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  1. For those who say Minnesota - we don't have four seasons. We have getting ready for winter, winter, getting over winter, and then BAM! summer. This year has been thankfully mild which has made up for last winter when sub zero temperatures and hazardous to life road conditions were the norm.

     

    As far as freedom of thought and being able to say it--be careful where you land if Minnesota is the place for you. There are places where liberalism abounds and even the liberals admit Christians are the only ones who they can insult on a regular basis without anyone calling them on it. It gets draining to be honest. I'm tired of peace protests where they yell at you and the local community theater often putting on plays that involve R rating material because theater is meant to expand people's minds. I can live in peace with my neighbors and those who disagree with me, but sometimes, you just need a break. We are trying to move from this eternal winter where it's "never Christmas" because Christmas is exclusionary to those of different faiths. Holidays people - never Christmas . Stay away, stay far away.

    Yeah! I love Wisconsin, but our long winters are tough. For a native Californian looking for seasons, I think it's too much. Spring doesn't exist here. 😀

     

    Madison is nearly very liberal, but I'm assuming other parts of the state are more conservative (just based on the fact that the Rep governor who everyone hates in Madison got re-elected)

  2. I can very much relate to this post too. I've made some changes recently. I switched from R&S grammar which took a lot of time and energy. Now we are doing analytical grammar junior mechanics and then will do AG. The lessons are short, to the point, and we don't have to repeat the same work year after year. Just occasional review after they master the material.

     

    I agree to move around the schedule so that you don't feel like you are waiting for her all day. That's not good for either if you. I also do history, science and writing at the end of the day and those are the most mom-intensive. I tend to only allow a mid morning break if we were efficiently using our time that day. Dragging feet during math, vocab, etc means no time for a break. I look forward to reading this thread more closely!

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    I use knowledge quest MapTrek and those maps tie in great with a good number of the lessons FYI

     

    My friend couldn't get her TOG 2 year plan and books back from the woman she loaned them to no matter how much she tried. But praise God who knew this would happen and gave me the chance to buy MOH 2 and 50 books in Winter Promise Quest for the Middle Ages from another friend. So i am doing this instead. I like MOH a lot, especially the church history tie in. What i dislike is the maps. That makes me appreciate deeply how those SOTW are put together so well. I am going to pull out our finished SOTW 2 maps to reivew instead of doing MOH maps. Winter Promise is strong for hands-on, but weak on books. It is very light and there are not enough living books to go with it. We are just having a light history living book year, i guess. Since MOH 2 covers less than TOG 2, i will finish it in 6 months, and then do TOG 2 Unit 4 to finisht the year.

    LAmom, i hope you find a good balance and rhythm in your hisotry.

     

    I also tried to find MOH 3 and TOG 3 line up schedule bud haven't found any. Too bad!

  4. I would probably wait on WWS or do it half pace. See the sticky at the top .. Here it is http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/509138-if-youre-using-wwe-or-wws/

     

    5th grade is typically young for WWS. IMO it is a stronger program teaching (with plenty of practice) a wide variety of academic styles of writing.

     

    We did not care for IEW. My dd is currently finishing WWE3 (after several writing rabbit trails through the year including IEW) and she is doing Treasured Conversations and will start WWS next year for 6th. TC is teaching outlining and writing from an outline so it helps build skill that will help with WWS next year.

  5. IEW can be a good fit but it depends on the student and it greatly depends on how it is taught. Not that the co-op teaching it well or not, but I think IEW needs some flexibility. Taught with rigidity it would be waaaay too much for me. Be thankful it's a year and/or see if you can talk to the teachers about loosening up the checklist. Often with IEW, I've seen students use the dress ups incorrectly or poorly just to get the check mark. Ugh.

     

     

     

    I love our years with Classical Writing -- especially Aesop and Homer for Older Beginners. This year for the first time, I'm using Writing with Skill book 3. I really, really like it so far and I'm a bit disappointed I never tried it before this year.

     

    Lisa

    Yeah that was my problem. I'm a rule follower and we couldn't do the whole checklist for swiA because there wasn't enough text to work with some times.

  6. I have a shameful amount of sweater quantities of nice yarn. Mostly madeline tosh vintage and queensland kathmandu (tweed). I cannot go yarn shopping!

     

    I did decide on cold breath for my madtosh vintage in thunderstorm colorway. I got the yoke completed and now get to go in circles of stockinette. After working a lace stole and a Jared flood sweater previously, I'm happy for some mindless knitting.

  7. I just wanted to say how much I am loving WWS for my 12 year old 6th grade ds!  We are in week 7, and he is really learning to take pride in his work.  It is manageable and also challenging.  I like that the skill development doesn't jump ahead and that there is plenty of substance and hand holding and modeling to help the student get an idea of how their work should look.  I understand the lessons may get more complicated and even frustrating later on in the books, but it really has been a great so far!  I'm excited to watch his skills grow. 

     

    FYI this is a child who hates to write and put pencil to paper, and he grumbles about schoolwork in general.

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  8. Sue, thanks for your thorough review. I was on the cusp of wondering how they would do with the advanced techniques. Otherwise, it really seems to fit the bill in efficiently teaching grammar. I too have a background in efficiencies as a former packaging engineer for a major food company. Grammar is important to me, so if they struggle with season 2, I can always add in more resources for additional teaching and practice. Not sure what, but perhaps R&S English handbook with my own sample exercises.

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