Today (Tuesday the 23rd) we’re working on updating the quietube links on the site. If you have one that’s not working, you can change the 6 to a 7 in the address bar or copy out the youtube address from the address bar and just use the video directly on youtube..
EP Seventh Reader
The final color of the rainbow is ready. Our violet EP Seventh Reader is in print. This is the final book in our EP Reader Series which has put our reading courses into book form. Like the other readers the assignment directions and the readings have been included.
Online vocabulary activities have been replaced with matching and multiple choice activities found in the book. The students are instructed to write their answers on a separate piece of paper. We had a family produce workbooks for us where you can do these vocabulary activities and more.
Where there were online lessons, I created my own versions in the book so that your student won’t be missing out on any learning.
There is one big difference with this last reader. There are times in the first 21 days where part of the assignment must be done online. You can see an example below. It was mostly because I couldn’t write my own summary and analysis for Idylls of the King by Tennyson. They will read that online and then the poem portions are in the book.
These are mega books, each well over 500 pages. You can see examples from the book below. I don’t have my copy yet to take pictures. These are from my Word document.
Ready to buy? Days 1-90 Days 91-180
Learn more about the workbook.
Is There Joy in Your Home?
[I wrote this post on Facebook after reading the message I quote at the beginning.]
“12 days into our new school year with Easy Peasy and we are ALL enjoying homeschooling more than we have in YEARS. We never had time for the extras or even free time before. We spent so much time bogged down in JUST the basics with very little to show for it. Now, we not only get to everything, but even in just two weeks I see joy and interest and the ever famed FREE time returning! We have tried all the “best” and most expensive curriculums… and it turns out the very best was right in front of us… and for the very best price of all!”
When I started EP, I wanted to help those struggling financially to be able to continue homeschooling, but I love hearing how EP has brought joy into homes. Too many people define successful homeschooling as children getting into top schools or winning top scholarships. I define successful homeschooling as learning and growing together and enjoying the experience.
I read more and more about the importance of passion in education, in life, in work, even in college admissions and scholarships. If kids are bogged down and bored, there is no passion. It’s not that my kids can’t wait to do their school each day (some things they really enjoy, some things they just do because they have to), but they each have their own passions. EP gives them a great foundation of education, and frees them to spend time on their passions (and I even get to see them put to use some of those foundational lessons from school).
How often do we hear of college students who keep switching majors because they don’t know what they want to do? It’s the same with twenty somethings who are still trying to figure out who they are. Homeschool kids can come out of homeschool already having spent countless hours getting better and better at what they love to do and showing that passion will make them stand out from all the rest.
So maybe I want to say, when you homeschool, don’t try to fit the mold, whatever mold you are looking at and trying to be like. Every single family is different. Every single kid is different. Don’t try to squeeze your kids, or yourself, into a mold that wasn’t designed for you. Be you. Let your kids be themselves, and enjoy the opportunity to live and learn and grow together in your homeschool.
EP Sixth Reader is Available
The next volume of the EP Reader Series is ready, just one to go. These books contain the Reading 6 course. Like the others it has the 180 days assignments with all of the readings, lessons and activities included right in the book. Answers are found in the back of the book.
Because of copyright issues, I have to sometimes switch up assignments. The satire assignments have stayed, but I had to find new images for the book. (The pictures are from my Word document. Because I live overseas, I haven’t gotten my copy of the sixth reader yet to take pictures of the actual book!)
The readers are again split in two. The first book is the assignments, lessons, activities and readings for Days 1-90 of the level 6 reading course. That book is 480 pages. The second book is all that for Days 91-180 and is 344 pages long. The cover is indigo, the next color of the rainbow.
EP Fifth Reader Is Available
The next set of readers is available. Just like the others you’ll find the 180 days of assignments along with all of the readings. Vocabulary activities have been recreated in the book. Other times they are prompted to review their vocabulary. If you want extra vocabulary activities (or to be able to do them on paper), you can order the vocabulary workbook.
If you are just ordering the second half, consider getting the vocabulary workbook along with the reader IF you don’t want to use the online review games. Most, if not all, vocabulary activities are in the first half and in the second half they are told to review their words.
Book Stats:
color: cover blue (next color in the rainbow); interior is black and white
size: 7.5 by 9.25 inches
number of pages: first half is 349; second half is 468
font: Times New Roman 11 (mostly)