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    Need your help :-o Using Teacher's Editions, BJU, Independent learning

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    We are doing a similar switch here.  We have done science 5 and 6 with TM so far.  While I didn't refer to them a lot, they were very helpful and I wouldn't want to go it without them.  For science 7+ we've used the online option which has the TM online (and I only use it for chapter reviews.)  We are starting heritage studies and writing and grammar 7 with TMs this year and have used online high school English before.

     

    For the online science, this option is more than worth the price IMHO.  We get the $99 deal at Christmas.  It has also been worth it for English since I'm not great at teaching this.

     

    Do you have any suggestions on how to handle credits/etc. and planning on the December cycle?  I"m thinking this would be so much less expensive, but I'm afraid to push my kids too early and don't want them to be "behind" if I don't!  We are doing BJU science 6 for my 5th and 6th grader this year.  Any suggestions would be welcome!!

    My dd is writing a book with her cousin in another state thanks to technology

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    I thought I would share this because this happened on its own, but has been really cool.  DD and her cousin live 5 hours apart and only see each other 4-5 times per year.  They started writing a book together about wolves on one visit, and then started face-timing when we returned home.  I set them up with google docs and now they can both be typing and reading the same document at the same time, while chatting over face time!  The writing is pretty good, and I think they are both learning from each other about word choice, phrasing and grammar.  They will talk through better ways to say something and also about their ideas for the story.

    Treasured Conversations, 8FilltheHeart's new writing program,......

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    Well I decided to buy it and use it with my 5th and 6th graders. I'm hoping to do it at an accelerated pace since they have learned these topics at some level. What I love about this, is that it teaches children to put more thought and care into their writing. Will it be worth it for my 6th grade 12 year old son? Time will tell. I hope I'm not holding him back. My plan was and still is for him to work through WWS series. I'd just like to start the year out with some conversations about how we choose words, and also add to the note taking skills. Current plan is to hopefully complete TC by late winter and start him on WWS. Then I will shore up narrations/dictation with my 5th grader and start her on WWS next fall.

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    The final and ultimate, be-all-end-all of writing curriculum

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    I'm breaking out of the box where I thought we needed to follow just one plan

     

    I mostly use wwe and look forward to ds focusing on WWS next year, but this past year was a delight. A friend asked if I would be interested in her writing class. It was a bit IEW-ish but much more natural. The kids liked it and we walked away with an outline to and ability write essays on their topics of choice. Since we were going to NZ in February, the kids spent 7 weeks writing about various research ideas involving NZ. It was very exciting to see the things they had read and written about! When we got home they wrote a few more papers about their experience in NZ. After that 6 month hiatus, we went back to WWE and found it a good opportunity to return to working on their skills.

    TOG is not a good fit. What should we do?

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    I love mystery of history. We use some homeschool in the woods CDs as supplement. We do ipad app timeline and knowledge quest maps. Sometimes I have thm do a notebook page or read some related literature. I like that when we are busy, we can still keep up by doing the minimum, and when we are on a topic of interest, they can branch out. We have done vols 1 and 2 and I have vol3 here for next year.

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