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    What is this? OT eval or something else?

    in The Learning Challenges Board

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    So, my dd12 (SLD reading and written expression) has been really floppy when it comes time to do any work she doesn't like or is hard.  She wraps a blanket around her arms and acts like she doesn't have arms.  Sometimes she will fidget with a pen for a minute before starting. Then, after some prodding takes out one arm to do her work.  I try to get her to use two arms (to hold her paper and write) but she typically refuses.  I talked to an OT about it last week but she seemed puzzled about it and didn't seem to know if we should pursue an OT eval.  My dd spends hours sewing, crocheting, baking and is good at art.  If I get a typical OT eval (where they copy the shapes and squiggles) I am pretty sure she will pass with flying colors.  I can't tell if this is just a response to doing work since work is hard.  I am also seeing some signs of ADHD now that puberty has hit and I don't know if that has anything to do with it. Any ideas?

    How to create a “curriculum manual” like Memoria Press?

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    I make a weekly schedule using a table on Google Docs, then print it out the week before for my son.  I preplan some of his work in another document (similar to the MP digital subject lesson plans) so I can just cut and paste from that.  If I need to make a change, I can either edit and reprint or just cross out with pencil and write in the change on the page.  I keep the page on a clipboard on his desk and change it every Sunday.  The old ones go in a folder (in order) in case I want to check what he did on previous weeks.

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    "Laying Down the Rails" any opinions?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    I had the adult and children's books.  I found Laying Down the Rails for Children to be more user friendly (it's for the parent).  I used it for a while but some of the "lessons" were just stories that my kids didn't really relate to.  I ended up gifting the books to someone in a Facebook group.

    1st Grade Planning Thread 2021-2022

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    Grade 1

    Language Arts: Explode the Code (with teacher’s guide), American Language Phonics Workbooks, various readers (mostly from Sonlight and Memoria Press booklists), copywork

    Math: Math Mammoth 1

    Bible: The Beginner’s Bible, Beginner’s Bible Workbook

    History: SOTW 1 with Activity Book, tagging along with older siblings (History Revealed) and doing some activities with another family

    Science: tagging along with older sister (Apologia Swimming Creatures & Botany with Junior Notebook)

    Enrichment: MP Kindergarten Enrichment, MP Kindergarten Book of Crafts, Home Art Studio Kindergarten, Artistic Pursuits K-3 (only the projects to to go with Ancient History)

    9th Grade Planning 2021-2022

    in High School and Self-Education Board

    Posted · Edited by ChocolateCake

    My first highschooler.  I'm so excited, LOL!

    Grade 9 

    History: History Revealed (Ancient Civilizations & the Bible)

    I picked this since it’s a unit study style curriculum that I can use with my middle and high schooler (and tag along 1st grader).

    Foreign Language: Henle Latin I (Units 1-5)  MPOA

    Science: Physics I (Honors) WHA

    Literature & Composition: Memoria Press Guides: Poetry and Short Stories, Tom Sawyer, The Book of the Ancient Greeks, The Book of the Ancient World, The Iliad & The Odyssey (with Vita Beata Discussion Group), Elements of Style, Jensen’s Format Writing (first half), Vocabulary From Classical Roots B&C, Spelling Power

    Math: Algebra II (Foerster's/Prentice Hall Classics with Math Without Borders videos)

    Electives: Health (Life Pac), Intro to Python (udemy)

    Bible: Long Story Short, Training Hearts and Teaching Minds

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    Seventh Grade Planning Thread 2021-2022

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted · Edited by ChocolateCake

    Grade 7

    Language Arts: Wilson Reading System (for Dyslexia), Memoria Press Literature (with guides)-5th grade lit. with Vita Beata Discussion Group-she read these already so she will review before her group meetings (Lassie Come Home, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Heidi) and also do The Bronze Bow and Anne of Green Gables, also some historical fiction related to history that she will just read and narrate, Rod & Staff English 5, Pentime Cursive 6, 180 Days of Social Studies for 6th grade (this is more for reading comprehension practice), Wilson Workbooks (to review previous phonics/spelling lessons), Touch Type Read and Spell

    Math: Key to Series (Measurement, Decimals, Algebra-she already started these), LOF Decimals, Patty Paper Geometry, Math Mosaics, Khan Academy for review

    History: History Revealed (Ancient Civilizations & the Bible) We may also be doing SOTW 1 with Activity Book with another family, I will pick out just a few activities per month as I also have the Elementary Activity Book from History Revealed 

    Foreign Language: She’s interested in Spanish but has learning disabilities so we’re just working slowly through a basic Spanish workbook (Complete Book of Spanish Workbook For Kids grades 1-3), I will have her make her own flashcards for this, maybe we will add Mango or something like that

    Science: Apologia Swimming Creatures & Botany (with notebooking journals and audio download)  

    Art: She just picks projects she finds online and does them with a friend via video chat 

    Bible: Long Story Short, Training Hearts and Teaching Minds

    Home Art Studio

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    Can you have them look at the samples and ask them?  I think the supplies were mostly typical art supplies so it won't hurt to have more supplies on hand.  If they are creative they could alter the projects a bit.  I've done almost all of them and not always for the grade suggested but usually within a couple of grades difference.

