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by billswife
Tue Feb 16, 2016 8:42 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Grading a younger guide for a high schooler
Replies: 14
Views: 3540

Re: Grading a younger guide for a high schooler

Our insurance company used his standardized test scores. They don't accept homeschool grades. It is definitely worth the savings to get the discount though.
by billswife
Fri Jul 17, 2015 2:01 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Grading New American History Guide
Replies: 3
Views: 1531

Re: Grading New American History Guide

Thanks for answering Carrie! I am very grateful you are releasing the guide while you are writing it! We did use the World Geography guide 2 years ago, so I do know in general what you are aiming for. I just seem to panic when I think about grading. I was looking at my WG guide and you've done a won...
by billswife
Wed Jul 15, 2015 8:42 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Grading New American History Guide
Replies: 3
Views: 1531

Grading New American History Guide

If the grading and course descriptions were just finished for the World History Guide, how did you know how to grade for it while you were using it? I'm going to be using the new American History guide and would like some guidelines as we go along as to what I should be looking for. Will these be av...
by billswife
Mon May 18, 2015 4:13 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Sneak Peek #6: New American History Guide
Replies: 13
Views: 26168

Re: Sneak Peek #6: New American History Guide

We are returning to Rod and Staff this year. We stopped at R & S 5. So would it be ok to do R & S 6 next year and not R & S 8? Will it still be an effective and good part of the writing program for an 11th grader? I'm not sure he could handle the higher level book.
by billswife
Tue Sep 23, 2014 7:28 am
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Math Relief Anyone??
Replies: 2
Views: 1278

Re: Math Relief Anyone??

We are currently finishing up the last section of Algebra 1 with Math Relief. It has been a good program for my son. What I love about the program is it explains everything very well. If he doesn't get something, he just watches the video again and usually it clicks. We did try a few other Algebra p...
by billswife
Thu Feb 21, 2013 3:18 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Questions...skip MTMM
Replies: 21
Views: 16936

Re: Questions...skip MTMM

I decided to skip Rev to Rev with my 8th grader this year and moved into MTMM. It's worked very well for us and he's really enjoying the more challenging work. I didn't like skipping the time period completely so he has done a little reading about it. I figured that he would do the time period he mi...
by billswife
Fri Apr 06, 2012 9:15 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Any HODies going to the Mache Conf. in St. Paul next week?
Replies: 8
Views: 1798

Re: Any HODies going to the Mache Conf. in St. Paul next wee

I am! I'm so excited. I didn't get to go last year, and I'm looking forward to it this year.
by billswife
Tue Mar 20, 2012 3:48 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Struggling with written narrations/medieval history writing
Replies: 2
Views: 837

Struggling with written narrations/medieval history writing

My son is 13 and is currently in RTR. He is really struggling with writing down his narrations. He can orally narrate well, but when it comes to writing them down it's not the same. He can usually come up with only 3-5 sentences. He doesn't capitalize or punctuate.There are a lot of incomplete sente...
by billswife
Fri Feb 17, 2012 1:26 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Help with Science (Preparing/ Res to Ref)
Replies: 10
Views: 2213

Re: Help with Science (Preparing/ Res to Ref)

We sometimes run into the same problem. I just have them do the experiment and then see if they understand. My other problem is that sometimes I don't understand either!!! :oops: Then we ask Daddy or big brother. If they can't answer to our satisfaction we hit the computer to find the answer.
by billswife
Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:39 am
Forum: Main Board
Topic: pondering next year
Replies: 11
Views: 2142

Re: pondering next year

I decided to have my son do it even though I wasn't sure if he would like/understand it. He actually really enjoys reading it. It doesn't add a lot of time to the day at all.
by billswife
Sat Oct 01, 2011 12:35 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Reminded why I love HOD
Replies: 4
Views: 1175

Reminded why I love HOD

I was at our homeschooling co-op this week meeting with a group of moms. They were talking about how tired they are of scheduling everything for their kids--like figuring out how many pages to read per day, etc. They were also talking about how nice it would be to actually use the bible for history ...
by billswife
Tue Aug 09, 2011 9:36 am
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Who is doing Bigger this year?
Replies: 42
Views: 8422

Re: Who is doing Bigger this year?

We'll be doing it again this year. My son did it for 4th grade and now my daughter will do it for 3rd grade. I love doing Bigger and am looking forward to starting again at the end of the month.
by billswife
Sun Jul 31, 2011 1:19 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: ROLL CALL!! :) Who's starting RTR soon?
Replies: 29
Views: 5425

Re: ROLL CALL!! :) Who's starting RTR soon?

We'll be starting the last week of August. I'm so excited--the books look so good!
by billswife
Sat Jun 25, 2011 1:55 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Before HOD, Weekly Lesson Plans, but now what?
Replies: 24
Views: 4849

Re: Before HOD, Weekly Lesson Plans, but now what?

I still make a weekly lesson plan for me and my kids. They like to have the chart to check off the stuff they have completed. My son still uses the TM a lot to read his complete assignment. I like my TM to stay nice and can't bring myself to write in them. I just tell my kids to be careful with the ...
by billswife
Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:37 am
Forum: Main Board
Topic: We love Draw and Write Through History
Replies: 2
Views: 912

We love Draw and Write Through History

I just have to say again that we love these books! My son is doing CTC and today we drew the Roman soldier. We each draw our own picture and today my 8 year old joined us. We had a great time doing this! Thanks Carrie for using these books!