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    HELP!! How do I print grade book for TT math?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    Every time I print the grade-book, the boxes that are suppose to show the scores (as they show on computer screen) are not showing up on the paper when I print it. just a blank gradesheet with  blank boxes. 

    I don't understand what I am doing wrong?

    HELP! (trying to gather together the portfolio at the last minute, of course)  :banghead:

    Thank you in advance!

    Help having cold feet about my selected history choice! (re:learning adventures: AWOA

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    Ok, here's my story: I am a 9th year homeschooler who LOVES my "together time"

    with the kids. I have 5 kids: 8th, 6th,4th, 2nd and a two year old who we

    recently brought home from China, just 8months ago)....so, life is a bit crazy.

     

    I was drawn to AWOA and fell in love with it because of the rave reviews on how memorable it is. And all the fun activities.

    I see my oldest entering high school years very soon and I am trying to make these last

    couple TOGETHER learning years very special. I also like how everything is right

    there in the book.

    I will be mainly just using the history portion/literature

     

    However, I am SO INTIMIDATED by the curriculum, that every time I open it, I get

    an anxiety attack! I am scared its going to take such a long chunk of morning

    time ...even if we spread it over two years. Schooling is so much harder with our toddler in the mix....I feel like it changes everything! I'm just not able to do as much as I want to. I need to be practical.

     

    Maybe it's all the reading, or discussions or supplies or just how many pages it

    is. I just fear it flopping in this house because of not being able to GET IT

    DONE....ESP. With having a busy and needy toddler this year!!

     

    So, I've been looking at MOH 1 and I'm attracted to it. Maybe it's because the

    lesson readings are short....and easy and simple and streamlined. Not as much

    text!

    I just am wondering if MOH may be a better fit for how many kids and

    "distractions" I have! Lol but, though I fear it may be too dry...not as

    exciting/activity based as AWOA?

    I do want good memories!

     

    I think if I were just schooling 1-3 kids (above age 9)...AWOA would be more

    doable....???

     

    Any advice or experience using AWOA Or MOH 1 with a big family would be helpful!:)

     

    Thank you so much!!!!

    is it ok to skip GWG for a year? (especially for those familiar with AWOA)

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    I have a 2nd,4th,6th (my 8th will still do seperate Grammar) who will be doing Adventures in Learning curric (AWOA) and we are excited.

    But, it does include grammar and writing.

     

    SHould I just do the included grammar (which is lighter) and skip GWG this year?

    Part of me thinks I should skip grammar in AWOA and do GWG....since they are used to it.

     

    But, it would be nice to get it all done all together! (as in doing it AWOA style)

     

    ahhhh, what to do!??

     

    Any experiences?

    what do your 9-12 y.o. boys do to pass the time in the summer? Interests? hobbies?

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    We'll continue with piano and gymnastics and take up swimming lessons, but that still doesn't take up even most of every day. I have this problem too, and it's compounded by the fact that I'm having pretty bad morning sickness. All my kids are getting a lot of screen time at the moment, but I'm hoping we can break out of it in a few weeks when I'm feeling better. It doesn't help that DH loves the computer too, so when he's home all DS wants to do is play the computer WITH DH. . .

     

    I feel your pain....we have a toddler who is newly adopted and recovering from surgery of her cleft lip/palate...so, we gotta stick around the home for now.

     

    I guess I need more "around the home" suggestions! :)

    AHHHH! Just ordered My AWOA curric. Never been so excited to start.....

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    thank you everyone for your encouragement and experiences! Let me know if you have any other tips!

     

    yes, I was planning on supplementing grammar for 8th grader. And, SOTW sounds like a fun addition!

     

    I DID order the K-3 supplements because I LOVED the look of the sample activities....a lot of them look fun for even my 2 yo!

