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I love everything over at sabbathmoodhomeschool.com - her science schedule ideas and resource ideas. She also has more and more guides that tell you how to use the resources she recommends, all laid out in a day by day lesson format.
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I would keep MP and not worry about catching up. Master each level and move on.
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What's that Bird? set from Memoria Press. It says 5th to 6th grade, but I think an eighth grader could use it, too. If you wanted more, you could add in books/articles and ask for more output.
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I'd just like to say how awesome the hive is. Thank you, ladies! I'll pass on all of the suggestions. You guys are great. :)
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What is your favorite low cost math for a 5th grader and a 7th grader and why? I am trying to help my cousin out with her first year of home schooling and I need some options for her. Thanks!
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Where would one start with a 7th grader and a fifth grader? My cousin wants to use this for her girls but is wondering where to start. Will it be weird to jump into a later book because of the story aspect? I really know nothing about it and hoped someone here does...Thanks!
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Thank you!!
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Does anyone know what happened to Simply Spelling from Shoelace Books?? The website exists and the samples are there and they look all perfect for what I want, but I can't order or contact....anyone have any idea as to what happened? Or an alternative curriculum? I love that it has copywork AND spelling/phonics rules. I'm at a loss.... :(
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Have you looked at Cottage Press? It's all in one and includes everything you listed.
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Memoria Press has nice lists of American History books by grade. We enjoy those a lot.
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I haven't used ELTL, though I've looked at a lot of samples. I am a big fan of CP, however, so I can tell you about that :). I have used Primer One, Primer Two, and will be starting Fable and Song in August. I think that
1)additional spelling may or may not be necessary depending on the child
2)while the grammar is basic, it is plenty for the age of the children each course is recommended for - it reviews the concepts taught and allows for practice both within the copy book selections and in original sentences and is something easily reinforced by the teacher in other subjects
3)the nature study is lovely and really breaks up the week of solid LA
4)picture study is well done and easy to implement
5)you can definitely spread out the primer series if you desire to do so
6)it's worth the price.:)
Really, though, I don't think you can do much better than CP for a happy medium between classical and CM, covering all your LA, in a program that is easy to pace out the way you wish, with literature and poetry selections that are both beautiful and age appropriate, full of resources that one can find online for free in many instances, and is pretty to look at to boot. ;) The program is logically laid out and arranged and easy to use. I'm very, very happy I decided to give it a try.
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Thank you so much, 8!
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Yeah, I love the look of it, too. Daughter one needs conceptual with work book and drill = Singapore. Second daughter is very visual and hands on and needs less (lots less) writing and worksheets = Right Start. Third daughter is balanced between the two = Ray's for Today? :) Mostly I just want to own and peruse another good looking math curriculum...but three different programs might be crazy making. ;)
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8FillTheHeart,
I love reading your posts and was very intrigued when, way up thread, you mentioned an Anne of Green Gables study. Unfortunately, most of the links, including that one, don't seem to be functioning any more. Would you mind reposting the Anne list? Or a current one? I like the idea of lit based studies but I really need a concrete example to help me understand how I might go about it.
Thank you!
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Thank you for the reply! I was thinking that we would finish A and see how she does with the evaluations. Sometimes I think she understands a bit more than I always realize, so I'm fine with just finishing A. Then, if I think she's ready we'll move on. If not, we'll break and play a lot of games, review weak spots, and maybe let her work through Singpore's Essentials K level (which I love and would work for her - just not the upper levels). I really believe in the method in RS, but I hate to push where I shouldn't.
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Has anyone used Ray's for Today? It seems fairly new so I can't find much about it. My daughter is in RSA right now, and I keep looking at RSB and thinking that it won't review enough of A for her to move up a level. I feel like A is moving too quickly, but I didn't worry because everyone said B would repeat much of A. But the table of contents doesn't seem to reflect that.
I have an older daughter in Singapore, but I can't see that meshing well with this daughter. I hate to lose what ground she HAS gained with RS and really don't want to give up that abacus as a teaching tool. I can't decide if I should let her go through RSB and see how it goes or try something new for next year. Or maybe just repeat parts of A?
