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Not sure we'd be good for testing since our kids are still pretty young, but I'd love to know when it's available after testing!
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Mine are 1st, Jr. K, and Pre-K (6, 4 & 3)
We pretty much do all of our subjects together.
We're doing a year of world geography/mapping before we start the history cycle mostly because, since I plan to keep them studying together, I wanted to give the younger 2 an extra year to have a better grasp on the history concepts next year.
Science, French, nature study, art/music.. are all done together. I supplement with age/skill-appropriate extras, but I found it easier to schedule subjects knowing that they're all together rather than, "okay, G needs me for French, so I'll have R do _______ because he can do that on his own." I like this also because since we're all learning the same thing, I can have them all do the same (or a group) project.
I don't expect my 3 year old to understand everything we do, but he's learning regardless, and has picked up on some things.
I think the only things they do separately are math, writing, and language.
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This is great, thank you!
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I was pretty set on Usbornes Internet-Linked Encyclopedia of World History, until I read a review that said it paints Christianity as fact (and shows other religions as merely beliefs). I looked at SOTW and I'm not sure about that one either. I can't tell from the sample I saw.
I know religion played a big part in history, and I fully expect to teach that to my kids... But I'd rather a spine that shows all sides, I guess. At least not favouring one over the others. Maybe something that MAY be slightly bias, but can be easily avoided?
We recently got a used book called My First History of Canada (by Donalda Dickie) that tells Canadian history in story format. I LOVE this, my kids actually listen to it. I wasn't sure there existed other such books, so I'm not set on encyclopedia-style vs story.
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I'm not sure what this program is, but because you mentioned it, I wanted to check it out. The Chapters website has it, not sure how the prices compare to elsewhere.
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This was my plan as well. I figured if the kids eat breakfast at 6:30-7 we can get outside for 1-1.5 hours before school. I was trying to avoid the heat and too much sun exposure, too, but we're in Ontario so I'm guessing your heat is worse. :)
I have this separate from their PE time, I'm not sure why, but we'll see how it goes.
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Bump!
Has anyone else had to figure this out for their kids?
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In theory..
Five times a week are: outdoors/nature study, math, language arts of some sort & PE.
French & read alouds are 3-4 times.
Geography, science & independent reading are twice weekly.
Piano, music appreciation, character building.. I'm not sure yet, but probably once a week.
Subject to change, of course. :)
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I found problems starting young ones later on in the cycle with SOTW and with H.O. because the later end of the cycle (for both series) is written to an older audience, and so is actually HARDER. I tried unsuccessfully with both curriculums on different occasions to teach to different ages simultaneously. My best effort ended up deciding to guide the older child along the age-matched trivium track, and to use that as a spine of content for the younger one, but NOT the same acutal materials. (So if the subject was the Revolutionary War, the older child is working out of H.O. and the younger child might be being read picture books on George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, etc., then mom is showing DC on a wall map where these places are, etc. - mom just has to take her library cue from the older one's spine). It was a bit tricky for me. I had better luck just investing the time in having each DC at their time period on the cycle. KWIM? Not to say it can't be done - I know some people do, but I just couldn't do it justice...
Good luck!
Thank you. I'm not sure where this leaves me. I guess I can at least aim for my middle boys starting at the same time and have 2 cycles going. Hmm..
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We're going to be starting HO in the second half of this school year. I'm getting a bit ahead of myself, but I'm just trying to figure out how the years would work for all my kids.
Oldest DS is 6, followed by DS4, DS3, & DD1. When they eventually get to HO, is there any way I could keep them all on the same era? I figure DD will be 5 when DS6 gets to Ancients 2, so they'll be on the same cycle, but I'm lost with the middle 2.
Is it at all possible, when they start HO, to start DS4 at Early Modern 1 if that's what oldest DS is on, and start DS3 on Modern 1 with them the next year? What about Ancients & Middle Ages (& Early Modern for DS3)? I think I'm looking forward to Ancients & Middle Ages the most, personally, so I'd be sad to skip those for the younger boys. I'd like to keep everything in chronological order, too, rather than Modern, Ancients, Middle Ages...
