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Mthfr. Also there is a cheek swab genetic test that tells you if you have comparability with psych meds.
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I can't vote because option three doesn't apply. My thoughts are adequate grammar and don't worry about supplementing for 1 year.
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We are pretty much unschoolers except for LA and Maths until 5th grade. Big changes this year! He will probably tag along with some of his older and younger sisters things as well.
Math:
Math Mammoth
Singapore Challenging Word Problems 3 or 4
LA:
Rod and Staff 4/5
Time4writing.com grammar and sentences
Pentime
Copywork?
FL:
Getting Started with Spanish
Logic:
Logic Liftoff
Art:
Grid Drawing by Intoxicated On Life
Music:
?
Science:
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History/Social Studies:
Spectrum Geography
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Health/PE:
Soccer/Basketball/Baseball and Cool Kids Running Club
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Math:
Math Mammoth 7B and then??
Singapore Challenging Word Problems 6
LA:
Comprehension (weak area): Alternating Reading Detective, Evan Moor Daily Comprehension
Spelling: Rod and Staff 8
Writing: Time4Writing mechanics & essay (did paragaphs last semester and it was great, but I think she could use the mechanics).
Grammar: Glencoe diagramming
Misc: Working on outlines
Foreign Languages:
Local ASL 2 class
Getting Started with Spanish (I want her to have some exposure, but she is resistant).
Art:
Mapping the World Through Art
Music;
Self guided PianoHistory:
Crash Course World History 2
Misc Social Studies:
You Decide Bill of Rights books
Computer:
Typingtest.com a few times a week to hone skills
Webcutor free self paced classes for word, excel and powerpoint.
Religion:
A Content Heart
Science:
Earth History and Evolution by S. J. Bull on Teachers Pay Teachers
Microscope Skills (no formal curriculum as of yet)
Skeletal System Study (She currently wants to be an orthopedic surgeon. I have a model and will put something together).
Health:
Soccer/Lax/Basketball and Cool Kids Running Club
Human Body Book
Logic:
Logic Lift off
Whodunnit Crime Scene
Art of Argument?
She is also working on her Silver Award through Girl Scouts. We are hoping to join a coop and she will continue with her NASA/Lego Engineering class.
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Glad to see an update. Still praying.
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Michelle at Delightful Learning did this with her children, boys and a girl. She has tons of helpful posts!
I just tried to view that site and the box to subscribe was huge and annoying. I didn't see anything on there about the PP, but subscribed anyway to make the box go away. I still don't see any lessons, and after about 2 minutes the box came back! If anyone sees anything else, please share!
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I have it. We are doing it next year. I have fumbled through it and while some books are out of print, it is just as easy to stick another on the same topic in its place. There is a fb group too.
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How about simply, by the end of x grade, I expect x,y,z to be developing/developed. Hopefully knowing that children learn and develop at different rates. And please... don't start anything formal with your 3 year old.
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We've made some changes. Still need some ideas for what to do after MM7.
Does anyone have any good online basic computer classes? Just maybe basic Word skills?
Bella 7th.
Need suggestions for what comes after MM7.
Summer:Typing, WTMA online study skills, veritas press to 1815In the last month, not much school has been accomplished due to my last month of nursing school. Summer is going to be "catch up" for LA and Maths. Our library is also having 2 coding camps and I'm looking at bitsbox.
Language Arts:
Outsourcing writing (WTMA, Time4writing, bravewriter)? We have really liked Time4Writing. She will do MS mechanics, mechanics and maybe essay.Eltl level tbd. Ideally finish 5We did not like ELTL. We will do some sentence diagramming and keep reading.
R&S Spelling 7&8Maths:
Finish Mm7 and into...?
Singapore CWP 6
Arts:GuitarShe chose piano instead.
Drawing class?Mapping the World Through Art
PE:
Lax training, Soccer, Basketball and a Healthy Kids running club.Health:
Human Body Studies. She currently has plans to be an orthopedic surgeon. Who knows!
Science: undecided. Hoping to outsource an in person lab science
History:
Veritas press?
Some sort of world history overview?? I think Mapping the World Through Art will help with this.
Logic:
Fallacy Detective or AoA. We are using "Crime Scene Whodunits" since she is very into crime scene stuff lately. If I can find something else we may keep on that track.
Misc:
ASL (local) She is loving this class.
Basic computer class (online?)
FL?
Scouts: she will be working on her silver award.
