shadah
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I wondered if you has tried Greek on Mango. I think we will do that this next year.
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Sight singing school
Mapping the World with Art
Diana Waring‘s History Through Music
Draw and Write Through History
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Are you going to read aloud the chapter?
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I would guess they chose anthologies for ease and affordability. Did they read only certain portions each term? Were they divided by poet or era?
I thought pictures were chosen to be studied for themselves, not to illustrate an idea already “painted†in words.
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My oldest (11) can’t handle breaks. Even Christmas week at grandma’s will involve one or two hours of work each weekday. The year he was in 3rd grade was the worst. That year he couldn’t handle weekends off. I figured it out in November and decided I had to trudge through seven days a week. We did 267 days of school that year.
Maybe someday we’ll be able to take a week off and I can get caught up around here.
I have one like this. We school 6 days/week/year round. I refuse to do Sundays. She has breaks to visit relatives, but usually takes something to do. With this child it’s better to be consistent. Once off her routine, life is horrible. It takes several days for her to “reset.â€
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If you find what you are looking for, let me know. We couldn’t manage at home with these courses either. I borrow a few other homeschoolers to teach a class and that seems to go smoother. It at least makes it not so boring.Dd Abandoned Berliner Platz Neu.
The workbook is in the back of the textbook so one has to flip back and forwards.
The idea should be that after exercise 1 in the textbook one make exercise 1 in the arbeitsbuch but these are not connected to each other. So that felt pretty jumpy. As it is geared to adults she considered some of the topics boring. We did not finish chapter 1.
She would like a solid grammar + exercises though, and more writingexercises
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I teach younger kids, but I like the German courses I’ve used so far. The kids haven’t complained about the books being in German. I am going with Planet Plus for my older class this year. I’m going through it now with a high school student I tutor. So far, so good. The website has printables and audio.
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We like the First Step Series at knowitall.org.
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Silly Sentence Game
Scrabble
Mad Libs
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Moore Expressions in Virginia Beach/Chesapeake (it's right off the 64 on Indian River Road). They have wacky hours, but everything in their store is homeschool related. New and used.
I've been to this one. Great store. They had so much stuff it was overwhelming. I stayed for hours when I first began homeschooling.
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The Homeschool Store, Houston, TX. This place is huge. They will ship to you if you order enough.
McKays Used Books. Nashville, Chattanooga, and Knoxville, TN. Good prices and homeschool books sorted by subject area
Homeschool Book Smart, Pensacola, FL. Not as big as the others, but I bought excellent Spanish curriculum from here at very good prices. Worth a stop.
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Mine like paper foldables. We have an elaborate fold-up dollhouse. They like finger knitting and crocheting. If they make cards they could give them away. Not a handcraft, but they both like to bake.
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Although GSWF is inexpensive and easy to use, I think I prefer Nallenart because it has you reading, writing and speaking French with each lesson. With GSWF, I found that all of the exercises were translating into English, so you were reading French, but only writing in English. Also, unless you use the audios and make an effort to say what the audios are saying, you won't be speaking much French either. You could probably make it work, but I personally think the exercises in Nallenart are better for writing.
Thank you. She needs to write things out to have them stick. I could possibly reverse the translation, but Nallenart is laid out for me.
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My kids want to start French. Are either/both of these good choices? Is Nallenart still in business? Any other curric? I need something that works for a child who needs to read and write to retain.
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Thank you for this wording. It was what I was trying to say to a friend this week and couldn't quite convey. Very well said, all of it.I've Hs'ed for 20 years. I'm pro-homeschool. But as the mother of four sons, some of who, have ADHD, I'm even more pro-child....
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We liked Level three for the spelling and art. But, Level four is much easier. It is self-directed. She has things she reads aloud to me, but then she is independent. We are looking forward to Level five.
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We supplemented with library books and YouTube videos. We like One Small Square and read through several. We did CM-style nature study with it. I added Mara Pratt's History Stories from Librivox. But, if you didn't like Eggleston, you might not like these either.
I really think that if you don't like the spines you should probably look for something else. Maybe just a booklist for this time period?
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For us, things that were "boring" were either too easy or too hard. Math became bearable when we switched to something that fit her better. I also backed up a grade and built confidence. Language arts were too easy and too repetitive. We switched things up and went up a level. I thought it would be too much, but I think we've finally got something that is challenging enough to keep interest and build skills.
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We do lunch containers with many little compartments. I put something different in each slot. Anything and everything may end up there. I go through the fridge and cupboards quickly throwing in random things in each. Fruit, veg, dips, nuts, dry cereal, chips, torillas, bread, pickles, olives, chickpeas, anything I can find. My kids thrive on variety.
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State very clearly your prerequisites and ages. Ask me how I know ,).
I ended up with 4yos in a class for 7 and up. The next year I was more careful, but I ended up with a non-reading 9yo and two 11yos that could not write their name. In a foreign language class. I specifically said in my class description thay would need to take notes and do homework. How do you do that with children functionally lower than my preschooler at the time?
If you choose to provide a waver for special needs, you will know what you are getting into and how to differentiate. But, having half of your class not able to do any of the work you had planned is a major problem. I teach at a level for my children to learn. My children learned nothing the year I taught phonics and handwriting to children whose parents "hadn't gotten around to it yet" when I was supposed to be teaching foreign language for middle school.
Also, have a behavior policy in place. In mine I state very clearly that I am not the parent. If there is any problem, the parent will pick up their child.
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I am doing a course for Latin on Memrise. It uses the vocabulary from Wheelock's. Basically, I am front-loading vocabulary, which is what alot of children's Latin courses do. But, it gets me only so far. I bought Wheelock this last weekend to actually learn something. Without learning how to put the language together, I am just memorizing random vocab.
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This has been my experience. Be prepared that the ones who put no effort whatsoever in will expect the most of you. They will complain the loudest and at the end of a wasted semester will give their kid an A and high school credit for a junior high class they made no effort in.And, unless it is an invite-only co-op, expect that about 40% of your students will consistently not do the work, even with weekly emails, promises of parental involvement, clear homework checklists, etc. etc.
Some parents view co-ops as a drop off babysitter with benefits and totally leave it up to their kids what the kids get out of it.
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I prefer Overdrive. Hoopla has alot of things, but alot of it is junk. Does either library have Tumblebooks?
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I am doing a course for Latin on Memrise. It uses the vocabulary from Wheelock's. Basically, I am front-loading vocabulary, which is what alot of children's Latin courses do. But, it gets me only so far. I bought Wheelock this last weekend to actually learn something. Without learning how to put the language together, I am just memorizing random vocab.
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Latina Christiana
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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Is there any reason why we couldn’t do this with classical pronunciation? I hadn’t planned to use it because of the pronunciation. But, we are anyway. I don’t want to change what we are used to in our family.