Jump to content

Menu
Giving You and Your Child a Road Map to the Best Possible Education
The Well-Trained Mind Community

nic633

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    6

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by nic633

    What are your "Don't Miss" things? Post your favorites here!

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted

    Institute for Excellence's Poetry Memorization Program -- my kids actually enjoy listening to the poems and look forward to the new one each week.

    Audio memorization in general -- I compile a new file for each week and we listen during lunch. One of the best things I've ever done.

    Using small white boards for all manner of responses that don't necessarily have to be saved (such as the first-draft of a spelling lesson or a math concept lesson). They are probably the most-used item we have.

    Story of the World audio. Big thumbs up!!

    Mapping the World with Art by Ellen McHenry. Awesome!

    Tapestry of Grace crafts and activities. You can even access some of them for free on the website. Here's an example. Look at "supporting links."

    Bob Books. They drive me batty, but the kids love them. It gives them a great feeling to read a real book soon after learning how sounds go together.

    Binding samples of their work at the end of the year. I'm hooked!

    Accountable Kids chore system

    AlphaBetter -- drill system to improve alphabetizing skills.

    Tracey

    Scheduling for Easy Grammar Plus

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted

    I have a 7th-grader who will be using Easy Grammar Plus this fall. I wanted to share the schedule I came up with since there seems to be a scarcity of information about this and I could possibly save someone else the headache of figuring it out. Also, I would love to have feedback from people who have done this before. Did I schedule too much per week? I scheduled about 2 pages per day (and by "page," I mean one side of a page that is printed front and back). I used this lovely Donna Young form to lay it out, which was very helpful.

    Tracey

     

    Easy Grammar Plus Scheduling

     

    Prepositions 37 pages, plus one-page test=38 pages=4 weeks

    Verbs 73 pages, plus six-page test=79=8 weeks

    Nouns 34 pages, plus 4-page test=38 pages=4 weeks

    Interjections & Conjunctions & Adjectives 29 pages plus 6-page test=35=4 weeks

    Sentences 9 pages=1 week

    Adverbs 32 pages, plus 6-page test=38=4 weeks

    Pronouns 43 pages, plus 7-page test=50=5 weeks

    Punctuation 25 pages, plus 1-page test=26=3 weeks

    Capitalization 19 pages, plus 1-page test=20=2 weeks

     

    Grand Total of 35 weeks of work

    This does not include time for the 8-page pre-test and post-test.

    Note: one page equals one side of a page that is printed front and back

    Easy Grammar

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted

    I want to bump this topic to get an answer to Aconnelly's question. How do you schedule this? I have a soon-to-be 7th grader and I'm trying to see what his schedule will look like for next year. I'm not sure how long this will take and how many days per week it should be done. I'm also trying to fit in spelling. Is it possible to do grammar 3 days per week and spelling the other 2?

    TIA,

    Tracey

×
×
  • Create New...