Quercus
-
Posts
78 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Blogs
Classifieds
Store
Posts posted by Quercus
-
-
On 2/3/2020 at 9:13 AM, StaceyinLA said:
Sorry y'all - it's been a good while since I've taught this, and there are so many options out there. I'm hoping there's something for this.
I've mentioned I'll be teaching my middle dd's two oldest kids at least half the time (likely a little more than half though - probably 3 days/week, her teach 1, and then they'll have 1 for enrichment activities, history/science crafts and projects, etc.)
Dgd just turned 7 (would be in 1st grade here due to late December birthday), and I was thinking she needed a lot more in basic phonics than it appears she does. I had her read some leveled readers to me the other day (my sister is a reading recovery teacher and gave us a lot of books for her a while back), and she is reading a lot better than I realized. She is also super eager with her reading and writing.
Is there a program with some placement where I can gauge exactly where she is and what she needs to cover the phonics she doesn't know - one that doesn't cost a fortune? How would you go about this? Would you just expect with reading practice it will come in time? Would one of the spelling programs that includes a lot of phonics blends make more sense than trying to do a reading or phonics program at this stage?
I want to be sure I don't skip things she needs to know, but don't want to spend time covering material she already knows well.
Can you just go through Ordinary Parent's Guide To Teaching Reading?
-
1
-
-
Has anyone used The Riot And The Dance biology?
What are the labs like?
Are there assignments besides labs?
What kind of student is this best for? In other words, why choose The Riot And The Dance over something else?
-
2
-
-
-
1 hour ago, Plum said:
When you really start looking at the ingredients lists, it’s shocking how much sugar is in everything.
Yes I meant sugar that is added to things, not raw fruit or food that breaks down as sugar within the body, when I commented about my sister in law and nephews/niece. I apologize for getting off the topic of veganism.
-
1
-
-
33 minutes ago, Bluegoat said:
all factory farming including of plants
There is a human cost here too, for the workers.
-
1 hour ago, Katy said:
I am always suspicious of people eating venison without testing it in the areas where prion diseases are endemic.
Wild meat can be really sketchy!
-
2 minutes ago, StaceyinLA said:
I agree.
5 minutes ago, Selkie said:Re. B12, I just recently read about a study showing that large numbers of Americans are B12 deficient, including those who consume animal products.
Grassfed meat and milk products have more b12 than conventional meat. Same with eggs from chickens who can forage for bugs. But most people I know aren't eating a lot of real, homemade food from any source. So it's moot that they are vegan or not, if everything they eat comes from a fast food place or a box.
-
2
-
-
Flour sack cloths. We use these for all cleaning except on the mop. They are big, absorbent, easy to bleach, and cheap.
-
2
-
-
My brother is vegan and we agree about food issues right up until we have to decide what to do about it.
One thing he's said is that people will be forced to change the way they eat if the current food system collapses (a big if), meaning they'd have to eat less meat anyway. We agree on this. Almost everyone I know really should eat a lot less meat, for both health and ethical reasons. But he doesn't seem to understand that his diet would have to radically change in such a scenario also. Bananas, oranges, and the like don't grow in the frozen north.
We have livestock (he doesn't) and he thinks that people can just stop eating meat tomorrow and all these cows and pigs will just go back to the land and live out natural lives with relatively no problems. He's very wrong about that.
His wife and kids are all vegan too, but they eat more sugar each week than my family combined eats in a year or two. He maintains that it's healthier to eat fruit loops than bread with butter on it, or a couple eggs from fifty feet outside my back door. Also, one of his favorite sayings is that vodka is vegan, and he definitely takes advantage of that.
My ideal would be eating locally, avoiding cafo products. His ideal would be everyone is vegan and pulling nutrients from around the globe.
The documentary, like my brother, is factually correct in a lot of what is said. But I think they both have blinders on.
I find that everyone knows what they ought to do (eat more kale than fruit loops; eat more kale than bacon) but they just don't want to, so they dig their heels in over hypothetical scenarios.
-
5
-
-
Thank you both! Now I know what to look for.
My aunt bought an instapot from my computer and I think it messed up my search results.
-
I was talking to someone last week who said that when she first moved out she only had one burner, so she'd often end up making these mixed meals where something was boiled in the bottom pot while vegetables steamed in the top.
