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I considered the workboxes, but we're already pretty organized in the 'do the next thing' category. But I did get the kids their own planners, and I do like to put everything in the same place every day so they know exactly where their books/supplies are located. I hate searching for things when we need them. I like to always know they are in their designated places. :001_smile:
At this point, with only two students left, I think we are okay with things as they are, but I love seeing everyone else's organization methods, especially when they have over 4 children.
Dee
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I've never heard it, but I have problems with other people's voices as well. I didn't like that Hands on Essays because the women's voice just irritated me, and I listened to Diane Warring's voice and thought to myself, no, uh uh. This isn't going to work.
I thought it was just me. Glad to see I'm not alone. :D Now I know never to order Phonetic Zoo! :lol:
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I don't make any plans as far as pre-planning, but we do write down what we accomplish daily in some sort of planner. This year my highschooler will be keeping his own records with his own daily planner.
For my little one, I'll write down what we do as it gets done, but other than that, we are "do the next thing" people! :lol:
I do aim to have all things homeschooling very organized as I don't want to be hunting down scissors, calculators, and rulers when we really need them for a lesson.
Dee
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I would leave them in the pile with his other books and see what happens. I'd tell him this was book candy that doesn't really feed us, but it's sometimes entertaining. As some of the other posters posted, sometimes even adults want something easy and fun! He might want to read a few and then he may not. I doubt it will come between the real literature that he has come to enjoy.
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The first year we moved to FL, I didn't keep up with my 7th grader's work. She ended up doing nothing but reading books all the while I thought she was in her room completing her curriculum. At the end of the year when I asked her for her work, she had completed nothing, not even her math program. She did have a list of over 100 books she had read from the library, that was her curriculum. The following year I didn't worry about making anything up, I handed her her 8th grade curriculum and she completed it with no problem. Her lack of work in the 7th grade did not really make a huge difference.
This taught me that in the midst of any crisis, reading and math will be the only things done. I did end up having a marriage crisis a few years later, and those were the things that got consistently done. The kids were not harmed by not doing the other things at all. And most of all, in a crisis, get short courses that can be done independently of the parent. I've become a whiz at searching out short, concise courses.
HTH somebody,
Dee :)
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The only thing I'm excited about is being more organized! Got the planners, the files...getting the workbox thingies, and making all my copies early. I just want things to flow without interruption and I want to know where the calculator is when I need it!
Dee :)
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Each year less and less. I would say about 50-100. I have some really good homeschooling cyber moms and we mail our curriculum to each other so the other can get a look at something before purchasing. We insure our packages and so far, so good! This has been an excellent way not to overspend, and yes, while you are spending on shipping and insuring, you are saving a lot more on curriculum that flops and you have to practically give away at selling time.
Like some of the other posters mentioned. Each year you sort of get more settled on what you know will work and what you know won't. And each year I make a real commitment to the curriculum I buy. In other words, we try, rilly, rilly try, to make everything fit us and work. Only in the case of extreme tears and frustration will we consider going for a different curriculum.
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I started using WWE 1 with a 2nd grader. He did well with it that year, but the following year when I received WWE 2, I knew my son was not ready for it. After a year of spelling dictation and more practice in oral narrations, we are ready to start WWE once again, but this time we are also integrating it into whatever we are presently doing. (now starting again with a 4rth grader in level 2-using the textbook only)
I see no need to add the separate subject of writing at this point when we can do it naturally from our Bible reading, literature selections of our own choosing, and history/science. I'm a bit nervous about going forth without the crutch of the workbook, but I'm determined to give it a try.
It may not look exactly like what WWE has written down, but the principles will be there. I'm hoping it works out for us!
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We are doing light summer school. Here's our review http://www.chosenthatgoodpart.blogspot.com
Be Blessed!
Dee :)
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I purchased them to use this next coming year, but I haven't started them yet.
They are not fancy, but very practical. They have a great yahoo group, though, with wonderful articles.
You can see it here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RaisingSL4Life/
Blessings!!
