Life has been exciting here with plenty of changes!!
We have added several of short 'recesses' throughout the day. The kids wake up, do some chores, run around outside, do a lesson, run around outside, another lesson, run around and play, come back in for lunch, run around and play, come in and lay down while mom reads stories, when 3yo falls asleep, we're up again!;) lol..
I have read about 'Self-Teaching' by Joanne Calderwood. Her children literally teach themselves!!
She also has a yahoo group where she lists curriculums that can be easily adapted to self-teaching, or, as she says, she has yet to find a curriculum that couldn't be adapted/wasn't good.
:) Which was good, as I didn't feel I had to change! :)
Anyways, the kids are enjoying Spectrum, so I went out and got all the books in Abeka, except for math and history. The history is kind of dry, and I am still in my classical phase;) I chose 'Christian Liberty Press', as I like their books better. Still kind of story-like..with questions. But I don't start history till around grade 3/4.
I use the spectrum math for my 7 yo. My soon-to-be 9yo moved very quickly in math and has already started saxon 4/5. My 7yo, however, needs things introduced one subject at a time, instead of one. This didn't work for my 9yo..she got bored. So I plan to have her use Spectrum until she reaches about grade 4/5, and move to Saxon.
(Rachel is studying this in her history book)
We purchased the Dive CD for this (which can be used with all the other kids), and she now has her own teacher online!! If she has a question, she just puts in the CD, goes into that section and it gets re-explained to her!!
I am very leary about wasting time with science, since it's only repeated in high school. I am, however, considering adding it in after grade 3 or 4.
I will also be adding Prima Latina on grade 3 (in my 9yo case, in June), and then starting French Learnables in fall (or for others, grade 3). The Prima Latina has a DVD, and the Learnables has a Cd-rom, no teaching by me!!! :) Got to love it!!
Anyways, this is our update!!
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