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  1. I usually started with the review in the teachers guide. That reminded us what we did before. Then we just read through the student text explanation, that was more than enough. We chose to do most of the exercises orally, even diagramming (I had a page of generic diagrams and sometimes had them just show me which one they would pick and where to put each word). Some exercises I had them write out because mechanics just need to be practiced. Some I just had then mark up the text and considered it consumable. I usually let them do the worksheets as independent practice. We also did another writing program so we skipped most of the writing lessons, which were usually easy to pick out cuz they had a special border on the lesson or star in the table of contents.
  2. These vocab cards interest me and look like they might do what you want , but they are rediculously expensive and they don’t show you the back. https://store.lonestarlearning.com/shop/greek-and-latin-roots/
  3. You could do more than one a year ... we are doing astronomy in 20wks this year 3- 4 days a week. We don’t do any writing, but lots of activities. I spent the rest of the year on earth science 5wks on weather and 7wks on rocks/plate tectonics. , I just pulled together resources -picture books with some Gods design lessons and Janice van cleave activities I haven’t used much of the other books they may require more time
  4. My daughter went from Singapore 6 to bju foundations. (Then bju pre-a and Alg) Well actually I can’t remember if she finished 6 then started or did it concurrently... My daughter also had trouble remembering things. I felt bju was good for her that it provided more practice and review than Singapore and a larger scope (we used US edition). I taught straight from the text explanation and it was all I needed. But I’m also trained as engineer, so I don’t need much. But the teachers guide was great for the answer key and help deciding which problems to assign. It is a large step up in workload and ,at least foundations, was working from a text book not a workbook (I am not familiar with bju 6 and I understood Foundations to be 7 but I could be wrong ). So definitely be prepared for more time spent. With this child I put in all the review it provided , even bought the extra student activities for the cumulative review. There was also enough challenge for more other kid who was more mathy. I just cut those out for her. Just have to say that using BJU brought out my love for math, and math became my daughters favorite subject despite the workload. So I know my review isn’t exactly the grades you are asking but maybe it is close enough to be helpful
  5. I second the sonlight suggestion for history and literature. It is *great* for an avid reader. It’s not a textbook, but almost always uses a spine that connects thing and the books are an incredible way to learn history and makes it so memorable. Love it!
  6. We went to Glacier last summer and i thought this one was cute, alittle too much info for my 7yo but it had a page for each animal , plant or site to see ,with picture , then a description , where to find it in the park, and a place to record when and where you saw it, kind of set up like a nature journal sort of , wish we would have had it at the beginning of the trip instead of the end. What I saw in Glacier:A Kids guide to the National Park
  7. I haven’t used any master books but this week I spent A LOT of time looking through the new language arts samples.i was SO drawn to it. I was looking for something to condense our language arts a bit. And it seemed to have all the pieces. But the more I looked at the content I’m like it doesn’t compare at all to WWE strong literature selections. And we can’t do spelling 1-2 days a week ,( actually I don’t think doing it 5 days is covering it well enough at our house. 😄). But even after deciding it wouldn’t fit what I wanted I still wanted it! So I had to figure it what it was that was drawing me so strongly. I decided that it was most significantly that it was so visually appealing. That’s what it came down to. I liked looking at it. And I also liked that each day was set up in manageable chunks, each day starting a new page. Now I’m ruined. I can’t find anything else that competes on the visual scale. at all. I can hardly even look at others, which is so rediculous . Why does it matter! (I keep asking myself) Anyway so that’s my guess, they got a great graphic design and marketing department
  8. I used Singapore through 6 then went to BJU pre-algebra. I also use Singpore as my basic scope and sequence and add in more practice to address trouble spots with parts of other programs I think it might actually be helpful to do some of BJU before pre-algebra. Like you said it has a wider scope so you could cover some topics Singapore doesn't and the Jump in workload from Singapore to BJU is significant, I thought. So it might be a gentler introduction if you were already doing a page a week or something like that from BJU. I also agree that if you have a strong math student the CWP are a great supplement to take their thinking deeper.
