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4/18/2017

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Review: Notebooking Pages Lifetime Membership

6/28/2016

Are you an eclectic homeschooler who touches on a variety of subjects and often does homeschool your own way? Well have I got a product for you from NotebookingPages.com, called the Lifetime Membership. Journalling, note-taking, picture drawing... so many options to supplement your learning.

NotebookingPages.com was born out of a family's need to do something different. Homeschooling was getting to be too much of a challenge, and so a new way was developed.

So what is notebooking you ask?
According to the Homeschool Mom: Notebooking is related to lapbooking, but notebooking is a bit simpler, with the information inserted into simple 3-ring binders ..... Notebooks are put together using maps, lab reports, scrapbook pages, worksheet pages, drawings, essays, timelines, and any other relevant work that your child creates. (source)

There is SO much information on this site. It's totally surprising. So once you have your membership, you will have this for a dashboard:

As you can see, there are numerous categories you can choose from. Within each category you will find a number of sub-categories.

Each of these categories opens into additional files. One of the things that is rather cool is you can choose how you download the files to your computer. In the mammals folder below you will see a "mammals zip file". This holds the entire contents of this file. But let's say you just want to look more in-depth at say...just the African buffalo, then you scroll down the page until you come to that file and it will open into a PDF so you can print it off.

As I scrolled through this list, reading off random ones to my son I came across Mouse. My lad's ears perked up and he said "Can I write about them mom?"

If you look closely you will see this file comes with regular lined notebook pages as well as print line style.

You can choose to print off individual pages, or the entire unit. I choose to print off the entire unit and let my lad look it over and choose what he wanted to do. He can do this better with the pages in hand. I honestly expected him to pick the print-lined sheets with a spot to draw a picture, but he surprised me.

You know, it's good to be surprised by a boy child. It really is. :)

AND THAT my friends is why I can recommend NotebookingPages.com to you, the lifetime membership is worth it.

With so many different options (over 600 pages) available to intrigue your child(ren), you might end up being surprised as well. We also worked on music, snakes, biographies and more, so much information it was hard to pick. It will fill a gap, allow for creative expression, fill a need in a child to tell why he likes something, or just peek a child's interest to look into something more deeply.

And that's a good thing, is it not?

You can learn more about NotebookingPages.com and the Notebooking Pages Lifetime Membership by clicking on the image below.

In case you wonder if we covered other areas, check out these pages the lad did as well. :) Music, snakes, biographies and more. Good stuff from a boy child who really isn't into copywork,but sometimes CHOOSES to be, and NotebookingPages.com has encouraged that in my lad and I am happy.

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The Value in Reading Below Level Readers

4/29/2016

Usually when I read book with my lad, I read above his reading level, but lately we've been reading from a reader called "Paths to Adventure". It's part of the A Beka reading program. I picked it up somewhere cause I like readers. :)

The stories were simple (expected that).
What I didn't expect was my lad's interest.

It caught me off-guard how interested he was in these simple stories and the questions...oh my!

"MOM! is that story true?"
"Mom, why do you think he did that?"
"Mom that was a nice story, I liked that one. Did you like it mom?"

As I sat down tonight I pondered this whole thing, about my boys' interest and all his questions.

I have to wonder.
1. if the lower level meant he could really focus on the basics of the story and therefore they caught his attention more.
2. if the lower level stories don't have all vocabulary and bigger words, which broke the story down into more easily understood pieces.
3. if the simplicity of the story conveyed truths in a more straight-forward fashion.

I don't know.

I do know that was completely caught off-guard with his interest in the stories and the poems found within the pages of this reader. It was a good thing.

So the upshot of all this is ...... Don't pass up those below level books.
You just might be surprised how interesting they are.

Review: Homeschool Copywork

4/12/2016

You know how sometimes you pick up a product for schooling your children and it surprises you at how your children react to it? I recently experienced this lovely phenomenon with my son as we dove full-heartedly into our lifetime membership with Homeschool Copywork.

So just what is the lifetime membership into Homeschool Copywork all about?

It's all about learning to spell, use good punctuation and great vocabulary.    It engages the mind with interesting ideas, captures imaginations and helps children increase their reading and comprehension skills. As children engage in copywork it helps to organize their thoughts as well.

What I see in my lad?    "Mom, Can you print me off another Dragons Verse?"   Asking, not me telling, a boy asking.   I hear "Mom!   Look at this one?   Isn't he interesting?"

