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Need Audio Book Ideas for Car Trip
2queens&1princenmyhouse replied to Mrs Twain's topic in K-8 Curriculum Board
My kids are 15, 13, and 8. We are working our way through the Little House books, but occasionally we have to wait on one from the library, so we've added others. Johnny Tremain Carry On, Mr. Bowditch The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death and a Boy Called Eel Jefferson Son's We're a history bunch if you can't tell. :laugh: -
RS4K middle school?
2queens&1princenmyhouse replied to Freya's topic in Logic Stage & Middle Grade Challenges
If your kids are STEM kids, I think it wouldn't be enough for middle school. My middle schoolers aren't science-y kids. I cannot picture either of them going into any type of science related field AT ALL!!! I think it is enough of the nuts and bolts for them. I do require extra reading from library books and an extra experiment with each chapter (in addition to the one in the lab book). Now, my first grader is following right along. He is definitely more science minded. I doubt I will get away with using them again when he is closer to middle school. He will probably be tagging along in whatever high school science courses the girls are taking at the time. -
I feel like we are slacking after reading most of these lists, but here's ours. For DD11 Math: Saxon 7/6 Grammar: Intermediate Language Lessons Writing: Homeschool Connections Class online class Simplified Writing for Middle School, An All Encompassing Foundational Middle School Writing Course Spelling: All About Spelling (starting at the beginning and seeing how far we can get--her spelling is atrocious) History: RC History: Volume 3 - 1066-1699 Geography: Map Trek to go along with History and also MCP's Maps, Charts and Graphs Eastern Hemisphere Science: RS4K Chemistry followed by Biology (we'll start Chem this summer since we were woefully lacking during this school year) Latin: Prima Latina Religion: Faith and Life 6, Altar Server Art at the local Catholic school and on the volleyball, basketball, and archery teams. Soccer with the Y Homeschool orchestra, violin, and a homemade club called Liberty Ladies (focus on oral presentations and learning about strong women in American history) Most literature will come from history or readings for Liberty Ladies. If I find it lacking, I have the books that go with LLATL tan (which I purchased thinking we would go that route). We'll use the study guides if needed.
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http://www.kristinscraftsforkids.blogspot.com Prepackaged craft kits for preschoolers. Each craft comes with a book suggestion (or two) and an extra activity that you could do to enrich the experience. It's not really "school-y" but would give your younger DD something special to do without the formal schooling aspect.
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This makes me teary-eyed, :crying: in a good way! Not only are you a charter member, you are the reason I'm doing this. :hurray: I am so happy that the crafts are meeting your needs. Would it be ok if I quoted your post (from above) and put it on my blog/FB page? I don't have many reviews other than the generic "we love these!" which is nice but it doesn't really give parents a good idea as to why they should purchase, KWIM? I'm putting the March kits together in the morning and getting them shipped hopefully either tomorrow night or Tuesday morning.
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Thank you. I design most everything, either hand-drawn or created on Publisher.
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It's going really well. Thank you for asking. You can order through the blog, but I just checked and you can't see the buttons, only the post. I guess that means you need a computer. Or send me a FB message, and I can pm you my pp address. That would work too. :)
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There is something about the "&" in my username that won't allow pm's. Why I could choose it in my username to begin with is beyond me, but whatever. I have so many better things to gripe about. :tongue_smilie: Anyway, yes, we cut two or three apples and dug out the seeds. Then for the days after, I would just let him get whatever he grabbed and we would put them in the middle of the table. I would tell him to count them. So let's say there were 9. Then I would tell him to choose some for me (he gave me 3) and he got the rest. Then we counted his plus mine equaled 9. Put them back and do it again, but this time, I would just check to make sure that he didn't get the same number. We did this a few times until we had three or four different facts for 9. Sometimes I wrote the different problems on our lap-sized white board and sometimes not. We did this through play for a week or so before we moved to the paper work. By that point, he had enough concrete example that he was able to just draw x number of seeds on one side and then figure out how many should go on the other. HTH I still scribe math for my 11yo DD. Writing out long division becomes overwhelming and she breaks down. She can tell me exactly what to write and where, so I figure she knows how to do it. Plus, I make sure that I'm "occupied" for a few each lesson so she does write some. :thumbup1:
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I have a ker who is doing Saxon 1 (he did Saxon K in his preschool program). Thread jack: :) With the apple seeds, I used actual apple seeds and DS and I took turns dividing them. Say we had 6 seeds. He would go first and take 4 and then that left me with 2. Then I would go. I always made sure that we didn't end up with the same problem. It helped him to understand. And I scribe for him. The writing would be too much for my guy!
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I plan it so that 3-5 yo could do the crafts with parental assistance (help cutting and following directions depending on the child), but I think that most of the things I planned would work up to 8 yo and maybe even older if the child wanted to embellish the original craft. I plan on my soon-to-be 11 yo doing the crafts and helping 6 yo DS do them as well. Examples: tissue paper mosaic of Mary, Mother of God playdough and popsicle sticks for St. Peter Paper plate craft for conversion of St. Paul Handprint dove for Baptism of the Lord
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