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- Fri Feb 24, 2023 2:52 pm
- Forum: Main Board
- Topic: HOD: A Unit Study Curriculum
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HOD: A Unit Study Curriculum
A Unit Studies curriculum stands out from other curricula because it includes a unifying theme! Instead of approaching each subject separately, unit studies integrate across various subject areas and topics. This helps children better understand what they are studying. In turn, this helps children b...
- Fri Feb 24, 2023 2:44 pm
- Forum: Main Board
- Topic: Dictation skills help in many areas of your child's schooling!
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Dictation skills help in many areas of your child's schooling!
Teaching Tip by Carrie... Dictation skills help in many areas of your child’s schooling! One of my absolute favorite Charlotte Mason-style teaching strategies is the way she uses studied dictation. This is because studied dictation encompasses so many skills within a short session. What does a studi...
- Wed Feb 22, 2023 3:24 pm
- Forum: Main Board
- Topic: What guides are you using?
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What guides are you using?
Hey ladies! What HOD guides are you using, and what are your favorite parts of them? I am down to one guide - World History with my son, Emmett. We are on Unit 26, and the year is flying by! My favorite parts are... *hearing Emmett read aloud his history written narrations (so improved and full of h...
- Wed Feb 22, 2023 3:10 pm
- Forum: Main Board
- Topic: Sharing a Fun Week with CTC!
- Replies: 3
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Re: Sharing a Fun Week with CTC!
Oh, I love to see pictures of kiddos doing HOD! Your daughter's 3 x 3 project turned out so well. You can be so proud of the neat, colorful work she did on this project. Phyllis Wheatley was a favorite book of mine. Wasn't she amazing? What an inspiration! My older sons loved helping my youngest son...
- Wed Feb 22, 2023 3:01 pm
- Forum: Main Board
- Topic: DS6 - "EVERY Day is a Fun Activity, Mom!"
- Replies: 3
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Re: DS6 - "EVERY Day is a Fun Activity, Mom!"
As we were sitting down to Week 17 Day 3 of Beyond, I said to DS6, "Oohh, we have a really fun activity today!" And he responds, "EVERY day is a fun activity, Mom. You don't have to say if it's a fun activity or not because they ALL are!" So sweet! So grateful to HOD for making every day FUN for my...
- Wed Feb 22, 2023 2:51 pm
- Forum: Main Board
- Topic: Help! Homeschooling Woes & Regrets…
- Replies: 5
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Re: Help! Homeschooling Woes & Regrets…
Hello, I’m hoping someone out there can help me. I have a daughter who is almost 16. She is wanting to go to college, but is afraid she will not be prepared or able to handle the work. We actually started her out using HOD for 1st grade, but I would consider most years after that “unschooling” beca...
- Wed Feb 22, 2023 2:23 pm
- Forum: Main Board
- Topic: CTC - Written Narrations
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1142
Re: CTC - Written Narrations
Oh good, Jaime! I'm just so glad to hear your daughter felt this was a weight off her shoulders! I'm also glad she will follow the intended guidelines in the plans of reading independently and writing her narration in 5-8 sentences. She will grow in to this skill and thrive with it eventually, just ...
- Tue Feb 21, 2023 3:08 pm
- Forum: Main Board
- Topic: Notebooking Pages: plans to print in NON high-gloss paper?
- Replies: 15
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Re: Notebooking Pages: plans to print in NON high-gloss paper?
Ladies, I've been away from the board for awhile while writing new products. We've also been with our son Greyson back and forth to Mayo clinic many times this past year (and just got home Tuesday again) as he has Crohns/colitis and continued complications from the total removal of his colon he exp...
- Mon Feb 06, 2023 3:09 pm
- Forum: Main Board
- Topic: CTC - Written Narrations
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1142
Re: CTC - Written Narrations
You're right, I was afraid she wouldn't be learning the independent skill she is supposed to if I help her too much now, but I probably do need to scale back the independence in this area until she is ready. She loves the independence of CTC in all the other areas, BUT written narrations. I think i...
- Thu Jan 05, 2023 3:18 pm
- Forum: Main Board
- Topic: Skipping notebook pages CTC & up
- Replies: 5
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Re: Skipping notebook pages CTC & up
I'm so glad you got them! I cannot imagine doing CTC without them! They are an integral part of the program. Your child completing the notebook assignments provides portfolio assessment, which is one of the primary means of assessment, as opposed to worksheets/quizzes/etc. that you would find in a m...
- Thu Jan 05, 2023 3:05 pm
- Forum: Main Board
- Topic: CTC- what in the world
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2081
Re: CTC- what in the world
Such good thoughts here... StephanieU... ...there are players you can use that will slow it down. I personally find great value in having kids learn something auditorily, as there will be times in life they have to learn that way. We speed up the female instructor for Emmett's Geometry, and now we f...
- Thu Jan 05, 2023 2:41 pm
- Forum: Main Board
- Topic: How much "together time" is beneficial?
- Replies: 4
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How much "together time" is beneficial?
In a previous teaching tip, I mentioned how we can always be assured of plenty of "together time" in a homeschooling setting! One thing to weigh is how much "together time" is truly beneficial? Often as homeschool teachers, we default into thinking that anything done together is undoubtedly better. ...
- Wed Dec 14, 2022 1:03 pm
- Forum: Main Board
- Topic: Homeschooling and Sick? 5 Tips to Help!
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- Views: 4320
Homeschooling and Sick? 5 Tips to Help!
Are you homeschooling and sick? My family sure has been - me included. ‘Tis the season for all sorts of sicknesses, and many tend to hang around awhile. Homeschooling parents and children alike get sick. One family member passes sickness on to another, and sometimes it even circles back around for o...
- Wed Oct 05, 2022 4:44 pm
- Forum: Main Board
- Topic: Answers to Guide Questions
- Replies: 3
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Re: Answers to Guide Questions
I'd be glad to help! I've enjoyed Revival to Revolution three different times through the years with my own sons, so I will happily share my experience of the benefits of these portions of the plans. Both of these boxes of plans are intended to be more inspirational, and as such do not have answer k...
- Thu Sep 29, 2022 2:59 pm
- Forum: Main Board
- Topic: Placement help
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- Views: 1850
Re: Placement help
My daughter is newly 7 and finishing up Abeka grade 2. I would like to start her in Beyond Little Hearts. I was thinking of doing Preparing to Build by R&S with her and the Drawn into the Heart of Reading. She loves reading, writing and creative expression. Is this going to be too easy for her? I w...