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I am thrilled to be able to homeschooling my 9 year old again for the next 2 years starting in Aug. He's been in an English medium school where we live in India for the last 2 years.
I taught Latin to his older sisters for 3 years before they started school here and even though they didn't get to continue, I know they are glad they studied it. They started when they were 10 and 12, though.
Because of our work here it's highly unlikely that I will homeschool this youngest son more than the next 2 years. I MIGHT be able to possibly stretch it to 3. When he's older I suspect he will probably choose to go to the fantastic boarding school that his 13 year-old brother is currently at. (sniff!) This school does teach foreign languages but not Latin.
Question: If you were me would you teach him Latin for the next 2 years knowing that he will most likely not be able to continue??????? Do you think he would significantly benefit or not?
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I don't think anyone has mentioned Otto of the Silver Hand yet. My kids loved this as a read-aloud. It's also free on Kindle.
Black Horses for the King was quite popular as well.
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Really, really appreciate this everyone! Living overseas I have to buy stuff sight unseen and hope for the best. With help like this I end up getting the best anyway!!!
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Having both, I would pick the Nat Geo becuase I know my kids would read it and enjoy it with or without being told to..KWIM? YMMV.
Awesome, thanks! My goal for now is his getting some enjoyable basic literacy in the myths, not mastery, so this could fit the bill perfectly!!!!!
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D'aulaires Book of Greek Myths
National Geographic's Treasure of Greek Mythology...This was purchased because I love the illustrator Christina Balit, but I constantly find this book in my son's hand as he pours over the art & myth....
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Wow, lots of info., thanks! I want to spend some time on Greek Myths but not linger there forever. The National Geographic look good on Amazon, too. Do you like it or the D'aularies the most?????
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there is a big jump. I would start with WWE2.
Thank you!!!
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Anyone????
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Another vote for Pathway Readers! We definitely preferred them here. They work really well with ETC, too. Even though ETC can be a bit dry I never found something I actually liked better.
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-Boy of the Pyramids
-Golden Goblet
-Hittite Warrior
-God King
-Archimedes
-D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths
-Black Ships Before Troy
-Augustus Caesar’s World (not sure if I'll treat this as a read-aloud or just history reading. I also have Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt)
-The Thieves of Ostia (The Roman Mysteries) and maybe another if time!
-The Bronze Bow
This is my revised list so far! I'll try to get a hold of the Zeman books, too, but will probably let him read those himself.
Thank you!!!! Still open to more input, though!
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I got my library to order these, but as soon as they came in, lots of holds came up, but seeing them assured me I wanted them myself. I was able to get the first one easily from Amazon, but the second still wasn't shipping after nearly a month, and the third wasn't available except for some crazy price. But, so happens we were at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute (great for Ancient studies!), and in the gift shop they had the first two. We picked up our copy of the second, and my husband dug through the shelves to see if there were any of the third ones hiding. Indeed, there was one The Last Quest of Gilgamesh, and we snapped it up. Same price as Amazon, except even on sale. But the weird thing was, when we got home and opened it, it turns out the cover was put on wrong- it had been flipped upside down and backwards. Otherwise, it's in perfect condition. So perhaps there was some sort of production problem?
That would make sense! That's a pretty big price jump for the same series!!!!
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I haven't seen a thread on this for a while. Is anyone still using it? How's it going? Do you like it?
Love the fact that it's one, small, well laid out book and it looks good to me, but would appreciate input from someone who's actually used it! :001_smile:
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I'm going to get to homeschool my 9 year-old again soon. Very pleased! He's been in a school in India for the past couple of years and will be starting 4th grade.
I'm going to be using Inter. Lang. Less. (ILL) for his language arts. I think it will be a good fit for him, but haven't ever used it before. I do like WWE, however, and am considering using it as well.
I own WWE 2 and am wondering since this would be his first time to use it if it would be sufficient? He's a pretty advanced reader but I'm wondering if it would still be useful for him to pick up concepts, etc. Any opinions????
Is there a big jump between WWE 2 and 3? I'm assuming there would be to 4.
Thanks for any input!
