I agree about too many ads in Nat. Geo. Kids. I always thought it odd to have big features on new movies in every issue. Some science involved probably, but I didn't notice it in the articles I read. I'd forgotten about Ranger Rick and hadn't heard of the Yes Mag or Know. I loved Cricket magazine when I was a kid, but I didn't know they had science magazines. This is such a helpful thread. Thank you!

My almost-11 year old likes both National Geographic magazines. He goes through the Kids version in about half an hour, though, so we don't buy it -- he can read it at the library. The regular Nat. Geographic we've been getting for years, and he reads the old ones, as often as the new ones. I'd like to know whether there are any other science magazines for kids. I found one once only to discover it was no longer published. I seem to remember it being along the lines of Scientific American for kids.

:iagree: This is exactly why I am exhausted all the time. I can't blame my sweet baby boy for waking me up every 2-3 hours or my stealing some time after everyone goes to bed for my own relaxation here, so it must be the all-day schooling!

The main thing I want to know is whether it follows the same phonograms and rules as SWR. Are they explicitly taught or understood? Also, have you seen Spelling Workout to know how it compares to that in format? How many pages per lesson, about how long do you plan for it, how many lessons per book? Thanks for your time!

Oooh! This looks really interesting. I don't see any samples on the web site, though. Do you know if any are available? If not, can I ask you questions about it?

Maybe this will be easier as we get into it more, but any suggestions for where to find fallacies? We were just trying to do page 23 today, which is the first time the student is asked to find examples (non-argumentative persuasion and appeal to illegitimate authority). Maybe it was because I was holding a fussy baby while we were thinking about it, but we shelved it. (All I could think of was the picture of a happy baby on the side of a box of diapers. non-argumentative persuasion?) Now I have a headache, so I haven't been able to think of anything to tell my son tomorrow. Where do I find these? We don't have cable tv at home, but we do in costa rica for a few more weeks -- mostly in Spanish, which we're not too good at, and we haven't been watching it much anyway. We don't have any magazines here but do get some at home that might work. Junk mail? Internet? Where do you find examples? I don't really want to use the DVDs, for reasons already mentioned by others, but my feeling today of having no clue what to do made me remember the dvds. Please tell me I'm making this harder than it is.

I guess I could track manually. Thanks for answering. Teonei

Will it work to have me as coach and two or more children as students all signed in with the same gmail account? Or do I have to open a couple of new accounts for me that will really be used by them? Do they actually need the email aspect or just the login info to use the Khan Academy? :confused:

You've probably already started school, but I just saw this and wanted to tell you that we did this last year. Option A. We used SOTW 3 as the spine for my 5th- and 3rd-graders. The 5th-grader also read Kingfisher but not for every section. He read 2 pages in Kingfisher for each SOTW chapter we did. I chose the section that I thought it was most important for him to learn more about (he didn't care, or I'd have let him choose). He usually took his once-weekly list of facts from Kingfisher (again, I'd choose which day we had a topic I thought he should take notes from and remember more) and did an outline once each week from another source. Sometimes he outlined SOTW and sometimes other books (I'd choose about 6 paragraphs that I thought were good to remember, and he'd outline those.). It worked very well. I hope you've found something that is working for you.

This looks like just what I want! Thank you!

Great lists. I am trying to adapt for a young 6th-grader studying Modern times. Lots to chose from. Thanks!

My son doesn't like it, either. But I am pretty sure what he really doesn't like is that I'm not sitting with him teaching him. When I do sit down with him to explain things or just be with him, it's no longer so hard. He's just that kind of kid.

After it is introduced in Week 3, is the thesaurus needed in the first 10 weeks or so? I was planning to start WWS this Wednesday, but we won't have a thesaurus until we return to the United States. I was going to skip the two days of thesaurus use in Week 3 and do those when we get home. Is that a bad idea? Will we want to have a thesaurus on hand for all the lessons? If so, we can wait and start WWS in November. I just wanted to be able to start SOME of our regular curriculum sooner. I figured my son could skip Week 1 and get through Week 6 or 7 before we go home. I guess we could use that online version Sebastian mentioned. I just wanted to be sure we learn how to use the book.

Which one did you buy? I'm planning to get Roget's International Thesaurus, 7th Edition, as soon as I get back to the United States. Hmm. I think the price went up by a few dollars since I last checked. Still not bad.

Impressive! Thank you. Now to hope WWSt will come out right after WWSk, so my oldest can use at least part of it. We are so excited to have WWSk. Thank you very much!

Thank you for clarifying this! I was confused as to what we should do when we start SOTW4 this year.

I was trying to resist getting into this, but you did mention it :D Will Writing With Style be as vital to rhetoric stage as Writing With Skill is to logic stage? Or is it more like an elective for students interested in creative writing or those needing more help? And how are we going to avoid being confused with WWS and WWS? WWSk and WWSt? I guess WWSkill and WWStyle isn't too hard to type, but my fingers are lazy sometimes.

Hi, Colleen! I was wondering why I wasn't seeing you on this writing thread! I figured it was because your son is older and you didn't need WWS. I'd forgotten you have a daughter just the right age. I hope you had a great trip and recover quickly. :tongue_smilie:

I'm obviously not Susan, but I think I can answer that question. The sample shows Week 1, Lesson 1; Week 1, Lesson 2; and Week 1, Lesson 3. Then it goes on to Week 2 for Lessons 4-6. So I'd say the intent is for it to be used three times each week. Also, and more to the point, this is from Susan's first post in this thread:

linguistmama, I hope you're feeling better now! I got that question a few times, too. But it would have been SOOOO much harder for me to have gotten my children to school than to have just done some work at home. Of course, I was too sick to do either, but as you said, that was our "summer break" in the fall. We started school in mid-November last year, and although we're doing some work now while we're on an extended business trip with my husband, we're mostly taking a break and will start school again in mid-November. People here (or when we've been on other long trips), when they learn that we're homeschooling, think it makes some sense. But they are very surprised to hear that we homeschool at home, too, all the time, not just when we travel with my husband. :001_smile:

Thanks, Katie. That's kind of what I was thinking, too. I'm glad to know 2 days/week is enough--assuming my son can focus. :)

I didn't get much info at the web site -- will watch the youtube video. Is the idea that this would make the course independent for the student and take the place of parent discussion? Tempting though that is, I am looking forward to the discussions we'll have, as we've already had great ones with just the introduction. Or is the DVD set just extra help in case we don't know what to talk about?

Thank you! Are others doing this twice a week or three times? I was planning on twice for about 30 min. Any other schedules?

We're not. My oldest finished R&S 5, and now we're taking a year off to wait for Advanced Languages Lessons (so he can do all 4 levels without a break, we're waiting for the second one to come out, too). Instead, we're focusing on Latin and Spanish, so he'll get lots of grammar review in a different way.