Ruthie in MS
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FIAR Vols 3-4 and all the books
Books for FIAR Vol 1-2 that I'm missing
Before FIAR and the books
Math on the Level
Artistic Pursuits K-3 Book 2 and supplies
Prairie Primer
microscope
telescope
binoculars and other nature supplies
Living Math literature
Apologia- Human Anatomy textbook, journals and supplies
Apologia- Flying Creatures textbook, journals and supplies
The rest of my Amazon wish list
The rest of my rainbow resource wish list
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Another vote for A Beka for a spiral traditional math. It is more teacher intensive than you may be willing to do though.
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Not to be a stick in the mud or anything but if your children are Kindy and 2nd grade, they really NEED a more teacher intensive approach for math in the elementary grades. Math is so abstract for young minds and they need a lot of hand holding.
BUT if you truly desire to let go more, I hear Teaching Textbooks is a wonderful curriculum and it starts out in the 3rd grade. It's also spiral and the lessons can be done on the computer. I've never used it myself but I've seen such great reviews for it.
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Which children are you looking for advice? Do you plan to combine any of them for certain subjects?
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hmm. you can not buy just one year? You have to buy the full thing?
Nope, it comes in a set. Which is unfortunate. I would love to buy Math on the Level but it is way out of my price range--- and I'm homeschooling 3 kids. Money is really tight here right now and I just have to be more creative with what we have.
I agree with Hunter, if the creator would drop the price I believe it would be a big seller among those who follow the Living Math method.
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I am wanting to get a science encyclopedia for my elementary kids. I'd love it to last until 6th grade or so. I am really just wanting a good reference book for them, to use. My dd8 is the one that constantly looks things up so I need it to be easy-to-use for her. She is also a visual learner so one that's colorful and full of visuals--- but not babyish. There are several on the market and I really need another homeschool mom's suggestion.
Links for them would be awesome. Mostly so I know which version or edition you are recommending. Thanks!!
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We don't do anything different for summer. We finish when we finish. Our summers here are way too hot to get out and do anything. Most of our time off is taken Christmas, spring and summer so it all works out in the wash. Right now we are in their respective "grades" in language arts and phonics and a semester behind in math (for both dd).
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My dd8 loves Artistic Pursuits. We've only used K-3 Book 1 and have only made it to Lesson 14. They are through and easy for me to teach but my problem is.... we never seem to get it done. I guess my problem was that I treated it more like an "extra". We loved it and have ditched it for FIAR with art lessons already built in. I would have continued through the book --and possibly series --if I would've made myself do it.
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Next year?? Goodness. We started so late this year because of all the crazy house renovations. I decided to hold my dd8 and dd6 back for a semester in math to keep them from getting overwhelmed by all the new concepts and will be beginning next week what SHOULD have been (in some people's eyes) started last fall. I love planning and researching but it drives me crazy!! Does that make sense? But here is my plan for next year (at least it's what I THINK we'll be doing):
dd8 (then dd9) 4th grade
LLATL Orange and/or Living Literature, Language Arts and Grammar Packets
Math--- No idea. After we finish A Beka Arithmetic 3 I will be looking for another math curriculum
dd6 (then dd7) 2nd grade
LLATL Red (maybe)
A Beka Artihmetic 2 with a more Living Math flavor (traditional math and living math are polar opposites but somehow they coexist in harmony in our house)
BOTH DD9 and DD7
FIAR Volumes 3 and 4
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I have used A Beka for K-2nd grade which is really phonics heavy and rigorous. This year for my 3rd grader we switched to Learning Language Arts Through Literature (yellow). It is gentle and possibly a grade behind but my dd8 never got any of this with A Beka. With A Beka language arts (nouns, pronouns, adjectives, etc) isn't taught until 3rd grade. However, LLATL doesn't have the repetition that A Beka has built in to their books. With A Beka everything is spoon fed and based mostly on memorization but with LLATL it's literature based and the activities are designed for the kids to find out the answers themselves. Both are all-in-one Language Arts curricula but LLATL needs to be supplemented with a reading list IMO.
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Thanks for posting. We might use it next year.
