I see on the website of https://www.spanish.academy/ that it is "trusted by The Well-Trained Mind Community". Is this true? What does this mean? Does anyone have experience using them?????

Anyone? Any help for this question? Thanks. :)

I can tell on the website what books are needed for Sonlight G History/Bible/Literature, and for Sonlight G Science. Can someone please tell me which books are used for longer than 3 weeks? Thanks!!!! These are the books I'm wondering about, in case a list helps you. Which ones are used longer than 3 weeks? Sonlight G - Science Encyclopedia of Planet Earth Evolution: The Grand Experiment Icons of Evolution What's Science All About? Sonlight G – History/Bible/Literature The Kingdom Strikes Back (GH01) Usborne Encyclopedia (GH07) The Monk Who Shook the World (GR23) The Golden Goblet (GA01) The Trojan War (GA04) Master Cornhill (GA05) Favorite Poems Old and New (GA06) I, Juan de Pareja (GA07) The Second Mrs. Giaconda (GA09) A Single Shard (GA10) Beyond the Desert Gate (GA11) God King (GA12) The Hidden Treasure of Glaston (GA15) The Silver Branch (GA18) The Great and Terrible Quest (GR06) Flame Over Tara (GA13) The Shakespeare Stealer (GA14) The Samurai's Tale (GR01) The Bronze Bow (GR02) Adam of the Road (GR03) Shadow of a Bull (GR04) Mara, Daughter of the Nile (GR07) The Beduins' Gazelle (GR08) The Mystery of the Roman Ransom (GR10) Hittite Warrior (GR12) The Ides of April (GR14) A Proud Taste of Scarlet and Miniver (GR17) Black Horses for the King (GR18) Catherine Called Birdy (GR19) Theras and His Town (GR20) Son of Charlemagne (GR21) Greek Myths (GR24)

Question: How much do you correct and have dc revise their writings? For example, do you have dc fix errors of forgetting to indent paragraphs, omitted words, misspelled words, omitted punctuation, and capitalization errors? We've only done week 1 so far. I had my dc write their summaries, hand them to me for corrections, make revisions, then show me a final draft for approval. Is this too much work for each lesson?

Question: How much do you correct and have dc revise their writings? For example, do you have dc fix errors of forgetting to indent paragraphs, omitted words, misspelled words, omitted punctuation, and capitalization errors? We've only done week 1 so far. I had my dc write their summaries, hand them to me for corrections, make revisions, then show me a final draft for approval. Is this too much work for each lesson?

Urbannaive, thanks for that detailed reply. :) Your details are very helpful to me. :) That was a long reply that took a lot of time probably for you to type out. I want you to know I appreciate it. Thanks.

What do you mean by a "lesson" that sometimes takes you 2 weeks? Did you mean that 1 week's worth in the book takes you 2 weeks, or did you mean that 1 day's work takes you 2 weeks sometimes? Do you work step-by-step side-by-side with your students? or do they work independently from you? I was hoping this would be an independently done curriculum, that I'd occasionally assist with as needed at the time they're working on it, but mainly I'd check their work later in the day.

Yes, it is for my 7th grader, but also for my 6th and 5th grader. By their biological age we assign their grades. But as for their ability level, they are all equal in their level. As I've glanced through WWS-level 1, I do think they are all ready for it in their abilities.

What has helped you implement WWS? Did you spiral bind the kid's workbook? Did you get it hole punched to fit in a binder? Did you stretch the 4day schedule into 5 days? Did you work side-by-side with them at first? How much time did it seem each lesson took? ( I want to allot enough time in our day.) And any other comments or tips would be much appreciated! Thanks,

I don't know which level to start my kids in. Please help me. Background: * We did FLL levels 1 and 2, where they memorized the definition of a noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb, the list of being verbs, list of helping verbs, list of prepositions. This was straight memory work. They did not master application of these definitions or lists. * We attempted Easy Grammar (they weren't learning from it, for whatever reason), Growing with Grammar (same story - didn't learn from it), and FLL level 3 (same story didn't learn from it). * Last year we did Rod & Staff Grade 3 grammar - they were learning well what they were taught, mastering it, but it was tedious and took a lot of planning from me (deciding which lessons to complete, which exercises to skip, how to schedule it). I'm looking at CLE LA. Actually I ordered all of grade 4 for them. Now as I'm looking at the books, I wonder how much of this they've forgotten and how much they'll remember as review. CLE puts things in a different order than other grammar books. They also include more teaching - spelling is included, cursive writing, phonetic pronunciation notation is taught. My kids don't know cursive, nor pronunciation notation, and 1 is a horrible speller. They also don't have experience with writing assignments (the other grammar programs didn't do this). So.. should I start my kids back at grade 1??? So that they catch it all??? And whiz through it all fast?? Or where do you suggest they start?? (I was originally going to start them at 310, then go on to 4th grade after that book. I'm very willing to change from this original plan.)

