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This is a fun book you could use as a spine. It's more of a "living" book. My kids loved it.
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We certainly have a boat load of lovebugs right now. You could easily do a summer insect study...beetles, butterflies, grasshoppers, flies, etc. The Florida's Fabulous series as mentioned by a pp is fabulous. :)
If you can make it to Sanibel Island then you can have enough shells for hours of identification. Head to an area with alligators or go bird-watching. Or come to Gainesville and I will give you a personal tour of our Natural History Museum. ;)
We have several of the FF books already, what would be the best way to use them? And we're going camping at Sanibel in 2 weeks! We already have a boatload of shells, though because I went there every single summer until college. :)
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Anyone have any resources or ideas for doing nature Study in Florida? I've tried the Handbook of Nature Study and looked at lots of other sites and such, but we just don't have much of that stuff here. We go walk a trail at a local park, but it's always the same stuff.
TIA!
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Pollock is another one included in our artist curric and most kids enjoy him, but my dd did not. lol i like some of the others mentioned here. thanks!
unfortunately, i know nothing about art and have been having a difficult time teaching it. is there some sort of art for dummies book i could read/use to learn myself? dd is only seeing the obvious surface stuff and i have no idea how to get her to look deeper because i don't really know myself. :/
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no. i have it for 3 and 4 and have never opened it.
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thank you so much for this. sometimes i feel like i must be a failure at this homeschooling thing because my oldest is a slow reader and behind in math. seems like every thread i see mentions an advanced child and every siggy lists higher than grade level curric. glad to know i'm not alone.
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pre-level astronomy is new and geology is coming! yay! hoping to use both next year.
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If your using either one what ages are you using it with?
Thanks! :001_smile:
we're using the artist one and my dd just turned 7. she loves it!
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We really love the Mike Venezia books about artists and composers. My DD adores the humor and I love that they are interesting and engaging. My library has tons of them but you can order them from Amazon on their 4 for 3 special (I think they are about $7 each so you could get 4 for $21 or so).
I second this. the world's greatest artists curric we're doing uses these and dd1 just loves them.
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have you looked at Sequential Spelling? It takes a different approach by teaching word families.
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I'm listening, too! While I'd like to have us in a routine that's starts with breakfast together at 8, DD1 will sleep as late as 10 some days. I hate to just wake her as that's part of the beauty of homeschooling, but it throws off "my" ideal routine.
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Does everyone schedule by time instead of just the next lesson?
Because we are still playing catch up, we will continue as usual through the summer, except that we will drop to M-Th (except for math) since Daddy is off Fridays. As a matter of fact, I plan on slowly adding in our new subjects throughout the summer so we're not bombarded in the fall. We will start handwriting this week, our science supplement 1-2 weeks after that, etc. My kids hate being outside in the summer, it's just too hot so whenever they DO choose to go out will be fine, but I don't expect it to be much. I will also slowly be starting my upcoming K'er on her work throughout the summer and hopefully by the "official" "start" of our school year, we will be comfortably in the swing of things. Since we school year round we feel comfortable taking days off here and there, willy nilly knowing we have plenty of time to make it up.
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Confessions of a Homeschooler has what looks like a pretty great artist study program, World's Greatest Artists. The download normally costs like $5 but it looks like it's free right now.
We have been using this this year and my dd LOVES it! It is FREE and we get the books from the library. We were at EPCOT last week and she pointed out a print by Monet. She was so excited to recognize it.
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I also eat breakfast before my kids get up (or while they're watching their morning movie), but I do the dishes during their breakfast. I like the idea of an audio book for that time... I read school stuff while they eat lunch, then we all snuggle on my bed for read alouds and devotions before rest time. i eat during rest time. Dinner we all eat together. Their before bed reading is stories they pick and then DD1 stays up an extra half hour to read to me without the littles distracting her.
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We will be starting ancients in January of 2nd grade and continue through the full 4 year cycle. But we school year round so will be a little ahead of the curve. Anyway, I'm planning on doing American History in middle school. I know 1 year will be the Prairie Primer, but don't know about the others yet (suggestions welcome, please! :)) Then we'll do the 4 year cycle again in high school.
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You could back up (and only do any work when she asks) and start from scratch. Take the letters you know she always remembers and then add one. Review those quickly each day she asks and then when you feel those are solid add another one.
My almost four year old daughter knew half of the sounds but couldn't tell you which sound a word started with. I started with 2 very different sounds, gave her a few pictures that started with each and had her match them to the letters with lots of help. Within a few week it clicked with her and now she can usually tell you the sound that words start with. She is not ready to blend sounds into words, so we will keep adding sounds slowly until she knows them all. I would tend not to start a reading program until they know all short vowels and all other consonants(hard c and hard g only).
I didn't use formal program. Just starfall for my DDThe other thing to try is to make up some game.
I used the foam letter, scatter on the floor and maybe 5-10 at the time. and when I say a letter (or a letter sound), she jump on the letter. That works very well for my leapfrog hater
These are great! Keep 'em coming!
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Sound games -lots and lots of them!
Getting Ready to Read is a great book for this. It is my go to handbook for games and other ideas to build up pre-reading skills. Here is another overview of "I spy" sound games.