Dee
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I regret leaving the course I originally started. When I started homeschooling in 1999, we started with Alpha Omega lifepacs and paces. My kids thrived with them and we had a great first year. The children were done with their work by 12-1 p.m. Monday through Thursday. They usually did a page extra every day and took Fridays off for library trips or a field trip. They took so many books out of the library and read and read and read all day long. They did crafts and had time to be children. They wrote stories, and were very happy.
In 2000 I got on the internet and learned about homeschooling forums. I read how these workbooks that I was using were horrible, and the worst thing you could use to educate your child. That left me in a horrible confusion and there started my discontentment with curriculum. Each year I tried something different: CM, unschooling, delight-directed, bits of the WTM, prepared unit studies, my own unit studies, relaxed homeschooling, eclectic homeschooling.
Thankfully, my children still thrived with whatever they did, but I feel that in the end the constant changing from year to year hurt them. There was no real continuity to their studies and some days it seemed like school dragged on forever.
Thankfully, I'm pretty much done with curriculum discontentment and am at a nice eclectic balance of self-instructional curriculum. I'm even back to some Ace paces. We no longer jump from thing to thing, or from new fad to new homeschooling fad. In other words, we make it fit us, and not the other way around. It has to really, and I mean really bring tears or be very confusing now, for us to switch to something else once decisions are made. (only homeschooling 2 now)
My biggest advice would be to stay the course that you find best fits your family, even if 100 families write about how horrible that course is or was for them. For your family, it will be successful because there is no one as unique as your family! :)
This is the only thing I would do differently.
Dee :)
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I'm sorry. I'm having lots of trouble with my PM. I don't know if my email to you went through or not.
I used this coupon code that I found here at the WTM boards. A friend sent me a link, and I copied this code: 313112HS
It appeared someone had used it already, but that didn't matter. I tried it and it worked for me and I wasn't charged any shipping.
It's worth a shot! The WTM post said that it didn't expire until September 10, 2010.
Hope it works for you!
Dee
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Got one, thanks!!! Already got my free shipping! :lol:
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I need one to make an order today. Please let me know...
Dee :)
You can pm me if you would like.
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I just purchased version 3 of Latin American Spanish I and II and love it. However, if I knew that I couldn't sell it later on, I don't know if I would have spent 368 dollars on it? I spent that much thinking I could get at least half of this back when I was done with it.
It would be nice if they let you know this. I do know that it wasn't something I could just pop in my computer and play. My husband had to punch in a code, much like Teaching Textbooks, and then once that was registered were we able to actually have access to it. But I thought that like TT, I could sell it and then they would issue out another code or something to the buyer. Chucks! I wish I had been better informed...:001_unsure:
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Yes, I do. The 10th grade English goes over everything learned up until that point and is very thorough. This son that I'm starting it with did not do their English I. He did Winston Grammar and Winston Grammar Advanced and we looked it over before making a decision and he decided to keep it. He really likes the direction of the assignments given and the variety in the writing assignments. He also likes that after 3-4 pages a day, he will be done with English, as opposed to my previous Winston, Literature, Editing and so on and so on and so on. :) All of that is already included in the paces.
I really love the way the literature is woven in, not just thrown in for good measure. I love the way there are little devotionals in there as well, called Wisdom Inserts. I find myself wanting to read every single one of them.
I love the way that the writing instruction is taught, very thorough and step by step.
I would advise getting a few to get a look at them if you are not sure about them. I wish there were more samples on-line.
You can email me if you want me to pull them out and give you more specifics.
Dee
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Cheri, there aren't too many users of Ace here at WTM. You can go to
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ACEhomeschoolingsupport/ and there are so many users there that have used all grade levels.
We have used the 9th grade English 1 in previous years and absolutely loved it. It's just the right amount of grammar, with a slow introduction to composition that really gets the job done.
We are going to be using the 10th grade with another child, and there is less grammar and more writing at this level--all types of paragraphs, essays, and introduction to the research process. I love how Ace does that and how there is just the right amount of literature, grammar, and writing. I tried to do it myself this last year, but I lacked continuity and ended up with a hodge podge of work and no connections. I'm hoping that that won't happen this next year. We are excited to be using Ace highschool English again!
