:iagree: I got mine through HBSC last summer.

Technically, our first grade year will start in January. But as my 6yo ds has completed all his k'er stuff and needs something to do while his sister finishes up her 2nd gr work, we've started him on a couple of things already. We're going to be moving into some downtime soon where I plan to just do quick spurts of light stuff to keep the memory fresh, so the plan for January is: Math: Finish MM1a so we can move into 1b (1 chapter to go and we've already started the place value stuff in 1b) and LoF Apples on Fridays (already started) Phonics/ Reading: Plaid Phonics A (already started), lots of practice readers Writing: Zane Blosser gr 1 Grammar (by his request): Voyages in English, gr 1 Spelling: haven't decided for certain, but we may go with Spelling Workout A History: Tag along with dd on SOTW 1 Latin: Continue working on SSL 1. Then I'm hoping SSL 2 will be ready by Spring so we can try that once we complete 1 Science: Intellego k-2 unit studies. We've slowly worked on astronomy and weather. I'm planning to continue weather during the winter and move back into astronomy in the spring.

Thank you for the poetry and vocab examples, they were exactly what I was looking for! :001_smile:

:hat: bump...

Has anyone out there gone from Voyages in English to the MCT Grammar Books? We're finishing up ViE Gr 2 and while I have gr 3 ready to go, I'm wondering if my dd (8) would prefer MCT as she finds the workbook of ViE easy (but could use more work on her writing skills.) She also enjoys language and stories right now, so I'd hate to kill that love with something boring. If we did transition, would I start her with Level 1 or Level 2 package? (Grammar Island, etc.) Also if you use MCT what are the vocabulary and poetic books like? I didn't seem any sample pages for Building Language and The Music of the Hemispheres.

Guess I felt like I was saying the same thing.

http://www.publicdomaintreasurehunter.com/2010/08/02/plagiarism-ethics-and-the-public-domain/ While I do think it was shady to charge so much for something that's mostly a public domain book with a few worksheets tossed in, the issue is more of an ethical one than a legal one. It would seem she can do this and the situation unfortunately becomes one of caveat emptor.

I've got 2 using MM1. My then 7 yo (now 8yo) started last fall with MM1 because she didn't have any formal math before hand. It's been somewhat a tough go, but I think we'll finally be finishing off 1B by next month. Math is her weakest subject area. At the beginning of this year my then 5.5 yo wanted to start doing math like his sister, so we started him very slowly in 1A. He took to it like a fish in water, but we also had some issues with the handwriting. We've taken breaks during the year to focus more on writing and have recently returned to working on math. We'll probably be finishing up chapter 3 shortly and have dabbled some in the place value chapter of MM1B. I think it can work for some K'ers, but every child is different. Plus manipulatives have been a great help for my two when trying to figure out problems. Oh, and with both children we tend to work through the word problems together.

:iagree:

Our local community center offers tiny tots judo for ages 3-6 which my now 6yo has enjoyed. He's showed interested in ballet since his sister goes and we put him in that last year. Since he's still enjoying it, we're continuing this year.

I'm open to any and all sorts of curricula. My only premise would be "does it work for us?"

ZB has been working well for us too. I wish I had started my dd on it sooner, but started ds on the K book. We just use the workbooks. To me, the TMs didn't seem to add anything extra to the program.

This is set A from Rainbow Resource: http://www.rainbowresource.com/product/MCP+Phonics+Word+Cards+Set+1/037750/1305757297-1922446

That was the feeling I was getting from looking at samples online, but I was curious to hear from others. I'm also bumping this for an additional related question.

The header basically sums up my post. For those of you who use it, do find the teacher manual useful or can you purchase the student workbooks and go? I'm considering books A and C. ETA: Could anyone fill me in on the word card sets -- are they necessary or just a nice addition?

We recently started How to Spell 2 (covers grades 2 and 3) and I'm consider getting book 1 for ds. I find having the TM How to Teach Spelling by Laura Toby Rudginsky very useful.

How does this curriculum address evolution?

I tried loading mine to google docs, but the pdf maximum was like 2.5MB which was WAY less than the grade 1A file. I have a 4GB thumb drive that I keep copies on. I also have the items downloaded to our hard drive (because we have the room.) I probably should take some time to burn a CD copy... just to be on the safe side.

:) Actually, from a yoga view point being upside down allows more oxygen to the brain which helps brain function. So basically, he's right.

What age? I have a 5 and 7.5 yo and Song School Latin works for now. I'm thinking Latin for Children for the older next year and SSL2, if its out, for the younger next year.

Hmm, I'm an odd woman out. I am the working parent and dh is home with our children. I was a 40 hour a week employed librarian and for the last 9 month I was reduced to 30 hours. I do have a very short commute -- I live in the town I work. I chose 9-10 hours for those days I do work because sometimes I do say a bit longer than 9 hours.

If we're talking about picking up my E's, then maybe. Otherwise, hell no.

That's disrespectful? How about the "My sister is for sale!" shirts I see on 8 yo's? And don't get me started on Juicy "couture" at 5 or 6 yo. What girl or woman needs that on their rear?:glare: This shirt is funny. It's clean but maybe not for everyone humor. Personally, I like how it links to the optometrist chart just to be silly. There's some way worse things out there.

:bigear: My two are 7 and 5. I purchased the Light Blue last fall for dd (7). She's almost half way through 1a. We're going very slowly with ds on 1a now. We didn't do any formal math with dd for grade 1, so we decide to start her with 1 and work through until she reached grade level. Right now that would be grade 2. I'm anticipating we'll catch up next year. As both dh and I teach the kids, MM works for us. He's not into lesson planning and I'm not into scripts. So far MM not only teaches the kids but works for our schedules. I think if you want a scripted curriculum, this might not be it. We utilize different manipulatives to drive home a concept but it doesn't explicitly tell you when to do this. There are websites and resources at the start of each chapter in the light blue series to also provide additional drills. My children have enjoyed these along with the games. There is also a worksheet generator that comes with the package so you can create additional worksheets for topics that need more review.

If they get 250 orders, it'll drop to 50%. It's currently at 133.