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We do Explode the Code and phonics games from Pinterest too. I have heard good things about Reading Eggs, though haven't used it.
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I was going to suggest WinterPromise's books too. I really liked A Pioneer Sampler and the other books in that series. Bobbie Kalman books for the time periods are really interesting and engaging, and so are the If You... books like If You Lived With the Cherokee, etc.
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I am doing the Cores with one child at the high end of the core ages. So far, it is a bit light for my oldest, but I add in notebooking pages and SOTW 1 (with B ) and SOTW2 (with C) that really beef things up, especially if I get to the library and add extra books. I also add in websites and period recipes.
I have also done the cores with the child being in the low end (we did this with Core A). She did just fine and was engaged. The reason I wanted her to be in the middle of the core age instead of low end was because at the beginning of the years, she is always a very young (fill in the blank). She is 8 now in 3rd grade and will not be 9 until 4th grade. That was one reason. The other is I could see her older sister just digesting all the material more in the middle age range, and I wanted that for her. That being said, she did just fine. She understood things, but some things did go over her head.
I think you will do just fine combining your ages, and it is ideal in your situation. I wouldn't worry about it just yet.
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Next year for my first grader, I'm going to use AAR and Dancing Bears for phonics, FLL1 for writing and grammar, and HWT1 for handwriting. We may do some copywork from her SL Core A books 2 times a week, depending how her writing skills develop.
I'm saving WWE1 for 2nd grade or later on in 1st grade to make sure she can read what she's copying, plus I want to hit Writing With Skill in 6th grade instead of 5th grade to get the most out of the program as possible.
I'm going to start AAS1 when she has finished more phonics instruction, possibly in the last half of 1st grade.
I am doing SL LA-K loosely this year, and I dislike it, so will not continue with SL LA. It was the first time I tried it (never used it with older girls), and it will be the last. That being said, next year the older girls are doing Core D, and I'm going to pick and choose certain assignments from LA-D since it is included with my Core IG purchase.
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I have some Pinterest boards for ancients and middle ages, though labeled with SL Core B and C. I do use SOTW along with SL, though. There are loads of ideas to use.
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With an 8yo, you could speed through FLL1 or skip it altogther. It is very repetitive. WWE1 doesn't coincide necessarily with FLL1, so you can use them at different levels. DD9 is doing WWE3 (so we can hit Writing With Skill in 6th grade) and FLL4 right now. If you hit something that coordinates, it doesn't seem to be intentional, and hitting concepts/grammatical lessons at different times helps to reinforce and serves as review.
You don't need the text to do the workbook, but the text gives some insight into why you are doing all these things. WWE is radically different from the run-of-the-mill writing programs, very untraditional, and it is nice to understand why we are doing what we're doing every day. If you can't get both workbook and text now, get the workbook, start it, and possibly plan on getting it in the future as a summer read or something along that line. :)
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I wouldn't want to do B/C time period over again either. I know plenty of people who use D for 8yo's. SL does say it is for advanced 8yo, and they even recommend in their IG skipping Landmark altogether and rely on the Story of US books (is that what they're called?) as a spine. I think I would go for Core D, but be ready to sub the spines for something else. A really good spine book for American history is DK Children's Encyclopedia of American History. There are plenty (gobs in fact) of picture books that you can get at a library for any given topic, especially if you have a good library.
All that to say, I do like the middle of the road for the cores the best, and it fits the best IMO. I'm doing Core D next year with a 4th and 5th grader (so middle of the core for age and high end of the core for age). I always have to add more for my oldest child to each core working this way or I would go way too fast through a year's worth of material. While my second DD did just fine with Core A as a K'er, I could see how much more she could get if she were 1 year older.
If you are fine going through ancients and the middle ages again with B/C, that would be a good option too, especially to hit all the cores in the middle of the road.
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How about choosing a few read alouds (historical fiction) that coordinate with what you're studying in the text? We like to do time period recipes too. I am considering Homeschool in the Woods Time Traveler series next year when we do American History.
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We have used 4 of the books. There are about 10 drawing projects in each book. They don't progress in difficulty, so you can jump in where ever you want. We don't use the cursive section, though the information contained in that section is very useful for notebooking. The girls have learned some techniques from this series. I have sometimes needed to sit down and draw with them to get them started, and they would follow the book and my cues, but most of the time now they can dig in by themselves. We love them, and plan on using the whole series.
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We use CLE math for 2 children. Well CLE K for our 5yo. We don't use their LA.
We use SL for history and science, though I'm probably going to do a round of Apologize science next year with a group for my 4th and 5th graders. We love it, and I plan to use it for the long haul, as long as it is working well for us.
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Bumping for anyone else who may be interested in this freebie. It's only through tomorrow!
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When my child misspells a word in AAS, first I'll just ask her how it looks to her - does she think it looks right? Her errors are sometimes just purely careless, like leaving out a letter in a blend and spelling "step" "sep." That kind of error is easily corrected, and I'll just remind her to pay closer attention.
The next step is asking her whether there's a rule that applies to that word. So if she spells "mark" "marck" I would ask her, "What's the rule about whether you use k or ck at the end of a word?" If she can readily produce the rule and fix her mistake, we move on, and I just make sure that at the beginning of the next lesson, when we do review words, I include "mark" or something similar.
