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Cami in UT

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  1. If done as the publisher says I would say 10-15 minutes reading the textbook & doing the questions at the end of the section. And 20-30 min. doing the experiment. It is scheduled out as two readings then the experiment. It is 3 days a week, a reading each day and then an experiment. I picked up our Rainbow in Feb or Mar told my son (my sciencey one) that if he wanted to start that was fine with me or he could wait. He chose to start, soon found that he liked it and started doing both readings in one day then the experiment the next day, then repeated that each day we did school. He did the first year in 17 weeks that way. This next year we are planning on doing the same thing, doing it everyday during the second half of the year.
  2. I only have one child using it but if I were to have two then I would get another lab book but not more lab equipment/supplies. I was lucky and found our lab stuff used, one child had gone through and there has been plenty for my son with some left over. But the lab book is written in with their findings from the experiments, activities, and has the tests in there, too. HTH
  3. I use TOG and we just finished Year 3. The This Country of Ours book is actually a D level book. My son (12) read it but totally weighed it against what he has been taught at home, in Primary and now YM. When I questioned him about it, his response was along the lines of "Yes, it didn't say really nice things about our church but I know what is right and so it is not really a big deal." But he is also my very laid back, roll with the punches child. I have to agree with the previous poster that said we have much in common with the religious views (not counting Worldview something we don't use in our house), but we also talk about the LDS insights to those common threads that crop up our D discussions. HTH
  4. That would be the Leadership book. Their suggestions for 5 grade age is basically let them do what they want. Try to inspired them to want to learn something of their own choosing. When they show interested, help them run with it. But don't force them to do any kind of work that they don't want to do because that will squash their love of learning.
  5. My son who has dyscalculia is doing really well with MUS. Our progression was: In kindergarten (the only year he went to school) he used Saxon. He could only do about half what the other students did, the rest being homework. 1st grade: our first year home I tried him on Saxon again thinking if I gave him time it would click. It didn't work. 2nd-middle 4th grade: We switched to Rod & Staff. He did better, he was learning but there were still tears and he hated math. Middle 4th-current (middle 5th) grade: We switched to MUS. He is doing really good. We do everything, 2 worksheets a day (A&D, B&E, C&F) and the test. In May 2010, we have finally got him tested, where he got the dyscalculia diagnoses. His tester said that MUS was a good choice for him because he needs the mastery over-kill that MUS gives. HTH.
  6. I put my son (now 4) on fortified rice milk when he was 11 months old. I even talked with his pediatrician, who was fine because of his history. He was intolerant to milk and soy based formulas. He didn't do well on the goats milk, either. He did fine and was actually my chubbiest toddler, which isn't saying much if you were to see our whole family. :lol: Now my Baby Girl has many of the same issues but worse! For her I have found that raw milk was worked great. I just shake the cream into the milk and we both drink it. I'm still nursing her at 16 months. She has many respiratory problems if she gets any thing with pasteurized milk in it. No one can explain that one to me but she is very wheezy, cold like symptoms. My personal opinion is that you are his Mom. You will know if it is working for him or not. His pediatrician only sees him once every few months. They are trained in the most acceptable path. But many children are born and thrive on less than the ideal, per doctors training.
  7. If starting TOG in Feb/Mar makes you weird, then I must be weird. :lol: I started TOG last Feb! Go ahead and do it. Take some time to really look and read especially with the suggested books. Then just start. You can do it.:hurray:
  8. For my dd6 K year, we finished up 100 EZ lessons, and did R&S Math 1. We read books from the library. Then whatever she absorbed from her older brother's history & science was gravy on the top. I took it really easy with her because at the start of the school year we had a new baby. Next year for ds4 I plan to do 100 EZ, and start really working his numbers and addition to ten. Read lots of books and have him tag along with older sister's science & history (which he already does about half the time). My primary goal in K is to get the kids reading and doing very simple addition.
  9. Not sure about your workbook question, I bought the e-book so I just print out as many sheets as I need. About the body book, I would think it would be okay. So far, we aren't to body yet still working through the animals, we just read about the topic for the day, then dd6 narrates something back to me while I write for her. I would just make sure the the book you have isn't over the child's head. You could always give it a try, if it doesn't work then order the recommended book. HTH.
  10. 10 sided dice - dd6 is finally getting confident with basic math facts.
