for the kids so they can get a feel for what we are starting in August (Tapestry of Grace Year 4)... What does that mean? It means I need to read Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, & Alice's Adventures in Wonderland before they read them (those are next month's assignments which will be presented by them in June) July will be review and a slight "catching up" for the month before day 1 in August. HA - they all said they don't mind going year-round Wonder if that opinion will change soon enough :twisted:
I can't imagine having to read ahead of the kids... esp more than one of them! I'm beginning to wonder if you are more crazy than I am..lol Doesn't TOG have cheat sheets for mom??? If not, what the heck are you paying for?
Yeah - but I don't have that unit But I'm doing this one separately.... I read all 3 back in high school but can't remember - and honestly I need to figure out which one to assign to which kid. Alexis will get Alice in Wonderland - it's dialectic.... but the 2 older ones are both rhetoric and well - I just don't know which should have which. I might end up assigning 1 for both of them - which would make for an interesting conversation/debate - but I'm not sure yet.
Wikipedia. Cliff's Notes. Other parents. I can think of lots of ways to get out of reading every little thing ahead of my kids and still have a clue what I'm talking about. The way that I know this is that I passed AP English in high school using this method, and I earned money on the side writing other kids' papers for them. :lol: I have never been a reader, but I can definitely fake my way through an essay or research paper with the best of them! :lol: There. That's my terrible mom confession for the day. There are lots more where that one came from, I'm sure! Hehehe!
LOL - I am a reader so the actual READING part isn't a big deal for me I love to read and always have more than 1 book going at a time (I'm weird like that)
Let me clarify... I love books. I love the content. I just can't read without getting a migraine. Only a page or two of a chapter book sends me straight to bed. (I have Irlen Syndrome, and it wasn't diagnosed until I was 19... long after I needed intervention.) I can read children's books all day (large print, full of color), but I can't read black & white. It's why I love forums and online reading. They're full of emoticons, ads, background colors, etc. that break up the words a bit more, AND I'm able to use my mouse to highlight where I am in the reading.
Curious - would a kindle work IF you used colored glasses so it wouldn't be black and white? You could also highlight.... I do a lot of audio books as well - but right now I am using my audio book as enjoyment/leave me alone (I love the Outlander series on audio)
I don't own anything like a kindle, and I was told to never use colored glasses... it'll make it worse. Not that I have TIME to read anyway! :lol:
hmmm - no a kindle wouldn't work then as it's black & white - I was thinking the colored glasses might help by the reasoning of a totally different discussion I had with other homeschoolers recently... what?? no time to read??? you mean you don't sit around eating bonbons all day??
Did you have an actual Irlens diagnosis? I thought part of that was to find out WHICH COLOR glasses would help (when colored acetate overlay sheets aren't convenient).
