tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004437564551057840.post3214803707091461709..comments2018-04-19T22:30:03.485-05:00Comments on Life with 9ndHouse!: The Robinson Curriculum9ndhouse- Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03354836851346081701noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004437564551057840.post-60048204322124022742018-03-12T16:47:39.583-05:002018-03-12T16:47:39.583-05:00Yes it is all fairly easy. After you load/install ...Yes it is all fairly easy. After you load/install the first CD onto your computer you can look at the book list anytime. When you want to view the book on your computer or print it off you insert the CD number indicated and click on the tabs (from their program, not the pop up window from the computer). I have downloaded a (free online)FinePrint program onto my computer which makes printing books even easier.I purchased a Brother printer from an office supply store, just a simple black and white. I purchase new drums for it at abcink.com. I print the book all at one time and usually staple with a heavy duty stapler in full sheet size or half page size. I have just 3 hole punched them and placed in a binder before.You can print just one page if needed, such as another title page on card stock for a cover. Any questions or help needed is available on the website or Facebook. 😀 Also, I frequent used book stores and have found many of the books. Hope this helps! 😀9ndhouse- Katiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03354836851346081701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004437564551057840.post-6094761350767011022018-03-12T15:21:48.206-05:002018-03-12T15:21:48.206-05:00Are the books easy to find and print off of the cd...Are the books easy to find and print off of the cds? Or is there a lot of searching for what you need and printing one page at a time?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004437564551057840.post-18842216626708946712016-10-19T02:57:51.078-05:002016-10-19T02:57:51.078-05:00Hello! Sure!, we live on a farm and have many acti...Hello! Sure!, we live on a farm and have many activities that can be used for animal science. They read many books that go toward this as well. I have Abeka science books and use them as a group class/course with oral reading and discussion. For Biology I added the Abeka Biology student reader to their (my high schoolers) reading list, then group time together with all the kids a couple times a week. Labs and dissection specimens were ordered online. This covered enough hrs for biology. Several of the RC books can be recorded for science (do an online search for RC booklist by grade and subject), and books 200 through 208 are science textbooks (11th/12th gr. level). This covered what I labeled General Science. So for my two graduates, their transcripts had Animal Science, Biology w/ labs, and General Science as the 3 required science credits and had 1 credit applied to each one. I have a 9th grader who is 15, she has really enjoyed schoolhouseteachers.com and is taking the Chemistry course online. This is new for us this year, a tool added as an option if they want to use it. She really seems to enjoy the membership. I have looked the course over and will give her credit on her transcript for this course. Basically what I have done and see many other families doing as well is picking the subjects they are interested in and using the RC books that fit in that subject plus any other books they add to it to get the number of hours required for a credit. "Last I checked" for my state, 120 hrs of instruction equals 1 credit. Suggesting 150 to 180 hrs for a Lab Science. Usually a full credit is given to a full year course, a single semester would generally get .5 credit. Hope this helps! :-) 9ndhouse- Katiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03354836851346081701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004437564551057840.post-59429530142649675232016-10-12T18:05:42.275-05:002016-10-12T18:05:42.275-05:00Can you tell me what your high schoolers did for s...Can you tell me what your high schoolers did for science and what you put on their transcripts?Stephanienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004437564551057840.post-25651892875205402632016-10-12T18:04:04.920-05:002016-10-12T18:04:04.920-05:00Can you tell me what your highshoolers did for sci...Can you tell me what your highshoolers did for science and what you put on their transcript?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14300932434236682652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004437564551057840.post-45876250559691757712016-09-23T10:56:23.706-05:002016-09-23T10:56:23.706-05:00Thank you for sharing how your homeschooling is go...Thank you for sharing how your homeschooling is going and the updates!<br />I recently found the Robinson Curriculum and we are going to give it a try<br />this year. We started with Charlotte Mason method but I needed something where<br />the children could be more self sufficient.