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Which year? SOTW AG's have good book lists, classical House of Learning has a free list, also I always check SL, TOG,and VP choices for that year. If it is for year 1, I have a list of what we used on my blog.
It is for year 1. So the books for SOTW would cross over to MoH?
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I am planning on starting MoH with my then 2nd grade DD. I am finding the supplemental books listed for younger students severely lacking. I've read to check ambleside, sonlight, winter's promise, illuminations, etc, but I don't have any idea how to find what I'm looking for on those sites. I am just looking for a simple list of supplemental age appropriate books and corresponding chapters/lessons for younger students. Does such a thing exist?
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I'm looking into Grapevine Studies, Stick Figuring Through the Bible.
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And some fidget toys-squishy balls, putty, ect. To keep her hands busy while she needs to read or listen to me read.
Unfortunately, this would only make it WORSE. If she has ANYTHING in her hands, she can't focus on her work or my reading.
My friends and I joke that we need to make wallpaper with the word "focus" printed all over it since we say it sooo much- but they would get too distracted by the wallpaper:)EXACTLY!!!
Alternate skill/content/rest/storytime/snack. Start off the day with the *worst* (but only work 15min!!!), and move on to a story......Let her work for 5min by herself in math, and come in for the last 10min and scribe for her so she can fly through some (if writing is a chore). Shoo her outside. Call her in and pick another subject of seatwork (15min), move along to history/science....and so on... If you have a subject that needs more than 15min, break that subject up into 15min segments and think of them as separate lessons for the sake of alternating *Focus* with *Relax.*
Her lack of focus is a cue. I think these kids do much better with less work on a daily basis, but schooling year-round.
We do school year round. I'll have to write this down and see if I can adjust our day to try it.
Maybe you should set an amount of time to sit with her while she does her work (or doesn't! :tongue_smilie:) and when the time is up, then she is done for the day. I honestly don't think that would make her think she was "getting away with something" because it doesn't seem like she's doing it to be defiant, right?No, definitely not in defiance. :)
Thanks, Everyone, for your ideas. I've been thinking about a timer this week, just haven't gotten one, yet. Lots to think about and try.
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She sounds just like my 6.5 yo! It can definitely be frustrating!
One thing that helps me is to try to appreciate her creativity even in the midst of all the distractions. I do think it's actually a gift, but it's one that makes sequential, focused academic work difficult! I remind myself that when she is an adult (or even earlier) her way of thinking will most likely come in handy for whatever she ends up doing in life. She's definitely a divergent thinker, which is a quality very much needed in today's world.
Besides that, some things that help are playing with her hair or scratching her back or cuddling on the couch while we work. Also, a timer sometimes helps (but she's also just as likely to forget the timer is going...).
Today while doing math she made up a little story about a balloon that was cut in half, talked on and on about frogs, trying to decide whether she liked them or not and what she would do with them if she had them, and tried to put her hair in pigtails several times. We did eventually get 2 pages done, so I'm happy. I guess I just assume that she will eventually grow out of it and that it's just normal for creative kids to be like that!
I know she's creative and I seriously try not to squelch it, but everything takes so. long! I don't have time to do anything else. When we tried Singapore, the whole "tell a story about this picture", yeah, forget it. Instead of "There are 2 blue balloons and 3 red balloons", I got "Once upon a time..." HOW will I have time to school more than one? Much less tend to the house and the other 2 littles?
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I have not tried workboxes because I know I could never keep up with them. I don't expect much of her independently. She is perfectly capable of completing Explode the Code pages on her own, but I'll check back after 5, 10, 30, however many minutes and she will have done NOTHING- instead creating a game with her pencil, or talking to an invisible friend, or playing house with her fingers- anything but the work she was given. :/ Besides, I have a hard time keeping her on task when I'm sitting right in front of, or beside, or on top of her teaching. When she reads her Hooked on Phonics words, she has to define every. single. one. as she reads it. When we would work with the Right Start tiles, she would end up sorting by color, building towers, making patterns instead of just counting out 2 or whatever. It's maddening! I swear I'm gonna tattoo "FOCUS" on her/my forehead! It's like our mantra, "Focus, focus, focus..."
