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can cause color changes. My son had ear infections and the dentist knew it from the color of my son's teeth.
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out dated and it has an out of print book instead of the Tirzah unit. If someone would like to scan the Tirzah pgs. I'd totally appreciate it. I own the teacher's manual and I think it would be fair to get a scan of the revision versus buying an entire new book. I just bought this book too, but should have paid attention to copyright dates I guess.
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if she needs more challenge then you can just add in some diagraming too. I think Shurley is very helpful for Latin or other language studies.
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And I plan on doing the next 3 years in 2 more years, but haven't put it together yet.
History & Reading by week: (Each of these are topics from VP 1&2 in order.)
Creation/Fall/Cain and Abel/Flood
Tower of Babel/Unification of Lower & Upper Egypt
Old Kingdom Egypt, Book of the Dead, Pyramids, First Intermediate period
Call of Abraham, God's Covenant with Abraham
Hagar and Ishmael, Sodom & Gomorrah, The Birth and sacrifice of Isaac
The Middle Kingdom in Egypt, Joseph as slave, Famine in Egypt
The Twelve Tribes of Israel/Second Intermediate Period in Egypt
Code of Hammurabi/Hyksos Invasion of Egypt
Early New Kingdom in Egypt/Moses's birth/Plagues in Egypt
The Exodus/Ten Commandments
Amenhotep IV/Monotheism/Reign of Tutankhamon
Later New Kingtom/Davidic Kingdom
Solomon's Reign/Alexander the Great Conquers Egypt
Egypt Falls to Rome/ Egyptian Feast Tuesday
Minoan Culture/Mycenaen Culture
Trojan War
Phonecian Civilization/ Israel Divides into two Kingdoms
Homer and Greek Mythology/ The Olympics
The Founding of Rome
Greece Colonized/Democracy Begins
Israel and Judah Fall
Prophets of God, Roman Republic Developed
Persian Wars
Pericles and the Peloponnesian War
Greek Philospophers/ Nehemiah and the Jewish Return
Alexander the Great/Architectural Advances in Rome
Rome rises to World Power/ Reign of Julius Caesar
Reign of Caesar Augustus/Birth of Christ
Ministry of John the Baptist/Ministry of Christ
Crucifixion, Resurrection and Ascension of Christ,
Rome burns, Nero Persecutes Christians
Destruction of Jerusalem, Pompeii Burns
Split of the Roman Empire/ Constantine and the Edict of Milan
The First Council of Nicea/ End of the Western Roman Empire
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Here is the advertisement, if you are interested and want to find out more please message me for the phone number/details.
To those interested in learning more about educating children Christianly with a classical emphasis, Covenant Christian Middle School teacher Sara Loudon will be holding a two-day conference.
Dates: Wednesday and Thursday, July 21 and 22
Time: 9:00 to 3:00
Location: Covenant Christian Middle School, Issaquah
Focus: Wednesday - philosophy and big picture - good for teachers and parents
Thursday - hands-on practicum and how to teach
Cost: $50 per day, allowing parents whose children are attending a classical school but would like to learn more about it, to attend just Wednesday
Additional costs - I will have many of my materials available for purchase, following the Logos model: each subject's contents will be bound and available for $15 to $25 (or on a CD if I can figure that out!)
Looking forward to a great couple of days!
Sara
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Can you find a class somewhere or a local tutor?
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from the September 2008 and I purchased them direct from CAP. I would just purchase straight from them and not buy a used set at all. It is worth getting the very newest versions.
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homeschoolers get stuck in it. Personally I think it needs to begin around grade 3. Meeting daily, weekly and longer term deadlines is something that is learned better when younger. I've had the most trouble in my 2 day school with kids who have come in at 6th grader or older. It seems like bad habits are cemented by that age.
So in my home we have always used a daily checklist. Even if the assignments are only in mom's head your chld can still check off all of his/her daily subjects. In the two day school all work is due on Monday. I think that if your child's weekly work isn't done than he/she needs to spend some of his/her weekend time finishing it. That way moms can finish their days at a reasonable hour and kids have traditional homework to do on their own free time.
I make my checklist on excel on Sunday evening for the week to come. That way I have flexibility. I just go in and change page numbers or assignments etc. It is pretty easy. Then I print them out on bright colored paper so they don't get lost. These go on a clipboard and become a part of their daily routine. I do not trust the check marks however, it takes daily training for the first few years to really get a child independent. By 5th grade the habits are pretty ingrained and now Jr. High can go well. I learned by mistakes on child #1 and child 2, 3, and 4 are reinforcing my newer philosophies.
Even child #1 is very successful now in 8th/9th grade, but it took him longer than his younger brother. (I have 3 boys and a girl.)
Rabbit trails are great, but kids can delay the excitement of a rabbit trail until the regular work is done. I am so thankful to whoever turned me onto checklists. I probably read about them here, but we've done at least 6 very successful years with checklists and I've gone from a very global random life to an enjoyable more linear, more accountable life. (Even with checklists you can enjoy randomness. I don't make my kids start with a certain subject daily etc. Any subject missed the day before needs to be started first the next day and all boxes need to be done before Sunday night is over.
