Lots of bumps but no one has tried it?

:lurk5: Anyone else? I think Junior History might be what my anti-history monkey might take to. The sample for Jr. History 1 made it seem like the presentation is concise and to the point, which I think would appeal to him. He's told me that he's not interested story aspect of SOTW.

I would also suggest MM, but I think MEP might be a better fit. While the HSBC sale lasts until the end of the of the month (they will most likely run it again later this year,) MEP is free and available anytime. :001_smile:

I too was a bit :001_huh: by the stories, but my monkeys love them. We've finished Apples where the focus continually returns to fact families/ number bonds of 7. So far in Butterflies it seems to review this and move to fact families/ number bonds for 9. I like all the outside little things things that he ties into the stories like days of the week or who Archimedes was. We'll keep going as long as it holds their interest. I'm just debating on keeping them for the littlest monkey who won't get to them for another 5-6 years or to sell them to fund purchasing E-H and then start all over again with used copies.

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Thanks for all the ideas! Walking-Iris, I'd love that lapbooking link if you can find it. I might see if I can find them and try this route. The whole subject of history is just not that interesting to him. Perhaps by listening to the CD and doing a buddy system for the work, he'll come around. Coloring is out with him too. We're currently trying to work on that a bit with him.

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Here it is assigned to the 7-8th graders, but I can easiliy see how it woul work for a 9th grade class. FWIW, Twilight also receives a gr 4 interest level in reading on the AR info.

I live in CA and for my district, we still have the Dec cutoff. So that means ds should be in a gr 1 entering 2 this fall while we'll keep him in 1st through Oct/ Nov of this year.

Hmm... I love these ideas. I'm going to see how well these go over. Do you still read the SoTW while doing (or after) these activities or do you skip the stories all together?

I don't have the AG because we use HO and Classical House of Learning guidelines. I could probably use the activities there, but my other problem is that he doesn't like crafts (in general.) I've found it depends on the craft project. :glare:

Ds so far is not a fan of history. We use SoTW and have Usborne available. Usborne links are fine so long as they are game like but having to sit down to hear me (or anyone else) read history aloud seems to be torture. Is there some kind of history for the kinesthetic learner or ideas for how to teach history to a squirrelly boy? Is this where I put it off until he's older? I'm baffled because dd takes to history like a fish in water.

:bigear: I about to buy it for dd and try it out.

We started 2A (y2) yesterday. :) It took awhile for me to wrap my head around MEP, but once I did I saw how the activities in the lesson plan would offer the monkeys a chance to think more creatively about math. To date, we have been using MM (1B for ds and 2A for dd.) I think this background has helped them and I plan to continue with MM for now.

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I know Homeschool Buyer's Co-op has had co-ops for it in the past that brings the cost down. I *believe* they've been in the late spring or summer.

In the last couple of weeks I finally printed it out, sat down with the lesson plan and workbook side-by-side and "got" it. (Thanks to whomever it was that posted doing that. :lol:) So tomorrow I'm planning on trying Y2 with my MM1B and 2A students and see how it goes. I think they are going to enjoy the activities and shorter workbook pages (compared to MM.) The current plan is to have them do MM 3 days a week when I'm at work and MEP another 2-3 days in the week (when I'm home so I can lead the activities.) We'll see if that's what happens after tomorrow.

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Nm.

Is there a way to see a sample bibliography for this? Could (did) you find most of the books at a local library?

Does anyone have a student using MM 1B who has worked on MEP 2A? I'm thinking about possibly supplementing our MM but wasn't sure if my currently using 1B student could do the work in 2A. At first glance it seems like it, but I'm concerned that MEP might advance too quickly and perhaps we should start with MEP 1B.

I think that's the key to it. Look at the workbook book then the TM and create your own lesson plan. Not having the time to create lessons plans, it sits on my shelf for now. I'm considering adding it into our work plans in the coming weeks once I purchase a Level 1 workbook for ds. FWIW, I purchased it last year, read it, tried to implement it but dd and I were both :001_huh:. I just revisited it and for some reason it made more sense this time around...

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My ds is currently doing MM 1B and my dd is working on 2A. Ds understands math facts more quickly and easily than dd. Could I have both of them simultaneously work on MEP Y2 or might it accelerate too quickly for ds?

:lurk5: Bumping because I have the exact same question. My monkeys have been wanting to learn Spanish and we can't beat the cost.