Has he read the chronicles of Narnia?

TH Whites King Arthur series: The Once and Future King?

My daughter is year 6 and we are just starting these books this year, so don’t feel restricted by the suggested timeline. Admittedly, I don’t intended to get through the whole series, it’s just too late at this stage! We are doing 2 this year and 2 next year then moving onto the next series. I’m focusing on a mix of her favourite topics and a couple of areas of her study that has holes in it.

Thanks for your thoughts Bluegoat ☺️ This is our 6th year HS so most of this is tried and tested and I have all the texts already. I just want to be sure I’m not leaving anything out. WWE has good days and bad days here but overall I like the approach and the literature selections so we stick with it. Out of curiosity though, what do you use instead?

Thank you! I looked into that after posting and found some a great thread suggesting the same thing which I believe is more than likely going to be the case. Ive also just noticed she is finishing up WWE 3 not 4, so we will do the end of level assessment which will more than likely suggest continue on with WWE 4 for this year.

I switched over to the New Syllabus and buy from education reformation ☺️

I’m finishing up my planning for my year 6 daughter and would appreciate any feedback. Have I covered everything? Or am I being overly ambitious? ☺️ Her favourite subjects are Language Arts (though writing/composition is a weak spot), world history (I thank SOTW for this), art, languages and loves nature and science though this will be her first year with Apologia. I haven’t included art/music appreciation in my plan as I’m still searching for something easy and child led. It’s likely we will end up at the library here. Any and all suggestions welcome! Thanks in advance Language Arts Grammar: finish up FLL and start GFTWTM Writing: finish WWE and start WWS Spelling: list from www.k12reader.com Reading: big reader so a mixture of prescribed reading, poetry and reading for pleasure Hope to encorporate a book study or 2 this year. Maths: Singapore Maths Kumon Science: Apologia exploring creation Zooology 1 and Astronomy this year World History: following WTM for world history using Encyclopedia of WH as spine Australian History: Wide Brown Land for Me! Language: German tutor Latin: Getting Started with Latin Logic: Mind Benders 2 and 3 Music: piano lessons Art: outschool classes learn at home program (can’t remember the name) Civics: Homeschool downunder Australian Prime Ministers And Election ebooks

I 2nd adventures from the book of Virtues. Also, the adventure of young Marco Polo was really well done and inadvertently educational.

The art of cursive? https://www.educationreformation.net/copywork-books

My daughter is starting year 5 next in the new year. She is about 2/3 of the way through First Language Lessons 4. Is it important we finish this or should we just move straight into Grammar for the Well Trained Mind 1 next year? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks HollyDay I think this might be it momchiroto2 http://web.archive.org/web/20150909202152/http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/SOTWmenu.htm Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yes! I just saw Pandi Press. I really liked the look of it - its colourful and well organised (and the stickers would be a hit as well) Thanks for sharing :) Do you use their curriculum as well or just the timeline?

Lol we are the reverse here! I loved the book of centuries however my DD never got into it. She is very visual so I think laying it out on the wall is going help make it click for her. I will take a look at Knowledge quest.

I'm trying to balance my creative and practical sides and would love to hear what has been your favourite way to do the timeline. I like to ease of just buying the blank pages from rainbow resource however with postage that's $30 AU. I found this printable which I like the idea of however it opened the door to all sorts of creative possibilities! I would love to hear/see how your doing it in your homeschool if you would like to share with me.

