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    Ft. Lauderdale in January - what to wear?

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    I'll be attending a conference in FL next week - the weather is supposed to be in the mid-70's.

     

    It's freezing with snow on the ground in the Chicago suburbs - remind me what one wears when it's 73 degrees please :tongue_smilie:

     

    Specific questions - capris and sandals or long pants with closed shoes?

    Also - are white pants OK in FL in January? In the Midwest, we generally wear white in the late spring and summer, but not during the winter months.

    Seeking godly parenting wisdom!!!!

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    I think the saving grace is that he scratched heart shapes. ;)

     

    Honestly, while I certainly see the disobedience, and the hurt he caused you, I think that, over time, those scratches will become dear symbols to you.

     

    They grow up, you see! One day you will be an old woman, rocking in that chair, and you will rub your hands over those faded scratches, and remember the little boy he was and is no more.

     

    Think how dear the scars on Jesus' hands became--marks of his love for us. Your little boy may have made the marks out of curiousity or disobedience, but you can redeem them by thinking of them as marks of his boyhood.

     

    I would forgive him and love him up.

     

     

     

    Wise advice.

     

    You will also find wise advice on the Calm Christian Parenting site in my signature line :)

    Please Post WWS assignments here!

    in K-8 Writing Workshop

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    Tom Sawyer WWS 11-1

    Tom Sawyer was miserable because he had to go to school and he wished he were sick. So Tom decided he would pretend his toe was very sore and he began to groan very loudly. He woke up Sid and Sid thought Tom was going to die so he ran off to get Aunt Polly. At first Aunt Polly was worried but then she realized that Tom’s toe was fine. But Aunt Polly did pull out his tooth and he did have to go to school but he was the envy of every one there.

     

     

     

    WWS 11-4 Ivan the Terrible

     

    In 1547 Ivan IV was crowned Tsar of Russia. In 1552 he ordered the construction of St. Basil’s Cathedral to display his power. In the distance, the bright multicolored cathedral, seems to dwarf every thing around it. The seven striped spires reach up toward the sky like spaceships lifting off.

    In 1561 Ivan began what is known as his "reign of terror." At this point Ivan began to suffer from a mental breakdown, in other words he was losing his marbles. He established a secret police to hunt down his political adversaries. They were called oprichnina; they wore black cloaks and carried brooms to represent sweeping clean or cleaning out. He had all his political adversaries murdered. He even attacked one of his own cities, Novgorod, and massacred the people living there. Then in 1581, he killed his own 27 year old son Ivan after they had a disagreement. Ivan IV didn’t like the clothes his son’s wife was wearing and he killed his own son with an iron tipped cane. Then in 1584 Ivan the IV or as he is more comely known today "Ivan the Terrible," died. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     

    WWS 12-1 The Hound of the Baskerville’s

     

    James Mortimer told Sherlock Holmes and Dr. James Watson that Sir Charles worried that the Hound of the Baskerville’s would kill him; in fact, he was obsessed with this fear. Sir Charles was found dead, with no wounds or marks that indicated the cause of his death. All around his body were tracks of a massive hound. As Mortimer described what happened, Holmes questioned him, and he provided information about Sir Charles’ death.

     

     

    　

    　

    　

    　

    Please Post WWS assignments here!

    in K-8 Writing Workshop

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    WWS 6-4 The Sinking of the Titanic

    At 11:40 PM the Titanic collided with an iceberg and the iceberg cut open the starboard side of the ship. After that the ship began to flood, but the officers told the passengers there was no danger. "Oh, no, nothing at all. Just a mere nothing. We just hit an iceberg," said one officer. Five of the separate compartments filled with water and the sixth began to fill. All together the pumps could remove 2,000 tons of water, but for every 2,000 tons the pumps were removing 24,000 tons of water were coming in to the ship. Finally the captain realized the ship was sinking; the shipbuilder told him the ship would sink in 1 1/2 hours.

    Unfortunately the life boats could only carry half of the people onboard. The life boats began to be launched at 1:10 AM; some of the first lifeboats were only 1/4 full. Between 2:05 and 2:20 AM the Titanic sank. Out of 2,222 people who were onboard only 711 people survived.

     

    WWS-9-1

    Jane was constructing a miniature park for poor people. In the park there were little footpaths as wide as your fingernail, beautiful flower beds and dainty little twig benches. On one of these twig benches sat a plasticine man reading a newspaper. There was also a picnic table with all kinds of food on it. Michael was wishing the food was real so he could eat some of it when the man said he could eat whatever he wanted. When Michael tried some of it he found out that the food was real!

