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mamatohaleybug

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  1. Thanks for all of the great links! I'll be back to add mine later. :001_smile:
  2. What are your best finds on Librivox (or other sites that have audio book recordings)?
  3. Relaxed and trusted myself. I was so worried about everything at first. Once I started relaxing, we started to find our groove. :thumbup:
  4. We really liked Modern Curriculum Press phonics and are continuing next year. Worked for us!
  5. http://www.homeschoolcreations.com/Geography.html Tons of great stuff on this site. :)
  6. I ordered the teacher's manual and workbook. The list for experiments and other books isn't too bad.
  7. I'm sure people with much more experience than I have will give their opinion. I hope so, at least. LOL We started homeschooling at the beginning of second grade (this is our first year) and I wasn't sure what to do either. We stumbled along for the first semester. Starting in January, we began studying ancient history. We're using Story of the World, Vol 1 and after struggling for two months, decided not to use the Activity Guide anymore. I know my daughter didn't have any history or geography background from her earlier schooling so I felt that starting in the beginning was the best place. We're zipping through the first volume and will just move on to Vol 2 when we are done. I'm hoping to get through the four years in three. We're kind of doing the same thing for science. I'm not terribly worried about the 4 year cycle 3 times by graduation idea so this works okay for me right now. Good luck!
  8. My daughter likes it better than public school but is still a resistant learner. I think she would just rather watch TV and play on the computer all day. :glare: I, on the other hand, MUCH prefer homeschooling.
  9. I ordered Elemental Science Chemistry last week and we're so excited to try it. Good luck!
  10. We're doing SOTW Vol 1 right now. At first, we were all gung ho, planning to do everything in the Activity Guide, mapwork, library books, other supplemental literature, online activities, movies, etc. It didn't take long to realize that those things weren't working for us. My DD(8) is an auditory learner. She had no interest in the "fun" things. In fact, all of the "fun" things I had planned this year did nothing but agitate her and make my life miserable. Between SOTW, Usborne World History and all of my supplemental lit, we read/study history every day but we don't do any hands on activities now. I read, we discuss, we look at our maps. Done. We're both happier. As for scheduling, we just spend as much time as we want on things (2 weeks on ancient China just now). Instead of racing through it, we're enjoying digging deep. All schedules flew out the window this year. :D
  11. Thank you! I can't get the blog to come up and wanted to order today. :)
  12. :iagree: I started making the switch in December and it's so much easier now. I won't buy anything boxed because I am also dealing with a child with abilities all over the map but I'm so relieved with what we're doing now. Sooooooo much easier!
  13. We are going to be finishing up our first year in June. It has been FABULOUS! I really wrestled with whether or not to pull my daughter from public school but I am so glad that I did. It has been the best thing for both of us. It's certainly been challenging but much less challenging than dealing with all of her anxiety about public school. I think the biggest challenge for us was deschooling/deprogramming. That really didn't happen until recently and I'm still battling some of those old beliefs and traditions that pop into my head. We are doing 2nd grade here and our curriculum has been a lot of trial and error but I think we're settling in to some things that really work well. Overall, I'm thrilled that we are homeschooling and can't even imagine returning to public schooling. :D
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