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I'm looking at buying the guidebook and seeing if my daughter is interested in it for next year.
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If it's that old then yeah, I'd look into something newer.
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My aunt had it done. She was so happy with it. She could see so much more of the world than before and it made her look so much nicer. Before she always look a little sleepy.
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I would think so, I hope so. I was going to count my daughter's pre-engineering and robotics course as a science w/lab. They designed, built and programmed the things and did all sorts of experimenting and trouble-shooting to make sure they did what they wanted them to.
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We never received a paper copy of my dd's scores but I finally took the time to figure out how to set up an account and found her scores. It's been a very busy spring semester.
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Complicated.
Raised in one church, drifted away, kept same values, went to another type of church for a while while still having the same beliefs from childhood which didn't agree with either church's doctrine and currently don't attend but still consider myself to be Christian.
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We've homeschooled all the way through from preschool to now (oldest is finishing up Junior year). I've had her working off of a list since junior high and building up a routine of getting work done. She learned early on that once her schoolwork is done that her time is pretty much her own to work on things that she wants to learn about or do (she's managing 5 or 6 different tumblr blogs right now).
Currently I have her bullet journalling. I put her assignments for the month on her monthly page and she checks them off as she finishes it. A lot of time she works ahead in case we have days where we have other obligations. I list page numbers for book work and draw circles for her to fill in for computer work. On her own she makes daily lists of things that she wants to accomplish outside of schoolwork including chores, reading and different projects that she is working on.
She also does most of her work on her own. I only tutor her in math and work with her on English. We discuss a lot of what she reads outside of "book work time." I feel like learning is something that happens all the time. So while we do have a set time for books & computer work. A lot of learning comes from things that she does on her own and discussions that we have during other times like at dinner, driving in the car or even at work (she works part-time with me in a bakery).
Hope this helps and that you find a method that works with you and your son.
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Have you thought about bullet journaling? I just use a grid-lined composition notebook, a collection of pens in various colors (inkjoy is my favorite, and highlighters.
I make a monthly calendar which I draw in my planner then I make weekly pages with timers and an open to-do list for each day of the week. I color-code things according to day of the week and also the timers according to what we are doing during that time.
Lots of ideas for this on the internet & instagram.
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I loved this book. It's an epic adventure tracing Genghis Khan's journey backwards from Turkey to his birthplace in Mongolia.
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This one truly makes the perfect chocolate chip cookie. The others I tried were not good but this one turns out every time if you follow the steps exactly. It's a bit more to follow and it's not a just dump everything in together type of recipe but they are so good. We like to make them with a mix of chocolate and butterscotch chips.
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Always regret getting my hair cut. It has waves and no matter which length I go to if I cut it above my shoulders, one side flips under and the other out and even the curling iron can't seem to fix it for more than a couple of hours. I keep it very long now and put it up when I'm doing things that it gets in the way of but mostly wear it down.
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I have been searching for Japanese and East Asian history resources for about 3 years now. All we could find were picture books and a college text on East Asian history that was both really dry and very vague. We've been watching a lot of Korean Historical dramas instead and looking things up online to see what was truth and what was not truth. We plan on starting a Japanese historical soon.
Going to look up Soror's post on the gen. board.
eta.: Can't find the post or even have a clue what curriculum she's talking about. I looked it up and got something about gaming. Figure that's probably not it.
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Thanks. The Wooden Books look really interesting and not only for art but they also have things for music.
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She's technically 9th grade but a bit immature for her age so we're doing a 5 year plan for high school if needed. I'd rather give her more time than rush and miss the important stuff.
I think they have some good summer intensive nearby but I don't know that she would be ready for it this year, maybe next year. Thanks
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Serious musicians must have music theory, but not all music teachers will tell you this because quite a few don't have much themselves. Not to knock Suzuki, because there is a place for it, but not all Suzuki teachers are of the classically trained mindset. But serious, classically trained, aspiring to music school, must. I know because my daughter is classically trained under two professionals. One teacher is European trained, toured the U.S. twice with a famous orchestra, decades of experience, etc. He preaches theory. To get to the highest level, it is a must in order to really understand the music and how it should be played. Her other teacher also has decades of experience, a professor at a major university and also toured the U.S. with a famous, at the time, chamber group. He talks about students who lost scholarships because they flunk college Theory.
If the teachers don't respond when you mention Theory, I'd start asking around about who is a good teacher. A place to start is to call or visit the office of a local symphony and find out who they recommend. Now, not everyone in a local symphony knows this subject in depth, so it's probably good to find a professor who also gives music lessons. He or she can at least start integrating basic theory into the lessons.
Boston University's Berklee School of Music offers online music theory classes, college credit. My 15 year old daughter did two this year. The first one started out easy, she thought. Then it really jumped difficulty. Same with the second one. But it was worth it in her case.
Her current private teacher is leaving so we're thinking of finding a different teacher anyway. The group teacher also does the children's symphony in town but most of the symphony musicians are Doctoral students from IU from what I've heard. In the group there are a lot of younger, silly and not very serious students so the teacher hasn't done theory with them and they mostly just play lots of fun songs (a lot of theme songs). My daughter wants to do more classical music and the private teacher has been using Suzuki for that but again she's leaving.
I'll get a list of teachers. I know that there are a couple in town that run serious lessons but I just don't know how to contact them. And really, I wasn't too worried about it until she started talking about music school in the last few months. But I figure we have up to 4 years to prepare.
Thanks.
