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Fourth Grade | I Capture the Rowhouse
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I Capture the Rowhouse. Children's books, homeschooling and other random musings…. DC Classes and Co-ops. Kindergarten to Second Grade. Science Without a Net. This is the curriculum line up from the post I wrote about planning for fourth grade. Notes about what changed are in italics. We didn’t end up finishing MCT. There were some good aspects, but overall, it was not the right program for us. Spelling: All About Spelling. Read Alouds, Required Reading from a list and. We’ll definitely continue our requ...
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Our Curriculum | I Capture the Rowhouse
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I Capture the Rowhouse. Children's books, homeschooling and other random musings…. DC Classes and Co-ops. Kindergarten to Second Grade. Science Without a Net. Over the years, we’ve used a variety of approaches and curricula. We’re truly eclectic homeschoolers. However, we’ve been influenced by several different things. We have had a few favorites among curricula and resources. For curricula, these have included Brave Writer, the Logic workbooks from Prufrock Press, the creative thinking workbooks fro...
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What Learning Should and Shouldn’t Be | I Capture the Rowhouse
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I Capture the Rowhouse. Children's books, homeschooling and other random musings…. DC Classes and Co-ops. Kindergarten to Second Grade. Science Without a Net. What Learning Should and Shouldn’t Be. August 3, 2015. Does learning have to be hard. Should learning be fun. What should learning be. Mushroom and BalletBoy on a typical school day. I’m not sure they’re having any fun, but they seem to be learning. I saw a question go around recently online: Should learning be fun? Book Roundup →. We need to not l...
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Kindergarten to Second Grade | I Capture the Rowhouse
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I Capture the Rowhouse. Children's books, homeschooling and other random musings…. DC Classes and Co-ops. Kindergarten to Second Grade. Science Without a Net. Kindergarten to Second Grade. Since I am updating the curriculum section, I thought I’d retroactively go back and add in a section about what we used way back in our first homeschooling years. Was very free form for kindy. We used the task cards and guidebook for the Cuisenaire rods called Mathematics Made Meaningful. Phonics and language arts.
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Third Grade | I Capture the Rowhouse
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I Capture the Rowhouse. Children's books, homeschooling and other random musings…. DC Classes and Co-ops. Kindergarten to Second Grade. Science Without a Net. This was the post I wrote when we started third grade. We are also fans of using fun supplements. For example, we play Mad Libs and Bananagrams for language arts. We are using. The Book of Perfectly Perilous Math,. Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School. Art Lab for Kids. Below are our more traditional core choices for curricula this year. You are...
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Book Roundup | I Capture the Rowhouse
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I Capture the Rowhouse. Children's books, homeschooling and other random musings…. DC Classes and Co-ops. Kindergarten to Second Grade. Science Without a Net. August 6, 2015. I’ve gotten out of the habit of doing our periodic book roundups. However, as always, we’ve been reading. Here’s a few things from our shelves from the last few months and I’ll try to get back to doing more book blogging again. Go: A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design. Mushroom’s Serious Read. Counting by 7’s. By Holly Goldberg Sloan.
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Science Without a Net | I Capture the Rowhouse
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I Capture the Rowhouse. Children's books, homeschooling and other random musings…. DC Classes and Co-ops. Kindergarten to Second Grade. Science Without a Net. Science Without a Net. I’m currently posting occasional little sections from this monster sized guide. Links will be posted on the blog and kept here. In the meantime, you can still read my old posts about our first two years, which have gaps, but also, I hope, can serve as inspiration. The Let’s Read and Find Out Science series. Bill Nye, the Scie...
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Sixth Grade | I Capture the Rowhouse
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I Capture the Rowhouse. Children's books, homeschooling and other random musings…. DC Classes and Co-ops. Kindergarten to Second Grade. Science Without a Net. For the middle school years, we’ve moved to being much more project based and more child led. That means that beyond the math and language arts plans, I have less to put here this year. However, I’ll try to be a good blogger and update it at the end of the year to let you know what we did. Mushroom will continue using Jousting Armadillos. We’...
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farrarwilliams | I Capture the Rowhouse
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I Capture the Rowhouse. Children's books, homeschooling and other random musings…. DC Classes and Co-ops. Kindergarten to Second Grade. Science Without a Net. All posts by farrarwilliams. I’m Glad We Stuck With Dictation. July 11, 2016. Like anything else, dictation probably isn’t perfect for all kids, but I’m glad I became a believer. One comment so far. In Praise of BalletBoy. July 5, 2016. On the other hand, BalletBoy has really been blooming academically and it’s really exciting to be on the cu...
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Fifth Grade | I Capture the Rowhouse
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I Capture the Rowhouse. Children's books, homeschooling and other random musings…. DC Classes and Co-ops. Kindergarten to Second Grade. Science Without a Net. Mushroom finished up all the available Beast Academy. Books and covered individual topics with the Key to Math. Books He used Process Skills in Problem Solving grade 5 for the entire year. I have a post about his unusual math path here. During the final part of the year, he began Jousting Armadillos as his pre-algebra program. As a main resource.
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