Dawn K Homeschool

I just wanted to post the boys' diagramming from yesterday because they did such a great job!

Well, okay, we still have to listen to our Latin chants, and the boys have to correct their math problems. Today was more challenging because the boys also had piano lessons. I thought I would share a little more about how our day goes. Their day starts with some time to play followed by eating breakfast while completing their independent work. I'll share our resources for this. Independent Work 1. Logic Daily, they complete one page from this book: MindWare Grid Perplexors: Level A . To mix things up a bit, I'll alternate with Logic Liftoff every other week.    2. Daily Grams This is one program I have used since practically the beginning. It is one of my most often recommended resources. Each lesson consists of six parts; the first two sentences always involve correcting capitalization and punctuation. The last is always a lesson in sentence combining. The other three vary, presenting the student with practice in analogies, parts of speech, letter writing, dict...

This is such a great addition to one's homeschooling library!  Nathan in particular begs to read this aloud to us -- using different voices for the various characters.  The book really does help understand the parts of speech that children are expected to learn.  You can view the entire book online for free here or you can buy it very inexpensively here in paperback or wait until September to order the hardback here .

Someone posted this on a homeschooling forum a while back, and I just had to mention it. You can read it (and print it) from here: Grammar-Land or Grammar in Fun for the Children of Schoolroom-Shire by M. L. Nesbitt (copyright 1878). http://books.google.com/books?id=iXgSAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=0_0#PPP11,M1 Of course, Ruth Heller's books are also nice for this: