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I wondered what is the cheapest way to subscribe to national news magazines such as Time, U.S. News & World Report and/or Newsweek.
Are there educational discounts or codes to use on the above?
Same with World Magazine.
Thanks for any leads/tips!
Lisaj
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Why not sign her up for the SAT this spring? Have her take it without any practice or prep, and see how she does. Yes, it will cost you some money, but it will give you a precise answer about where you need to focus. And, from what I understand, you can now pick which SAT test scores to send to colleges, so this can't possibly hurt her in any way.
This is what I did with my ds (16) and ds (14). Ds 16 took the SATs last spring as a sophomore. The results told us exactly what he needed to work on, and he went into his next SAT (this fall) confident (he knew what the test was like) and well-prepared. He increased almost 100 points in each category and won't be needing to retest!
DS 14 took his SATs this fall; he's a freshman. Like his brother, he no longer has any trepidation about taking the SAT. I'll have him retake it again as a sophomore, and then probably once more as a junior.
Ria
Would you suggest taking the SAT ea year instead of the $15 PSAT? My dtrs have taken the PSAT and it didn't have an essay and I think the essay will be the oldest's biggest struggle.
Thoughts? Repeated SATs or PSAT soph/jr and SAT as jr and/or Sr?
Thanks
Lisa
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I'd continue with Henle book 2. I believe the Henle Yahoo group covers book 2.
Is there a group on Yahoo - where students are going thru the book independently - and where we would get answers when we have questions?
Or is this some kind of online course?
Thanks
lisaj
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1 credit Govt & Econ - Notgrass? BJU DVDs?
1 credit Writing/Literature- Jensen's? IEW Essay? Finley/Essay? Lit curric???
1 credit Apologia Adv Biology
1 credit Spanish 4 (book 2 of A Beka Spanish Year 2) - co op
1 credit P.E. Swimming (team)
1/2 credit 1 sem PreCalc?
1/2 credit Latin - not sure how to continue with Henle Year 2 book?
AWANA/Bible
Piano? Choir?
Part time job?
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My two high schoolers are finishing the First Year Henle book this year. They started Latin in 5th and 7th grades and are very good Latin students.
They have done the Henle book over two years in a co op class with an excellent teacher. I think the co op is not planning to continue Latin past this year's level.
One will be a senior next year and one dtr a sophomore. The eldest thinks she might want to be a translator. They both love Latin.
I'd like to know options for next year - from online class (poss my first pick) to going it alone or with tutoring. IF you could put in approx costs, that would be helpful.
Thanks!
Lisa
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we are in chapter 13 (of 19).
I'd love to hear from someone who has used Harmon's class on DVD from BJU with a nonscience student. Anyone???
If we are progressing in a difficult (or at least a challenging course) then I feel find that we work our tails off (granted, we are not science-saavy). But I'd hate to hear we are missing some key approach or tactic?
Thanks again for the encouragement and advice. I don't mind getting Cs and Bs if we are truly being challenged. But I don't want Bs and Cs in science if we are just not approaching it correctly or tenaciously enough!
Lisaj
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And I think everyone benefited from the ideas and thoughts that all the posters contributed.
I know I have learned a lot and am thinking more about my elementary writers. (we aren't using a writing curriculum with the 9yo boy currently tho we have dabbled in IEW, journaling, and a few others.)
I tend to be a bit more relaxed now as my current 3rd grader is my 4th homeschooled child. I have obsessed many times over the years - and even with my "don't worry, he'll write...eventually" advice, I find our writing activities in need of tweaking often.
I am a proponent of "keep them writing" and and it has been more important for my boys to find interesting subjects. My 3rd grade 9yo loves writing letters, notes and action stories (just 3-5 sentence battles, or scenes where he casts himself as the hero (!) ) and will do this spontaneously and then start whining over a short writing assignment. He is much more prone to blank page paralysis then his sisters were.
So keep writing. And this was a great thread!
Lisa
Thank you all, I so appreciate your comments.Alison in KY
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I don't know how to put this delicately, but if your dh thinks SWB/WTM's approach isn't challenging enough, then you aren't doing everything WTM says. If he's 10, is he 4th or 5th grade? He should be writing book reports, compositions each week for science and history, doing dictation, etc. It sounds like your dh's expectations would be met if your ds were doing those things. It may very well be your dh is right and he's not writing enough. If he struggles in LA, he needs to do MORE, not less. You're doing WWE1 now, so keep up the pace. You want to start carrying it over to other subjects as soon as possible, getting him writing narrations in history, etc., and up his daily quantities of writing. He could be writing several pages a day. ..........It's important to get those quantities up, and I wouldn't minimize your dh's concerns. Writing is the most important thing you teach them, and it takes time.