HTH,
Dee
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Oh my, does she work for the company! (just kidding :lol:)
I would use the Building Thinking Skills book (at her level)
One Mindbender book
and one Reading Detective or EIC if your English program is lacking in these skills and that's all!
Where will you ever find time to do anything else with all these workbooks?
HTH,
Dee
ps those are the three that I purchased to help my son with thinking skills but we will only use them after our basics are covered and only once or twice a week. ;)
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I'm using it as a spelling program just as is. I write the words down for the week on a white board, and then we go over them and the phonograms which make up the sounds. We discuss any words that my son tells me he cannot spell right off the bat.
We practice spelling them on the whiteboard for a few days and when he thinks he's ready, I give him a spelling test on paper. After the spelling test, the next day I begin our spelling dictation sentences. I dictate 4-6 sentences a day. He has done very well and not only has his handwriting improved, but his spelling, punctuation, and grammar knowledge has as well.
That's it. Short and sweet and it really works!
HTH,
Dee
ps I only own the Spelling Plus Dictation book, not the spelling one. I do also use the Homophone book, and we do alphabetter a few days a week as this is a skill that is very difficult for my 9 year old. He's just not ready, but it will come. :)
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It was never meant to be directed to offend, I hope that it didn't. ;) I simply wanted to know as I know that there have been lots of revisions to the curriculum from 20 years ago until now.
I know that I considered myself to be fairly intelligent, or shall I say adequate, especially when it came to grammar, and I had trouble passing the seventh grade level of their diagnostic test, even after teaching my own children from various reputable and challenging resources throughout the years.
I'm always surprised when people who haven't seen or used the highschool levels say that it is not challenging, because I for one, found it quite the challenge. (but I guess that doesn't apply to you because you have seen it and used it--I was simply curious)
I'm sure that many can pass their diagnostic test all the way through, I for one, did not. :) Maybe I needed Ace paces. :lol:
Many Blessings!
Dee
ps You are totally right about not using something and forgetting it anyway. It kind of makes one wonder why we stress and get so hyped up over curriuclum and methodology in the first place if our children, much like ourselves, will eventually forget most of the unused material.
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I haven't see nor used AAS, but I really liked Rod and Staff spelling. I've seen alll the books up to the 5th grade.
You can see samples at rodandstaffbooks.com
What I liked about it the most was that the exercises were not just busywork. They were well thought out and useful. There were no puzzles, no fluff.
It felt like it was thinking and spelling curriculum at the same time. We left it only because I wanted to try dictation because I read there was more retention, but I have wondered if I did the right thing and if I ever went back to a traditional spelling program, it would be that one, or BJU. BJU I really like because it teaches in word families.
HTH,
Dee :)
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To be honest, not much. We pretty much make a schedule in the beginning of the year and follow it closely. I check my younger son's work almost immediately as he's finishing it and file it away in his notebook.
My older son's work gets checked once or twice a week and that only takes me about half an hour to go through and make notes on what needs to be worked on, discussed, or changed. He also gets a schedule and a planner at the beginning of the year in which he becomes very much responsible for his work.
My motto is that by 3 o clock, I'm done for the day and I want nothing to do with looking at books or checking work. Everyone has their schedule and their free time, after 3, it's my time. :)
HTH,
Dee :)
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How long ago were you in the highschool subjects, because most adults cannot pass level 7 of the Ace English diagnostic test, and I'm not kidding.
Ace has changed a lot in their highschool subjects and I've compared them side by side with Abeka, and even some BJU, and Ace does not disappoint in the highschool years.
We just ordered the Ace English 2 for highschool, and I'm so impressed with the level of thinking, grammar, editing, literature studies, and overall, the continuity of this program.
How important are transcript codes on a transcript?
in High School and Self-Education Board
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When we belonged to an umbrella school, they prepared transcripts for both of my daughters. I noticed that they put course codes for every course. (we no longer belong to an umbrella school)
The transcripts that are free online, and the samples that I've seen, don't have course codes. I'm curious, just how important are course codes on a transcript?
Thank you,
Dee
ps I'm in Florida.