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On 6/8/2019 at 5:30 PM, Lori D. said:
We homeschooled all the way through high school, and foreign language was the one thing we outsourced -- we did it as Dual Enrollment (DE) with the local community college. That worked great for both DSs -- one did Spanish, and the other did ASL. They had excellent teachers, regular classroom conversation practice, and got to "dip a toe in the water" of doing a college class. AND they earned dual credit, as the courses counted for both the high school transcript and on the college transcript. AND the DE took care of the college degree foreign language requirement before DSs ever got to college! win-win-win-win! (:D
It's also very possible that that your area might have FREE DE courses for high school students, or the cost per semester for doing a foreign language course at the community college may be very similar or even lower than an online homeschool high school course provider.
I'll definitely check the local college. After reading responses, I'm leaning toward some sort of classroom setting. Thanks for taking the time to responds. This helps me so much. I go up and down on stressing out over high school. This helps out so much!
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13 hours ago, MerryAtHope said:
I’m not overly impressed with Rosetta Stone Spanish. I was grateful that we had it because it was given to us for free, but even at that price I was nonplussed. It fit our needs though, and I was grateful, but I wouldn’t have been happy if I had paid for it. I think it does an adequate job in some things, but it’s not great, especially considering the price tag. It’s really weak on grammar even with all the printable worksheets etc.
Thank you so much for the honesty on Rosetta Stone. That is exactly what I was wondering about Rosetta Stone. Going to cross it off my list. Thanks again!
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5 hours ago, J-rap said:
Foreign language was often the one thing we outsourced as well. Not because it was the best curriculum choice, but because it was consistent and intense and daily. I could be wrong, but I've come to believe that the most important part of foreign language learning is the intensity and consistency of it -- not the curriculum. We just couldn't seem to do that at home, even if we did it daily.
My kids sometimes did it in a classroom setting, but often our only option was through our state's free distance ed/online program. It was a course where they actually interacted with the teacher almost daily. It wasn't the greatest curriculum and certainly online wasn't ideal, but the one thing it was was consistent and intense, constantly pushing toward the next level. It required a lot more than just a daily home workbook lesson. Also, I never would have believed that an online foreign language option would work, but it sure kept our kids working hard at a foreign language. Again, when I say online I mean interacting with a real teacher, not just computer generated.
I wonder if your state has an online K-12 option for foreign language, or maybe a community college has a DE option.
I'll definitely check into it. Thank you. I'm with you on the interaction. Proper pronunciation is important and I feel she needs a teacher to guide that. Thanks again.
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On 6/8/2019 at 7:27 AM, mom31257 said:
I attempted to do Spanish with ds, but I just didn't have the time to learn it well enough to help him thoroughly. We resorted to this because it's on the computer and independent.
Thank you so much!
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Couldn't find this in another thread; please forgive if there is one.
DD will be a sophomore in the coming homeschool year. This past year we used Mango on-line, and both hated it. She was quite frustrated when after completing several chapters and subsequent tests, they added lessons to previously completed material that we felt hindered her on future lessons. They did this twice that we caught. I took French in highschool and lived in Italy for a couple of years, but lost a lot of it! Was leaning toward Rosetta Stone, but saw Living Language Spanish on Amazon that includes workbooks. I feel she would benefit more with video/audio/workbook combination.
Any suggestions? Anyone used Living Languages?
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I'm curious if you had any luck getting your files. My father-in-law passed away around the same time.
I am trying to find a seller, joy in the journey resources - Julie Lay. No luck on google. Trying to get Apologia Exploring Creation tests she made.
Sorry for your loss.
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Maybe RightStart?
There is a teacher manual that is incredibly well thought out without being scripted (I sort of glance through at the beginning of each lesson and paraphrase my own way). There are hands-on things to do, mainly based on the abacus, but also with other things as is appropriate. This is some discovery, but concepts are also taught after a discovery-type problem.
You can use the Singapore Challenging Word Problems book as enrichment, if you want, since a criticism of RightStart is that there isn't enough word problem practice.
Emily
Thank you! I will look into RightStart as well.
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Singapore is mastery based, so no jumping around in topics, and you can purchase a Home Instructor's Guide for their program. Rod & Staff as well as CLE both have good math programs.
I got that you want an instructor's guide, but am not really clear on what else you are looking for.
Sorry for being vague. I'm strong in math and love it myself; but appreciate a daily "plan" from instructors' guides. Looking for mastery based with some hands on manipulatives, if possible. My youngest is more of a kinesthetic learner. I would prefer more practice problems, without having to develop or hunt for them myself.
I looked at Singapore, CLE and Rod & Staff, on-line samples. Thank you so much! I really like the CLE so far. I am still learning, and often over-whelmed by the curriculum choices.
Your help is greatly appreciated!
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Looking for some guidance from those more experienced with homeschooling. I'm looking for a math that is more of a cross between Math Mammoth and Saxon Math.
My DD will be 3rd grade next year. This is our second year of homeschooling. I started her with MM light blue series. I liked that it was more advanced and had numerous exercises to instill the concepts and, to me, advanced in a logical order. I didn't like that it did not have a "teacher manual" and in some cases, very little instruction in the concept being taught. This year, I switched to Saxon Math 2 with the manipulatives. I like that for her it is a tad more "hands on" and I like the teacher's manual in the way that I am able to read through the lesson prior and know what needs to be achieved. I don't like the jump around nature of the text, at all. I also don't care for a lot of the scripted portions of the TM. She has some attention issues, so I'd like a math I may stay more involved in with her.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I try to stay away from any common-core aligned products in general. No offense meant for anyone, just a personal choice.
Thank you!
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Gods design for... Series covers this age range
Thank you!!
