Roxy Roller
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So do you think her problem is fractions or decimals? If she did well in fractions, I would go on with decimal learning. What about adding LoF or Keys to Decimals. I haven't used keys, but LoF is the opposite of MUS. While MUS focuses on manipulating numbers and why, LoF is all about words and thinking. It will strike at the heart of her weakness. I would try alternating between the books one chapter at a time.
:iagree:My DD12 is working on MUS Pre-Algebra, but I am also making her go through the Key to Fractions, Decimals and Percents books as well this year. We are working on the Fractions books right now, and she is definitely getting fractions from a little different viewpoint and that is a good thing, because it is improving her understanding.
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I have one in Trek, three in T&T and one in Sparks this year. We are really working on making AWANA part of our school schedule this year, so that we diligently work on it.
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Are you using something in particular to study Latin? Depending on what you are using, there are probably audios to go with it.
We are using Getting Started With Latin and the author has all of the lessons in either classical or ecclesiastical pronunciation available as free downloads on his website. We are really enjoying GSWL. It is quick and painless.
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Hey Roxanne, i'm in alberta too :-)
My eldest is only in grade 6, but i, too, have been thinking about hs courses and mapping out a plan for sciences/math especially.
I've been wondering what to do about the sciences and how they will fit. Most of the hs world seems to do them one at a time, so i'm unsure of how to approach them if I wanted to do it more how I did when I was in HS (But i have a horrible memory and can't even remember how we did it LOL).
Are you fully alligned with the alberta curriculum or are you doing it by yourself?
Hi Melanie...I am not aligned at all with Alberta curriculum. I do my own thing. As of right now, and I know it is early, I am planning on doing my own thing through high school as well, and having my children challenge the 30 level tests in at least two sciences, math and English. We will probably do the SAT, and possibly one or two SAT II level tests, especially if my DC are university bound.
Are you aligned in any subjects? I was aligned with my DD for Grade 1, but we hated it and that was the last time.
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It is common here to do each science 2 times / week
If you do this in blockform you may have one (full) afternoon per science.
Just another option ;)
A schoolyear in thirds would looks like this here:
sept/oct/nov
jan/feb/mar
apr/may/june
We school from 1 sept - 1 july here.
I do like the idea of having one afternoon per week dedicated to each science. I will have to think more about that. Then maybe I would dedicate the other two afternoons to history and economics.
I am in Canada, and we follow the European way of doing the sciences. My DD wants to be an Animal Health Technologist (helper to a Veterinarian), and she needs at least 2, 30 level, sciences here in Alberta. That means 2-12th Grade level sciences - Biology and Chemistry. I am shooting for Physics too, in case she changes her mind and wants to actually be a Veterinarian. Of course she is only 12, so these plans could all change at the drop of a hat.
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I am probably in the minority, but I do not require memorization until the end of 4th grade. I let my DC use a chart, if they need it, then near the end of 4th, I start to make them do their math without it. If they struggle at that point, then I spend more time with them to help them work on the memorization. I do not hold them back in their math programs. I have found that they naturally use the chart less and less during 4th and just drop it themselves. Although one of my twins is pretty dependent on it right now, so I will probably have to work with him a little more after Christmas so that he is independent by the end of the school year.
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I am already trying to figure out how to get my DD through the Apologia Biology, Chem and Physics texts, as well as their Advanced texts in each subject simultaneously through high school. I 'think' I am going to try the following schedule:
9th - 1/2 of the Biology, Chem and Physics texts
10th - the other 1/2 of the above texts
11th - 1/2 of the Advanced Biology, Chem and Physics texts
12th - the last 1/2 of the Advanced texts
I am not sure if I will try to break the year into thirds and really concentrate on each, or schedule 9 blocks of science a week, doing 3 blocks on each subject. It sounds like an overwhelming schedule to me already, and DD is not an advanced student.
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Thank you for your quick response, Susan. I did email your assistant yesterday to ask if she knew where the list was, so she may contact you.
We are loving WWS! It is hard work for my DD, but her writing is improving every week, so it is worth it!
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Thank you so much for your quick response, Susan. I am glad that I am not dense. I almost didn't post, because I thought it was a silly question.
We are loving WWS, and although it is hard work, I am seeing the results in my DD's writing.
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We are working on Week 8, and we do not seem to be able to find the list of Space and Distance Words/Phrases. Is there one? We have the Time and Sequence Word list, and the text does mention it, but we are not able to figure out where the Space and Distance Words/Phrases list is. Can anyone help?
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What about Growing With Grammar? I don't know about the higher levels, but we are using Levels 3, 4, and 5 this year after using R&S last year. I would say that it is comparable to R&S, and it is written to the student.
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I agree with the other books listed, especially the Anne of Green Gables books. My sons love them almost as much as my DD does, especially because Anne gets into trouble so much.
