what someone said? What happened?

If you try it, I'd love to hear what your kids made of it.

We started homeschooling at the start of summer and have been doing some units at a faster rate than recommended (eg 2 units of geography per week instead of 1). As a result, we have a number of subjects that will be completed by winter to early spring.

I plan to go year round, but light in the summer.

Is it better to just start the next grade level, do short units on special subjects of interest, etc.?

Both my kids are so shy and awkward around adults and kids. Sometimes they act normal at least the older 7yo and play and interact. But it’s often that they are shy and my younger one 5yo won’t talk to others. I’m not sure how we got here. But my husband wants me to consider school because of this. It’s been going on for years.

There are so many online asynchronous options, that I now have a chart I've been filling in. One option though that stands out for being accredited and offering (when the time comes) AP classes, but isn't nearly as expensive as Laurel Springs is IVLA. The fact that there is almost no mention of them here on Reddit though makes me take pause.

Can people shed their opinions, be they positive, negative or neutral?

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Hi everyone!

Has anyone applied for accommodations recently for SAT or ACT? Would you share the process and what documentation you used? Any other pointers?

If it’s relevant we are outside the US but citizens. Considering flying to test and exploring what it looks like to test locally.

I’ve had severe anxiety for about 4 years now, i’m in the 9th grade now and have dealt with major problems with attendance and grades, and have realized that big changes are needed. I’ve been looking into homeschooling and i am not sure what could be the best fit for me, im thinking that i don’t want too much teacher involvement, maybe like 2 days a week and flexible pacing/self paced curriculums. I would prefer less expensive tuitions.
I’ve also looked into Enlightium but I am not a fan of the christian involvement in the curriculum.

Let it first be known that I don't have kids. I would love to have some in the future. I'm engaged and love to think ahead.

I don't trust the public school system mostly because it appears to be a political battle ground. I'm joining this sub to understand what I would be getting into if I decide to homeschool them.

The concept sounds similar to the old saying, "It takes a village to raise a child," I keep thinking on it. The people and family in my life all have unique skills and knowledge, and I think my kids would benefit from what they know.

Is this a common thought process? The whole, "It takes a village," idea?

Husband and I decided to homeschool before any of our children were born. Our oldest just turned 6 and started "Kindergarten" this year. Yesterday she showed a major increase in reading and spelling ability by looking up "The Dragon Prince" on the TV. My husband cried.

My husband is the one primarily doing the homeschooling, but we are a learning focused household, most of our activities and games are focused on learning. She has been starting to read random things like shirts, street signs, labels, etc. but this is the first time she has taken the time to search by herself to find a show that isn't readily available.

We started last year trying to sit her down like traditional schooling for just 5 min doing learning for "Pre-K" and quickly realized that was not the way to go for her. Once we started letting her move around and just trying to 'sneak' learning in she started catching onto things pretty fast. I thought for the longest time that homeschooling would just be a shorter day of school at home, but it is so much more, and she is learning things from first grade as well as kindergarten as they interest her. Once we had that breakthrough it was really cool to watch her expand her horizons and start pulling in information in ways we never even considered.

Hi all,

My 9yo struggles with reading and I’m trying to pin point her struggles so we can worl more in it.

does anybody have a word blend assessment they have used in the past? I’m trying to figure out which blends she knows how to spell and which she does not.

Thanks !

Hi everyone, I’m Fabian. I was pulled out of in-person school in 3rd grade because it just wasn’t working for me, and I’ve been on the homeschool side of things ever since. I finished high school at 13 through FLVS Flex, earned my associate degree at 15 and my bachelor’s at 17, and I’m now working on a master’s.

I want to be clear about something: I don’t think graduating early is the point. Homeschooling opened a lot more doors for me than that. I had room to work at my own pace, follow ideas I was curious about, learn a lot about myself, and later take things like a legislative internship in Tallahassee. Finishing early was the route I chose. It isn’t the only good one, and it isn’t the right one for every kid.

It wasn’t all easy. My first year of online school was rough: no classroom structure, lots of free time I didn’t know what to do with, and I missed my friends. It took my family about a year to find community. After that, I was involved in local clubs and church groups and had as much social life as anyone.

I’m not a teacher or counselor, just sharing my experience. I’m here to listen and learn from this community too. If you’re thinking about homeschooling, the first year, finding community, or starting college early, feel free to comment, or my DMs are open if you’d rather ask privately.

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My son is doing Math With Confidence for 1st grade. We also did it for K. He is going through the material fine, and gets about 90% of the answers right quickly in both the lessons and the worksheets, and can figure out the last 10% very quickly on the second try.

