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About naturelovinmama

  • Birthday 12/15/1968

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    military wife and supportive cheer mom to one and homeschooling mom to the other
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    Southeast Alabama
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    Classical conversations, reading, making whole natural foods and spending time with my family
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    Classical conversations Foundations/Essentials Director, homeschooling mama
  1. We have used all of the same curriculum! In first grade I did the WWE workbook with my son. I liked it because it already had the words written and ready to be copied (with the lines there), and a little spot for him (or me) to write the date and I didn't have to write it out for him on my own page. Are you just thinking of doing the reading from WWE to yours and not the copywork? If that's the case, you wouldn't need the workbook, but if you will have him doing some of the copywork and want to make it a bit easier on yourself, you may want it. I bought both the book and the workbook, but only ended up using the workbook, because it had all of the same info in it, plus the workbook pages. I did HWOT with him at the same time, because it really went more into how to form the letters. We did it for Pre-K, K, and 1st and will keep going as long as we need to. I love it! And I agree, you can do one three days a week and one 2. We also used OPGTR and Explode the Code. Love, love, love AAS and highly recommend it!!
  2. We love this!!! Thanks for sharing. We all needed a little laugh today.
  3. Yes, I had it done years ago by my holistic doctor's dentist. I would definitely go to someone who knows the ins and outs out keeping you from swallowing any mercury. I then took a supplement to rid my body of the mercury. My energy levels increased dramatically.
  4. I agree. We did US History in 8th grade, and now are doing the first year of World History in 9th grade, then will do another of World and then US.
  5. We're new to High School and I'm so glad you asked this question. My daughter does cheer leading and in order to count it for P.E. on her transcript here in GA she had to log 75 hours--per half credit.
  6. We have thought about doing it at home, but it seems to me the ITBS (which is the only one I knew about at the time that I could administer myself) was more expensive than the one given by our local homeschool group. And my daughter really doesn't do well with distractions, so we had her go do group testing. But I would really like to test my son this year at home. Does anyone know which tests you can administer yourself?
  7. I have the same laminator and love it so much! I bought the pouches from Oregon Laminators, but am excited to know that Sam's carries them. And it is daunting at first to laminate them all, but once you get going, you can just do one pack in a half hour or so and once they are done, you will be so happy.
  8. I agree about the white board. There is something about it that my son just loves! We have on on an easel from Ikea and he just gets so much more excited when he can use that instead of just drawing on the paper at the table. We use Singapore with him and there isn't a whole lot of writing. There is a lot of mental math, which may work better for some than others. And when he's tired of writing, I will tell him just to figure out the answer and I write it in.
  9. I third Learning Adventures. It's based on units in time and has everything you need except math. Very little prep and some really cool experiments, projects and recipes to go along with it. We love it!!!
  10. I wanted to read this to get the same information. DS 7 is still working on the Bob Books and hates every minute of reading. He loves Dr. Suess, so we go with what he loves.
  11. We have no electronics too until school is done, so my ds 7 and daughter 14 ask me--"When Can I start school?" every day. With two the same age, it must be much harder. We also do read-aloud while he's eating breakfast. It's easier to get him to sit. We try to do the subjects in the same order every day, and he likes me to stick to it. That way he knows when he's almost finished. And our neighbors were out walking or bike riding first thing every day. I tend to stay in my pajamas until 1pm or so, so I'm not sure if I'm ready for that, but thinking about doing it when we start back up in order to help him focus better.
  12. I'm planning on doing SSL, Headventureland and Classical Communications with my 2nd grader, and saving more for third grade.
  13. My ds is the same age and at the same reading level (or actually probably behind). What has really worked for us well are OPGTR, AAS, ETC, WWE and Bob Books. We have just gotten to the point of doing some Dr. Suess books, and I love the sonlight read-alouds, history and Readers to fill in. We're about to use Story of the World next year, so I am anxious to check out some of the recommended books to go along with that.
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