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  1. Thanks for posting. I am not sure of the comic book style. How about "A Wrinkle Through Time"? I wonder if he is too young to read that? :001_unsure:
  2. Hi, My son has read both books by Lucy Hawkins. We are waiting for the third book to come out. My ds can't wait until it come out :) What kinds of books are are your kids reading if they liked "George's Secret to the Universe" series? I am looking for some more books for my third grader to read. So I am looking for ideas........:bigear: Right now he is reading "The Horse and his boy" (Narnia Series). What else?
  3. Kolamum, Thanks for letting us about this. We have LOF Apples and really love it. My ds is doing math in his head and trying out math in the everyday of life. BIG difference for us. I was looking forward to LOF Fractions next year or so, but now I don't know. I will have to re-think when we get to fractions.
  4. I was thinking of doing but got overwhelmed with doing different culture every week. When I read more about the Living books and history it sounded more doable for me to just give him Living books on some cultures then all cultures. Are you asking me specifically or every who does CM whose following this thread? I am using a different curriculum but next year I am switching to CM. We started narration together in 1st Grade. I start narrating and ds inputs what's important to him. We created a summary together with me writing everything down. In the beginning I was adding all the sentences. Now in 3rd Grade, we still narrate together with me starting the narration but he usually takes off with it. Then we summarize with me writing it down for him. Then he copies the sentences into his Good Book on the next to the page that he drew a picture. My curriculum had him writing 6 sentences by the end of 2nd grade. After reading CM in January, I backed off on his writing and had him write 2 sentences with cursive for a title because his penship was getting very sloppy. His penship has improved remarkablely and also his summarizing has too because he knows he won't have to write all of the summary. :) We have been doing 2-3 narrations a week since 1st grade.
  5. Yes, thank you, I had the words mixed up in my head. He narrates the story and THEN we sometimes summarize and then I write it down for him to copy next to his picture. I'm not sure if that's totally CM, but that's how we do it. Thank you ladies, this is finally sinking in how to do things (I hope!). :)
  6. Thank you! It's a start for me! Love the folder idea! Now HOW are you going to use these books? The books look like they are a couple chapters, right? So, are you reading them one per chapter / once a week? Are the dc narrating them and then writing summaries for copywork or are you just doing projects or something else?
  7. Let me see if I can word my question right. I recently started reading up on Charlotte Mason. I love her ideas for short lessons and nature study and living books. I was all set to use a history spine (either SOTW or CHOW or both) and add some living books. But, somehow this kept bothering me and I couldn’t put finger onto it until I finally sat down and the read Volume 6 (in Modern English). Then, I was aha! I found a quote I love “Education’s goal should be to give knowledge that’s touched with emotionâ€. I love this. Now I am confused. Do I use a spine or not? I want to do Ancients next year with my 4th Grader because we only have done Old Testament (until Moses and Jericho) with Egypt this year. I want do to Sumerians because ds keeps wanting to know when they first wrote and what type material did they use to write. So, I want to present Sumerians as a lead in to first writing. Now I am thinking, just get a living book that either I or he reads out loud during school time. Then, when we get to the end of the book he can put things he thinks are important into a Century Book. But what does a day to day look like to you for doing this way? Do I read one chapter a week and do narrations and copywork for summaries per chapter? But that will take too long. Then should I read a couple of chapters and we narrate and write summaries (copywork). How does your day to day look like for history? Do you use history to teach narrating and summarizing and copywork, or do you use other programs for the other things and just read for history and do crafts/projects maps/century book? :confused: Any insights on this subject are much appreciated. :)
  8. :bigear: I was wondering about this, too! Thanks for starting this thread.
  9. I have done for 4 yrs - since my son was 4 yrs old! I can't believe I am doing 3rd Grade with him. Anyway, if you want to check out Enki - there is a yahoo group Enki Experience http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EnkiExperience/ Atleast once or twice a month there is a Pre-purchase conf call where you can ask directly any question about ENKI and how it will fit into your family and any other questions. ENKI stops at Grade 3 with a choice to go on with Beth Sutton for Grade 4 thru a Yahoo group but I am on the fence to continue because I don't know if I want to hunt down all my own resources.:tongue_smilie: ENKI has way more depth to the stories. OMG there are worht every penny. You can just buy the ENKI Guides and find your resources if you want to. :)
  10. We started with Enki Education here. With ENKI we did ALOT of the narration part since its part of the curriculum. I started incorporating little things from CM this year, like reading nature stories, and drawing outside. I am incorp. little things now that are easy and plan to more coming in the Fall with History and Geography. We started doing short lessons recently and that has been a big hit here, too. I will be :bigear: for how others have done it, too.
  11. I just checked "The Sentence Family" and it also says 9 parts of speech. It seems the "Grammer Island" and "The Sentence Family" are old books. Was there a change in grammer that MCT, a newer, version of teaching grammer that changed recently?
  12. Thank you! I found it at my library :party: BTW, why does Grammer Land say there are 9 parts of speech and MCT says 8. :confused: I am going to check out the others that were recently mentioned. :)
  13. Boy, this is awesome but the price!! Are you just using the Teacher's manual to teach or did you buy the whole thing?
  14. If I could ask---- What grade is LOF Fractions? or what should my child have done already and know to use LOF Fractions?
  15. Some would say yes. But it probably varies for each child. For me, I feel that way with my son. In your other post about the difference between Charlotte Mason dictation and WTM dictation, someone named Mandy responded. She responded about "why" you want to use dictation to teach what. This is how I think. I read CM and read WTM but then I think "WHY" am I teaching a specific AND take a look at my son's needs. This is the essence of ENKI education: finding your child's needs and then finding what you need to do for your specific child and teaching from the heart. I started with this for my son's early years and now he is ready to jump into more heavier academics. If I jumped too fast with academics with my son, he would be all brains and no substance. He is in Grade 3 and we are just touching on grammer, just to introduce. But I am in these forums so I can learn about the different ways to teach grammer and writing so I can find HOW to help my son learn his way. This way works for us :D
  16. Ah, I see. I went looking for it, too and then I saw the AO tests and saw that they recommend 1 paragraph for 2nd grade and I was wondering why that was. Thanks for the clarification.
  17. I just started in the last month to really read CM and I started looking into WTM. CM is alittle fresher in my mind because I have been reading ALOT about it. But, CM doesn't teach dictation until 10 years old. This is specifically stated in one of her volumes in AO, specifically, I think Home Education. I specifically remember this because I thought my 8.5 yr old needed dictation as found in WTM but with CM I could wait until he is 10 yrs old, when writing is more easier for them. So, I relaxed about the dictation part. I tried the Simply Charlotte method of dictation (found on her site as a free video), just to try it out to how my son could do it. However, I haven't studied dictation between WTM and CM, I am trying to get a handle on history and nature study before having to tackle dictation. :)
  18. :lurk5:Thank you ladies for wonderful thread. I wish we could have this as a sticky somewhere?
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