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Buy the digital. That is the cheapest. Three-hole punch and be done.
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Just begin. It does not matter. We are 2nd grade and most of the phonics is learned through repetition anyway. Reading is what cements this as well as working with a concept in the workbook. I am also not completely finished with More Days Go By. And ... I use Treasures too for language arts along with Write Away. Just start anywhere. It doesn't matter. It all comes back around again. The idea is to just keep going forward. There are quite a few site words to learn. Keep making cards and quizzing. Dd still gets where and were and there and their all misplaced. Yet, she can figure out delighted! Go figure. If you find something is not even clicking at all, then grab the books/workbooks from previous levels and focus a day or so on the content and move forward again. Evaluate as you go. At this moment, I am having to review silent e again, LOL. It just disappeared in 2 weeks with working on triple-lettered blends. Little brains.
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I have actually held Holt, and I like it. I did look at the high school text. I would use the high school text and do double for single. That is ... you do the high school credit and provide an eighth grade, but the first year of high school, you document and create the credit for a geography elective. Sounds odd, but a lot of us do this with the eighth grade so that it does in sense count twice for them. Depends on what your educational goals are too.
Just a note ... the 7/8 and HS texts are typically the same reading level anyway for common textbooks.
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Practice.
Remedia Publications, Reading Comprehension, Outlining, and Summary workbooks. Several levels, but start with the first. I have used the sets three times. :) They do a great job.
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I am not a purist. I subscribe to many of the foundations and implement many of the practices. You would see that we bounce about and use traditional textbooks for our spines and not literature or history encyclopedias anymore. We do a lot, but I blend it across several methodologies. Some practices just work better. As we move towards to HS, I do box it heavily. Mine want to move on to dual enrollment, and you can finish a box quick. :)
Just do what you want and what you feel your kids need. This is the reason that you chose HS - not the classical methodology. Pick and use what fits your children. Treat and teach them individually and they will prosper academically.
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Cuisinart ... hope I spelled that right. Like this but older LOL http://www.wholelattelove.com/Cuisinart/cus_supreme_grind.cfm?CMP=FROG&utm_source=google&utm_term=Product_Target&utm_campaign=New+Shopping&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=Ouq1oQvP|pcrid|56168697084|pkw||pmt||pdv|c|&gclid=Cj0KEQjwyrqgBRDepamt-LWA2oABEiQAV7nwwORwiWIRGRwJz3P7VpeySPqPSSgnwgva5lYkSrnFg9IaAmpd8P8HAQ
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With each daughter it did feel like they were more ready and progressed faster. Yes, I have home-schooled for years. I do let them visit PS for the first few grades, but they come home because usually another is already at home. I have let them choose up until high school. That is a non-negotiable point here. I am not the happiest with middle school, but I will allow it if they promise to read, LOL. One has spent time in a "mother's morning out" program of sorts. A few mornings a week she spent time playing and learning the basics. I believe that made her bouncy though. She is not a patient learner, but she is a quick learner. Seat work is minimal even for the second grade.
So, I do recognize that each child moves forward better than the last, but I think that is exposure and environment changes. I think we tend to identify or to accept an academic success differently as well. More things are learning experiences because we home-school. More academic content is applied to their lives.
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The Mortal Instruments and Tom Sawyer
Selected chapters of Genesis.
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We call it Life Skills and incorporate a bunch of things too. We do sewing, cooking, crafts, planting (indoor and out), career exploration, career testing, home, or basic consumer, mathematics (balancing the checkbook, evaluating the savings on a purchase, comparing food costs, etc.), making soap, cultural exposures (museums, nature walks, etc.), repairing items, upkeep on the home .... it becomes a lot of little things about managing their lives and growing towards independence.
When they hit high school, we may need to rethink the "label" or incorporate these things into other subject content areas, but we have always had a "Life Skills" time every week - sometimes all day. It is more of my way of incorporating the unschooling moments and being able to label them in way that I need to label them so that I don't feel like we are doing nothing in a day.
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The Visually Learn "X" books are great. BTW, you can get this and lightbox for 10 bucks right now at Adobe. :) Just saying.
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Every Y is different. I work for a set of Y's that are part of an association. You join one and can go to all of them. However, we have no fees for classes and sports (except swimming). We have included everything in the membership but after school and camp weeks are not.
Some are better than others. You will be exposed to Christian principles, prayer, and the like because it is clearly a Christian organization.
You can participate in the sports as a non-member and pay a fee. Keep this in mind if you only want the kids to play. Check the recreation center for your community too.
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While I agree there are lazy people in the world I can't help but think of this post as ironic. Couldn't other moms be saying the bold about your family because of the part in red?
Perhaps.
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Geesh ... lice are nasty. BTW, so are bed bugs! Had them both. Gross. Disgusting. Yes unclean! I don't care if they carry disease or not because I don't want them no matter what. We have had them twice a year sometimes because some mother won't take the time to comb the dang hair. It's not just hygiene; it's lazy moms too. Lice combs are not that expensive either, and they are the best defense and treatment. It is not a money thing - don't buy that pack of smokes or bottle of water and you will have the money to buy a stupid comb.
Don't even get me started. It just ticks me off.
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I've done this. Example of Discovery to Civil War ...
