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Kimberly,
For narrations I'm using my daughter's readings, including poetry, literature, and history. What I do is I give her reading assignments and a digital recorder, which I bought off of Amazon.com. When she goes to her room to read I tell her to explain back what she has read into the recorder. This has been working well so far. Her narrations are getting better and better. When we first started a few weeks ago, she was rambling on and on with a lot of "ands" and "buts" and "ums" and too many details, which were insignificant to the main point. After listening to her recordings I would give her some instruction on improvement. First I had her work on eliminating the ands, buts, and ums. Next I asked her to think of her sentences before pressing the record button, because I could tell that she was recording & thinking on the fly. Whenever I see an area of weakness I give her further instruction to better her narrations. I have her narrate on everything she reads, which is several different books a day. I use the Ambleside Online Year 3 readings and their suggestions of short varied readings with narration on each reading.
For dictation I picked a book from Yesterday's Classics called "Granny's Wonderful Chair", and I've decided to do dictation on the entire first chapter for this term, but in small increments 2 days per week. I took the idea from Ambleside Online & Charlotte Mason to dictate an entire piece of literature bit by bit. So, I read 1 or 2 sentences, or a portion of a sentence, depending on the length, and I have her dictate after 3 readings. The Ambleside folks say to have the child study the piece before dictating, so that the child can memorize any words they don't know how to spell. I thought this was a good idea, since my daughter struggles with spelling and I have to watch her like a hawk to make sure I catch a misspelled word before it's fully formed on her paper. I haven't tried this yet, but I think I will try it this week. In any case, I like the idea of dictating large portions bit by bit, because it gives her more of the full effect of writing good literature instead of random sentences from different sources.
We have also begun to practice dictating her own narrations from her recordings. She has done 1 paper this way, but she sure didn't like it. She likes dictation much better when it's from "Granny's Wonderful Chair."
Hope this helps anyone who is doing WWE level 3.
-Jennifer
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Emmsmama, I have a dd9, and ds5.5 as well. I'm also doing SOTW1 and I pulled some of the books from AO Y3, and Y1, and some of Yesterday's Classics. We have already started, because it's much easier for me to do school in the summer, and we really love the book selections. I've posted my booklist/plan on another thread titled School year 2008-2009: What are you using? http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39702&page=14 if you're interested in looking at my final choices. I'm really happy with all of them!
-Jennifer B
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Schooling ages 9, 6, 5, 4, 3, and 2 babies ages 2, and 1 (4 are my children, and 3 are not mine - I run a daycare/school in my house)
We have been schooling through the summer (it's easier that way for me), and we do:
Together
The Golden Children's Bible
Memorize Psalm 23
Child's Garden of Verses
English from the Roots Up
50 Famous Stories Retold
Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans
Calculadder Drills
Story of the World - Ancients on CD
Paddle to the Sea
Music & Picture Study for 2008-2009 from Ambleside Online
Twin Sisters Spanish CD songs
Explode the Code
Yesterday's Classics Reading Literature Readers
Singapore & Math U See rotating
Apologia Exploring Creating with Botany
Atelier - video based art curriculum
(This looks like alot, but we don't do each one every day, some, or most of these are done once a week, so that every day is different, exciting, and interesting for all of us!)
DD age 9
Spelling Workout
First Language Lessons
Writing with Ease
Singapore Math
& Math-U-See
Day by Day Children's Bible
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
Laura Ingalls Wilder series
Parables from Nature
Princess and the Goblin
This Country of Ours
A Story of the Golden Age of Greek Heroes
Famous Men of Greece w/ Memoria Press Student & Teacher Guides
Secrets of the Woods
CLP Nature Reader
various stories on CD - we like Jim Weiss
& keeping a Century Notebook
This looks like alot too, but again not everything every day. It varies.
The Little Ones - Ages 4 and 3 (and if the 6 and 5 yos want to join in too, they are welcome)
Family Bible Time in Pictures
For the Children's Hour
Developing the Early Learner: Level 1
Ready Writer
Get Ready Set Go for the Code
Among the Farmyard People
First Thousand Words in English
Lavender's Blue: A Book of Nursery Rhymes
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I'm schooling ages 9, 6, 5, 4, and 3 (with 2 babies ages 2, and 1) using a combination of WTM and Charlotte Mason via Ambleside. I like the Ambleside selections because I can read aloud to several ages and they are all interested in the readings. I also like CM's method of shorter readings with instant narrations, and varied lessons. With CM each day is not the same, it's mixed up a bit (one day is ancient history, another day is a famous story, and another day is American History), they are all kept track of on a Century Chart, and the children make their own connections. These are the things I like about Ambleside/CM. I don't think it needs to be followed exactly though. However, I could be wrong. I just starting using some of the books on their list, and I don't have experience with using their program to the T.
