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Teaching Textbooks 3.0 Review (Math 4, Algebra 1 and Geometry)

July 28, 2019 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

Educational Games for 2-8 Year Olds

I received three Teaching Textbooks 3.0 subscriptions for my children. However, all opinions are 100% my own and were not changed because I received review copies. 

 

Math can be a four letter word of dread in many homeschool family’s especially if you have more then one child to teach. I feel that math is an important subject that everyone needs a good handle on in order to succeed at life. Whether your child plans to attend college or complete a trade school being able to be sure their paycheck isn’t cheated or balancing a checkbook in order to pay bills is important.

Teaching Textbook Placement Tests

If you are new to homeschooling your child or your child is behind in math then you may not know which grade level aka Teaching Textbooks YEAR to begin with. Their website has you covered with placement tests that you can print off and allow your child to take.  With Eldest and Princess I opted to just enroll them in the next level Math that they would need for high school credit. Eldest is taking Algebra 1 while Princess is taking Geometry.

Teaching Textbooks Math 4 placement test

I wasn’t quite sure what Big Red would need so I gave him a placement test. I looked over Math 3 and realized it would be too easy for him. I then printed off the Math 4 placement test and set him to task to complete it. Once he completed the Math 4 placement test and it was scored by Princess we determined that Math 4 was the correct year for him.

You can also just jump right in with the Teaching Textbooks 3.0 Free Trial which includes the first 15 lessons for as many levels as you want to try. This allows your family to get a feel for the curriculum BEFORE committing to it!

Advantages of Teaching Textbooks 3.0

I want to share a few advantages that we have found so far using Teaching Textbooks for this school year.

  1. Your child can login and work on the lesson online.
  2. You can print off lessons to work on at a table or on a clipboard while on the go.
  3. A parent can log in and edit or delete an answer allowing an incorrectly typed answer to be corrected or to give the child a chance to rework a problem.

Since we have a varied schedule with participation in various homeschool groups and family activities it is important to be able to print lessons to take with us and work on them in the car. We also want our children to succeed and learn their math concepts well which means getting each lesson or test above 80%. Grades are NOT the emphasis in our homeschool but we do want our children to have good grades for insurance discounts as the teens drive and for college admissions.

 

Each lessons is structured in the same way with a lecture, practice problems and then the regular problems.

Disadvantages of Teaching Textbooks

No final grade for the year which many family’s could use to help create their child’s report card or transcript. YES, I know that I can add up all the grades and divide and get the percentage myself but having that column added would be a great bonus.

Not realizing that there’s definitions and proofs at the very end of the textbook in the Appendix! My daughter struggled with proofs for over 80% of the year writing out each proof in a notebook.

 

 

Things that Teaching Textbooks Have Improved

Since late Fall 2019 we have noticed some improvements worth mentioning. Less days “offline” or website unavailable then in the beginning and usually only slow on Monday mornings.

Gradebook Updated

TT 3.0 Gradebook updatesWhen you go into your students gradebook you can now quickly see which lessons are complete and which are not. If a student scores low on a lesson and you delete problems for them to correct it’s much easier to see this. If a lesson does not have a C for Complete then it means the Lesson still has problems to complete.

 

 

 Few Reminders about Teaching Textbooks

  • Teaching Textbooks offers a FREE Trial of the first 15 Lessons of any and all of their levels! This is how I started–I saw the quality for myself and was really impressed! If you’re at all curious about TT, I highly encourage you to give the free trial a try! (They will not take any payment information from you for the free trial!)
  • Teaching Textbooks offers a Large Family Discount (12 month subscription for 4-8 students is $199.08)
  • Teaching Textbooks begins at approximately 3rd Grade (Math 3) and goes through high school (Pre-Calculus).

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Mystery of History Volume 2 Resources

July 23, 2019 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

We will be using Mystery of History Volume 2 this next school year and wanted to share resources that we have found along the way. To make homeschooling less stressful I use the same Science and History for all four of my children. This year we will have grades Kindergarten, Fourth, Tenth and Eleventh. I will try to share resources for all ages that we might be using this year.

 

I used a very nice quarterly chart in order to keep track of the lessons as well as add in videos, novels and Scripture reading. I could not find a similar chart for MOH Volume 2 so I created my own. I will share the rough version with you in Word form so that you can edit it. I have added these to Google Drive so that you can access them. Please be sure to download a copy of them BEFORE editing.

