LunaLee
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Thank you Lily. I agree about the classics thanks for jogging my memory on the ones I might want to do next year. We did abridged versions of Treasure Island, The War of the Worlds, and Gullivers Travels this year.
Maybe next year I'll do:
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Three Musketeers
Sherlock Homes
The Time Machine
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Thanks Lynn. Your list looks a little like mine which I am already working on, but I also wanted to see what others were doing too. We'll be doing History Odyssey, so I have a good historical lit selection already, but there are so many other great books. Here's what I had so far-disclaimer it's a long list and still in progress-
Bunnicula
By The Great Horn Spoon
The Phantom Tollbooth
BFG
The Twits
The Whipping Boy
Hatchet
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Secret of Nimh
The Borrowers
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Rabbit Hill
The Railway Children
From the Mixed Up Files...
The Cat Who Went to Heaven
He reads above grade level, but this list has a huge range, which is good-some will be easy and some will be more challenging, but I think it's a good balance.
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We are doing Ancients next year, but I don't necessarily mean history reading. Thanks.
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I was just wondering if they were going to do this-it's been about 5 yrs since the last one and what, 4 or 5 since the original one. It will be interesting to see what new recommendations are made.
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Let's see ds turned 9 in February and roughly this is what I've planned so far for 4th grade:
Singapore 4a/b, IP, & CWP
History Odyssey Ancients Level 2
My own literature study guides that I'm still working on for books not included in HO
R&S 4 or FLL4
Writing Tales 1 or Writers Express
SWO E
Vocabu-lit 4
Word Roots Beginning
RSK Biology
LfC A or Lively Latin
Maybe some fun beginning Spanish stuff
MCP's Maps, Charts, and Graphs D
Takewondo
Art
Guitar
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Luna, I wouldn't classify a science fair project as similar to a craft project, like a poster. When you do a science fair project with your child you're teaching them a whole process along with the scientific method. Much more beneficial, in my mind.
True...but the same principal applies. Both of my dc spent some time in ps, and usually the projects were cumulative of a unit study.We've had covered wagon projects, State Reports, Create your own penquin, desing your own dinosaur complete with habitat...that kind of thing. We always worked on them together, with me more just guiding than actually doing. I always found it very frustrating when the other kids' projects would come back and it was SOOOOO obvious the parents had done them. It always made the kids who had done their own work feel a little inferior.
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I guess it would depend on the age of the student for example-Recentlywe had our co-op's science fair and ds wanted to enter it. He came up with his own scientific question, thought of the materials he would need and developed his own procedure. I made him set up the experiment and record it. He typed up a little journal entry which I proofread and went over the changes with him. I typed up the display board entries as he read them to me, but I made him do all the cutting and spray gluing. I showed him how to arrange everything on the board in the order that made the most sense and was visually appealing but it was like "What should come next?" and "Do think this looks better here or there?" I would say overall I helped about 30% and in the end he won 1st place in his division and he felt good about himself because he did most of the work.
We've also done some of the Evan Moore folder reports and he does those on his own. I just try to make sure his cutting is even and his handwriting is neat, but that's about it.
I stopped physically helping dd with her projects in about 5th grade. After that and even now I just offer suggestions, but she always does all the work.
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If you call the IRS at 1-800-829-1040 their automated service will tell you exactly when it's supposed to be deposited. Ours ends 28 and is scheduled to be deposited on the 7th.
I was looking for it today too based on that article, but alas...nope.
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We found level 3 to be nothing more than busy work too. So I started using Evan Moore's Word A Day and then next year we'll move to Vocabu-lit.
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Thank you Percy. I'll check those out.
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Bueller... Bueller... Anyone...? I know there was a thread on the old board about this very thing, but I can't seem to find it. Does anyone maybe have a link to that?
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DD has always enjoyed photography, but it seems she has recently decided she would like to be a fashion photographer. So I am looking for maybe a text, she also learns better with those, or other rescources.
TIA
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Good for you Luanne. Once you get it used to it, you'll be fine-it might take a while for your body to adjust so make sure to get your sleep and take your vitamins.
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I just wanted to share this book I found at Barnes & Noble yesterday- "i before e (except after c) old school ways to remember stuff"
Remember all those rhymes and mnemonics you were taught in school:
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally and such...this book is full of them. Science, history, math, music...
