Posted on 08/11/2005 10:00:17 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
A spot for homeschool families to share advice and offer support as we prepare for the 2005-2006 Homeschool Year
Many home-educated children continue their lessons throughout the summer, but we parents often look to purchase new materials and begin new projects in September.
In the past, FR homeschoolers started a thread every year to post links and recommend books and materials to each other. I haven't seen that done recently, so I'm creating one here. (My apologies if I missed anything).
If there is anything you'd like to recommend to other home educators, please do so:
Those are just a few topics. Maybe we can keep a running list of recommendations here on this thread.
I noticed those books in the stores. The book covers for Spiderwick and Lemony Snicket look almost identical. But, it sounds like The Spiderwick Chronicles are very different stories and worth a try. Thanks for posting.
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I think the books are so cute and the illustrations are great. BTW- here is a web site I love as much as the books:
Hey, that's a very good music site! Music is the one area of study that my kids have been missing out on...
Maybe I'll interest my middle son in Spiderwick. He's 8 but has been resisting the longer books, but I think he'd like those stories and they'd be a good introduction to longer reading.
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Since you're pinging could you add me to the homeschool ping lists?
BTW we need to talk about scaredy cat for Autumn.
If you're unclear about what your student will need in the way of credits for college, go online and check a few to get an idea from several schools. The State of Maine only requires 17 credits for completion of a diploma; most other states require more like 21 or 22. But if yourstudent takes any college courses while in high school, they are weighted more heavily, so the final credit count could be more like 26! The best thing about that is that not only do you get high school credit when you take those college courses, you have credits to transfer to a four year college, or into a 2 yr. Associates program just about anywhere.
Thanks for adding your recommendation!
Home Educators Ping!
Just a reminder to check the latest posts above on this thread for suggestions and questions. Thank you! Hope everything is going well with all of you.
We used Saxon Math for math and had great success with it. We started with Math 54. The earlier levels are too expensive so we just bought Abeka workbooks (without the over priced teachers manuals which really weren't needed for grades 1-3).
If anyone lives in an area where they have the possibility of participating in spelling bees that could get them to the National Spelling Bee; Scripts Howard has a website that runs only during the school year: /www.spellingbee.com/
There is a option to click on marked "Audio Paideia" where the word list that they use is read along with the definitions. You have to check the spelling yourself but it's a great study tool to help them prepare. If anyone wants more info on that, I would be glad to offer some advice. My oldest daughter went to the National Spelling Bee in 7th grade.
Looking for a recommendation for a phonics book for a 17-yr-old I am tutoring who has slipped through the system. He hobbles along, does ok with reading in a halting way, but I want to give him a more solid phonics foundation -- great tools for sounding out. He wants to read well.
I homeschooled my own son, but he taught himself to read before I knew it was happening, on Reader Rabbit.
BTW he can already read and will be 4 in February. We haven't been using anything specific yet, just started reading stories and teaching him his alphabet and letting him sound out the words using the letters. He's been doing this for about 8 months now.
They are like little sponges, aren't they? Like they are taking everything in, processing it, and waiting for the time they can speak English well enough to say/ do it. Amazing. Have fun homeschooling. It was a dream job, to me/ to us. We took the money we would have had to pay for tuition (Los Angeles schools are less than adequate) and traveled off-season to SEE history/ etc.
Roman ruins/ Roman walls/ English and UK historical sites/ the Holy Land/ Germany/ DDay beaches -- we saw them all. Homeschool gives you the flexibility to just go -- well, to only have one schedule to untangle. And you can travel when there are few other travelers, schools are not in session, etc. I would do it again in a minute.
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Homeschool Ping:
The following site was recommended by a Freeper who thought it would be nice for the homeschool list (thank you, SunkenCiv):
http://www.jasonproject.org/eprise/main/jason_public/web_pages/jason_homeschool/homeschool.htm
Incidentally, one of my sons is doing the Jason Expedition curriculum this year ("Mission to Mars") with a co-op. Jason is a very good program.
P.S. (I'm hoping to compile a new updated list this summer starting with all the links on this thread).
You can find out more about it at www.saxonhomeschool.com
I can't believe we're almost finished with our first year of homeschooling. I was *terrified* to do it, but it has been wonderful.
hahah, I CRIED buckets when I told my husband I was going to do it. For Kindergarten!!! hahaha, but I was so glad. It's good, huh?
Can I be added to your ping list? My husband and I don't have kids yet, but when we do, we will homeschool them.
This is a really great thread!
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