     

    here's a sampling of some fun activities from the first unit on Egypt (and this is JUST the first UNIT)...that I am already gathering materials for!:

     

    Studies and activities on: Joseph, God's amazing plan for his life, and Joseph's obedience • Sampling foods of Egypt • Spelling rules, lists, tips, and concepts • Geography of Egypt • Reading library books on Ancient Egypt and the desert • Experiments dealing with snakes, camels, the sun's energy, evaporation, and transpiration • Elements of literature • Making a model of Egypt with soil, sand, and grass seeds • Greek and Latin prefixes, suffixes, and roots • Egyptian art and architecture • Pyramids • Agricultural products of Ancient Egypt • Making barley cakes • Discovering what the Bible says about worshiping false gods • What the Bible says about God's protection, love, compassion, and desire to have a personal relationship with us • Conflict in literature • Interpreting a graph of Ancient Egyptian exports • Desert formation • Biomes, ecology, desert storms, weathering and erosion in the desert • The Nile River • Making models of reed boats • Reading The Golden Goblet – a mystery story of Ancient Egypt • Parts of a book • New words from literature • Literature discussions • Writing techniques • Science in Ancient Egypt • Fiction, nonfiction, historical fiction • Antonyms, synonyms, metaphors, similes • Using a thesaurus • Memorizing Psalm 23 and 24 • Creating a historical timeline of ancient events • Mapping deserts of the world • Ancient Egyptian customs • Making Honey Cake and Lentil Stew • Comparison and Contrast in writing • Comparing and contrasting ancient and modern Egyptian maps • Declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences • Singular and plural subjects, simple and compound subjects and predicates • Arts and crafts of Ancient Egypt • Papyrus • Making paint as Ancient Egyptians • Painting with grass and rope paintbrushes • Types of paragraphs • Topic sentence, body, and clincher of paragraphs • Interpreting a pictograph of scribes in Ancient Egypt • Comparing and contrasting Ancient Egyptian life with ours • Making a plaster relief • Hieroglyphics • The Rosetta Stone • Deciphering a coded message • Interpreting a charts of Egyptian craftsmen and Thebes bakers • Making a Life in the Desert booklet • Moses and his part in God's plan to rescue his people from Egyptian bondage • Writing and staging a play • Pharaohs of Egypt • Mapping the Israelite's route in the Exodus • Making a sweet treat - "Cleopatra's Kisses" • Learning about the weather and climate of Egypt • Making a poster of the Plagues of Egypt • Editing and punctuation skills • The Passover Story - special meanings, symbolic foods, and customs • Traditional Passover Celebrations and the Lord's Supper • Preparing traditional foods and having our own Passover Celebration • Discussing the blood of the lamb that saved the Israelites on the night of the Passover and the blood of THE LAMB – our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ – the one that saves us from sin and death • Rejoicing together in our Risen Lord!

     

     

    CANT WAIT!!!! We need this kind of year!!!

    AHHHH! Just ordered My AWOA curric. Never been so excited to start.....

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    We used the first 3 units of AWOA this year. I spread the six units over two years so I could still include some other curriculum like IEW, Apologia Science, and FFL. Overall we had a good year. We enjoyed the end of unit celebrations and projects. As I was looking toward next year and evaluating our curriculum lineup, I asked my kids what they liked or wished that we would change. The enthusiastic and unanimous response was, "Please let us do Learning Adventures next year!" They really enjoyed the read-alouds this year. I think that is what they think of when they think of AWOA. :001_smile:

     

    I tried using the game that goes with AWOA, but it just caused too many arguments to be worth it for us. With the different age levels, we just couldn't come up with a way to make it work. So I just used the questions without the game format. :tongue_smilie: Surprisingly, the kids didn't complain much about this. Something else that we did was to take all of the vocabulary root word cards (each child had their own, as well as a copy for me) and played Go Fish with them. We did this a couple times through the year and will do it again this summer. The kids really enjoyed it and it helped review the root words, so it was a winner!

     

    The writing was a bit tough for us sometimes times. We pushed through though and made it. I did slightly change one or two assignments like letting my kids pick the theme for their essay instead of having them do one on the Romans. I think that they would have been fine with Egypt, but we just did not have quite as good of a grasp on Romans culture. I'm not sure why. :confused:

     

    I felt that the grammar in the 1st three units was a bit light, but I hear that it picks up later and we were doing FLL on the side anyway, so it was fine for us.

