[Magnatiles, bristle blocks, or waffle blocks?]

Magnatiles are the best.  And they’re pretty.

[MCP Math vs. Seton Math for 1st grade]

Anyone want to compare these for me?  

[Complete Book of Marvels]

I found this book by Richard Halliburton at the library, and I love, love it as a history and geography resource.  Except that it is old enough that the pictures are in black and white and they would be gorgeous in color.  Anyone have a favorite book that is similar but more modern?

[Ignore this thread!]

42 minutes ago, Susan in TN said:

You show a great deal more self control than I possess!  

 

It is more that I am cheap ?.  I hated the idea of paying all that money and then not having lost anything next week.

I have now been to the grocery store, and had fruit and stir fry.

 

[Ignore this thread!]

I impulsively joined Weight Watchers last night.  I wound up not eating breakfast until 1 pm today because I couldn’t find anything healthy to eat in the house.

[Ignore this thread!]

3 hours ago, Slache said:

Today was a sick day.

We're out of snacks. 

Is scribd a legit site or pirate site?

Scribd is legit and it is fantastic. 

[Something to solidify phonics]

Explode the Code worked well with all my kids.

[Timeline book?]

3 hours ago, Homeschool Mom in AZ said:

We use Wonders of Old.

 

Oh, that one looks nice too.

[Review of all basic elementary math]

What about Pacemaker Basic Mathematics?

(much cheaper used on Amazon)

[Timeline book?]

Anyone have a favorite premade timeline book?  I like the layout of this one (https://cottagepress.net/book-of-centuries.html) but I think I’d like it better if it was less religious.

[How Many Books]

? 

I’m trying to decide how much to assign my 4th and 5th graders next year.

[Scheduling “The World in Ancient Times”]

1 hour ago, Btervet said:

Could you share how this lines up with SOTW? I’ll be looking to do the same thing in two years hopefully. 

I went back and added in the SOTW readings.  Just be aware that there are a handful of weeks where the topics don’t match up.

[Scheduling “The World in Ancient Times”]

24 minutes ago, arliemaria said:

This series looks fantastic, but is appears very expensive. Ugh. 

I was able to get most of the volumes used on Amazon pretty cheaply.  Also, my library has a few.

[Scheduling “The World in Ancient Times”]

Here we go!  I used the order I did to correlate with her younger sisters’ SOTW assignments.

 

 

KHE vii-ix (What is History?)

Ancient Near Eastern World Chap. 1

SOTW 1 Intro

 

KHE pp. 6-8 (First Humans and First Farmers)

Ancient Near Eastern World chap. 2-3

Ancient South Asian World chap. 2-3

SOTW 1 chap. 1

 

KHE pp. 10-11 (Ancient Egypt)

Ancient Egyptian World chap. 1-3, 8-9

SOTW 1 chap 2.

 

KHE pp. 42-43 (The Arts)

Ancient Near Eastern World chap. 4

Ancient South Asian World chap. 6

Ancient Egyptian World chap. 4

SOTW 1 chap. 3

 

KHE pp. 44-45 (Architecture)

Ancient Egyptian World chap. 5-7

SOTW 1 chap. 4

 

KHE p. 9 (Sumer and Akkad)

Ancient Near Eastern World chap. 5-9

SOTW 1 chap. 5

 

KHE pp. 12-13 (Megalithic Europe)

SOTW 1 chap. 6

 

KHE p. 21 (Babylon)

Ancient Near Eastern World chap. 10-15

SOTW 1 chap. 7

 

KHE p. 20 (Hittites)

Ancient Near Eastern World chap 16-17

Ancient Egyptian World chap. 18

SOTW 1 chap. 8

 

KHE pp. 14-15 (Indus Valley)

Ancient South Asian World chap. 5, 7-9

SOTW 1 chap. 9

 

KHE pp. 18-19 (Shang Dynasty)

Ancient Chinese World chap. 2-5

SOTW 1 chap. 10

 

KHE pp. 30-31 (Africa)

