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Hi! My 7th grade daughter has taken online writing classes through IEW for the past couple years. Unfortunately, the classes booked up this year before I reserved her spot. So, we're going to give WTM Academy a try this year. I signed her up for expository writing 1 but I'm wondering if I should've signed her up for 2. Would an experienced IEW student have any trouble jumping into WWS 2? Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you!

Hello! My 7th grade daughter took an online class through IEW last year. It was swi-b. She did very well and we were planning on moving to the next level but their classes filled up before we registered. I thought we'd give WTMA a try this year. I'm having a had time deciding between expository writing 1 and 2. The subject matter is different than IEW and I don't want to overwhelm her but I also don't want her to be unchallenged. Would love some advice from those experienced with WWS. Thanks!

My daughter has been through the history cycle using Tog twice. I'm looking to simplify the number of books and amount of reading required by Tapestry and focus more on comprehension and thinking skills. My rising 9th will be using HOTAW and I'm considering using it with my rising 7th as well. She's a strong reader for her age but I'm wondering if the content will be too much for her. Has anyone else used it with their J.H. Kiddos?

IEW? My kids have loved it.

Hi! I'm researching pre-algebra curriculum and keep running across kinetic books. I see a few posts stating that it's out there but not anyone's experience with it. So? Anyone? My daughter is just finishing mm6, is doing well with it but doesn't particularly enjoy math. I thought about Aops but don't want to push her to the point of hating math. I'm looking for challenging, but not torturous. Need some kind of video teaching since I have four other kiddos and can't spend a lot of time teaching her myself. Any advice would be welcome!

I'm talking about the pre-algebra book. I haven't actually gotten my hands on the book yet, I just keep hearing about these challenge problems. I assume they're the challenge section at the end. I have played around on alcamus a bit. Would you say those problems are comparable to the lesson problems? I would have him do the alcamus problems as well for additional practice.

Has anyone used AoPS for the discovery method approach but skipped the more challenging of the challenge problems? I am convinced that my ds would thrive with the method, however, I can't see taking hours out of a day to try solving one difficult problem. My thought was to present them, give him a chance to solve for a certain period of time and then helping him through it using the solutions manual. Either that or just skipping some of them altogether. Anyone else doing this? Will it ruin the whole approach if i spare him the most difficult problems?

I think it depends on the story and the child. We use TOG, which incorporates many retellings. My children have loved most of the selections offered. What little boy wouldn't love the Homer stories, beowulf, gilgamesh, etc..? He has read them at the grammar, and dialectic levels and looks forward to the real thing. Retellings of the dickens novels, les miserable, Robert Louis stevenson have all been big hits. These retellings have helped to get my children looking forward to reading the real things when they're older. I wouldn't feel pressured to make sure your children read them all, but why not offer them as options?

Hmmm.. I'd say around $35 where I shop.

We are using copy work for multiple functions this year. I copy a dictation/copy work based spelling program into the Getty dubay cursive font. I use that for spelling, handwriting, and we also use it for capitalization/punctuation instruction since Mct doesn't cover that very well. Kills three birds with one stone...I'm trying to simplify this year, going back to the old school way of doing some things. Oh, I'm doing that with my ds12, dd9, and in the print font with my ds6.

I guess I never really considered it outsourcing since it's through a co-op, but I suppose that's what it is since I don't have to teach :001_smile:. IEW and apologia science labs are taught through the co-op, as well as art and violin lessons.

We're kitchen, sunroom, toy room, tv room ....whatever works kinda people. We do go into the toy room when I'm trying to work one on one with an older child and one of the littles needs to be playing with toys, puzzles, etc... I have found that for the 4-6 year old set, they are very distracted in there. We go to the living room where there's fewer distractions to do work with them. You'll find out pretty quickly if it'll work for you.

Thanks for the suggestions! I had never heard of the clearly or heller books. They look fun and my library has them!

Is grammarland good for the 6-8 year old bunch?