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I just started LoE Essentials w/ ds. The lists seem too easy for him so we are trying out the advanced lists at his request. Can you tell me how lessons go in your house (time and sequence)? Are you just doing the spelling? We are on Week2 now and I am having him skip the grammar and composition but do the other pages. This week we did the spelling list from the workbook one day and now we are doing the advanced list spread out over 2 days, as we are trying to keep our days relatively short. We watched the first video lesson for the advanced lists. This week I am trying to do the list modelled after how she does it, although that seems to be giving more info than I think I should but I'm not the expert here. I wonder am I supposed to do another test without sounding it out or is it good just to do it the once as she does, or perhaps I've missed something major.
*fwiw my son is above level in reading and seems to be at least on level for spelling.
Do you have a link to the video lessons?
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Your summary is Western European-specific. In the East, the original Greek was not abandoned. There was no need for translation, so nuances of meaning were not lost. The line of interpretation and understanding was unbroken. And they wrote about it, a lot.
Agree.
I am going to show my ignorance here, but where would I look if I wanted one of the east original Greek Bible translations? This is an area of interest to my husband and he would love to have a Hebrew/Greek Bible. I have a few in my CBD cart, but I am still searching before buying. I want something that would be closest to the original.
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I wish I could like this about 1000 more times. I'm sorry, OP.
I liked it and considered unliking it just so I could like it again LOL
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If you mean me and straight talk, yes we are very happy with it so far.this looks interesting. You said you like it?
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We just bought Straight Talk for the home. The base cost $99, but after that it's just $15 a month. It uses your regular house phone. So far we haven't had any issues. http://www.straighttalkhomephone.com/
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I make mine with water, banana, blueberries, yogurt, spinach and baby carrots.
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I walked into a bakery once and ordered a cake for myself. I had her write Happy Birthday to me on it. She gave it to me for 50% off. :lol:
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I would ask him to keep an open mind on wanting to graduate early. If you stick to your original plan, he may find that doing dual enrollment satisfies his desire to be done with high school and he'll be able to have an even stronger transcript by the time he graduates. He may want to do one of the history courses at the CC so it may transfer to his 4-year.
Good point. I did ask him why he wanted to rush graduating and he didn't really have a good answer, so maybe dual enrollment will be a good fit for him. My other older boys, who went into engineering, did dual enrollment and it worked really nice for them.
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What about calculus? I would definitely want my child to take high school calculus before going into engineering calculus at college.
He will take Cal 1 and 2 in 11th grade at the CC, along with Physics and another higher level science.
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We use SOTW, Usborne Encyclopedia, the BP companion, family guide, coloring pages, crafts, cool histories, timeline, and will add maps next time. And then readers and read alouds...you don't need all of that, but I love all the extras.
We are using the same resources, but adding MOH instead of SOTW and we are going to use the maps. We don't do a lot of history related crafts and activities, so for us, the guide wouldn't be necessary.Do you feel any need to add the SOTW activity guide or is there enough in Biblioplan without that?
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Thank you all!
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Thank you!I would first call the admissions people at the colleges your son is looking at and make sure you have every course requirement covered. Although he may have math and science covered, make sure your other core curriculum bases are covered. Usually 4 credits minimum are required for English. As far as history, it is up to you. If you feel that his 20th century history and literature have been covered so he has a high school equivalence of this time period I wouldn't sweat it. You could also maybe do a combined year 3 &4 with highlights from both. If you feel that he will be more prepared with the textbook, that is up to you.
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I've heard BP called lite before. How do you feel it is lite, which part of the program? It looks like it includes great sources for history, literature and geography. I guess we don't use everything (who could) that TOG has listed, so maybe the lite is just right for us? I only use it for history, literature, geography and when it listed Bible for church history. Occasionally we'd do a craft project too. I tried their lap books, but they drove us nuts because they'd sometimes cover obscure information that we hadn't come across. It was worse in the Unit 2 of Year 1 than with Unit 1, but we stopped using them. I have my own craft book for the Medieval Times, so we are good. I know that 80+ pages a week is way too much history for us. I don't mind that for literature, but it's a little much for history!