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ean=9780762109173
Thought somebody might like to add to their resource library.
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Thank you most kindly for sharing.
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Wow-that does look complete. It has practically everything...but did you see it was 601 pages? That's gotta be at least 1.5-2 inches thick. Although... My mom binder at this point weighs about 8 lbs. It's a good thing my binder has a handle and came with straps.
If you do get it, will you let us know what you think?
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Sorry...No, I had the other one, the jr. high one. But...to be honest with you, if she is still a high level reader you would be better off with one of the Thomson Publishing texts or the other Spievogel texts. Hopefully, Susan can get a hold of it and tell you what she thinks.
Sorry for the confusion.
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Coming in late on this one-I haven't had a chance to read through all the responses, but for non-fiction or text books I do assign page numbers, but for fiction reading I assign time limits or chapters.
I used to do pages but stopped for 2 reasons. First dd is a slow reader, so page #'s were intimidating and it might take her a really long time to read 5 full pages. And second, both kids got to the point that they were focusing on page #'s only-They became page counters. I heard a lot of "This chapter has (alot of) pages :-(..." And I was getting a lot of page by page updates...
Of course these just might be my kids, but that's what we do here and why.
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I had this Glencoe text when we first started homeschooling. I believe it's for jr. high and the writing is meant so that a 5th grader could read it. I thought it was great at first-I was blinded by the bling of all the maps, the foldable learning ideas by Dinah Zikes, the literature pages and the pretty pictures, but then found it to be overly busy. Plus dd had a hard time focusing because of too much going on on the pages. Also, the topics really aren't covered in that much detail.
I also have the Spievogel/Duiker World History book, and this is what we will be using for highschool. There are no review questions in the book, but it does have several maps, additinal reading suggestions and a timeline for each chapter.
So in answer to your question, I don't think the Glencoe text would be adequate for a smart 8th grader or any highschool student.
HTH
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Definately co-op/cc for anything past pre-algebra. That's about as far as my math cells will take me.
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I STRONGLY suggest Rewards by Sopris West. My dd has the same problems, and I figured out that it's mostly phonics related. At ps they were taught sight words, so she stumbles on many words and makes up others. I was having the hardest time trying to find a remedial reading program that wasn't geared for littles, but the Rewards program isn't childish and doesn't make dd feel "stupid".
We've only been using it a short time, but I am already seeing improvements.
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Also, as the books progress the workbooks cover a little bit of everything, vocabulary, spelling, phonics, reading comprehension and I think writing. So essentially, it could be used as a complete language arts program.
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Planned so far for 9th next fall:
Co-Op Classes:
English 9
Earth Science
Algebra 1
At Home:
History-History Odyssey Ancients Level 3 substituting with World History by Duiker/Spievogel, The Teaching Company's World History Lectures
More English-R&S 6, Vocabulary Cartoons, Sentence Composing for High School,& Writing Strands 5 (summer)& Write Guide
Logic-Intermediate Logic or Traditional Logic
Health-Make a cookbook
Computer-Some specific assignments, otherwise incorporated w/ other subjects
Nature Study w/ ds 9
Art-Colored Pencil Techniques
Digital Photography- she has done photo classes before, so for this one I will assign some photo essays and other things-she wants to be a fashion photographer :)
Online:
Latin-Wheelocks w/ Artesian Wells
We'll be using a block schedule like college-Co-op classes are on Mon/Wed and everything else will be Tues/Thus/Fri/Sat. She also volunteers at a therapeutic riding stable 1x a week and plays softball.
Now that I look at it, it looks like alot, but that's the plan for now.
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Well, if you've already done Wordsmith App. and he liked it and you liked it, I say move on to Wordsmith. He's the right age for it, and by the time you are done with it he'd be old enough for Wordsmith Craftsman.
What does Writers Inc. consist of?
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That's pretty much it. I found it was a great reference, but fell short of any real instruction. I know lots of parents use it as a reference, choosing to do the actual teaching themselves. However, if it's instruction you want, I suggest choosing the Write Source book that is appropriate for your students grade level. I know they now have books for grades k-12 that are grade specific and not a couple of grades grouped together, like All Write and Writers Express.