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  1. We have used this program the last 2 years and love the independence and quality of what it teaches. However, I have a couple issues with it that I'm wondering if some if you have figured out a solution for.  

    1)  I wish the pacing was more straight forward.  I find it hard to pace my kids with 12 books even when I write dates on each one noting when they should be finished.  Finishing so many pages a day works until it doesn't work and somehow we find ourselves way behind.

    2)  There is also overkill practice on everything.  I do often cross a lot of it out for my daughter, but that feels tiring too.  I'm wondering if I should just require maybe 5 problems completed for each page so long as she gets them all correct.  Has anyone else found a good solution for dealing with this?

  2. I'm curious if anyone knows of any (preferably Christian) music groups  that tour around the country/world where participants try out for their position within the group and maybe have to raise their own support?  We're looking for an opportunity like this for my 16 year old son. I participated in one as a high school, but the organization (Continental Singers) has since disbanded.  

  3. On 7/24/2020 at 1:20 PM, 2_girls_mommy said:

    Ugh. My stupid phone autocorrect. It's supposed to say Science in the Age of... (Reason, Beginning, etc. ) The Berean Builders that you said as well, Lol.

    Yes, I had Science in the Beginning and sold it.  The daily experiments made my kids and me go crazy.  

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  4. I'm switching language arts programs for my 3rd, 6th, and 8th grader.  I'm liking the grammar side of Abeka but am wondering if the composition aspect needs supplemented, espcially for my 8th grader.  We tried IEW last year and liked it, so would probably supplement along those lines if we did do supplementation.  But am open to other options too.   I'd certainly appreciate any thoughts on this!

  5. Apologia was a great fit for my last 6th grader.  He learned soooo much!  But my current 6th grader isn't so science obsessed.  He's had just a little bit of light science up to this point.  I'd love to get some recommendations on a science curriculum that is similar quality to Apologia, but maybe not as time-intensive.  And my kids have never been into experiments.  So with whatever we choose, I don't want it to be too experiment heavy, but some are good.

  6. We've focused on writing solid paragraphs along with a little essay work this school year.  We're done with the pieced-together curriculums I planned to use.  I'm needing some curriculum to finish up the year now.  We're planning on putting him into public school next year and I'm not sure what we should focus on to prep him for that.  He's not terribly advanced in his writing, but does okay.  I know we haven't done much with outlining and wondering if we should focus there, but would like a resource to guide us.  I'm also considering just ordering Writing and Rhetoric book 5  and doing the first part of it because we've used it some in the past and...well....it's something.  Any feedback is welcome as to how to finish this school year in the writing realm!

  7. I'm thinking it work best for us this year to study specific history topics versus our typical linear history.  I'll have a 7th, 5th, and 2nd grader this year.  What would be on your list of interesting history topics to cover?  

  8. Does anyone require their kids to just do something....anything exercise related for x amount of time a week or day?  I'd like to hear about what that looks like.  My son is entering 7th grade and I'd like him to begin developing that habit.  He thinks he's great stuff that he does 10 pushups on some mornings.  He needs to do more.  Sports other than soccer (which he does do) aren't an option right now.

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  9. I need the following suggestions from you all for my rising 7th grader.  He's not completely clueless on some if this.  We did Essentials in Writing 6 last year, which covered these things, but he still has a ways to go.  So I need (and they can all be separate resources):

    -Best resource for learning to write paragraphs

    -Best resource for learning to write essays

    -Best resource for writing reports

     

  10. 7 hours ago, Momto6inIN said:

    7th and 8th grade is when my kids start:
    Making lunch for all of us at home
    Vocab instead of spelling
    Doing a few subjects completely on their own with just discussion with me
    Personal fitness in the mornings before morning meeting
    Formal lessons in study skills
    Required basic programming and website building
    Career exploration
    Standardized testing to see where they might need work before SATs and college admissions
    Science fair project with Excel spreadsheets for data
    Reel Math video challenge to get them working in a collaborative group on a project
    Creating power point presentations

    How important is the computer programming, website building, and Power Point?  All of that totally overwhelms me!  Or is there an easy way to do that when your parents know nothing of this arena?

