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About rubyinprogress

  • Birthday 01/26/1971

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    Mom, homeschooling 1 son
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  1. Just wanted to say welcome to the boards!

  2. That's kind of the jist of the IEW MP3 I mentioned, except that there is also a negative. If you only bribe then eventually the kid may decide they don't want the treat that bad. However, if they have something to lose as well it works better. You decide what is your break even point and work from there. So if you decide the child can get no more that 2 wrong on the assignment you say if you get them all right you get 3 m&ms (or pennies or whatever), if you miss 1 you get 2 m&ms, if you miss 2 you only get 1m&m and if you miss 3 you get 0 m&ms. If you miss 4 you owe me an m&m. Keep in mind the child must have a way to pay you whatever is owed immediately. If you make her pay you her m&ms out of the next time she earns them that will be discouraging.
  3. I'd say it depends on if math is your daughters strength as well as on her personality...how does she react when she gets a really tough challenge. I like BJU for math, but I found after doing 5th and 6th that 7th seemed redundant, so I skipped to PreAlgebra. Half way through the book my son was bored to death, hadn't learned anything new all year. We put away the PreAlgebra and pulled out Algebra 1. He's doing well. He needed the mental challenge to not be bored. If this is your daughter skipping is good. If she tends to get overwhelmed and discouraged, on the other hand, then don't skip. You know your kid!
  4. Check into IEW's spelling program. It is designed to teach kids how to spell NOT phonetically but sequentially in word families. I started using it with my youngest at 12 YO because he stubbornly refused to learn how to spell (thought he already knew how because he can read.) but you can start it much younger. Check into info from IEW about the "blended sight/sound approach." http://www.excellenceinwriting.com/catalog/spelling-1 You also may want to back off from the correcting (since she is so young) until you've had a chance to do some spelling groundwork. You can't expect her to know how to spell it until after she has been taught. So for now let the spelling errors go. Once she has studied a particular sound family, begin helping her correct her mistakes for that family. As she adds new families the errors will gradually diminish. My point is a frontal attack on this one isn't going to get you anywhere. She's "right" because she's doing what the teacher told her to do. Andrew Pudewa (IEW) also recommends breaking down writing from spelling. Spelling is an editing task, writing is an entirely different function. Do some research on it. I think you'll find your solution there.
  5. Do what is best for your family. Don't stress about strangers who don't know what they are talking about. You can always put it right back in their laps. "You should research that, I think you'll be surprised!" (If they really care they'll look into it, if they don't they probably won't continue the conversation.) Just FYI I have a degree in social and behavioral sciences. The definition I learned for "socialization" is adults influencing children to become productive members of society. This is not the meaning of "socialization" in pop culture. I have found it useful to educate concerned people on this issue. Other times I mention the social activities my kids are involved in (church, clubs, sports, etc). Answering a question with a question works too. What social skills have your children learned in school?
  6. You might listen to the MP3 Download from IEW about "how to motivate boys and others who would rather build forts all day." He suggests using both a positive and a negative so the child is motivated to "win" the game by checking his own work. http://www.excellenceinwriting.com/TB-E I also like the fix all the errors method, though it can backfire. "Why bother checking my own work if I can just do it later after you've found all the errors for me." With my oldest I would tell him how many errors there were on the page so he had to recheck each problem until he found his own errors. Andrew touches on this in the MP3 also.
  7. My older son (now graduated) used BJU Latin 1 and 2. He was totally independent study. I tried to do it with him, but I am terrible with languages. Rather than slow him down I let him go at his pace. He did very well. In fact he scored so well on his tests I wondered if it was too easy and he wasn't really learning. I opened the book to a passage in Latin and asked him to translate it for me. He translated it only slightly slower than if he had been reading in English. I was convinced!
  8. My son will be a Freshman this fall. I would like to coop with a small group or just 1 other family for the Apologia Biology labs. I am in the E. Mesa/AJ AZ area. Also would consider coop for other subjects. We will be doing World Geography (Around the World in 180 Days, from Apologia) Spanish level 1 (Rosetta Stone), and IEW Writing. I would also consider a speech and debate club. Math doesn't work for coop (imho).
  9. My son will be a Freshman this fall. I would like to coop with a small group or just 1 other family for the labs. I am in the E. Mesa/AJ AZ area. Also would consider coop for other subjects. We will be doing World Geography (Around the World in 180 Days, from Apologia) Spanish level 1 (Rosetta Stone), and IEW Writing. I would also consider a speech and debate club. Math doesn't work for coop (imho).
  10. My son will be a Freshman this fall. I would like to coop with a small group or just 1 other family for the labs. I am in the E. Mesa/AJ AZ area. Also would consider coop for other subjects. We will be doing World Geography (Around the World in 180 Days, from Apologia) Spanish level 1 (Rosetta Stone), and IEW Writing. I would also consider a speech and debate club. Math doesn't work for coop (imho). I will post this in k-8 forum as well.
  11. Bible - independent study no curriculum this year (have used some IEW materials here and there) Apologia Physical Science BJU Pre Algebra Geography independent study using IEW writing skills (this has not been very productive. I will be using curriculum in the future.) IEW Level B Spelling from IEW (I can't think of the name of it)
  12. We used Apologia Science from 7th grade through 12th including Advanced Chemistry and Advanced Physics with my older son. Now my younger son is doing the Physical Science book for 8th grade. The labs are very doable at home. You have to do a little prep work, but you'll be amazed at how many things you already have on hand. If you just can't get supplies together for a lab once in a while it's not the end of the whole curriculum. If you do the high school books do plan to buy the lab kits with them, but the Physical Science kit is all "around the house" type supplies.
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