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12.22.2008
Thinking Aloud
I decided to take a detour in our regularly scheduled homeschool plans. I was all set to do AmbleSide for the long haul. Then I saw Beyond by HOD and it looked so tantalizing I just had to go for it. Since it is geared more for 1st grade level work I also justified that decision knowing DS needed a bit more time to mature in math and reading. We're still plugging along in those areas and yet something is not right.
HOD used singapore math and I'm finding I loathe it. It's throwing concepts to quicly at DS that he's still about at the level he was before we started singapore level 1A....
We're almost done with Beyond and I'm debating a few things.
Rod and Staff seems so lovely in the LA department with the english and spelling just being started at 2nd grade level so maybe we could easily ease right in and not feel behind.
MUS Beta may be a math curricula to consider.
And yet the independence of CLE also is alluring.
And do I want to contine with AmbleSide's selection of books or do I want to go for WinterPromise or Sonlight or Beautiful Feet, etc...
I've got the diagnostic tests from CLE but I know DS has not seen most of the concepts in neither the LA nor Math level 100 tests.
I've also printed off the Alpha test from MUS to see if my guess of placing DS in Beta would fit perfectly.
With MUS I know it will be many days of the same type of problem and I am not sure if DS will like this or get angry at the repitition. Also will working the problems with blocks keep him from memorizing the math facts?
Yet CLE Math is spiral and we may have to start in level 100 in order to catch up ...
I'm not a huge fan of drilling with flashcards ....
oh decisions decisions
Then we come to reading and DS is still ok with cvc words but now adding cvce words and learning vowels don't always say the short sound is causing hesitation/confusion so I'm not sure if just R&S spelling will work out the kinks or if we should also add a phonics workbook and not sure how to figure out where is he grade level reading wise to know which grade of readers to place him in. I did find this page and this page
I know R&S is Bible Story readers and yet CLE's readers look like good character builing stories that I know DS would also benefit from.
again decisions decisions
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Charlotte Mason style Home Education Journey with One Dear Son who is praying to be a big brother and soon!
"He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a
joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD."-Psalm 113:9
"And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children." Isaiah 54:13
"I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk
in truth." --III John verse 4
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
---Proverbs 4:7
And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.
--I Samuel 2:21
Praise be to YHVH who is weekly bringing those who hunger and thirst for the whole WORD,
not just what the church says is important....did you know the first century and then some
Believers knew that accepting the Messiah meant being grafted in to the Hebrew faith?
They didn't want to be called gentiles. Paul was always trying to show the physical and
non-physical Jews that they were all Jews spiritually. He many times said the law is not
void and I know those of you out there who say you are saved live by the 10 commandments and
of course the summary of Messiah's own words to love YHVH and then our neighbor....both just
ways of summing up all of Torah which really just expounds on the TEN. It wasn't until
those in authority started saying any caught Judaizing will be put to death that we stopped
observing the true Sabbath and stopped keeping the Feasts and started saying things like the
NLT says in Ephesians 2:15 that the Jewish law/system has been done away with...that's misleading.
The only thing done away with was the animal sacrifice needed to cover sins. Yeshua doesn't just
cover them, HE forgives them. What a truly AWESOME YHVH we serve!!! I pray everyone's ears and
eyes would be opened to desire to know and seek out the whole TRUTH and not just blindly follow
church leaders.
Praise Report:
thankful to have a DH and a DS. my guys!!
Back when I watched my cousins 4th child- Roger - I didn't think I was all that nice to him. But he's seen my and DS's picture at Nanna's and he says "that boy would not share his toys and his mommy told him that is not nice. I like his mommy she was very nice to me" :smile:
Prayer:
Unsaved loved ones to find/or to turn back to Yeshua. For Yeshua to reveal to them
the truth of Hebrew Roots so we can be in one accord. See I Corinthians 1:10
and if it's not too much to ask...I've had to endure hearing about several pregnancy announcements and birth announcements recently. I feel like I am dying inside. The pain is enormous. I really just want more children and HIS Word says they are the best type of physical blessing. I am not asking for riches or material things. I know all HE has to do is think/speak my body into being a "baby making machine" and it would be done. Praying for a miracle.
Names I have Dibs On
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Nathan James
Gracie Kathryn
Joseph Michael
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