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Me too! I spent so much time agonizing over my selections for our first year of homeschool. It looks like this year will be a breeze to plan compared to last year. I just downloaded BFSU volume 1 and ordered First Language Lessons which I may start next month with my oldest. She is almost done with her Veritas Press 1st grade phonics and reading fluently so I think she is ready.
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Five in a Row covers all of those talking points and more. The teachers manual has really helped *me* learn how to dive into the picture book and share that with my girls. We start every school morning cuddled on the couch with our FIAR book. We spend 5-10 minutes talking about one or two points from the teachers manual and some days we do other hands on activities as well. Five in a Row has a forum as well if you want other ideas.
ETA: Five in a Row can be a full blow curriculum, but we do not use it as such. We use the books as our literature component of our HS. We cover math, phonics, history, art and music as separate subjects.
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I have been adding musical instruments as we travel around the world. We have learned how to play the lap harp (Europe), Djembe and thumb piano (Africa), Jumbe jam (steel drum, Caribbean) and croaking toad (Asia). We will be learning how to play the didgeridoo when we finally reach Australia. I wanted to buy a gong for Asia but my husband looked at me like I had three heads when I suggested it so we went with the croaking toad instead. Thanks in part to our world studies we now have a very nice collection of instruments.
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My girls love science and we have been reading science books to them since they were very young. The PP had some great suggestions and I would also add kits from Insect Lore. We hatch butterflies every spring. We have also used the Ladybug kit, Ant farm and praying mantis.
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My oldest daughter was 14 months old when we adopted her from Korea. I knew after the first night we were a family that she was not your typical 14 month old. I have nicknamed her my old soul. She is far beyond her years emotionally and intellectually.
I *tried* kinder level work with her and it lasted us a whole month and a half. She was through Singapore Essentials B in 5 weeks and we also did extra RightStart lessons. We started Singapore 1A in November and she is more then half way through it. She isn't rushing, but math (and everything else) comes naturally to her. The only thing that slows her down is the Challenging Word Problems books. She is reading at a 2nd/3rd grade level and she flew through the 1st grade Veritas Press phonics program.
I am running with it and letting her go at her own pace. We have zero intentions of sending her to college early, but she can certainly do online classes at home. She is a beautiful, exotic looking little girl with a personality to match and there is no way I would want her around college age boys at 16 :tongue_smilie:
Personally I would let him go at his own pace. There is always something else to learn.
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Could someone please link the iPad version? I have tried several search terms and I can't find it.
Thank you OP, this book sounds like something my oldest would enjoy. She is young, but she adores science.
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Zulily is offering a 1 year subscription for the young scientist series for $120 through 12/23. My girls love the Magic School Bus kits, but I am wondering if this would be too repetitive. Does anyone know if these are simply repeats of the kits or do they contain different information?
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Well kinder lasted a month and my oldest blew through her math and phonics. She loved Singapore Essentials B and flew through it. She was already reading fluently before we started Veritas Press kinder so it was all review for her. I moved her up to Singapore 1A and the Veritas Press 1st grade phonics a few weeks ago and she is doing very well. She loves math so I have added in the Singapore Challenging Word Problems and Intensive and Extra Practice workbooks to slow her down a bit. We are still using Five in a Row and our other electives as planned.
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Hands down my favorite book was To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I read it in 6th grade and re-read it many, many times over the years.
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Love it, adore it actually. We have been rowing for a little over a year now and the FIAR books are the ones my children pull off the shelves over and over again. We have over 1,000 kids books in our house, but our "rowed" books have become very special memories. I recently gathered them all and put them on a special bookshelf in their room.
During the summer I went all out with FIAR and did a lots of hands on activities, field trips etc... Now that school has started we use FIAR to start our day, have a short discussion and then do 1-2 other activities during the week. They still learn a lot even with minimal effort on my part to pull things together.
My 3 year old has joined us in rowing the books and has even made up her own Night of the Moonjellies song which she sings over and over and over again. :tongue_smilie:
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My oldest daughter adores L Frank Baum's work. We have read all the WOz books and a few of his other books aloud. I have decided to incorporate his book Mother Goose in Prose into our memory work. We read the Mother Goose rhyme and then the story that goes along with it from Baum's book. The stories are short, sweet and very cute. We read Liittle Boy Blue last week and it told the story of why Little Boy Blue fell asleep. We start our Friday with a new rhyme and then use it for our memory work the following week. The girls both love it!