Lego/NASA engineering club -
I've been praying for you.
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I think you can do this - but I suggest you have the student rotate between the MWTA and an atlas.
Could you elaborate a bit?
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I am looking for a history/geography supplement for my 6th grade daughter. She loves to draw, and I think this might be right up her ally. She prefers to work alone and then talk things through. Has anyone had success or tremendous failures using this curriculum independently?
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Yes, people think it's simply about paying attention. It had far reaching effect, both benefits and struggles.
I think one reason she may have a hard time skipping and going back to questions is because if fearing (and probably rightly so) she won't be able to get back to where she was in her thinking, losing ground completely.
maybe suggesting that she put a few notes down would help.
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I realized that I didn't really speak to your question though - what curriculum can help. We have used Jacob's Ladder with some success. My older two are doing LLftLotR this year. One thing that I constantly have to remind myself about is that they may need more TIME to process the question. My kids are lightning fast for most things, but when it comes to these tasks (prioritizing, organizing information, ranking importance, etc) - or when expressing or reflecting upon their feelings - they need more time to translate that into language.
That's a big part of it for her, I think. She is super quick with most things. Things that take more thinking or more time such as math word problems and reading comprehension, she just shuts down.
I do this myself though. I took an exam yesterday. It's really just a test taking strategy. If I have to think for more than 20-30 seconds, I circle the question and move on. I finish the exam and go back. I give my self another 60 seconds or so and then move on to the next circled question. I repeat the process and give myself a little more time each "round" to think it through until I'm either finished or out of time.
She can not skip questions. She will sit there stuck on number 2/25 until I stop her, and then it's a huge melt down because she can't change gears to another subject since she's still mentally on number 2. I don't know how to help her with that!
I didn't realize how much ADD was affecting her school work. :(
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I know an adult who does this. Thank you for posting this - it helped me a lot!
OP, another possible resource for reading comprehension is Reading Detective from Critical Thinking Company. The questions on each passage are mostly multiple choice like a standardized test. Some of the questions require the student to identify what lines in the text justify his/her answer. It can be challenging enough that there would be no shame at all in starting with the one for 3rd-4th grades. It's not necessarily a fun thing to do - more like eating your spinach (lol), but you could schedule it once a week and use narration the other days (or whatever sounds good to you) to get it done.
I will look for that one too. She likes "detective" stuff.
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Also, with ADHD prioritizing, organizing, and classifying information can be difficult. Reading comprehension is HARD for my kids with ADHD. They see everything as equally important (or equally unimportant ;-P ) - They understand the story and often can recall details extremely well, but saying what a main idea vs a minor idea is harder. That certainly comes out when they're telling me things to - they start in with pronouns with no antecedents ( e.g. "So I was looking at it and I noticed..." when I have no clue what "it" is), they tel me all about tangential information (e.g. "He was the one in the blue shirt, though sometimes he wears green shirts, and he has this cool Star Wars shirt..."), and often I never understand what the point of what they are telling me is. WTM style narrations are the death of us all 💀
So, be patient and persistent with developing reading comprehension skills. You will find the ADHD will have farther reaching effects than careless mistakes and interrupting you all the time. Learning about the different way ADHD kids process things will help you both to understand better, have more patience, and have individually realistic expectations. Best wishes!
Thank you
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I'm not that concerned with her social studies scores. She didn't do as well in geography, which could just mean that y'all didn't do much geography last year. Thinking skills, determination of cause and effect...meh.
The things she was below average on "reading comprehension" can easily be taken care of, since it looks as if her reading vocabulary is pretty good. You could use something that specifically addresses those topics, which is actually what readers do for upper grades. Maybe Rod and Staff's series, starting with "A Time to Plant."
I will look at that one!
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Does she read fluently? I'm wondering if there might be some degree of dyslexia going on. Sometimes dyslexic kids learn to read but struggle with spelling and mechanics.
With regard to reading comprehension, had she had practice with the type of question format used in the test? I've seen kids struggle with that one because of unfamiliarity. I'd look for other ways to check her actual comprehension (can she narrate a story back to you? Can she answer questions about it?)
Her spelling is generally good, and she can read fluently. She glosses over details. We tried EM reading comprehension 6, and she found it so boring. She can usually narrate back to me, but hates to do it and hadn't had much practice in the test format. I think I will use ELTL to help me gauge that.
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Sorry, they were too big to upload, so I had to share them through google.
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Anne of Green Gables but with a male protagonist?
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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