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When we take days off, it's hard to go back, so we go 7 days, but 2-3 days are just reading stories, no work involved other than listening, and fun with painting and other art projects. "School" really just means 30-60 minutes of focused time.
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I don't have OM 1st, but I do have The Heart of Learning, Home Teacher's Process Manual, and the K First Book of Crafts.
If you like the Waldorf philosophy and artistic and gentle approaches to teaching, you will like OM. Traditional waldorf doesn't start teaching letters/reading/writing until 1st, but OM teaches letters in K. Out of all the waldorf hs curriculums I've seen, OM and Christopherus are the easiest and most open and go.
The OM craft book is ok, it's all natural style like leaf rubbings and flower chains, etc., so maybe a little overpriced for what it offers. I'll probably get the recorder books when my ds is older. The teacher's books are mostly just about the way to teach in a waldorf style. Some of the ideas have really helped me in parenting as well as teaching, and help to really understand natural childhood. I wasted too much money on Enki Ed stuff that was a ton of reading and left me still wondering what I'm supposed to do and needing more. OM and Christopherus were much more practical and easy to implement, less expensive and re-sellable.
I wasn't into the fairy stuff and the fairy tales, which is one reason why I'm not so waldorfy nowadays. My ds also didn't like any of the circle songs I tried. We just dance to our favorite songs now instead. I also have state testing required and I was worried waldorf style would leave my ds behind academically. I did go to a waldorf/montessori style school as a child and loved it, though.
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Your library might have both for you to preview. I always check the library before buying any book.s:)
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McRuffy readers are secular. K through 2nd is all secular, and for 3rd grade, the public school version is secular. They are also funny and silly. You can buy them separate from the rest of the curriculum, just look under each grade level.
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Check your library for the B4FIAR book, mine actually has it!
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Wow, thanks for this thread! I love this board! I'm putting together a unit study on Hawaii and plan on focusing on oceans and rivers in a few weeks, so these ideas are great. Here's some more stuff I've found:
Coral reef by Donald Silver, Patricia Wynne
Coral reef animal study and lapbook: http://www.homeschoolshare.com/coral_reef.php
Seaworld Coral Reef Infobook:
http://www.seaworld.org/infobooks/Coral/home.html
The Water’s Journey by Eleanor Schmid
Flowing to the Sea by the Moanalua Gardens Foundation
Free Oceanography Unit Study!
http://www.currclick.com/product_info.php?products_id=243&it=1
Follow the Water From Brook to Ocean by Arthur Dorros (Let's-Read-And-Find-Out-Science)
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oh my, I just had a flashback to this:
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There's also McRuffy's Dynamic Phonics, for $15 and has everything to teach all phonics:
http://www.rainbowresource.com/product/Dynamic+Phonics+Learning+Book/032705/1252451165-1151883
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Once you've read about styles and reviews of curriculums, look for cheaper and used stuff. The library is a great blessing for saving money.
Here's an 'Incredible long list of free homeschool online resources!'
http://householddiary.blogspot.com/2009/08/incredible-long-list-of-free-homeschool.html
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Wow, you're the second mama who recognizes me from DS. I'm still crocheting, although homeschooling has become the top priority now. You can see my stuff here: http://www.aloha-creations.com Come on out to the islands!
I must say that this forum rocks, I've learned so much in a few weeks, and found new homeschool stuff I didn't know about before. :)
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Thanks for this thread, it is so inspiring and fun to read other blogs.
I just started a homeschooling blog, I compiled the K stuff from my family blog from past homeschooling with MFW K. I hope to get more up next week when family visits are done. The link is in my siggy.
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Many of those books are at our library, too.
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Yeah, God Bless that family for making and sharing curriculums and lesson plans for free!
I've found the free and cheaper homeschool stuff is usually better than the really expensive stuff.
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Fresh turmeric is a root that looks like ginger on the outside, but is orange like a carrot on the inside. The fresh root is the most potent source. Shred it up into food or tea. Whenever we start to feel any sickness or soar throat, we shred up ginger and turmeric and boil it for tea and add honey and milk, it feels really good on the throat.
Turmeric powder is still very beneficial. It is usually mixed with rice powder to make it not clumpy, so it is not as potent.