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Also add, we are planning on diving into "The Roman Mysteries" series when we get to Rome. The series comes recommended and seems like a fun way to do some read-alouds during Rome after teaching my kids all those crazy archaic myths from Greece.
Ohhhh, those look fun!!! I've already read Detectives in Togas to a couple of different kids so this would be refreshing for mom!
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We also really enjoyed reading the story of Gilgamesh. There are a number of re-tellings and translations. We liked these stories by Ludmila Zeman
Goodness, that last one is expensive! I got them through ILL at the library. They are picture books, but not too young at all. Lovely illustrations and a great retelling.
Will try to get the first 2. Live overseas so ILL isn't really an option! :001_smile:
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You guys are awesome!!! Exactly the kind of information I wanted. Thanks sooooo much!!!!
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Planning Ancients read-alouds for next year for my 9 year-old with SOTW 1. Here's my list so far. Absolute keepers? Ones that we shouldn't waste our time on? Opinions appreciated!!!
Adam and His Kin
Boy of the Pyramids
Golden Goblet
Hittite Warrior
Mara, Daughter of the Nile
God King
Cat of Bubastis
Archimedes and the Door of Science
Young Carthaginian
Augustus Caesar’s World
Bronze Bow
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WTM
Charlotte Mason Companion -Andreola
Latin Centered Curriculum -Campbell
Teaching the Trivium - Bluedorn
Those have been my greatest inspirations!!!
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Alpha Omega is ok. Not great, not dreadful, but ok. Except for science. That's dreadful. But the LA...ok.
Ditto. And the History is VERY dry. But I agree, the LA is not bad. Especially in the younger grades.
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Pathway Readers are good, too. They're Amish and 'on the farm' but when my boys were little they loved the stories. Very cheap and I attribute the way that they gently add vocabulary as what finally got my dyslexic boy reading!
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Read it cover to cover and referred to it many times after. I've recommended the WTM and Charlotte Mason Companion to many others! I tell people I am Charlotte Mason at heart----- but the WTM keeps me organized!
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I didn't realize this was common! My 2nd dd started to be like this in the 4th grade. I'm glad that I let her do some things herself because she's 16 now and is still a very self-motivated, self-disciplined student. My one regret was that I didn't have her continue to read aloud to me at her level sometimes for a couple more years. (I still read aloud to her, though) While her comprehension was there, I didn't realize until much later that she was skimming over long words she didn't know how to pronounce. She still has a tendency to not break the word down and try to skim over it and breaking it down doesn't come naturally for her. It's kind of funny at times what she'll say because she's a great student otherwise! Still, I feel like I did her a bit of a disservice there.
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guessing mistakes! My DH still does this all the time! My DD does it too, but she is still young and I'm trying to teach her to be more careful. My DH explains it as he sees the 'shape' of the word and sees the first word that fits, he doesn't look at the letters individually...
I don't know how to fix it, except to slow down and be careful!
If this is something new and not his consistent way of reading I would think that he's at the between stage of needing to sound everything out and beginning to sight read. I'm no expert but I have a dyslexic son and with him there are patterns to the things he struggles with and I'm not seeing that at least in the list you posted. And there's nooo way my ds could have read some of those words at 9. Maybe just to put your mind at ease. :001_smile:
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After a 2 year break after 12 years of previously homeschooling, I get to teach my youngest again for a couple of years starting in June. Curriculum planning and research was a huge hobby of mine in the past and am loving being back in the saddle again!!!!
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Yes, you can find the Pathway Readers at Timberdoodle. They don't begin till 1st grade, though, so you might want to wait till he has a little more practice under his belt (though I don't know for sure as I haven't used the 1st book). The readers are fine by themselves, you really don't need the workbook, especially at his age.
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I think your ds should easily be ready for the Primer Pathway book now. It builds really well on itself. I agree about not using their workbook. ETC is much better!!!
Would you start Latin????
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French, German, Bengali (which I am learning to speak and it's actually structured a lot like Latin), Hindi. I could teach him some Bengali but I would have to basically create a curriculum to do that. I took Spanish in High School and sure wish that they taught that since it would be in my comfort zone! To be honest I'm not sure I could handle teaching him a language I haven't studied before right now since I'm still learning a language myself......