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is just a part of dinner time conversations here. How rich it is to eat together and talk together.
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and I have followed a Classical approach since kindergarten. I see no evidence of it killing the joy of learning. Sometimes things get hard, but there is joy in doing the hard things too. I get new students in my little 2 day school every year and they eat it up eagerly. They love coming to school. I think you have to understand rigor in a sequential, age appropriate- brain appropriate manner and not push your child to do something he/she isn't ready for. You have to give up running around to take the time to do the work properly. I think the focus on truth and beauty to be so amazing. I think Classical Education lights a fire for us. It provides so much nourishment. It is not dry fill in the blanks. To see the wonders of language and where words came from and how they are related, to read rich literature, to feel comfortable wrting and speaking... It is so amazing. I've been doing this now for 9+ years and wouldn't go a different route for anything. Thanks SWB for turning me on to it.
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My ds 8 has to go outside and play. Without the exercise he would be a mush brain. I have 3 boys and they play outside, but usually shooting hoops or running the dog around the yard. We usually break near lunch though. We wash hands here, but boys are boys. A few rules about what they can or cannot do helps.
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My 11 year old missed 3 on the intro and got a ribbon, 12 year old missed 3 on Latin I and got a gold medal, 14 year old missed 8 on Latin II and got a silver. I'm really proud of them. This year has been pretty hectic and the older two haven't had group classes they've both done independent work which just isn't quite as fun. They'll finish their books sometime this summer.
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and I spend about 45 minutes each day on each level. I teach Aesop A, Aesop B and Homer A this year. I take 2 weeks to do a model and do the grammar and copywork one week and rewrite the next week. It sometimes varied according to the model. Copywork is done at home, and sometimes the grammar review. The Homer A can have more work done at home, but they do the vocabulary and some of the 6 sentence shuffle etc. I add grammar to the program and this is done at another time, for a half hour to 45 minutes. Doing it twice a week allows me to accomplish the direct instruction and leaves simple work for home. My students are 3rd, 4th and 5th graders.
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English myself.
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Perhaps it was just confusion about exam format. I'm assuming he bombed a practice one. Try another practice one.
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strong in grammar. You can deduce many things if you are strong in grammar. My 7th grader is also taking the Latin 1 exam, but not Monday, later on in the week. I hope they both do well.
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pace you want to. It was fabulous for my kids- mainly for the parsing. I also do diagramming to mix it up and I didn't really care for the Shurley workbooks. I don't think it would kill a gifted child off because once you know how to do it you aren't restricted to only following the question and answer flow. You can mix it up and do it your own way once you really understand what it is teaching you. It has been the best thing for Latin here. My daughter is in 7th grade now and her grammar far outshines her other students in her class and she had FLL and then a couple years of Shurley combined with Classical Writing and the grammar included there.
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due the Medieval Catholic Church influence. There could be a Latin/Polish connection there you didn't think of.
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were not covered in the younger years.
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show a copy of her actual writing. Is she just struggling with spacing and that is why the words are clumped strangely? At this age I would often have my child tell me what he/she wanted to write and then I'd write it down to be copied or I'd just slowly tell her what she wanted to write (to help her learn to hold it in her head) and I'd help with spacing etc. as she wrote. I'm assuming this is during a school lesson. If it wasn't a school lesson I'd just smile and let her have fun. How is she with the physical act of writing? Is she a good reader? At this age there is a great variety in writing abilities. I do have a fear about letting children just "spell and go" because for some kids it ingrains wrong spellings in their minds. She is quite young though. I bet she is having fun with this early stage of writing. Mixing capital letters is common in first grade too.
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but I enjoy LfC more myself. The chant cd is wonderful and the videos are more fun. The book is more interesting to look at and the activity book is fun. The vocabulary hasn't been a problem. I have 3rd graders in my co-op classes mastering the vocabulary easily. The grammar is more 4th grade and up, but my third graders are not overwhelmed.
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educating in a different time period. I think we need to do more formal grammar because we aren't as proper with our speech etc. I use a combination of Shurley, CW and Climbing to Good English with my students 8-10 and they seem do be doing very well with it. Today was picking out nouns in sentences with my 8 year old. In the Climbing to Good English book he found the nouns, sorted them according to person, place or thing and then drew some pictures for them. He had fun with it and we moved on. I think, it is probably the perfect time to start some grammar. The Shurley jingles are great, but I only do their jingles and parsing. The other exercises are lacking.
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especially if it is for a full year. My son is in 9th and writes essays, speeches, comprehension questions and notes all week long. It isn't easy and it takes a lot of time, but it is essential.
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My youngest is super visual and Funnix was just the thing for him. You use it on the computer.
she lost the second journal.
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it isn't hard to lose things without a special routine attached to putting it away. I know, because I'd lose my own brain if I didn't have a skull to keep it in. I've learned to use special places to keep my keys etc. just to avoid this journal type situation. Instead of getting mad, do something to make it easier.