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Dd will be 8th grade next year. She hasn't done any TX history and I thought it would be good to have her do that next year in 8th grade. I am not wanting that to be our whole year of study, though. It will fit in nicely with the time period we are doing, so I was thinking of having her spend one day of history per week working on TX history. Is there anything that would be good for this? I know Switched on Schoolhouse has TX history (I think). I'm considering it because I want it to be something she does on her own. I also have found one that is more of a unit study type thing, but I'm guessing it would be more involved than I'd want for 1 day per week. I want nothing that I have to plan myself...it just won't happen if I do it. Any ideas?
Teresa
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I have had the same type points made to me lately. First, my sister-in-law (a high school english teacher) was applauding the particular approach I'm taking and the work we put into this. She said that we are definitely in the minority because we really "teach" our children. I asked what she meant and she said basically that most homeschool families don't do enough and just kind of leave their children to the wolves. I think much of that is the indoctrination she's getting in the public school setting. I was a little taken aback by it, because honestly, half the time if I compare my family to other families that homeschool, I feel we aren't doing "enough". I don't always feel that way, but at times I get a stab of fear in that direction.
The next comment was by a neighbor with kids who are my kids' friends. She was saying good things about our homeschooling, etc., and said that she hadn't had experience with anyone who did it for the right reasons like we do. She has a friend who homeschools just so she doesn't have to make the point to get them to school on time and the 4th grade child can't read or do math, etc. etc.
I had another neighbor try to tell me not to do it (I moved here 7 months ago and have been homeschooling for 8 years). She said her husband's ex-wife homeschooled and her kids only got a 4th grade education.
So I pondered the whole thing a while and came to a couple of conclusions: 1) Maybe many of the homeschoolers who choose to hole their children up and let them watch soap operas and cartoons all day aren't the ones who get out and do homeschool activities for me to get to know them anyway. I mean, if I felt ashamed of my efforts, I'm sure I'd avoid social situations, kwim? 2) A lot of people who don't homeschool but have negative opinions of homeschoolers make biased, blanket statements based on their uncle's cousin's sister who knows a family who knows a family who homeschools and 17yo junior can't write his name, and thus, all homeschoolers are uneducated. I've seen that often enough.
JMO. I too think there are numerous ways to do this thing. My own convictions lead me a certain way, but many others do it differently. It's the beauty of having freedom to educate your child as you so choose.
Teresa
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Thank you!! I really appreciate your input there. How did you feel about having used MUS for several years and then making the switch? Do you regret having used MUS or were you satisfied with where your ds was when you moved him into Foerster's? 7th grade Dd has used it from Delta on through Pre-Alg. 4th grade DS is finishing up Delta right now, having done Beta and Gamma before, and I am playing around with whether to move him into Singapore next year. Sometimes I love MUS and sometimes I feel it is not "enough". I hate indecision. Thank you for your help, again.
Teresa
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My 12yo dd will be moving from MUS Pre-alg to Algebra next year. I'm wanting to go ahead and make the switch to something more rigorous for the high school years. Would MUS be enough of a foundation to move on? I'm also considering Jacobs, Chalkdust, and TT, though TT is lower on the list, and I don't like the price on Chalkdust. Any ideas? Also, she is doing okay in math, not fantastic but usually makes 85-90s on her tests. I just thought I'd throw that in. She has struggled more this year with math than in years past. Any good suggestions? I've not researched higher-level math texts as much as I wish I had.
Teresa
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They have them here, at our grocery stores -- not Bibles, but tracts and those $1.00 mini-magazines, advertising ways to save your loved ones from going to hell and whatnot. Also, there are astrology minis. And the ones on barbecue recipes. All problematic for different people in my personal social circle, the evangelical ones for me, the astrology ones for the scientists I know, and the barbecue for the vegans.
Okay. I have seen the astrology ones and the barbecue and a couple of the Pillsbury cookbooks but never Bibles or tracts. I saw a little booklet on prayer once, but that's about it.
Teresa
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Send your kids through to the other side then. Stop imposing your morals on me. Because you don't like what you see, your are making the rest of us who really do not care (and most likely just want to get the heck out of the store), or who might want to purchase said item, be bothered by your morals.
