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  1. Slowly reading Daniel Willingham’s How to Outsmart Your Brain could be a way to focus on how to study before high school
  2. @Foofaraw can you tell me more about the Lansing books. I'm interested too Here’s a chapter we just read about the sacking of Rome in 410: https://www.heritage-history.com/index.php?c=read&author=lansing&book=barbarian&story=alaric It’s long enough you could split it in half, but I could tell my kids were really into it, so I just finished it.
  3. Second child turning 6 next month: he started doing what I consider kindergarten work at 4.5, just very slowly. I declared, he can say he’s in first grade once he finishes Recipe for Reading workbook 4 (sometime this month). English: Recipe for Reading workbooks 5-8, layered with Apples and Pears A, adding in Dancing Bears/Fast Track from sound foundations to hammer fluency. Narrate Aesop’s fables orally Humanities: continue homemade world geography read-alouds through summer. transition to north america/native american books in Fall, early american history in spring. Lots of literature favorites at bedtime and in car. Just finished Farmer Boy, and he’s excited to hear the Little House books his older sister is always yapping about. I don’t schedule these, just browse assorted literature book lists. Rabbit Ears Productions audio stories are a constant in our household. Math: Second Grade Math With Confidence intermixed with oral speed drills pulled from the Rod and Staff 2 math fact practice pages. This kid can understand and extrapolate conceptually much earlier than his older sibling, and has had no difficulties with MWC K and 1, BUT half the time you ask him what 1+6 is and he doesn’t yet have quick recall and gets totally stumped. For my first MWC was just the right amount of practice to master math facts, but this one needs a lot more rote practice. Maybe I should have made him slow down on earlier levels until he could manage more of the written practice himself… Science: tag along Berean Builders science in the ancient world, nature read aloud so lots of cindy rollins style morning time singing, memory work etc Learning to swim, learning the can-jo, digging holes in the yard and goofing off with homeschool friends at Wild and Free and half day co-op
  4. Please please consider using these books by Marion Lansing as part of your study: https://nwwst.com/collections/vendors?q=Marion Lansing You can read them for free from heritage-history and see how inspiring and interesting they are! I bought the Truthquest guide for this time, but in the end for my 3rd grader I’m only using: -Barbarian and Noble, Patriots and Tyrants by Lansing -Peril and Peace, Monks & Mystics by Withrow (epubs from christianbook.com) -Our Island Story by Marshall Those five books make for a very full first pass through european medieval history. We don’t align literature study with history.
  5. Rainbow Resource has the prentice hall classics reprints of Foerster’s algebra 1 and 2 listed as “unavailable” and “3 remaining. Item will be unavailable when gone”. Let the hoarding ordering begin.
  6. I’m biased towards Apples and Pears spelling by sound foundations for my kid being able to write sentences in the wild vs. in isolation on a spelling test. My 8 year old does two student book pages a day, which takes ~15 minutes. I think the workbook + teacher guide is a little expensive, but also very worth it.
  7. To go along with The Mystery of the Periodic Table: https://sabbathmoodhomeschool.com/downloads/chemistry-study-guide-form-3-4-grades-7-9/
  8. The teacher guide includes access to an online portal, which provides “extension” pages associated with each lesson. My 8 year old is in 3A, and usually the extension pages are a double sides page with 2-3 problems. We have enjoyed them. Mastery and Beyond is more like consolidated practice associated with the end of one subtopic; my daughter occassionally complains about these, but I think the extra practice is beneficial for her to make it stick. Don’t bother with the Additional practice book.
  9. Sounds like How to Teach Spelling is a less intensive version of Apples and Pears? My not dyslexic 8 year old is about to finish Apples & Pears B, and I find it astonishingly beneficial to her ability to write in real life.
  10. Science Mom free earth science? Thinkwell math? compass classroom has a monthly subscription access format.
  11. If I were you, I would do the Apples and Pears spelling program by Sound Foundations. Don’t do a lesson a day, but work your way up to half a lesson a day. All the morpheme focus, interleaved word dictation and sentence dictation has made sentence level writing across the curriculum (and real life) much easier for my daughter.
  12. The instructor guide is free online, and the scripted lesson reminds me of the MWC manual. While she was almost always capable of independently completing the MM lessons, she’s young and extroverted and likes the teaching interaction (usually). Other pro for jump math over MM is the workbook is easier on the eyes and the An alternative would be to use the teaching boxes from MM to teach my daughter on a white board before turning her loose on practice problems. What do you move onto after 3rd? Something more independent and/or more rigorous? I’m also considering singapore primary math with the home instructor guide. My impression from these boards is, you need a lot of different books to teach out of, and many people find themselves supplementing with Fan Process Skills or MM units for more incremental instruction. It seems like Jump Math drags out to 8th grade because it has a lot of review/on-ramping lessons for a mixed ability classroom, and it’s integrated with more geometry and statistics topics. But it seems like it would be straightforward to focus and accelerate through higher priority material.
  13. When this curriculum was first in the news, it got a few homeschooler mentions, but I haven’t found anything with details of long term use, what they moved onto, etc. My daughter’s background: Kindergarten Math With Confidence, 1st MWC, random singapore primary 2022 books to tide us over before 2nd MWC released, then gave up Math Mammoth 1B selections MM 2A, 2B, working out of multiple chapters to make it the arithmetic sections less dense, Currently using 3MWC, but going to finish in January, too soon for the next release. MWC group advice is “just play the games for review until summer!” But that’a really not right here. My daughter could already handle the word problems of MM.If we weren’t behind the release schedule, I would stick with MWC year round and add in Fan Process Skills on the side. Perusing the teacher guides online, Jump Math seems to be like math mammoth in being more explicitly incremental than Singapore, but has different units of math throughout the year like MWC. Jump math seems to include more of the extras you see in common core math and progress slower. Taking until 8th to do what MM covers in 7th/pre-algebra. We definitely wouldn’t go that slow. Any US, middle school Jump math users out there?
  14. Why don’t you pick and choose a variety of books from guest hollow’s science curricula? If there are terms or units at the STEM co-op, you could align them with those topics, or not.
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