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Starting kindergarten with my DD5 in a couple of weeks. She knows all her letter sounds and can read CVC words and the beginning BOB books. I just finished Teach Your Child to Read Using Children's Books and like the gentle, organic way of teaching reading presented in this book, however I would like to modify it to add a little more phonics. DS enjoyed Explode the Code books at this age and this would also be a good way to work on both writing and spelling as well, if I remember correctly. My question is, should I just order the student workbooks or is there any value in the teacher's guides? I've seen the online program also but don't know a lot about it...
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Starting kindergarten with my DD5 in a couple of weeks. She knows all her letter sounds and can read CVC words and the beginning BOB books. I just finished Teach Your Child to Read Using Children's Books and like the gentle, organic way of teaching reading presented in this book, however I would like to modify it to add a little more phonics. DS enjoyed Explode the Code books at this age and this would also be a good way to work on both writing and spelling as well, if I remember correctly. My question is, should I just order the student workbooks or is there any value in the teacher's guides? I've seen the online program also but don't know a lot about it...
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John Adams miniseries
America, the Story of Us documentary
Seabiscuit
Little House on the Prairie
Tucker
A Time to Kill
Forrest Gump
The Miracle Worker
Driving Miss Daisy
The Right Stuff
Remember the Titans
Cold Mountain
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Bible- Egermeiers Bible Storybook, weekly scripture memorization, Our 24 Family Ways
CC Cycle 3
Math- MathUSee Gamma
Language Arts- Sonlight LA3, AAS 2/3, Prescripts cursive
History- VP Selfpaced Exp-1815; Pieced together US History study from pre-Columbus to present using various Readalouds and spines
Geography- US State, Landmarks and National Parks study
Science- Human Anatomy; Lego Club; Wild Kratts, Magic School Bus
Extras- tennis, art, gymnastics
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We do a full school day 3 days a week- by full I mean Bible, math, reading, language arts, Readalouds, memory work and history/geography/science where it fits (3-4 hours total); 1 day a week we do co-op and extracurriculars and 1 day I leave open for errands, field trips, special projects, catch up work and travel. Lots of times that 5th day ends up being a break day. I think little kids need down time and I'm not sure I agree that math and reading has to be done every single day.
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What spine are you using, if I may ask?
I'm working on American History for my kindergartners for this fall, and am still undecided on a spine. Love the readaloud suggestions!
Really my 'spine' is a loose monthly schedule of major eras from pre-1500 to present (i.e., August= Vikings and Early Americans; September = Columbus, Early Settlers, Native Anericans; October = Colonial Times and Revolutionary War; and so on). The books I am using for my spine are a combo of:
The Story of Us from my fathers world
Smithsonian American History encyclopedia
CC Timeline and history cards
My oldest is doing the online VP Explorers-1815 and I really want to add the audio Hakim books but that might be overkill?
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Hakim's Story of US has audio versions available on Audible.
thanks!! I just listened to a sample and loved it! Now I'm trying to figure out how to fit it in to our already full curriculum :confused1:
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Does something like that exist? A chronological story type audio similar to SOTW but focused mainly on US History? Not too graphic either, it's for ages 5 and 8
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Thank you so much! I've seen so many great lists- BF, Sonlight, etc and I was just having trouble narrowing it down! We will do other Readalouds and storybooks not related to history; my oldest will have some independent history reading to do but I wanted to include some really engaging books to make our history spine come alive, especially stuff the 5 year old will be interested in. I've ordered several of the D'Aulaires and the Dalgliesh, so glad to see those names.
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If you could only pick one, what is your favorite readaloud (fiction or nonfiction) for each of the following time periods in US history? We have a spine but I'd like to add 1 readaloud to each topic. Kids are 5 and 8...
Vikings
Early Native Americans / Explorers / Christopher Columbus
Early Settlers / Pilgrims / Colonial Times
Founding Fathers / American Revolution
Westward Expansion
Civil War
Immigration
World Wars and Depression
Civil Rights and Modern Age
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I just finished reading this book and the method makes a lot of sense to me as a very organic way to teach reading. I would modify it some I think to suit us- adding a little more phonics instruction than he suggests. Just wanted feedback from anyone who's used this method and how it looked on a daily basis in your homeschool.
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Bumping to see if anybody has experience with these?
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Trying to decide between these two for my 5 and 7 yr old this year, what are your opinions? How long do these each take? Are they 5 day a week lessons or once a week?
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I'm starting to look at more of the details of the curriculum I've chosen for next year and I'm starting to feel like I have too much. I need to keep school to 4 hours a day and 4 days a week (we do CC once a week). I have a kindergartener and a 2nd grader. Do you think the following load can be done in that time?
Together:
Bible- We Choose Virtues, Daily Reading from Children's Bible
Readalouds- 30 minutes (1 history readaloud, 1 storybook, 1 family readaloud- related timeline or note booking activities if applicable)
CC Memory Work practice
Arts and Crafts (once a week)
Kindergarten:
Reading Lessons (combo of AAR, Bob books and whatever else I think she needs)
Printables/workbooks for handwriting, math skills, other K5 skills
50 States Notebook
2nd grade:
Sonlight Language Arts Grade 3
AAS (2 days a week)
Cursive copy work
MUS Gamma (3 days a week)
VP Self Paced History Exp-1815
50 States Notebook
Science is interest led or digging into whatever topic we are memorizing in CC that week. I really wanted to add a deeper US History survey type study but I think I'm just gonna have to settle for Readalouds that spark questions...
Thoughts?
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Can someone tell me how to share a google doc on here?
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Wondering if you ever got this done @Amy Meyers? I have a list of rules I came up with that I'd be happy to share but it's not AAS specific
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I think we are going to do AAR-1 for kindergarten. We just finished the pre-reading level and she liked it so why rock the boat?
My question is, where is AAR weak and how would you supplement? Or where should I be prepared to supplement if necessary? I just hear a lot that no single reading curriculum is perfect so I want to be aware of any gaps. TIA!
Ps- we have done a little of easy peasy and BOB books, she is reading CVC words but sight words seem to be harder for her
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I think we are going to do AAR-1 for kindergarten. We just finished the pre-reading level and she liked it so why rock the boat? :)
My question is, where is AAR weak and how would you supplement? Or where should I be prepared to supplement if necessary? I just hear a lot that no single reading curriculum is perfect so I want to be aware of any gaps. TIA!
Ps- we have done a little of easy peasy and BOB books, she is reading CVC words but sight words seem to be harder for her
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What's your favorite wall US History Timeline? It needs to be 10 ft or less and geared towards elementary students. It would be nice if it also included coinciding world history but it doesn't have to.
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@ellie We love MUS, so no it doesn't really matter, I was just curious about the difference between mastery programs and spiral programs, and whether I was misunderstanding the two :)
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We do MathUSee and love it but now I'm confused about what makes it a mastery program and not spiral? We just finished Beta so maybe it will become apparent in later levels but so far it seems to follow the methodology of a spiral program- each lesson has 6 pages- 3 of new material and 3 that are half new material/half review of past material. Why is that not considered spiral?
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Explode the Code
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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Should I start with ETC 1? I assume she's past the Before the Code series...