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yearly planning -- what works for you?
ShanaT replied to JennyD's topic in General Education Discussion Board
I just figured out how to this in Google sheets and I am doing a serious happy dance! -
Anyone try Rocks & Dirt by Ellen McHenry?
ShanaT replied to mirabillis's topic in Logic Stage & Middle Grade Challenges
I'd stay away from it. Definitely study geology though! You can build a great program with the following resources. I highly recommend this book. https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Geologist-Introductory-Collecting-Identifying/dp/0671746979/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1528297603&sr=1-2&keywords=geologist I also highly recommend the Great Courses Geology of the National Parks and the Worlds Greatest Geologic Wonders. There are tons of food related geology demonstrations that you could supplement this with. Look up Geology Kitchen on youtube. He's great! Get an inexpensive rock and mineral kit online. Look for a geology program at a local park. I've helped teach these and they are a great resource. Look into geocaching. There are special geo caches. This is a great way to learn about your local geology. Plate tectonics isn't up for debate. I'm a geologist and would be happy to provide more information and curriculum support for anyone who is interested. -
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ShanaT replied to ShanaT's topic in Logic Stage & Middle Grade Challenges
I’ll try to find the specific posts later, but in a nutshell we did the worksheet parts “game show” style, competing to get the answers, didn’t use the writing assignments because we have writing covered elsewhere and treated it like a weekly book club, using the questions for discussion. We really dug deep in the unit studies. We still have to finish the movie-book unit study at the end, but need to binge watch the movies first! -
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ShanaT replied to ShanaT's topic in Logic Stage & Middle Grade Challenges
Looks fun! Fahrenheit 451 is one of my all time favorites and Hitchiker's Guide is DS14s all time favorite! -
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ShanaT replied to ShanaT's topic in Logic Stage & Middle Grade Challenges
Thank you for all the great suggestions. I'm going to have fun going through them. My challenge is that DS12 loves to read, but DS14 doesn't (or at least not fiction). So, I need to decide whether to keep them together (which made LLoTR super fun) or split them into grade appropriate levels. -
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ShanaT replied to ShanaT's topic in Logic Stage & Middle Grade Challenges
This looks good for DS12. I wonder if its time to split them up. -
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ShanaT replied to ShanaT's topic in Logic Stage & Middle Grade Challenges
This looks good for DS12. I wonder if its time to split them up. -
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ShanaT replied to ShanaT's topic in Logic Stage & Middle Grade Challenges
Lori D, This looks great! DS14 is much more into science than fiction, but I might get somewhere with science fiction. Although he tends toward pessimism already so I haven't encouraged much dystopian. He'd consistently rather read Make magazine or physics. I love your first suggestions, but we studied 3 of those during the course of the Tokien study and have listened to 2 others. I guess that tells me that he likes "epic adventure". P.S. I followed the guidance in your posts about how to structure the tolkien study and am very grateful! -
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ShanaT replied to ShanaT's topic in Logic Stage & Middle Grade Challenges
Thanks! My older is 14 and he's the one I'm most concerned about because he's a total math kid and usually not at all enthusiastic about literature or writing. I'll take a look at that. Thanks! -
Following some great advice from this forum we have had a fabulous year of Literary Lessons from Lord of the Rings. It was so great that DS12 didn't want to read the last chapter because he couldn't bear for it to end. So, for those who have used and loved this as much as us...What did you follow it with? BTW - I'm not really new here, but was unable to get my old account to work.