1. Early European contact with indigenous population
2. Reasons for colonization of America
3. Define, compare, and contrast political, religious, and social institutions that emerged in the English colonies and the effect
4. Characteristics of the colonies: southern, middle, and New England
5. Compare the colonial claims and the expansion of European power
6. Impact of significant colonial figures, John Smith, William Penn, Anne Hutchison, etc.
7. Understand the European struggle for control of North America and the Native American involvement
8. Evaluate the opportunities of European immigrants, free and indentured
9. Explain the development of mercantilism and the trans-Atlantic trade
10. Describe the Middle Passage, growth of the African population, and African culture
11. Trace the arrival of Africans in the European colonies and slave importation
12. Analyze circumstances that affected the colonies, e.g. the Stamp Act, the early Navigation Acts, Townshend Acts, Sugar Act, Declaratory Act, Coercive Acts, Tea Act, etc.
13. Explain the causes, key events, and outcomes of the French Revolution, as well as apply to the American Revolution
14. Analyze the effects of the Napoleonic Wars, including the Congress of Vienna
15. Define revolutionary movements in the mid-1800s
16. Analyze the Seven Years War and apply to English imperial policy following the Treaty of Paris
17. Chronologically document the outbreak of armed conflict between the American colonies and England
18. Analyze the political, ideological, religious, and economic origins of the Revolution
19. Reconstruct arguments and explain the derived decisions for independence
20. Explain and understand the content and intellectual origins of the Declaration of Independence, look for and explain contradiction (slavery), was it justification for American independence
21. Compare and contrast the Declaration of Independence with the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
22. Impact of significant key figures that impacted the cause and victory of the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, James Madison, etc.
23. Understand the factors affecting the course of the war and the contributions that led to the victory
24. Impact of the American Revolution on politics, economy, and society
25. Show and describe the events of the American Revolution
26. Constitutional Convention
27. Understand the creation and ratification of the Constitution
28. Evaluate the Bill of Rights and the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798
29. Understand the development of the Supreme Court, power, and significance (John Marshall)
30. Define, explain, compare and contrast the development and function of the first American party system
31. Effects of relationships with external countries/nations and Native Americans from territorial expansion and exploration
32. The War of 1812
33. Monroe Doctrine
34. Jacksonian era, compare and contrast the policies toward Native Americans and analyze the impact of the removal and resettlement of some of the tribes
35. Industrial Revolution
a. technological developments that revolutionized land and water transportation
b. evaluate the factory system
c. urbanization
d. impact on the United States
36. Immigration and Slavery
a. Haitian Revolution and the end of the Atlantic slave trade
b. Demand for slaves and the cotton gin
c. Effect of slavery on capitalism and values
d. Plantation system
e. Identify the African response to slavery
37. Westward movement
a. Trace the growth of the enation
b. the Gold Rush
c. Lewis and Clark
d. the Oregon Trail
e. Wounded Knee
f. the American Old West (key figures, social climate, etc.)
g. reality of life on the frontier
h. Mormons
38. Understand the ideology of the Manifest Destiny
39. Define the changes in the political environment, Democrats, Whigs, “Know-Nothingâ€, etc.
a. U.S. Bank re-charter
b. Andrew Jackson
c. Missouri Compromise
d. Tariff policy
e. slavery
f. Abolitionist Movement
g. Second Great Awakening
h. Transcendentalism
40. Compare the north, south and west
Keep in mind that this was middle school for us too. I did add some detail as we went, but for the most part. I assigned a "number".
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They weren't. Dumb.
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I didn't read all of the posts, but I love Calculadders. I am getting ready to order them again!
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I am cheap. I won't guy guides. I will get books from the library.
So ...
I like Spark Notes http://www.sparknotes.com/ and PInk Monkey http://www.pinkmonkey.com/index2.asp
You will never need to buy a guide.
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For 7 and 5 ... R&S, Abeka ... I stick pretty close to WTM prior to the release of the PH workbooks. I picked up WTM in the 90's, LOL. I never did get hold of the white KF but I have the red still :)
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These types of responses and arguments will only grow as the numbers homeschooling grows. There has been a significant rise in SC even with the new charter schools. Locally, our charter school cannot keep it together or keep administration. We can't seem to keep a superintendent for our ps district either, let alone an iPad. ;)
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You need lame jokes and riddles. I will see if I still have some. I used that to practice letters and writing. They will begin to memorize the riddles and jokes to retell others. This starts them remembering what they
rightwrite and wanting to read what theyrightwrite. We created books out of the copywork last year. I like using history facts too. As they get older, they begin to copy more lengthy materials such as the Gettysburg Address, famous speeches, and Amazing Grace, hymns and Bible passages. We don't just do this in a busy-work sort of way.ETA: I hate auto-correct.
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I have done as much as the first few grades too. I do make sure that I get them after third grade though.
I have not had a problem at all with bringing them home after doing so either. I did let them go back at least one time of their choosing as they have decided that they want the experience. They come back with more acceptance and vigor too, LOL.
So, not an issue IMO.
Reading cursive
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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I have been working on a PDF for this. I am just having a difficult time getting some mom's to contribute some of their own copywork, but that is the best way with a variety of writing styles too. :) Keep writing it and reading it.