i am really new to this. i scraped by this last year. but now i will have two more to home school this year. i am going to be needing first grade readers. and any other ideas anyone can give me. i will have three in the 6th and 7th grade area.any advise or ideas would be appericated or if anyone is going to be selling any books for those grades in july let me know.and keep me in your prayers.
Here are some links I have: http://delicious.com/cornopean/bundle:Literature Hunt around here too: http://freehomeschoolinglibrar.blogspot.com/ And by all means get your older ones reading Jacob Abbott. Great stuff. http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/a#a2136
Hi! I am teaching my 7th grader this fall! We are using; SOS for math, ( just because we have it, we may go to MUS if it seems to not work out) Sos Science _ has videos and such cool Mini tutors it really makes this level of science easy, you coudl get one and use it for both yoru 6 and 7th graders, choose like 7th grade, they are not so difficultthey cant both do it in other words for English-- Writing strands 3- written right to the student! I chose it because it looks like it will help my reluctant but budding writter son to write! and have fun doing it Also Daily grams ... its a 10 minute drill like thing for him to remember the grammar stuff while focusing his main learning on writing thisyear and Vocabulary Connections by stech vaughn ( we will alternate this with writitng strands) History- we chose Mystery of History 3 ( red books) which comes with a hard cover text book plus an activity book that has the busy work, map work etc in it. It looks very exciting, but I should mention it is Christian Perspective, my ds chose thisone himself . Did I miss anything? We are also looking into a fall ball sports team to join and that sort of thing for PE, and I am teaching a Drama class for either the Co op we home school at or the Jr/Sr high school my dd is attending at our church , so he will take that as well. so that is 7th grade, feel free to ask me any quesitions! OH I would recomend Horizon 6 for your 6th grade math books! Awesome! Thats why ds is going to 8th SOS this year, unless it is not enough to challenge him. and also that SOS is a computer program book.
English 6 from BJU ( Bob Jones University) is awesome too! it goes through everything step by step and really is enjoyable learning as well. Ds realyliked it but it does not go past 6th, do you mind my asking how you ended up with so many the same grades? Yes I know I amnosey Lol feel free to tell me its none ofmy business .
I also have a 7th grader. She will be doing: History: Mystery of History Vol. 3: Renaissance Science: Apologia General Science Math: Merrill Pre-Algebra (a retired ps textbook) Language: Rod and Staff Level 5 That's it for the major stuff!
i have a 11 year old and a step-daugther who is 12 and i have a 16 who is on that grade level due to handicaps.
wow thats cool to have three at the same area of learning, it will make things much more fun! You realy should check out the MOH, I took two years to check it out and now I am so glad I got it! We are doing the same as Jackie in that subject. It would be adaptable for both levels you mentioned so cool!
TM's right. I'd teach all three on the same level as much as possible. It will make life SO MUCH easier for you!!!
I also have a 7th grader next year. This is what she'll be doing: Bible: "Increasing in Wisdom--A Bible Study of Proverbs for Elementary Aged Children" and "The Standard of Purity". (Both of those are from Queen Homeschool--love their stuff! http://www.queenhomeschool.com/ ) Math: Life of Fred Beginning Algebra and/or CLE Math (Christian Light Education http://www.clp.org/ ) Grammar: Language Lessons for the Elementary Child 2 (Queen Homeschool) and Hake Grammar ( http://www.grammar.cc/?content=productsor or JAG (Junior Analytical Grammar http://www.analyticalgrammar.com/ ) Science: Rainbow Science http://www.beginningspublishing.com/ I got this for a great deal (barely used) from the WTM site a few months ago, so will use it next year History: A variety of books and study guides (from Queen Homeschool again) Vocabulary: Vocabu-lit http://www.beginningspublishing.com/ Logic: Finish up the Dandy Lion Logic Series with 3rd book (this year did the first two: Logic Countdown and Logic Lift Off ), called "Orbiting With Logic" http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=494 Amazon has the set of three for a good price which makes a good intro. to Logic! Writing: Write Shop http://www.writeshop.com/store/products.php?cat=7 Again, I got the Basic Set for half the new price on WTM For Sale Board! Language: Spanish Geography: "Draw Your World" and other things. Just listed them and the links for variety....studff to look at that may or may not work for you. Best wishes!
If you have a specific TM in mind, try Alibris. I've been able to find TM's for discarded public school books there very reasonably. Also, someone here mentioned a Nutrition Science book. I found it at Alibris. The list price was $40 at the publishers; I bought a NEW book (including s/h) for just about $10.
My problem wiht Math teacher books is that they don't explain everything you are to teach in upper grades, the grades you really need to be sure you are teaching things correctly.
Which is why I like Teaching Textbooks. They assume there's no adult around who has any idea of what's going on, and so the books/videos are done in such a way that no "teacher" is needed.
yes! and MUS has it explained on the video too so you can see it and know what theyare to do, soI like that too< both are super!
