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I'm thinking maybe the Veritas Press Gospels self paced will be a better option and less violent than drive thru history...
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I'm still trying to figure out the last half of this year, so I'm not 100% sure on next year, but:
- Art: Vincent's Starry Night
- Music: no idea
- Science: 106 Days of Creation from Simply Charlotte Mason
- History: Story of the World Volume 1
- Language Arts (tentative): Spelling Wisdom from SCM, literature selections from AO and I'll either do Grammar-Land or Using Language Well from SCM
- Math: CLE 400
Tell me more about 106 Days of Creation please :)
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Following because we will be doing the same thing at my parents in North Carolina
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We use SOTW as our spine and Usborne Book of World History as a helpful (and illustrated) supplement. Sometimes we add extra readalouds or YouTube videos. Then we put HIW figures in our timeline. That's our history curriculum for 4th and 2nd grade :)
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I have seen for sale, but not read this series. You can see sample pages of the 1st book in this 5 book set here.
Also, Diana Waring's materials might work for you. There are audios available, and many suggestions in the teacher's books. You can download samples and listen to audio excerpts here.
Though not a formal study, it might be fun for your kiddos to watch Drive Thru History. The Gospels are the latest installment. I set the dvr to record The Gospels, but the episodes aren't numbered, so we watch them out of order. Not everyone likes Dave Stotts though.
ITA the Shelley book is good, but, as Harriet Vane said, it's suited for older students.
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Ditto for Diana Warning.
Meant to say, one or all of these could be supplements to whatever spine or program you use. (Books to read, aloud or assign for reading, audios in the car, videos on sick or snow days, etc.)
I wanted to try Drive Thru History but the disclaimer at the beginning worried me. How violent are the reenactments? I've got a couple sensitive kiddos...
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Looking for books, curriculum materials that cover church history, the early church in particular. Suitable for 2nd and 4th graders
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I would have to set a time limit- like one hour a week maybe? I've done this in the past and kept a running list of what I wanted to check during my internet time, then I would have to narrow it down to what would fit in an hour.
As far as top 5 sites... Probably Amazon, GroupMe, Facebook (it's a total time suck but it's also how I keep up with so many people), SimpleHomeschool and Amongst Lovely Things
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My DD7 cottage school is using ACSI Math for 2nd grade next year. She's finishing up CLE 100 right now. I have no experience with ACSI, how do you think this will transition?
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I would 3 hole punch them and put them in a binder so you can reuse them with your six year old and baby if you wanted.
Idk why but binders make me crazy. Something about a neatly bound spiral that is just so much easier to use...
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I have a very specific, odd question. I recently bought ELTL Level 3(from someone on this board!) and I'm trying to make it a little more user-friendly and independent for my 4th grader. I have the Text and the Workbook. Since the text is written to the student, I am considering unbinding the Text and the Workbook and rebinding them with each Lesson's workbook pages immediately behind that lesson's instructions from the Text. (Hope that makes sense)…
This would make a HUGE book so I would probably divide it into 3 sections. And I'm also trying to decide if I want to use all the workbook pages or just the exercise pages and let him do the copy work in his commonplace book...
Any thoughts on this?
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We are doing something similar this year. We do CC one day a week already, my rising 2nd grader will be enrolled in a Cottage School (similar to a charter, it covers all the basics of 2nd grade- math, reading, spelling, writing plus some Bible, music and art), and my rising 4th grader will be going to an integrated Science-Math-Art co-op one day a week. So that means I will only have 2 days at home with DD7 and 3 days at home with DS9…
I've committed to trying it for one year and we can always re-evaluate for next year. Technically, if its a total disaster, we can pull out at any time. My kids are young and I will not always have the flexibility to let them do this stuff.
But that means I'm going to have to lower my expectations for our school to what we can do on the days we have at home and TRUST the education they are getting other places (not an easy thing for this admitted control freak).
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…I almost always end up frustrated and then dreading it the next time!
I LOVE the idea of Circle Time / Morning Basket / Symposium / Whatever you want to call it… I've read Teaching from Rest and listen to all the podcasts- Readaloud Revival, Your Morning Basket, etc etc. It sounds like such a cozy and important time.
In reality, I find that I am frustrated with the lack of order (admitted control freak), short-fused when kids interrupt or don't listen, overwhelmed with all the choices and what I feel like we need to do, impatient when kids don't know their memory work and on top of all that, I don't particularly like reading aloud… I get headaches when I do so for longer than 10 minutes...
So right now, we do lots of audiobooks during meal times and in the car, listen to our memory work CD's and my husband reads aloud 2-3 evenings a week...
So should I just let the dream of Circle Time go? Is there something I can do to make it more enjoyable? Has anybody else struggled with this?
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Peace and Calming essential oil blend, Magnesium spray, Epsom salt baths and tart cherry juice (helps the body make its own melatonin) have helped us. Also figuring out any food sensitivities. My son does not sleep well if he has food dye or conventional dairy. My nephew's sleep is disrupted by eggs and citrus. Neither are true allergies but definite sensitivities
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I have heard really good things about Doodle Crate and Tinker Crate, and my understanding is for that age, it would be very independent (always a plus in my book)
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I feel the same way with AAS! Why is it so hard to implement?? We switched to Phonetic Zoo after AAS 3 bc it just wasn't getting done, but I still prefer the way AAS teaches.