I really do think OhElizabeth gives good advice. I would just add the caveat that not every boy will be writing as much as she or WTM suggests. Work "toward" her advice but don't make the mistake of thinking all boys are going to be doing that much writing output in 4th grade (or 5th).
Encourage writing, encourage "expressing" oneself and help your son organize his thoughts and the information he is learning. But the pace and output would be a lot less at my house.
I think some 10yo boys (prob. not half imho lol) are ready to write a lot and others will get there, but can be 1-3 years *behind* girls up until even 6th, 7th or 8-9th grade.
I think lots of daily and weekly writing is a noble goal and I agree that writing quantity (and consistentcy even moreso) is important. But I would not be so quick to think that a boy "should" be writing these stated amounts. My 9yo boy (3rd grade, extremely advanced in all "knowledge" subjects) can narrate with the best of them lol, but when it comes to putting it down on paper, it is still like pulling teeth. Granted he should be writing "more" next year and the year after that. But I value amazing lego, knex building, warrior behavior and hammering and nailing just as highly as writing!!!
I find the best results with consistency, more oral narration and scribing for him still and he writes 2-3x a day. 1 - Dictation or handwriting practice (verses); 2 - a short narration or story or journal writing, and *maybe* 3 - a science or history report (1 paragraph). He might only do 2 of these a day. This is partly due to a very full academic schedule which includes Latin, and he is (very helpfully) teaching his K-brother a lot of math. I would guess my girls were writing 3X as much at the same age.
But it is also due to the fact that he hates writing and I won't push it because I know his mind is doing all the "writing skill things" and his pen/pencil will follow sometime before puberty hits!
ALso, if anyone is interested, I have 5 children - the first three were "A+ Lang Arts students" typical girls and the next 2 are math-whiz/engineering type boys. I really like to *remind* all of us moms that our boys are much different students then our dtrs! I'd like my boys to do more "seatwork" in some ways but I'd like my dtrs to do more "lego/knex/tree fort work" in other ways.
God's best!
Lisaj, who needs to send OhElizabeth a pic of my finished (but not furnished the way I want yet) basement school room as she gave me great advice and sympathy and organizational tips a few years ago :().
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I was reading a recent high school "science sequence" thread and a poster said (paraphrase) that "chemistry was more abstract then Biology and thus more difficult for many younger, or less science-oriented students."
We did Apologia Physical Sci and Biology and one dtr loved both and got As and the other dtr did okay and earned Bs in both. Physical Sci was largely done side-by-side with me and Biology was done halfway with me and then mostly independently for the second half. I oversaw and we did virtually all the labs in both courses. We were extremely thorough in terms of vocab and testing and outlining - and in general we just really made sure we were mastering the subject. Before that we did A Beka in grade 6 and Rainbow Science in grades 7-8. Esp in Rainbow, we really worked hard, outlined virtuallly every lesson on the board, did all the vocab and quizzes and experiments, etc.
Now, in chemistry, we are using the DVDs and the dtrs are mostly working independently (still doing the vocab memorization religiously) and yet the science-oriented 9th grader is getting a low "B" and the 11th grader a mid-"C" grade with 2 chapters flunked and repeated. Everything about the course seems to be challenging for them, from the equations to the course content.
I am just wondering why we are floundering? Is BJU Chemistry that much more difficult then Biology or Phys Sci - or Apologia? Is BJU Chem that much of a "different animal" then the past sciences we have "mastered"? Is the DVD format a problem? The teacher (everyone raves about the BJU Mr Harmon)?
Is the fact that I am not as involved the main problem? I oversee but I don't learn alongside the girls?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
THanks for any ideas.
Lisa
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Right now open the Year 2 book and start where ever the "new material" is (somewhere in the range of lesson 30 or 40 approx). Work 2 or 3 or 4 pages then skip a lesson completely (try to find the review lessons) - skip all the year two tests and speed drills at t his time.
