Are WWE concepts more important than FLL? It seems like it should be the other way around, with FLL taking up more time durring the week. Maybe I just need to look through the texts again more thoroughly.

How many days a week do you do FLL and WWE? Do you double up on dication if both cover it in the same day? We are just now starting on FLL 3 and I'm using The Complete Writer sample lessons for now until we find a sticky spot and settle on a specific level. We are new to both this cirriculum and homeschooling this year. If there is a previous thread that I have missed, feel welcome to point me in the right direction! TIA!

:bigear: bumping this for you

so I'm in as well!

The Secret Garden Emily of New Moon Nancy Drew books

No, they are in ps, except for the almost 4 year old. I may eventually start teaching him as well, when he is ready. So most of the day should be quiet. I guess I can be helpful in gently redirecting their time to other things. I was thinking about including them in our read-alouds, nature study and science projects. Maybe I can slowly show them all a different way, instead of just complaining :) Thanks for the responses. I feel a little better.

I'm in!!! :cheers2: ...been waiting a couple of months for this. Haha! So, do we check in every Sunday? how do we find out about the mini challanges? are we required to post something...on here or on your blog? ...or do I just read? lol (newbie to blogosphere:blush: and reading challenges)

More opinions? I am really on the fence on this one.

:iagree:I just read the chapter specifically on ADHD the other night and it changed my view on this topic completely. Highly recommended book!!

Thank you all so much for your responses!! I posted this awhile ago and forgot about it altogether until I was searching through all of my posts to see if I missed some replies. I am so glad that others are doing the same thing. I feel really good about my decision to keep this hands on and fun for him. Thanks again for the thread links and book recommendations! I love this board!!!:)

Bump:001_smile:

I broke down and am getting my son an xbox for Christmas. He is ten and he couldn't think of anything else he wanted. He is very physically active and prrefers the real world to gaming unlike a lot of boys his age. I have decided that i am buying only sports games and absolutely nothing violent. My question is how often do you let your kids play per day/week? I was thinking 30minutes on school days and one hour on weekends...but Then again I'm not sure I want him to play it daily. In my eyes it's mostly a rainy day activity to do after reading, art and family time fun are over. Here is my major delima: We soon will be living with my sister who has four boys. They literally play ALL DAY. EVERYDAY. I'm worried that this will rub off on my son eventually so I want to set up a time limit in advance. Normally I would not have imposed any rules. He had a playstation previously and played it only after he had been outside all day doing "boy things"...but still rarely. Mostly he would play when friends came over, which of course worries me now that he will be living with 4 inactive "gamers". Thoughts?

That's the way I do it too, except that I was taught to do it one step at a time. For example...I would make the 3 a 13, then the 0 a 9, then the 2 becomes a 1. Same thing just one more step.

What age/grade is this appropriate for?

"Why Johnny Still Can't Read" (just finished this and it is excellent!) and I second "The Charlotte Mason Companion". And both of these websites: Memoria Press Veritas Press

We are doing ONLY math facts for math in the first part of january so I'm :bigear:

What do you think about letting your dc read adaptations to the classics while young (age 8-12)? My ds is not really ready for a lot of the classics, even as read-alouds (language way above his head), but I know that he would love the stories of Treasure Island, Robin Hood and Swiss Family Robinson, etc and I don’t want him to miss out on these while he is still young and interested. If he already knows the stories in abridged form, is he likely to want to read them when older? I want him to get used to good literature, inspiring stories of heroes that are worthy of emulating and beautiful language use. I'm worried he wont get that in these types of classical adaptations because they are too watered-down or dumbed-down...“twaddle” as CM states. Thoughts? Are the Classic Starts series any good? If not, any other recommendations? Thank you :)

:lol: That sounds like torture lol! I wish I had thought of that with my son when he was going through his terrible times! That would have put an end to it. Excellent.

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I am reading "Why Johnny Still Cant Read" right now and I am only a little more than half way through but he makes a pretty good case that phonics should be taught and mastered before whole words or "look-and-say" words are introduced. I wholeheartedly agree with him. My dd had trouble reading in 1st grade because they were not teaching phonics systematically. She would cry all the time and tell me she hated school. I got her a phonics program and taught her at home in the evenings for a few months until she got it down. She started doing better in school and was reading chapter books on her own in no time. (She now in the National Honors Society for the 2nd year in a row, so no learning disability). My son is 10 and struggles with reading still. We did not do phonics with him at home becasue it was all I could do to get him to do the massive amounts of homework coming home with him everynight. I am bringing him home to teach him and may have to do remedial phonics with him because he was only given phonics sporadically in school. His teachers and principal wanted to tell me that he probably had a learning disability. Turns out he doesnt and neither do the handful of other kids in the school they had tested for reading disabilities recently. I am all for phonics only in the beginning. Some sight words like "the" are necessary at first so when they are reading the sentence, it makes sense. When they have mastered that then sight words should be added. They need to master breaking the code from the start or they will struggle. I highly recommend the above mentioned book!

Ok, thank you, thats what I thought. Oklahoma has been the greenest of green states and I want that to continue! Just a moment to vent: I know his counselor is young and doesnt understand what its like to be the mother of a child who is "failing the system", but she was very, very condescending when she spoke with me about my decision, which I did not appreciate. Thats a learned behavior. I hate that they are so brainwashed in college into thinking that their way is the only way. People have been educating their own children at home for centuries. Its not like we sat down to dinner one evening and decided to conduct a cultural science experiment on our children, as if they were lab rats. :banghead:

I am pulling my ds out of ps after Christmas and I was just told by my sons school counselor that at the end of this year I would have to have him tested even if I homeschooled. I didnt have to do this with my dd a few years back. Is she correct? Its the Oklahoma Core Cirriculum Test that is done every year in 3-7th grade, I believe, that determines whether they "pass" to the next grade level. I was told this was mandatory for even homeschooled children. She said I may have trouble if I were to enroll him again in ps a few years down the road if he did not pass these tests. Can anyone in Oklahoma please clarify this for me? Thanks.

:iagree: ...Absolutely agree. I strongly believe that doing history chronologically is one of the best things you can do for your children when teaching them at home.

These look great...wish you could view sample pages though.