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Oh I didn't catch which group. My DS had a similar reaction. That's probably expected because of the variety in styles.

Cool! I think she's planning to send a little gift/note to each kid, too. Two of mine did it, one for picture books and one for middle grade.

Hi everyone, Just wanted to share two new kidlit writing contests. The first one, happening now, is looking for KID JUDGES. Aspiring, adult authors of kidlit (picture books, middle grade, and young adult) will be submitting short entries that will be distributed to registered kid judges. The adult winners will win prizes donated by those in the publishing industry. The second contest, happening in July, will be for KID AUTHORS. I don't know what the prizes will be for this one. Please note, I am not sponsoring this event, I just wanted to pass along the information. My kids are excited to participate in both, and as an author, I have donated a prize to the winner. Details and registration forms are on the following webpage: Introducing the Kids' Choice KidLit Writing Contest (kaileipewbooks.com)

That's when you have a staycation in Booklandia. Booklandia has mountains of books of every kind (the ones that haven't been touched in a while). Every mountain has one secret code word hidden inside. You must break the code to pass through. Sometimes, an animal of Booklandia needs help. You must go on a quest to the other end of Booklandia to find the one with the answer. Or an evil warlord has take command of a mountain. Only a spell word hidden somewhere in Booklandia can defeat him. Etc.

I use The Sentence Family in the first semester of K then slowly start MCT in the second half. Doing it early, though, we skip most of the writing activities or do them buddy style. We do the second level of MCT more intensely in 3/4. My kids have been early readers and writers.

You can use a teachers text and assign your own output for any subject. It might not show up as "curriculum" if you're doing Google searching.

I personally would occassionally have kiddo write original sentences every now and then with a break from handwriting practice. These could be off the top of the head or use something like Super Sentences, unless your kid is really struggling with handwriting.

How do I limit which titles are available for my child to listen to on his Echo device? I don't want to limit by rating or genre, but by ones I specifically pick or if he's listened to it before he can't listen again for a certain amount of time.

Thanks!

Hi everyone, I'm a children's author and my publisher asked if I knew of where to best place new picture books to reach the homeschool audience. I've been homeschooling several years and I started out with the usual read aloud curriculums like AO, Wee Folk Art, etc. I'm wondering what lists, blogs, booktubers, etc are popular these days for the homeschooling crowd, especially ones that don't have a specific curriculum to buy. Also, most picture book lists geared towards homeschoolers I've read focus on the academic subjects. With social-emotional learning being so in demand now, are homeschoolers interested in books targeting these skills even if they don't touch on core academic subjects? In other words, do you feel there would be an interest in social-emotional (including diversity) book lists on a homeschool blog/list or do you tend to keep these separate in your minds (school vs parenting)? Thanks!

Thanks. The Maps, Globes, and Graphs might work. Worth a shot!

It looks like the Maps, Charts, and Graphs workbook series is no longer being made. I'm looking for alternatives. I liked that series because it's short; I don't want a year long program or to do multiple lessons each day, so I'm not interested in Daily Geography. My kids haven't liked the DK workbooks; too simplistic and unengaging. MP's Geography looks too focused on memorizing place names and capitals. I'm primarily interested in something simple to practice using map skills and learning some geographic terms and principles rather than memorizing anything. Any suggestions? This is for a 1st grader who completed Maps, Charts, and Graphs A and B and a 4th grader who completed through level E (ie they know the basics, so nothing that starts with "this is a compass").

Our plan is to do the minimum to pursue any career/life choice, including four year degree. If that's an "easy" college or major, so be it. However, I will require them to try a deeper/broader course before writing things off completely. One semester of something they end up hating is not the end of the world. It's important to try new things, in my opinion, then decide what fits you best.

Yes, I like the series too and I don't want to jump ship entirely. I love that it encompasses so many elements of LA.

Perfect info! Thanks! We'll skip book 4 entirely because I definitely don't want to do essays yet. We're going to do Killgallon and section three of Treasured Conversations.

OP here. I love this answer. This is where we found ourselves going over the past couple of years. And to update...of course this topic doesn't stem from any sense of superiority, but from the practical need to get along happily with those around us. FWIW, my oldest DS, 9yo, he whom sparked this post, is now being referred for ASD evaluation. He received an ADHD diagnosis two years ago. So yes, there are several things going on at once making it difficult to communicate well with others. I was labeled gifted as a child. I have difficulty communicating with others and have learned so much since being a parent of this child. I'm finding that others, soccer coaches, teachers, parents, sincerely do want to find ways to communicate with my son effectively. Most in real life don't hold his gifted speech or his lack of understanding speech against him (occasionally other kids but an adult steps in). We are learning. Society is learning.

We like this program and plan to continue with it till the end, however, there is some overlap as skills are slowly being practiced. That's great, but perhaps there's room to skip a few books here and there just to give DS space to try other writing programs. Just to switch it up sometimes. He's about to finish Book 3 and just started fourth grade. We also heavily practice grammar and incorporate other writing practice so I'm not really worried about skills being lost that can't easily be recovered.

He sounds like my 9yo. Mine is using Singapore right now, which has a good amount of white space for each problem especially compared to Mep. Before that he did BA Online successfully, but if you go that route, I'd suggest occasionally have him practice writing math answers somewhere. Mine used blank paper with BA Online, and his writing would take up the whole sheet. You can draw a 2x4 or 2x3 grid to help him learn to organize his math answers into an appropriate space.

Thank you!

Are you still able to find Process Skills to Problem Solving? Spill please!

We do a lot of supplemental stuff, plus Beast Academy, so in K/1 my kids orally do the Singapore textbooks 1-3 with me. Then Singapore 6a and 6b with textbook and workbook independently.

Mostly through reading aloud, buddy reading, and writing. I read many reading manuals so talk about phonics and spelling/pronunciation rules while doing these things. I use different kinds of read alouds to encourage different skills.

Sure. I'd say try to encourage some kind of free writing outside of handwriting but this doesn't have to be "school."

Beautiful Feet History of Science uses The Way Science Works which does has lots of labs with household supplies that can be done mostly independently for students at those ages.