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I just heard about it here on the boards too and will be switching to it after we finish SWO A. I like that it teaches spelling rules - my analytical Becca will want to know the whys. As a natural speller, I don't always know the whys, I just spell the words!
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I have Becca officially listed by her age level as well. I feel like it gives me a lot of freedom, especially in our first year, to go at our own pace without fear of getting behind in anything. I'll cross the middle/high school bridge when I get there!
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While Becca is still young, and before Sylvia needs much formal education, I'd like to do some self-education. I'd like to take a logic course - does anyone have suggestions for a good one? What grade level should I aim for as an adult, but a beginner?
Thanks in advance!
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I felt like I needed a little more structure and guidance for myself in science too. I got the Living Learning life science curriculum and it looks like so much fun. You can make it more challenging by adding in reading or substituting activities - I'm already tweaking a couple of things. Becca is super excited about her animal study, and I know she'll love the human body and plant parts as well.
It's still not a "boxed" approach, but I feel better with it as my guide instead of winging it out of the Kingfisher encyclopedia. :001_huh:
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Okay, I have the workbooks for 1A and 1B, and I just got the textbooks for 1A and 1B (thanks, HootOwl!). Am I going to need the Home Instructor's Guides too? How many different books do I need for a year of math in one curriculum? :001_huh: And why can't they just make a HIG for the whole year instead of making me buy two more books?
I love books and ordinarily wouldn't blink at buying them, but this is math, for pete's sake. First grade math! So please help me out - do I need the HIGs now, or can we do without them?
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I am reading every bit of this too! :bigear:
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Can't stay in his seat. Wants attention. Eats boogers, paper and crayons. So much of his behavior is NORMAL for an active 5 year old. I have heard of 5 year olds who can sit quietly all day, but I confess I have never seen it for myself.
Isn't that the truth! It's pretty bad when even the "professionals" don't know what behavior is typical of a five year old. :glare:
This would have been a completely wrong incident without even bringing autism into the picture. Is it ever right to vote a kid out of the classroom?
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I can relate to where you are... Becca is such a social little girl, loves people, up, up, UP (if you know what I mean)!! ;) She had 2 years of a Mother's Day Out preschool program that she absolutely loved and honestly I did too. And that is really the only thing that gives me doubt about homeschooling. Not "socialization," but social activities, being around people, etc. That's not really my personality, so it's hard for me to keep up with Becca's needs. So I'm basically taking the route of extracurricular activities too. She's in gymnastics year-round and we're lucky enough to have an arts center here that offers reasonably priced classes. I just signed her up for two one-week classes and a one-day workshop this summer.
HS'ing is a huge decision... so you're not alone in doubts, questions, second guesses, etc. :)
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Saxon looked "safe" to me too, but we quickly had to drop it. Singapore looks like I can handle it, I'm just waiting on the teacher's manuals. If your DH is that accomplished in math, it sounds like a good subject for Dad to teach him!
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Well, that's why we're homeschooling, isn't it? Well, at least one reason. :D Becca couldn't be "boxed" into one grade level either. We're calling her a kindergartener but she's not really doing any K work. I've just looked at as many curriculum samples online as possible and thumbed through tons of workbooks in person to try and get Becca at at least a good starting point. How long she'll be at that level... I don't know. I did create an account with K12 so I could give Becca their LA and math placement tests... that was a big help.
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I went to the first showing today! :D
I already want the DVD version so I can back up and look at some of those gorgeous clothes...
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When I was young, I got very frustrated when my teachers marked "grey" incorrect because I *swore* I had seen that spelling in my fairy books. Sure enough, "grey" in England and "gray" in America.
In 11th grade, I butted heads with my English teacher over judgement vs. judgment. She marked me off on a paper for spelling it with the extra "e" and I maintained it was a valid spelling. I didn't get the point back. :glare: It just looks better with the "e" to me!
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Sometimes I have to take Excedrin Migraine as well as 4 Advil. I definitely feel your pain! A small dose of Imitrex can also knock it down enough where the Excedrin and Advil work too. Hope it goes away soon!
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Girls' shirts can be at least as bad... A couple of years ago at Old Navy, I saw a baby girl shirt (yes, baby - up to 5T!) that said "Hawaiian Hottie."
Sorry, but "hottie" is not a word I would ever want to use to describe my preschooler. :glare:
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I'm glad I opened this post and found out about the Carolina website! I was wanting to just order some snails for our study on them later.
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Winnie the Pooh was "poot" when Becca was not quite 2.
Waffles with syrup = cuddle up with squares
Pacifier = pa
Sylvia used to say "nee nee nacks" for "Sylvia snacks," meaning fruit snacks.
She also used to say, "MAma, MAma!" when she saw me.
Grandpa = ga-pa
I have the most fun when the girls come out with big words. Sylvia's a little drama queen and likes to pout, "Becca destwoyed me!" :lol:
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82% here as well... I was feeling pretty cynical myself and actually laughed at a few of them!
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I've always been a voracious reader and became a natural speller as well. It is the visual learner in me, since a word just looks wrong to me when it's misspelled. I was a nasty, red-pen-wielding copy editor on my high school newspaper! :D I also did well in spelling bees as a child, but I would have gone further if I could have truly seen the words instead of spelling them orally.
So I'm hoping that Becca might follow along in my footsteps there.
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I'm in TN as well, and the umbrella school is my plan too. It allows for the least amount of state interference. I submit curriculum lists, grades, and attendance. I don't think testing is required in elementary years - I don't plan to test Becca until maybe 2nd-3rd grade.
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Gulliver's Travels, Moby-Dick, and I really want to read SWB's The History of the Ancient World. Then more novels from WEM... I have to go back and read Don Quixote since DH snatched it from me before I could start it! Or I might read The Iliad and The Odyssey before I go through that time period with Becca.
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Audiate - there's my vocab word for the day!
I'll have to go back and read the article, but I definitely audiate. That's why I have a hard time reading and progressing in books with long, complicated, made-up place and person names. I even encounter some difficulty when those things are abbreviated to just a single initial. Something I just have to work through, I guess.
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I caught sight of that article while catching up on my Braves news. This is just all kinds of wrong:
Cox thew out the social studies scores Wednesday, citing a disconnect between the test, the standards and what teachers taught.
:confused: Sounds to me like they need to get on the same page!
I graduated high school in GA (North Springs) and feel like I had a pretty good education those last 2 years. But that drew a good number of fairly affluent students as well (not that I was among them :tongue_smilie: ).
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Thank you SO much for the blank and the extra pages!!
What would you do if you had three years to plan?
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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In whatever time you have for yourself, I'd work on self-educating. :001_smile: And I'm just starting this year, but reading WTM and WEM has really lit a fire in me to continue my own education as well.
And I'd agree with the others who said NOT to buy any curriculum... You never know what will come out in three years, or be developed, or what your child's learning style will be... Something might look great in a book and be highly regarded, but be totally and utterly wrong for your child. I'm already learning that lesson! :001_huh: