Miss Tick
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How nice that everyone is willing to defer to you to decide, then. It makes it easier - no second guessing on their part or justification needed on your part, but then deciding what is fair falls all on you.
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Following along since I have 2 similar situations coming up in the next few months. I've paid for it up front and people, correctly, want to know what their share is. Tricky
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You are in my thoughts
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Dd is approaching the end of 9th grade. Her class is called Honors World History.
We think there will have been 4 1,000 word papers with sources
Yes, reading - many, but not all chapters from the text and a few outside articles.
Yes, quizzes and apparently I'm wrong in my assumption that they are just to help fill out the grade book. They really do help them learn the material ("Mom! 🙄")
No projects, but some presentations - ancient African civilizations and a historical character selected from a list of possibilities. These have been group projects. I suppose there is still time in the year for another project
SWB acolyte that I am, I've been a bit sad to see all of history of the world zoom by in one year, but she has definitely benefited from the 2 cycles we did at home.
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Yay!!! 👏🏼
😄 Yes, my friend referred to the style as "Books forward".
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1 hour ago, luuknam said:
So, anyway, lots of pros and cons to different countries, languages, host family vs boarding school, etc.
Thank you for taking the time to write out that long post. We recently found out my dd was accepted to a year long study abroad program and I'm starting to think about what kind of questions I need to ask and what kind of challenges she may face.
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There are regional organizations in the US that facilitate study abroad trips. We are in the region covered by Youth For Understanding. My dd is going to Germany next year with a program administered by them, but I know they also administer some programs to other countries. I recall that most are shorter in duration.
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I travel with ear plugs for the plane to help me doze on the way over.
I also pack a rechargeable battery because I depend so heavily on my phone - tickets, directions, translations, photos, alarm clock, travel guidance, etc. I don't always carry it with me, though, since it is relatively heavy, depends on the plan for the day.
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I'm encouraged by the lack of new news that the incident was not, in the end, serious. Someone called in a threat from inside the building and I imagine their life will never be the same.
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Thanks. My question was really tongue in cheek, which is my way of countering stress with humor. I haven't heard of any actual injuries. I'm hoping it was all in the name of caution. I'm expecting renewed home school requests from dd, though.
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is it counted like a snow day?
I live close to the school and retrieved dd before we even got official notification, but I'm a little shaky now! So glad she had her cell phone.
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I saw a pattern review recently of the Joni Dress by Pattern Scout. I don't know much about it outside of the positive review - but it has shirring 😁
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I agree with pp. One thing I will add is that in retrospect I wished later that we had doubled up on the easier days. The lessons in the later books consistently took more time and I would liked to have banked some cushion in that first book.
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4 minutes ago, cintinative said:
My student has worked his butt off for years saving money for college so it will affect him
I thought of him when you posted. What a hassle verging on nightmare. Are you reaching out to the admissions people to ask how they are going to handle it? Thereby indirectly letting them know it needs to be handled? I hope you are able to get some positive response.
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1 hour ago, cjzimmer1 said:
I have no idea where or when I learned this "trick" but I drew little teeth inside the < and > signs and it was an alligator mouth and since alligators are hungry they aways eat the bigger piece (number)
In a "no good idea goes unpunished" counterpoint, I was taught that in 3rd grade and it took *years* before I understood that the way that alligator is facing makes a difference in how it is read (greater than vs less than). I'm no math genius, but eventually I realized what I was doing wrong.
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50 minutes ago, skimomma said:
I am super curious about this. Is this a thing?
It has worked for me 2, maybe 3, times and I've seen a couple of other WTM posters report the same thing. While it makes sense to me scientifically I've never seen it reported by an authoritative source. Does anybody study "deodorant and its affects and pitfalls"? 😄 I use Tom's unscented and have for many, many years. I thought maybe it wasn't powerful? strong? harsh? enough to kill all the bacteria all the time, but I don't really know what is happening under there.
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12 minutes ago, Amethyst said:
For those of you that are suggesting apple cider vinegar, I have two questions.
What do you use to apply it? I’m thinking a cotton round??
Also, won’t the vinegar sting? (Because of the rash, I mean)
I've used vinegar on occasion. I have a small spray bottle I use. I shave my armpits and after my shower I would spray them, think, "ow! Ow! What was I thinking?!?" And then it stops stinging. I imagine a rash would be similar. She could test it on part of the area.
When I've used it, it has been because my deodorant met a bacterial colony it couldn't handle. After a couple of days of vinegar I can go back to my usual deodorant.
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You might find some interesting topics in the "In Our Time" catalog. Here is a listing of their Prehistory programs. The host, Melvyn Bragg picks a topic and a few experts to dig into it deeply for about an hour.
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9 minutes ago, kbutton said:
Yikes, good for some, but my word, the assumption that we should stop asking people and talk the phone…
Maybe even good for most, considering the cell phones in schools thread. Also some people here have mentioned not wanting to practice in public. But yeah, nothing works for everybody.
My friend enrolled her ds mid-semester and didn't find out for 3 weeks that he didn't know how to open his locker. She went in after school with him one day so he could practice. At the same time she discovered he hadn't been issued textbooks and had instead been googling every question. Kids can be cuckoo. -
When we toured our local school they talked about the lockers and as for the combination locks they said, just as you should expect these days, "there's an app for that"
Dd says she uses her locker 3 or 4 times a day. Her backpack always seems to weigh a ton, so I would love to dive in and optimize her process! but obviously I don't. I'm saving patience points with her for when I have to teach her to drive.
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Yes, bad language as the incredulity arises, but nice explanation of how we got here. And hilarious.
ETA: I was so sure this was going to explain where the plastic "American" cheese in single serving plastic wrappers came from. Butt nothing specific beyond an offhand mention of Kraft Corp