Clarita
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I think the concern is just if books of a certain era are the only books they read the prejudices may get ingrained in them. If your children read books/literature/stories from different cultures and time periods including more current times I'm sure they realize they shouldn't believe every attitude/belief a book has. Even my 4 and 2 year old had questions about the original Curious George book, because they knew certain attitudes in that story wasn't right.
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6 hours ago, Xahm said:
Slightly joking, but not completely, of anyone knows of a Christian Charismatic homeschooling mom who blogs or does podcasts about their homeschooling life and values the education aspect, please let me know so I can send it along.
Honestly I don't know if you'll be able to find anything that will actually be helpful given the dire circumstances, however you may do a search on Charlotte Mason homeschooling. A lot of Christian moms bloggers use this method so maybe you could find inspiration there for her.
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10 minutes ago, lewelma said:
What about the first edition of WTM? Many people for a long time preferred the first version to all future versions.
What were some differences between the first version and subsequent versions? I only have the 4th edition.
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12 hours ago, My4arrows said:
When do you begin learning foreign language?
As soon as possible. There is soo many programs out there that provide you with video and/or audio of native speakers.
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46 minutes ago, Terabith said:
I'm saying that this particular kid, with some major hard core sensory issues
Those are the parents and people I really feel for. Those with sensory issue beyond the usual discomfort (whether young or old).
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23 hours ago, Terabith said:
If the pandemic had hit when they were 2, I'm not sure I would have been able to keep a mask on them.
My little girl was a few months shy of 2 when the mask mandates started. Actually it wasn't too hard to keep mask on the little ones. After months of not being able to go anywhere (we live in CA) I just had to say "We'll have to go home if your mask comes off." The mask falls off and I have to fix it sometimes because she is not so coordinated, but in terms of fighting me on it, it only took one time of heading back to the car for her to comply. I had zero issues getting my neuro-typical 3 year old to comply.
I think it was actually easier for younger kids, because they don't remember a time when they didn't. My now 4.5 year old had a much harder time with the lockdown stuff (definitely had some depression last year) than my now almost 3 year old.
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3 hours ago, PeterPan said:
The answer to challenges is to get help or become the help. There are resources and options maybe you didn't have 15-20 years ago.
Thank you for your super thorough answer. My son is still early in his handwriting/drawing so there isn't any clear indication he is any different from any other 4.5 year old. As for my issues I got 0 resources and options as a kid. I was 100% in that era of teaching where it was let's not teach kids anything boring. I was a pretty good student so essentially I was not explicitly taught anything (except math) no explicit phonics, no explicit handwriting, no grammar, etc. My kids are going to get a better education than I did.
I think I'll try teaching my son cursive first and seeing how that goes.
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4 hours ago, Emily ZL said:
It seems like a silly preference, but my understanding is that studies have shown that more goes on in a child's brain when writing in cursive than you would think.
I felt like the bulk of the research just backed writing by hand begin helpful in learning. The few pieces of information that are causing me to reconsider is 1) cursive is easier to learn than print, and 2) it somehow helps spelling. Currently I would not plan on teaching my kids both print and cursive just one or the other.
2 hours ago, Not_a_Number said:Apparently, when DH was in school, he thought it was so stupid that he rebelled and never learned it at all.
As for me, my family used to complain my handwriting was atrocious and determined it was because my pencil grip was wrong. To prove them wrong I continued with my "wrong" pencil grip but determined to have beautiful handwriting. This lead to me learning copperplate to hand address 200 envelopes for my wedding - I finally learned the "correct" pencil grip. The apples don't fall far from the tree, so I have to be careful how I push my children because they definitely will push back.
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I never learned to write in cursive and I have always been able to read in cursive just fine. So, obviously originally I did not see the need for cursive. However in homeschooling circles it comes up a lot (researching reading/spelling things). So, I'm on the fence. My son is interested in learning to write now (4.5), so the door is wide open whether I teach him to write in print or cursive.
I just want to see everyone's thoughts.
