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    Wheaton or Grove City College

    in The College Board

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    My 10th grader is convinced GCC is the college for him. I hate that it's so far away (we're in CA) but I'm thankful for the good reports I continue to hear about GCC. He wants to major in Economics; I wonder how many times he'll change his major!

     

    My #2, dd, is a rising Senior at GCC. We love GCC and I hope that my other children go there.

     

     

    Joy!

    Lisa

    for Kindle users...

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    I agree they should have pulled the books if they were illegal but it is an interesting point that Amazon has that electronic tether even after a purchase.

     

    Are any of you using your Kindle in your homeschool? My son was given one and uses it for fun but I hadn't thought about using it for his school books.

    Help me choose FLL/WWE or CLE

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    I used WWE for the first time this year with a first grader. He is my fifth student and I'm absolutely THRILLED with what this taught him! His narration skills developed so much over the year and if you purchase the workbook, it's entirely painless and effortless for mom! I've wanted to have narrations, dictation, and copywork as a cornerstone of our curriculum and WWE is finally making it easy for that to happen! I only wish I could use it for all of my older students!

     

    Joy!

    Lisa

    PaperBackSwap.com

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    I got a couple books that were not in the condition I would have hoped for but then learned about the criteria option! You can fill out a preference for the condition of the books you'd like to receive such as from a non-smoking home or no past library stickers. The owner of the book has to agree that their book meets your conditions before sending it.

     

    Since using this feature, I've had no problems! I just ordered half of the books my daughter needs for her world history class on PBS last night. I love it!

     

    Joy!

    Lisa

    AAS questions . . .

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    but I made this use them in the beginning of each lesson. As soon as I felt they understood the lesson being taught, I let them use a dry erase board for the rest of the lesson.

     

    I did feel they were helpful in getting across the point of the lesson. Initially I didn't have them on magnets and once I put them on, the magnets helped a lot with my boys desire to use them.

    AAS Level 5--it's out!

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted

    Thanks for your thoughts!

     

     

    Spelling will never be easy for dd. She tried to spell "timber" as "temper" the other day.

     

    That said, yes, she's made huge improvements. I would say in the year + 3 months we've been *committed* to using it, she's improved well over two grade levels. She was so proud that her last writing assignment had only four misspellings in the rough draft - I was too! :) I see it carry over relatively well. She's written letters more than she wanted to before, and I think it's given her more confidence in other areas, to know she can get what she means across.

    how do you arrange your fiction books?

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    Our system:

     

    1) Historical Fiction books are labeled with the Dewey number for that time period but also have a Historical Fiction label (purchased from Demco) so my kids can recognize immediately that it's a work of fiction.

     

    2) All poetry books go in the Dewey number for poetry except for ones like Rhymes for Ancient Times which go in the right time period so they don't get missed.

     

    3) All fiction books that are not historical are labeled with the first initial of the author and then also have reading level labels (also purchased from Demco) so my kids can easily choose books at the right level.

     

    Hope this helps! I love having an organized library! Everything is also on a database using Readerware that all computers in the house can search. I love it!

     

    Joy!

    Lisa

    DS is confused over proper nouns....

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted

    We're in the beginning lessons of First Language Lessons Volume 4 and just played a fun game in there that helped my boys. There was a funny story to read aloud and anytime a common noun was read they had to squat down and anytime a proper noun was read, they had to jump up tall like a capital letter. It was a lot of fun and they got lots of practice. We stopped to discuss certain nouns when there was confusion. Something fun like this that you make up with the type of words he's getting confused with might really help.

     

    Joy!

    Lisa

    HS-Break with new baby...

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    I HAD planned on taking a few weeks off, but it was too chaotic. The "order" of school calmed everyone down. It was much easier for us to do school than not do it.

     

    I have found this to be completely true in our family as well! I've had four babies born during the school year and it was always easier to just keep schooling then to have no schedule.

     

    Congrats on your newest blessing!

     

    Lisa

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