Dec 09 2008

My wife is posting again

Category: Blogging, Other Posts — Polycarp @ 1:33 pm

My wife is posting again, at here blog, below. I post this in hopes of having a happy home. It’s been cold lately, sleeping on the porch. And I am hungry, eating nothing but corn husks. Also, the people at the office has noticed that my normal white shirts have gone to a rather putrid brown. The cats no longer come near me and the vulchers are circling.  So, in hopes of appeasing my wife, I am posting her blog link here…

Grammar of Life.

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8 Responses to “My wife is posting again”

  1. Heather says:
    December 9th, 2008 3:09 pm

    I just quickly glanced at her blog and I will probably go back as I see you all homeschool as do we although it’s only our first year (our oldest is 5). I’m sure your wife has something on there I could learn from. :) Thanks for sharing!

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  2. wbmoore says:
    December 9th, 2008 9:34 pm

    Have her get you a sleeping bag – it helps keep the floor of the porch warm. :)

    We love having the kids clean the house – especially folding clothes and washing dishes. You need to put her blog on your blogroll.

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  3. wbmoore says:
    December 9th, 2008 9:39 pm

    We homeschool too. The kids use Switched on Schoolhouse for the core. Then we add Math-U-See, Character Quality Language Arts, All American History (we’re just starting Mystery of History for the one’s who have finished AAH), and we’ve just started Apologia elementary science.

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  4. Polycarp says:
    December 9th, 2008 9:57 pm

    Thanks, WB, for the compassion on my sleeping arrangements! She is on the roll, but, she recently returned to posting.

    How do you like the curriculum that you use? I am not sure which we use – she knows – but we are unhappy with it. We have Memoria Press for Latin, and we are thinking of going with that a bit more next year.

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  5. wbmoore says:
    December 9th, 2008 10:18 pm

    I love most of the curriculum. The Switch on Schoolhouse (SOS) is ok, but they finish it in about 2 hours, and it covers Math, English, History/Social Studies/Geography, Science, and Bible. We don’t generally do the science labs, as we aren’t bent that way and the oldest is not yet in 7th grade- we only do the ones the kids really want to do.

    What we really love is the rest of the curriculum.

    The Math-U-See is a great program. We had tried saxon and a couple of others, but they didn’t work well for us. This one works great. It has a video to teach the lesson, manipulatives to help them visualize the problems, a workbook to help them practice, and a test book to show they know it.

    The Character Quality Language Arts (CQLA) teaches spelling, grammar, writing, vocabulary – using the Bible, and historical writings – all focused on a set of character qualities.It is also workbook based.

    The All America History was also written by a Christian. We’ve tried a couple of other things, but they did not work with our style. This has a reader and a workbook. The first volume started with the Vikings and goes through the Civil War. The second volume goes from the Civil War through Pres. George W. Bush. They include some things from other parts of the world that happened at the time of US history being studied.

    The Apologia science books are elementary level. They seem great. Again, we have not done many of the labs. But the kids are definitely learning a great deal from them.

    I’m not sure how I will like the Mystery of History. It sounded great, from everything I’ve read. But I just bought the first volume, and my perusal of it leave me wondering if I made a mistake. It looks like it covers good stuff, blending the Bible with secular material to cover world history up through Christ. But it seems to be at a very birds eye view, with the author expecting you to fill in with library book. If that’s the case, then I doubt it will work for us, as that’s not our style. I also don’t know how the author handles the history from where the Bible leaves off. There are going to be five volumes all together, I think. We’ll see how it works out.

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  6. wbmoore says:
    December 9th, 2008 10:56 pm

    Oh, My kid learning Greek is using “A Greek Alphabetarion” and “A Greek Hupogrammon”. I also purchased the homeschool version of Rosetta Stone for Latin American Spanish – all my kids use that a little, but my oldest is sold on it. I’ll probably purchase it for Greek, Hebrew, and Latin sometime. I want to learn these languages.

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  7. Leigh Anne says:
    December 10th, 2008 8:40 am

    My poor husband sleeping on the porch, too bad for him it rained all night. Looks like he’s getting sick I’ll have to let him come in tonight, in no part due to him posting my blog though!

    wbmoore, we are currently using ACE curriculum but I really dislike it. It’s very watered down and it is barely the basics of Math, English, Science and Social Studies. We’re trying to go with a more classical education through Memoria Press. Hopefully by next year (2nd grade for child 1 and K for child 2) they will have more material for the lower grades. Currently all they have is Prima Latina, a Copybook, and a book for Cursive writing.

    I just recently heard about the Apologia Science books from a fellow co-op member. She is trying to drum up support for teaching the class and doing all the labs. It’s good to hear a bit of a review about that before we decide if we want to jump in on that one.

    Thanks for the info. We will def. be using a different curriculum next year, just not sure what yet…

    Agapeton

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  8. Polycarp says:
    December 9th, 2008 4:04 pm

    If you need anything – by way of materials that we may not need – please let us know. We would be glad to share.

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