Lizzie in Ma
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We are using and loving Christian Light Education's Language Arts for spelling and grammar and penmanship. We use IEW for writing and this year we are doing the theme-based lessons and SICC B. I avoided IEW like the plague for years due to it's high initial cost and the fact that it wanted to teach me to teach my kids to write. As if I needed something else on my plate! It is our 2nd year into it now and while I do find the stylistic techniques annoying and formulaic, there is no question that my daughter is at last writing and writing well and learning how to write without hating it. So, it works for us.
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thanks for the game idea
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For effortless keyboarding just get Typing Instructor Deluxe from Timberdoodle and just have your dc follow their lessons plan in it.
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We will have about 30 minutes to do something after I serve dessert, any ideas?
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I will adjust.:rolleyes:
No matter the format, I love these boards and I treasure both the Hive Mind and their collective knowledge and personalities.
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We began after my eldest went to PS K. It was a nightmare and my pastor's wife told me if she could home school then I certainly could and bless her, here we are in our 6th year.
I have never looked back and am in love with the home school journey.
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Mine is up!
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I have just discovered Bernard Cornwell's "Sharpe" series. The Authors site lists fabulous nonfiction books to supplement his stories and fill in the history behind the books. http://www.bernardcornwell.net/index2_print.cfm?page=1&seriesid=1I am an addict already and that they are also on dvd with Sean Bean, 3 whole sets of them was the icing on the cake.
Having not read for just pure pleasure in some time, I am quite happy with these.
Also reading Homeschooling High School, by Jeanne Dennis, The Narnian, by Alan Jacobs, and Having a Mary Spirit by Joanna Weaver
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Karenciavo just had to say, love the avatar!!
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We are using for the 2nd year Mystery of History with Truthquest. This for 5th, 6th, and 7th. Regrettably I will need to find something else for 8th as MOH 4 will not yet be out.
Beginning SOTW and AG with younger one next year.
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We are using and loving Latin Prep with the 6th grader and are working our way through Lively Latin with my 1st grader.
Do you use a scheduled/prepared curriculum or do your own thing?
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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If it's working I leave it, if it isn't I tweak it.
Sticking with the SOTW into MOH w/TQ which has worked out well and I love.
Having at last found Christian Light Education for math and language arts I am sticking with it at least til 8th. We bailed from Rod and Staff. Thinking about Lial's after that for high school and dual enrollment classes.
Have never found a science I was all the way happy with so we have mixed and matched for years. At present we are doing Apologia Zoo 2 with a lapbook for 1st and 6th. 7th and 8th I really need to step it up a notch, may see what the local ps is using, don't know. Guess we are doing all right so far, she tests insanely high on the Stanford 10 in Science.
Latin we have jumped about but only because I love Latin and own tons of stuff. Used LFC A and B but heavily supplemented it due to its extreme lack of practice and reading (and the readers were abysmal). Loving Latin Prep series for 6th grader and Lively Latin for 1st.
R&S Bible and intend to stick with it, it is solid and pick up and go.
Things that have always worked and I have never tweaked are few but Troxel's Geography Songs and States and Capitols are on that list. Abeka cursive worked for us from pre-K on. Typing Instructor Deluxe. R&S Bible and intend to stick with it, it is solid and pick up and go for grades 5-10. Golden Bible with Intro to Classical Studies for 1st-3rd. I think those are the only things I never had to tweak so far.