Ancient Egyptian World chap. 22

SOTW 1 chap. 11

 

KHE pp. 46-47 (Science and Technology)

Ancient Egyptian World chap. 10-14

SOTW 1 chap. 12

 

KHE pp. 26-27 (Egypt: New Kingdom)

Ancient Egyptian World chap. 15-17, 19-21

SOTW 1 chap. 13

 

KHE pp. 24-25 (Hebrews)

Ancient New Eastern World chap. 18-20

SOTW 1 chap. 14

 

KHE pp. 22-23 (Assyrians), 28-29 (Phoenicians)

Ancient Near Eastern World chap. 21

SOTW 1 chap. 15-16

 

KHE pp. 36-37 (Babylon Revived)

Ancient Near Eastern World chap. 22-23

SOTW 1 chap. 17

 

KHE p. 16 (Ancient Crete)

Ancient Greek World chap. 1-3

SOTW 1 chap. 18

 

KHE p. 17 (Myceneans)

Ancient Greek World chap. 4-6

SOTW 1 chap. 19

 

KHE p. 38 (Greek Dark Age)

Ancient Greek World chap 7-9

SOTW 1 chap. 20

 

KHE pp. 40-41 (Persian Empire)

Ancient Near Eastern World chap. 24

SOTW 1 chap. 21

 

KHE p. 52 (Classical Greece)

Ancient Greek World chap. 11, 13, 15, 17-18

SOTW 1 chap. 22

 

KHE pp. 54-55 (Greek City States)

Ancient Greek World chap. 12, 14, 19-20

SOTW 1 chap. 23

 

KHE p. 53 (Athens and Sparta)

Ancient Greek World chap. 10, 16, 21-23

SOTW 1 chap. 24

 

KHE p. 56 (Alexander the Great)

Ancient Greek World chap. 24-26

Ancient Egyptian World chap. 23

SOTW 1 chap. 25

 

KHE p. 32 (America)

Ancient American World chap. 1-3

SOTW 1 chap. 26

 

KHE pp. 34-35 (Founding of Rome)

Ancient Roman World chap. 1-5

SOTW 1 chap. 27

 

KHE pp. 62-63 (Roman Republic)

Ancient Roman World chap. 6-7, 9-12

Ancient Egyptian World chap. 24

SOTW 1 chap. 28

 

KHE pp. 76-77 (Americas)

Ancient American World chap. 4-5

SOTW 1 chap. 29

 

KHE p. 33 (Aryan India)

Ancient South Asian World chap. 10-11. 13-14

SOTW 1 chap. 30

 

KHE p. 57 (India: Mauryan Empire)

Ancient South Asian World chap. 15-16, 18, 20

SOTW 1 chap. 31

 

KHE p. 39 (Zhou Dynasty)

Ancient Chinese World chap. 6-7, 9-10

SOTW 1 chap. 32

 

KHE pp. 58-59 (China: Qin Dynasty)

Ancient Chinese World chap. 12-13, 15

SOTW 1 chap. 33

 

KHE pp. 64-65 (Roman Empire)

Ancient Roman World chap. 13-14, 16-17, 20

SOTW 1 chap. 34

 

KHE pp. 68-69 (Celts)

SOTW 1 chap. 35

 

KHE pp. 66-67 (Roman Life)

Ancient Roman World chap. 15, 18-19, 21-22

SOTW 1 chap. 36

 

KHE pp. 72-73 (Christianity)

Ancient Roman World chap. 24

SOTW 1 chap. 37

 

KHE p. 61  (Judea)

Ancient Roman World chap. 23

SOTW 1 chap. 38

 

KHE p. 60  (Africa)

SOTW 1 chap. 39

 

KHE pp. 70-71  (China: Han Dynasty)

Ancient Chinese World chap. 14, 16, 18, 20

SOTW 1 chap. 40

 

KHE pp. 80-81  (Decline of Rome)

Ancient Roman World chap. 25-26

SOTW 1 chap. 41

 

KHE pp. 82-82  (Barbarians)

SOTW 1 chap. 42

 

 

 

 

 

[Literature for 6th Grade]

SWB’s talk on literary analysis from the store is an excellent resource for teaching literature with real books.

