For the most part, we are going to be using the same curriculum as last year, with a few minor changes, additions, and transitions. Here are the differences: K:Growing With Grammar – She just recently finished level 2 and is now into level 3. Before we began our four-week break, she got through the first …
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Last week I blogged about the grading system we will be using with K this upcoming year. Today I thought I should share how we will be handling H’s grades. Like her sister, the individual subject grades will be 70% tests and 30% daily work. Also like her sister, her language arts will be grouped …
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Since my oldest daughter has expressed interest in receiving grades on her daily work, we have spent some time deciding exactly how to weigh the grades for next year. While I believe that a test should be the major indicator of how well a child is learning and retaining information, her interest in also being …
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After much research into different peoples’ methods of record keeping/planning, I have decided to continue to use Homeschool Skedtrack to document my homeschool. However, I have made a few minor adjustments. One of the downfalls I have had with Homeschool Skedtrack in the past is that if I got behind on the logging of our …
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As we wind down our school year, I have been considering what our goals for the upcoming year should be. Most of our curriculum has been wonderful this year, so there will not be any changes to that. However, there are some areas that I feel we need to make the focus of the upcoming …
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We’re trying to get back into the swing of things following a little family drama. School was about the only thing that didn’t suffer during our little hiccup. I’m just now starting to feel like our normal family life has returned, so I’m going to update my blog about my kiddos. Regarding their actual school …
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We had a very productive week this week. We were able to get a lot of science and history done for once, and we even had our first Jeopardy game. In history we were introduced to the Jewish people, and read the story about Abraham and Sarah and the story about Joseph, both from the …
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A lot of these pictures are kind of dark. The room where the event was held did not have the best lighting, and since I was back a bit from the action, my flash didn’t work overly well. In addition to the animals pictured below, there were also two chinchillas and an armadillo. This is …
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The new year has been very good to us from a school standpoint. For some reason, however, Fridays seem to be the day of resistance from my pupils so far. K has officially completed her faux standardized reading test. (The results for part 2 will be revealed in a different post.) We will continue with …
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The first part of K’s faux standardized reading test has been graded. Before going over the results, here are the details. K has been taking a sample standardized test for 2nd-grade reading. I am then going over the answers for each section, and grading them. Since this is a sample test, I have no way …
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