  9. I have been using LOC D this year with my 2nd grader . D does not teach many more phonograms, but I do find the rules reinforcement helpful. Silent E rules, making words plural, adding suffixes. There was a lot of practice in these and I thought it was very helpful and definitely reinforced the idea. I liked how the dictations and some activities were intergrated with the books they were reading. The problem came because he needed more reading practice, and the spelling words became a little too difficult so I went to using it for exposure so I could teach the rules, but then realized he was still having trouble with some of the really easy words so I needed to step back and focus on learning words in his grasp. I don’t think I will go back, maybe just pulling a couple of worksheets out. So for you situation, since she catches on so quick when you get it to end of C she should be reading fairly well. So you want to keep going with phonics/spelling but won’t necessarily need a reading program. Just keep her supplied with lots of books and have her read everyday. So for phonics I have been using MCP Plaid phonics and I think that would be great for you. It is a worksheet a day that teaches/practices a phonics rule. Little instruction and off she goes. There is lots in there , in my younger days I would have seen it as busy work but I’m coming to learn the value of writing to learn writing😜. But even so there maybe too much practice in there for you , you could skip pages along the way. The method is a hair different than loe in the way it deals with long vowels, so On those pages I would just reinforce the phonograms not reading their little blurb that the “first vowel says it’s long sound” Over all I found it useful for spelling/phonics practice. We started MCP B while he was in LOE C and he is in C now and 1/2 way through LoE D The online samples don’t give very good overview of exercises , but they are VERY varied. SWR is a really good follow up to LOE for spelling because it uses the same phonograms and rules, (if you like the rules ) I always found it difficult to go to a traditional program after learning the rules. I actually like swr’s rule phrasing better. SWR can require a bit from the teacher but seems like less than AAS and it seems more efficient when she won’t need a lot of work there. I agree that you can wait on spelling , but it’s good to have something to keep the skill fresh in the mean time Anyway After loe C if she was pretty fluent I would have her read every day, and phonics page out of MCP and later when you feel the need and have the space start spelling with swr. (Though it you wait too long she may forget the phonograms) At 6 with a child who writes a lot in her own you really don’t need to start a program yet. Keep encouraging the writing and maybe doing copywork/dictation to teach the mechanics. If you need a guide for that maybe WWE, or there are others I haven’t used....
  10. I have used it twice with my eighth graders. I didn’t use all of it in the sense that I didn’t require them to do the extra writing projects and research projects and we discussed everything instead of filling in blanks. I did push for them to do the one paragraph per chapter that basically was “this is what I believe” on this subject and encouraged them to do some of the scripture study on their own, hoping to grow their ownership a bit. We used it with the expectation of exposure and discussion starters. I think it did that really well. I particularly liked the videos in the first sections done by cedarville (I think) The content was good and clear. Some of the later videos were alittle dated. (I do have the first edition. ) The second half deals with different issues marriage, law, government, politics, history. As it walked through those I struggled just because while I desire for my kids to be critical thinkers, if they are going to be it is going to come from their dad not me!! But it was good that we could draw him into the conversation some. I think it was a great opportunity for my daughter particularly to articulate herself alittle more and ask some questions. For my son, I didn’t have too much bandwidth for much discussion that year, but I still think it was helpful. There wasn’t too much I disagreed with, there was some, but that gave us the opportunity to discuss the different sides. I will use it again.
  11. I love the Berenstain Bears Big book of Science and Nature for a 5 yo. Great rhyme and rhythm and great science topics too
  12. I would completely agree there is no need for alarm,but I might also try some things to encourage them to engage their mind alittle more and practice listening well. If they aren’t interested I don’t want them developing a habit of checking out. Maybe I would not read the whole chapter before stopping to ask questions or what they remember. Or maybe I just wouldn’t read the whole chapter at all, sometimes there is more than one topic in a chapter and maybe just one is enough, skip the other. And definitely picture books are always good way to engage more and help them remember.
  13. We are soon to be adopting an elementary boy who is a spanish speaker. Can anyone give me some thoughts about activities, resources , or things to consider about how to begin communicating quickly and an ongoing plan to develop english skills. Our spanish is about equivalent to about 2 years of high school spanish, and I have been doing doulingo. thanks dudley
  14. I sought out a pre algebra program that had sections on negitive number and probability and exponents ,(sm briefly covers exponents I think) I settled on BJU , it also added scientific notion as a bonus. im not familiar with what you chose, I have used the first book in the key to algebra series to cover negative numbers, it does pretty well and it is kind of nicely self contained. It’s subtitle is operations with integers, but it covers what is a negative number how to add and subtract and multiply and divide them as well as prime factorization and order of operations. It would be a excellent bridge option to another program that requires negative number knowledge
  15. Each drawing is separate. though one week might build on another as you are learning to draw a larger area. but each drawing you start with a clean sheet of paper, that is effectively practice for the big project. At the end of the year, we spent about 2-3 weeks where we took all we learned and starting on a blank large poster we drew one new map of the world. and as I look back at the lessons, there is correlation that as you read about the discovery of japan you may draw japan, but that is not every week.
