Jump to content

Menu

zarabellesmom

Members
  • Posts

    957
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Reputation

992 Excellent

2 Followers

About zarabellesmom

  • Birthday 01/01/1978

Profile Information

  • Gender
    Female
  • Location
    GA

Recent Profile Visitors

606 profile views
  1. My daughter´s dyslexia definitely impacts output and required reading. I´m really struggling to find the right balance to keep her engaged but not overwhelmed.
  2. English: IEW and lit chosen by me. Math: Holt Geometry with MHMC Science: Environmental Science Oak Meadow Foreign Language: She tried Spanish this year, but her dyslexia made it very difficult. Going to give ASL a try. History: World History hodgepodge to include some projects from Oak Meadow World History Elective: 1 semester of photography and then we’ll see what she is interested in.
  3. This would be my daughter's first time sitting for an AP exam and we were going to try US Gov. The couple of schools I called today usually allow homeschool kids but told me that they aren't doing so this year. I was hoping to sign her up for the PSAT as well, but that is a bust so far as well. 😞
  4. My daughter did half of AoPS Intro to Algebra before we decided it wasn't for us. We got in touch with Derek Owens and explained the situation. I sent them a copy of the TOC from our AoPS textbook and they let me know what chapters of the Derek Owens material that they thought she needed to cover. She just took the tests for some of the chapters after skimming through the material. If she wasn't sure she understood a topic, she watched the videos and took the test. When we finally got to material she didn't know, she began to do the full program. They awarded a grade based solely on the work she submitted, not the material she skipped. I would just explain the situation and get their advice. They are very responsive to questions. We've been very happy with them.
  5. We have a great Windows desktop computer and a Chromebook. My daughter prefers m Chromebook for pretty much everything (except playing Minecraft) and I got tired of her taking it from me so I bought her one for her birthday. She'll use it to write a book she's working on and do online classes. She has an iPad that she prefers to use for digital art creation. We may have too many electronics. I think a Chromebook is great, so long as you go in with eyes wide open for what it will do and won't do.
  6. 7th already? NO!!!! Math: Continue AoPS Prealgebra Science: Continue Exporation Education Advanced Physical Science Language Arts: Lightning Literature 7 (My daughter is dyslexic and we've never used this before so I'm curious to see how much support she's going to need.) Social Studies: Tagging along with big sister for US Gov. and Economics (and frankly, she'll probably be more interested than her older sister). Spanish: We are going to dabble with this. She wants desperately to learn Spanish. She's played around with Spanish a bit in the past and done fine, but we've never focused on grammar or spelling, just conversational. I'm curious to see how this goes because I foresee her requesting Spanish for high school and her spelling in English is atrocious (again, dyslexia) so I expect we will go the ASL route. I could be mistaken though. Interest can go a very long way. Extras: Continue to work on typing, Taekwondo, dance and piano.
  7. Shortly after this question actually. 😂 It's like she's a mind reader.
  8. I posted this on January 30 and now that feels like an eternity ago! I'm tired of grading English compositions and she hates writing them. I need to her not to argue with me about them so I'm outsourcing. So now: Math: D.O. Algebra 2 English: WTMA Preparation for Rhetoric Writing Science: Clover Valley Honors Chemistry Foreign Language: WTMA French III Social Studies: 1/2 Government, 1/2 Economics Elective: ? She wants to do some creative writing. (Which she loves. Report writing is like pulling teeth.) So, anyone have any great secular government resources?