If she can't come up with the rule, I stop the lesson to briefly re-teach it and give her a few practice words, and then make sure we review the key card and do a few practice words the next time too.
If there's a word she just has a hard time remembering how to spell, it stays in the review tab for a long time, but we don't let it keep us from moving on. "Wednesday" was the latest offender.
A few times I have gone back and re-taught a whole lesson, when it was clear that there was real ongoing confusion and not just forgetfulness. But normally it is just a one-off mistake, and reminding her of the rule solves the problem without the need for elaborate re-teaching.
This is what we do too. If I can tell that there is serious problems with a rule, I'll review it, but I don't stay in place too long, as there is always review in the dictation sentences/phrases and the word cards with words that she misses. During dictation, if she misspells a word, I'll mark it down to review and we review it until gets it before I cross it off the list. The rules that they have trouble remembering always show their heads in this review process of dictation and word card review.
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Regularly 9.99, My Side of the Mountain lapbook by Hands of a Child is free for the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th! Use coupon code provided at this website at checkout. :D
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It would depend on his dictation and summary narration skills. My friend started with WWE3 this year with her 4th grade son. You may want to check out the samples and see what he is capable of. We're doing WWE3 this year with a 3rd and a 4th grader.
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We have a dog, fish, and 2 guinea pigs.
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Will you please vote for your favorite apple? Thanks for helping with our math assignment! :001_smile:
Poll coming.
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DO you think that would work? I was thinking maybe using SOTW along with Core C and having them both do that and maybe letting it take 1.5 or so.
Yes! Then you will get more into the range of your younger. They are a good age for combining. Usually anything more than 2 years is difficult, but you should be okay. Some stuff will go over your younger's head, definitely. Take at least 1.5 years to do it so she can catch up if you plan on doing Core D, which increases in emotional intensity and amount of work to be done, plus reader level (probably a 3rd grade level with a few harder books in there). We have been doing SOTW2 with Core C this year, and there is PLENTY of rabbit trails to follow to stretch this out, especially if you get the AG, which has many, many great book recommendations, which our library has (I'm in the same city as you are; I'm jjn3beans and am in Chara). I wouldn't try to hit D too soon, although there are tons of younger books (take some ideas from WinterPromise's American Story 1) to keep her interested if she's in 2nd grade when you hit D.
You could pull a few books from Core A and re-read them with her too like Twenty and Ten and Apple and the Arrow, which will fit nicely in with Core C.
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Also, the notes have been updated and are more concise evidently. I find I use the notes more now that they are behind the schedule. I would rarely use them before in the old IGs. There are some good vocabulary suggestions, the questions have been revamped and seem to make more sense on the whole.
That being said, I have an old Core A (actually, I have Core K, which is what it used to be called), and I don't want Curious George and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. I want The Apple and the Arrow and Capyboppy and whatever else they cut. :glare: I'll have to decide next year if I want to try to add these books in and use the new version or just stick with what I have and save money. I know that didn't help, just a few thoughts.
I do like the new IG format, though. It is easier to follow.
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I am using Abeka math K. I don't love it, as there is a lot of stuff to wade through in the teacher's guide (which is why I moved away from Abeka a couple of years ago). The K math is short and teaches numbers through 100, simple addition, simple clocks, maybe some subtraction at the end. It really helps prepare for 1st grade math.
I am going to try the CLE K pages when I order DD9s math, hopefully to prep her for CLE100. I'm looking forward to them, as DD5 is weak in math.
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How about a lapbook? Dynamic 2 Moms has a free coral reef lapbook. I don't make lapbooks, but I still use the lapbook foldables for our science or history notebook.
Homeschool Creations has some ocean printables, mostly for K, but some may be able to be used with 1st and 2nd. If you look at the end of this page, there are links to other ocean type things.
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We really enjoy notebooking. Sometimes we use premade pages either purchased or found free, and other times the girls illustrate and create their own. My blog below has some ideas on it. My favorite notebooking place is The Notebooking Fairy. She has an ongoing series now about 50 things to put into notebooks, very creative and enlightening ideas!
We're trying to branch out into science instead of mainly history. We've used the notebookingpages.com pages for ancients, and that went nicely, and we have a lot of pages left over for later years.
Here is my Pinterest page for notebooking, although I have put notebooking ideas into each subject also. I'm trying to put them into the notebooking folder.
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I switched my oldest DD to CLE, as MM was a nightmare for her. We did it for about 2 months, and I had had enough. Second DD does very well with it. I think MM is for more math-oriented students IMO.
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My only concern is the dictation. Dictation is a big part of WWE. If you redo WWE2 when she can do the dictations, thought would be okay, but if you continue onto WWE3, she will quickly be lost, as she didn't have that ramp-up of dictation with WWE2. The dictations can be beasts moving up in WWE.
I'm not sure if I'm understanding you correctly, but those are my thoughts. :001_smile:
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Have you thought of Sonlight? I would do either P4/5 (very gentle) or Core A, but lean more toward 4/5.
What age are the get ready for the code books intended for?
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The company who makes them lists them closer to what SL does, but they have only books 1 and 2 for 1st grade, etc. I have used them with PK with 1 child and K for 2 of my children. My current K'er needs them for K. Books 7 and 8 are quite easy for my now 3rd grader.