Here's the link for WBL also http://www.adnilpress.com.au Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We will be using our sun burnt country https://www.homeschoolingdownunder.com/product-category/history/ As well as little black princess https://www.educationreformation.net/history I've heard wide brown land is quite good also. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Of course, sorry if I've been unclear, that's not what I was thinking. DD has already completed SOTW so we won't be working through it chapter by chapter. It will just be there as a resource for further reading along with the encyclopedia. I'm preparing resources to use for summaries/outlining etc Hopefully we will get to the library but I just want back up options ready because there are times where it just doesn't happen. I'm probably overthinking it! I just want her to be prepared with everything she needs so the time with her uncle is used efficiently. I won't have time to work with her on this at home. What is KHE? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I am planning for 5th grade History and would appreciate your thoughts regarding sourcing books for the extra reading. My daughter will be studying history with her Uncle so she will need to have all the books with her to take to his house. The plan at the moment is to have a quick look at the pages to be covered in the week ahead (we will be using Usborne EWH as the spine) and borrow books on the topics she thinks she may be interested in studying further. In addition to this I'm going to buy a second hand encyclopedia set and we have the SOTW books which she absolutely loves. This is the plan. Back in the real world, it's a realistic expectation that I just won't make it to the library every week and if we do make it, often the books we want are not available (perhaps a plan might be to look ahead the whole month rather than the week). I am working single mother and despite good intentions and the best laid plans sometimes there are just not enough hours in the day. So, I would like to know if you think the encyclopedia and SOTW would be sufficient extra reading for those weeks where we are making do with what we have? Obviously the internet has a wealth of sites etc I would just prefer extra reading to from a physical book for the most part. Are there any other resources I could purchase that would be a worthwhile to add? I don't have a huge budget, but I will invest in quality resources if it covers many topics. TIA :)

Fabulous, thanks Ladies! Of course - seems so obvious now that you have pointed it out :)

Thanks for your thoughts guys. So it looks as if I have been looking at the small picture rather than the big picture. This makes sense. We have been using lots of manipulatives and she loves that and she understood, or seemed to. We then reverted to solving a written problem in the work book so she just relied on her memory and was quitely confused at my insistance that we take the long route. I will expand on it at our next lesson to include bigger numbers and how we "smash numbers together" :)

Last year I started DD on the Singapore Maths program. Today we did a lesson on how to add a single digit number to another number between 11 and 20 by borrowing from the smaller number to create "10", then adding the remaining units. This is the strategy I learned at school so it feels quite important to me, however as DD has memorised these facts through her Kumon work, she found the whole process superfluous and is having trouble grasping the concept for her own calculations. Frustration for both of us ensued. Writing this out has me realising I am asking her to take 3 or 4 steps to do something that she "just knows", which doesn't make a lot of sense! However, I don't think it is so known that it can be depended upon for instant recall just yet. Do you think it is worth having her learn the strategy or is it a waste of time? I appreciate your thoughts!

Oh wow, the penny just dropped so to speak! Of course she is a visual learner :) She has said many times, she takes a picture with her mind and this is how she remembers things. How funny I haven't put this togther before! This is the piece of the "puzzle" i have been unable to articulate! I know that she understands because, well...Im her mother and I just know these things ;) I can see the words getting stuck in her head as she struggles to find a way to express herself. Now, I am coming to an understanding that she can probably see images from the story or text in her head but doesnt know how to translate that into words. Her perfectionistic tendancy says "this is too hard I cant do it" and she gives up. Oh! this happens so often in other areas of her life too. Fantastic! Im a visual learner too as I can now "see" the path ahead and how we can navigate the next phase of this crazy adventure :)

I hadn't thought of it being about learning style. Its not something I had been able to put on my finger on before but I now that I reflect upon it again, she does seem to very much lean towards visual learning. Interetsing! I will keep this in mind.

Thanks for your reply. Maybe this is what is happening with us. I will give this approach a try and see if that helps :)

She is fantastic with facts, information that is interesting to her. She remembers stories we read together very well and I'm amazed sometimes at her detail. Which is why I am at a loss with her struggle with narration :) How do I work out if she is having trouble remembering the facts or if she doesnt hear them in the first place? Yes its the detailed questions in the narration. Then the summary at the end as well. We (finally) get through 5 or 6 questions and then I ask "can you tell me one thing you remember about what we read?" and more often than not she will say " I don't knooooooooooooooooooooooow!" lol. So I will remind her of the questions she just answered, repeating Q and A to her and then ask her again to tell me one thing she remebers (then I will ask her to make this a complete sentence, or help her develop it into a complete sentence and I write it down in our journal). We may need to do that once, sometimes more. To be honest I think she understands. Maybe she is still getting used to applying herself and learning how to think? It is frustrating for me because we have been doing this for 6 months now (lol probably not very long?) and it feels like we are going backwards instead and going forwards and getting stronger. She dislikes direct questions in all aspects of her life and has trouble even answering her fathers questions in daily life or telling him about what she has been up to through the day. Is mute with most other people. Maybe the problem is me and I need to accept where we are and that it will take as long as it takes? I just want to be sure I am offering everything I can.