Then, next Fall, start at the beginning of the Year 2 A Beka book (Lesson 1) and that way you will go thru all the review of Year one in the fall. and then you will get to Lesson 30 opr 40 in the second grade book (or something and you'll be missing the pages you did last year) and of course you will now do all the missed speed drills and use up the tests you skipped - take one or 2 tests every few days. Remember last year you left every 3rd or 4th lesson intact so now you can review anything from Gr 2 you learned last year....
Hope that makes sense. We do this every year or so .
Lisa
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We are working on Latina Christiana 2 (and I have no idea how it compares to your program). It does say in the TM that you have to overlearn the vocab (Latin to English, English to Latin) and the grammar forms. And it also says that doing the exercises in the book will be tough and kids will continually make mistakes and that this is normal right now. It's because they are overlearning all this stuff at the same time as doing exercises and they are practicing translating back and forth correctly in the exercises, doing the page flipping, etc.. I've found it to be true. Just when ya think you've got a sentence written correctly in Latin, BAM! You find you missed an ending, or a case, or a preposition, or a verb tense, or an adjective conjugation. It's complicated!!!! Anyway, that's why they say to overlearn it the vocab and grammar forms, so the exercises are a little easier. So overlearn it we are doing. Every day. Chanting every day through the cards. Then fumbling through the exercises. If we didn't do the cards, the exercises would be impossible.
I'm having another panic week (I had one last year about Latin, too) about next year's Latin. But I got through most of it already for this year and feel pretty good about it, I just have to talk myself into doing the next one (Henle 1 with MP guide). Hey, I finally sort of get 3rd declension - that was major for me!!!!
Carry on, overlearning! It's normal, I think, at least I hear anyway!:D
I think this is similiar to our experience. I have 4 children in Latin, 2 in Henle (2nd year in First Yr Book; units III, IV & V) and one in LFC A and one in LFC "B". The Henle high schoolers are doing lots of review every week of some of the same vocab, chants declensions, etc. as their younger sibs but the olders (who are also learning more vocab, grammar, etc.) handle the declensions and vocab and sentence constructions with amazing ease.
Their Henle sometimes strikes me as too much review, but OTOH my students' use of grammar, parsing, etc. depth is extremely impressive.
I think the OP needs to see how LL (in the next year) cements the first yr LL learning. If so, I'd guess you are going to be fine. If not, the vocab review suggestions given here should serve you well.
God's best!
Lisa
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Hi:
My ds (10) just cannot seem to get his multiplication facts (or any math facts - add/subtract/mult/div) completely memorized. I have tried everything with him and we drill every day either with worksheets, writing out the tables or flash cards. We are also utilizing Timez Attack. This stuggle is taking the joy out of math for him. Conceptually, he is doing fine. He can work 3 and 4 digit multiplication problems and divide in the same way. Should I just let him use a table for now to assist him or at least make sure that he is answering correctly? He was crying this morning and is starting to feel defeated. Any thoughts?
Blessings,
Lisa
I would make him use manipulatives, such as cusinaire rods. Yes, it will take just as long as thinking it up on his own but the visual/tactile reinforcement should help cement the drill sheets, flashcards, writing the tables, etc.
Personally I would learn those times tables and stop with any concepts that require he know the times tables *until* he has mastered the facts. I have done this with a public schooled 9-10yo boy and it took 2 weeks (about 20min a day, 3-4 days a week) for him to learn the facts. First I went thru with some "number sense" as in explaining how odds and evens give certain answers, doubles facts, twins, switch-around-principle (commutative), etc. Then,the number one thing we did was timed drill sheets - same one (A Beka or Saxon) every day until he could do them quickly. There are other tools incl QuarterMile (which we use).
I would absolutely *not* let him use a crutch of multiplication tables *if* he is able to memorize the facts. Rewards? Extra time practicing with Dad? Library videos? IOW, get to the problem (apparently) this has been going on for years if he hasn't memorized his +/- facts either?
If he can memorize songs, poems, lines from movies, he can do this! THere are tools such as chants, rap and other songs for these facts. Also, skip counting is a required skill here before multiplication tables.
HTH!
Lisa
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The lady at Rainbow Science that I talked to yesterday said that they have been around for around 11 years. I had not heard of them until last week!
Also, on there website they quote what SWB says about their curriculum:
Susan Wise Bauer, The Well Trained Mind , website . . . “This is probably the best home school science curriculum I have seen. Even if you are science illiterate, you can understand and teach it. It gives students the grounding they will need for high school without extraneous fluff.â€
Does anyone know if she said that lately? I know she does not recommend it in TWTM so maybe it is coming out in the new addition?
