Letters from Egypt

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  • January 5, 2012 at 7:40 pm
    sigkapoli
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    My children are positively bored by this book.  I don’t know if it’s the language, or just the letters in general.  I’m considering dropping it & finding something else to read in it’s place.  If they aren’t enjoying the book, should I be forcing it on them?  They are 10, 8, 6.  My son read part of it alone before we started using it as a family resource.

    January 5, 2012 at 8:31 pm
    artcmomto3
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    I would drop it.  You don’t want to stifle their love for learning.  As Sonya says, “Teach the child, not the curriculum.”  If something isn’t working for your family let it go and find something else.  That is one of the beauties of homeschooling.  I am only teaching a first grader, so I decided to skip it altogether.  You might want to find something else at least for your 10 y/o.

    Alicia

    January 5, 2012 at 9:29 pm
    MelissaB
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    Mine are too.  I’m trying to stay positive about it, but they are bored to tears with it thus far.  I find it really difficult to read outloud bacause the author’s sentences are soooo long and almost run-on-ish.  I was thinking the other day I need to try to find something different.  I am going to snoop around the internet and library to see if I can find something else or something to add to.  I hate to abandon a book, especially if it will get better.  It is very informative of how things where, but the writing is just hard for me to read.  I stop about every page and discuss because I want to make sure they are getting it.  Mine children 14, 11, 9, & 7.

    January 5, 2012 at 9:54 pm
    AngieG
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    My 10-year-olds are hangin’ in there with it, but it has not been our favorite.  We are getting some good info on the customs and culture, and I do appreciate the author’s love for the Bible that is sprinkled in the writing.

    It would be nice to find a book that is more fun while still informative! 🙂

    January 5, 2012 at 10:07 pm
    houseofchaos
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    We’ve used this one instead for the younger crew:

    http://www.clp.org/search/results?query=sojourn+in+africa&x=0&y=0

    January 5, 2012 at 11:09 pm
    sheraz
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    My oldest are 11 and 10.  They are allowed to draw a picture of what we are reading or have read while I am reading it outloud.  It seems to help them focus.  At first I was thinking that we might have to find another book, but the drawing has helped.  We started with the gardens, then moved to the buildings, and then they started drawing what the people looked like.

    I am sometimes tempted to switch Jack’s Insects…just because the chapters are so long and the insects are always indignant and onery.  More because I get tired of reading it than the girls.  Again, we look up pictures of the insect we are reading about and draw while I read.  I don’t do that with every book, but these two have such long chapters. lol

    I think that if something like that doesn’t help, you should definitely switch.  =)

    January 6, 2012 at 4:36 am
    chocodog
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    I agree switch. My kids on their own found Geronimo Stilton. A mouse that is like Sherlock Holmes and travels the globe. He frequents Africa. I must say They learned alot from that little mouse. We were able to apply it to other lessons just because he read it. He picked up the book at the library for his free read and it ended up bringing him into the world we were studying. We have even learned our Japanese numbers because of that little mouse. It has alot of informational facts on the pages in the side notes that keep the kids intreged. Maybe he could pick one up and it will drawl him in.  Just a suggestion on how it helped us draw the facts closer to home and make it more interesting. 🙂

    January 6, 2012 at 6:33 am
    Wings2fly
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    Can you break it down into smaller readings, for more days?  There is also an Egyptian coloring book by Dover and a dot to dot Egypt my kids liked.  The Imagination Station books have one on Egypt, #7 that your ages 6 and 8 might like to read themselves.

    January 6, 2012 at 3:33 pm
    sigkapoli
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    Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who replied!!!!  I personally am enjoying the book, but their lack of interest & talking while I’m reading reached a breaking point yesterday!  I let them doodle while I read because that helped me stay focused as a child, but I think I’m going to have them draw what we’re reading, while we’re reading it!  If that doesn’t work I’m off to find something a little more interesting.  It’s not really a iiving book if they aren’t getting anything out of it!  

    Thanks again!  I knew posting here would be worth it!

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