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We just finished up The Sea Fairies by L Frank Baum and started The Lost King of Oz by Ruth Thompson. While I am thrilled my 5 year old loves WOZ, I would like to read something else for a change. I feel like we will be reading Wizzy until she goes to college!
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Co-ops. I have no desire to teach other children.
I also won't do reptiles. We can go to the pet store to look at them, but not one single cold blooded creature will enter my house. I will do bugs, dissections and cute fuzzy animals but NO reptiles. Snakes are grounds for divorce in this house :lol:
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Hands down, Wonderful Wizard of Oz. You can ease into the stories with Little Wizard Stories of Oz which contains 6 short stories.
We read the first book when Madeline was 4 1/2 and now we are on book 21 of the original cannon (there are 40 books in the series written by Baum and Ruth Plumly Thompson). They are wonderful stories! The Books of Wonder versions have lovely color plates and some black and white illustrations. My 5 year old nephew is hooked too!
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My girls adore the Kumon workbooks. I thought it was silly to spend $6 on something for them to cut up, but then they arrived and I saw how much they loved working on them. There are approximately 40 projects in each book and the projects are very fun. The paper is heavy too which makes it easier for them to hold the page and cut at the same time.
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Thank you for the wonderful review. I think my 5 year old would adore these.
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Just so you don't feel bad.....
We have 7 in our school room, 5 in the family room, 2 in the girl's bedroom, 1 in the playroom, 1 in our master bedroom and a stack of books I brought home from the used bookstore last Thursday that still need a home. I briefly contemplated removing my yellowware bowl collection from my antique stepback cupboard in our dining room and replacing it with more books, but then I came to my senses!
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We do now! :D
http://momschools.blogspot.com/2011/08/preschool-morning-board.html
I plan on using this for Pre-K through 1st grade. HTH! :)
Oh I love your clothespin idea for holding the pages. Thank you for sharing!
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Me three on the Tasha Tudor version. I love all her books and this one is no exception.
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I love the manual and I could not row without it. It has so many good ideas and the great part is most of the ideas focus around discussions. I find it much easier to incorporate a short discussion into an already full schedule then another lapbook or other hands on activity. I do love reading the FIAR blogs and we do quite a few hands on projects as well, but I could not live without the manual.
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That sounds like a wonderful day! I never thought of reading the book at the library so thank you for the suggestion. We have rowed several books this summer in preparation for this school year and I love FIAR. I am alternating FIAR and BFIAR for my little one and it is such a wonderful adventure. Keep up the good work!
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Geopuzzles are back on Zulily. They also have some of their card games. I bought the set the last time they were offered and my kids love them! They are a great addition to geography studies.
Zulily does charge shipping, but you can use coupon code FAMILY10 to save 10% on your order. I hope this helps.
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We had a small kid sized table from the Land of Nod in our school room. It was a great height, but we did not have enough space to spread out. I bought two desks from Pottery Barn and floated them in the middle of the room. They take up a lot of floor space, but I love the configuration. The desks are open on one end so I can sit in between and work with both of them at the same time. I love having the extra drawers to stash their projects and materials and the work surface is a great size. We now have plenty of room to work and the girls love having their own space.
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We will be starting K in August as well. My daughter turned 5 in May. Lily will be joining us for most of the subjects and she will be 4 in December. I have everything planned and ready to go so we have been working on a few subjects here and there. We have been doing FIAR for three weeks now and I love it!
How much do you read to your young child(ren)? evey day?
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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We read specifically for school for 1-2 hours a day. That also includes the time my oldest reads aloud to me.
For fun reading I would say 2-3 hours a day. My oldest is a pokey eater so I read to them after I finish my meal and while she is still eating. We usually sit down for at least 45 minutes in the middle of the afternoon and read aloud. We read for an hour at bedtime every night and then my oldest reads to herself for 30 minutes after her little sister falls asleep (they share a room). I read to them a lot to help justify my addiction to children's books.