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3 hours ago, GoodnightMoogle said:
Honestly, the beautiful art people make for these curricula reaaaally appeal to me. It’s those Beatrix Potter illustration vibes. They know how to get us.
It was absolutely the reason I bought Gentle and Classical for my kids. This is the curriculum that got me hooked on to all the pretty unit study stuff.
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2 hours ago, AnneGG said:
I just bought a Paddington Bear unit study made by lady on IG.
I’m weak.
I have a Peter Rabbit one in my etsy cart just wondering if I'll ever really print it out to use.
1 hour ago, Not_a_Number said:So what appealed about it?? 😄 Just general cuteness?
It's adorable when your 4 year old and 2 year old take out the story board and act out a story. Then you get to hear your MIL and husband gush about what a wonderful homeschool mom you are.
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1 hour ago, jar2542 said:
Morning Time - Gentle+Classical Primer. We started this about a month ago and basically just use this for our nursery rhyme, fairy tale/fable, poetry, and artist/composer study.
How do you like this? Do you think it's too much? I looked through primer and it felt like a lot of work to me along with learning to read and math. Otherwise my kids and I LOVE Erin's choices in literature. My eldest is turning 5 in the fall. I am on the fence with doing the new preschool 1 or primer when he starts school.
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3 hours ago, Not_a_Number said:
Yeah, I'm also "wasting" my education 😉 . I have a math Ph.D and all sorts of fancy accomplishments and I'm staying home with my kids.
I HATE when people say things like someone "wasted" their talents because they decided to become a stay at home parent. I for one did all that because I wanted to be a stay at home parent.
3 hours ago, GoodnightMoogle said:I feel more and more sheepish every time I say that I’m staying home with my little one.
Don't feel sheepish. I mean how many people get to do their dream job. I always say that sentence as "I'm so lucky I get to be a stay at home mom. It's what I've always wanted to be."
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How did Masterbooks teach math differently? Could you make the Singapore math more Masterbook like? Maybe Masterbooks is going to work better for you even if everyone else loves Singapore.
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I have done "Childhood Potential - Online Montessori Conference" twice. I've really enjoyed that one. Real information on how to teach and latest research not just a buy this curriculum conference. It's actually geared toward professional school teachers or people looking to start schools so there is a handful of that don't pertain to homeschooling at all like "How to have hard conversations with parents."
Of course this particular conference is specific to Montessori, but perhaps there are other conferences for other styles as well geared toward professional teachers vs. homeschoolers. They might be a bit less about selling you a set of books/curriculum; since teachers seem to have no say over that anyways.
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My kids are young and I am DONE wading through the "nature" schooling to find stuff on homeschooling. When my kids are in nature they are busy digging holes, torturing/exploring insects, running in a circle screaming and are NOT going to participate in my contrived math or reading lesson. Sorry for the rant but I was really annoyed when I was trying to put together a challenging enough preschool and kindergarten "curriculum" for my son.
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I watched Chris Voss's Masterclass on "The Art of Negotiations". I found him to be quite enlightening on how to be persuasive - very different than how I had viewed making arguments and negotiations. He wrote a book with the same title; which I think has the same content in book form. It is coming from a face-to-face point of view instead of written so some techniques may not be applicable to written work.
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I would not worry about him not paying attention to some random story he isn't interested in. To have him practice narrating you can first start by asking him about things during his day and having him re-tell something that he actually experienced. From there get him to summarize and/or discuss with you stuff that he is interested in. Since he seems to like the iPad make it a point to have him tell you what happened during a game he played on there, or a video he watched. (two birds with one stone - turn the iPad into work and it is now something he actively engages in as opposed to something that just entertains him. Even games can be passive entertainment.) Probably by then he can narrate stories back to you and discuss them with you whether you want him to or not.
Also, make time during day where his narration and discussion won't be corrected AT ALL. This part is super important because this shows him that you actually care about what he has to say and it's not always some test and he's trying to get to the right answer.
This is how I get my 4.5 and almost 3 year old to narrate things for me.
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On 5/6/2021 at 8:07 AM, Not_a_Number said:
I think grammar is much easier if you’ve got two languages, since you have something to compare to!
