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Anyone Planning for 9th Grade 2020-2021?
blondeviolin replied to Murrayshire's topic in High School and Self-Education Board
I keep waffling! Tell me if this is too much. Elective: Learning Literary Analysis Through Lord of the Rings math: Saxon Alg 2 english: W&R 5-7 and papers across the curriculum. She’s already finished WWS 3 Science: Funda Funda bio (we paid so this one is solid) literature: ancient great books using some Great Courses by Vandiver and discussing with me history: History of the Ancient World foreign language: Cambridge Latin Course, book 3 Rhetoric/Debate/Logic 1/2 credit: I am waffling between Workbook for Arguments or Argument builder elective -
So...My oldest is going into 9th grade, and I'm slowly dipping my toes into planning for high school. She's done WWS 1-3 and I am pretty sure we are going to pick up W&R for a bit of a change of pace/lighter writing focus so we can do other things of interest. Next year I have planned for her to work through They Say, I Say. (I THINK.) Knowing that she will also be writing for history and science, and likely literature (I haven't made that plan yet), will adding in Workbook for Arguments be too much? She has done Art of Argument and Discovery of Deduction at a fun co-op class (so n
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8th Grade Planning 2019-2020
blondeviolin replied to Murrayshire's topic in Logic Stage & Middle Grade Challenges
I can try. We’re also moving so I’m in the middle of all the things. Math: Saxon Alg 1 Grammar: GFTWTM (whichever color is next) Writing: WWS 3 History: modern with Kingfisher History + lit books a la WTM Science: Apologia (?) Logic: I have to look. She’s finished Discovery of Deduction so I’m not sure where to go from here Latin: Latin Prep 3 vocabulary: Wordly wise -
Just skip the repeating part. Or ask him if he can say it alone instead.
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Gonna agree you have a lot going on. I have a 7yo second grader. This year he did ETC, SYS, FLL, and half of WWS 2. Next year he will do R&S Spelling, SYS (we use this like copywork), the other half of WWE 2 and FLL 3 (which is workbook). I’d pick one spelling OR phonics, one writing, and MAYBE a sentence or two of copywork. I wouldn’t condense dictation in WWE 2. If he needs help with spelling, give it. If the dictation is too hard due to length or something else, pause or go back and rebuild skills. He’s still young. He has PLENTY of time to do hard things. When he says his h
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Out of breath with exercise, asthma, something else?
blondeviolin replied to PeterPan's topic in The Chat Board
So I’m late to this topic, but have lots of experience with this. VCD’s gold standard diagnosis is laryngoscopy while experiencing symptoms. They will actually see the chords twitching. Are you taking your albuterol before exercise? Your breathing pattern may change and cause some bronchoconstriction. Asthmatics are notoriously good compensators so if your oxygen dropped while exercising I’d be really concerned. If I’m struggling to keep my breathing paced well, singing along to a song actually helps a lot. There is such a thing as an exercise stress test so you could ask your prim -
We are moving and I’m in sorta that prepping phase. Our new house will be 500 sq ft smaller so I’m thinking we might need to look at a storage type situation for the jillions of books we own. I’ve pared down, but with six kids ages 13-4, I have to keep the picture books AND the beginning readers AND the early chapter books AND the middle grade books, etc. I believe we can put our historical fiction that’s not in rotation in boxes. Any other solutions? Also, which boxes or crates are best? I don’t want them too heavy, but I do want sturdy.
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Skipping weeks in GWTM?
blondeviolin replied to Sherry in OH's topic in Logic Stage & Middle Grade Challenges
I think a good writing program will incorporate what they’re learning grammar and reinforce it. If your student isn’t practicing the use of the grammar (WWE) and only evaluating the grammar (FLL), then they haven’t yet jumped to the synthesis portion. SWB advocates teaching all of these skills separately, but simultaneously, but when your child is ready, he or she should begin to use those skills practiced. In math, if you’ve taught your kid addition and he doesn’t use that when going to the store and purchasing something, he understands the parts/process of math but hasn’t reached application -
Skipping weeks in GWTM?
blondeviolin replied to Sherry in OH's topic in Logic Stage & Middle Grade Challenges
She is naturally language strong, however my son is not. In fact, he’s dyslexic. While he hasn’t worked through GFTWTM, he has done all of FLL and is doing R&S 5 which isn’t as rigorous as I was expecting. He also has a strong grasp of when to punctuate commas, semicolons, apostrophes, etc. FLL 4 does have homophones, dictionary usage, etc in the optional lessons. I don’t think it’s just FLL, but also WWE and copywork and dictation from other sources. And, like I mentioned, my kids do Latin beginning in third grade. I also personally feel like almost nothing synthesizes for my kids u -
Sometimes I am asked to play for Sacrament. I don’t do organ, but piano. I get a few people commenting on how invigorating the piano is. But I also have had a couple suggest it is less-than (mostly stake visitors). Honestly, if I’m the sub, piano is what you get and if you don’t like it, they can play. 🤷🏼♀️
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When did this happen? (BA Online now has videos!)
blondeviolin replied to Noreen Claire's topic in K-8 Curriculum Board
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Veritas Press?
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Skipping weeks in GWTM?
blondeviolin replied to Sherry in OH's topic in Logic Stage & Middle Grade Challenges
I wouldn’t jump ahead. I’d just move to the other curriculum. My daughter is solid on object or subject pronouns, when to insert a comma between clauses, and homonyms. In all honesty, my 5th grader is decently strong there too. Might be partly attributed to their Latin program... but we have not found SWB to be lacking in her LA materials. -
What shows do your tweens watch for fun?
blondeviolin replied to lovinmyboys's topic in The Chat Board
My tweens like Monk. I believe it’s on Prime.