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Anyone else? :bigear:
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I am thinking about switching to MM. I am wondering if those of you who use MM let your children use the calculator on the questions that Maria indicates. I was planning on waiting until Algebra before I let my DC use a calculator, and I am not sure how to handle this if it comes up.
I believe the calculator is used in 5A, but I am not sure if it is introduced earlier than that. Please correct me if I am wrong.
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This is a fabulous intro, to the point, start in the am and have a skirt that night.
How to Make Sewing Patterns by McCunn is good and affordable, clearly written text.
I also like Patterns from Finished Clothes by Doyle for remaking the stuff I already have in my closet and love.
Oh, I like the idea of making patterns from finished clothes. I will also look into the McCunn book.
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I would probably use the Angry Chicken skirt and possibly add a waistband and conventional hemming if the elastic is too tough for a beginner project.
Other than that, I would look for vintage materials, like 1950s sewing curriculums. There are many available on the web. I used to have one bookmarked, but I can't find it just now. I don't think you will find a modern curriculum like you are wanting, there just isn't enough current demand.
Very cute skirt! I will look into vintage materials. Thanks!
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Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was a home ec major, that class was called "Flat Pattern Design." I just googled that term and got many hits. So, I suggest you google that term and see what you come up with.
I was googling 'sewing pattern design', so I will spend some time checking out 'flat pattern design'. Thank you for the proper terminology.
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There is a wonderful book from 1942 by Harriet Pepin called Modern Pattern Design. I have a copy of it and there used to be a copy posted at vintagepattern.info which seems to have been taken down. However, I found a link to an archive of that which is still available.
Here is a link to that discussion
http://www.burdastyle.com/discussions/someone-help-me/topics/vintagesewinginfocom--2
Here is the link that will take you to the table of contents:
It tells how to draft slopers and designs from these. The book is remarkably similar to a more modern book I also have called Patternmaking for Fashion Design by Armstrong. It is also great for learning to draft and manipulate basic patterns. I have the second edition, I know it has been updated, but you might be able to find a used copy?
These have been very helpful to me. Learning some basics has really improved my sewing and is very liberating!
Thank you! This is what I am looking for. The bolded is what I want to impart to my DD.
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For skirts, have you seen Sew What! Skirts: 16 Simple Styles You Can Make with Fabulous Fabrics ?
I recommend you try to find this oldie: Dorothy Moore's Pattern Drafting and Dressmaking. She lived in Okinawa for a while and seems to have picked up on their method.
I also have Patternless Fashions by Lewis and Loh. I made some things for my daughter from it and pajama pants for my kids. There was some seeming error but I figured it out, but it's not the clearest.
They have all sorts of things for men/women/boys/girls but some are a bit dated. But you can make many work.
In terms of something more modern, Kids' Clothes Sew Easy: Easy to Sew T-Shirts, Tracksuits, Leggings, Trousers, Shorts, Dungarees, Anoraks, Skirts and Dresses by Rene Burgh is OOP but can be found. It's only for kids. It starts everything with a sloper and you alter from there, instead of directly drafting the pattern.
Thanks, Stripe. We will look into those books.
Anyone else?
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I am wanting to teach my DD12 how to sew, but I am not looking for something to teach the basics, I am more looking for a curriculum or book that would teach a beginner to draft simple patterns. I have looked online, and I have come up with a few pattern drafting books, but I would really like something that has been tried and proven. Our first project will probably be a simple skirt, and I will teach the basics as we go along. I want to teach drafting as a part of it, mainly because patterns are so expensive, and I think it would be a cool skill to have.
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We are on Lesson 15, and my DD is really enjoying Mr. Reed's sense of humor. She likes the fact that the lessons are 'short and sweet', and math is not a fight around here anymore.
