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  1. I didn't read the whole thread, so I apologize if this is repetitious. My sons are 2, 4, and 6, and when we are reading about the gods and goddesses, I tell my boys that they didn't have TV back then so these were like their superheroes. They wanted them to be real because they were so cool, but they were just pretend. I know that's simplistic but my kids are young :)
  2. Evan-Moor. We got the ebook. Cheap, reproducible, 1 page a day for 4 days, then a test. We all love it and already got it for next year.
  3. I have been going back and forth between a couple Bible curriculum for next year, and decided to get the GrapeVine Resurrection study to use during Lent this year and see how we like it. I've looked over the student and teacher ebooks and have a couple questions. If I get the level 3/4 teacher ebook, does it include the same information as the 1/2 book plus new information? Could I teach levels 1 and 2 using the level 3/4 book? Are the stick figures different? Has anyone had a bad experience just buying the teacher books and having kids use a notebook? Do most of you use a separate devotion or curriculum for application? I am also looking at BSGFAA and Bible Truths. We have used BJU before so I know it can be a bit overwhelming, but they learned so much for K5 math and reading. Hated it, but learned a lot.
  4. Thinking about using this next year. How did you use it? What did you like or dislike? What did you buy? Anything you wish you did/didn't buy? Thanks!
  5. Oh, I absolutely agree. We have a lot of high-interest books for independent reading and read-alouds. I am looking specifically for short things he can read out loud to me daily. Co-reading from our read-alouds is a good idea, though. Thanks! Exactly how my husband and I feel. How do you know they're struggling if they're not reading to you? I love the treadwell readers, but how do you stretch those out for a whole year? Move up to the next level as soon as you finish? This is so simple and so brilliant! I LOVE the encyclopedia idea. Your other ideas are helpful too, but I definitely think the encyclopedia idea would fit in well with the kinds of things we already do regularly. Thanks so much! Thanks for the suggestion! I am not big on the McGuffey readers either, but Treadwell seems more interesting and engaging. And I will look into the Treasures reader. Thank you!
  6. Of course they don't have the 2nd one, right? Haha! Thank you! What they have looks lovely! Wendy, those do look fun! Thanks! Thanks for the suggestion! There is a lot of information on that site, so I need to look through it more. I am confused about how to implement it, but I was looking on my phone, so I need to look at it on a computer. The version I got for the kindle was SO confusing with tons of numbers! I think it would really confuse my son. How did you handle that?
  7. Haha, the problem is, we just don't get to the library consistently enough for me to rely on that. And he does really well with concrete lessons. Like, the OPGTTR lessons are 1-3 pages. He will do 1 page, every time, with no fuss. When it is 3 pages, there is definitely fussing. When I have him do a chapter in the Pathway Readers, there can be fussing. I want to find something where we are reading something meaningful at his reading level, but there is a clear starting and stopping point so he can focus without worrying about how long it is. I downloaded the McGuffey 3rd Eclectic Reader and it is incredibly confusing with all the numbers. But that is the kind of thing I am hoping for. A page of meaningful literature that we can read together each day. Am I making any sense? ETA: We definitely have books! Don't want anyone to think we don't :) I am just hoping to have what I want in one book, tied up in a neat little bow, like so much of the Peace Hill Press material is. I need a Daily Reading with Ease for 2nd grade, please! I would be interested in the Evan-Moor daily reading comprehension to tackle this, if the passages were not twaddle. But that's the idea.
  8. My DS is going to finish OPGTTR this year. The short lessons and doing it together on the couch as our only schooling in the afternoon has been great. I was reading in WTM about 2nd grade and am concerned with oral reading being once a week. I want him to read something out loud to me each day. I think it is great practice and helps me to see where he struggles. Is there any curriculum that has paragraph long passages from classics on a 2nd grade reading level? Like WWE, but daily reading. Has anyone used WWE2 in this way, and had the child read the passage instead of the parent? Any suggestions about what you did to practice after OPGTTR would be appreciated! Thanks!
  9. I feel like I posted a lot about science last spring. I was all for doing interest-led biology type stuff, following the WTM model for 20 weeks of animals, 10 weeks of anatomy, and 6 weeks of plants. I found very quickly in September that this wasn't a good fit for us, mostly because it was hard to lay out in advance. We have been doing Mr. Q's science, very loosely. I kind of feel like I have failed the kids for science and for biology this first year. I know it's just supposed to be intro and fun, but they love science and I just feel like I haven't been tapping into that. Not having a plan overwhelms me. So, I want a book for next year. I want it all laid out. If it is laid out, we will do it, the kids will know what to expect, and I won't feel like a failure. I like the WTM idea of cycling through the 4 main catergories 3 times, so I want to do earth and space next year. The kids are so excited about doing space and volcanoes and earth quakes and all that. The two programs I am looking at are Christian Kids Explore and Elemental Science. Any experiences? Thanks!