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I picked up Field Guide Astronomy and it looks really good, but I haven't been able to use it yet. Sorry. It's definitely worth looking into.
I will definitely look into this. Thank you so much!
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You may want to look into this site. I'm planning on it for next year. experienceastronomy.com
That does look interesting. Thanks for the link!
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365 Starry Nights: An Introduction to Astronomy for Every Night of the Year by Chet Raymo
Astronomy for All Ages by Phillip Harrington
Thank you so much for providing the links. They both look great.
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I signed them up for supercharged science and had no idea about the astronomy portion you posted. Thank you so very much!!
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I have Intellego Unit Studies Astronomy, but I didn't use it. We read Seymour Simon books on different topics, looked at the sky, and meant to go to the planetarium, but haven't made it there yet. This was for 2nd last school year.
Thank you!
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I suggest asking yourself what specifically you need right now (you may or may not find writing it down useful) and then compare that to what's available this year at the convention.
Here's the AZ Homeschool Convention Workshop Description page: http://afhe.org/resources/forms/2015_convention/2015_workshop_descriptions.pdf
If you have a homeschool group near you it's OK to ask people in it if you can borrow a particular book or curriculum to look through for a few days or week or whatever. I loan mine out all the time and I've borrowed plenty to flip through.
Here is the support group page for the state. http://afhe.org/resources_support_groups.html
Thank you, thank you for all the information you provided. It has all been so very helpful. As I see AZ in your member name, curious to know if you've been to the Phoenix convention? If so, I'm curious if there are any used curriculum at the event before or prior. A dear friend is going to go with me next summer and we've never been, so trying to determine if we need to go a day before the convention starts and/or stay after.
Thank you again for all the time you took in providing information for this newbie!
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Thanks to everyone for the help on math and history! Now a new topic: astronomy
I have a 2nd grader super interested in all things dealing with space; also a 6th grader interested in the stars.
The only specific astronomy I've seen is Memoria Press. I was looking through forums and came across Apologia Astronomy, of which I know nothing. I will check the site.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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Good luck! I truly recommend going to a convention. It can be awesome.
I'm a little intimidated by the idea of it, to be honest. Plus ours is about 4 hours away, in July, in the Valley of the Sun - Phoenix. I still am toying around with it though. I'm definitely one of those people who needs the book in her hands to go through - especially with math; I'm a math nerd and somewhat picky in that area!
Thank you so much for your help.
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For history this year, dd7 and dd8 and I did Abeka's 3rd grade history. We didn't do any of the workbooks, just read the textbook together and I asked the questions at the end of the chapter. Each chapter is a biography of a person in American History. I don't like any of Abeka's other history books, but this one is great!! I don't know how strong your daughter is as a reader, so I don't know if she would be ready for it on her own yet. My dd8 is a remedial reader; dd7 is advanced -- I read the book aloud to them because I didn't want dd8 to feel bad that she couldn't read it as well as dd7.
I will definitely look into it. Both are very strong readers.
Thank you so much!
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6th grader-Greenleaf Guides for Famous Men of Ancient Egypt/Greece/Romeetc. series. Get the study packages. http://www.greenleafpress.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=56&zenid=5511f8d813e6126ceae510af5e4215ed%C2%A0 It's all planned out with clear instructions for the student. Go chronologically since that kid has no background in history.
2nd grader-SOTW1: Ancients with the Activity Guide for SOTW 1. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=story+of+the+world+bauer
Then next year do SOTW 2: Middle Ages while the oldest is doing Greenleaf Guides for Famous Men of Middle Ages/Renaissance/Reformation (if you want to include religious studies from the time.) You can move them through the same time period and the oldest can work fairly indpendently while you work more closely with the youngest.
Each Greenleaf Guide has the whole unit planned out in about 30-33 assignments. You can do at least 2-3 a week and cover Egypt/Greece and Rome, meanwhile your youngest can listen to you read aloud SOTW 1: Ancients 2-3 times a week and do narrations and copywork as suggested and demonstrated in the Activity Book. You can get a read aloud per kid going (or find something they both might listen to, like myths or something) based on what they're studying. The Activity Books have suggestions for each chapter.
Wow! Thank you so much.
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Do you want the younger to continue in Math Mammoth?
For the older, would you consider Singapore 6th grade, probably using the Intensive Practice supplement? Or do you think she would be ready to tackle something like AoPS PreAlgebra -- she could do the pretest; this is a very thorough and intensive PreAlgebra program, and she should not expect to get all the problems right as she goes -- 70 - 80% would be mastery. The page I linked has a pretest; it is under "Diagnostics" on the right side, labeled "Are You Ready?"
I'm on the fence about Math Mammoth.
I think my older is ready to tackle something more challenging. I will definitely look into the link you provided. Thank you so much!
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I have to be honest - I read this and read this in posts, forums, books, etc. and just shrugged it off. I have no idea why. This is on our list to sit and discuss this week.
We will seek out local groups. We found one, but it just was not a good fit for myself or my oldest.
Thank you for taking the time to help me along!
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Also, write down what your long and short term goals are for homeschooling. Ask your kids, especially your older one, what THEIR goals are and if there are any areas of interest they would like to pursue. Build time in for those. Help your children work on things that interest them.
I would also seek out local homeschool groups. They may have a library or other resources, plus maybe some classes/field trips/clubs you can tap into.
I have to be honest - I read this and read this in posts, forums, books, etc. and just shrugged it off. I have no idea why. This is on our list to sit and discuss this week.
We will seek out local groups. We found one, but it just was not a good fit for myself or my oldest.
Thank you for taking the time to help me along!
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High School Foreign Language - Help!
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Going to have DD look at Duolingo and Homeschool Spanish. I saw the motherlode lists, really just seeking honest opinions on what worked and what didn't or didn't so much. Thank you for the information!