One of my family members has lupus, an autoimmune disease. Going on an anti-inflammatory diet with turmeric powder in every meal plus flax seed oil and hemp seed powder, and all has been well with no lupus outbreaks for 2 years now. So, I can say that eating turmeric powder everyday, even just a teaspoon in a pot of food, is beneficial.
Like other mamas said, it doesn't have much flavor, but it is very yellow and will stain your clothes permanently, so be careful when using it.
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So, is the h1n1 vaccine made similarly to the regular annual flu vaccine with the h1n1 in it or is it a totally different vaccine?
Both the seasonal flu vax and the swine flu vax have thimerosal (mercury) and squalene (which most likely caused the Gulf War Syndrome), and eggs, but the swine flu vax has some bonus ingredients to take note of...diseased kidney flesh of African Green Monkeys that have incubated the virus.
Diseased African Monkeys Used to Make Swine Flu Vaccines; Private Military Contractor Holds Key Patents
http://www.naturalnews.com/026779_swine_flu_patents_vaccines.html
May God help us prevent mandatory vaccinations.
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How do you prevent cytokine storm?
That's a really good question, considering that the 1918 Spanish flu killed more young healthy adults than the young and the old. Why? Because of cytokine storm...it turns the immune system against itself, so the stronger the immune system, the more harm that can be done.
So, like with all autoimmune diseases, the answer is ANTI-INFLAMMATORY foods, the best being turmeric and foods high in omega fatty acids like flax seed oil and hemp oil. (Other things that I don't recommend are aspirin and fish oils.)
Here's an article that came out when the swine flu 'outbreak' in Mexico happened earlier this year, turmeric showed to be very helpful with recovery:
http://diseases-viruses.suite101.com/article.cfm/swine_flu_cytokine_storm_cures#ixzz0E0tUg4SP&A
Deaths from the Mexican influenza epidemic have the cytokine storm pattern of young, healthy adults. Inflammatory cytokines can be blocked by anti-inflammatory foods.Anti-inflammatory Treatment for Swine FluCytokine storms associated with sepsis and ARDS have been treated by forcing progression of the inflammatory process into its recovery phase. Some of the most effective approaches use recognizable anti-inflammatory compounds: aspirin, omega-3 fatty acids (fish oil) and curcumin (turmeric).
So, eating an anti-inflammatory diet is actually more important as keeping your immune system strong! Eat turmeric everyday!
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No, not now, not near noon, not nine o'clock, not next Novermber, not now, not ever, NEVER!
For those who are vulnerable, please look into natural alternatives. Colloidal silver, oil of oregano, lomatium, elderberry, vitamin c, raw garlic, raw onions, omega fatty acid foods, vitamin d, essential oils of eucalyptus, lavender, lemon, clove, rosemary, no refined sugar, etc.
Here's some good articles by Dr. Mercola:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/29/Swine-Flu.aspx
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My ds is now 5 and has undone the incorrect ways of writing that I let him do when he was 4. I think having fun and getting familiar with writing is the goal of the younger years, and anything discouraging like "that's not right" can interfere with the fun of it.
I really liked the R&S workbooks for helping him. He used to make the number 5 by starting at the top horizontal line instead of the vertical line. The workbook Everywhere We Go has cute little lines to remember how to make numbers, like "down the trunk and around the tree, add a branch, it's 5 you see" and now he's starting at the right spot and will never forget it! In just a few days, the old habit was completely gone!
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There's also A Little History Of The World by E.H Gombrich, check to see if your library has it. It is written in an interesting way, like a grandpa telling a story. Then maybe add in some history pockets things like that.
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The MFW printed catalog says:
Adventures in My Father's World
For 2nd or 3rd Graders
(and advanced 1st graders who are reading and writing well)
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Are there samples to view?
Here's a sample from Adventures, it shows the weekly schedule in a grid:
http://www.mfwbooks.com/pdf/advsample.pdf
Although we loved most of K and didn't like 1st, I do plan on going back to Adventures later.
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This is what I did this week....;)
Wow, a precious gift indeed! Congrats, mama! Happy Babymoon! Thanks for sharing a sweet surprise in weekly reports!