     

    I liked the Bible memory part. My kids memorized three full chapters from the Bible. We didn't really work that long on it each day either.

     

    The only change that I will be making next year is dropping (or having my kids read silently), the history summaries in AWOA and adding the Veritas Press Self taught course. Though we got a good overview of each culture with AWOA, I somehow felt that we were lacking some chronological structure. There is one day each unit to make a timeline in AWOA, but it just felt a little disjointed in that area, and every now and then the summaries had enough detail that even I was getting bored reading it. :tongue_smilie: We tried the one month trial of VP Self Taught and loved it. And I really liked how they had the memory cards and songs. I even bought the memory CDs for us to use this summer. I think that it will help tie all of the loose pieces together in my head and hopefully for the kids too.

     

    So with a few changes, we will plunge into AWOA again next year. Middle Ages, here we come! I don't think that my kids have ever begged for a curriculum before. :001_smile: And it wasn't that they weren't being stretched. (especially in writing and literary analysis) It just included enough fun that they forgot the harder parts. That is what is great about AWOA.

     

    I hope that you have a great year with AWOA!

     

    Angela

     

    Wow, thank you so much for this review. I'm most looking forward to all our hands on activities. We didn't do much this year with our adoption so, I know the kids really miss that asoect of schooling.

     

    I'm also looking forward to taking a break from America studies for a year. I really think this will be a great year for us....I feel like my spark is being kindled again to homeschool :)

    AHHHH! Just ordered My AWOA curric. Never been so excited to start.....

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    I am using this with all my kids ages grades2-8 next year and I have never been so excited to start a curriculum then I am to start this unit study!

     

    I have poured over options for teaching all the kids together for the past 2 weeks, and when I discovered AWOA I feel like I unearthed a treasure!! It just looks perfect! It also allows me to streamline!:D

     

    My oldest will be in 8th grade next year and I REALLY wanted her last year before high school (where it will be more intense, solo learning) to be a special year learning as a family!

     

    can you tell that I am super excited! LOL

     

    now the tricky part will be keeping my 2 y.o. busy while teaching! haha!:tongue_smilie:

    I need to hear your best vacation destinations for families???

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    Wow!!!! You all are quite the travelers! Lol! I knew I coud post here for great ideas!! Thank u so much!

     

    We are not vacation pros cause we don't usually financially ave the ability to swing it....so we're not quite sure if we want relaxing, or adventure/fun!!

     

    To be honest, with a 2 yo and 6 yo in the mix, nothing's real relaxing!;)

     

    I love the idea of California!sea world! Disney...but summer probably isn't the best time to go.

     

    We really don't want to wait in lines forever the whole vaca.

     

    I'd love to o to Hawaii!! Lol:D

     

    Again, thank u or your help!!!

    ds10 can't seem to hold onto details when reading by himself ,vs. reading aloud to me

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    ds reads aloud to me and we are able to discuss the reading and he comprehends and catches all the details.

     

    But, when I assign the reading (chapter books) and ask him questions, he can't seem to recall details. UGH!

     

    Also, this is the same child who CANT hold division/multip. facts in his head! (but thats a whole other post) LOL

     

     

    ANything I can do to help him slow down and digest details of the story?

     

    I do know this....HE DOES NOT ENJOY READING. He really hates reading chapter books. He'll read guiness world records and ripleys and nature magazines for hours. BUT HATES reading ch. books.

     

     

    HELP!!

     

    thanks!:confused:

    Why do people adopt internationally?

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    why not?

     

    Just cause i live in America doesn't mean I have to only care about America. God is God of the world, not just america.

     

    The suggestion that children should be adopted from this country first suggests that somehow American children are more important than the other children in the world. And, as a whole, children in this country simply are not as needy as children in other countries.

     

     

    One Earth......many children w/o homes.

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