I love this curric. I don't think SWB recommends anything anymore - I remember kind of a "disclaimer" that her recommendations weren't that useful because what works for one family doesn't work for another.
We used it 3-4 years ago and it was a great prep for high school science and the perfect science for a nonscience mom like me. I used it with 2 kids at the same time - a 5/6th grade science-lover and a 7/8th gr nonscience student. It was as close to perfect as you could get.
We did the vocab with flashcards, used the quizzes (online) and outlined several chapters for retention.
Great curriculum!
lisaj
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I was wondering this, too. Doesn't BJU use excerpts, rather than complete works of literature? It might be better to study one complete work in more depth using a guide (Progeny Press, Smarr, or whatever), at least until she gets used to the typical study of literature.
OTOH, we have 11 weeks of school left and I am swamped and not inclined to switch now (not that I shouldn't consider it lol). Also, I had hoped that the video instructors (via DVDs) would be fleshing out the material for my students - I haven't watched the videos much, but I find the instructor enthusiastic but not particularily helpful for the HW and test questions we are poring over. I will adjust our work here to more oral work and more basic literature (plot, sequence, audience, historical significance) and less "deeper meanings".
We are reading a few whole selections even tho BJU does not require it. And that could be part of the problem as BJU pacing is kind of fast (i.e. cover "Romanticism" writers (4 or 5) in 2 weeks. Hindsight being 20-20, I kind of wish I had did Lit and English concurrently rather then leave Lit for the second semester. Like Eng MWF and Lit Tu/Th wil Eng was done.
All of the advice given in this thread has been extremely valuable and for the most part, eye-opening for me. I really needed the wake up call and appreciate it.
Even tho we will press on, I have received a lot of help here with all of your offerings. Thank you ever so much!
Lisaj
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I'm contemplating starting Latin this fall. My kids will then be dd 9 (4th grade), dd 7 (2nd grade) dd 5.5 (K/1st) and ds (3.5). I hoped to begin Latin when I could teach 2 or 3 kids simultaneously. Prima Latina looks great for my two eldest and maybe even dd 5.
For those who used Prima Latina and then Latina Christiana - did you also do formal English grammar studies such as First Language Lessons? From what I gather, this Latin program includes English grammar studies, but I'm unclear if it is enough that I would cut out other English grammar. This year, my oldest is in FLL 3 and I'm sure we won't finish by the spring, so I planned to continue next year. Yet no need to double my work if Prima Latina is sufficient.
I'm looking to do the best job and not be redundant.
What do you think?
Prima Latina is more for the K-3 set and it has very little grammar. Rather, it is a gentle introduction to Latin.
I would skip Prima (and I have it for sale LOL, my youngest is ready for LC1 next year). Here's what I would do:
I would do LC 1 for your 2nd & 4th grader, maybe at half-speed and focus on vocab if any of the grammar is too tough for the 2nd grader (it prob won't be too tough). Then, I would have the Ker join in on the LC 1 sayings, songs and chants and not worry about anything else for the Ker as far as Latin.
At this pace (1 lesson over 2 weeks), you would be in LC 2 with a 6th & 4th grader in a few years and ready poss. to do LC1 in 2 more years with your
(3.5yo now) Ker and a 2nd grader (now your Ker)?
If you are having trouble adding in Latin to a full schedule, you could do a grammar program concurrently at the same half-speed.
I have not used FLL. I like A Beka for the basics/traditional grammar approach (gr 1-3) and then Shurley is my favorite homeschool curriculum for making grammar "stick" in the grades 4-6 (we skip Shurley Lev 5 and do Shurley Lev 4,6,7).
Btw, we have done a few things wrong in our homeschool but we seem to have Latin and English down pat!
lisaj, mom to 5
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Thanks, Kristine,
Good advice!
Any other thoughts from WTM High Schoolers!
Lisa
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to be a different story!! I have enjoyed almost full family support for hsing gr K-8; now with one 11th grader and one 9/10th grader (she's working a year, or 2 years ahead in academics if you count her Sept birthday being too late for enrollment) - I am finally experiencing flak from my family.
Just as an aside, my kids all are pretty outgoing. Not really socially "awkward" in any way (unless we count their big mouths lol). IOW, people would not point to them as the "poster children of poor socialization".