  11. My ds10 has that problem. He went to PS for Kindergarten and I was told that it is very common at that age and they wouldn't put him in speech for that for a couple of years. After that year we started homeschooling. We are still working on it because I have chosen not to deal with the speech teacher at the local school. He has gotten a lot better in the past year, he will now say the right sound about 60% of the time. When I'm working with him (only during school time) if he gives me the wrong sound I'll make him correct it. Until this year he hated when I'd do that. But like I said it is finally paying off.
  12. My ds10 has expressed a strong desire to learn Korean. Who knew, not a foreign language on my radar. :lol: I'm at a loss about where to even look to find a good, reasonably priced learning curriculum. Any ideas?
  13. Have you tried the UHEA.org website? That would be the Utah Home Education Association. I haven't done much with them but I know they watch the laws for Utah very carefully. Which school district are you in? I have heard that some are almost nasty to homeschoolers and others are very good. I also know that there are yahoo groups for Davis, Weber, Box Elder, Cache counties and I'm sure that there are other ones too. I happen to live in Davis county and am a member of that group.
  14. This year will be one of my $$$ years. I'm estimating between what I have spent and what I'm waiting on money for, I'll spend about $1000. But that includes the special phonics program to help my ds10 because he is dyslexic and his software recognition program because he is also dysgraphic and I really need the convenience of not being his scribe, about 2/3 of the money is just for those two items. I have ds12 (7th grade), ds10 (5th grade), dd6 (1st grade) and ds4 (prek-but I'm not buying him anything:lol:)
  15. We have the same problem with ds10. This past year dh & I made a "contract" with each boy. If they finished their schoolwork for x amount of consecutive days then they earned a reward (something they had been asking for). It finished out at 75 days with a new Wii game. It worked really well for both the older boys in our house. The other thing that has helped getting ds10 his dysgraphia diagnoses. It helped to get my expectations in line with his actual writing abilities. It took us until the end of 4th grade to finally get the testing because he wasn't having any problems with his actual schoolwork but he would take forever. Come to find out it is because he has a block getting what is in mind to come out of a pencil.
  16. I just named our homeschool this past month. It took me four years to come up with one that I really, really liked. The name I finally came up with is Five Minds Academy. I have five minds that I get to teach, hence the name.
  17. I don't hop for my oldest, ds11. I have researched and then stuck with it. Oldest boy thinks like his Dad & I, so I pretty much know what is going to work for him. But for my second boy, ds9. :001_huh: I have hopped quite a bit. What works for ds11 does not work for ds9. It took me about a while to figure that out. But just this last week we got the official diagnoses of Dsylexia/Dsygraphia. Which explains a lot. And consequently will mean more curriculum hopping for him. :tongue_smilie: Now I'm trying to piece together dd6 work for next year and thinking about totally different programs then I used with either ds11 & ds9. Is it curriculum hopping to change programs for youngers? :lol:
  18. I bought the 4-6 grade kit for ds9 back in Jan or Feb. We are currently working through the first year. For us it is working because it is getting done. I'm not having to find everything, although there has been at least one experiment that we couldn't do because we didn't have a 1 or 2 liter soda pop bottle. Those are not standard in my house and I forgot to look ahead, oops. :tongue_smilie: My son likes it and chooses to do it early in his day, mostly he reads the chapter by himself then comes to me with any questions or clarifications, we discuss it when we get a chance. So I guess all that to say that so far we are liking it and it is working in our school because it is so close to grab and go.
  19. :bigear: My ds4 has the same issues. Actually chewed through the Wii Nunchuck cord on Saturday afternoon. :ohmy: I can't wait to see what other people say.
  20. We are close to finishing R&S 7 with my oldest who is very math inclined. Next year we are going to start him in KB Algebra I. Thought about continuing with R&S 8 but I really think he is ready for Algebra. But my second child after 2 1/2 years of trying to get it to work for him we switched to MUS. He is doing much better now.
  21. :bigear: That sounds just like my ds9. He is always wanting to read exactly what ds11 has just read. He just reads a bit slower. Thanks for the great post. I'll be taking note of all the suggestions.
  22. We are half way through chapter 1 of book 2. We spend about 15 minutes a day working on it. Ds11 says it is one of his favorite subjects. But I'm also not very strict with "getting it" either. We take turns turn talking through each problem but if we are stumped or not right I'll just read the answer. We do try to figure out why the answer is what it is but that is as far as we go. I figure if I'm learning all the material next to my boy then he is getting more than I got in PS, so it is good enough. That's my 2 cents worth. :lol:
  23. :bigear: Anyone else? I didn't ask the question but the answers so far have been insightful. I'm very seriously considering TOG, currently working through one of the sample weeks. And real life schedules are nice to see to help figure it all out.
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