    WWS 10 -1 Narration - A Christmas Carol

     

    It was a bitter cold Christmas Eve, and as Scrooge was opening his door, he saw that the door knocker had turned into Jacob Marley’s face. The face was deathly pale, with absolutely no expression on it and luminescent like a decaying lobster in a basement. After this disturbing experience, Scrooge checked his entire house to be sure everything was in its rightful place. He went to his bedroom and double locked his door. While he was warming his hands by the small fire, all the bells in his house began to ring by themselves, and after that he heard a clanking coming from the wine cellar, moving up the stairs, and towards his bedroom.

     

    Please Post WWS assignments here!

    in K-8 Writing Workshop

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    WWS 5-3 A Chronological Narrative of a Past Event

     

    　

    In the eighteenth century smallpox was quite dangerous. If someone got smallpox there was a 50% chance that he would die. There wasn’t any real way to

    avoid smallpox. Some doctors gave their patients light cases of smallpox but every once and awhile a someone would die from one.

     

    In 1749 Edward Jenner was born. As a child, Jenner was inoculated. In 1762 Jenner decided to become a doctor. When Jenner finished his training, he became a doctor in 1773.

     

    Jenner noticed that milkmaids didn’t get smallpox, and he also knew that milkmaids often got cowpox; some people thought people who got cowpox were immune to smallpox. Jenner researched the similarities between smallpox and cowpox. On May 14, 1796 Jenner inoculated 8 year old James Phipps with pus from a cowpox blister. After that, James got a light fever. When James recovered Jenner inoculated James with smallpox and he was immune to it. 23 other people were tested with the vaccine. But oddly enough, Jenner didn’t know why his vaccine worked. When Jenner published his findings, other doctors weren’t sure about the vaccine but it was slowly accepted. In 1804, 12,000 people were vaccinated and deaths from smallpox slowed to 600 people per year.

     

    Description of a Place from Three Points of View　

    　

    It was a brisk fall day and the sky was a clear bright blue. A beautiful mix of red and yellow leaves covered the trees. The leaves were slowly floating to the ground. The leaves on the ground were piling up just waiting to be raked into a heap and jumped into.

    　

    It was a brisk fall day and as I stood by the door of my house, I looked around. The trees in front of me were covered in beautiful red and yellow leaves. The leaves above me were slowly floating to the ground below my feet. The leaves were piling up in the yard, just waiting to be raked into a pile and jumped into.

    　

    I walked out of the door of my house, and through the yard. I looked up, and I saw that the sky above me was a clear bright blue. As I continued my little walk, the wind stirred the beautiful red and yellow leaves above me. The leaves rustled beneath my feet, and seemed to be waiting for me to rake them into a pile and jump into them.

     

     

    WWS users if you're past week 12, please help

    in Logic Stage & Middle Grade Challenges

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    The level of detail in the passages provided for the student to summarize is more difficult than those in other lessons, IMO.

     

    This is his initial attempt - so far, it's less than 200 words, and needs additional details to fulfill the requirements outlined in the rubric. We've moved on to lesson 13, but I'm going to have him work on lesson 12-4 again this week.

    WWS 12-4 Volcanoes

    December 2, 2011

    Volcanoes are normally shaped like mountains or hills, but in the middle of them there is an opening reaching deep into the earth. Deep in the earth below the volcano there is a huge cavern that holds a large amount of molten rock called magma. When more magma is added, or the ground around the cavern shifts, then the magma can be forced up towards the surface through the opening of the volcano in a huge explosion. Once the magma reaches the surface it is called lava and it spreads out like a rolling wave it destroys everything near the volcano. Gas, dust and particles of stone and ash shoot up from the shaft and billow out into the atmosphere like whipped cream flying out of the can.

    Need info reg hsing in Chicago area

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    Barrington is a great area for home schooling, with loads of classes, coops, and support groups (both secular and Christian) within the surrounding area. Depending upon the time of day, and what he's used to, your dh may find that it's a bit of a commute to get to Northbrook (45 minutes or so).

     

    You'll also find lots of options further north (Gurnee, Gray's Lake, Libertyville) if you're looking for sports and activities. There's a large, very active secular group in Evanston. You'll find somewhat less activity in Highland Park and Northbrook. However, we have a nice support group here in Deerfield, with monthly activities sponsored by the local library.

     

    Naperville is a longer commute - I wouldn't want to drive form Naperville to Northbrook every day although you will find other home schooling families there.

     

    There are also a number of resources for Catholic families in the area, if that applies.

     

    Many of the museums offer free admission for home schooling families, and the Lake County Forest Preserves also offer activities for homeschoolers. The homeschooling support groups sponsor field trips as well - honestly - there are so many activities that we only participate in a very small fraction of them.

     

    Feel free to PM me for more info if that would help.

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