How do you teach 2+ eras at a time? I'd really looove to keep everyone on the same time period for read aloud & activity purposes..
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WWE, AAS and AAR would be fine. I wouldn't add anything else, except for a handwriting workbook if handwriting is an issue (you can correct handwriting during copywork, too).
I've taught Writing with Ease 1 3x now. :thumbup1: It takes maybe 10-15 minutes at the most and you use it 4x a week. It alternates between copy work, narration exercises (asking comprehension questions after reading a passage) and narration exercise+copywork. I always have them start WWE1 in December of 1st grade (but you could start earlier). On the Peace Hill Press website, there are audio lectures on how to teach writing for sale. Those lectures were very helpful to me. If you buy WWE, I just buy the workbook. It has student pages and also day-to-day instructions on what to say/what to do (it's scripted).
I was going to finish up our HWT book from last year and see how we are from there. Thank you for letting me know how WWE works. I was looking at the sample pages, and see there's a reading selection list. Then there are sample passages from those books, so are the books only used for those passages? Or are there more exercises for the rest of the book?
Maybe I need to take another look at it to make some sense of it. I think some of these curriculum are meshing together in my mind.
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I started Shurley English Level 1 when my oldest was in first grade. It does an excellent job of teaching all the parts of speech through sentence parsing. The jingles help you to remember everything being learned (the noun jingle). There is also a writing component that we don't exactly follow. I use Write Source because it's more creative minded. For LA we also use AAS, ETC, Zaner-Bloser Cursive, and lots of reading with comprehension and narration.
My 6yo has not started Shurley English yet or the cursive, but does all the rest listed above and I add in HWT, HOP 1, and OPGTR.
I haven't gone through the whole Shurley English 1 book yet, but this is why I was going to include it. We were learning a bit about different parts of speech last year so I figured it would review and continue that. I wasn't sure if that's included in any of the other curriculum I was inquiring about. Maybe I'll just add a bit here and there.
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Ok, I'm looking at WWE, AAS & AAR. Do these overlap at all? Is it overkill? What about with the Shurley English that we've already got? I would love to get the AAR Pre-1 for DS4, too.
I'll add this to the first post, too.
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This is awesome! Thanks!
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Did you look at the samples on Amazon or Peace Hill Press? Amazon is less expensive, but Peace Hill Press has much better samples of their books.
I was looking at them on Peace Hill Press. I'll have to keep looking into it, I'm still undecided. Definitely still stuck for the rest of language arts.. Still looking into all those suggestions :)
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Where does WWE fit in? That looks interesting, and I think DS might like it (from what I see in the sample)... But is that just writing, or other stuff mixed in? Would it be an overlap of something we're already planning to use?
I'm no good at classifying, obviously. :)
Although I have to confess I think the researching is kinda fun, too.I like researching them too, but it's taking up all my free time, and I'm still lost!
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I'll check out these new suggestions too, thank you.
I'm glad there are many options but sometimes it seems there are too many, especially for indecisive ones such as myself. :tongue_smilie:
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I would love some more suggestions, please and thank you! :)
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My 3yo & 4yo DS will be doing Preschool/Jr. Kindy this year..
So far I'm thinking/I've got:
Get Ready for the Code series
Wordly Wise 3000 K
Saxon math K
Child's Play Science & Magic School Bus/Sid the Science Kid
lots of crafts
Kumon Cut/Colour/Fold/Sticker
SOME of Letter of the Week Curriculum by Confessions of a Homeschooler
Tumble class at least 1 morning/week (starts up in the fall, 3x/week)
French, Canadian Geo, read alouds & music/composers with 6yo DS
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Here are things I like for LA which may work for your child:
Spelling Power
Winning With Writing (Level 2 may be good)
Evan Moor's Skill Sharpener's Reading workbooks (mostly for reading comprehension, but also has some phonics and other grammar)
Critical Thinking's Language Smarts workbooks (these are pricey, but I like them very much. They incorporate grammar, phonics, and some writing review work)
This year I am also going to try these:
Memoria Press' Copywork workbooks
Vocabulary Workshop workbooks
You may also want to add some history. Reading narrative histories for kids is great at that age, as are historical fiction and biographies.
