[HWOT]

My dd has gone through all the workbooks, and that is all I ever bought. Ds is working on the 3rd workbook now, and that's all he has used.

[Family or Relatives?]

My relatives are the people I am related to. My family are the relatives that I interact with regularly. They are the ones that I have more than just a blood relationship to, I have a "heart" relationship with them.

[It would be funny if it wasn't so maddening...]

I'm planning to go to the one in Fife on the 2nd, hopefully at 9:00.

[Real Science vs. R.E.A.L. science odyessy]

We tried RS4K Biology last fall and I switched to RSO Life after 2 weeks. I didn't like RS4K at all.

[Uncle Josh's Outline Map Book vs. Map Trek]

I have both and prefer Map Trek.

[Back-to-School sales!]

Out here in the Pacific Northwest our Fred Meyer (Kroger) has Crayola crayons 24 packs for $0.25 and 100 page composition books at the same price.

[New email from CVA]

We will be sticking with CVA this year because I am not financially prepared right now to provide the best education I can give my kids, but I am looking at it as a year to get myself ready to go without CVA. Unless this year goes far better than I am imagining or there are further changes to the law that make using CVA easier we will not be continuing with them after the 11-12 school year.

 

Joann - Have you heard anything back from Keith yet?

[For those of you who tie literature to your history study..]

We will be using Classical House of Learning Literature curriculum to tie our literature/reading into our history study.

[Pinterest Addicts]

I just got my invitation and am now following some of your wonderful pin-boards. I haven't set any of my own up yet, but I see it happening soon. :D

 

http://pinterest.com/chikngirl/

[ISO: A book about planet earth...can you help??]

I second the Basher book recommendation. :001_smile:

[Has anybody used the Singapore Kindergarten Math Readers?]

I got them and used them. Please tell me I didn't pay $30 for them :tongue_smilie:

 

That said, these are far from essential. For $30 I think one can get a lot more bang for ones buck from other things. So how's that for a very mixed message? :D

 

Bill

 

:iagree:

 

I will also add that my son has enjoyed reading them as easy readers and they have been very well-read from that.

[Does Anyone Use MCT as a Stand Alone...]

MyAudioSchool.com has an audio version of Grammar Land and there are some mom-made worksheets to go along with it that are linked there. Grammar Land is a fun story!

[Ancient History linked literature]

You might look at the CHOLL list for Ancients.

[Is anyone else excited for back-to-school sales next month?]

YES! I love back-to-school sales.

 

We need:

Glue sticks, glue sticks and more glue sticks

Ditto for tape

3" binder

 

We (I) want:

Proclick (I have a $10 off coupon for Office Depot that I'm planning to use for this)

Highlighters

Dry Erase Markers

Scissors (they still work but are getting dull)

Whatever else catches me eye

 

I <3 office supplies!

[Calling all Latin Pro's... First Form Latin vs MCT vocabulary]

:bigear:

[Homeschool names?]

We are the Delaney Academy for Excellence. Which cracks me up because I know us. :lol:

[How do you teacher YOURSELF grammar?]

I didn't learn any grammar in school outside of nouns, verbs and adjectives from doing MadLibs. I am enjoying learning along with my children and can't wait to start diagramming. It's hard to wait for them to get to it. :blushing:

[Can I have your view of Girl Scouts?]

This year my dd's GS troop did a year long service project at an assisted living facility, learned to geocache, camped including learning outdoor skills, practiced leaving no trace and cleaning up local parks, practiced tying knots, had a sleepover at the Pacific Science Center where they learned about robotics and lots more activities. Yes they have also done some cutesy crafts and scrapbooking, but there has been plenty of meat considering the girls are K-3.

 

I would love to find a secular version of the BS for my son to join. I disagree with some of their policies and feel I cannot support their organization.

[Haven't heard from Advisor...]

I have already received my reimbursement for May classes. I would definitely stay on top of it. Maybe even call the main office and ask who you can talk to that may have more information for you.

[What a blessing!]

:D Nice.

[Where do you keep your library books?]

We're allowed 100 books per card, and currently have 2 card holders, soon to be 3. The kids keep their pleasure reading books on their bedside tables, and I keep my pleasure reading books on my bedside table. General knowledge books or specific interest books for me are kept in the living room on a small portion of a large bookshelf. Books I plan to use for school are kept on a small table in the kids' room where we do our schooling. I also keep a cloth bag at the top of our banister that is used only for library books, both bringing them home and taking them back. Books that we are finished with go in the bag so it's ready to go on our next library day.

[D is for Dinosaur? What preschool curriculum is this?]

Tot School?

 

Confessions of a Homeschooler's Letter of the Week Curriculum?

[Summer Reading program-BN/Borders question]

The years that there aren't any choices that I approve of or that we don't already have I let the kids pick out a book to donate. We will donate to the library, food bank, local homeless shelter, toys for tots, etc. The kids still get to pick out their prize, which makes them happy, and I don't have to worry about bringing it home.

[What curriculum have you left that you later wished you had stuck with?]

Singapore for math. I wish I had pushed on through, but we quit because I didn't want to do it anymore.

[AAS & WTM philosophy]

If he has already practiced the word with the tiles and in writing, I'd let him go ahead and commit to a spelling in dictation rather than stopping him. He has already had some opportunities to see the word correctly. For one thing, you don't know whether he'd catch the mistake and correct it himself if you are always stepping in--and ultimately that's our goal. Plus at this stage, you are not focusing purely on visual skills--spelling actually involves using several skills. If he misspells a word and doesn't catch it himself, have him sound out what he wrote--see if he can catch it that way. If he pronounces it correctly instead of the way he wrote it, then sound out what he wrote for him. You can say, "That's right, we want the word ____, but you actually wrote ____. Do you know what to change to make it _____?" See if he can correct it at that point. Or review the rule. Ask, "There's actually a rule that applies to this word, do you know which one?" If he doesn't remember, you can bring it up and have him fill in the blank.

 

By asking him questions and leading him to use the skills he's just starting to develop, you are teaching him how to think about spelling and think about his writing rather than doing that thinking for him.

 

HTH some! Merry :-)

 

:iagree: I don't do any correcting of dictation until we are finished with that session of dictation. Having the child sound out the word they misspelled gets them to catch the error and fix it on their own most of the time.