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Thanks so much! I'll do that!
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The Critical Thinking Co has Mindbenders books for PreK-12+. I found the Warm up K-2 on clearance at the local teacher store and my 4 year old loves doing these! We do a couple of questions during our Circle Time and she often asks for more! (Actually, I pulled out the book to reply to this and she's begged her way through 4-5 questions while I typed [grin])
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I took a class on teaching copywork and dictation from www.bravewriter.com , and that is some of the best money I've ever invested in myself as a teacher. I learned a ton about my kids from it too.
I don't see a course like this on the website, can you give more details (Course Title or if it is only scheduled at certain times of year?) This sounds particularly helpful and interesting!
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My kids *love* the Richard Scarry "Best __________ Video Ever" ... they might be VCR only, though. We picked up a couple used and borrow the others from the library. Then, again, they also love the Richard Scarry books [grin]
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My husband would order the creme brulee ... but it is the only non-chocolate non-fruit dessert choice (although he says, "O, I like Creme Brulee.")
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We have a "memory period" during our Circle Time where we're working on Poetry; Bible; Catechism; Counting (to 100 & skip counting); Your Name, Address, Phone Number, Parents; Counting; and whatever else I want them to know. I have all of this on cards in a file box a la Simply Charlotte Mason's instructions (although we don't have the # tabs in yet). I don't know how I'll do the longer poems, maybe just the title.
Anyway, we (me, my 3yo, my 4yo) say the poems we know, we listen to the CD (my kids like that!) of our old poems (just to hear the emphasis Mr. Pudewa puts on words) and then to him reading the current poem. Then I read it stanza for stanza and the kids and I repeat line by line. The 5th poem has several stanzas, so like our hymns, we're working on one stanza per week (I know we're supposed to do the whole poem, but they're 4 and 3!)
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Listening here too ... I sent an email. The website is interesting!
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My 4 yo knows all her letters/sounds but really loves doing ETC. We're in book B (almost done!!) and she's also using OPGTR doing CVC words fairly easily, but she still asks when she gets to do her ETC. My 3 yo is about ready to start "A" He knows most (confuses VWY) of his letters and sounds. My 3 year olds make an alphabet book of their own, so Nate'll start that soon. He's also using the beginning of OPG (which we didn't have until recently) and memorizing the short-vowel poem.
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It isn't how to write poetry, but I'm using IEW's poetry memorization program (with K4 and PK just turned 3) and they're doing great! They also enjoy the Poetry for Young People series.
ETA: there is a CD of Andrew Pudewa saying the poems with the IEW program.
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How many do you have? I'm interested! ladydusk@gmail.com
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You might want to look into Living Math for some supplemental material.
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A friend and I have just finished going through "Teaching the Classics" (available through IEW) and enjoyed it (although just reading the book would probably suffice, we laughed about the video quality a great deal). While on the "literature analysis" kick, I borrowed Deconstructing Penguins from the library and am about 1/2 way through it. I have to say, I'm finding it an interesting read, but not as helpful for teaching from. They discuss different books using different lenses (antagonist/protagonist, setting, etc.) My big issue with this is: how do I know which lens to use for which book? TTC looked at all characteristics for each book/story and I found that helpful, but emphasizing one to solve the problem annoys me. I also find the worldview of DP to be kind of annoying, but I could look past it if the book were more helpful.
I hadn't heard of Classics in the Classroom before; I'll have to check it out!
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Thanks, Ladies. Any other input? It seems likely that we'll stick with the original plan.
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We're doing "Geography" (very, very basic) studying ocean (names), continents, a country per continent or two this year. We're going to educate on a calendar year basis, and have just started. (What is a map? The world is a big place, isn't it? Let's make map of your bedroom stuff for January then expand).
I keep looking at Galloping the Globe and thinking some of the supplements look good (particularly the cook book, as one of our main activities will be cooking food from where we're studying) and wondering if some of the activities would be something I could pull in. But, then, when I read the description, it says "cross words, word finds, etc" and that makes me think this would be a waste of money for K4 ... and that I'm not very into that kind of seat work for the long run anyway.
Anyway, my question is, how much of the program is that kind of work? Should I just buy some of the reference(d) books and to supplement what I make up myself (which is what I intended to do anyway ... but if there's something that well respected where the work is done for me ........)
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Our second week of school; our first week of Weekly Reporting
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You can see a limited preview of the book Bill mentions here: http://books.google.com/books?id=EjkKBotJcyIC (I don't know limited it is, I just googled and looky what I found [grin])
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How about games like Simon Says and Red-Light/Green Light? She's probably a bit old, but my kids like the game Hullabaloo (by the Cranium folks) which is all listening. It might be a good, fun place to start with listening.
Then, again, my oldest is 4 ...
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Doorposts' Polished Cornerstones (for girls) /Plants Grown Up (for boys) looks like it would be interesting for Character training and is "5-Adult" so would last a long time ...
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There were 8 moms at our recent planning meeting and there are a number of other families who homeschool as well. We have a pretty even split between homeschool and Christian school ... I only know of one family who public schooled the whole way through.
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I know our church holds a Homeschooler's recitation night. My friend video-tapes her kids reciting, then sends the video to her parents who don't live close by.
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A resource I love is the blog Preschoolers and Peace. Kendra has many good ideas and sound recommendations on how to work with many little ones.
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I saw plastic ones at Meijer for $7.99 and scooped three up.
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My husband, the abdicate-all-things-school-related to me, has one request: that I teach diagramming sentences (of all things LOL) He says that it helps him understand the meaning of written statements a lot better. I can still see him parse sentences in his head when he's trying to figure them out. We'll do diagramming here for sure. (Oh, and he's a Software Developer)
History Progression
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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My kiddos are 4, 3, and 1.5. We're educating year round on a calendar year basis, and have just started. This year, we're doing geography using an Atlas and maps. Very basic, we did "local" in January, are doing state/US through March, then continents, etc.
I had originally considered doing "First" grade starting next year when my 4 yo is 5, I think it will be doable, and most of her curriculum will be in that vein, but my 3 yo will be turning 4 in January and I think it would be wise to hold off and start ancients when he's 5 and she's 6. The 1.5 year old is aged back far enough to not factor into the plan here.
Thus, I have a year to fill between K4 and 1st next year for my oldest. I'm considering "History for Little Pilgrims. I'm concerned with a couple of issues: 1) is there enough for a whole year? I have a secondary history ed background so I'm comfortable stretching if there's enough spine 2) I've read either glowing or boring reviews 3) I can't seem to find a table of contents/syllabus anywhere.