Sounds like a successful year so far! Aiden (my oldest -9th grade) has really enjoyed history and this year is doing the Notgrass World History. It bundles Bible, History & English, but we are mostly using it for history only and reading the books along with that time period. He's also doing Apologia and likes it...the labs are a bit intense. But we have LOVED Illuminating Literature by Sharon Watson. We are reading quite a few books and talking about the worldview, learning about literary devices (different for each book), and keeping a novel notebook. It's made for independent learning...I just wanted to do it with him for my own growth. For math, we've moved to Shormann Math. They have to spend 30-45 minutes doing math, but the teacher is the same throughout all of high school. I loved the Good & the Beautiful, but we left the math because it was fun...but got a bit confusing and not enough explanation. I was trying to keep the videos short, but turns out we needed a little more explanation. I need to make them all a book list to get through in the Spring. I gave them some freedom to pick their own books this year....but we're going to go back both prompt choice reads mixed with required reads.
My husband is a Science teacher here in Michigan. He teaches Biology to 9th graders and Anatomy and Physiology to 11th and 12th graders. The Anatomy class is technically a university level class, very difficult My son also had a hard time with writing. Typing is easier for him, but before he could type well, I had him voice text his writings. Then I printed them out for him to edit or put straight into his binder. I'm sure you will figure out the best thing for your son at each stage. Each of our children is a wonderfully unique person!
We are well into using Learn Math Fast on your recommendation. My daughter actually doesn't fight about doing math now. She's a 9th grader and still working on memorizing subtraction facts but it is exactly what she needed to fill in gaps. There will be whole sections later she can breeze through, I'm sure. Thanks for the recommendation!!
Not sure if you can get them there as in in the UK but my son loves the oxford reading tree readers with biff chip and kipper. They have fiction and nonfiction and go from beginning reading to chapter books !
Oh that reader is just so sad! We love Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy lessons, we rarely finish it because it builds them so well that we can switch to other books by lesson 70!
Our first 2 months started out really rocky because we live in the area that got hit with 2 back to back hurricanes a month ago. We are only just barely getting back into a rythym since then
Just a heads up we don’t finish our language arts book each year and they generally reteach the last bit so no biggie. Math is also set up that way where the last section is redone the next year so you don’t miss if you skip.
@@ChantelKlassen just makes me think of all the stuff I had to read in school that I was not interested in. Thankfully I do love reading! Hopefully your grade oner will too!!!
Sounds like a successful year so far! Aiden (my oldest -9th grade) has really enjoyed history and this year is doing the Notgrass World History. It bundles Bible, History & English, but we are mostly using it for history only and reading the books along with that time period. He's also doing Apologia and likes it...the labs are a bit intense. But we have LOVED Illuminating Literature by Sharon Watson. We are reading quite a few books and talking about the worldview, learning about literary devices (different for each book), and keeping a novel notebook. It's made for independent learning...I just wanted to do it with him for my own growth. For math, we've moved to Shormann Math. They have to spend 30-45 minutes doing math, but the teacher is the same throughout all of high school. I loved the Good & the Beautiful, but we left the math because it was fun...but got a bit confusing and not enough explanation. I was trying to keep the videos short, but turns out we needed a little more explanation. I need to make them all a book list to get through in the Spring. I gave them some freedom to pick their own books this year....but we're going to go back both prompt choice reads mixed with required reads.
I'll have to check out Notgrass World History and Illuminating Literature, thanks so much for sharing those resources, Leanne!
My husband is a Science teacher here in Michigan. He teaches Biology to 9th graders and Anatomy and Physiology to 11th and 12th graders. The Anatomy class is technically a university level class, very difficult
My son also had a hard time with writing. Typing is easier for him, but before he could type well, I had him voice text his writings. Then I printed them out for him to edit or put straight into his binder. I'm sure you will figure out the best thing for your son at each stage. Each of our children is a wonderfully unique person!
Yes, text to speech works well for some things, my son uses that every day when he does his line a day. I'm very thankful for that!
We are well into using Learn Math Fast on your recommendation. My daughter actually doesn't fight about doing math now. She's a 9th grader and still working on memorizing subtraction facts but it is exactly what she needed to fill in gaps. There will be whole sections later she can breeze through, I'm sure. Thanks for the recommendation!!
I'm glad Learn Math Fast is going well for you!
Not sure if you can get them there as in in the UK but my son loves the oxford reading tree readers with biff chip and kipper. They have fiction and nonfiction and go from beginning reading to chapter books !
I'll have to look into those!
Oh that reader is just so sad! We love Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy lessons, we rarely finish it because it builds them so well that we can switch to other books by lesson 70!
Yes, same here!
Our first 2 months started out really rocky because we live in the area that got hit with 2 back to back hurricanes a month ago. We are only just barely getting back into a rythym since then
Oh that's rough! Totally understandable to be thrown off. I hope you guys can have some normalcy and get into a good rhythm.
Thanks for sharing! It sounds like it is going well. The cutting paper into tiny pieces stage 😂
Oof, looking forward to this stage being done!
Just a heads up we don’t finish our language arts book each year and they generally reteach the last bit so no biggie. Math is also set up that way where the last section is redone the next year so you don’t miss if you skip.
Good to hear, I was assuming we wouldn't finish the books. We'll have to see if we continue with TGATB next year or what we do.
That reader does look so boring! 😅 readers can be so fun so that’s sad. Loved 100 easy lessons. That’s what I used with my girls too.
Even I don't want to sit there while he "reads" the readers!
Wow that reader😂😭
It's not really going to inspire a love of reading!
@@ChantelKlassen just makes me think of all the stuff I had to read in school that I was not interested in. Thankfully I do love reading! Hopefully your grade oner will too!!!