This is me is what copywork is.   It's my boy finding something he is interested in, and then finding sentences he can write down about it.   That joy in his eyes as he sees interesting pictures to go along with those writings. I LIKE IT. :)

How does the Program work?

Go toHomeschool Copywork. Find the unit you want to use. You can use it as a stand alone copywork program OR use it to supplement another unit of study.

Download, save to your computer.

Print off the pages that you want.

We focused on the Dragons study. This comes with print and cursive font.

Illustrations can be coloured.

The copywork is generally found at the top of the page, with plenty of lines for writing. My son REALLY liked that. He's done some copywork that had insufficient lines or space, and had to use backs of sheets and he just finds that aggravating because it's too hard to keep it all neat. My lad takes pride in doing the job neatly and despairs of the cursive both his parents employ. :) (neat we are definitely not)

One of the things I like about this program, even though it is not immediately obvious, is how easy it is to find what you are looking for. If you go to the Member Login page, it brings up these good divisions, makes finding what you want so easy. :)

How did we use this?
My son has been learning to write cursive for the past bit.   He's been enjoying learning it but said "Mom, I don't get to practice my capitals enough AND I want real sentences."   Therefore when this review came up I asked him what he thought and he was quite open to it.. Dragons, Armour of God etc.. interesting things for boys. AND it could take the place of learning his cursive. Writing in sentences about things he was interested in.

When I showed him all the different options they had (they have LOTS of options) he immediately asked to do the dragons one.

Everyday he would write out a passage (I would print off five handwriting worksheets the Friday before).   He would pick the one he desired and write it out. When he started out he would pick the shortest piece, then he started picking out the ones where he liked the dragon the best, then he started reading the passages, and picked out the passages that interested him. "Mom, is it true?    Does this passage really say there were dragons in palaces?"     It gave time for discussion. He is learning about different bible translations, and why word choices were made. It was so interesting to me to watch that change in him.

I have to admit, I've become a convert. I've been so skeptical to benefits of copywork, seeing it as busy work only, but here's my lad... DELIGHTING in his handwriting practice. Learning, asking questions, engaging in conversation over dragons and bible translations, being excited about doing this work (when normally he's a boy child who would rather do anything other than school work)... but with his copywork, doing it with no complaints.. Ah now THAT is a goodly thing. :)

Now I have to tell you something about using Homeschool Copywork. If something happens where you have to set it aside for a while, it is so easy to pick it up again..

Homeschool Copywork is so very, very, very easy to work with. I am SO glad that I had a chance to review it and will continue to use it.

When we are finished with Dragons my son wants to do the following.

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Vendor: Homeschool Copywork
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Review: Logic of English, Essentials 2nd Ed. and Reader Set

3/29/2016

Even though I don't use the Essentials 2nd Edition with the Essential Reader Set by Logic of English the way it is officially meant to be used (at least according to the teacher's manual) it is one of my favourite language arts programs. Sight words, phonics, phonemes, spelling rules, morphemes, games, and fun ways to help struggling readers.. it's great! Let me tell you why.

First off, let me tell you what I received from Logic of English for this review. Introducing the Essentials 2nd Edition with the Essential Reader Set.

All the above and MORE! I also received the Essential Readers. It's a four part PDF download.. teacher's manual, student workbook and two different layouts of the reader that accompanies the lessons. I did add the teachers to the one file so I could more easily distinguish the teacher's manual from the other files.

How did we use it?
We did a little bit of work in the workbook. Not a whole lot of work as my lad IMMEDIATELY started to stress out about it, so I did what I do and I backed off, I know he'll learn the material, we'll just do it differently. :)

The point of Logic of English is to teach children to learn the sounds, and with the sounds, use them as ways to learn how to spell better. THIS is the hook for my lad. At age 10, he is strongly desiring this year to learn how to spell better. So we are learning to spell better and using this is a medium to learn spelling rules and breaking words into parts, which means learning the sounds and so forth.

So what we do is take four cards... spellings rules, phonograms, grammar and morphemes. Each week four cards that we read over and discuss. We'll talk about other words that sound the same, we do a spelling list based on the words written on the cards, we talk about how many words come from Latin and if you understand the BASE of a word, it helps you know how to spell it better If you sound out a word into it's parts and figure out what part you know how to spell.. before you know it you can spell the rest of the word if you understand the basic rules of how the parts fit together.

i cannot say HOW MUCH I love their cards. Love them. They work well for us. Focusing four cards is a lower key approach to helping a lad learn. I can read the book and rework how to do the lessons via question form throughout the week.