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I'm really thinking about using Math Lessons for a Living Education by Queen Homeschool next year for dd6 and dd8 (dd8 would use book 4 that is going to be released soon). I really like that it has a story element to it and I really don't want to use Life of Fred (I've just read posts about it being a little too harsh for sensitive children and want to avoid that). We definitely are a living math family and I thought that Math Lessons for a Living Education would be a great fit but for $39.95 for one consumable book-- it sounds expensive. I wasn't planning on it being the mail source of our math, just a quick and fun supplement.
If you are using or have used the books in this series I would really love to know what you think about them and how your children responded to them. Thanks!!
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Meh, fitting into boxes has never really been my thing. I don't see the need to be a "type".
Me either, but I would say that if I were to fit any "type" it would be eclectic and it looks like that is what you are too.
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Trail Guide to World Geography is a great resource and has a book list for different ages groups with a study of "Around the World in 80 Days"
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I have several book lists for world geography on my Homeschool History/Geography Pinterest board . There are also other neat stuff for the nuts and bolts of creating your own curriculum.
I hope you find it helpful.
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Bright Ideas Press is having a Black Friday sale.
This site has all the details: http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=b734808e8d5eb94742eedc59f&id=5e0f4945d0&e=b86e9ecfec
20% off for WonderMaps sounds like a good deal to me. I hope that helps.
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I love the A Beka cursive. Fairly easy, each letter legible on it's own. A little old fashioned.
I do not like HWT. The r's! Argh!
The cursive I learned in school is very much like the A Beka, which is probably why I am more partial to it. They still use the old fashioned Q, but I don't make my kids if they don't wish to. Also, A Beka has handwriting stuff from Kindergarten on, so I was able to get age-appropriate stuff for my first grader who needed to do cursive now and not wait until 3rd grade.
We love A Beka too (for cursive anyway). It was easy to teach and not too time consuming plus the results are beautiful. At least for my dd
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We will be using Expedition Earth after the Christmas holidays. It says it's for K-3rd but I believe you can beef it up a little for a 4th grader. I am using it in combination with FIAR.
I also have Trail Guide to World Geography but I like EE because it's more hands-on and has projects and art lessons for my dd8 and dd6. I like the notebooking pages from TGTWG.
Here is a breakdown of my Countries and Cultures plan.
Expedition Earth as my spine with all the recommended books
FIAR books and activities to go along with the featured country in EE
Plus printables from Homeschool Creations
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Bumping for you. :bigear:
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We were using Astronomy and couldn't get past the MOON chapter (I think Chapter 5 or 6) and I couldn't bring myself to pick it up again. I will use it as a reference book but I likely won't be using Apologia for our main science again. No way. Now we are using FIAR and the science lessons have been fine so far. When they are more interested in a topic we might create our own science curriculum or look at all the free ones online.
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We've only been using the Yellow (3rd grade) but we have come to love LLATL. It doesn't have a reading list so you may want to come up with your own when you get to yellow. There are so many great reading lists floating around.
Since I haven't used red or blue (not yet but I will use red next year with dd6) you can take my advice as you see fit. Look over the scope and sequence for both and see where you child(ren) would need to start. I've been told that the blue is for children who don't know yet how to read. I don't know that for certain but check the scope and sequence.
Here is the website to see S&S: http://www.commonsensepress.com/scope/scope2.htm
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We're in the middle of our huge home renovation (and still living here) and school has been cut back a bit. I had originally intended to use Expedition Earth by Confessions of a Homeschooler to study countries and cultures (which I bought everything to use) but right now that is way too involved. We started FIAR this year and I only intended it to serve as a "We're tired of doing EE. Can we do something else?" kinda thing. But we actually love it and want to use it as our main curriculum.
Got cut so far:
Apologia Astronomy-- We enjoyed it at first but now I can't bring myself to open the book again. :lol:
Expedition Earth-- Like I said, way too involved for us this year.
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Can you link this?? I'm not familiar with this.
Oldschool Curricula to supplement a Bible and a library card
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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I only own Volumes 1-2 but the cheapest places that I've found to buy the manuals USED is homeschoolclassifieds.com and Amazon