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    6 hours ago, Jean in Newcastle said:

    It’s a magnesium brine. Does that help?  

    Maybe. I'll try that. Please tell me I won't get out of the bath feeling sticky like when you get out of the ocean. Or do you shower directly after the epsom salt bath?

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    16 minutes ago, Slache said:

    Leftover lasagna and salad. We pooled. It's 102°.

    Texan booya.

    My kids' temperatures are higher than that, hence my lack of posting today. I'm gearing up for another long night and praying they at least try synchronize their waking up and fevers tonight because I. am. exhausted.

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    57 minutes ago, Green Bean said:

    Do all the Bible references get in the way of the lesson? This has been a problem in the past for us. I'm going for R&S one last time, I think, because it is systematic, easily obtained used here, and familiar. Do you think the 5th on up could be used mostly as a workbook?

    I haven't had the Bible references get in the way, but they are there. Schools are labeled as Day school, Christian school, or Mennonite school. Same with churches. The titles Sister and Brother are used frequently. Bible accounts and stories are used as example sentences. Thee and Thou occasionally show up (not often enough to be a pain) to remind us how to use archaic language correctly which always has us looking up the answer in the TM to see if we got it right and both of us giggling. I don't count those wrong, just as a bonus/challenge. I go over daily work as it's done to correct stuff before bad habits are formed and I don't give grades on daily work. I only grade the end of chapter tests. I can't imagine using the texts as workbooks because of the diagramming alone. But I rarely have him write more than half a dozen sentences total in a given lesson because I do a couple of them with him telling me what goes where before he even begins.

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    7 hours ago, Green Bean said:

    Hi!

    Servie: Art:

    Atelier Art is vids and has a supply pack. We found the vids tedious and dropped them quickly.

    Artistic Pursuits is a bit dry in the classics version. The new came out too late for DD.

    Home Art Studio is basic but more crafts than art. DD did them all one year and loved it.

    Draw, Write, Now was what we started with, without the Write part. That and a WalMart sketchbook. DD took off from that.

    k12 Art courses K-8 as an independant went over well here. They include art history, as well. You can buy their supply kit, but I do not recommend it because their shipping is ridiculous.

    Buy good supplies and paper. I'm not talking Crayola or 20 lb printer paper here. Go to a craft store like Michael's or Hobby Lobby and look in their art section. Good materials make a huge difference. I buy DD packs of paintbrushes from WalMart in the art aisle. The blue handle ones are her favorite. I buy sketchbooks at WalMart, too in the Crayola aisle: Pen+Gear Sketch Diary. I finally got smart and stopped all the loose paper!

    DD started drawing from the time she could hold a colored pencil. She is now where she doesn't want a curriculum because she says art is fun for her. If I make it a HAVE to, it becomes work which is not fun. She uses Youtube or just looks at something and draws it. She found a digital drawing tool/template program for her tablet and is constantly drawing/coloring with that. Her favorite mediums are paint and colored pencils. She loves her watercolor drawing pencils. They allow her to draw details she otherwise could not get with paint alone at her level but still have that soft watercolor look and blending.

    Junie: I am so glad you are doing better.

    It's an Artsy Booya!

    Thank you! I didn't even know about watercolor pencils until this research endeavor. I would've loved having that option at Oldest's age. I'm thinking I'll just grab some of Stebbings DVDs (Beginning Painting and possibly Beginning Drawing and Intermediate Drawing) along with some quality art supplies and let him watch and see what sticks. He wants to watch and copy, so this seems like the way to go.

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    8 hours ago, Green Bean said:

    My EdPo:

    So a little re-planning going here after a visit to THS and thinking about the kids' needs.

    Math is the same cause what works is what works, even if I'm not fond of it.

    The big BJU science debate is lab kits or videos? Vids will get done. Lab kit: I'm not sure we would get to it. But hands-on is fun. But not if we don't get to it. And Little Man is still young enough to get into lab kits which is a safety thing. But DD wants to do the labs herself. But we are doing earth science so how fun can those be? But vids are not the most recent edition. But does that really matter?

    LA changed a bit. DS 17 and DD will take Lantern English writing courses. They deperately need a good GUM program, too, but not AG!! I'm wallowing between R&S or CLE. Servie, help!

    I need a good children's Shakespeare series written at roughly the same level of the Classic Starts books for ASD Son. I looked at Usborne Shakespeare stories. They seem a little 'young', but if I can't find another series, I guess they will have to do. Having the plays separate is good. He gets overwhelmed with a fat book. Y'all have ideas for me?

    Then there is history. DS 17 wants to do Susan's History of the World and DD wants to finish out SOTW 4 before moving to anything new. I told ASD Boy he is using SOTW, too. I trust Susan's writing more than BJU. I'm constantly worried about their attitude towards other cultures and religious groups. MP's books are good, but too narrow. Eh- it's just history! Why is it so stressful?

