Pintosrock
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I haven't done this, but I would certainly look into Citizen Science. Our local nature center & park system is looking for volunteers to monitor area ponds/lakes. Something like that would be fun!
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Mine did a trial run of hybrid school this year (4th) and we're pulling her back out at the end of the year. Super excited to do this again!
Summer: Primary Math 5, Kilgallon Sentence Composing for Elementary School, and lots of reading (Already doing this now to supplement Hybrid School, will continue some math/English over the summer)
English: ELTL E, 180 Days of Spelling, lots of reading
Math: Saxon 7/6, Square One (PBS TV show)
Science: Physics for the Grammar Stage (LEGO, K'nex, Snap Circuits galore!)
History: SOTW 4 and all the supplemental reading, one project per chapter
Technology: Scratch
E/C: Ninja Warrior, LEGO Robotics, Spanish, 4H Rocket Club
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Continuing with my Spanish practice, I've finished Las Brujas and have started El gran gigante bonachón (Roald Dahl's The Witches and The BFG). It's starting to get easier to read in a foreign language! Very exciting! My family bought me the first two Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians series in Spanish for my birthday. Though I enjoy Brandon Sanderson, I haven't read that series in English. I peeked at them, and it'll definitely be trickier not having read those in English before tackling in Spanish. My original plan was to read the Cronicles of Narnia in Spanish next, but we'll see what happens...
Kid and I just finished Quark Chronicles: Anatomy and heard about Ernest Devore's passing, so it was very bittersweet.
We're halfway through Inside Out and Back Again, which was pulled from my kid's fifth grade curriculum. I wasn't able to get a clear answer on why... it's about a girl whose family has to leave Vietnam for America during the Vietnam War. Because immigration and other cultures are inappropriate for our American kids? That makes me so mad... we are planning on pulling her out and returning to homeschooling in the fall.
Kid's Book Clubs... just finished Normal, which is a nonfiction account of a kid who has Treacher Collins disease - the same thing that the kid in Wonder has. Second book club is Esperanza Rising, about a Mexican girl who immigrated to America! It's a lot to keep up with two library book clubs, but I feel a strong need to show support for them, given what the school system is doing!
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Two years ago, we got goats. They ate the blackberries and all other thorny weeds to the ground. Yay! Except, I kind of wanted SOME blackberries. So the next spring, I watched the patch. Racing the goats, really. As soon as I saw growth, I dug them up and moved them outside the field. So, transplanted in the spring as soon as they started to grow.
That year, they grew and leafed out, but no berries. (Remember, they were eaten to the ground the year before, so they were producing all new canes.) We have farm animals, so their soil was heavily amended.
This will be the second year. I'm eagerly hoping for berries this summer!
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With that roof, it looks like it could be a gingerbread house!
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In January, I read the Spanish versions of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. I just finished Matilda today. Now I'll start The Witches. The plan is to do BFG next, then I'll switch to the Cronicles of Narnia.
Because I've been so focused on Spanish, I haven't read anything in English lately. For myself, anyway. I still have the last Brandon Sanderson secret novel sitting on my nightstand...
I'm reading Song for a Whale with dd10. I've been consciously trying to add other cultures to our reading (this one focuses on the deaf community) as the local public school is seriously lacking diversity (For the biography unit, they're reading about Fred Rogers, John Muir, and Theodore Roosevelt. Malala, George Washington Carver, and Ada Lovelace got pulled for "time constraints." Yeah, I don't believe that one bit!)
Kid's book club is reading Pie, by Sarah Week's. We're also reading Sophia's War (about the American Revolution) in history. We finished the last Quark Chronicles book in science and started one of the Sassafras Science books... which are SO not as good!
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I've been looking for similar. I found the graded readers for Mexico (and some other subjects) here:
https://historico.conaliteg.gob.mx/?g=1960&a=1
If you like the Pathway readers, there are similar books here:
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Do you have a rock quarry/park near you? Rockport State Park (Alpena, MI) is fabulous, Sylvania Rock Park (Sylvania, OH) is pretty good, but the Montour Fossil Pit (Danville, PA) was not worth the trip.
I haven't bought mine a rock set, but I have taken her to lots of geology themed classes at a couple of local nature centers, where she has amassed a good rock collection.
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My dd is in 5th grade at a hybrid school (noon-4, 2 days per week) and is the only one masked there. At the science center homeschool classes, about 1/3 are masked. At UU church, about 50% (lots of old ladies, but not just them) are masked. Totally depends on the group.
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I've been doing Duolingo for... 730 days. It's not fun anymore, but I just can't stop!
Last year, I was reading through the Harry Potter series in Spanish, but it was getting to be a slog (I knew about 90% of the words.) I decided that I needed something easier. I read about six Magic Tree House books, but Annie was ridiculously annoying (apologies to Mary Pope Osborne and all her fans) So then I switched to Roald Dahl. I just finished Charlie y la fábrica de chocolate last night and will start James y el melocotón gigante today. After a few Dahl books, I plan to go to Cronicas de Narnia. Apparently, I have the Spanish reading skills of a third grader!