[Info from Killgallons on how to use their materials **Update, more info post #4]

47 minutes ago, SusanC said:

I would compare Sentence Composing for Elementary with Grammar for Middle because those two books use the grammatical terminology (adverbs, adjectives, clauses, phrases). The Sentence Composing for Middle School book relies more heavily on immigration and intuitive sentence chunking.

Sentence Composing for Elementary has 7 lesson topics with 7 practice exercises and 2 summary exercises each. We spent about three "days" on each lesson doing the vast majority orally.

Grammar for Middle School introduces 14 "sentence composing tools" (almost the same as the Sent Comp for Elem book covers) with a few practices and a creative writing assignment for each.

I went with elementary because I was comfortable handing over the books if anybody wanted more of the story. The Middle School book(s) ate for slightly more mature audiences and I didn't need that complication at the time. 

That sounds like a reasonable time commitment.

 

Okay, so would you do Sentence Composing for Elementary and then skip to the Grammar for Middle School book without doing Sentence Composing for Middle School?

[History Sequence Questions]

Would a summer study be a good way to add in those extra topics for your family?

[Scheduling “The World in Ancient Times”]

I finished this!  I’ll type up my scribbles over the weekend and share; I’m pretty happy with the end result.

[Info from Killgallons on how to use their materials **Update, more info post #4]

I’m tempted to do Killgallon with my fifth grader next year, but I also want to do a fair amount of outlining and writing across the curriculum.  ? 

How many lessons are in the sentence composing book?  And would you use Elementary or Middle School level for a fifth grader who likes to write but hasn’t had formal instruction beyond narrating?

[5th Grade Planning Thread 2018-19 Updated 8-17-18]

Math: Saxon 6/5

Grammar: CLE LA 4 (not doing the writing here)

History: Ancients, using Kingfisher and OUP’s The World in Ancient Times

Lit: WTM list.  Start working through Collier’s Junior Classics series

Geography: Memoria Geography I

Science: Elemental Science Biology for the Logic Stage.  The first of Joy Hakim’s science books

Bible: The Bible.  The Great Adventure Storybook for a guide.  

Composition: mostly across the curriculum.  Maybe some sections from Writer’s Express

Spelling/Word Study: continue with Megawords

Logic: Reading and Reasoning.  The Basics of Critical Thinking

Music: Continue to practice piano with Piano Maestro 

Art: Vincent’s Starry Night.  Maybe Artistic Pursuits.  Maybe I’ll have the money to outsource this to our local museum

What do you think?

[My Book House]

I have a Collier’s set as well, and decided pretty quickly that I will schedule them once or twice a week as upper elementary/middle grade readers.  Less sure how to plan out MBH, especially since I was thinking I’d read aloud from those.

 

Thanks for the links!  I’ll start looking through them.

[My Book House]

2 hours ago, nixpix5 said:

Someone in another thread posted an AWESOME link to a comparison break down between MBH and another set of books that had it broke into geography, animals, etc. It is such a help. I will go find the link and post it here.

Is it this list from Libraries of Hope?  http://librariesofhope.com/new-story-guides.html

[My Book House]

2 hours ago, nixpix5 said:

It is different all of the time but we pulled them off the shelves this year to read the Greek and Roman myths and stories. Next year we are using them in our geography study by reading stories from various European countries. We will also read the stories and writers pertaining to the middle ages. Sometimes I pull from them for copy work or read a story for narration. I find them to be a lovely and flexible resource. 

I’m thinking about trying something similar, and choosing some selections that go along with our school subjects to read aloud at breakfast

[My Book House]

If you have these, how do you use them in your homeschool?

[Moving into logic stage history methods]

Thanks stlily, that is extremely helpful.  Sometimes I need that much detail to make sense of everything.