Here are 3 recent incidents (btw, I have 10 siblings, lots of large-family dynamics, gatherings, interactions):
My lovely, but impetuous (mouthy lol?) 11yod told my 45yo brother (at a family birthday party/BBQ) that "you should stop smoking because you can get lung cancer and die just like your dad (my father, in 1992) did". (My father died before my kids were born.) My sister overheard and called me to tell me "because she thought I should know"; apologies to my 45yo brother were extremely graciously received by my bro (he seemed to think like I do that "kids say the darndest things"!)
My sister however, told me that she felt my kids were lacking certain social skills that they would get in public/private schools as to what is/what is not appropriate to say. She (surprisingly) then brought up an incident from 5-8 years ago!) when my oldest dtr told this same sister (who was driving & drinking a Diet Pepsi) that she should not "drink and drive". At the time, years ago, we all got a good laugh - with "kids will be kids" was the general thought from both of us (or so I thought).
The most recent incident involved my (otherwise) perfect 78yo mother. She was sugg. Running Start (high school enrollment in college classes) for my 16.5yo and I said: 1) I wasn't sure my kids were mature enough to really be in a college environment yet and 2) I don't like the idea of teenage girls being in classes with young adult men. I added that it wasn't logistically very convenient as we live an hour away from the community college. And my dear sainted mother said, "Well, when are you going to let your kids be in the 'real world'"?
I muttered something about public schools providing lots of bad role modeling and peer pressure and that I feel my kids are in the real world now, with parents who are looking out for their best interests - and that I expected plenty of "real world living" but wanted my children to be confident and secure in who they are/what they believe when they face some of the situations that are prevalent all over public schools now. I wanted to give the kids a strong foundation for when the testing comes.
I wondered if others have better info to share to support their high school homeschooling choices. For the most part, I feel that "the proof will be in the pudding" and I can take the arrows now as it will all play out in the end. But,
I guess I feel the comments are based on thier predjudiced perspectives and that by not correcting them, they are somehow being "validated" and in fact are a "growing" problem in my extended family's perception of my family.
Just for background, the "accusing" sister has 4 kids in public school after private schools for the first 8 years or so) and one other sister homeschools as I do - and a third sister put her dtr in high school in 9th grade (after 8 yrs of hsing) and this dtr completely rebelled including moving out of the house at 16yo and there was a host of huge problems. (We have had none of these problems thus far)
I had some thoughts to share some socially inadequacies of my sister's kids. I did not say a word because I felt my "feelings" were not useful. But we could note social "inadequacies" of almost anyone if I was looking for them!
Now that my sister (whom I love and whom is not some horrible woman) has opened the subject, I am sure she will have other comments.
sorry so long!
Lisaj, help me out here :()
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I've been wondering about shurley english. could a child who is strong in english and grammar jump in at level 5 (5th grade) or would it be best to backtrack. I checked out their site and see sample pages for level 3 but no other levels so its hard for me to gauge it.
thanks.
My "plan" (used for 4 kids so far, gr 3-11th) is A beka in gr 1-3, SHurley in gr 4-6 (we only do levels 4,6,7 as we find 4 & 5 too redundant) and then Rod & Staff in Gr 7-8 (using level R&S Lev 7 over 2 years in gr 7-8 along with a semester writing (IEW) ea year). My kids are very good at grammar and I attribute that to the base of A Beka, thorough lessons of Shurley & R&S, 3-5years of Latin and some inborn aptitude!
Lisaj
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Does the BJU Teachers Edition text have answers to the comprehension questions? I know what you mean about missing the "deep" stuff. We just read the Death of Ivan Illyich. My ds took the story at face value, nothing more. When we read the Spark Notes anaylsis' of each chapter however, there were lots of, "Oh, that's smymbolic for that?...oh, that's what that means?...etc". Had my ds been expected to "see" those things for himself, he'd still be looking:). I see nothing wrong with using Spark Notes, or other such guides to help with the analysis part.
NancyL, We have dial up (trying to get broadband, no signal out here from the company we tried first) so internet options compound the too-much-time-spent problem.
Michelle, The BJU TE does have answers to most comprehension questions - I just handed my dtr my TE and I traded for her student text about a week ago and asked her to read the TE "side info" and check her own answers with the TE after she does them. There is often a weekly (or biweekly) assignment for which BJU does not provide answers. Fristrating...
