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    Cherry Hill, NJ

    in Parents' Forum Networking Board

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    Living waters is a support group and a co-op, co-op now meets in shamong which is probably 20-30 minutes depending on which part of cherry hill you will be in. There is also a wonderful group called higher ground - not a co-op or a support group - you pay people and they teach your middle - high schoolers. Great for science, writing and math (if you use Saxon), other courses offered too.

     

    There are a couple of wonderful theater groups, homeschool band, excellent art classes, voice lessons, etc. there is a tri-county sports league for girl's and boy's basketball, baseball and softball. Lots if soccer including Indoor soccer.

    I am going to jump in with TOG!

    in Logic Stage & Middle Grade Challenges

    Posted

    Week 36 of Year 3 slightly overlaps with Week one of Year 4; both include the study of T. Roosevelt although Yr3 Wk36 is only to the vice presidency and Year 4 continues with his presidency onward.

     

    The first week of Year 3 covers some review of the French Revolution and John Adams' presidency; both were covered in more detail in year 2.

    Patrick Henry College

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    He has never had the same professor more than once in a semester. There are 55 professors including associate and adjunct and they all have their specialties. When Ben studies ancient history for example he tends to have Dr. Favelo, Dr. Spinney teaches American history, and 20th century history is Dr. Aikman; he is fascinating by the way having worked as a foreign and senior correspondent at Time magazine for 20+ years.

    6th grade plans??

    in Logic Stage & Middle Grade Challenges

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    History: TOG Year 4 dialectic

    Literature: 20th Lit heavily influenced by TOG rhetoric lit, some Omnibus III (in other words, as usual, I can't leave well enough alone :001_rolleyes: )

    Writing: Finish up WWS 1 then ? Some TOG writing assignments.

    Language Arts: CLE6

    Science: BJUP Life Science

    Math: Derek Owens Pre algebra. He also may use some LOF but I'm not sure which level.

    Latin: Latin Alive 1

    Logic: The Art of Argument

    Christian Ed: Continue memorizing the Westminster shorter catechism as well as working through a text I picked up called Bible Doctrine for Older Children. Really looks excellent.

    Enrichment: history of the micro computer and lego stop action animation if they fit our schedule. Piano.

    Handwriting: Memoria Press New American Cursive II. And maybe a ruler for hitting knuckles. Kidding. Kind of.

    Patrick Henry College

    in High School and Self-Education Board

    Posted

    Hi Terri,

    Congratulations to your son! Oregon is far. I am thankful to live in NJ and so PHC is close enough to visit and fetch Ben when we want, but far enough to prevent me from being one of those parents :ph34r:

    Freshman year can be tough, especially for those students involved in debate and moot court. But the guys at PHC seem to have a deep camaraderie and are very supportive.

    Feel free to email me if you have any questions or you want my son's email for any reason.

    karen@ciavo.com

    Patrick Henry College

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    I don't come around much anymore but I would like to contribute to this thread, old though it may be. My oldest son is finishing up his second year at PHC and couldn't be happier (that's him in my avatar on a school trip to Rome.) He is receiving an excellent education (history major.) We have not found the stereotypes we heard about prior to attending to be true at all. Lock-step ultra conservative awkward home schoolers bowing at the hem of Farris's robe? Not so much. I dare say the writing instruction received at PHC would even make SWB smile. Yes, it's small and that's not a good fit for all (not good for my graduating 18yo) but Ben thrives in that sphere. I can't speak well enough of the place. I adore Dr. Walker. Talk about a humble man! The professors take a real interest in how the students are doing, at least I can say that much about the history professors. Financially PHC has pulled back a bit on aid, thankfully so far so good for us. Ben is working on campus this summer, good for his pocketbook but bad for his mother who misses him. :crying:

    STEM advanced children

    in Accelerated Learner Board

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    thanks for all the great resources.

     

    Physics:

    Ana's Asimov suggestion is spot on but my DS isn't interested in Asimov for some reason (so sad!)

    Epstein's Thinking Physics

    Books by Richard Muller,(Instant Physicist), John Gribbin, George Gamow (Mr Tompkins etc), Robert Gilmore (Alice in Quantumland, Wizard of Quarks etc)

    Great Courses physics titles (if he's into lectures) -- Impossible by Schumacher was particularly good

     

    For Algebra word problems, I might just look into buying him the AOPS Intro to Algebra book. Maybe a no pressure, read it when you want to and watch some videos on AOPS/ Khan/ YouTube approach could help.

     

    AOPS has a Python programming course too.

    STEM advanced children

    in Accelerated Learner Board

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    I have a 7 yr old who is currently math, logic and programming obsessed, and who's current dream is to create and run a reptile-themed amusement park centered around a volcano in Hawaii (like sea world) so she can have and train and breed all the snakes, lizards, frogs, and alligators she wants (and use cloning and rDNA to breed a dragon to live in the volcano) AND design roller coasters.

    An Imagineer in the making :001_smile: I thought my oldest would go that route, at one time he wanted to and we became friendly online with a Disney Imagineer through a Disney forum I used to visit, but he decided to go for the big bucks and become a history major. :rolleyes: That's him up there enjoying Rome.

     

     

    The funny thing was that, a year ago, I would have said that she was more "languag-y" and less "mathy". Now she's very definitely "math-y". I think it was simply that the math had to get complex enough and fun enough to draw her in.

     

    I get this, pretty much the same thing here. Ds taught himself to read and still loves reading books beyond his years (recently finished a modern language version of Pilgrim's Progress). Thanks for the Calculus for Young People suggestion.

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