I'm continually and constantly hit in the face by the immorality of the world around me (affected, no, because I choose not to be). I'm amazed by our culture most of the time, but I don't focus on it. My one little step forward in assisting my children in keeping pure minds is my little pebble in the ocean of ridiculousness I see around me all the time. I won't flip them all, and actually, it's not the norm for me, but when I see one that makes me ill, as did the one yesterday, yes, I'll do it again! I guess you can go make your statement at Winn dixie or whatever store you want. It is illogical, though, regardless of your spin. I'm not going to flip something that has religious views in opposition to mine. Those are openly discussed here. But things that affect the purity of my children while being in a line in the store that I cannot avoid...I'll pursue with vigor avoiding weeds in the garden I am tending.
Teresa
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Except you are still imposing your own morals on me and thusly preventing me from buying something *I* might like, just because you feel it is filth.
That's just not right. If I walked in to a store and hid all the bibles, there would be an uproar from the religious community about "religious hatred" and all that.
This is the same thing. Quit flipping the magazines and I'll stop hiding all the bibles and religious tripe.
Wow. What Bibles are you seeing in line?? I've missed them entirely. All I ever see there, in the place I am forced to stand in order to check out, is all the tv guides and magazines. I don't make it a practice to walk to the magazine/book isle, the place where the Bibles & books & other magazines are found, and flip those. I just flip the ones that are RIGHT in front of my children's faces in the isle where I, as a patron of the store, am forced to stand until I have purchased my goods. If you feel like flipping the Bibles, I guess go ahead. There is not a logical ground there, but oh well.
Teresa
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Now before someone says it because I know someone will--I understand that you aren't trying to restrict adults from purchasing/reviewing/seeing this material. I understand that you are only thinking of the children (gah).. but I don't want you thinking of MY children when you do this. *I* do a perfectly fine parenting job and I'd prefer it if you didn't try to remove material that the majority of the people read or don't care if their kids read.
No, when I flipped the magazine, I didn't do it for your children or anyone else's. I did it because, as a parent parenting MY children as I feel led, I feel a right to turn filth from their viewing, just as I feel the right to block certain shows on tv, help them to make healthy food choices, lead their education, etc.. I'm not trying to tell others they don't parent well, just do the best I can do to parent my own children well. I guess I feel that if grocery stores won't look out for my parental rights, I'll help them out and look out for it myself, adjusting the viewing of my children while I am spending money (large money with our crew) in their establishment...again, my right!
Teresa
Teresa
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but I flipped the dadgum thing over so my kids wouldn't see it. It was really bad. Good job for you complaining and good job for him for responding. That is so weird to read this today when I had my cosmo encounter yesterday. lol It was really vile!!
Teresa
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I once went to a secular homeschool group whose main reason to get together was to bash Christian homeschoolers. There I was, naively wanting my kids and I to meet new friends. I didn't realize it would be that way and was so disappointed by their behavior. Either way you go, kindness is not too much to ask. Sorry that happened. :(
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My dd is in 7th and we've homeschooled all the way. From first grade on, I switched around from Veritas Press to SOTW and back to VP. This is the first year we have used MFW and I don't see me switching again. Many people are so good at putting things together on their own, but I'm just not. I lack the confidence and second-guess myself. Having it laid out for me this year has given me confidence to focus in on the skills more and less worry over whether we are doing "enough". We are using MFW ECC and we love it!!! With the extra add-ons for 7th-8th grade, it has been thorough and rich for dd. It has been more than enough and enjoyable!! I can't compare SL, though. It looks like an excellent program, it is just more than I can spend. We use CW Homer and R&S6 for grammar and writing, apologia for science, MUS pre-algebra for math, and LCII for latin. It's been our best year yet!! God, His will, His plans for the nations are the focus while we are getting a great education in the process!!
For my younger child, 4th grade ds, I use Writing Tales I and R&S 4 for grammar/writing. It has been a good mix. I add a writing project for him weekly or bi-weekly, along with the assignments in WT. The countries, science, animals, etc., give plenty to write about!!
Teresa
Looking for Texas history...something we could do on the side (m)
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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I'd be willing to look at some sites. My goal, as I said, is to do something that won't wind up being me planning a bunch of things for her but her taking it and studying TX history more on her own, as a side thing. I likely won't do any grading, just discussing and maybe a few papers and projects here and there.
Thanks,
Teresa