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Kiara.I

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  1. Some people unschool. It's not at all impossible to fix. Have you chosen a math? Or a language arts? Jump in there. Make sure that what you start with is sustainable for you right now. Maybe just do language arts and math for now, and leave the rest to documentaries. After a few weeks of consistency, then add another subject. But don't overload right away and risk crashing for yourself, either, you know?
  2. Level 3 would be fine. The definitions get memorized in levels 1 and 2, so when they get presented in level 3 you'll need to take a bit of extra time and review to memorize them.
  3. I'd be done at $20,000. I'm pretty sure I'd also be done at 1/2 hour commute every single day. The school offers a lot, but honestly the way you describe what they do and what the admission requirements are makes me think it would be pretty stressful and high-achievement oriented.
  4. Vocabulary from Classical Roots is workbook-based for grades 4/5/6.
  5. That may be location-dependent. I can't imagine there's a huge percentage of Trump supporters in the homeschool community around me, though there might be one or two. But I mean, if you find you're in a community where they harass you or your kids for any reason, there's a major problem with the community.
  6. It makes more sense to me working it backwards from how he said it. He's using six tens for 60, but then taking away one from each because it was 9s instead of 10s. So that's the 9*6 part. But you wanted 9*8, so he needs two more 9s, which is the doubled 9 he said first.
  7. Of those, I've only used Rightstart. I've literally never heard the criticism that kids can't move from 10 to 11. It hasn't been an issue for my three kids. In any math kids occasionally have trouble moving from one ten to the next, that's a developmental thing and works out at some point. Jumps around too much? It's pretty calculated jumping around. It's not a purely mastery program, and if parents want mastery then it will no doubt bother them. Most kids do occasionally need breaks for the subconscious to chew on the material for a while and are ready to leap forward again later, so I'm not a fan of pure mastery. How large are large numbers? It works addition through the thousands in the second level. It does millions and billions in level E. (D?) So, age 9? It's not super late, and of course you're free to introduce it yourself earlier if you want. Consider looking for materials used to save some money.
  8. What about Rightstart G and H? It's a geometric approach to middle school math, it's not high school geometry.
  9. Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind is working for us.
  10. Well, History of the World doesn't have a Modern one (yet?) so in the sense of needing modern history, there isn't one. Yes, you could use SOTW vol 4 as a framework this year, if you're willing to add plenty of higher level work to it. The Great Books approach would be great for that, and at least SOTW would give her somewhat of a sense of the timeline. For grade 10 are you talking about using SOTW 1&2? I really wouldn't. Vol 1 is written to the young. It is not at all suitable for grade 10 work, even if you add other books to it. Or maybe you were talking about the high school series? If you want to catch up a year and do modern again for grade 12, I would do History of the Ancient World as a read-aloud during the summer, with no assigned work, then do Medieval and onward for grade 10.
  11. Put away the lessons. Read aloud. In four months, try lessons again.
  12. Start with pictures before equations. Or cubes, or something. One colour for each thing, until you get the balance, it until it makes sense. So for this, (I'll imagine you have an infinite selection of coloured cubes) you could put three grey cubes (castles) and one gold cube (kings.) Okay, that's the first part. Maybe you'll have to adjust based on later parts, maybe not. So the next part, 7 princesses per King. YES! It's comparing to the same thing (Kings) in both parts, so no adjusting required. Phew. So you can toss 7 blue cubes out to represent your princesses, and you don't need to change the number of Kings or castles. Then you can look at what you have, and hopefully see what's needed for the equations. Would that kind of visualization process help you?
  13. One of the amazing things about homeschooling is realizing that not everything needs to be challenging... 😉 I'd say use what you have, let it be easy. That's okay!
  14. Try your local library first, if there's one nearby. My kids are really liking the YouTube channel Geography Now, but there is occasional language so you might want to preview. The BBC is also a wealth of educational videos on various topics, sorted by age. I wouldn't swear they cover geography but it's worth a gander.
  15. Do they already understand that a pronoun replaces a noun? And then that "there" and "it" are pronouns?
  16. I haven't heard of one but you could probably build it pretty easily. I wouldn't bother giving paragraphs to edit because you'd have to do work to mess them up first. But you could do literature and poetry from that country, and pair it with researching the country and writing about it.
  17. The Oxford University Press'World in Ancient Times series might fit what you want. I know it has study guides for one volume but not necessarily all.
  18. Kite should be okay, that is a geometric shape. DK Visual Guide to Math, maybe?
  19. Is anybody great with spreadsheets? I don't know how to search for instructions for what I want to do, because I don't know what it would be called... I have a spreadsheet with our weekly work listed out across a row, with different columns for different subjects and different kids. Some subjects are for kids together, others are individual. I want an easily editable printable sheet by kid, that draws the info from the master sheet. I know how to reference cells on a different sheet, that's easy. But I want to have it reference row 1 the first week, but then row 2 the second week, and so on. Preferable just by changing one cell on the secondary sheet, rather than redoing references for each cell. Is this a thing? What feature do I use? I'm attaching a picture of more or less what I'm envisioning, in case my explanation was clear as mud.
  20. I would just let her listen in as much as she feels like, but not demand any of the work from her.
  21. Mostly waited for readiness. We used Progressive Phonics a bit, but basically at some point the switch flipped and their reading took off.
  22. Okay, so... Does your student need to look up unfamiliar words or ask? Or can they acquire vocabulary from repeated exposure? That's how we're hardwired to learn vocabulary after all, it's how we all learn language as babies and toddlers. I've avoided reading curriculum so far, for that reason, and because all the ones I was exposed to in school seemed mostly to make children hate reading.
  23. I bought the kindergarten level, with the teacher's guide. I used the teacher's guide precisely once. For us, just getting the workbook worked fine. I certainly never did every day. I mean some weeks it might have been that? Casual use was where we were at. My kids can form letters, though it's true one kid of three has reverted to odd formation since learning. We started with Letters and Numbers For Me, and did use the magnet set to learn the uppercase letters. Then we did My Printing Book. I don't remember if we did the grade 2 book with one child or not, but after the second they basically knew the letter formation, and we moved to doing copywork in Writing With Ease instead of continuing with teaching letter formation. I thought about using HWOT for cursive, but looking at their cursive was like nails on a chalkboard for me, and my children had not been prone to tears over handwriting anyway, so we found a much simpler cursive introduction book where the cursive style didn't make me shudder.
  24. I buy the student pages for the activity guide separately. You could buy the stories as a download, or rip the CDs you already have and play them off your phone. Or play them at home, to a combined audience. So, to the discipline issue. First step, family meeting. Regular ones, weekly. Anyone can put anything on the agenda. Address this issue. Ask them how THEY want to solve it. Brainstorm ideas. Choose together which ideas you'll try, and assess how they go at the next family meeting. Then if needed, choose a new one. Possible suggestions: There is a set time for history and a set fun thing after it, announced ahead of time. If you have to spend time pausing and correcting behaviour, or worse, replaying for a separate child, then that's the time that would have been for the fun thing. Make it CLEAR that this costs them time. Have them each make a separate fort space before history starts. They stay in their individual forts for the reading. Every person does hard PE time before history. Tired out kids play up less. Whoever causes disruption has volunteered for dishes after dinner. (Remind before the reading starts.) Have fidget toys available. Have them work on the colouring page from the activity guide while listening. Deliberately and in detail teach them what TO do while listening calmly.
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