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Here's mine, its' a little late, but it's for weeks 1-3, sort of a recap. Please scroll down as I did both of my sons separately because it would be too long to post them together. :)
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My oldest is 23. :)
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Her contact information is only a mailing address.
The workbooks are (she has one for each--EFRU 1 and EFRU 2) for 5th grade and up.They are very well organized and structured with ideas for games, crossword type puzzles, fill in the blanks, quizzes, and tests. It I intended for classroom use but can most definitely be adapted to individual use. The entire vocabulary list is to be used over 32 weeks. I thought that was a bit fast paced for us, so if we do use it, we will stretch it out over two years and then do the next book.
Dee
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If you go to the IEW yahoo group and become a member, you can go on their Lessonshare files and download a workbook study that Kathy Heiden has written up.
I believe that she is asking that anyone that downloads it can mail her15.00, but I'm not sure about that part is old or current...or if it's offerred for free. Either way, it is downloadable at IEW at the Lessonshare files. It's very well done and I'm planning on using it very soon.
HTH for anyone wanting a workbook style way to use the EFRU cards...with quizzes and tests...
Dee
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Aw, I want one, too! So cute!
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Lapbooks
cut and paste timeline - ds finds any cut and paste project (unless it's for art) totally useless. I finally bought a timeline and the DK encyclopedia, we're done with pictured timelines.
co-ops
dissections - ds is not squeamish, but hates looking at dead insects and such. I have many issues with dissections, so we'll do something like Frogouts and call it good. We love nature study though.
start before 9 a.m. - we are not morning people, period.
Yes to all of these and add crafts to the bunch! :lol:
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Just wanted to post about these free book report forms. They are better than anything else I've seen free on the internet and when my son was in the second grade he loved them. We did over 10 one year. They do grow in complexity and grade. You can choose the grade level that is right for the ability of your child. Hope you like...
http://www.lovetolearnplace.com/BookReports/BookReport.html
Dee :)
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I'm interested in replies about this one as well. I'm considering the 4-6th grade level for my budding artist. :bigear:
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I plan to alternate: one week practicing a single list (out load, on paper, on the board, on the fridge) and the next week we will use dictation that focuses on the previous weeks list, but also pulls in words from earlier lists. We will not be doing a spelling workbook, just lists of words. My ds hates the spelling workbook exercises and he does best if I have him spell them out load to be once a day.
This is exactly how we do spelling with Spelling Plus Dictation. We work on practicing a list one week, and then work on that list's sentences with dictation the following week. We are going on our fourth year of doing spelling this way and we have seen much retention. We love Spelling Plus Dictation! :lol:
Dee
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With my 5th grade son:
History and Geography-School of Tomorrow Paces grade 5
Science -School of Tomorrow Paces grade 5
English: Winston Grammar Basic, Spelling Plus Dictation, book list, All Things Fun and Fascinating Writing Program, Editor In Chief, still debating a vocabulary program...possibly Evan Moor Word a Day
Math-Christian Light Math level 4
Bible Study Guide
Extras
Building Thinking Skills
Mind Benders
Powerglide Elementary Spanish
Artistic Pursuits art program
With my 11th grade son:
World History from Pacworks (beta testers)
School of Tomorrow Biology with lab dvd
Math U See Algebra 2 and Pre-Calculus
English-IEW SWI Intensive, Grammar Made Easy Writing a Step Above, Vocabulary Cartoons SAT II, literature book list
Rosetta Stone Spanish 2
Computer Programming I (Florida Virtual School)
Driver's Ed (FL Virtual School)
Act Test Prep-The Real ACT test prep book
Bible--undecided still?
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I spend about 600 between two students. One is a highschooler and the bulk goes to his things. :) When I had 4 students, I spent anywhere between 300-1000.
Dee
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no problem, Anne Marie, I totally understand about wanting input from the hive...just wanted to make sure you knew that there was a group...I didn't until just a few weeks ago. ;0)
I'm looking forward to your posts since I want to be ordering this for my son as soon as we are done with the SWI-C.