I just pre-read Black Horses for the King by Anne McCaffrey yesterday, for my DD. It was a great Arthurian book from a different angle, but the protagonist is a boy, so it doesn't quite fit your requirements. I thought it was a great book for the 10-13 age range.
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Every year I try to "kick it up a notch" with my expectations/work load for each kid. The problem is with my oldest. He has no one to compare his work load to except his younger siblings. Every year, he thinks I'm asking way too much of him. I believe I'm just about on target when it comes to what should be required of a 7th grader. How do I get him to see this????
I'm also having a hard time getting the "quality" I want from his work. Yesterday, he made a C on his science assessment. This did not even phase him. Why should it? There is no shame/embarrassment associated with grades when you hs. I'm thinking this is a real disadvantage to hsing. He's not around other 7th graders who have to do the same amount of work he does. There's no prestige associated with earning good grades.
I've considered sending him to middle school just so he could get an idea of what's expected of a 7th grader. I don't want to "threaten" this, bc someday I might really send him to ps, and I don't want him to see it as a punishment. Do any of you have this problem with your oldest?
:bigear: I could have written most of this post about my DD12, who is in 7th grade as well.
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:grouphug:, Colleen! I have read many of your posts over the past year(s), and I have no doubt in my mind that this is just a slow start after your break.
Like so many on this board advocate, I would say that you probably need to gradually put your full schedule into effect, adding a few things every week, although I know that will probably mess up your schedule. We do a light schedule over the summer and last week started up with most of our full schedule with the exception of a couple of things that I added this week. I find that the kids work better when things are gradually added. I also find that with my crew, I cannot take more than a 3 week break at a time, or things seem to slip.
I am sure that things will start running more smoothly soon!
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We are on Week 8, and from what I can tell, I think he is doing well. My DD is 12, and not a strong reader or writer, and I think he did as well as she did. You know best, and if your gut feeling is that he is 'in over his head', then I might suggest a couple of options:
1) Do WWS at half speed and take your time to go through the lessons. There have been a couple of weeks that we have had to take an extra day to work on a composition. Maybe write a rough draft of an outline or narration one day, then go back the next day to improve upon it, although as Capt stated, you do work on sentence structure in the upcoming lessons.
2) Do WWS at half speed and maybe add WWE4 in on the alternate days, if you feel he needs a little more practice with those skills.
3) Or move down to WWE4 for six months, then start up again with WWS. I think that this is what SWB recommends if your child is struggling with the narrations in particular.
HTH,
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I, too, do not do a formal science until my DC hit 6th grade. Last year my DD tried CLE's 6th grade science program that I thought would be a nice overview to fill in the gaps that might have happened do to our interest-led philosophy for elementary science. The only problem was that she, too, began to hate science and we only got through a little more than half of the Light Units, because it was a struggle to get her to complete them, and when she did, most of her answers were not correct.
Fast forward to this summer - she started Apologia General and we slowly did the first Module over six weeks, and now we are almost finished Module 2(at a faster rate). I have her listen to the GS audiobook while she reads the textbook. (I found out later that with CLE she just was skipping the words she couldn't read, so she couldn't understand a thing, and she told me she loves the Apologia audiobook, because someone reads the words she doesn't know.) I also bought the Knowledge Box Central notebooking pages that go with GS, it has the lab reports that are partially filled out, and the little folders to make for the study questions. Would you believe that now she says that Science is one of her favorite subjects? This, after a meltdown last year every time we pulled out the CLE Science books.
HTH,
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My DD is using WWS and we are using Roget's International Thesaurus 6th Edition. It seems to be set up as SWB describes in WWS, although I think we might have different edition because it doesn't totally line up. I like how thorough it is, although it is intimidating at over 1200 pages long. We are just finishing Week 7, and my DD is just starting to get the hang of using the thesaurus. We have always just used the little, cheap school versions here, so it was a bit of a learning curve for her.
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My DD12 and I are going to share the Spencerian penmanship workbooks.
http://www.rainbowresource.com/searchspring.php?q=spencerian+handwriting
My DD has used cursive from the beginning, and did have beautiful handwriting, but as the years have gone by her handwriting has become a little bit sloppy. I would like to work on my penmanship, so we are going to share each workbook page for extra practice.
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SWB had commented that if you're using WWE (and I would assume she would extend that to WWS), then your history/science notebooks will be much smaller. What you can do, on the week the WWS assignment is to outline history, have your DD do it w/ her history instead. If it's a week where the details are given, you find the details and have DD pick what's relevant to what she wants to address and rewrite. Otherwise, I know for my son, a 6th grader, it would be a lot. I would look at the WTM2009 guidelines. I meant to do that as well. In it, I believe she gives guidelines for how much outlining each week. If it's 2/week and you're doing 1 outline w/ WWS, you can do another in science or history. Those are just my thoughts...we'll be starting WWS next week. We did the Beta test last year.