Well it has yet to help me any being able to speak English, Cantonese and Mandarin. Albeit I'm essentially illiterate in Chinese.
If you would really like to know about the nitty-gritty of the Russian language and how to explain it you may look for a Russian grammar book (like from Russia). You could look for the grade level where you don't know the rules, usually the nitty gritty of a language would be taught between 6-11 years of age. You don't have to teach from the book in terms of their scope and sequence. You could just teach yourself the nitty gritty. I find the books for kids use less cumbersome language to describe grammar vs. books for adults.
Or you may find that you like their scope and sequence because they are teaching from fluent speaker point of view. I find a lot of parents teaching their kids Chinese use this method, especially if they are able to complete the conversational piece either by tutor or themselves.
Also you may be able to find some free resources from the Russian government. Taiwan and China have one called Chinese Overseas Affairs Council, and Overseas Chinese Language and Culture Education Online; to help you with what Russia may call this government entity.
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On 5/7/2021 at 10:22 AM, forty-two said:
But preschool rhyming is usually just end rhymes - anything that has the same ending sound rhymes, no matter how many syllables precede that sound.
Good to know. My son is back to being interested in rhyming and meter - he is thinking about why certain books have that poetic flow. I struggle teaching my son things that are not well defined because he is so analytical. So I struggle teaching him a lot of the English stuff.
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As a non-expert in the field of education, rhyming seems like a really hard skill to me. I had a hard time explaining it to my son. Sure table rhymes with fable, but does action rhyme with application... So, I gave up teaching rhyming. My 4 year old can blend and spell phonetic words, so I'm not worried.
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On 4/25/2021 at 1:24 PM, RebeccaCameron said:
My kid is not interested in anything. Need a place with a proper curriculum, so that he'll be fine fine with the activities
Not interested in anything at all or not interested in "normal" preschool work (crafts, endless coloring, singing and dancing)?
If it's just not interested in "normal" preschool work then, figure out what skill that work is suppose to teach them and find another way to teach those skills to them. For example, coloring mostly exists to work towards one day being able to write. There are other activities to build up writing muscles such as screwing/unscrewing lids/nails, using fingers/tweezers/tongs/chopsticks to move objects.
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To me the best that I can gather is:
A phonogram is a group of letter (could be just a single letter) that denotes a single sound. Although some circles specifically refer to multi-letter groups as phonogram and single letters as just letters.
A diagraph is a phonogram consisting of 2 letters. A trigraph is a phonogram consisting of 3 letters.
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Oh my goodness. I'm so sorry! They aren't doing it all by themselves. I'm doing it with them and supervising the whole time (they can't actually reach all the kitchen cabinets so they can't do the whole thing by themselves anyways. HaHa I did kind of sound ridiculous thanks for calling me out. I also have an anti-fatigue mat near the dishwasher and they know for glasses and ceramic plates (because they are on the high cabinets) to hand them to me.
Also note that my kitchen does not resemble a KonMari kitchen so putting things away isn't as hard. They can just stick it in the right drawer and it is good enough. My kitchen utensils are just shoved in a drawer for example. Yes you really have to let go of perfectly put together drawers when you ask your young kids to do it. A lot of baskets are involved so things can easily be put away. My kids clothes are not folded; they just get shoved into the right drawer.
Also as a background to our kids starting chores so young is that both my husband and my grew up in households where our moms were so demanding about the way things need to be in the house that they never allowed us to clean up. His mom would ask him to put stuff away, but redo it as soon as he was finished. My mom would yell at me about how I was always doing it all wrong and at some point just said "Don't bother you are just making more work for me." End result, two messy adults. So we were very intentional about this and I have rearranged things in our house with the sole purpose of making cleaning up age appropriate and doable for our kids.
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What are some curriculum trends you’ve noticed over the years?
in General Education Discussion Board
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When I first started learning about classical homeschooling I was so confused. I made the mistake of bringing my analytical brain into the conversation and asked about the exact time period of said old traditional classical education - (ancient Rome, ancient Greek, Renaissance, or 1930's America).