I do have to tell you about a part of the program that was a hit. AND I didn't expect it to be. The Essential reader. Drawing pictures, reading poems, making up silly quips, reading lists of words and listening to the sounds, breaking words into parts. This reader worked and I was amazed! Doing the cursive led my son to ask "mom, can you get me more capital letter cursive to do? I don't really understand those ones yet."

I have to tell you this.. it was FUN to see my lad so thoroughly enjoying himself with a language arts program that deals with sounds. He doesn't fight it, he's just simply queries "what am I doing today mom"?

I would now like to point out a couple of helpful products that are included.
This double sided quick reference chart spelling analysis card. A good way for my lad to remember how to work his way through an unknown word. (good for his mom too)

Tile cards for playing games, and quick reference chart. By the by... ziploc bags work wonderfully for storing the different flash cards and game pieces.

double sided, three page unit, with all the rules in one quick reference area.

Imagine playing your way through spelling words. That idea work for you? Works for my lad as well. :) He knows he's practicing sounds (which is hard) but he's learning to spell words... Which ... is good. :) So it works.

Even though I don't really use the Student workbook with my lad, I wanted to take a moment to show you a bit about the teacher's manual. You need one to do the other, and teacher's manual walks you through how to use the student manual AND for those who do things a tad differently, it teaches you how to do that too (if you read around it a little). :) What to say, what to expect, and how things should look after you are done teaching. It's great to have it all broken down for those times when I am unsure myself.

Is it harder perhaps to do things in a way varies from the teacher's manual? In some ways yes, but not really. The set up, the examples, the walk-throughs... even doing it differently, this is one of the finest spelling curricula that I have ever met. I like it!

Product Details:
Received: Homeschool Spelling/Reading Program
Title: Essentials 2nd Edition with the Essential Reader Set.
Vendor: Logic of English
Grade Range: varies, can teach three levels at once
Price: $198 for complete set.

This set contains vol. 1 materials, vol. 2 coming 2017.

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Doing Language in Our Own Way - VCF

2/29/2016

For the next four weeks I'll be trying to participate in the Virtual Curriculum Fair.   I learned about it late so couldn't get a post up in time to be part of the main linky, but they have an "add on" linky portion that I hope to get in on for this week.

This week the topic is Language Arts.. or the use of words.    I thought I would touch on some of the things we do.

Vocabulary
To start off, one of the fun things we do is called "word of the day".   What we do is pick a word in the dictionary. Learn what it means, and then come up with a sentence for it to show our understanding. :)   I then post that sentence to facebook.   It's a lot of fun. We picked up the idea from a Tiffany Aching book where a young lady reads through the entire dictionary and exponentially expands for knowledge base. Sometimes people join in with us. :)

Reading
We do a lot of reading in this household, I read to my lad, my lad reads to me, we also listen to audio books. It's a great way to combine history, science, vocabulary, with the love of the printed word. We have three reading times scattered throughout the day.

At breakfast we read through a chapter book...usually history in a story form, but sometimes just an interesting book that we want to have a regular time to read.

Throughout our schooling time we'll put down our learning materials and lay on the bed for a bit. The lad will play and I will read. As the lad plays he will often interject comments when he doesn't understand something, or if he wants to add some knowledge to what we are reading about it. I find it particularly fun when I am reading something and suddenly whatever it is appears in his playing.... like when the octopus came out and pulled one of the characters under water scaring everyone around with his puff of ink. (made me laugh). :) It's a good break to our day, it continues our learning and gives the lad a mental break which he needs.

We also read about five books at night before bed, history, science, geography and a chapter book and the lad has a "read it to me" book that he does one page a night.

Phonics and Grammar
We take a low key approach to grammar and phonics around here, as these subjects are difficult for my lad. We've also added spelling this year as he's ready for it. We use a program called Logic of English for this. This program comes with a large number of flash cards. We pick three a week and those are what we work on for one week. This past week it was proper nouns, I and Y, and the sound aa. We actually had to look up what that sound made as their cue word wasn't working for us. :) It's easy to interject three cards into everything you are doing over the course of a week, to find spelling words that go with them, other sound words and such like.

Reading Comprehension and Narration.
There are a couple of ways that we do this.
1. Can you remember what happened yesterday? I frequently ask my boy this at breakfast before I start reading. Gives him a chance to test his recall.
2. Read from this book. Now tell me what you read. He chose to use a book we received for a review. A simple page a day read.