    Also, do you have a resource you later ke for teaching study skills?

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  11. My 5th grader has struggled with coming up with his own writing from scratch or near scratch based off writing assignments.  I'm thinking that a writing program based on the imitation of great writing would be a helpful path for him.  I'm familiar with Writing and Rhetoric for this, but I'm curious what other curriculums are out there that employ this technique?

  12. My son was diagnosed with some speech disfluency by a speech pathologist about 1 1/2 years ago.   We weren't able to get him into the school's speech therapy program for a year after the diagnosis.  When that time came I decided to decline it because it didn't seem like his problem was very noticable and I was more concerned about making this already quiet boy self-conscious about his speech when it really didn't seem like that noticable of a problem.

    However, lately I've really noticed a ton of stuttering when he reads aloud to me.  Maybe it was always there and I just overlooked it, but now that I've noticed it I'm seeing that it's really bad.  Are there any tips for ways I can quietly help him at home?  He's 9 and he reads really well for his age and above grade level.  Again, I don't want him to be self-conscious about it and making a big deal of going to speech therapy seems like it would just make it...well...a bigger deal.  But do you think I should just enroll him in it?   Or is there stuff I can do at home with him?

  13. 30 minutes ago, nixpix5 said:

    My boys used level 1 and my DD used leveled 2 last year. She is currently doing level 3 and the boys are doing level 2 now since we school year round. 

    I'm actually using level 1 and level 3 this year for my two younger ones.  I like them for the younger ones, but I question it more for my 6th grader who would be finishing up level 4 and then level 5 this year.  Some might be his personality and  need for more review.

  14. On 7/15/2018 at 9:10 AM, nixpix5 said:

    I just want to throw this out there. We did TGTB part of last year. My kids loved it and I did not. It felt like not enough for writing and grammar. I jumped ship and felt super critical about many aspects of the curriculum. My DD wanted to keep doing it so I let her do it on her own time and supplemented. It became too much and she dropped it much to my glee. 

    So then a weird thing happened...I started to notice all of the grammar and writing she had retained and used came from TGTB and not from my other well chosen choices. Something about the activities and pace of TGTB clicked for her. She absorbed everything she learned in TGTB. I started to notice the same thing with my boys. So we picked it back up. My soon to be 2nd grader was struggling with grasping to be verbs and it recently clicked in place thanks to TGTB. My DDs paper on "What Makes Quality Literature" in her 3rd grade level blew my DH away. She is really REALLY getting it. 

    So I just want to say, if you and your students love it, maybe keep going and sprinkle in a little extra writing and grammar where you can. You might be surprised ?

    What levels did you use?

  15. 22 minutes ago, rjand6more said:

    Why not just get the Companion books from TG&TB?

    Are your referring to the Level 4 Creative Companion?  That's the only companion book that I can think of that has the art, poetry, and geography in it.  He's half way through that book and that thought did cross my mind.....just having him do that book on top of whatever else we do for language arts.  And then when we come to level 5 just printing the free pdf download and just doing the sections that pertain to those areas.  But that will be a lot of weeding through things.  Was hoping there was just something different but similar.  Things like the Simply Charlotte Mason enrichment stuff is fine, but it's just more pieces to juggle rather than it all being in one place.

  16. We did our first year of The Good and the Beautiful language arts last year.  I loved it!  But as I think about it, what I realize that I loved was the variety each day along with the geography, art study, art instruction, and poetry.  I don't feel that the grammar and writing area is as good as it could be, which defeats it being used as our language arts curriculum.

    So if I switched to another grammar and writing program, is there any other single program that would encompass the geography, art, and poetry that I'm missing?  I'd love it to be just ONE program, sort of like TGATB, so there isn't so much juggling.

    Or is there another language arts program similar to The Good and the Beautiful that I'm missing?

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