Thanks, Capt. I will have to give it a little more thought and maybe I will just wait to see how full our days are with the amount of work I am adding, before I decide what to do.
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...are you doing additional writing? I am thinking about outlining in particular.
My DD12 is in 7th grade this year. We were working on two level outlines last year. I decided that my DD needed to go through WWS, so we are back to one level outlines for the rest of the year, which I am okay with, because the two level outlines were hard for her last year. We are just about to start our 7th week of WWS, and I am also adding in our content and elective subjects next week. Do I need to be doing additional outlining? We will still be working on taking notes and doing narrations in history, but I am thinking that it might be overkill to do more outlining, especially because WWS is taking quite a bit of time to do each week.
I am interested in what others are doing.
Thank you,
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Both are used in Truthquest History btw ... http://www.truthquesthistory.com/store/products_spine.php?itemId=41
Thank you, Chrissy. I do have the TruthQuest guides, but I do find that they are a little hard to schedule into a year. I was just hoping someone else had done this already. By the looks of it, I will probably have to get out my guides and quickly work out a schedule using them.
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Sorry .... I have nothing for the Middle Ages & Renaissance/Reformation but I do have a schedule for the History of the Ancient World and the Story of the Greeks (just finishing up this one), if you ever need it. I added in biography pages, mapwork, timeline, projects, books, etc. It's working very well.
I found making my own schedule for the Guerber/Miller books wasn't too difficult: the only work that took awhile was linking up the readers chronologically.
Good luck with your search! :001_smile:
Thank you, Cleopatra. I know it won't be difficult to do a schedule. I am just crunched for time now that I want to change what I had planned already.
This is not what you asked for, but I thought it might be helpful. My dh reads history books from the library (whatever they have) and specific living books for each topic (listed below). This seems to work well for the variety of ages 7 and 11. The 11 year old has extra books for literature that coordinate for history. Here are the 2 lists with the months allotted to the right: (L and O just are notes to me for library and owned). Hope it helps.ruth
Thank you, Ruth. I think I have most of the books that are on your list, but a few are new to me. I will have to take a look at them.
Roxy, I was just writing out the rest of our readings for The Renaissance and Reformation Times book and the scheduled primary sources readings from The Portable Renaissance Reader. I was also taking a closer look at what I want to cover from The Englightenment Reader which is our primary sources book we will draw from next. I don't have the Guerber book, but I could send you a quick break down of the readings I had scheduled for my older dd. They do not follow chapters, as in I don't just have her read a whole chapter at once each week. I think it sets up for 40 weeks of reading, or close to that, and this is fine for us since we school year round. We have been behind this year, from moving a lot, and we are still on track to continue our work in The Renassiance and Reformation Times/Portable Renaissance Reader before moving on so I have doubled up some of her readings into one guide lately. Another words, this is still needing a little attention before I was going to put it up on the blog, but I could give you the quick schedule and it many help a little. Maybe?:001_smile: If not, no worries. Some of the Reading Guides I made for her are already there, and I'm about to type and link the next one. Hmmm, it takes awhile and we're going out of town tomorrow, so maybe next week for that one. I do have others typed, but I would need to load them into Scribd and that will likely change the format some and may need some adjusting. All that to say...:lol: I can give you the readings and I could make a point of linking the first two or three reading guides if this would be helpful. Just let me know...ETA: I went ahead and linked the first four weeks of the Reading Guide. Just let me know if you want the quick reading schedule and I'll post it here for you.
I will go and take a look! Thank you for taking the time to link your Reading Guide. I am totally stressing myself out with this change.
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I start history with my crew on Tuesday, and I still haven't made up my mind as to what spines to use. We will be covering the Middle Ages, Reformation and Renaissance, and I want to keep them all together in history for the most part, while assigning some extra writing and reading to my 7th grader.
I thought I was all set to use SOTW2 along with the Famous Men books, but for some reason, I am feeling like SOTW2 is not the right fit for my DC. It would include my youngest, but it would not be enough for my two oldest. I have the Dorothy Mills books, which I think are great, but they would just fit my oldest, and not include anyone else. I have MOH2&3, but I don't want to use them either. I am leaning towards the Guerber/Miller books, and I am wondering if anyone has a schedule to use both the Middle Ages and the Renaissance & Reformation books in one year. If not I am going to have to do some quick planning in the next few days.
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I agree with a pp. Start slow, and ease into your school year.
We did some schooling in the summer, and now, starting next week, I am adding in our full load for the year. It has been nice to have had some of the basics going for a few weeks. We will be adding in the content subjects and some electives so that we will be up to full speed.
Where would he be?
in Logic Stage & Middle Grade Challenges
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My twins are late October babies, and they will be in 8th when they turn 13. I would probably decide which grade to say he is in by using your state standards.