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Hi. I'm Amanda...a happy wife and mom to three awesome guys. We've lived here in Fort Collins for more than 20 years and are proud to call it home. Before moving to CO, I worked at a city attorney's office, making use of my law and Master's degrees from Duke. After settling in Fort Collins, I homeschooled my three (now teenage and older) sons and was delighted to experience music classes, soccer, karate, swim team, archery, Science Olympiad, First Lego League, parkour, and climbing (not all at the same time!). From 2005-10, I was also a contributing editor for a national scrapbooking magazine, authoring a book and a couple of monthly columns. From 2009-10, I founded and ran the Good Grief Blog. I enjoy learning new things, spending time with my family, volunteering with The Matthews House, traveling and indoor rock climbing.

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DateWednesday, May 23, 2012 at 07:24PM

Just quickly (and because I can't figure out how to just email her directly), Carrie left this comment recently with a question:

Hi--I always enjoy your blog. I am knew to homeschooling (almost completed year one!) and have gotten lots of good ideas and advice browsing through your homeschool archives. I have a 10 year old and am using the Real Science 4 Kids books, also. I read in one of your old posts that you have used their KOG (or is it KROG?) workbooks along with your curriculum. My question is, how do you like the additional book? and, how do you work it into your curriculum? I am debating this purchase for next year's curriculum and just wanted another mom's opinion. Thanks

May 23, 2012 | carrieH
So. Real Science 4 Kids. Yes, I did use the language KOG workbooks for Biology, Chemistry and Physics (Level 1). I feel like they did add something to our curriculum but, to be honest, don't think I made the most use of them. Each book was broken into 10 lessons just like the texts...each lesson featured a list of words to accompany that text lesson. We would read the list and discuss the common stem. That was it. In hindsight, I could have made more of that and had my boys write out sentences using the new vocabulary words. Does that help? If you'd like to chat more specifically, shoot me an email, okay? ;) Thanks!
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