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those items are much cheaper. I've never bough Biblioplan, but the other books don't have to cost that price.
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and struggled with spelling/handwriting. He's 8th grade age now and half way through Jacobs Geometry. The thing I'm most concerned about is not putting him into any high school level work that he cannot complete in the manner of a high school student. (In other words I don't want to push him ahead only to be his crutch.) So far he has been working at least a grade level ahead in all subjects except spelling, so he'd be a 9th grader this year, but I'm really going to see if he can do the work. For me, it isn't about pushing him, but really making sure he is in a place challenging enough to engage him, but also where he really can work. He did high school Latin1 last year and got a gold medal in the National Latin Exam, so I know he can do some high school work. It would be easy if he was just an 8th grader through and through and I didn't have to stew so much over where to put him. So, I guess I have an older version similar to your predicament- math, Latin, logic, science are all accelerated. Spelling is age level or a little below, and writing is something he doesn't really enjoy, but he does. What is so hard is we don't have groups of kids to compare too. I know I'm a tough grader... Anyway I'm just commiserating here.
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is a nice book to learn from.
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I have all my students memorize it from that tune.
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I find a lot of practical advice in her books that is far greater than books written about her.
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We have breakfast, lunch, an afternoon snack and dinner. If they want something between meals they will ask me first. We don't do sodas and the main snacks we have are pretzels, fruit, tortilla chips & salsa. Right now I've bought popsicles for the heat. We are a whole wheat bread family. We don't do juice very often. We do do cereal in the mornings such as Honey Nut Cheerios which is probably more sugary than many people do.
I think that my children can do a lot more things than snacking all day long. My kids are thin but that is their genetics.
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test probably is norming things according to her birthdate. I'd do better seeing the whole test score sheets to get it all figured out.
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are better to watch, but there is a margin of error in those too. I just know that Grade equivalents are a little fickle as indicators.
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gets mixed up in the end and turns "chicken poop green." :001_smile:
We did color code camping bags and blankets and towels etc. for a while when our kids were younger.
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are the best way to interpret these scores.
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that someone mentioned a little bit back! Thanks!
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so it can be amatus, amata, or amatum depending upon the gender.
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another buried thread and I just can't find it now. It was something new for High School Level.
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textbook? I'm thinking for a co-op. I have the Harvey's text myself, but would all my students need one too. I'm doing CW Homer A with the workbooks with about 5 kids.
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that I looked at a few months back. I think I heard about it on here. Any ideas? It may have been a great books program, but I don't remember, but it was for high school.
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but I doubt anyone knows me, so that doesn't do much good does it. :) I'm an oldie here on the boards, but my son starts high school next year so I've been pretty busy and haven't posted a lot lately. I love the convention, but I'm a curriculum nut myself. I also have a 3rd grader, 5th grader and 7th grader next year to get my materials for.
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and I learned to teach the entire class how to narrate, otherwise the pages would go home and come back either copied straight from the book, or blank etc. An hour is a very short time, two would be better. I would do at least one SOTW section each lesson, read it and teach the students how to narrate it etc.
The maps are great to start with, but you could also ask questions about the assigned reading and do games answering the questions. My kids love doing this. We draw a path of lines going across the whiteboard and at the end I stick 3 notecards from a stack we prepared ahead of time. On the notecards the children have drawn a treasure chest and on the other side they write some fun or amazing "prize" the team can win. These are just silly things, of course they don't really win anything. I divide the class into teams and then ask review questions, if their team gets it they advance a space toward the treasure chest. As each team reaches the end they get to pick their treasure chest out of the ones on the board and they read it aloud. It goes quickly and is always a riot.
For narrating, I begin the year making notes on the board for the kids of any proper nouns that they might misspell. I write them up as we read. After we read I ask them to tell me important notes that they would like written up and I guide them asking who, when, where, what and why questions. Then they write their narration from the notes. As the year progresses they become more and more independent and are able to narrate on their own. Third graders want to write everything, but I give them a limited place to write on, and by fifth grade I want them to be summarizing the most important points, not just spitting back the interesting stuff. At the end of the year we bind all these narrations and they look beautiful.