Barb from Harmony Fine Arts offers free downloads and paid resources but gives a nice list of artists and composers to study during the Medieval and Renaissance time period. We will be using the list of composers to add some fun for the elementary brothers while the high school students will complete their Music Appreciation course. If you only want a short unit study then you can use the Renaissance Art Mini Unit.

Grade 6 Medieval and Renaissance Art and Music Appreciation from Harmony Fine Arts

middle ages pin

Middle Ages Unit Studies, Notebooking and Lapbook pages from Homeschool Share

Mystery of History Volume 2 Quarter 1 AD 29-476

Valentine’s Day Unit Study from The Homeschool Mom

The St. Patrick’s Day Shillelagh Unit Study from Homeschool Share

 

Mystery of History Volume II Quarter 1 Schedule with Bible Scripture Reading

Mystery of History Volume 2 Quarter 2 AD 500-871

 

Knights and Armor Coloring Book OR Life in a Medieval Castle and Village OR Vikings Coloring Book from Dover

Paper dolls with Medieval and Viking Clothes from Practical Pages

Mystery of History Volume II Quarter 2 Schedule with Bible Scripture Reading

 

Mystery of History Volume 2 Quarter 3 AD 874-1192

Robin Hood Unit Study and Lapbook from Homeschool Share

Mystery of History Volume II Quarter 3 Schedule with Bible Scripture Reading

Mystery of History Volume 2 Quarter 4 AD 1210-1456

Mystery of History Volume II Quarter 4 Schedule with Bible Scripture Reading

 

 

 

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Observing Pollinators #NatureBookClub #NatureStudy

July 20, 2019 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

I love seeing bright flowers in the Summer and have loved growing Purple Coneflowers to feed pollinators. Usually bees are the first to come to mind when I hear the word pollinators BUT there are many others. If you haven’t guessed this month’s Nature Book Club theme is pollinators!

We have been learning a lot about bees and pollinators as part of our Botany class. We had planned to visit another homeschool family that have a son who is a beekeeper but the weather and our schedule have not cooperated so far. We want to continue to go on Botany Field Trips and share our experiences when we can.

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Technology Loving Unschooling Homeschooling Method {Real Homeschooling for Real Families}

July 1, 2019 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

Today’s Real Homeschooling for Real Families post is written by Cyndie who is a local mom. She is writing about using technology to unschool her daughter.

Real Homeschool Technology Loving Unschooling

UN-School mom here! I have been asked to explain a sample day to day of how my daughter (7) learns through the unschooling method. I’ll just leave the wiki link here so you can read what unschooling is. You can also check out books about unschooling from Amazon.

We’re big on family time so we do official school work around my husbands work schedule. He works 2nd shift 4 days a week. On those days we get up around noon. (yes, you read that right) My seven year old hops onto the Xbox and games with her friends for about an hour while I gather my thoughts. We check the weather radar together and plan what we want to do for the rest of the day.

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Eclectic High School Homeschool: Preparing Your Teen for Life {Real Homeschooling for Real Families}

June 24, 2019 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

Today’s Real Homeschooling for Real Families post is written by Pat from Breakthrough Homeschooling. She is writing about using an Eclectic Style for High School.

Real Homeschool eclectic

When we first began homeschooling, I think it would be fair to say that that prevalent approach to homeschooling high school was actuality preparation for college. Most homeschool moms replicated their own high school education, whether or not it was intentional, and that certainly was the context when we were homeschooling our two older kiddos, now 31 and 29. But I’d like to suggest an alternate approach to homeschooling high school today, without (I hope) sounding too melodramatic: preparation for life.

As mentioned, many years ago, college attendance was the assumed next step after teenagers completed high school. Since then, however, our country and culture have been hit with recessions, skyrocketing college costs, unprecedented pile-ups of student loan debt, and a staggering rate of un- or under-employed college grads. Add to this environment the unparalleled growth of technology-based businesses, many of which do not require or even need a college degree, and a business landscape that invites and encourages entrepreneurship. Oh, and don’t forget the useful application of a gap year…

The end result is that today’s high school students have a plethora of opportunities and possibilities, which actually makes our job as home educators a bit more complex than “just” preparing for college.

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Filed Under: Homeschool Resources, Homeschooled Through High School, Homeschooling, Real Homeschooling for Real Families Tagged With: high school

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