    I should go pick up DH from the car place. He has been waiting for like 2 hours.

     

     

    You already know what I'll say. CLE is great, but R&S hands down. Retention is better because they have to really think about it (diagramming). The daily lessons can mostly be read together or independently, oral drill done aloud or on paper to demonstrate, and pick a handful from the written section to show understanding. Review section gets done orally unless it's diagramming or something he's been struggling with. Done. We combine easier lessons and slow down and take extra days on the harder stuff. I do get the worksheets but rarely use them. I tend to pull a worksheet that reviews a previous lesson on days I cannot be home because of another kid's dr appointment or such so DH doesn't have to teach, just supervise. Oldest may never like schoolwork, but he likes R&S English over CLE because every chapter starts off reviewing what he learned the previous year and then progresses. The structure and expectation are consistent and predictable.

    If there's a lesson on something specific you want to see in any of the grade levels through grade 7, let me know and I'll look. 

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    14 hours ago, goldenecho said:

    That doesn't make sense to me at all.  What does make sense is this that I learned when I was a kid (if someone else already got this...sorry)...

    9 x  ANY NUMBER UNDER 10

    Step 1:  The 10s digit will be one less than the number you are multiplying 9 by.   For instance, in 9x7, the tens digit would be 6 (one less than 7).
    Step 2:   Whatever you got for the 10s digit, subtract that from nine and that will be what's in your ones digit.   For example, the ones digit in 9x7 would be 3 because the 10's digit was 6 and 9-6=3.   Or another way to think about it is that anytime you multiply a number under 10 by 9, the two digits in the number will equal 9.

    Seriously....look at the numbers.  They all have one less than 9 in the 10s place, and the two digits add up to nine...

    9x2 = 18  (1+8=9)
    9x3 = 27 (2+7=9)
    9x4 = 36 (3+6=9)
    etc...
     

    Exactly

    3 hours ago, Clarita said:

    FYI you can make this work for all numbers. Just change step 2 into subtract the number you are multiplying it by. 

    9 * 2 = (2*10) - (2) = 18

    9 * 11 = (11 * 10) - 11 = 99

    9 * 12 = (12 * 10) - 12 = 108

    This is how I learned them.

    Another fun fact for down the road: the product of any number times 9 will have a digit sum of 9. My oldest ds discovered this on his own when learning about digit sums and thought it was so cool.

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    Artistic Pursuits isn't going to fit the bill. I like both versions, but sadly Oldest doesn't. He basically wants a great big art set of everything and lessons on how to use it all. Mixing paint is a biggie on his list, so exploring the color wheel is definitely on the menu. I'm looking for something in between his imagination and reality.

    This morning, I looked at Masterbooks Living Art Lessons and wonder if that will fit the bill with an art case of supplies and a mixed media pad? I don't see an actual package of recommended supplies ready for purchase.

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    6 hours ago, Ellie said:

    Next week here in Central Texas, the weather will try to kill us again. I can't speak for Slache, but I for one will be sheltering in place as much as possible. Ugh. I prefer Snomageddon (without all the damage we experienced, of course).

    I live this day in and out all winter long. It gets old. I do not envy your weather, though. It will barely break 70 here today and it feels perfect.

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    9 minutes ago, Slache said:

    I have no idea. The DVD would not get done here.

    I looked and don't see the one without the DVD covering the same stuff. I doubt he'll be thrilled about the idea of coloring with pencils before getting to use a paintbrush, but I actually think the DVD lessons are what would sell it for him. We'll see when I show it to him later on. If I spend the $$, he's doing the work. I know all the fine motor exercise would certainly improve his penmanship! 

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    EdPo:

    Oldest wants to do art next year. More specifically, he wants a whole bunch of different paintbrushes and paint. Um, ok, I'll look into a curriculum for that. Is there a curriculum for that? Like maybe DVDs that teach him and the supplies that coordinate? I personally think he'll get bored with just painting for an entire year, but I could be wrong. I'm not opposed to something along the lines of him learning a new type of art with a hands on project once a week, either. Give me ideas please because this is sooo not my area.

    Also, NOW he wants a different science curriculum. He finally realized that Berean Builders has a demo or experiment for nearly every lesson and says YES, let's do that! 🤦

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    We are done! We are done! We are done! 🎉🎉🎉

    I need to mail out our standardized testing materials later on and start calculating final grades, but other than that:

    🎼 Schooooool's Out For The Summer! 🎶

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    7 hours ago, Slache said:

    If you're a creationist there is Christian Kids Explore Biology and Biology 101. Biology 101 calls itself a high school course but reviews say middle school.

    If you just want to do a booklist I would download the table of contents from a big name publisher and use it as a checklist, not bothering with the time or money for a curriculum.

    I did not know this. Thanks for the heads up!

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