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I loved MFW K with my 4 year old. We had a lot of fun learning about letters, reading, writing, animals, plants, sun, moon, colors, and geography. My ds learned to read cvc short vowel words and still loves learning to read. We started out stretching 1 week lessons into 2 weeks because the handwriting was hard to get through at first, so we just did lots of art, hands on stuff, and library books to really soak in each topic. Halfway through, and we were at one lesson per week and flying through the worksheets, (he had a huge developmental leap at 4 1/2). We have many great memories for MFW K. My only complaint is that I couldn't start 1st grade with some other programs because he never learned long vowels and blends like ch and sh. So, we are now repeating K to catch up. It was a great preK intro to the alphabet, reading, and animals, and I am so glad I chose to use it. It would not have been enough for my ds at age 5, but was perfect at 4.
I bought MFW 1st grade and sold it before using it after reading through most of it. I could tell that it moved too quickly, as it covers all concepts of phonics. A lesson is taught, then is reviewed the next day and then moves on. There are game ideas for helping reinforce the concept, but that's it. I could tell my ds would need more easy readers and other practice to remember all of the lessons. There are no questions or review pages to enforce comprehension of reading.
We're ok with the black and white, but because it is completely based on the Bible, it's pretty serious...no silly stories to laugh about, and my ds loves silly stories, not much fun and playful stuff as Donna T said. Reading the Bible means reading things like "Cain hated his brother and killed him", along with other Old Testament stories about brothers hating and killing and trying to kill each other. The focus is mostly on the Old Testament, not so much on the New Testament and Jesus. The hands on Bible activities look great, like making an ABC scroll.
The handwriting is pretty intensive...with Proverbs quotes, animal stories and Bible story summaries.
The science is pretty light, and I think is ok with since learning to read is the main focus. The Usborne books are kind of short and dry, but the library list of books from MFW makes up for it. Some of the science topics align with the Bible stories, like after reading the story of Moses, you learn about how things float, after the flood you learn about rainbows.
The math activities, especially with the Complete Book of Math, are pretty thorough although not very structured, IMO. We kept the pattern blocks and animal pattern book. The math part of the tm requires some flipping around. The math lessons are planned out weekly, and the Bible/Reading/writing lessons are daily, so you have to flip to the math section, find the day you're on. Not a big deal, though.
Overall, I thought MFW 1 looked great and I loved many of the ideas, but I knew that it was too serious for my silly, squirmy boy who needs fun stuff to stay focused, and that it moved way too quickly to reinforce learning of phonics concepts.
Anyone who completes MFW 1 will have a very strong foundation in the Bible, especially the Old Testament, and that is definitely it's biggest strength.
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Here's a good article by Dr. Mercola about it, I highly recommend reading the whole thing, but here's the parts about Baxter if you don't want to give your email to read it, I hope that's ok:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/04/29/Swine-Flu.aspx
Where did This Mysterious New Animal-Human Flu Strain Come From?
Alongside the fear-mongering headlines, I've also seen increasing numbers of reports questioning the true nature of this virus. And rightfully so.
Could a mixed animal-human mutant like this occur naturally? And if not, who made it, and how was it released?
Not one to dabble too deep in conspiracy theories, I don't have to strain very hard to find actual facts to support the notion that this may not be a natural mutation, and that those who stand to gain have the wherewithal to pull off such a stunt.
Just last month I reported on the story that the American pharmaceutical company Baxter was under investigation for distributing the deadly avian flu virus to 18 different countries as part of a seasonal flu vaccine shipment. Czech reporters were probing to see if it may have been part of a deliberate attempt to start a pandemic; as such a "mistake" would be virtually impossible under the security protocols of that virus.
The H5N1 virus on its own is not very airborne. However, when combined with seasonal flu viruses, which are more easily spread, the effect could be a potent, airborne, deadly, biological weapon. If this batch of live bird flu and seasonal flu viruses had reached the public, it could have resulted in dire consequences.
There is a name for this mixing of viruses; it's called "reassortment," and it is one of two ways pandemic viruses are created in the lab. Some scientists say the most recent global outbreak -- the 1977 Russian flu -- was started by a virus created and leaked from a laboratory.
Another example of the less sterling integrity of Big Pharma is the case of Bayer, who sold millions of dollars worth of an injectable blood-clotting medicine to Asian, Latin American, and some European countries in the mid-1980s, even though they knew it was tainted with the AIDS virus.
So while it is morally unthinkable that a drug company would knowingly contaminate flu vaccines with a deadly flu virus such as the bird- or swine flu, it is certainly not impossible. It has already happened more than once.
