tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836262699520893805.post2010047448091282616..comments2023-10-30T00:45:57.097-07:00Comments on Take Up and Read: Planning for my 2012 5th Grader: Theme...Must.Read.AloudCharihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17454630511757286221noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836262699520893805.post-71979398291051721362014-02-09T14:53:18.285-08:002014-02-09T14:53:18.285-08:00Thanks for your reply. I completely understand, t...Thanks for your reply. I completely understand, there comes the point when you have seen enough and don't want to bother with new things. Pretty soon my last child will be first grade and I am already thinking about what books to get rid off because I believe I won't need them anymore. Evahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16831448349166435125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836262699520893805.post-83090870938049180292014-02-05T10:52:19.811-08:002014-02-05T10:52:19.811-08:00Sorry for my delayed response, H SA Mom!
I appr...Sorry for my delayed response, H SA Mom! <br /><br />I appreciate your kind words. Last Fall was pretty much another bust.......but I am not giving up......there is always this semester....... Good luck to you, Eva! Hope you are feeling good. God bless!Charihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17454630511757286221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836262699520893805.post-69458449548278387702014-02-05T10:44:29.089-08:002014-02-05T10:44:29.089-08:00Sorry for my delayed response, Eva! That booklet ...Sorry for my delayed response, Eva! That booklet is from Angelus Press........and it is basically the Baltimore catechism questions for preparing for Confirmation. <br /><br />Thank you for your advice, recommendations and ideas. I wish I could try the other books.....but as he is my last one.....I think I probably will not invest in more books.......no matter how tempted that I am ;)<br /><br />Thank you so much for coming by and leaving a message. God bless you!Charihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17454630511757286221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836262699520893805.post-60042106960351614772014-02-05T10:28:45.917-08:002014-02-05T10:28:45.917-08:00Sorry for my delayed response, Erin. Thank you so...Sorry for my delayed response, Erin. Thank you so much for your supportive words. I always appreciate you and your thoughts and ideas. <br /><br />I will take another look at Kahn. It looked so High School-ish to me.....and I could not best figure out how to use it.....<br /><br />And....he finally cannot put a book down.......I pray that continues with more books.Charihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17454630511757286221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836262699520893805.post-16708569585932827592013-12-26T11:04:20.367-08:002013-12-26T11:04:20.367-08:00Thank you for your very honest post and a peek at ...Thank you for your very honest post and a peek at how another homeschool family does HS. You know, I think there are many more of us out there who have more "busts" each year than we'd care to admit. I know I do. But, I also see reading your post the wonderful things that your son is doing and the exposure he is getting via read alouds to so much, and I think you are doing so great. I find it hard to juggle three children with my illnesses but each year have wonderful intentions. It's a start of another school year here in January 2014, and I guess by Feb I'll be cutting out and leaving off a whole lot of what I had planned ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836262699520893805.post-12705795980457595722013-08-05T08:18:43.055-07:002013-08-05T08:18:43.055-07:00Chari, I'm curious, what is the "the book...Chari, I'm curious, what is the "the booklet Preparation for Confirmation According to the Baltimore Catechism"? Also, did you know that OLVS now uses "Living My Religion" in their lesson plans? To help you get through the book you could just buy their plans <a href="http://www.olvs.org/ShopCart/InvList.aspx?a=31" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Simply Charlotte Mason has come out with their own geography workbooks. If you haven't seen them, <a href="http://simplycharlottemason.com/store/visits-to-geography-series/" rel="nofollow">here</a> they are. I've been thinking of using some of them. And for Latin, have you ever looked at "Latin's Not So Tough"? My soon to be fifth grader is using those books. You could start with <a href="http://www.greeknstuff.com/latin.html#THIRDBOOK" rel="nofollow">book three</a>. I think those books are much more user friendly than the ones from Memoria Press. They have short lessons and are excellent for a preparation for Latin in high school. They are also not very teacher intensive. <br /><br />Thanks for sharing you plans. I love to read what other people are doing. Evahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16831448349166435125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8836262699520893805.post-78170411239086023402013-08-05T01:15:45.505-07:002013-08-05T01:15:45.505-07:00Chari
Your plans sound like mine, so many busts! ...Chari<br />Your plans sound like mine, so many busts! Well reading through the 4real archives when planning recently I came across some excellent advice (from Jen Mack - who else;)that I followed when planning. Take everything off your board, then put back on 'what worked'. Then work from there. I looked at the areas that I consistently had busts on. (writing is a biggy) then taking Jen's advice, don;t try to have too many books (ah just what I was doing) now I just have one, just one for writing and finally we are getting it consistently done!<br /><br />What can a working mum do with a not yet independent reader? Audio and online are your friends. I'm assuming you have a list of audio sites? if not http://www.myaudioschool.com/ and http://pinterest.com/erin72/audio-books-music/ for suggestions.<br /><br />Also we have used Kahn though more the teens, they watch and are supposed to write narrations (not the supposed to!) for science we've loved Steve Spangler's http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/video/ and Bill Nye, though not as much<br />http://dep.disney.go.com/billnye_demo.html<br />and we had intended to use http://constructionmanagementdegree.org/blog/2010/100-awesome-engineering-projects-for-kids/<br /><br />and audios for history when you aren't there such as Gobrich World perhaps.<br /><br />and suggesting you par down, take off Latin, Cooking, Art and Pic Bks till you have mostly consistent wins. This is what I did, I'm not so demoralised with the not dones now. and maybe rather than try to do science, geo and history, think like the highschool program, only focus on geo for 6 mths and then history for 6 mths.<br /><br />And try not to get too down about Malachy not reading for love{{{}}} It is so hard I know but my Malachi wasn't reading functionally until 9 and not for love until 11!!!! My oldest ever and then he read and read and read. Now at 14 can you believe I have to tell him to put his book down and get his work done. and yet he is my child with a photographic memory I think. He remembers lessons from 8 years ago. Hang in there, hard I know{{}} Going through it again with another 9yr old.<br /><br />whew I think I just wrote you a whole post! Erinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04448595911801738792noreply@blogger.com