  16. We did this a couple of years ago, and so I might not be remembering everything totally accurate but what I remember is .... we did the cartography history part in a short 15-20 mins and occasionally we did the activity on Tuesday and did the drawing part for maybe 30 mins on Thursday. I dont remember there being any correlation in the two. Only that the history started at the beginning and the drawing started with the Tigris and Euphrates and moved historically from there. We did it kind of minimalisticly, you could do more if you wanted Each drawing lesson we did in a slightly oversized sketchbook. (11x14) she teaches you how to draw the geography of different parts Mesopotamia, then Nile, then Greece, Italy , etc... we do each on its own page then at the end of the year we had a poster board they put the lessons together and drew the whole world . I didn’t make them memorize it . If I did I would have had them practice each drawing more. She tells you where on the page to start each map
  17. The intensive practice just may be too much practice. I agree , take a break do some fun math games, and something to practice facts maybe then come back to the next book 2b in the fall. We are just finishing up 2a and I would practice double digit addition and subtraction with carrying and borrowing, we took just a couple weeks off and my son was forgetting
  18. No way I could keep up with that!! for years I covered all our novels too, but then just ran out of steam. But I still cover the big textbooks for sure, cuz they are likely to fall apart,
  19. I have always preferred contact to duck, maybe it was because of the bubbles, but I also like the matte finish of the contact paper better than duck brand.
  20. I cover them in contact paper, I have had very little problem with books I’ve covered falling apart
  21. Awesome! I was giddy for weeks after I finally figured out how to do this and no one could appreciate my accomplishment. I will do the happy dance with you!!
  22. I agree that it doesn’t take a whole year. I look at this year as a chance to solidify all elementary math topics. (And 6B feels heavily review) So partly depends on what the kid needs to work on. Mostly I add ALL the reviews in the textbook, which I don’t do in other years. If the student is strong I would add in the challenging word problem book for challenging review. If the students is having trouble remembering how to do things between using it, I put them in bju foundations along side of Singapore because it offers a lot more practice. I might also pick up a key to... book if there was a particular topic that they struggles with. I think it is the Key to algebra book 1 that covers negative numbers, which isn’t covered in Singapore, I don’t think, at least not with much repetition. So I might be tempted to do that book too, I forgot what exactly it covers but it was pretty basic. Probablity and exponents are other topics you could touch on that Singapore doesn’t very much. (I don’t use the standards edition so my answer might not be totally accurate, I use the US edition)
  23. Excel. I'm like the other posters who create a sheet for each subject and each day’s assignment goes down the rows (108 or 144 or 180 depending on how many days a week I do that subject) One thing I do beyond that is to create a weekly schedule page. This page is set up so that it goes and retrieves the correct assignment for each subject that week using the indirect(address...) function based on the subject and the row and column(I use the week number at top of page to calculate those) the beauty of this is it is adjustable when you get off track. Just go to the assignment(s) that was missed and shift all the cells down then change the week number at the top of the weekly page and It will automatically will pick out the new assignment for the coming week for my independent workers it is great for them to have a checklist of what is expected for the day. Also after several kids I already have subjects planned and I can edit and import easily to my next kids schedule. And it’s pretty, I like looking at a weeks worth of assignments for all subjects rather than a long list for each subject Drawbacks are it takes time to input every page number or assignment and if I want to print out multiple weeks at a time I have to change the week number at the top of the page before hitting print for each week. (Though you could create a macro to do that for you). For my younger kids I have a lot of just do the next thing that I am directing, so I don’t plan those out as much or take the time to type them all in. But I will for science and history.
  24. Like you said everyone is different. In my house your novel list would be no problem to accomplish. We have a habit of read alouds and readers, so no problem. I’m not familiar with your spines, but I am with most of the novels. Great expectations is the only one I would struggle to give to a 6th and 8th grader, due to its complexity, but maybe that is just because I never made it through it when I tried to read it to my kids due to life invading school that year. ? looks like you have a fun year set up!!
  25. My kids play a finger game called chopsticks which has some math in it https://www.activityvillage.co.uk/chopsticks-game They also like ninja, http://www.campgames.org/game/ninja we like the alphabet game too. People,places, animals Or we do one where someone says a name or famous person and the next person has to come up with another that starts with last letter of name just used
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