I didn't mean that BP was light, but compared to TOG it is lighter, which is exactly what I wanted. We just didn't have the time or the need for the depth of TOG. I think BP is a solid program that meets our needs.
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My 15 year old just finished 9th grade and asked if he could graduate a year early. He is a bit advanced in math and science, so I don't see that being an issue. We had planned for him doing CC science and math in 11th and 12th anyway. This past school year we started with TOG Year 1, but only made it until Christmas. Then we switched to Notgrass and did their semester economics course. I am planning BP/MOH/Smarr year 2 this coming school year(grade 10) and the rest of his history/Lit:: year 3 in 11th and year 4 in 12th. But if he graduates early he will miss year 4. Should I just do a textbook for US(10th) and World(11th) and be done with history? He is heading into engineering.
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We graduate our 5th child this week. Halfway to the finish line :-D
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I left TOG this year and we will be using BP medieval this fall with MOH year 2. I think BP is a nice "TOG lite" option.
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Thank you all! I We used to drive a Ford E-350 15 passenger and recently a Suburban so I am used to pain at the pump :laugh: We are looking it the Expedition tomorrow so hopefully it will work out for us.
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There is a group of years that had a problem with the steel being contaminated with iron. Those years are essentially rusting from the inside out. There is a service notice thing about it, but I didn't know anything about it until my 2004 Expedition was full of water after a rainstorm because holes had developed in the roof. Ford admits what the problem was, but the trucks are out of warranty before the problems becomes evident to the consumer. They refused to do anything at all for us. I traded it in for a Honda Pilot. My first Expedition was a 1998, and I never had a problem with it. It had over 130k miles on it when we traded it in for the 2004.
Thank you. I appreciate the information!
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We are looking at purchasing an older expedition and would love to read your reviews before we make the leap. Thanks!
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This site has awesome free worksheets to go along with them. We plan to use some of them this year! http://www.ttkreatio..._WordRoots.html
Blessings!
Dee in Sunny FL! :) :) :)
Thanks!While we had the book, no cards, I'm betting you could use them similarly to how we did (see my post #7 in this thread: English from the Roots Up, Vocabulary from Classical Roots, or Caesar's English? -- a number of great ideas and some additional resources in that thread, so you can "mix and match" ideas to come up with what works best for your family! :)
Also lots of "how to use" ideas in these threads (ignore my repeated blather of what we did in these):
How do you use English from the Roots Up
If you have English from the Roots Up
Also, for a schedule of how to use the EFTRU cards, see post #7 by TwinsAndOneMore in this thread: English from the Roots Up
Warmest regards, Lori D.
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That is pretty much how we do it. I started off the year with a very teacher-intensive curriculum for history (TOG) where I had to plan all the weeks, get all the books, keep track of the books for each week, copy the worksheets, read the books, direct lectures, projects, etc, and that is just not something that I can keep up with. We did it for about 13 weeks and then stopped.
I teach them to read and write well, those take up the most time for me in the early years. I make sure they are on track with math and doing a program that works well for each of them (right now that is Singapore for my 2nd grader and CLE for my 5th grader). I am always available for math and check their work. But once they can read, I expect that a lot more gets done independently. I still spend time on the planning, purchasing and organizing the materials, making a basic framework, but by 4th-5th grade my goal is that much of their daily work is independently done.
ETA: Right Start math looks fun, but it would NEVER work in our family.
I switched from TOG this year too for the same reasons. May I ask what you are using instead? Thanks!
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Thank you.I used the pre-made cards because to me they were clearer and easier to read. We used them mostly as flashcards, but the derivatives on the back are good prompts for thinking of others and of course checking in the dictionary to confirm.
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I bought these to use with my 13, 10 and 8 year olds. I purchased the pre-made cards because the 13 and 8 year olds are dyslexic. Do I just review a card each day? Will they retain the information by just doing this? Should I attempt to have them make their own cards? My 13 year old has dysgraphia so I don't know if it would be too much work to make his own cards.
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We bought our set from Sears and they had to repair the washer 3 times in 12 months. When it broke the 4th time they gave me a brand new one and we haven't had issues since.
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