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I'm purdy sure "debt free" is supposed to mean you don't owe anyone jack.
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My kids have always had extras....art classes, music lessons, swim team, soccer....just extra stuff going on where they could have enrichment or social time.
This year only my dd 15 has a once a week 1/2 hour guitar lesson and THAT IS IT! The boys adamantly did not want to play sports (no soccer, football, basketball...). And neither are playing an instrument..
I have been wracking my brain trying to think of things we could do instead of scheduled activities. These kids are going to need to get out and DO something. I like to stay HOME to HOMESCHOOL, but we will drive each other bananas just being here all.day.and.all.night with no diversion somewhere. We are very rural, so there are no museum/city type activities. The Y is over 1/2 hour drive and few classes in a not so great atmosphere.
I need commiseration, encouragement that my kids won't get wonky on me, and IDEAS of what the heck to do with these guys that is active and engaging, and NOT too expensive.
Thanks,
Faithe
Oh, my children are dd 15, ds 11 & ds9
Martial arts? You typically have a bit of scheduling flexibility there. Our dojang offers classes 4 days a week. There are two classes offered daytime for homeschoolers, plus classes divided by belt rank 4 nights a week (You would choose 2.).
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I am 42, and have similar nerve pain (sounds like sciatica) and my last period took several days to get going. It was like you described. I don't really have the back pain, but the nerve pain may be affecting you differently. Last time I had sciatic nerve pain it did not go all the way down the outsides of my legs like it does now.
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Not as often as I should. ;-)
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I notice every time there is dog crap in our yard that isn't where our dogs go, or when we step in it on a sidewalk or at the park, or have to drag my dogs away from it on the side of our neighborhood road when we go for walks.
Sidewalk? Who said anything about a yard or sidewalk? Not me.
People have property here--there are at most 10 houses per mile. Dirt road with weeds and a ditch on either side. I've never actually noticed any dog poop, so I have no idea if anyone walks their dogs there or not. It's actually not a terribly pleasant place to walk a dog--kind of narrow with hills and people that drive sort of fast for dirt roads (and the occasional skunk :-/). I grew up three miles from here and once woke at 3 AM to 100 head of cattle (not ours! lol!) outside my bedroom window. Yeah. We are familiar with poop here...
I have seen lots of deer poop and even seen horse poop on the roads here (and clearly no one is picking *that* up).
Now the park is another thing. I'd love to see them set up cameras and fine people.
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I hope you aren't letting them poo elsewhere and leaving it!
Unless you live on a rural dirt road--then no one would even notice.
Ours go out into the weedy/brushy back area of our yard (We have 5 acres and don't mow it all.). I don't think I could find it to clean it up. The edges of the roads around here in many places are similar.
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Our dog is older (almost 9), and we like to have her out 5 times a day min. She's older though--and she was *difficult* to house train.
Our 2 year old GSD goes out nearly as much because he is not to be left out, and he gets plenty of off-leash running around time (or else! lol!).
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One day seems like just a little compromise... maybe alternate? 4 days this week and 3 next?
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Nope, this is a high school (non AP) level book, widely used in regular and honors bio. This is not a 2 year sequence. It is their only stand alone non-AP bio course (other than the "regular" version of the same class).
Their AP Bio does NOT require the intro/honors bio as a prereq, either.
I see. These are the watered down AP/Honors courses we've been hearing about then. I've been hearing about this with math, we already knew they don't usually *really* study history and that silly books are assigned in English class...
Sad, but not really that surprising, unfortunately.
Homeschooling is definitely worth the trouble. :-)
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I'm not familiar with this text, but do they do the rest in Advance Bio (Bio II)? If it's intended to be used in one year, what would it be followed with for Bio II?
What you describe sounds like the equivalent of 2 college semesters of bio (to me anyway).
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My kids know a little about him. Mostly from the Muppet Show. :-P
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I think the suggestion of BCM sounds like a good fit. It is mastery and you think that is the best approach for her. I would suggest this version. It is the 7th edition instead of the 8th and is very cheap. There are TONS of problems. She should always start by doing just the odds, but if something gives her trouble, she can do evens too and have about 100 problems per lesson to practice if she needs them.
Also for the 7th edition:
Student Solutions manual: 0-321-27938-7 (The student text does have answers to odds in the back.)
Digital Video Tutor: isbn# 0-321-27949-2
Additional Drill and Skill: 0-321-33168-0
None of these are necessary, but I find that I prefer the DVT to reading the explanations in the book. I only have the solutions manual as it came with a set of books I bought from another homeschooler here on the sale board. I never use it.
I am working through Introductory Algebra, but all the books have a similar set up. I put in the video, play it to the point where the first objective has been covered, do the margin problems that pertain to that objective and then move on. This is faster and more effective for me. When I am done with that, I either do some problems from the lesson's exercises, or the Drill and Skill Manual.
Incidentally, the DVT's + Additional Drill and Skill Manual would solve the problem of Lial's being too "busy". I may have already said that earlier, but if that's the only reason to not choose BCM, this is a good work-around. I see 35-40 problems per lesson typically (I don't have it in front of me right now). My (very very) easily distracted dd does better with this book.
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Thanks a lot everyone!