Thank you. :)

SWB, Is there any progress on writing this book for the North American History? :D

Rightstart curr.

I would LOVE a SOTW book that combined just U.S./Canada/Mexico history!, and at the same reading level as the other SOTW books. :) I so wish I had this book already this year!!

Thanks!

What do you like that teaches diagramming sentences? I'm looking specifically for the skill of diagramming sentences - I do not need extra teaching in it, but extra teaching in it is fine too. I just need diagramming tutorials, something from the very beginning and for about the 4th level, with lots of practice. (Dc learns not through concept teaching but through over and over and over drill.) But I want it too to have orderly concept teaching.

Just started CLE here this yr. Before this we did Rightstart. I love how RightStart teaches and how it builds the dc's visualization of math, but I needed something that they could do independently. I also needed something with more consistent review, something more straight forward. Love CLE! (The kids aren't so thrilled about it, but I see how they are learning well from it, and it's getting done consistently - not something that happened as easily with RS.)

If you have the time for one-on-one teaching, then RightStart.

CLE math

A Mon swim/gym class, a Wed church club with active games, and a Fri soccer class.

"Put the big rocks in first." "At some point, we just need to get rid of rocks." "Margin!" http://www.lifeofasteward.com/coveys-big-rocks-illustration-is-wrong/

Thanks. It's helpful to see how others do things.

Has anyone used this? Could you help me know how you did it in your home? - When you had a short week (because of lots of apts, holiday that week, etc.), how did you shorten the week? What did you cut out? - Did you schedule the days differently than how it's in the book (5 day or 2 day)? What worked for your home? - Did you do science in the morning, afternoon, or evening, or did you divide days up and do some parts at different parts of the day? http://www.elementalscience.com/phys...grammar-stage/ I'm currently trying to use the Physics for the Grammar Stage level with my 3rd, 4th, & 5th grader. Thanks so much!!

Yes, we schedule. If we schedule it, and we stick to the schedule, then it gets done. I have enough people in the family now, that if I don't schedule or run by the schedule, then someone gets short-changed. We just don't have enough time to 'catch-up' an activity lost by not doing it on schedule. I have to be responsible to each person in this house, respecting them, and thus I make and follow a schedule. It helps me give them each what is best. Even me staying up late means the kids get short-changed the next day in my energy level. Every bend to the schedule costs something. Do we vary from the schedule regularly? Definitely yes!! Appointments come up, opportunities come up, needs come up, but each time I know it's costing something. I have to build in margin and catch-up time into our schedule so that we can still vary from the schedule. Life happens - lots! Our schedule gives us something to aim at - because if you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time. We need to aim at something.

For us what works is: *A little of all subjects every day. *Same schedule every day. *Hardest subjects for You to teach scheduled for when you are Your best in your day. *Most critical subjects first in the day, so that if they day falls apart, at least the most important got done. *Enough sleep for y'all! (Don't short-cut it in the schedule!! You/kids can't do well with slightly less sleep and never making it up.) *A list given to your kids on Sun night of all the independent work you'll want them to get done that week, so they can work on their independent work right away at the beginning of days if they have time. *3 days of school per week for sure of every daily subject, but 4 solid days usually, and try for 5 days a week so you have margin to fall back on during bad/busy weeks. *A very thought through chore list for the whole week for each person in the house, so that all the weekly/daily house needs are assigned to someone in the house, with a time. *Enough time schedule for meal prep, meals, and meal clean-up. A set time for every meal. *If I need to wake my kids in mornings, making their very first activity be 30min of book reading, so they are separate, working their brain, and relaxed and quiet, which gives them more time to wake up and adjust to the fact that it's morning, without so much squabbling or grumpiness.