For projects, you may be able to begin something in class and finish it at home, or perhaps your co-op could have a study hall time where they could just be supervised by another parent and they could finish their work. SOTW is great for co-ops, but I do make my own forms for narrations because a blank piece of paper can be intimidating. You could glue lined paper on the back of the coloring pages and have your narrations there.
I only have students narrate two sections a week. They read other sections at home just for fun and enjoyment etc. You could lay out a reading schedule at the beginning of the year and plan which sections the students would narrate. My students love history SOTW style.
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Mine were blocked and I had infection after infection. After surgery I've really been great for years. I was on and off antibiotics every couple months for at least 3 years before surgery. It is something to investigate. They widened my sinus passages and straightened the inside of my nose and now my allergies cause sniffles, but not infections.
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in their catalogue. So, I guess other people had problems with its age appropriateness too.
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stories.
Here are comments from their website:
From the Blue Fairy Book, the following chapters are scheduled:
Recommended List (with possible problematic events in parentheses for parents whose children may have specific issues with certain elements of stories)
Term 1 (37 pages total)
Beauty and the Beast; -Familiar (20 pages)
Why the Sea is Salt (a man tells his brother to go the Dead; a ship sinks and all perish) (5 pages)
Prince Darling (12 pages)
Term 2 (38 pages total)
The Glass Slipper; - Familiar (8 pages)
Master Maid (Unnecessary cruelty to her suitors. Couldn't she just say no?), (16 pages)
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp -Familiar (A wicked Magician and his wicked Brother are killed) (14 pages)
Term 3 (37 pages total)
East of the Sun, West of the Moon; (11 pages)
The Forty Thieves (9 pages)
White Cat (The white cat is killed and the princess appears) (17 pages)
Some Good Alternatives
Princess and the Glass Hill; (10 pages)
Blue Beard (6 pages)
Prince Hyacinth (7 pages)
Toads and Diamonds (a selfish girl dies in the woods) - familiar (4 pages)
Snow-white and Rose red (a bear kills an evil gnome) - Familiar (7 pages)
Hansel and Gretel - Familiar (the witch dies) (8 pages)
Rumpelstiltskin (however, Rumpelstiltskin tears himself in half at the end); - Familiar (4 pages)
If your children are sensitive to tragic stories, (and every family's needs will be different because children are unique and have varying levels of tolerance) you may prefer these less violent suggestions. However, you may want to first read Donna-Jean's comments before assuming that such tales are bad for children.
Term 1 (32 pages total)
The Glass Slipper; - common (8 pages)
Felicia and the Pot of Pinks; (9 pages)
Toads and Diamonds (a selfish girl dies in the woods) - familiar (4 pages)
East of the Sun, West of the Moon; (An troll woman bursts with anger) (11 pages)
Term 2 (32 pages total)
Beauty and the Beast; - Familiar (20 pages)
Prince Hyacinth (7 pages)
Why the Sea is Salt (a greedy man tells his brother to go the Dead; ship sinks, all perish) (5 pgs)
Term 3 (29 pages total)
Snow-white and Rose red (a bear kills an evil gnome) - Familiar (7 pages)
Prince Darling (12 pages)
Princess and the Glass Hill; (10 pages)
Some Good Alternatives
Hansel and Gretel - Familiar (the witch dies) (8 pages)
Rumpelstiltskin (however, Rumpelstiltskin tears himself in half at the end); - Familiar (4 pages)
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especially from Jean Fritz worked for us. We also watched the John Adams mini-series and another on on Napoleon. I think that really gave my sons some great time period visuals to understand their learning. We love the burning London project in the activity guide and there are some other fun ones. We added in projects from the Homeschool in the Woods CDs. Those were a lot of fun. We did plays too, but you would need to add some extra kids in for that. Costumes were a big hit here.
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pulled things. I could give more, but I just wanted to give an idea of some of what bothered me.
Can anyone else "smell" a fever??
in General Education Discussion Board
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I can smell all sorts of things myself. It can drive a person crazy.