I would love to have something like that, but all my searches bring up are steaming bowls that sit inside of a pot and microwave or instapot accessories.
Does anyone have any idea what those pots are called? It's a whole pot of boiling food in the bottom an apparatus to steam vegetables on top of that.
-
3 hours ago, silver said:
Which Notgrass book are you looking at? I've used Adam to Us.
This is helpful, thank you! I was considering Adam.... but it was getting put further and further back on the list even before your review. We've had, and abandoned, some of the Notgrass high school texts so I wasn't completely unaware of what they were like going in, but they are always more appealing than they are usable.
OM and CLE are still strongly drawing me in. I don't know if CLE even has writing assignments and I don't know if this child will do well with OM7's method of throwing assignments out there and letting the student choose. Hmm...
-
E-ink readers are much easier on the eyes, even the ones with backlighting (kindle paperwhite). If you do get a tablet primarily for reading, you can change the background to off-white and install a red light app to soften the glare. You will not be able to read a tablet in full sunlight, but an e-reader should be fine. There are parental controls available for tablets, yes. Of course, with an e-reader, they are unnecessary.
You can read ebooks on any device that accesses the internet. Having a device devoted to books, however, is convenient and comes without any of the concerns you listed in your post.
-
1
-
-
9 hours ago, Terabith said:
Why not just get some Montessori maps? Or GeoPuzzles? I mean, coloring CAN help a kid remember boundaries, but if kiddo can do so without coloring, why force the issue of coloring? When I student taught, I was told that the reason for making children color was LITERALLY to waste time. It appalled me no end.
ETA: Sheppard's Software website has tons of map games that do a lovely job of teaching boundaries without coloring a whit. It's one of my 16 year old's fondest memories of her earliest years in elementary school homeschooling, and she still has an amazing knowledge of geography. Honestly, way better than mine, but it was one of the few websites she was allowed to independently navigate at age seven.
I do not believe I have advocated forcing children to color maps.
Coloring in general is good for building hand strength and coordination in young kids, so hopefully the people doing it in schools to waste time are at least conferring some benefit, even if they aren't aware of it.
-
1
-
-
Has no one used any of these?
-
-
I think the idea is that coloring those things in helps them remember the boundaries, so they can better recognize them on sight. Puzzles with country-shaped pieces probably do the same thing, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find landform-shaped puzzle pieces.
-
2
-
-
Has anyone seen OM7 recently? I looked at it a few years ago, and did not like the layout or the lack of direction, but from the samples it seems like they may have improved in subsequent revisions?
I'm also looking at Notgrass but it seems like the writing assignments might be a little...lacking?
Does CLE's Across The Ages book give writing assignments?
Any thoughts? We don't like Human Odyssey but I need something along those lines with good writing assignments? I'm running a creative writing class, so I am tapped out coming up with assignments on my own for the time being.
-
5 hours ago, Arcadia said:
You can also deactivate or delete your Facebook account.
That's helpful 😄
-
I would be disappointed in my child.
-
2
-
-
This is so helpful! Thank you all so much for taking the time to parse this out with me.
-
Soaring With Spelling or Practical Spelling might work. They aren't AAS but they are easy to implement spelling workbooks.
-
30 minutes ago, Farrar said:
I can't speak for Root Ann... but I also think that's an odd sequence. AoPS is really challenging and hard. Jacobs isn't easy exactly, but it certainly is by comparison. All the ways that Jacobs is challenging are just really different from AoPS. I think the student who excels with AoPS in their main sequence starting with Pre-A is a different student who excels with Jacobs.
Ah, I see, thanks.
What kind of student would do better with a Jacobs sequence than the AOPS sequence?
-
2 hours ago, RootAnn said:
I would not use AoPS Pre-A & then go back to Jacobs Algebra.
I would love to hear your thoughts about this if you are up for sharing!
Sonlight Core G/H Reviews?
in K-8 Curriculum Board
Posted
We have used it and I think you could decide on the pace you want to set with SOTW, do that, and work through the Sonlight booklist one book at a time without the schedule. Unless you want to do the whole Sonlight package, in which case it makes sense to use their schedule.