She has all her multiplication and division facts down and she can do 4 digit addition and subtraction in her head etc. The thing is she forgot the whole and part in missing addend yesterday in the review and the prder of operation. she got everything else rite. But she should have gotthen them by now. But when she did multistep word problems, she was excellent. This is what is confusing me. I lost my temper as well (My bad! I agree). Both of us were in tears. I love math mammoth and it is done brilliantly but I thought maybe I have a problem explaining and maybe video lecture is better. :( Even more confused now.
Neither of the things you mentioned are expected to be mastered the first time a student encounters it and certainly not in 2nd grade. I can't think of anything that is, really.
Order of operations? That appears (and is explained as if for the first time) in EVERY math level up through algebra.
She's your oldest right? Try to remember she's very young.
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I would stay in MM, but slow down a bit and get more review in. Use the worksheet generator. Do review more often. These things take time to solidify, and if she is in 3B, you have been going through them very quickly.
Are you using the cumulative reviews? They are separate--not included in the books themselves and easy to forget they exist.
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Good mom, lol. I always tell my kids, I have ALREADY DONE 7th grade math. It's your turn!
I said exactly this to my 5th grader today (Only about 5th grade math)! lol!
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FWIW, DS tried Lial's algebra and it wasn't a good fit. I don't know if BCM is similar, but he did find the Lial's busy and often over simplified or broken down into too many steps.
Definitely an issue for some kids. I am teaching myself using Introductory Algebra, and I am finding my groove using mainly the DVTs (Digital Video Tutors) and the Drill and Skill manual. I have found myself confused at some of the explanations.
They took like 1/2 page to explain proportions, and really only needed to say that cross products are equal. (I am mostly likely an ADD adult, so I always just blamed it on that.)
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BCM is cheap and thorough.
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I'm using this with my dd 13. I have found that for *this* kid though, that the layout of the book can be a little busy.
So my plan for the rest of it is to go over the objectives and have her do the odds (or certain problems I pick) from the Additional Drill and Skill book. That gives a more typical math lesson of about 25 problems (not including the examples we do together). The Drill and Skill Manual is very plain. Just problems on a page.
Then we'll do chapter tests and occasionally the cumulative reviews.
I may have this particular kid do their prealgebra also. I know people usually do one or the other, but I can't see her going right into algebra after this. She is rather stubborn--and impatient for work that requires focus.
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Well, of course, but how free are they to openly investigate a different viewpoint while at home? How much free will is at play when the only acceptable choice to Mom and Dad is when to make a proclamation of faith, not if.
Not very and not much.
I think we're saying pretty much the same thing. They're seeking a place where they can freely believe or not believe for the first time.
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I dealt with an extremely strict, sheltering, anti-intellectual church and school for only about two years of high school and it was just enough for me to walk away from God for in adulthood. Today I am a person
of faith in spite of that but the road was paved with personal pain.Because of this, dh and I vowed
that our approach to faith matters and education would be very different from what is typically seen
around here in evangelical families.We have taken a LOT of criticism for this. I am trying to cultivate
a "bugger off" vibe when it comes to academic, worldview, and faith based issuess in the hopes people
will stop trying to engage me in conversation about it.
I attended a private legalistic Christian school for seven years. It affected me. Let's just leave it at that. :-P
My last three years of high school were at the public school. Wild horses could not have dragged me back to that school for one more year and a Christian college? No way. Once bitten, twice shy and all...
And just to clarify, I am not suggesting that if a child wants to attend a secular university that they are having a crisis of faith. More likely the reverse.
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Or, as I pointed out, they had previously never truly had a choice as to what to believe? A secular institution would represent the first real opportunity to critically examine the belief system they had been brought up in. If a parent has taken care to acknowledge and address various criticisms, and invited their children to investgate their faith, chances are a secular institution would present much less of a threat or crisis of faith.
I believe many kids raised in the faith *do* choose not to believe, but also choose not to be vocal about it. I've seen that said (in so many words) quite a few times in conversations here. And they would go along with what their parent's wanted through high school, but dread the very idea of a Christian college.
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Acquaintance begins telling me that kids leave the faith as soon as they go to college 68% of the time (or some figure like that) and I should not want my kid to go to Europe because his faith might be lost. My kid should only go to a Christian college, whether or not that college can provide what is necessary for later employment.
68%?
I wonder if it's occurred to anyone that at least some of these kids who "lost their faith" may have chosen a secular college because they did not wish to be at a Christian college. That would skew the numbers a bit...
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My normally well -behaved dog loses her mind every single day when the mail lady comes. She's been with us over 2 years. No mellowing over that particular occurrence.
Mine has it in for the UPS driver. There's something very very suspicious about tossing a box on the porch and driving away.
The mail lady is okay though. He still barks, but since he's met her, he's just excited (and he likes women in general).
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Wait--there are whole shows devoted to cooking? Isn't that rather boring? I assume it's fancy stuff--surely no one is watching these people peel potatoes?
Not necessarily always fancy stuff. People often do not even know the basics. I grew up with a mom who cooked, but a lot of my friends moms didn't.
They absolutely have an audience. When you have an audience, you should make a show. It beats all heck out of reality TV.
Alton Brown's show was always like a mini-documentary about food. And entertaining too! Wish I'd bought both the 1st and 2nd season before the price skyrocketed. :-(
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Well.... not all dogs are smart. I seem to end up with neurotic ones. At least they are interesting. ;-)
This sucks - WWYD?
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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It's not available on amazon either. I ordered Art of Argument today, and will be waiting 2-3 weeks for one of the books to ship.
It does stink. We're doing extra math until logic comes. :-P