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  1. Active learning in LOE foundations would include acting out the word you spelled (like slithering on the floor as a snake), playing hopscotch and basketball. You play card games, there are a few cut and paste activities too. The only thing it's missing: music!
  2. I've used both. Thanks to this board actually. I bought AAR last fall because my son really wanted to learn to read and was asking me about the ins and outs of language but didn't have the fine motor skills for Spalding and all the writing required. So we started and were pretty happy. Then I saw all the buzz on here about foundations. The talk of understanding how the sounds are formed, of getting up out of your chair to move while spelling, and card games resonated with me. Bought the teacher's manual soon after. Gradually we have phased out AAR in favor of LOE. Just enjoy it more.
  3. Right Start A here and love it. That's saying a lot from me that I enjoy it too because before starting Right Start I really disliked math, both studying it and teaching it. Right Start just makes sense. The reasoning just comes alive in your hands. Definitely see connections to later math as I teach. We are working through it slowly because I don't want to push DS who just turned five. But he really understands the concepts they are presenting.
  4. I've thought about this too. When we study modern history we focus more heavily on the wars. It's easier to focus on cultures and interesting individuals when studying further back.
  5. Lesson plans: Science Is Simple It doesn't have worksheets though. Another idea is Singapore My Pals Are Here If you want Christian you might consider Christian Liberty Press.
  6. Manners From The Heart is a newer k-4/5th curriculum. It focuses on character training with manners as an application. Since it isn't expensive I am going to try it. Books...I've always enjoyed the manners books by Emilie Barnes for children. Aliki and Goops are other good ones.
  7. We're using it with Logic of English Foundations A and Right Start Math A. I just thought it might be nice to re-read next year, so it'd be with Foundations B & C and RS A & B (we're going slowly in math so I'll be surprised if we finish before the fall). I do have a blog but it's more like highlights of what we did today sort of thing. So you do see Sonlight p4/5 books featured.
  8. So far the NAMC primary homeschool curriculum.
  9. I read the one illustrated by Michael Hague as a child. It has a special place in my heart.
  10. How about the new Novare Physical Science or Introductory Physics for 9th-10th graders that came out last year. I've heard great things both from a friend of mine who teaches at a classical high school and the latest email from Cathy Duffy Reviews. http://www.novarescienceandmath.com/
  11. No, I haven't used Great Books Academy's guides. I just knew they were out there.
  12. Any particular reason why gou skipped the activities? Also, simply making narration pages, did it change the amount of time it took to go through the books?
  13. Oh, we're doing nature studies. I grew up with them. :)
  14. While I want T's official K year to focus on the 3Rs I want to introduce him to the other disciplines and sort of whet his appetite. BFSU 1 is popular on here and says it starts at K. I've noticed some use it for K but seem to use it slowly before really delving in BFSU in 1st. Science Is Simple is written for 3-7 year olds. It uses books and experiments to teach children how to observe, predict, ask questions and investigate. Seems like a good option. Would you use BFSU or Science Is Simple with someone in K? (I've also considered going the simple route in grade school with Science Fusion or Interactive Science) http://www.amazon.com/Science-Is-Simple-Activities-Preschoolers/dp/0876592728 http://www.amazon.com/Building-Foundations-Scientific-Understanding-Curriculum/dp/1432706101/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1393087245&sr=1-1&keywords=building+foundations+of+scientific+understanding
  15. Just buy the teacher guide and workbook. Look over the lessons and decide what seems like you'd use more.
  16. I'm so glad to hear you liked it. I recently saw the series on Amazon. I've been planning on starting Poet Studies in 1st grade. The series has struck me as a good way to do that. Could do three poets a year with their collection.
  17. Lol, this is hilarious. To me anyway. I had no idea we were the only ones who love playing the games. DS asks to play them even when not scheduled. He loves Rotten Egg especially. So far (lesson 27 of A) we've been told to play that, go fish, and Dragons. Often the card games are a sidebar suggestion for making the program more hands on, or a final review at the end of the lesson. They are definitely in the assessment "review" chapters as a way to tell how well your child knows the material (without him knowing he's being tested). Das likes the card games in RightStart A too. The variety of games is why I chose LOE over pure Spalding and RS over Singapore. In my LOE journey I started out with just the PDF teacher's guide. We'd just started AAR 1 and I saw all these raving posts on wtm boards about LOE games methods. Well, I loved it so I bought the student book. Soon we were using AAR less and less. DS needed the tactile cards they suggested but I couldn't bring myself to spend that money. So I went to Hobby Lobby, go paint and glitter glue and have been making my own. Then the guide kept calling for card games. I saw how much he liked them in RS and was tempted. However when the review/assessments started using them I bit the bullet. I bought a set of bookface and a set of cursive because part of the beauty of LOE is getting them familiar with reading many fonts. A challenging one to read for many kids is looped cursive. It made sense to play games with it. Never regretted the purchase once. So anyway, that's why I find it funny I'm the only one who really likes the game cards.
  18. Game cards. You can double them as phonogram cards or make your own phonogram cards.
  19. Combining would work if your kids are in grade school. If they level up in omnibus you could try to pick whichever of the three volumes is closest to where you are in the cycle. VP also offers online classes which would make using different ones easier.
  20. The 1st-6th Bible doesn't list theological discussions. 7th with Omnibus you'll notice more along that line. The back of the card retells the story and has you look up the passage and use bible dictionaries, etc. The point of their grammar stage bible is to memorize chapter by chapter where and what is in scripture. No more no less. In VP history there is church history included. So different saints etc. Then halfway through once the protestant reformation occurs that church history/missions emphasis becomes obviously protestant.
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