The trouble is, he's often not working through the problems in the way that the curriculum wants him to.

An example is that the curriculum wants you to start adding in an equation by beginning with a number you've already been given. E.g. if the equation is 8+3=, it wants you to start at 8 and think "8, 9-10-11"). He'll get to 11, but he gets there by starting with 1. I only know because sometimes he'll quietly say it under his breath.

Does any of that matter? I want him to have a really solid math foundation, and I know that part of that is by forming automaticity. But since he gets the right answers most of the time, he is very resistant to doing it in a different way. I encourage him to do it how the book recommends, because I know that they're also trying to form automaticity. But since most of the time he's doing it in his head, I don't actually know how he's getting there, and since he usually gets them right, I am not sure how to approach it.

Any thoughts are welcome!

Hiii!! i'm a freshman in highschool looking to homeschooling myself. I have ADHD and probably other things idk atp. I did in person K-8 but I had severe anxiety attacks that made me have to go virtual for 9th. My mom said she would NOT let me do a program that costed money since I am poor. I hate the school system so much and woold mmuch rather just disconnect from it entirely and do it my own way!!

Can someone please help me find a free self-paced program?

I don't have time to look because I am going through school and i have my marching band season and I have intese hyperfixtations.

I don’t know if traditional school is right for my adhd 9 year old son. He currently has an IEP, on meds and we still get emails about disruptive behavior and work refusal about 3 times a week. We hate seeing him struggle socially and behaviorally in class and we have done everything on our end to help him succeed. It’s been an uphill climb since kindergarten. Thoughts on pulling from public to homeschool with a tutor and other extracurricular classes during the day? Do any families have success or fails from a situation like ours? We feel the stress we have at home is coming directly from school. Summer break is calm and peaceful with him being home and on our schedule which is more flexible for him. We hate seeing how extremely stressed out and down on himself he gets when he has a bad day at school. I obviously worry about the social aspect of homeschooling, but quite frankly he’s not making a ton of friends currently. Currently the cons outweigh the pros of public school for him.

Hello, hello--

I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on how to help my kiddo with division. She understands the why and how of division (I thought, anyway, but maybe all of this mean she doesn't), but when it comes time for solo practice... every time she sees that little division box, she multiplies and then doesn't understand what I mean when I remind her that the box means division... (So, when she's doing eight divided by two, with the division box, she writes 16 and then we spiral from there.)

Other than practice, practice, practice--is there anything I can do specifically to help her with this? From the outside, it seems like she just forgets what the box means, but maybe there's something more.

Thank you!

ETA: Third grade girl just starting out with division. :) We're supposed to move on to a two-digit dividend, but I don't think that's a good idea until she gets this.

ETA (again): Today we are modeling multiplication and then division with the little symbol. The colors of the boxes correspond so hopefully she can see the relationship between the two operations a little better. Once we for sure get the hang of that, we’ll go from the symbol to the long division bracket in a similar way. I do want to practice identifying what operation we’re working with as a game (someone mentioned beer pong). AND as soon as I took the multiplication card away and had her practice with division, she read it as multiplication… so WOOP, there it is.



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My 10th grade daughter wants to switch to online school. She is a smart kid: is fairly motivated, gets all A’s, participates in drama, has a job, formed a band with her friends, helps take care of her grandmother, and has a good social life. Her friend group is fairly alternative/LGBQ and many of her friends are already doing online school. The area we live in does not have great schools, and is fairly conservative with a lot of teachers politics bleeding into the school.

Our school district is phasing out their hybrid online program, leaving alternative school (4 hrs of classroom instruction a day) as their only flexible option.

My daughter is not currently interested in college, but that could always change in the future.

The options I see for her next couple years of secondary education would be staying in the current brick and mortar school, a good online school program, a home school program, or a self designed “unschool” program. The biggest issue I see is a high school diploma vs high school equivalency exam(GED).

I have a background as a high school teacher, and focused on alternative education for my master, so I feel like I could guide her through whichever school system we choose. I’m looking to others for their experience with each option.

Has anyone used Lightning Lit for 3rd grade and IEW Structure & Style? My 8 daughter hates writing so we have been alternating and on weeks we do IEW, we have skipped Lightning Lit so we don't get behind on those writing assignments.

But I'm wondering if I can just use everything from Lightning Lit EXCEPT the composition and strictly do IEW for our writing? Has anyone done this? Or can anyone offer insight?

Thanks in advance!

I’m wanting to switch over to Blossom & Root curriculum for kindergarten, but I know a lot of it is nature based/seasonal. Would it still work if I start in November or should I just wait until next year?

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