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04-13-2012, 10:45 AM | #1 |
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Am I the only one totally curriculum shopping yet?
I'm looking into changing up a few things this year, and Aneliese says she's distraught that since PS held her back in kindergarten we never caught her up....so I've been looking.....
We've been doing a lot of CLE which is pretty good and I placement tested her in Teaching Textbooks....and would you believe, she can skip 6th grade?!?! So....7th grade it is. (Is that a bad idea?) Other than that, I think I just want a good science (I'm thinking of Apologia) and I really really want to add typing. Maybe get her a laptop with a disabled wifi. Anyone else shopping? |
04-13-2012, 12:29 PM | #2 |
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Re: Am I the only one totally curriculum shopping yet?
I'm all done shopping for next year. Have everything except I'm waiting on our math order to be shipped.
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04-13-2012, 12:44 PM | #4 |
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Re: Am I the only one totally curriculum shopping yet?
I've been shopping. I ordered Sonlight Core F for my oldest to do next year for 8th. I'd love to get her a laptop this summer, but not sure the funds will be there. I'm thinking of enrolling her in an English class this summer and next fall with out local one day academy. The class is one hour a week, and then they are given work to do at home. I feel like my homeschool is very lacking in language arts, so maybe this will be the answer. I'm trying to figure out language arts for my younger kids. I have some Sonlight stuff coming that I am going to try over the summer. If that doesn't work out, I think I'm going to do something more traditional. I've had a hard time finding things that I enjoy teaching and my kids enjoy doing. I still have to buy math for everyone. dd is starting pre-algebra next year. This will be our first year with math that I might have to actually read the textbook to know what's going on!
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04-13-2012, 12:50 PM | #5 |
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Re: Am I the only one totally curriculum shopping yet?
I'm almost done for next year. For ds1 (2nd grade) we're doing real science 4 kids, Story of the World, Abeka for math and language arts, some hodge podge for art and I'll probably start cursive. I still need to go through my K stuff for dd since I plan on hsing her next year also.
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04-13-2012, 01:00 PM | #6 |
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Re: Am I the only one totally curriculum shopping yet?
I'm almost done, too. I'll do a big book order in August to round out readers and such for history and science, but I'm pretty sure we're good for curriculum for next year.
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04-13-2012, 04:39 PM | #7 |
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Re: Am I the only one totally curriculum shopping yet?
So....tell me what you've decided on and why.
Here's my list so far: Aneliese: (7th grade) History: BJU World Studies Science: Exploring Physical Science (Apologia) Math: Teaching Textbooks Math 7 Grammar: Easy Grammar 7 Literature and Writing: Outsourced to a co-op class Typing: ? + guitar and soccer and maybe if I can afford a good Spanish curriculum, but I wouldn't know how to find that. Breena: (4th grade) History: BJU Heritage Studies Science: ? Maybe Apologia... Math: CLE English: CLE Writing: Writing with Ease Handwriting: random copywork + guitar and a sport, though she wants to continue gymnastics and dh doesn't want her to....to be continued. Caden: (K-1st) He's hard to figure since he's not yet reading but what we've been using seems to be moving to slow for him. He learns quickly, but is not happy about doing a lot of bookwork. I'm thinking Spectrum? Suggestions are wonderful. I hate planning, hate curriculums that has a bunch of extra stuff to buy, and really want to have something that will keep his interest. Does that exist? He knows all his letters and sounds, can count to a hundred and by 5's and 10's, knows his money and some clocks, patterns etc. and can add. Hmmmm. I'd love to hear everyone's choices!
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04-16-2012, 01:33 PM | #8 |
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Re: Am I the only one totally curriculum shopping yet?
Definitely not! And we won't even be starting homeschooling for another three years! I am always reading this forum and checking out tons of different curriculum choices, I don't know how I'll ever pick one when the time comes!
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04-16-2012, 02:09 PM | #9 |
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Re: Am I the only one totally curriculum shopping yet?
I've started
I ordered Teaching Textbooks 4th grade which should be here tommorow though I'm not going to start her on it for a bit yet.. I'm going to stick to the Catholic Hertiage for her grammar,spelling,religion, literature,science and history and handwriting though so I'll be collecting those soon.. We are going to do time for Learning loosely over the summer Deanna
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04-16-2012, 03:39 PM | #10 |
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Re: Am I the only one totally curriculum shopping yet?
I liked T4learning for my older kids.
I LOVE Sonlight, and the concepts, but there is no way I could afford it plus all the extras. If you can do it, I'd say go for it! |
04-16-2012, 03:57 PM | #11 | |
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Re: Am I the only one totally curriculum shopping yet?
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I did Cores B and C, and I thought the read-alouds went with the history quite nicely.
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04-16-2012, 08:35 PM | #12 | |
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Re: Am I the only one totally curriculum shopping yet?
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You can buy science, math, language arts, handwriting, etc. from Sonlight also, but you don't have to, and those things are not included on the schedule in the IG anyway. They are considered separate curriculum components from the Core. ---------- Post added at 10:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:33 PM ---------- Yes, I just read that if you get B & C as single cores (rather than the combine B/C), the read-alouds correlate, but the B/C combined core doesn't integrate history with read-alouds.
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04-16-2012, 08:44 PM | #13 |
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Re: Am I the only one totally curriculum shopping yet?
Dh got a rebate in the form of a prepaid Amex, so I used it to order our books for biology on Amazon last week. (dd has kidnapped the human body encyclopedia already )
I think I am going to order SOTW 1 materials next and get it all in digital. Then I can print extra copies of the coloring pages/maps etc as needed and do the read aloud on my ipad. I might order the actual CD's though instead of mp3's because I am not so tech-savvy with digital audio stuff.
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04-16-2012, 09:35 PM | #14 |
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Re: Am I the only one totally curriculum shopping yet?
This is the first year I know just what works and what I want...almost. LOL
So, I'm almost done with shopping. We did Sonlight Core A this year, and I can't decide if I should move to B, or B/C with my soon to be 7 and 9yo. Sonlight Core B or B/C -Bible -history -readers Creative writing/comprehension: Writing with Ease 2 Language arts: First Language Lessons 2 Handwriting: HWOT 2 Math: Singapore Math or Horizons with Life of Fred supplement Science: co-op w/friend doing "The Magic Schoolbus Science Explorations" curriculum I'm so excited about doing science with a friend! I'm a little stuck on math. We have been doing Horizons Math since K, but this year it felt like it wasn't explaining stuff enough. So, I bought Singapore Math and have been doing both. I have a hard time understanding the way SM teaches and the kids don't appreciate the boring black and white pages. They like Horizons much better. So, not sure which one I'll stick with, but I'm leaning toward Horizons and hoping with the LOF supplement things will be better understood. Ack! |
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04-23-2012, 11:09 AM | #15 |
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Re: Am I the only one totally curriculum shopping yet?
I am just starting to plan can't buy for a couple paychecks but we need to plan for sure.
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