LauraBeth475
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Thanks! I got him Gregor the Overlander
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This is for a 14 yob. He's generally a reluctant reader, but he loved the HP series.
What should I get him for Christmas to read next.
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Homeschool Buyers Coop has Horizons grade level sets 40% off today.
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I have been a 'litmus test' voter in past elections. In this election, I don't find either main party candidate acceptable on that issue, so it's debatable whether I will vote for the candidate I consider to be most competent, or vote a third party candidate that is more aligned with my values.
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Thank you!
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Do we need to work the chapters in order, or can we pick and choose to go along with topics she's studying otherwise?
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What a great offering!
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Has anyone done this as a homeschooling mom? What does your time use look like?
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Yeah, I think the OT is the way to go.
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Mostly for handwriting. She cries if I try to make her write more than a few letters properly, instead of grasping the pencil in her palm.
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She'll be 7 in a week.
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I'd like to find a book or two to introduce the genre to my 8 year old. Something at a 3-4 grade level.
Any suggestions?
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Title says it all...
Up until this past June I've always considered myself a 'white mutt'-- my family never really identified with any culture other than 'American'.
One of my aunts was going through my grandmother's papers and discovered her CIB number... (Certificate of Indian Blood). Apparently my gradmother's mother (my great grandmother) was full Choctaw... (she looked it too!) My dad's family is from Oklahoma and there was a period of time when they were pressured by discrimination against (Native Americans) so they just started telling everyone they were darker skinned Germans. This left my generation and my dad's in the dark about where we came from.
I've been doing research and just reading about the Trail of Tears now has a new meaning...
Anyways, at a family reunion in June all of this came out and I found that my uncle and most of my cousins on that side have joined the Choctaw tribe... and they are encouraging me (and my daughters) to as well. This is NOT about getting any benefits (although there are a few educational ones that would benifit my children)-- it is about discovering our past and finding out that we 'belong'.
Has anyone else gone through this?
If I complete the form to register for my CIB card and then join the tribe I would have to change my ethnicity on many forms...
First off, wow, that's a lot of family history to discover and process. I'm glad to hear that your family is getting in touch with this part of your past.
My two cents (if they're worth that...)
As I understand, NA tribes each have their own rules for membership. If the Choctaw consider you a Choctaw, I would absolutely join and start learning about that part of your heritage. And with time, you and your kids may each come to your own opinion as far as your identity.
I've always read those ethnicity questions as "what do you identify as?" Instead of something legally binding. My one child is multiracial (often not an option) so I know my and his answers have varied at times.
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The "I Survived" series was my reluctant boy reader's favorite at that level. He went from those to The Hardy Boys next.
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Thank you for all that - I saved it for future reference.
We've used and liked SWB's questions. I think maybe I'm making this more complicated than necessary for junior high.
I'll post a book response paragraph in the feedback folder next time he does one.
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Would this be a good choice for a 3rd grader that likes creative writing?
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I'm trying to picture what the 7-8th grade literature essays described in TWTM look like, and coming up blank.
Anyone have one they'd be willing to post?
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Version 2.0
Boy in 8th grade - slower learner
Reading - Reading Detective Rx. Practice for fluency from Catholic National Reader 4 (his pick)
Reading/Literature/History - Bookshark 6 (World History 1) Using the SOTW audiobooks I already have to keep the reading manageable.
Math - CLE and Kumon tutoring.
Grammar - CLE Language Arts
Writing - practice dictation, outlining, and writing across the curriculum for now. He just finished WTMA's Expository Writing Prep (highly recommend), and is having some writing exhaustion.
Spelling - continue with Megawords (excellent).
Science - either Bookshark Science 6 or Elemental Science Earth Science and Astronomy. Waiting to see what he has in time for this subject. He is also going to be doing a 2 hr a week science class at a local museum.
Girl in 3rd grade - basically Hermione
Spelling - Spelling Workout
Reading - Catholic National Reader 3. Finish Explode the Code Online. Maybe continue with Lexia for Homeschool or a MCP Word Study book, or maybe be done with phonics.
History - Sonlight B, which I already have, along with some extra maps from Knowledge Quest and notebooking pages
Literature - The Read Aloud books in that history core are about the level of what she reads for fun, so I think we will popcorn read them while little sister listens in.
Science - outside science class for 2 hrs a week. Elemental Science Earth Science and Astronomy.
Math - Singapore and Beast Academy. Kumon.
Latin - Song School Latin
Grammar - CLE
Writing - narrations and dictation. Some time to work on creative writing.
Girl in 2nd grade - bright but limited fine motor skills and patience
Spelling - Spelling Workout
Phonics - Explode the Code online
Reading - Sonlight second grade readers, if I can figure out where I lost the lesson plans. Or just easy readers from the shelf.
Math - Singapore. Start Kumon.
Grammar - English for the Thoughtful Child
Writing - copywork, lots of coloring and tracing to work on the motor skills
History - Core B with her sister
Science/Latin - tag along with big sister as well
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As a slow learner, what are his difficulties?
I would say reading comprehension might be the last thing you would want to give up.
Reading comprehension could be hit in different ways, within history or science, for example, with the right materials and your involvement.
Math is his big challenge right now. Also spelling and grammar rules. Anything that requires internalizing rules and patterns.
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The Step by Step Grammar may also be redundant.
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The CLE will be at a lower grade level.
I'm thinking about eliminating the reading comprehension and Wordly Wise, and maybe waiting a few weeks to pick a science once we see how much time we have.
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Okay, take a new look at eight grade...
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And then Elemental Science looks so fun...
Discipline for disobedience.
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Help me brainstorm some ideas for my 7 and 8 year old girls? They are going through an uncharacteristic mouthy and non compliant stage, and I'd like to nip this in the bud.