It's smoothing out, although I have decided I am not going to return to the Seton program. I went with a friend to a Homeschool Supply store in the north part of Houston, and learned that the writers of The Well Trained Mind have revised and updated their book AND created textbooks/workbooks to use in conjunction with the other source material they recommend. I am not happy with the way Seton has organized some of its material, and I find myself going to other sources to help explain grammatical lessons that are in the the material provided. She loves the vocabulary workbook though and will volunteer to do extra lessons, so I have been letting her run with it. We are about halfway through the math, and she has been getting discouraged with it, partly because a lot of it she already knows and I think (this is my theory) its because she also hasnt been seeing her results. The blame for that rests totally on me because I have been making her take the tests (which are supposed to be given every five chapters, I found out) two at a time, and I havent been grading them because I think I am supposed to send those in for grading...although I havent yet, because the directions on the site are not very good at explaining what to do. I resent having to wade through the huge planner to find out a simple answer, and since we startd in the middle of the year, I am still trying to weed my way through what she knows and what she doesnt know.
I know I am gritching a lot here, but am really feeling this curriculum will not benefit her the way I think she would. I am discovering she likes doing paperwork and puzzles and enjoys writing stuff.
Sorry to gritch. The homeschooling itself is going very well, although we have been having some slow days and she gets a little antsy about not being in a regular classroom environment.
Battlestar Galactica is on!!
It is a program, that teaches the kids how to do research, and there is a writing (Composition) program imbedded in TRISMS that is the best as far as most folks on the TWTM users board are concerned. It is called IEW, Institute for Excellence in Writing, and is the only writing program that I've found that Clare actually enjoys.