Cursive and Writing
Last year it was our delight to pick up a program called CursiveLogic.   My son now knows how to write in cursive. He still struggles reading different forms of cursive and my style drives him crazy unless I take my time to write neatly. :)    But it's a great way now to add history, science and geography to his day in the form of copywork.    He's still gaining confidence, particularly with capital letters, but the CursiveLogic flipstyle book makes it easy to find the needed page. :)

My lad is always in the process of doing some type of writing so I don't have a formal writing program for him.   He'll frequently ask me style questions ... should I start a new sentence, would this be a new paragraph, how do I write this thought mom?

Every other week we do a poetry lesson where he needs to write a poem following a particular style.    For instance An Animal Prayer Poem.

This year the Virtual Curriculum Fair is hosted by Laura @ Day by Day in Our World, Chareen @ Every Bed of Roses and Kristen @ Sunrise to Sunset. Language Arts: Words Make the World Go Round by Laura @ Day by Day in Our World The Language Arts in Our Homeschool and Everything Relating to it by Joelle @ Homeschooling for His Glory Teaching Elementary Latin by Yvie @ Gypsy Road How to Learn ASL & Spanish in 20 Minutes a Day by Rochelle @ RochelleBarlow Classical Word Study by Lisa @ GoldenGrasses Language Arts Means and Methods by Laura @ Four Little Penguins Sprechen Sie.... by Jennifer King @ A Peace of Mind The Art of Eloquence by Jennifer King @ A Peace of Mind Love Languages by Jennifer King @A Peace of Mind

Why I Like Poetry

2/23/2016

I have to admit it, I like poetry. I like reading it with my boy, I like teaching him things to look out for in it but you know what I like most?

The conversations.

Take for instance today, we read this poem written by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Where Go the Boats?

DARK brown is the river.
  Golden is the sand.
It flows along for ever,
  With trees on either hand.

Green leaves a-floating,         5
  Castles of the foam,
Boats of mine a-boating--
  Where will all come home?

On goes the river
  And out past the mill,  10
Away down the valley,
  Away down the hill.

Away down the river,
  A hundred miles or more,
Other little children  15
  Shall bring my boats ashore

I had thought about turning into a whole rhyming lesson, but when my boy smiled when I finished reading it, I glanced at him out of the corner of my eye, he burst into conversation.

"Mom, can you imagine it a family of otters got ahold of them"?
"Can you just seem them mom, smashing of the sails and using the boat parts as little tables to pass things back and forth"?

From that illustrious start we had a lovely conversation on just what might happen to those boats as they floated down the river the things they'd see, the mishaps they might have, the children they might meet.

IT WAS WONDERFUL.

And THAT my dear readers is WHY I love poetry.

Is it good to see the forms, to see how poetry is put together.. FOR SURE, but it's also good to let that stuff go and enjoy the thoughts and emotions that a good poem brings forth. R.L. Stevenson wrote a poem that delighted my boy and gave us a good conversation...what more could you ask for? :)

Snow on the Ground, Tears in the Eyes

2/18/2016

I have to admit, this has NOT been a great homeschooling week. Been a combination of things setting us off.

1. Monday was Family Day here in Canada so we basically took the day off. We had a cart ride with some horses, visited with neighbours over cookies, watched a movie in the community and had pizza for supper. :)

2. Tuesday was odd...trying to remember why. OH.. NO ONE felt like doing school AT ALL. Tiredness or what. .Not sure what was at play but schooling with books was SO nt for us, so we worked on building mouse feeders instead. Project based learning is good too right?

3, Foodbank Day. So the lad does bookwork and helps out as needed. Normally we have a shipment come in but something got messed up so it didn't come in so the lad helped me with some organizing instead.

And that brings us to today.

Math... the lad was brought to tears today by math. It was odd. If I asked him the question he could do it in his head. Explain it all to me and everything, but doing it on paper simply wasn't working for him today. So we did four questions verbally and said "done". It was beyond frustrating for him .. I can see the answer mom but every time I try to write it down it's WRONG and it's NOT MY FAULT!!!! Seeing as he could do it verbally I had to agree that it wasn't his fault it was just a brain glitchy day.

Grapevine studies. We've started a new review for Grapevine. Working through the New Testament. I have to admit, the lad was simply having fun with drawing the characters today...i would show you up close what he was drawing but he begged me not to,but this image passed his inspection. I don't mind silliness as long as the message is getting through.