  9. Hi there. I need math advice. 🙂 I have an 11 YO who is almost finished with BA5 and I'm trying to decide where to go next. I have the AoPS prealgebra text and have worked through it with my oldest child. I love the method and the instruction is excellent. My youngest is a great math student (maybe better than the oldest) but is dyslexic. She's reads well now, but slowly and while her comprehension is good reading literature and she has no problem reading and understanding BA, I'm not sure how her comprehension would be working through the AoPS text. That said, I expect I would sit with her and we'd work through it buddy math style so maybe the reading wouldn't be SUCH a big deal. I really don't know. My other though would be switching to Derek Owens. My oldest moved to Derek Owens Algebra after going through about half of the AoPS Intro to Algebra book because she was starting to cry every day. (Ugh, the drama.) Anyway, the instruction isn't AoPS obviously, but I've sat through it and it's not bad. The instruction is video based (and yes, I've watched the AoPS videos and I think they're great, but they aren't the full curriculum) and having the notes printed for my youngest so that she can easily follow along with the videos might be nice. But if we did start with DO, would we do the prealgebra course or just start with Algebra 1. I wouldn't jump from BA5 to AoPS intro to Algebra, but I'm tempted to skip DO prealgebra since BA5 seems like preparation enough there. Help!
  10. I still feel like I'm figuring out 9th grade (even though we are better than halfway through). Math: D.O. Algebra 2 Science: Honors Chemistry outsourced to someone English Lit/Comp.: Oak Meadow Literature and Composition 2 Foreign Language: French 3 (WTMA) I think we will tackle a semester of government in the summer/early fall. Election season seems like an interesting time to do that. After that, economics I guess, maybe incorporating some of this: https://www.core-econ.org/ Electives: ? That's up for discussion. And she'll continue dancing, dancing, dancing.
  11. I'm planning to outsource chemistry next year and these are the two providers I'm most interested in. We are looking at Honors Chemistry for a 10th grader. Anyone have any ideas why one might be a better choice than the other? Thanks!
  12. Originally we were working about 45 minutes to an hour a day, 5 days a week on Barton. We don't take summers off. Lately we've moved to 30 minutes or so and about 4 days a week (though the goal is always 5 but stuff keeps happening). We haven't done any RAN/RAS work, but she was evaluated by a vision therapist when we began looking into her reading difficulties. They told me she wasn't dyslexic, so I've not got a lot of faith in much of what they said after that. We've moved to a new area and it might be time to look for someone. She's not extremely slow, just slow enough that you notice that she's working a little harder at it than most people her age would be.
  13. This is an update and a thank you to quite a few of you (not just those in this particular post) who assisted me on my journey. I can't figure out how to add the word update to the topic, but... We are just a few months shy of three years of Barton and my daughter is mid level 8. She's become a successful reader. She's a great decoder even if she reads rather slowly. Her spelling is much improved but still obviously dyslexic. This may always be the case, but she's becoming proficient with technology, so that's a big help. I can't find the posts I made prior to this, when you fabulous people were encouraging me to get testing and then supporting me with my grieving when we finally had results, but wow! What a journey. Annabelle has entered 6th grade this year and while we are only beginning our third week so far, she's sight read A Long Walk to Water and is part of the way through The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. This is such an amazing difference. She's so confident and actually enjoys reading (both audibooks, family read alouds, and sight reading). This is a big deal considering that slightly before testing she told me, "Books just aren't for me." She's in book 3 of CAP Writing & Rhetoric and while she's ok at speech to text in Google Docs, she prefers to type and her spelling is decent enough that it mostly comes out ok. I'm not sure we would be here without the many members of this particular subforum--and not just those who posted in this thread. Reading about everyone else's struggles and successes, encouragement and advice... You've made all the difference and as we continue our journey, I'm sure you will continue to see me hanging around. So thank you. Many times over, thank you. Teresa PS: I also dragged my older daughter who is dysgraphic+adhd, but who is am amazing reader, through Barton. She did all ten levels and is such a confident speller now that if you didn't have the psychologist's report, you would never suspect that she struggled with spelling. She occasionally asks for help with a word that spellcheck can't figure out, but even her handwritten work is mostly spelled correctly. We've come such a long way.
  14. I can't offer any input, buy I'm impressed with what you have so far and can't wait to hear what others say. I've got a subscription to Great Courses Plus and so far we are only using it for one course, so I'd really like to utilize it more.
×
×
  • Create New...