But there seems to be no repercussions or hard feelings when industry oversteps the boundaries of morality and integrity and enters the arena of obscenity. Because, lo and behold, which company has been chosen to head up efforts, along with WHO, to produce a vaccine against the Mexican swine flu?
Baxter!11 Despite the fact that ink has barely dried on the investigative reports from their should-be-criminal "mistake" against humanity.
According to other sources,12 a top scientist for the United Nations, who has examined the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa, as well as HIV/AIDS victims, has concluded that the current swine flu virus possesses certain transmission "vectors" that suggest the new strain has been genetically-manufactured as a military biological warfare weapon.
The UN expert believes that Ebola, HIV/AIDS, and the current A-H1N1 swine flu virus are biological warfare agents.
In addition, Army criminal investigators are looking into the possibility that disease samples are missing from biolabs at Fort Detrick -- the same Army research lab from which the 2001 anthrax strain was released, according to a recent article in the Fredrick News Post.13 In February, the top biodefense lab halted all its research into Ebola, anthrax, plague, and other diseases known as "select agents," after they discovered virus samples that weren't listed in its inventory and might have been switched with something else.
Your Fear Will Make Some People VERY Rich in Today's Crumbling Economy
Tamiflu (oseltamivir phosphate) is approved for treatment of uncomplicated influenza A and B in children 1 year of age or older. It is also approved for prevention of influenza in people 13 years or older. It’s part of a group of anti-influenza drugs called neuraminidase inhibitors, which work by blocking a viral enzyme that helps the influenza virus to invade cells in your respiratory tract.
According to the Associated Press at least one financial analyst estimates up to $388 million worth of Tamiflu sales in the near future10 -- and that's without a pandemic outbreak.
More than half a dozen pharmaceutical companies, including Gilead Sciences Inc., Roche, GlaxoSmithKline and other companies with a stake in flu treatments and detection, have seen a rise in their shares in a matter of days, and will likely see revenue boosts if the swine flu outbreak continues to spread.
Swine flue is extremely convenient for governments that would have very soon have to dispose of billions of dollars of Tamiflu stock, which they bought to counter avian flu, or H5N1. The US government ordered 20 million doses, costing $2 billion, in October, 2005, and around that time the UK government ordered 14.6 million doses. Tamiflu’s manufacturer, Roche, has confirmed that the shelf life of its anti-viral is three years.
As soon as Homeland Security declared a health emergency, 25 percent -- about 12 million doses -- of Tamiflu and Relenza treatment courses were released from the nation's stockpile. However, beware that the declaration also allows unapproved tests and drugs to be administered to children. Many health- and government officials are more than willing to take that chance with your life, and the life of your child. But are you?
Tamiflu Loaded With Side Effects, Including Death and Can Only Reduce Symptoms by 36 Hours at BEST
Please realize that Tamiflu is NOT a safe drug Serious side effects include convulsions, delirium or delusions, and 14 deaths in children and teens as a result of neuropsychiatric problems and brain infections Japan actually banned Tamiflu for children in 2007.
Remember, Tamiflu went through some rough times not too long ago, as the dangers of this drug came to light when, in 2007, the FDA finally began investigating some 1,800 adverse event reports related to the drug.
Additionally common side effects of Tamiflu include:
Nausea
Vomiting
Diarrhea
Headache
Dizziness
Fatigue
Cough
All in all, the very symptoms you're trying to avoid.
Additionally, Tamiflu has been reported to be ineffective against seasonal flu outbreaks, and may not be sufficient to combat an epidemic or pandemic.
But making matters worse, some patients with influenza are at HIGHER risk for secondary bacterial infections when on Tamiflu. And secondary bacterial infections, as I mentioned earlier, was likely the REAL cause of the mass fatalities during the 1918 pandemic!
But here’s the real kicker.
When Tamiflu is used as directed (twice daily for 5 days) it can ONLY reduce the duration of your influenza symptoms by 1 to 1 ½ days, according to the official data.
Why on earth would anyone want to take a drug that has a chance of killing you, was banned in Japan, is loaded with side effects that mimic the flu itself, costs over $100, and AT BEST can only provide 36 hours of SYMPTOM relief. Just doesn't make any sense.
Please recognize that there is serious revenue in Tamiflu. The Financial Times reports that governments around the world have previously stockpiled 220 million doses in preparation for a pandemic that has yet to appear. The cost of this preparation is $7 billion dollars.
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