-Jennifer
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Hi,
I had some time while dinner was in the oven to look over some of the posts on this thread, and I figured out where to start my daughter. I'm going to start her toward the beginning of Level 3, so that she can have plenty of practice in mechanics and narration.
Thanks to everyone for the helpful posts.
-Jennifer
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Hi,
I just received my WWE book, which I have been greatly anticipating for months. I dug right into the how to's and now I have a question. My daughter is going into 4th grade, but she is not ready for the Level 4 assignments. I'm trying to decide where to start her. Last year we used Sonlight. Each week she had assignments involving copy work of her readers, grammar study of her copy work, and creative writing. She hated the creative writing, and now I understand why. She isn't fluent in the mechanics of writing, because we haven't studied the mechanics of writing enough, and we haven't practiced narration enough. So, she doesn't know how to order her thoughts into complete coherent sentences.
In anticipation of WWE I read the excerpt from your website, and worked a little with her on dictation and narration. She can dictate up to 2 sentences (though spelling and grammar are a problem). She can also narrate a story or history lesson, but she gives too many details, and often gives obscure detailed information that isn't relevant to a summary.
Do you have any idea where I should start her? I am very grateful for all your materials. I have 3 other children, who I will be using your materials with, and I'm hopeful that these things will be easier when they get to 4th grade, if I start out right.
Sincerely,
Jennifer
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I think it looks great. My daughter is also finishing up 3rd grade, and in a separate post I asked someone/ones to send me samples/links of their child's work, because I'm curious about how my daughter is doing. She also struggles with writing and spelling, and her little brother is the opposite. He's just 5 yrs. old, and writing very easily, and replying to my questions in complete sentences easily. My 3rd grader has difficulty with this still. Anyway, I think your daughter is doing great. I've ordered WWE and anxiously awaiting it to help my daughter. We're currently working on dictation, Spelling Workout C, and simple 1 sentence narrations.
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I'm looking for a thread where everyone has posted or can post their school room photos. I typed a search for "school room" and 500 posts came up, but they were not all about school rooms. They were about various subjects. Maybe I'm not good at searches yet. Can anyone help? I have some photos I want to share, but they are not posted on the web, so I can't figure out how to show them here.
I want to paint our room and make it cute, but I need some ideas.
-Jennifer
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Hi,
I have 4 children, and this year is my first year formally teaching 2. My oldest is 9, and my next oldest is 5. I also have a 3 yr old and an 8 month old. I plan to use the following curriculum, can anyone help me out as to what this would look like on a 4 day in-home school week?
9 yr. old - these are the items I want to do with her
First Language Lessons - Level 3
Writing With Ease
MCP Spelling Workout C
Math-U-See Intermediate
Readers - either CLP Nature Readers and/or selections that go along with the History period and/or readers from Sonlight Language Arts
SOTW - Ancients
CD & Activity Guide
Library Selections from "All Through the Ages" - Ancient History and SOTW Activity Guide
Apologia - Exploring Creation through Botany
Curriculum (things) she can do on her own
Bible Reading
Poetry Reading
Awana Verse Memorization
Home Ec. & Personal Help for Girls Studies
Drawing Practice
Read Alouds on CD
Music Memory (Math Facts, Spanish, Lyrical Life Science, Sing the Word)
Piano Practice
5 yr. old - things I want to do with him
Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading
Math-U-See Primer
First Language Lessons (when ready)
Writing Practice (when ready)
SOTW - Ancients
Ancients Library Selections
Apologia - Exploring Creation through Botany
Things he can do on his own
Puzzles
Legos
Manipulatives
Montessori Materials
Music & Story CDs....
Can anyone help me to see how my time working with my 9 yr. old and my 5 yr. old would look like? Has anyone else had similar goals/materials and children's ages? What did your day look like?
Thanks for your help,
Jennifer
DD 9 Problem with Accuracy - Need Help!
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I need some help and ideas please. My dd 9 has problems with accuracy in many areas of homeschooling, and life. Math is a problem, because she'll get 1 number wrong, and of course this makes the whole solution wrong. Spelling is a problem, because she just doesn't seem to be able to remember the words accurately after studying, writing, doing exercises, etc. she still has trouble spelling the words. Writing and grammar are problems, because she'll overlook capitalization, misspell words (even from copying correctly spelled type), and she also just plain doesn't like writing.
Is there some way I can help her or train her to look at words/letters/numbers more carefully? Obviously she is a global person, details are insignificant to her, and she's also auditory/kinesthetic (visual is her weakest modality). How can I help her increase her visual abilities? If I can't how can she get along in life with such weak visual skills?
BTW - I'm a very strong visual learner, so it's very difficult for me to understand her weakness and how to help her.
Has anyone had any success helping their child overcome a visual weakness? What did you do?
:bigear:
-Jennifer