I know those are not authentic books by Spanish speaking authors, but I figure that I have to start somewhere.
I did contemplate switching to German, as I have a friend from Germany that I could actually practice speaking with. (No Spanish speaking friends, alas.) But the thought of starting over from scratch was just too intimidating!
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3 hours ago, Quarter Note said:
(I'll tell you, though,: Peter's extra-formal letter to Miraz in Prince Caspian may give you a linguistic workout! It did for me!)
Just like in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - the Oompa-Loompas' songs are much more challenging than the rest of the book!
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I just finished Bookshops and Bonedust. This was my first foray into the "cozy fantasy" genre. I think I'll look for more this year. I love reading about magic and dragons and fantastical creatures, but the continuous battles were wearing on me.
Kid and I are reading The Marvellers. It's been described as woke Harry Potter, and I would say that is exactly what it is. Verdict is still to be determined...
Kid's book club is reading The Serpent's Secret, which we just started today. Hopefully we/she can get that done before the meeting next Wednesday!
I'm two thirds of the way through Charlie y la fábrica de chocolate. It's significantly easier than Harry Potter in Spanish. I think I'll work through more Roald Dahl books before trying to tackle more HP. My goal is one Spanish book per month. I'm thinking more Dahl and perhaps some Crónicas de Narnia...
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Specialty LEGO pieces (but this is challenging and takes some intense tinkercad modeling to get right)
Now we're printing parts to replicate TinkerCrate boxes (as well as making use of the library's Glowforge machine)
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I always cut the squash into pieces and roast, leaving the skin on. I serve the pieces. Dd and I scoop the innards out and eat them. Dh eats the whole thing, peel included. I thought he was just weird that way...
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Dark Pony: Aww, Mom. I can't get up, I'm soooo sleepy.
(Apple falls)
Oh, I'm up!!
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Hugged a goat.
Goats are like happy dogs that eat weeds. My favorite animals, by far.
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Large LEGO bulk brick box. Christmas presents!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00NHQF6MG?ref=ppx_pt2_mob_b_prod_image
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Yeah, last year I sent my kid to the public school for 3rd grade end of the year testing (not required, just curious). First time she ever used a computer to take a test. She did the first math problem, then sat there for 1.5 hours, thinking she was finished and didn't realize there was a "next" button to click...
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I'm running two different book clubs for late elementary (girls - didn't have to be, but that's who signed up.) They're reading Hamster Princess and Dealing with Dragons.
For myself, I'm reading Gryphon Rider Academy (first girl to ever join a boys military school.) It's a good read and I've ordered the second in the series.
For my dd10, we're almost done reading aloud Skandar and the Phantom Rider. Then we'll start a banned book for Banned Book Week. I was planning on A Wrinkle in Time, but kid wants a Harry Potter book....
For school, we're reading Quark Chronicles: Botany and it's so good! I just found this series, so I expect we'll read more of them this year.
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I don't know if there is a program like this in your area...
https://www.leaderdog.org/volunteer/raise-a-puppy/
Basically, you care for a puppy for 1-2 years, then the organization takes it back to be trained. Different kind of difficult, in that you have to say goodbye to the pup, but your also doing good in the world. And they pay for all vet costs!
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As part of a world religions study, we read storybook versions of the Quran and Ramayana, in addition to a storybook Bible. Just hearing the similarities was eye-opening.
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About 6 years ago, we took the tv out of the living room. My kid (age 9) spends her free time reading, playing and making lots of art. Success, right? Nooooo...
My kid signed up for a theater class this summer, which she LOVES. The problem is they end every class with a game like charades, except you talk to give clues. Since she doesn't watch TV, my kid is TERRIBLE at guessing the other kids' characters. Today, she decided to be Matilda, which no one, not even the teacher could guess (but her clues were very obvious, if you've read Roald Dahl).
My kid has asked to bring the TV back out and be allowed to watch shows/movies. So, what are all the popular things kids are watching? Frozen and Toy Story and ??? I'm so clueless and out of the loop. Help!
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I have a TBR (to be read) shelf. When it's time for the next book, I'll pull down four books and read the first page. Then kid gets to choose what to hear next. Currently on the shelf are:
A Wolf for a Spell, Sutton
The Neverending Story, Ende
A Rover's Story, Warga
Tristan Strong #1, Mbalia
The Hedgehog of Oz, Leonard
Sweep: The Story of a Girl and her Monster, Auxier
Amari and the Night Brothers, Alston
A Tale of Magic, Colfer
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11 hours ago, livetoread said:
I've often wondered as I've driven on country roads how so many rural people have these big vegetable gardens without serious fencing or even any fencing at all.
Habitat loss. When big fields/woods get converted to subdivisions, the animals have nowhere to go, nothing to eat EXCEPT your gardens!
Out here in rural land, there is still enough "wild" land for the animals to coexist. I just plant squash, zucchini, or cucumbers along the edges of my garden. I might get a few nibbles, but generally the spiky vines are enough to send the deer elsewhere for dinner.
Slugs, however, are still a problem!
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