Comments for Just Five More Minutes

Comment on All About Spelling: One Year Later by Lynnita

Lynnita — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:35:22 +0000

Erica, that’s good to hear! I hope you’re enjoying AAS, too!

Comment on All About Spelling: One Year Later by Erica

Erica — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:22:44 +0000

that is so cool I use it to

Comment on Homeschooling science frustrations by Lynnita

Lynnita — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:17:43 +0000

Thanks for the Apologia recommendation! I’ll definitely check out your blog and the activities that you did!

Comment on Review: Writing With Ease by Lynnita

Lynnita — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:14:51 +0000

Sheryll, you’re absolutely right — WWE 1 narrations are supposed to be only one sentence. Believe me, I’ve worked and am proud to get most of her narrations down to three sentences! She has so much to say about these passages! (A testament to the quality of the passages chosen, I believe — they really capture her imagination.)

However, my beef with the size of the lines is actually with the copywork sentences, as some of the longer sentences just cannot fit in the allowed space. It hasn’t happened often, but a couple of times I’ve had to choose the shorter copywork selection or else cut out parts of the sentence so that she can fit them into the allotted space.

So WWE 2 doesn’t give us much smaller lines? Hmmm … I really may need to move to our own paper for that, then. Thanks for the heads-up!

Comment on Homeschooling science frustrations by Sheryll

Sheryll — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:06:25 +0000

If you are Christian, I highly recommend Apologia. We are doing Astronomy this year along with the Jr. notebooking journal and loving it. Astronomy is considered one of the easier ones in the series so I thought it was a good place to start with my 7yo and 4yo (the younger tagging along). I’ve blogged about some of our activities. If you are set on following the rotation from WTM, consider the Christian Kids Explore series.

Comment on Review: Writing With Ease by Sheryll

Sheryll — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:58:57 +0000

I think that WWE Level 1 is supposed to just be one sentence for narration, just one thing they remember about the passage. Level 2 introduces 2-3 sentence narration. So in your picture above, one sentence would fit a lot better! I agree the line spacing is too large by the time they finish the year. We’ve just started Level 2 at our house, the lines are only the teeniest bit smaller.

Comment on Homeschooling Schedule, Day 1 by Lynnita

Lynnita — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:23:49 +0000

Thanks so much for your comments, Lyn. You’re right — our first day schedule was a bit ambitious! We’re starting to adapt it to make it fit. I have the “must do” subjects for each day (for us it’s math, reading, and writing), and then rotate others through the week.

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas with your grandkids …

Comment on Homeschooling Schedule, Day 1 by Lyn

Lyn — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 04:11:02 +0000

Hi Lynnita,
My name is Lyn and I came across your blog while hunting for Jesse tree ornaments to make for my grandkids. I am a homeschooling mom of 25 years . I know my response is a little late, but I had to chuckle when looking at your schedule. I am guessing you have figured out by now that you were a bit ambitious. But, you go girl! Aim for academic excellence! It may ease some pressure for you if you realize that it is okay to do writing only two days a week and spelling maybe three. I usually was inflexible about getting math, reading, and social studies every day. Then I would rotate grammar, spelling, handwriting around the week. I tended to only do science about two days a week at that age as well. Hope that is helpful. My advice is worth what you pay for it!

Comment on Review: Draw Write Now by Carla

Carla — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:50:00 +0000

Hi! We love Draw Right Now too. My six year old regularly pulls the books out on his own and fills in one of those Hilroy half ruled composition books. I found your site doing a search for incorporating these books with our homeschool science! We are also homeschooling in Canada Very nice website!

Comment on What? No Math? by Kristen

Kristen — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:43:40 +0000

Love this!! It warms my heart when my girls ask for a school activity.