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  1. The mattress one was done at our local school this year. Seems bizarre. How often do people buy a new mattress? The high school did one through the ford dealership too. They got $20 or $25 for every person who did a test drive of a new ford.

    Last year I was president of my kids elementary school PTO. (talk about a big change to suddenly homeschool this year, but my eyes were opened to the tradgedy of public schools) Fundraising was difficult but a necessary evil. My parting suggestion since I was homeschooling this year was a walk/run a-thon. Low costs, physical fitness, and the straight up donation at least was matched by the kids doing something. Last I heard the new PTO was going to try it.

  2. I have been on the fence about it too. I might reevaluate when HSBC offers the basic one for less$$ again. I looked at the list for basic and plus and didn't see much on the plus we'd use (mostly it was stuff for upper grades). I was looking at it for libertys kids, but found the, all on YouTube. So I'm holding off for now. It's a lot of money, and we have a great library and sometimes I can find the same stuff on YouTube.

  3. I tried reading the Borrowers to my kids as our first read aloud this year. I'm not sure if it's the version I got or what, but I felt like a moron reading it. I couldn't make sense of the language. It wasn't rich language. It was down right old and not easily understood. I swear I liked these books as a kid, but maybe I just liked the idea and never actually read the books.

    We are reading treasure island now and are enjoying it. Reading through this thread though, I'm wondering what to read next. Obviously not Stuart Little. Haha.

  4. I'm a simple girl...I use an index card for each kid. I have a master plan in my binder for the week which I pull from the individual subject lesson plans (I plan out about a months worth of lessons per subject at a time and then weekly combine them on one sheet so I can adjust if we go faster or slower the week before.). Then each evening I write it all down on an index card for each of the kids to follow and check off. It helps if they can look at it and see what else they have to do for the day and also if it's one of the things they do independently (math and handwriting) they can go to the right lesson number without having to ask me which one to do. It's been working out so far and everytime I ask if they still want me to do them, they say yes.

  5. I took advantage of the co-op pricing, but now wish I hadn't. We use logic of English and I use explode the code online sometimes as a supplement, only because I paid for it. The online system works by awarding buttons for correct answers, but it also weighs heavily on how quick the student answers. I couldn't figure out why it looked like my daughter was doing so poorly. Fact was when she got distracted she wasnt pausing it, and it also takes her longer to get her laptop mouse moved around than a regular pc mouse.

    The speed timing is probably my biggest complaint, but I also dont really care for timing anything because I think it's extra unnecessary pressure on a kid which results in wrong answers because they are trying to hurry. Especially in language arts. Math facts maybe, but not reading and spelling.

    Hope that helps!

    Nicole

  6. I have just one copy for two kids. It's not a workbook. Each of my kids have a composition book to do the problems in. They write chapter 1 in the margin, I read the chapter, then they answer the few problems in their notebook. I wouldn't spend that much money if you can just read it aloud or if done independently, do it at different times so they read from the same book, while keeping their own notebook.

  7. My kids and I just started a couple weeks ago with it. They love it! My kids are first and third grade. Apples didn't really teach a lot math wise they didn't already know, but the other stuff was great. Ironically things pop up in Fred that we are learning about in our other subjects. Like deciduous trees. Very funny. My youngest actually drug DH and I out to find Orion after reading about it in butterflies today. We do two chapters a day, pretty much every day. It's something they look forward to and it usually signals the end of our school day.

  8. I didn't vote because I haven't actually used it yet so I can't say if it works or not (I sure hope it will!), but we will be using Logic of English here. Accelerated with my DD and for a full year with my DS.

     

    We are using logic of English similar to this. One lesson per week with dd6 and one lesson every two days with ds8. So far I love it. Ds is on lesson 14 and is really getting all of it. Especially the grammar which is the hardest part for him since he's a strong reader and speller anyhow. I just wanted to use it for all the rules. But the grammar is great. Dd just finished lesson 5 and while there are some parts that we have to review more (she's very visual, I can't just talk at her), she's really getting it and I can see an improvement in her reading already.

  9. I've been using this book from critical thinking company with my 3rd grader

    http://www.criticalthinking.com/getProductDetails.do?code=c&id=04602

     

    He has trouble occasionally getting started with what to do, but I find if I guide his thinking, he gets going and can then do them by himself. They have many many other fun books that I looked at during a conference, I picked a book I knew would challenge him since he tends to fly through so much. Lol.

  10. I love logic of English. I'm using it for both my 6 year old and 8 year old. It's quite easy for my 8 year old since he's a fantastic visual learner (sees it, memorized it). But the rules of spelling and grammer are proving to be very beneficial. We are about a third of the way through the book and while I do modify some things by skipping over them, we both love it.

    I'm doing it much slower with my 6 year old daughter. She's improved her reading and when I quiz her on the spelling words, I can see the wheels turning as she goes through the words to check the spelling on her own while applying the rules she has learned.

    Highly recommend!

  11. I'm a huge fan of Logic of English for that age. My daughter went into kindergarten in public school reading. But she stayed at the same level all year. Didn't make much progress. I have found that sight reading just isn't working for her past three letter and common four letter words. The rules and phonics has totally changed her reading capabilities in just 6 weeks so far. She's understanding why words are spelled a certain way and is able to identify the patterns in English. All about spelling and reading are similar in approach I believe. If her daughter is struggling, I would definately suggest a phonics approach instead of the general sight reading and memorization approach most schools take.

  12. I have a first and third grader (barely 6 and almost 9 years old) using it. I love it. I don't do all the experiments because I'm bad like that I guess....lol. I did print it at home double sided for each kid. I just print one unit at a time (4chapters). I started printing the teacher guide, but now just use my iPad to read it to save paper. I really like it. It's fairly simple to understand language but it uses big terms (biome, biotic, deciduous, etc). Much better than the elementary books at the public school which the second grade level was parts of a plant (stem, petal, leaf). Lol

    It's cheap, easy, and the kids like it. Definitely worth a try.

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