Dee :lol:
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I encourage you to join the yahoo group. They are so helpful and they have lots of tips for using the Elegant Essay. I hope to be using that after we get through SWI-C. :)
Dee
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For a few bucks more you can start with an IEW intensive (99$) which has Andrew Pudewa (sp?) teaching the lessons to your child. I think it would be a better investment of your money and you could always get on the yahoo group and save up for the TWSS. Just a thought...There are also tons of files and helps at the yahoo group.
You could also just take a dive and start with something like All Things Fun and Fascinating which can really be done as a stand alone, or an introduction to the IEW principles.
HTH,
Dee
ps I couldn't afford the TWSS so I opted to get the SWI-C for my 9th grader and for my 5th grader I purchased the All Things Fun and Fascinating book. I'm really looking forward to August just so that we can start these. :)
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How about Writing Tales I. I have never used it, but from the samples it looks to be very non-threatening to a non-writer. It also provides the writing material already so the child is not coming up with topics for themselves.
We purchased All Things Fun and Fascinating for my 5th grader for all the reasons you expressed. He doesn't like to come up with original material and most writing programs bring him to tears. It seems to be so well organized.
HTH,
Dee
ps I own Jump In and I don't see a reluctant writer getting through this. There are a lot of assignments on coming up with your own ideas and papers. This to me seems like it is geared more towards the junior high/early highschool crowd.
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This is good enough to go on an Amazon book review! Please do so...based on this review, I'm going to get this book for my 5th grader.
Thank you! And Great Job!!!
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Well...I'm one to really stick to things and only change when there are tears of frustration the minute I bring the book out, or if the curriculum is boring both me and my son to tears.
This happened to us recently with the WWE 2 workbook. We started out using Strong Fundamentals and picking our own literature and it went wonderful, but I started thinking that a workbook would actually make our days easier, lighter. That didn't happen. In the beginning we loved the workbook, but in the end, we resented the freedom we lost by picking and choosing our own stories. It got to the point where I didn't even want to do it but we finished it anyway for finishing's sake. That was a mistake because it sapped the love and life out of our homeschooling. In hindsight, it was time to change and go back to choosing our own stories with Strong Fundamentals.
This can happen with any curriculum/program. Sometimes the parent has to assess whether or not the child is really getting what he/she should out of the program and if it is truly meeting the intended need.
This is one reason I research so thoroughly because I really don't want to switch in the middle of the year, but after homeschooling for so many years, I have realized that sometimes ditching something is a necessary evil. :lol:
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Hey Tina, maybe I spoke to soon. I seemed to have technical difficulties, but hopefully they'll get back to me soon with that. At least I don't have to notify anyone...that process was done for me by the umbrella school.
I'm praying it all goes well. I remember you writing about doing a few this next coming year. How did the courses your children took already go? Did they like them? Did you feel they were thorough? ...or too difficult? ...too easy?
If you'd rather email, my email is above. :)
Dee
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Nevermind, Tina. I heard back from my umbrella school and they did it all for me. I didn't know that I don't have to register as a homeschooler, but as a private schooler, making the process even easier for me. ;)
So here we go...going to give this a shot for a few courses...
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Hi Tina,
I wanted to ask you a couple of questions about the FLVS registration process. Could you please email me at:
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Please join...
Thank you!!!
Dee :)
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Have you seen this: http://www.essentialsinwriting.com/course-catalog.php
Also, Growing With Grammar now has a writing program that looks interesting. You can probably see it at growingwithgrammar.com
HTH,
Dee
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Dee,
I hope you don't mind me asking, but did you use something like PLL or did you read good books and have them narrate from those? Did you use AO? We have been reading the books from AO and I have asked for narrations but my boys have enjoyed their CLE workbooks ~ it just sometimes feels like we are "tied" to it.
Thank you for your response!
