Walking Therein

Memo Monday Resources for Home School Moms

Homeschooling Boys Website and Yahoo Group

HomeschoolingBoys.com is a site I just found a couple of weeks ago. It is a site for homeschool families with boys and covers topics from homeschool issues to discipline to field trips. There is a Yahoo Group you can Click to join here!

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English and Grammar Curriculum: 

English for the Thoughtful Child 1 is an English/Writing for children 'Grades: 3-4'. A Simply Grammar-like course for a younger child following the Charlotte Mason approach from Greenleaf Press. It contains everything you need for language arts - wholesome classic literature excerpts, narration, dictation, memorization, and composition. Lessons are self-contained and the book is very easy to use with short, manageable exercises and assignments. Like Simply Grammar, this volume is also a revision of an older book, complete with quaint, but stimulating, period illustrations.

English for the Thoughtful Child 2 is the English/Writing for children 'Grades: 3-4'. This sequel contains all the distinctive features of the original. It contains nature lessons, oral composition, picture lessons, memory work, and a gentle introduction to grammar, all centered around the development of writing skills.

Simply Grammar by Charlotte Mason and Karen Andreola is an expanded version of Charlotte Mason's First Grammar Lessons. The exercises use Miss Mason's method of narration. Most work is oral, but any of it can be written. One grammar rule is taught per lesson, and all exercises that follow refer to the rule. Your child will learn to create his own sentences, describe pictures, and tell stories using all the important parts of speech. It is nonconsumable, and can be used for a several-year program, and will enhance any language course. For 4th to 8th grade.  

Easy Grammar

I used this for my girls in high school. It is actually available for all grades. In the high school workbook, students start by learning a list of prepositions. Then, by identifying and crossing out prepositions and prepositional phrases, students can see the core of each sentence. Concepts are presented in small, understandable increments, followed practice pages. It is a complete grammar course. I had the girls do their worksheets and correct them themselves. We did the pages that they needed to complete what they already knew.  The workbook pages and tests are reproducible for families, although you will probably want to purchase the student workbooks because of the sheer volume of copying involved (200-300+ pages). Tests can be reproduced from the teacher book or a test booklet purchased for convenience.

Reading Fiction:

These are some of our favorite reads. I tried to categorize them into the best age groups, but many of them fit into any category, so you will have to see how it fits for you!

Blackberry Hollow by Paul Peabody

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Little Faith by Mrs. O.F. Walton A young child on the streets in the last century, the little orphan girl learns to trust people agin.

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery Oh, the lovely stories of Anne with an e, the little orphan on Prince Edward Island, who finds the real meaning of family.

Jeb Stuart by Gertrude Hecker Winders A true story about a famous American boy in the saddle.

The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare The scene is Jerusalem, the time is of Christ, the characters are realistic, and you will love this historical fiction.

Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare A young family in Colonial times must make a choice to leave their young son in Indian country to get their entire family to their new claim in Maine.

Lamb Among the Stars series by Chris Walley  Amanda loves with this series. It is a fully realized futuristic sci-fi/fanatasy epic. If you are interested in this series, "One thing about this series is in order to understand what is going on, you have to take yourself out of our sinful world and imagine a place where there is no sin and "The King Reigns"."` Read The Lamb Among Stars Series.

A book for moms or dads that I am reading again... and all the way through this time, is Preparing Sons to Provide for a Single Income Family by Steven Maxwell.  

Thanks for joining me for this week's Memo Monday.

Have a wonderful week!  Blessings!