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004437564551057840.post-22427182940691333692014-09-29T13:38:43.149-05:002014-09-29T13:38:43.149-05:00I've been homeschooling my kids for 5 years, n...I've been homeschooling my kids for 5 years, now (oldest is 10) and just switched to the RC last November. Somehow or other, I still periodically get worried that my kids aren't learning enough and that if I wound up having to put them in public school they'd be so far behind they'd have to do remedial education, kwim? What I'm wondering is how your kids are doing academically using RC. Are they learning everything they need to know? Do you add things to RC? It doesn't help my insecurities that my older daughter is reading delayed and is probably academically behind because of this (we think she may be dyslexic, but she hasn't been tested). I'm on the Facebook RC group, but I don't like posting my insecurities about our homeschooling on there.Jolinar of Malkshurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12627696771120699563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004437564551057840.post-83456836967061179672008-09-02T21:11:00.000-05:002008-09-02T21:11:00.000-05:00Thank you so much for praying for our little girl....Thank you so much for praying for our little girl...you've got such an adorable family, how do you do it with 7 children? I think 1 is hard enough! I'm in awe!Brad and Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12928515504738939887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004437564551057840.post-38428850052046608842008-09-01T04:20:00.000-05:002008-09-01T04:20:00.000-05:00Hey Life with 9nd House! Thanks for your comment ...Hey Life with 9nd House! Thanks for your comment on my blog the other day....I never imagined there were actually people out there reading it!!!! HaHA....Well, have a great Labor Day and God Bless!crazy4chaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17750011636194778168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004437564551057840.post-10301471491298966252008-08-31T02:10:00.000-05:002008-08-31T02:10:00.000-05:00Thank you for your comment and your prayers!Thank you for your comment and your prayers!Nikkihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08102514391166980712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004437564551057840.post-2589978154490651992008-08-28T05:05:00.000-05:002008-08-28T05:05:00.000-05:00LaPaz is a great site to learn about unschooling a...LaPaz is a great site to learn about unschooling and montessori, especially since you have older kids. The rest of the montessori blogs I visit focus on kids around 2-3 years old. That's my best resource for ideas - visiting a lot of other blogs.<BR/><BR/>We really are just experimenting with a lot of different things lately. I'll do a post at Walk Beside Me on what I've tried and learned so far.Evensporhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17005685575858296425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004437564551057840.post-55094676934161082342008-08-26T13:00:00.000-05:002008-08-26T13:00:00.000-05:00Thank you Evenspor! I really have to say that I ha...Thank you Evenspor! I really have to say that I have been studying your school site (sporschool.blogsite.com) for several weeks now. I have never heard of Montessori and practically nothing about Charlotte Mason. I'm still not sure what it is all about but I am really getting excited, I feel I'm getting closer to how we were meant to be learning. In your post- Pulling Things Together...again, you wrote, "Does anyone else feel occasionally like they are floundering around trying to find the perfect fit in their preschool/homeschool?" I say YES,YES!! I had never heard of unschooling until last winter. I just knew that after a very long day of trying to get my kids to "conform" to the curriculum, I HAD to find something else. I purchased the Homeschooling Ideas tape from the No Greater Joy website and cried. I'm the bully mentioned there. We changed what we were doing right then, and the last half of school was much better last year. So, I am completly new to a lot of the things you seem to be getting the hang of, thanks for all the great posts and info on your school blog. I jumped over to the Lapaz family's site from yours and I loved it!! Most of my kids still love to sit down and do some worksheets and book lessons, maybe to have something in their portfolios required by the State! Well anyway, I just wanted to say thanks to you! I felt rather inadequate posting on curriculum, when I am just getting my feet wet on "unschooling"! I do think RC will help us a lot, adding in some other unit studies and hands on style learning and whatever. We will *start* school next tues. and we are all looking forward to it!! Thank you!! I would love to read more on the methods and curriculum you use. :-)9ndhouse- Katiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03354836851346081701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9004437564551057840.post-61686221491775359252008-08-26T08:42:00.000-05:002008-08-26T08:42:00.000-05:00Thanks. I actually did read the website. I was jus...Thanks. I actually did read the website. I was just looking for a review - how you like it, how lon you've been using it, why you picked it, that kind of thing. I think yo answered most of my questions. :)Evensporhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17005685575858296425noreply@blogger.com