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My DD will be 7 next week. She is so incredibly distractable, she makes everything take 3-5 times longer than it should and she absolutely can not be left to work independantly. How do I keep her focused and on task? Next year I will need to work with my 4yo, too, so she will HAVE to do some work by herself. HELP!
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I am using reception with my 4yo and year 1 with my 6yo. I printed out the lesson plans for R and the worksheets for Y1. I print off worksheets for R on an as needed basis. I basically just go through the lesson plans skipping anything that doesn't translate well to 1 student. We look at the posters and copymasters online.
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I have a HS friend who schools based on a start and end date. She's homeschooled for 8+ years which leaves me a bit puzzled. Her kids get the whole summer off and any random teacher workdays the school assigns. I'm now at 1+ years and I knew we would school year round from the beginning. We took 4 weeks off in July last year and I don't plan on doing that again. The adjustment was horrible. We take random weeks off, usually when dh takes vacation. I couldn't take a month off every 3 months.
I also have a friend like this. she does 'school at home" with a strict schedule, boxed curriculum, circle time, and little flexibility. She follows the public school schedule to a "t". Her rigidity drives me bonkers because our girls are friends and want to play together, but she schools in the morning and we have mandatory rest/nap time in the afternoon that we all NEED to make it through to bedtime. We can never have playdates because she won't switch school to the afternoon for a day! I just have to keep reminding myself that different things work for different people.
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we just go. I guess we loosely have fall, spring, and summer based on DH's schedule, but nothing really changes. This summer we will drop to 4 day weeks because Daddy will have Fridays off, otherwise it's business as usual. I like being able to have off and lazy days where nothing gets done without stressing about meeting a deadline.
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How do you assess their reading level? My DD will be 7 in 2 weeks and does not read fluently.
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We basically follow Daddy's community college schedule- simply because we don't focus well when Daddy's home- so basically holidays, spring break, and a couple weeks between semesters at the beginning or end of summer. There are plenty of days throughout the year, though, when nothing gets done due to illness, activities, or just plain not feeling like it. At the beginning of May we will go to a day week because he has Fridays off, but since we're playing catch-up due to a rough pregnancy, he will still be doing math with her those days.
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We use confessions of a homeshooler's Greatest Artists unit and DD loves it. And it's FREE! Considering her new composer study for next year, but disappointed that she's charging for that one. :/
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we use confessions of a homeschooler's Greatest Artists unit. it's FREE and DD1 loves it!
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double post.
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You don't need to learn full-on Latin for this. Or rather, if you do start learning Latin, it will take you a few years before you can start figuring out the meaning of English words based on your Latin vocabulary. What you need to answer her questions now, is a study of Latin word roots. English For the Roots Up or Creative Teaching Press' Greek and Latin Roots (by Trisha Callela) will be good for a 7 yo.
ETA: I refer to www.etymonline.com to answer my dd's questions.
This is helpful, thank you. :)
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I've read through some of the previous Latin threads, but haven't found the help I need, yet. DD1 is always asking WHY things are called what they are. I want to start her in Latin so we can know. She is 7yo. I'm thinking SSL for a gentle intro. She learns songs easily so I thought it would work. I've read about so many more I'd never heard of, though. Which curric would help with what I'm looking for?
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I have an off the charts visual DD and we found that the tile work was SUPER distracting for her. She could. not. focus with the tiles. It is also SUPER teacher intensive and took the biggest chunk of our day. Finding the time to do it with littles underfoot is very frustrating.
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I am new to the forums and I keep seeing people using multiple math curriculums. Why do you do this and how do you implement it?
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in K-8 Curriculum Board
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Actually, MoH teaches from a young earth pov. I chose it because I like the Bible history right alongside "regular" history. Makes it more real to me.