I will look into these, thank you. I do have some history readers and biographies lined up at the library. I wasn't sure if I should keep those for the second half of our year when we'll switch Geo to History or read them early on regardless.
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Since he is self taught in reading, I would make sure he is strong on his basic phonics, which can have gaps in a child who was self taught. You could go through a book like The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Reading and skipping sections that are obviously too easy for him.
For grammar, the Shurley English would fit that bill if you wanted to do it since you already have part of the program.
Would you like a workbook approach or an approach that requires more of you? All About Spelling is awesome for this.
For vocabulary, you could do the Wordly Wise, though my opinion is that children rarely remember vocabulary from workbooks like this. I know some children have, though. Mine just don't. :) I like to talk about vocabulary in our literature selections and then in 4th or 5th grade I want to do root word studies (prefixes, root word, suffixes, etc.)
Bumping for more responses!
I'm really not sure what I'd like. He works well independently and I suppose that would be helpful as this is the first year that I'll have to divide my attention. AAS is the one with the letter tiles, right? I'm not sure how we'd like that. Can it be used without that?
I liked the thought of Wordly Wise just because I'm horrible at coming up with my own lists of vocab, but I can probably find that online. I hadn't thought of that.
I agree with 3peasinapod. I would find a spelling program that is based on phonics (like AAS) to ensure he is strong in that so as he gets older he learns how to tackle multi-syllable words, etc.The other things is how is his handwriting? Good? Not so great? If not, I would consider doing some sort of handwriting practice with him.
I, too, usually do vocab. in the context of our read- alouds and in history and science.
But otherwise I have not used much homeschool programs for lang. arts, but put things together, maybe someone will know of a program that might fit.:001_smile:
He's fairly good at either remembering how words are spelled or at least guessing correctly. He reads chapter books himself (we're still working on more comprehension) and can read most everything he sees, rarely he gives them the wrong sort of vowel sound, though, so I think he may need to review the "silent e" but he can definitely read multi-syllable words.
His handwriting is pretty good. Better than my husbands, lol. We've still got most of HWT 1 left over that I was going to add in this year. I think I will tie in our vocab words to our science and history as well.
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Edit: Ok, I'm looking at WWE, AAS & AAR. Do these overlap at all? Is it overkill? What about with the Shurley English that we've already got? I would love to get the AAR Pre-1 for DS4, too.
I've been trying to plan our second year and realized I don't have much in terms of language arts for DS. He's 6, doing grade 1-2 work, and he's been reading very well since 4, but is self-taught.
I've recently got Wordly Wise 3000 K for younger DS and was thinking of getting it for DS too. I've got the Shurley English 1 TM, but I'm not sure what else I need to cover everything (phonics, grammar, spelling, vocab, etc.) in language arts. Any suggestions?
What I've got for him so far:
Geography - (focus on Canada, then World) replaced by History Odyssey when we're done
French
Science - Start Up Science (Singapore), then R.E.A.L.
Math - finish Saxon 1, Saxon 2/Singapore/JUMP (not sure)
Arts - composer study, Music for Little Mozarts
Am I missing anything else?
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My kids, the oldest of which is 6, really enjoy watching Charlie Chaplin on Netflix. Good for showing the start of the film era compared to now.
They also like Bonanza.
I'm excited to show them musicals. Something with Howard Keel, maybe.
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Hi, I'm new here. We're in eastern Ontario - near Ottawa & Montreal, and at the NY border. :)
Meg
UILE World History or individual Ancients spines?
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I'd been looking to get the UILEWH, but now I'm wondering if it would be better to get each area separately. Like the Usborne Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, and Ancient Greece. They each have 128 pages devoted to their country, whereas the World History is 416 pages, divided into so many different areas. Does anyone know how they compare? Are there other books for Rome and everywhere else covered in World History? I was hoping to get books to cover everything and have them be decently in depth enough for use again next time we cycle around, so I don't have to buy too much more.