  10. HA! Found the sample. Haha. Right there where it says "click here to view sample". Shaking my head, y'all.
  11. I will look into them. Thanks! I love free options! I didn't think of a site like kidzone having worksheets like that. Thanks! Looking at the general sequence from a table of contents is brilliant! I have done that for other things but not sure I would have thought of it for this. Thanks for that and the website! How do you have time?! Thanks for the link! I will look at the samples. I always love finding things that are based on how it used to be done. Teaching vowels first makes sense! Again, I haven't found samples yet, but they must be somewhere! Haha! Thanks!
  12. I hadn't heard of Startwrite in my initial searching. Thanks!! Thanks for the book recommendation! It sounds promising. I will check it out! Isn't it silly that I hadn't thought of just not doing all the lines?! Haha, such a newbie still! You're totally right that I could use whatever is in budget the way that I want to. Thanks for telling me which book you used. I like the sequence you're telling me and I will look into it. Great suggestion. He loves having a choice. And doing more or less depending on his needs makes a lot of sense. Thanks! Is there a way to see a sample? I am interested in checking it out but it looks like there is only the description and the price? I would love to find something that is print-at-home and inexpensive because we have 3 kids (in process for adopting for the first time, too) and they will all need to learn this, obviously. Thanks for telling me about this one!
  13. My 6 year old son is interested in learning cursive. He is very meticulous and has great print. He has started pretending to write in cursive so I am thinking maybe I should introduce it before he makes up his own and gets confused or frustrated when I teach him the "right" way to do it. I have been looking at workbooks but am not satisfied with what I have seen. Either a) they are whole pages of single letters and that was miserable for us with learning print with BJU or b) there is very little practice before writing sentences. I am not sure about the latter. I feel like he could get frustrated easily without practice, but too much practice will numb his brain. I think that what I want is a line where he can trace the letter a few times, and then a line under that where he can practice it without tracing a few times. Then, for each letter after "a" there would be a tracing line to show how to connect the new letter with previous letters and then a line to practice what you just traced. No more than 4 lines of work. No more than a few letters a line. He doesn't need to do a whole page of As. He just needs the ability to see it, trace it, and practice it. If he does 2 or 3 in a row correctly, that's all I think he needs to do. That's how he learned to write print. Does this exist in workbook form already? Should I just be making my own worksheets for him? If so, does anyone have a site they use? What font is best? Is there a font that has tracing and regular letters and maybe letters with arrows? Thanks!
  14. Oh my goodness. I love DecemberTerm! That's pretty much exactly what I am trying to figure out how to do. And I love the idea of keeping up with a picture study of music study during that time and having it laid out with a Christmas theme. Thanks for pointing me to this site!
  15. Haha, sure! If I get my act together before December 1st! Haha! Thanks for the ideas! The idea of colored pens would go over big with my littles! Do they have erasable red and green ones that don't cost an arm and a leg? I am going to see if there is a Nutcracker play we could see somewhere around here! I didn't even think of doing that. We used to go see A Christmas Carol, but my kids spook easily, so I think we are a few years away from straight up Dickens. Thanks for sharing your plans! Great ideas! Thanks! We have a scholastic dvd collection. I will check to see if we have it :) Thanks! Thank you for the links! Looking into them! Going to read it right now. Thanks!
  16. They love chapter books :) I read to them while they eat lunch. We read the Little House books and Burgess books and just finished Doctor Dolittle. So I'm not concerned about attention or anything. I will look into the ones you mentioned! Thanks! Science of snow/snowflakes is a great idea! And definitely planning on baking :)
  17. I would love to replace a lot of our "normal" school activities with Christmas-themed ones. We are doing 11 days of school in December. I was thinking of continuing forward with math and OPG, but possibly replacing everything else with Christmas-themed lessons. Specifically, I would stop doing WWE and do narrations and copywork from Christmas stories. I haven't found anything like this pre-made, but was thinking we would do copywork from lines of Christmas carols. For narrations, I was thinking of reading either the entire books or excerpts from Christmas classics. These are the ideas I have so far- A Christmas Carol, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, The Nutcracker, The Polar Express...other thoughts of old or modern classics to draw from? Has someone already made a list of stories or passages to read and ask for narrations from for the Christmas season? I don't want them to be fluff, but stories that have value either from a literary standpoint or because they are beloved. Not sure how I would replace FLL. Maybe just do Christmas Mad-Libs for those 11 days and talk about parts of speech? For science, I was thinking about pre-choosing animals from the Kingfisher book- reindeer and penguin or polar bear. I was thinking about doing one of the "Christmas around the world" units I have seen online in place of SOTW. Anyone know any good chapter books to read out loud to my 2, 4, and 6 year olds that are Christmas-themed? Don't want to reinvent the wheel if something is already out there, but looking for feedback and ideas and links if it doesn't already exist. Thanks!
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