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Plants Grown Up/Polished Cornerstones and Reading Lists

3:25 PM, Thursday, December 7, 2006 .. Posted in Homeschooling- Lessons, Ideas and Tips .. 0 comments .. Link

MominPA asked me about Plants Grown Up and the Reading Lists we have for our children:
    I love all of the Doorposts curriculum. I used that a bit last year, but Eric wasn't reading then, so I haven't gotten him into it enough yet. In looking over it, though, it -as well as Polished Cornerstones- can be used as a full-time curriculum or to supplement what you are using.
    I have been struggling with getting all we need done as a family with 7 children, so I am slowly adding what we can. When Eric is a more proficient reader, which will be soon, I will assign him chapters to work through.
    At this time, the HOW is completely Bible-focused curriculum, so I am using this alone. The older girls are able to use the Polished Cornerstones, and it is wonderful in the fact that it includes all different areas of study, i.e.: writing, Bible, history, science, etc. They both do.
    If you have time to - or your husband does, Plants Grown Up/Polished Cornerstones is a wonderful study and is made for several ages.
As far as their book lists:
    I do have age-related lists made up, compiling from some I already had and adding newer books or even classics that are sometimes left out. I went to the Indiana pages on what they are teaching students (ahem, yikes!) and took a look at the books they have for the different ages. I crossed off the gobbledy-gook nonsense and politically-correct ones, as well as any that are racy (not in a factual manner, persay, but a promiscuous manner, I guess). I did add books that will lead our children in the direction of the Lord, which is not the direction of some lists.
    I have not really had a hard time getting our children to read, because they love learning, and they love doing it through books.
    A few weeks ago, I noticed our old copy of David Copperfield -that I had bought from the library, and is pretty old - laying on top of the bookshelf it belongs in. I figured BabyBoy (18m) had pulled it out, so I asked why it was out.... Amanda said, "Because I'm reading it." "Oh, ok," I said, surprised. After that were a few comments by her sisters about Oliver Twist and how confusing it was, and Jocelyn and Rachel decided they would try reading it when they were older..... haha.
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