hsmykids Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 What are you doing with your 6th grader next year. What do you love! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted May 1, 2011 Share Posted May 1, 2011 Oak Meadow. I loved Oak Meadow for 4th grade and 5th grade so we're continuing with it for 6th. We'll be doing Teaching Textbooks math again because it was such a huge hit here this past year and very successful for us. We may do that 4X a week and Life of Fred 1X a week. We'll also be adding on a couple of other things- Meet The Masters for Art and a free online health curriculum for example, but Oak Meadow is our main thing for English/Language Arts/Science/Social Studies. There's lots of integration, hands on stuff, non-textbookish material, interesting choices of discussion and writing assignments and reading material... we really like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hsmykids Posted May 1, 2011 Author Share Posted May 1, 2011 Good to know. Oak Meadow is one that is on the table Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmykids Posted May 1, 2011 Author Share Posted May 1, 2011 Can you tell me how Oak Meadow works for your family? Also, about how many hours a day do you spend schooling? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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NanceXToo Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 Can you tell me how Oak Meadow works for your family? Also, about how many hours a day do you spend schooling? If you check out my blog (see link in signature), it's a day to day account of how our days go, some pics, etc. There are also links on the sidebar to the left that have more detailed reviews (including of Oak Meadow), sample schedules (of how we took a weekly OM lesson and broke it down into a daily one), a link that shows some of the more interesting activities and assignments we've done, standardized test results, and so on. This year for 5th grade school takes us 3-4 hours a day, and that's with a little bit of supplementing. Like, we do extra reading every day, we added on "Sentence Composing For Elementary School" to see how we'd like it (and usually do a lesson per day of that), we decided on a different math curriculum as I'd already mentioned. But just Oak Meadow could easily be done within 3 hours a day most of the time at this stage of things. I'd be happy to try to answer any other questions, I really do love the whole OM philosophy and creativity and so on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmykids Posted May 2, 2011 Author Share Posted May 2, 2011 Wow, makes me want to come over and school with you guys :) Thank you for sharing with me. I will pass this along to my husband. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S in Canada Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 We'll be using Oak Meadow too! We took the plunge after researching forever....thanks to Nance for some great reading on her blog! It should be coming in the mail soon, so once we have a hands-on look at it we will be able to see where 6th grade is going in September! We are really excited over here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsmykids Posted May 2, 2011 Author Share Posted May 2, 2011 I hear you....I feel like all I do is research then squash..... Hate that! Are you using them to help you or are you just getting the books and doing it alone. I wonder if its worth the money to "enroll" them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
binxsmom Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 My son will be 5th/6th next year. We are planning to do CC memory work, Math Mammoth, All About Spelling, Easy Grammar, IEW, Apologia Science, English from the Roots Up and daily Bible and devo. Supplemented reading will correspond with the CC memory work. I'm excited! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlsdMama Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 Sixth Grade: Writing - IEW's TWSS, outlines, written narrations, etc. IEW - Speech Bootcamp TT - Math 7 History - Ana's plan, there is a link below Literature - the same as history Science - He's just reading along with Ana on Biology and doing co-op science Vocabulary - Vocabulary from the Classical Roots - we're just picking this up. Spelling - Phonetic Zoo, but I'm not happy about it. I have a hard time being consistent. We're switching to Rod & Staff Spelling AND Sequential Spelling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted May 2, 2011 Share Posted May 2, 2011 Just got an Email that Oak Meadow is having their spring sale this month, by the way! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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