My 2-year old is in the first stage, so for example I'll hold up a banana (real, minature, or a picture) and say "I spy something with my little eye that begins with the /b/ sound," and he'll say banana. I'd then say "Yes, banana starts with the /b/ sound." Eventually I'll move on to holding up two objects. Another great game is to draw out words. So for example say "Bring me a b-o-o-k" (saying the word book very slowly, so the child can hear the individual sounds and begin to understand the blending process.)
HTH
Oooooohhhhh! I like this!
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Silly question - can she hear okay? Have you had her hearing checked? Any speech issues or ear infections?
She is still really young, and it could be nothing, but some of what you have said does throw up some red flags for possible auditory processing issues.
Her eyesight and hearing are fine. No major history of ear infections or speech issues.
Thanks for all the replies. I keep thinking maybe she's not ready, but she wants to so. bad. She did just learn the word "exit" and points it out everywhere. Is there a good "whole to part" reading curric I could try maybe?
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Have you tried Leapfrog Letter Factory? My middle son didn't learn letters until he was 4 (he's my "late bloomer", compared to the other two kids), and Leap Frog did it for me.
Also, have you had eyes checked?
Doh! I forgot to list this. She is sick of the Leapfrog videos. I can't MAKE her watch them anymore. When her sister chooses one, she leaves the room. :/
Also at 4 can she tell you what letter a word starts with as this is also key to reading and one of the initial steps - work on this at the same time by going round the house and finding things that start with a particular sound (not letter - so "kite" and "cat" would be for the same sound) Phonics itself is very auditory except for the recognition of the letters - try and separate the visual first and see if she can do the auditory at all.
She can NOT do this. Or the inverse (tell me a word that starts with /a/). I have tried and tried.
Here are my thoughts…I hope you don’t take this the wrong way…but I wonder if maybe your DD just isn’t ready yet (it sounds like you’ve done a lot of work on this). I know you said that she WANTS to read, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that she’s READY. Four is still very young to be worrying about reading. If you are confident that she is then I would second the suggestion to check for vision problems or anything else that might be preventing her from learning. I’m also curious who is finding the process frustrating. Is your DD frustrated that she can’t remember or are you? If she is perfectly happy working on letter sounds over and over then I would just keep practicing them in whatever way she finds most engaging until she gets them (barring any actual LD). But if she is the one frustrated…that’s when I think it’s time to switch tactics. That might mean trying something different or it might mean putting reading on the back burner for a while and trying again in a couple of months.
We both are. When she can't do it, she cries and says "I'll NEVER learn my letters!"
I should also add she is a very kinesthetic learner- a HUGE challenge for me.
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My 4yo WANTS to read, BEGS to read, but can NOT pick up her letters and sounds!We've tried several different programs and she does great with the current letter, but ask her about any previous letter and forget it. It's so frustrating! Help! How do I teach her letters and their sounds so she can read? And how long should I stay with a program I feel is not working before switching to something else?
Here's what we'cve done:
Starfall
Reader Rabbit pre k
Progressive Phonics
HOP pre k
ETC A
a homemade LOTW curric
I have:
100EZ lessons but I'm pretty sure that's not going to work for us
A Scholastic phonics program
I am at a loss, please help.
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I am not "officially" schooling 3, but here is my plan for next year. Do some everybody stuff in the mornings- Bible and phonics (abctheykey). If we don't go anywhere we'll do some more- art, geography/history, latin, logic. after rest time, set DD7 on independent work- etc, handwriting, and then educational computer games while I do 1 on 1 (or 2 on 2 lol) with DD4/5 and DD3- math, etc, hop, handwriting, logic. Then do any together stuff that didn't get done earlier. Then set DD4/5 and DD3 on computer games while I do 1 on 1 with DD7- math, grammar, spelling, writing, logic. Have no idea if this will actually work, but that is my plan. We have several games so they can rotate and not get bored of the same ones over and over and the younger DDs will not be required to stay on the comp the whole time I work with my older DD, they can go play. My youngest DD will still be young enough that I hope she won't be much of an issue (I do NOT hold that illusion for the next year when she will be a toddler. *sigh*).
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Here is my current plan. We school year round so we just begin things when something else ends.
math- undecided
phonics- finish hop 2nd grade by end of summer, abcthekey to phonics pathways, etc 4+
spelling- a reason for spelling
grammar- fll 3&4
writing- writeshop primary
cursive
handwriting- a reason for handwriting
science- rs4k pre level 1 biology (starting today), physics, geology if it's out), astronomy/start apologia astronomy
finish us geography and start moh/sotw combo
bible- grapevine studies stick figuring through the bible, tgs 1
art- finish greatest artist study over summer, various activities from the hundreds of books lying around
composer- cohs curric
latin- ssl
logic- logic safari
extras-sewing, gymnastics, thanksgiving unit study, christmas unit study
*everything subject to change :P
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I am actually relieved to read this. We school year round, but if we school every day without taking any days off, we won't finish our current geography, math, phonics, or spelling programs until December. :/
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me, too! My odd is the exact same way.
Anyone doing an Olympics unit study
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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when are the olympics? july? august? i'd like to put one together... could you share your resources?