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    Shormann Algebra Reviews?

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    We also tried it and dropped it about 10 lessons in.  We were coming from Math Mammoth which is laid out completely differently (mastery based).  My kid is not independent enough to do math on his own.  I think one of the chapters introduced about 20 new vocabulary words and kids were told to memorize them.  It was just too fast moving for my son.  If there was a problem he didn't understand, he was supposed to watch the video again.  But, sometimes that wasn't enough.  There's only 20 problems to do and there's no extra problems to have your child work on if it's not clicking.  We switched to Foerster's with Math Without Borders videos.  

    9th Grade Planning Thread

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    On 6/12/2017 at 11:01 PM, .... said:

    We started about a month ago.  He chose what he wanted to study and I mostly put it together (with his help).

     

    Algebra 1 - Life of Fred Beginning Algebra 

     

    English - Prentice-Hall World Masterpieces + a big booklist of folk literature + Greek/Latin root flashcards + Daily Grammar + Bravewriter

     

    Military History - booklist + projects + field trips

     

    Paleobiology - Coursera's DINO 101, Ancient Marine Reptiles, Theropod Dinosaurs and the Origin of Birds, Early Vertebrate Evolution + field trips + projects

     

    Health - AOP's Health (Life Pacs) + Human Anatomy Coloring Book

     

    Woodworking - CLE

     

    German - continuing with German reader, Deutschakademie Audio Course, some beginning readers, etc

     

    Bible - read through the entire New Testament

     

    He's also taking a homeschool PE class, he's running on a track & field team and he's volunteering at an equestrian physical therapy center.

    May I ask how it went with CLE Woodworking?  I'm thinking of using it for my rising 9th grader. I asked the hubs to teach the shop skills.

    OPGTR or FSR

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    I think FSR moves slower but requires a lot of writing.  I'm using it right now with my 6-year-old girl.  I think the last book (Book D) moves faster so I may take longer on it and/or use other phonics materials for a while (probably Explode the Code).  It's actually good that you have  two different curriculums.  If one doesn't work, you can always try the other.

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    8th Grade Planning Thread 2020-2021

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted · Edited by ChocolateCake

    On 1/23/2020 at 4:16 PM, ChocolateCake said:

    I'm planning to have my son do a lot of the MP 8th grade core with some substitutions/omissions.  Some subjects are with his sister who will be in 6th grade next year.

    Literature: MP grade 8 Lit with guides  I decided to do a combo 7th/8th so he can do the 7th Grade Lit Discussion Group with Vita Beata instead.

    Hopefully, he can do the Vita Beata discussion group with this.

    Math: Shormann Algebra 1 with Integrated Geometry Self-Paced eLearning Course    We started this over the summer and it isn't going to work.  Too much spiral for a kid coming from Math Mammoth.  We will do Foerster's Algebra I (Prentice Hall Classics) with Math Without Borders.

    Bible: Christian Studies IV with guide (second half- with younger sis)   We're two weeks into the school year and we are almost done with this book.  I think we will do a combo of Teaching Hearts, Training Minds and Long Story Short.

    History: Book of the Ancient Greeks with guide, Book of the Ancient World as a read aloud with younger sis  I decided to just make this a geography year.  I will add in some hands-on activities and some earth science via CK-12 and Earth Science for Every Kid (VanCleave).  We will do some of these activities with friends.

    I'd like to add in an Ancient Egypt unit study. We may do this with another family to make it more fun.

    Language Arts: R&S English 7 (second half), Wordsmith, some writing across the curriculum, Spelling Power  We finished all the pertinent lessons in R&S 7 so I went ahead and picked the lessons in R&S 8 I would like him to cover and am planning to have him do those this year.

    I may try to complete the English lessons I find most important over the summer so we don't have to worry about it next year.  I'm not sure yet.

    Science: Applied Engineering from Masterbooks  

    Hopefully, I can find a friend to do the labs with him since this will be his first year doing science without his sister.  I think I'll just have my kids do these together.

    Foreign Language: Second Form Latin, Elementary Greek Year 1 (with younger sis)

    We've been doing Latin half-paced but I'm thinking we may need to speed up next year.  Pray for us!  The Greek is sort of an experiment.  I'm not married to it. We're doing the MP Greek Alphabet book right now.  It's going well because-well it's only the alphabet.

    Geography: MP Geography III (first half)

    I've heard this one is tough so we may just do the first half and extend it to 9th grade.  I'm aiming for 1-1.5 yeas for this.  We will see.  I want to make sure he masters the material.  I will read the book aloud so my 6th grader can also learn something. She will just narrate since she has her own geography workbook.

    Music: piano with Mom 

    This is very, very light.  He wants to be able to play the songs in his Super Mario music book so we'll see.  Now, that Daddy is working from home due to COVID we hardly do piano since it makes noise while the hubs is on the phone.

    Karate, Swim, 4H  We're not doing any outside activities for now (due to COVID).  We may try swim in the spring.  We have some families to do learning activities with either in person (from a distance) or via video call.  

    Coding Fundamentals (FLVS)  This will only last a few months and then I may have him do another online class.  

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    I made a few updates.  I actually didn't realize how many changes I had to make until I wrote this out. 

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