What do you use for Logic and Keyboarding?

[mcilvoy6]

This is my first year to homeschool and will have a 8th and 9th grader next year.

I'm trying to put together next year's schedule and was wondering if you could give me any recommendations for Logic and Keyboarding?

Is Logic a full year? What about Keyboarding?

Any specifics on what you're using would be terrific.

Thanks!

[laughing lioness]

We have used Traditional Logic I & II (word based) as well as Intro and Intermediate Logic (symbolic logic). We've also used Fallacy Detectives and lots of Thinking Skills workbooks before we used those texts. I'm adding in additional story problems for my younger kids.
For Keyboarding we used a cheapo scholastic program.

[Kareni]

I can't speak to Logic as that is a subject that we never did at the high school level. As regards keyboarding, we used a Mavis Beacon program. My daughter used this in 7th grade; I'd be reluctant to give any high school credit for it even though I did get credit for typing back in the dark ages!

Regards,
Kareni

[Brindee]

Way back when, we did Typing Teacher, Deluxe. It was fun for the kids! But, they got so used to the keyboard that they went on from there, and I haven't used any program for them for a long time. If your kids already do well on the keyboard, then you don't HAVE to do keyboarding.

Logic is something we came into late. There are many different possibilities for logic. What would work best depends on how much, if any, logic they've already had. My dd didn't really have much logic (some Mind Benders and Red Herring--which are other possibilities, btw), so I sarted her in a series of 3 books by Prufrock Press. I had her work through all three books, just to get in the swing of things. Next year she'll be doing Fallacy Detective.

http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?SKU=875 (http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?SKU=875)

http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Benders-A1-Anita-Harnadek/dp/0894550179

http://www.amazon.com/Case-Red-Herrings-A1-Book/dp/089455462X/ref=pd_sim_b_5

http://www.amazon.com/Fallacy-Detective-Thirty-Six-Recognize-Reasoning/dp/0974531502


Those are for getting started. If they have logic skills already there are many others....

[Cornflower]

Abeka has a good keyboarding course. The course is one semester and you can take 1/2 credit for it.

Cornflower