Geography. We changed this up a bit. The lad HATED drawing out the shape of the country. He could never get it perfect enough and it was driving him crazy, so now he has to find the country that we are studying and colour it in. This week we are learning about Azerbaijan. It's rather interesting how studies of other countries help us understand our own. How like many Azerbaijan's are Muslim by identity but not by belief. Much like Canada eh?

We did our reading together.   We covered Octopus/Squid; John Knox; Hudson (after whom Hudson bay is named for), Mrs. Quack; Two poems...one which just weirded me out (and the lad found interesting), and something else. :)

The lad did his narration, copywork (starting a new study on Astronomy), and... Logic of English.

I have to admit, we aren't following the lessons very well with Logic of English. We just aren't, if we do my lad stresses out too much, so we use their materials in our own way. Today we were working on knowing if phonographs have two letters or one. He had fun!   OH MY.   So nice to see my lad having fun with phonographs.   Our biggest battle is helping him figure out what things sound like... he gets that from me, its just the way it is. We often guess at how words sound and hubby is frequently correcting us both. :)

We also use the cards differently. I give him three cards per week to study, One of the cards always has a spelling list on the back and I'll randomly throughout the week ask him to spell words.   Keeps him practicing without adding the stress of "I HAVE TO BE PERFECT" to his day.

So that's our week/day. Tomorrow will be different again as we'll planning to be out of the house most of the day.

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Four books my 10 year old likes

2/17/2016

Weekends with Max and His Dad.    Written by Linda Urban this is a story about Max and the weekends he spends with his dad after his parents have split up.    A 3rd grade boy adjusting to life in two households.   It's an adjustment for both Max and his dad.   My son likes this book because "Max is a real boy mom.   He does things I would do."

I like that Max is just a nice boy,   His dad seems like a real man, trying to help his boy adjust to a new way for their family to live.    A new building, with new people and new challenges.. even to the finding of a new sofa.   Each weekend Max and his dad embark on a new adventure.   They help each other out and this is good, this is how families operate.

I have to personally admit to being sad that Max is in this situation, of having to learn to spread his time out between his dad and his mom. I am though delighted in how Ms. Urban writes the story to show how together families can make things work even if they are difficult.   This book a review from Raincoast books.

Pages of History, Volume 2. This book is part of our Veritas Press history studies. I am so glad that I bought the books to go along with them history. Occasionally as I read through the Pages of History with my lad he would blurt out things he was learning from his studies. Why does my lad like this book? "I like how the animals talk and tell them things. I think it's good that Lance is learning that God is important and listens to us."

God King. A story in the Days of King Hezekiah. Oh my, did we enjoy this book. Joanne Williamson wrote a compelling story full of intrigue and careful thought. A lad who unexpectedly becomes Pharoah, thinking all the while that there has been a grievous error. A threat to his life, a threat to another land, a threat to his own. How will it all work out. Clever escapes, interesting characters, growth in Taharka turning from a boy to a man, from an unconvinced Pharoah to a chosen God-King. To cap it off we learned that much of the story was true (my lad was SO delighted by that).

We finished the fifth book (The Brightest Night) in the series Wings of Fire by Tui T. Sutherland. In this book, the Dragonets finally find a way to stop the war. They stopped it in a way we didn't expect and the lad was impressed at how smart little Sunny was.

We often stopped while reading, to sing the Dragonets of Prophecy song.

The Dragonets are coming,
They're coming to save the day.
They're coming to fight for they know what is right
The dragonets hooray (and repeat)

Admittedly we sing it to a different tune than what's implied in the book or in the videos.
I found this video of the actual prophecy.

Poetry Lesson: The Hound

1/26/2016

Today's Poem had us doing a A-B-A-A-B pattern for rhyming.

I read this poem to my lad and he looked all confuddled.
I tilted my head at him as an invitation to query so of course he did. :)

"Mom, what does that mean.. only the back of him active?"

So I showed him this video.
And he was "OH!"

It's just a simple poem but the rhyming is in a different pattern which makes it interesting, and hey... who doesn't smile at a happy dog running around? They can seem to be so full of glee.

The simplicity allows the reader to consider the actions of the dog and how simple they are and grin in remembrance (at least it does me).

When I asked what other words she could have used, or even what words words rhymed my lad thought of ground hogs...and how a dog could be sniffing after them, even as he said "that wouldn't fit in the poem though mom" and "it wouldn't be as funny if it didn't rhyme".

I think he has a point don't you?