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Well, we sort of dabbled in a bit of everything at one point, but I always kept a running book list. My girls were voracious readers and sort of naturally narrated from everything they read. My son wasn't a voracious reader until the 6th grade, so as long as he was reading something, I was happy. I always tried to stay interested in whatever interested them, thus sort of naturally giving in to narrations from familiar territory. These don't always happen, nor have to happen, at school time.
If your sons love CLE lightunits, then there is nothing wrong with that. I have a son who loves order, workbooks, and checking boxes, and that seems to work for him. He doesn't like to read for pleasure so I sort of always have him reading at least one chapter of a chosen book a day.
What I was trying to say is that if I could do it over again, I wouldn't get so stressed about what curriculum to use for English. I would sort of ease on into everything in a more natural manner, and this might entail workbooks, but it wouldn't entail the stress or the drudgery of feeling like we have to finish or accomplish every little assignment, or actually "learn" everything in those little workbooks, every year. But more than anything, I was focusing specifically on grammar. Grammar is that iffy subject. For some, starting early and memorizing parts of speech is the direction to go. For others, they take a more laid back approach and introduce terms with writing or when necessary. I've seen both approaches work and not work, but for us, waiting wouldn't have hurt at all.
I hope I made sense...
Dee :)
ps My narrations were/are always relaxed and informal...stressing their favorite parts of books, what they would do in those situations, what they would change if they could change the ending, and many times their enthusiasm would have me reading the same books. For that reason alone, most of my children loved to narrate. It never seemed like work.
I will still go to the movies to this day and arrive only to find my older daughters waiting for me to give them a narration of the whole movie. In one of these re-tellings, my younger daughter watched the same movie afterward and couldn't believe how she knew everything that was going to happen because of my narration. She said I gave her an excellent narration. Charlotte Mason was right in that it takes way more brain function to recall and retell a series of events than it does to answer a few questions about those said events. I think if more parents practiced what true narration really is, they would understand it more from the perspective of their children and use it as an assessment tool. :lol:
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I haven't read the other replies, but maybe she is remembering Spelling Workout words because of the written exercises. She is probably more visual than auditory.
My son is not auditory and having him spell the word out loud helps, but what reinforces it for him is writing it down in several exercises. I am the same way. I can't even do much mental math because I just need to write everything down and see it, it's just the way my brain works.
Dee :)
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After graduating two daughters and almost finishing up with another one, I honestly think relaxing in the early years and focusing on oral narration, written narrations, and just reading books, is the best way to go.
None of my children really understood grammar until they were between the ages of 12-14, with the exception of simple nouns and verbs. And all of them understood all of it perfectly when they were much older.
With my older children, the ones who have graduated, since the material was no longer present, all the terms, the diagramming, and extras were soon forgotten, yet they knew and know how to write and how to formulate their thoughts, how to speak properly, and how to function in society without remembering all that they had learned. I guess my point is that they knew and know how to learn and can easily pick up a handbook and produce what is asked of them in college/workforce now.
I honestly feel we fill their minds up with too much stuff when they are younger and not all of it is necessary. :)
JMHO,
Dee :)
If you use Spelling Plus . . .
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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First week I have a schedule. We first write the words on the white board and discuss the spelling of each. I address any rules or phonograms he should pay attention to. We then try to spell the words outloud. On Monday my son writes the words 2 times each. On Tuesday he does sentences of the first 8 words. On Wednesday he does sentences of the other half. On Thursday puts the list in ABC order. On Friday we go over the words orally and then if he feels ready, we take the test. Any missed words go on the next week's list.
The following week, we start dictation of 5-6 sentences daily. We do this Monday through Thursday. On Friday we work on one or two homophone (from the homophone book which we love) worksheets and we go over the words orally again. (I noticed that there is more retention if he can say them orally several times)
We start the same routine again on the following Monday with the next word list. My son retains more words this way because of the dictation. Dictation has done wonders for his spelling, handwriting, and even his grammar.
We love Spelling Plus in this house! :lol:
In the second half of the school year we will work on dictionary skills once I know that he's got his alphabetical order down.
HTH,
Dee in Sunny FL! :)