Comments for Mommy Brain http://carrie.homeschooljournal.net Random thoughts about motherhood, faith, homeschooling, books... Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:32:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Comment on The Book Thief by Ten Boom http://carrie.homeschooljournal.net/2007/12/20/1359/comment-page-1/#comment-28380 Ten Boom Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:32:54 +0000 http://carrie.homeschooljournal.net/2007/12/20/1359/#comment-28380 The Book Thief seems a good book, I'll add it to my list as well. The Book Thief seems a good book, I’ll add it to my list as well.

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]]> Comment on Kristin Lavransdatter III: The Cross by Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset | Semicolon http://carrie.homeschooljournal.net/2008/07/19/kristin-lavransdatter-iii-the-cross/comment-page-1/#comment-28378 Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset | Semicolon Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:37:56 +0000 http://carrie.homeschooljournal.net/2008/07/19/kristin-lavransdatter-iii-the-cross/#comment-28378 [...] Carrie at Mommy Brain: “While reading Kristin’s story, I learned so much about the religious customs of the day, about the way government and legal matters were handled, about the day to day life of a woman on an estate, about how children were raised, about how the plague devastated complete towns.” [...] [...] Carrie at Mommy Brain: “While reading Kristin’s story, I learned so much about the religious customs of the day, about the way government and legal matters were handled, about the day to day life of a woman on an estate, about how children were raised, about how the plague devastated complete towns.” [...]

]]> Comment on Curriculum Review: Shurley English by carrie http://carrie.homeschooljournal.net/2009/04/07/curriculum-review-shurley-english/comment-page-1/#comment-28377 carrie Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:59:55 +0000 http://carrie.homeschooljournal.net/2009/04/07/curriculum-review-shurley-english/#comment-28377 Andrea - I'm sorry you're not enjoying it! I wrote this review a couple of years ago, and we since got tired of Shurley English. I tried putting my own program together this year - a combination of Learning Language Arts Through Literature and a Stack the Deck writing program. It worked okay, but was a lot of work. I'm going to try something different next year, so we'll see - but this is hard subject to find a good curriculum for, I think! Andrea – I’m sorry you’re not enjoying it! I wrote this review a couple of years ago, and we since got tired of Shurley English. I tried putting my own program together this year – a combination of Learning Language Arts Through Literature and a Stack the Deck writing program. It worked okay, but was a lot of work. I’m going to try something different next year, so we’ll see – but this is hard subject to find a good curriculum for, I think!

]]> Comment on Curriculum Review: Shurley English by Andrea http://carrie.homeschooljournal.net/2009/04/07/curriculum-review-shurley-english/comment-page-1/#comment-28376 Andrea Tue, 15 Mar 2011 05:24:44 +0000 http://carrie.homeschooljournal.net/2009/04/07/curriculum-review-shurley-english/#comment-28376 I am into the 4th chapter of 3rd grade Shurley English with my son and I have to say that I am not loving it at all. The lessons take way too long. I have had to break more than one lesson up over the course of two days. I feel like it is going to take us f-o-r-e-v-e-r to get through the book. The book requires a lot of reading on my part. I find this to be very annoying and time consuming. I am not just an English teacher. I have 5 other subjects I have to get through and 3 other children I am attending. I am homeschooling more than one child and I don't have the luxury of dividing the labor of teaching. I tried the Well-Trained Mind book for grades 1 and 2 and I completely agree that it is boring. That's why I switched to Shurley. But I am not enjoying it at all! Maybe English just isn't my thing! I am into the 4th chapter of 3rd grade Shurley English with my son and I have to say that I am not loving it at all. The lessons take way too long. I have had to break more than one lesson up over the course of two days. I feel like it is going to take us f-o-r-e-v-e-r to get through the book.

The book requires a lot of reading on my part. I find this to be very annoying and time consuming. I am not just an English teacher. I have 5 other subjects I have to get through and 3 other children I am attending. I am homeschooling more than one child and I don’t have the luxury of dividing the labor of teaching.

I tried the Well-Trained Mind book for grades 1 and 2 and I completely agree that it is boring. That’s why I switched to Shurley. But I am not enjoying it at all! Maybe English just isn’t my thing!

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