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We have done a four day week for the past few years, and I cannot imagine that we will ever go back to a five day week. I am 'doing school' from about 8am to 4:30pm, on those days, so with evening activities like AWANA, homeschool gym and handbells, we don't have much time for anything else on those days. We leave Fridays for our sleep-in, cleaning, appointments, or just plain fun days. If there is a holiday on a Monday that my DH is home, we just shift our day off to correspond to his day off. My DD12 occasionally does some work on the weekend, but that is not necessarily because she can't get it completed during the week, it is mainly because she doesn't mind doing a little on the weekends. I foresee that she may have to do some work on Fridays or on the weekends, but it will be independent work, I will not be working with her then.
We also school approximately 40 weeks a year. I do not like our breaks to be longer than 3 weeks, because I feel that my kids start to forget things.
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If you want a VERY gentle introduction that provides three sources to take information from in order to write 10 different reports, gives step by step instruction, and uses a similar method to IEW, you could look at this Evan Moor book. It's very inexpensive. Now, mind you it is very basic and the reports generated from it are 5 paragraph but would be very short paragraphs. It is, imo, a good introduction to a first attempt at report writing.
Thank you, Aime. I will take a look at the Evan Moor book, too.
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I finally gave up on finding decent resources for beginning research papers, and am writing my own curriculum for myself, and the people that are always begging me to tutor them, not understanding how much I really don't know.
Have you seen the i-chart? As well as a pdf, there is a doc version, that you can edit. I'm still working on my version of an edit.http://www.adlit.org/strategies/21826/
If I have time, I'll try and link you to other free worksheets online.
Writing Effective TitlesThank you, Hunter. These are great tools!
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My oldest did a state study in 4th grade. He loved it. He did a short research paper, a storyboard, and a Q&A with someone living there. It was a lot of fun.
I like this idea, Angie. Maybe we will have to think about doing something like this as well. I like the added component of a storyboard presentation.
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Oh, good! I was feeling bad for your poor dc (and that's saying a lot coming from me; I torture my poor creatures! ;))
Yep, I use IEW for that, but I'm not sure if it's worth it just for that, if you are using something else for your main program. Basically, the idea is that they outline a few words from each source under each of the topics they have chosen (so, three subtopcs for a five page paper.) Then they "fuse" those outlines: take what they see in common or what they think is most important/interesting and make a new outline. Then they write from that. Since you are already working from cards, that would be your first set of outlines, so fuse those cards into an outline and write from there.
So, long story short... yes, just teach a simple form of the basic five paragraph essay to pull it together. :D
Great! I will go ahead as planned and teach them to make up note cards as they go along. Then we will fuse them into a simple 5 paragraph essay.
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All right, you asked for it. :D I was trying not to answer something you didn't ask...
Do they have to learn the research paper now? I have high school students who are *just* getting it. Not because they haven't had plenty of writing instruction, but because learning to invent and defend an argument is a mature skill. I think when you teach it too early, they end up just writing a factual report, and then they have bad habits that need to be un-learned later. I have several students who are struggling mightily, because they have been practicing "research papers" wrong for years, and it's not their fault, there was just no way they had the capacity to really write one before.
At that age, we did just plain reports using 2-3 sources. I used the IEW method mostly, because I think they teach that well.
Thank you! I guess my terminology is incorrect. I called it a research paper, because I like the idea of using 2-3 sources, like you said, but I want them to record the sources and write a report that combines the information that they have gathered. I am not planning on having them invent or defend an argument. So I guess it is a plain report. I haven't had my children do anything more than copywork, narrations and summaries based on notes that we have written together, so I was planning on having them do a report from a few sources, at their level this year. I am not planning on going into the formal essay until they are in 8th or 9th grade. I will look into the IEW method. Thank you for your help. As I stated before, I am always open to more input from people who have BTDT!:bigear:
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I would love to hear what you wanted to say, Angela. I respect your opinion and have the 10 categories that you have your students write notecards on, tacked on my bulletin board, as a goal to work towards with my DD12 in the next year or so.
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I don't know if it will be any help to you, but this is the approach I am using with my ds10... Brave Writer Lifestyle: Writing Projects.
We're on part 1 right now, so yesterday I had him nail down his topic and we started brainstorming, making one of those bubble charts. My goal is to have him complete an outline of his planned writing project by the end of the week. Then, over the next couple of weeks, he can work on fleshing out the outline, polishing it a bit, etc., and the final week (week #4) he'll do a re-write/final draft.
We've followed a mainly Charlotte Mason approach to writing, so while he's done copywork, narrations, and so forth, this is his first real paper. Yesterday's work went really well - hoping the trend continues!
We have done copywork, narrations and summaries as well. I want my DC to do a fun report this year, on a topic of their choice.
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I want to teach my children how to do some basic research and write a short paper. I have The New York Public Library Kid's Guide to Research, which I will use for the beginning stages, but it doesn't teach how to pull everything together. I am looking for a good source to actually help write the paper from the index cards they have written. Is there something that is written for upper elementary children? Or do I just go ahead and teach a simple form of the five paragraph essay to pull it together?
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http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/tutor/lessons.php?lang=EN&lesson=16 (Click on "Practice your own text).
Thank you for this link! I love the idea of typing my DC's work in so they can practice their typing skills.
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We started CC Fable(MP's version) after Christmas and we are just finishing Lesson 4. My DD is finally enjoying writing.
My plan is to go up to Lesson 8 or 9 of Fable, before switching to CC Narrative. We will do 8 or 9 lessons from it before we switch to CW A/H for Older Beginners in the fall. My plan is to go back and do a lesson in CC Fable and CC Narrative every semester for the next few years, while we work on CW. It will be a nice break and a refresher as well.
I, too, have wondered whether or not I should skip CC Narrative and just move on to doing Homer A this spring, but we are really enjoying CC and I think that switching to CW at this point might be counterproductive. We will start CW in the fall. This will also give me enough time to study my CW books so that I am sufficiently prepared to teach it.
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I originally posted for Saxon Teacher. And, I do prefer Saxon Teacher to DIVE. However, we have started using Art Reed dvds this month and love them!! Dd has had so many "ah ha" moments, that we are going back and reviewing a great deal before going on to the next lessons. After spending a couple weeks with these dvds, I've changed my plan for Adv Math. I'm going to use the Art Reed dvds with the Adv Math text and solutions manual and skip purchasing the Saxon Teacher dvds. IF we find we need more help on solutions, then I will get the Saxon Teacher dvds, but I'm hoping to avoid them completely.
Thank you for this! I just pick our Art Reed DVDs up from the post office and my DD will start using them tomorrow. I am hoping for some "ah ha" moments for her, too.
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I ended up ordering Art Reed's DVDs. I am expecting them in the mail this week.:001_smile:
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We use Horizons Math a grade level below to get exactly what you are asking for. My eldest son is in Epsilon, so he is using Horizons Math 4, my twins are in Delta and using Horizons Math 3, and my youngest is in Alpha and Horizons Math K.
My only regret is that I didn't do this with my DD12. She started MUS Pre-Algebra at the beginning of this year, and found that it went over her head. I think that she needed a more spiral approach than she received with MUS, or perhaps she needed the mastery and spiral approach that I am using with my sons. I have since moved her to Saxon 7/6, to get more review of basic elementary math. We will probably move to Saxon 8/7 from here.
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This looks really, really promising. How old were your kids when you jumped in at Level 2? It looks like I could use the same level for both girls, is that true?
I started all of my kids at Level 2. Their ages are 6, twins that are 9, 10 1/2 and 12. My DD12 has taken a year of piano lessons, but that was a couple of years ago, so she is doing this as review. One component of the program that was a nice surprise for us, is that you have a new 'teacher' every few lessons. These 'teachers' are animated versions of Handel, Chopin, etc.. At the beginning of each lesson they play a portion of something they have composed and talk a little about the background of the piece. My children love having Mozart or Tchaikovsky as their 'teachers'.
Math Mammoth Calculator Use?
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Thank you, I didn't think about the fact that we could just skip some of the questions.
I really do not want my DC to rely on a calculator. I can see that they would need it in higher levels of math, but I think that right now they need to over-practice their basic computation skills.