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dd has taken violin lessons for about 4 years now with a group and for the past year with a private teacher as well. She's at the 8/9th grade level and is expressing interest in possibly going to music school (she really wants to be an artist though but loves music too).
She hasn't really done any music theory. I've asked about it a bit but not really gotten a response from either teacher. She reads music rather well and took to it more quickly than actual reading.
Is this something she should be studying? Where should we start? Also looking at music history ideas.
Thanks.
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It's windy enough to blow you off of your feet and in the 60s but that wind has a slight cold edge to it that makes it cold.
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Or from an artist's point of view.
Someone mentioned an online class like this and it got my interest as a possibly way to get my non-mathy very artistic dd through this class. I've looked a little online and found a few books on Amazon but am wondering if your child took this class or you know anything about this topic what would be some good books/websites/resources that you would recommend?
So far I've found:
But I can't peek inside them and some of the review make me think that they may be a bit much. Just wanting some opinions if anyone has looked at them or other ideas. This would be a class for 2018-2019 and I'm just starting to research.
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1st--16 hours ended in c-section
2nd--scheduled c-section
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10th grade was the most stressful so far for older dd. It did get better once we dropped the bad Chemistry teacher and just did it at home at our own pace instead. But she also outsourced a World History class that had a huge project attached to it and that took a lot of time.
11th has been better since we've focused on finishing up a lot of required things and am looking forward to Senior year for a lot of classes that follow her interests.
She's also decided on a gap year which will give her some extra time to work on math skills before applying for college. That's helped a lot with stress on both our sides.
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I don't know when you mean by "used to," but it is also true that it's pretty recent in history that all teens have been expected to do math beyond arithmetic. The percentage of people who studied math beyond consumer-based math was small until the last few decades of the 1900s. When my mother was born, it was still smaller than 50% of students graduated from high school. Most people had no need to do math beyond arithmetic.
Also, children in the 20th century had much more practice doing math and, in fact, many "school subjects" in their everyday lives. They had far fewer forms of passive entertainment as present-day kids. Hobbies and games often relied on math skills (playing card games; logic and strategy in checkers and chess; dominoes; keeping statistics in sports.) If mom sent you to the store to get sugar, eggs and oats, you didn't take her debit card. You had cash and you couldn't buy indescriminently; you had to know what you would owe.
My point is that you can't idealize what was done "once upon a time" because it seemed to work out fine for Grandpa, KWIM? Our kids have a very different environment from what Grandpa had with different distractions and way different expectations. I wouldn't risk my kids' competancy in math and their suitability to higher learning based on someone somewhere saying Grandpa picked up all the math he needed to know the summer of 8th grade. I really don't see the downside in just chipping away at math in the didactic fashion from Kindergarten or thereabouts.
Really wish we had reply buttons on here instead of quotes.
I read something in a book by the Bluedorns years ago about this. And yes, it was before modern times. And I am not idolizing anything just stating something that I had read about in the past.
Math is not something that is child-led in my home. But I do think that someone can be caught up quickly on the basics.
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I picked about a year. But I wouldn't do things by grade level but by skill. We use Khanacademy for math and I've found that you can really breeze through things and if you keep doing the mastery checks that you can get a lot of skills checked off really quickly. One of the things I do too is we start with a skill set & then work our way from easy to hard So that there is always something easy to work on especially after a break. I'm thinking a lot of things will be fairly easy to work through in a short amount of time.
I've read before that they used to didn't teach mathematics until the 7th grade and then took you through things pretty quickly because most people pick up the basics from every day life.
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I generally do lifting tasks and other things that require strength with my left hand while doing things that require more finesse with my right hand. If I had to I could write well enough with my left.
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Here youngest is concentrating on Violin and art (specifically drawing with intention to be a comic artist) and she also has a huge interest in the Far East specifically Japan & Korea.
Currently she does violin lessons twice a week but next year will be possibly be adding in a third day with the local youth symphony.
We have outsourced art lessons but am looking at a tutor. She does a lot on her own right now.
For academics:
Math--she is weak in this are (she doesn't want to use her brain for it), but our goals are to get her through Algebra II. I am looking into teaching geometry with a focus on art. The geometry of art or something.
Science--used a regular text for biology. Next year we will be doing Anatomy through art and probably a physics & chemistry of art. (again I'm putting a lot of this together on my own)
Literature & composition--She has done Asian folk-tales, we will move onto Asian literature, she reads a lot of books on her own. We will do the year of American lit. Composition involves her comic projects as well as learning how to write decent papers and useful writing techniques.
History--Asian history (this is her interest), but we will do a year of American history.
Foreign language--currently Japanese but she is thinking of switching to Korean because the alphabet is easier and there are more resources for learning. But we'll see it's all her choice.
She doesn't plan on college but I'm trying to sneak in things so that she will be ready for college if she decides later that she wants to go. She really just wants to focus on art for a career and music for fun.
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Remember the Professor whose kids crashed the interview?
in The Chat Board
Posted · Edited by Closeacademy is me
He's going to be on a Korean reality show for famous dads interacting with their children called "Return of Superman." Here's a peak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9kfH3pAdpg
Thought many of you would enjoy this.
(I watch a lot of Korea Television and this popped up as a suggestion today. Return of Superman can be really cute and you kind of get to see how people really live in the first episodes of each new family.)
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If you want to watch it you can find it on Dramafever subbed in English. But I don't think his episode will be out until next week. These seems like a preview.