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The only independent spelling program I've seen and liked is Simply Spelling. Also, it's affordable. :)
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We love Simply Grammar.
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I didn't plan on continuing with a spelling program after Apples and Pears, apart from weekly dictation. I think if I did anything, Simply Spelling would compliment nicely.
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Check out Cottage Press materials, too (just to add to your list :) ). And in the mean time, try to decide how you want to approach writing in general. BW and WR, for example, are very different programs with very different approaches and priorities.
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Learning Blocks: We try to start around 9 or 9:30 (night owls here so late risers!) and we stop at 4:00. The stop time is firm. I have 5 blocks of time in our day. We work through those five blocks until we hit 4 pm, and then we stop, and the kids begin their Afternoon Chill activities (piano practice, drawing, free reading, play outside, watch a documentary, typing practice, Prodigy Math, etc.) We eat around 6:30 and after that the kids have unrestricted free time to do whatever they wish until bedtime (usually playing on tablets, watching TV, etc.) If we don't make it through all 5 blocks in one day, then we just pick up where we left off the day before and work through our blocks of time until 4 that day. It's looping, but looping entire portions of your day instead of subjects. My 5 Blocks are: Math, Assigned Reading, Foreign Language (Block 1), Neighborhood Walk (Block 2), Power Hour (Block 3), History/Science (Block 4), Language Arts (Block 5). I still set timers for each subject within that block so we don't go too long on one specific subject.
Root Word Study: I'm almost positive I'll use Caesar's English from MCT Language Arts using just the Teacher's Manual, but I also looked at the word root study from Critical Thinking Press. It's my backup plan. Also thinking about adding in a history of the English language just for fun using The Word Snoop once we've finished the first part of Caesar's English.
So with the learning blocks, do you time each subject, then move on? How exactly is this looping? (Guess I don't quite get it!)
Also - I highly recommend the Word Snoop!
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This is our thinking as well. Copy work is not a single stage for a year. We continue it as we add in simple dictation to enhance the skills he's working on. After I was confident he knew sentence structure (because we talked about it before and after he completed the day's copy work), we started the program Dictation Day By Day, which uses common words to build writing fluency. I think the very first exercise in the book is "See my doll." By the end of the first book they're doing two full sentences at a time: "The bird has a nest. There are four eggs in it." Still simple, but the goal is not to write independently just yet but to hold a complete thought in his head as he writes and build spelling fluency. It is an extension of copy work, a logical and concurrent progression as he continues to learn more about sentence structure through copying good writing. It will be a long time before we give up either, but we'll continue to add a third written skill, free writing, as he develops his narration skills orally. These things all work together, not independent of each other.
I was eyeing Dictation Day by Day. You're liking it, then? I also saw Simply Spelling and Spelling Wisdom...haven't decided which to use with my second daughter.
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Everybody in this group thinks writing should start with copywork. And if you try and budge from that it's like you're breaking some rule of classical education. However, I have seen zero progression with writing in my first grader as a result of copywork and I'm pretty much over it from a writing standpoint. She writes her own stories that go on forever in notebooks and copywork hasn't changed the run on sentences or even capitalization. I am going to work on something different for second grade, keeping copywork but not relying on it. I don't know what yet. 🤔
In my experience, copy work is definitely a long term thing....like all of grades 1 to 4. And it's really only effective if you pair it with oral narration progressing to written narration or an actual writing program at the end of elementary. I also found it really helpful with my oldest to point out capitalization and such before she copied anything. I hope you find something you like! Cottage Press worked well for us. It uses copy work, but also introduces basic grammar rules and teaches thing like how to capitalize. Good luck!
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So far most everything has worked this year. What hasn't worked is trying to include memory work from math and geography, etc., in Morning Time. I need to find a way to remove the more "academic" bits from Morning Time without them getting lost in the shuffle (which is why I put them in MT to begin with). Maybe we'll have MT followed by Daily Recitation, or something.
Also, I'm happy to say that home schooling three students has worked - I have a PreKer, a K'er, and a 3rd grader. It's even worked with the new baby! :)
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Biology books- living type
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Sabbathmoodhomeschool has a lot of great lists if you haven't seen that site yet.