Even when I read the comprehension Answers from the BJU TE, I still often have a hard time finding where (in the text's reading) is info that supports the TE answer. It requires some searching - and sometimes at the end it isn't even clear to me. Obviously I don't find it profitable to give my dtrs the answers w/o some rationale as to why the TE answer is a good one.
The last test I gave my dtr was "open notes" - her score mirrored her closed book test scores - dismal. I'm not opposed to "open book" at this point - tho
Thanks for the replies and sympathy!
Lisa
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I remember being continually confused in high school over the ""themes, deeper meanings. author's struggles" in literature. Now, my dtrs seem equally confused.
If I hold their hands, I can help a lot. But even then, it is a ton of work and I am basically spoon-feeding my 2 high school dtrs. (I'm hsing 5 btw)
My dtrs are lost, and hating every minute. (American Lit) We don't mind reading the pieces so much as finding out that after we have read, we have retained none of the "deeper" things. Then, the simplest questions stump us and we go back to dig thru the readings. 3-4 comprehension questions can lead to an hour of digging and still we can only get 50% of them right. This is making Literature a 2hr a day struggle (and one that no one likes and I don't find it very profitable either.)
Btw, we "need" Literature credits and it is poss. one of my dtr will major in English or (teaching Lang Arts) at college?
I also remember my high school classmates being equally confused those 30some years ago. Are my dtrs and I having a "normal" high school Lit experience?
Btw, we are avid readers and love reading usually - we are using BJU Am Lit (gr 11) and DVDs. I am hand-holding a lot and
Any thoughts?
Lisaj
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Last week I wrote that I was going to try out K12 Science through our WAVA. (My state allows part-time enrollment and continued "homeschool" status with less than 6 WAVA classes.) :D
I am not familiar with WAVA. Can you explain that? And can you talk more about WA State's "part time "Homeschool" status. I wasn't aware of this either , when govt funding is involved. I am very aware of the "alternative" legal status labels for many of the school district's offered Home and School Patnership programs - and that these partnership programs revoke your legal homeschooling status.
Is WAVA the virtual curric thru Ft Steilacoom Sch District?
Thanks!
Lisa
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Everything is handed down and casual and in most subjects, I already own the TMs. I might buy 2-3 textbooks but the other things were all purchased 3-10 years ago!)
So for 5 kids, he total would be $2000; but the spending would be $20 for K; $50 for gr 3; $100 for 6th and $500-800 each for my 2 high schoolers :(). And that includes everything from binders and pencils to outside classes and DVD curriculums. (it doesn't include desks or shelves or anything like that. Also, it doesn't include piano or swimming team or extracurriculars like that.)
It seems to get more expensive every year as I get pickier about what works and what is efficient to use.
Lisaj
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Here's our grammar route:
A Beka, gr 1-4 - very traditional, thorough (esp gr 1-3 are gentle, usually just a page a day). (10-20min a day, followed by spelling, printing/cursive)
Shurley, gr 5-7 (we use Shurley Lev 4 first, skip 5 and then Lev 6,7)
(I find Shurley 4 & 5 redundant.) (30+ min a day) (Spelling 15-20min/day)
R&S, in grades 8-9: We use R&S Level 7 over 2 years alongside IEW or another good writing program, alternating weeks (1 week R&S/1 week IEW) or some similar breakdown. In high school, grammar lessens considerably - and we concentrate on writing. (Mine also take Latin for 5-6 years incl 2-3 years in high school - which works well for Engl grammar review as well.) (45-60+ min a day)
Best of all worlds? So far (3 girls) we do very well in English and Lang Arts. Shurley is one of my all-time favorite homeschool curriculums.
Lisaj, teaching 5
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Lisaj,
This is important information to me. Thanks. Just to be clear, the DVDs BJU sends are recordings of the homesat? Somehow I thought, mistakenly I guess, that the DVDs were made specifically for the DVD audience and thus wouldn't have "callers".
I don't exactly understand but it was a class system that BJU gave students some kind of phone (attaached to their computer/satellite receiver???) that allows students to call in with questions . Sometimes the questions are helpful but sometimes there is delay or techincial difficulties that cause annoying delays and dead air timmes?
Also - I think all the BJU DVDs are just tapes of the HomeSat classes and no different from HomeSat except there is no taping to do of the broadcasts.
HTH
Lisaj
Thriftiest way to subscribe to national news magazines for current events?
in High School and Self-Education Board
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Yes, it is necessary to subscribe (for us). There are ease of use and speed considerations, among other reasons.
Lisaj