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What got done- CLE Math 100 and 300
AAR 1 and part of 2
Phonetic Zoo
Abeka Cursive Workbook
SOTW 1
Copywork
What didn't get done-
Abeka LA3- soooo dry and boring, we quit halfway thru and did our own thing
ETC- we do it randomly but not often
Abeka Science and Health
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I agree that observing a day at both co-ops would be helpful but it may be too late in the year for that?
We are part of a CC group here and while there are some families that participate for the community factor, I cannot imagine paying that money and committing that time if I wasn't sold on the program- especially as you move up into challenge, the workload is pretty rigorous.
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I know some Moms use ELTL independently. As long as you can listen to the oral narrations, you would be pretty hands-off.
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Ok I'm looking at the workbook version of Level 3 and thinking that would be a good fit for my 4th grader. Do you read the literature as readalouds or does your child read independently?
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Here is what I want, if anyone knows of an LA like this pleeeease let me know :)
-Workbook format (I'm fine if I have to print and bind myself)
-Mostly teaches to student (I am here to help but if he could get started with the lesson on his own that would be great)
-Includes reading, copywork, narration and dictation exercise from literature, poetry, hymns, Scripture.
-Some creative expression exercises like picture study, write a letter, etc
-Gentle but solid intro to grammar to prepare for CC Essentials
We have done Sonlight and Abeka in the past- Sonlight was enjoyable but little retention, Abeka was fine but boring.
I have been looking at Queen's Language Lessons (looks great but gets terrible reviews), First Language Lessons (love the simple and direct teaching of grammar but don't see much in the way of Charlotte Mason style copy work, narration and creative expression), English Lessons Through Literature (I love the look of this but it seems very teacher intensive) and Intermediate Language Lessons (I like this but the grammar instruction seems almost too gentle- like labeling sentences 'command' or 'asking'- why not use the actual grammar terms 'declarative' or 'interrogative'?).
I may have to mix and match a few things to get what I want...
Help!!! :)
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I am thinking about getting this for my kids. How long does each lesson take?
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I was just working on this tonight! We are expecting a new baby in July, so much of our summer will be spent preparing for and welcoming him into our lives!
I also plan for DD7 and DS9 to do 2-3 CLE Math lessons a week, read every day, review our Scripture Memory from the year and learn some helpful life skills (laundry, self starting chores, etc).
Fun stuff will include:
1 week of art camp
1 week of soccer camp
Winshape Day Camp
Gymnastics classes
Riding lessons
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I taught in in a co-op which met every other week. SWI-A is about 15 lessons, so you could easily do one lesson every two weeks. That gives you plenty of time to watch the video as well as work on each lesson. In fact, the daily suggested lesson plans in the program suggest one every two weeks.
http://iew.com/sites/default/files/videocourse/fileattachment/SWI-A_Sample.pdf
Mr. Pudewa is very entertaining, and my class loved his videos. You could continue with SICC-A the next year or use a theme book like CC uses.
Asking the same question above, do you feel like it is relatively independent? We will have a newborn and a 2nd grade sibling...
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There is a schedule in the front of the teacher guide that details what a five day week would look like. It is set up for 30 weeks. So you can go for longer or shorter depending on your goals. My children had prior experience doing other IEW stuff so the first few weeks was a lot of review (key word outlining, etc.). For those weeks we went at a much faster pace than recommended in the guide.
SWI-A differs from the theme based products used in Essentials in a couple of ways. One is that it is a video based course so your child will watch a video with Andrew Pudewa teaching similar aged students and walking through the techniques with them (in lieu of you doing all of this yourself, or the Essentials tutor doing it). The other is that it does not incorporate vocabulary words. It is a great course. My recommendation is if you are concerned about the length of the videos to split them into two sections. Most are less than 22 minutes but there are a few that are longer (37 min or so). It may put you off schedule but it doesn't make sense to push through if the attention span is gone. There is a summary of time stamps and content for each DVD section so it is really easy to know where to stop the video.
Generally our week would look like this: Monday--watch video, Tuesday--develop key word outline if not done on video Wed--skip (co-op), Thurs--write draft from KWO and incorporate dress-ups Friday--recopy or type final
Plan for about 20-40 min per day four days a week or less if you stretch to five days. We averaged around 30 min.
ETA: If you still need to purchase, and will not buy used, it makes sense to buy directly from IEW. They have a 100% money back no time limit guarantee on everything they sell--you can return it at any time, even used. So if it doesn't work out for your family, they will even pay return shipping. You don't get the guarantee if you buy from Rainbow or CBD or another retailer.
P.S. IEW allows copies within a family so you can copy the student sheets to use later for your younger one.
Do you feel like it is relatively independent? We will have a newborn and a 2nd grade sibling so my availability is hit or miss...
Church History resources
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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Yes that is my concern. My kids have been asking about he disciples who were martyred and did St augustine know Jesus personally etc etc and so I've wanted to cover this area of history but not in a way that is super graphic. I like the way SOTW touches on the Crusades and Inquisition without going into too much detail, I was hoping to find something similar. I may try the VP self paced for the Gospels, I imagine this will not be graphic?