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DS7's handwriting is a mess, but it's still more legible than DSS17. We are using a penmanship program in addition to the writing in the SOTW AG, FLL and WWE. It has improved since pulling him home and I believe that is because I make him rewrite things rather than letting it go or just marking it 'wrong' and moving on.
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Before I pulled DS from PS I had multiple conversations with the parents of 5 parents of other children in his class who had similar issues with the teacher and the system (no gifted program until 3rd grade, extra busy work or 'sit in the reading corner' as how to deal with those who excel, 2nd graders who had met the 3rd grade 'standard' within 3 months of starting the school year, etc.). I tried going through the teacher, the principal, the school administrator, and the school board but truly got nowhere and ultimately decided the best thing for my son was to be hs'ed. The other parents "wished" they could hs but couldn't either because of jobs or their own 'patience' to handle their children and they didn't want to rock the boat at the school and make life more difficult for their kids.
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We live about 10 minutes away and go at least once/week. The library system consists of 27 libraries, 5 cooperative libraries, and 3 community kiosks. We can request books via internet and they can be pulled from any of the 35 locations.
I love our library system.
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Daily: Math: 30-60m, Spelling: 10-20m, FLL: 20m, WWE: 20m, Reading: 30m, Phys. Ed: 30-60m
Monday/Weds/Friday: History: 60m and Art when it applies
Tuesday/Thursday: Science 60m and Music 30m
This is roughly our schedule... I put a table of this in a word document, one table for each week, and then change times/subjects as needed to reflect what we actually did. I also make a list of all of the books, DVDs, projects, and other supplementals that we do each day.
We tend to do 2 math lessons each day and 1 lesson of each of the other topics. We don't go by 'by the book' RE: SOTW in that some chapters we may spend one day and others we spend 2 weeks depending on our interest. Science we do one lesson CLE each day but then get 'lost' in whatever DS wants to delve into.
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This is the pdf for the AG for SOTW1.
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I use the PDF for for printing off coloring pages, maps, etc... So easy!
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The da ycare I used for my kids did the toothbrush thing... Each child's brush was stored in separately in a little storage box out of reach of the kids. No toothpaste was used.
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This is my first year of hs'ing... Actually my 1st semester! I use CLE Math and Science for my 2nd grader.
I like both subjects because they are very open-and-go.
As others have mentioned, the Math has a lot of review and spirals. I don't feel compelled supplement because there is plenty of practice provided in each less. Sometimes on Fridays, just for a change of pace, we will focus on Flashcards or worksheets from my Evan-Moore book or some other activity... But for the most part my son wants to complete 1-2 lessons/day and can do most of it relatively independently.
The 200 Level Science is also very open-and-go. He usually does 1-2 lessons/day primarily because he finds them so interesting. Normally I skim the Lesson for words he may struggle with and point them out to him, and then he completes the lesson independently. We check it together and discuss what he learned. Sometimes there is a subject (right now it's cougars) that peaks his interest and we spend some time looking for independent reading books and DVD's that will go into more depth on the subject. Other times we just move on.
HTH
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Legos, K-nex, Marble run, circuit board (not technically a toy I guess), dominoes...
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I am using the 2nd grade materials with DS and he is enjoying them. He's a workbook kid though. He reads the lesson and answers the questions. Then we do a some further research/reading via nonfiction library materials. He is enjoying learning about animals and their habitats in the simple way CLE presents it and then using the internet and the library to follow his interests.
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I have been told that the dark circles can be related to unchangeable things such as genetics/heritage, but also can be made worse by lack of sleep and poor nutrition... I have some mild food allergies and when I am eating naughty things my circles are much worse.
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She looks like she is at least part pointer... I don't know how to post a pic but it you google 'pointer' you will see several images of similar looking dogs.
The 'dead cockroach' position may be a sign of submission.
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I come from a family of PS teachers.... 3 brothers are teachers... their wives are school employees (psychologist, speech pathologist, preschool aide)... 2 of my nephews are teachers... one of their wives is a teacher... 1 neice is a teacher.. 1 neice a librarian... my MIL is a teacher... You get the picture.
Anyway, their view that only teachers understand teaching (which may be true in the sense of wrangling large groups of children of various levels and potentials to stare in the same direction for 6-7 hrs/day) and that homeschooling doesn't yield excellence in education (based on the few 'failed hs'ers' that return to the system now and then and are grade levels behind where they should be) was my biggest obstacle initially.
With my family, I explained where my son was in school (they were ready to bump him up a grade) vs. where he actually is in terms of his true education (mastery of language, math, etc, and total lack of any background in science or history other than what he got at home), they were stunned. I had to remind them that I don't live in WI where they all teach and our system is in the bottom 25% in the country... With a few examples of his education and dealings with the school... as well as me telling them that if they thought he needed to be in PS they could move here to teach him... they finally got on board or at least quit talking about it.
My MIL, on the other hand, teaches at a very expensive private school here in town and she KNOWS the public system. She has been more than supportive of our decision and sometimes is a bit too helpful, bringing home worksheets, curriculums, and books ad nauseum to make sure that I know all of my options.
My friends who have kids in the same system frequently remark that they wish they were brave enough to pull their children. The only 'negative' remarks have been more of the "How do you stand being home with them all day?" type.
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Dover Publishers also has a detailed anatomy coloring book in their "My First" series.
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My 3-almost-4-yo loves the Magic School Bus books "Inside the Body" and ... another one about the senses... I can't remember the exact name. In "Inside the Body," the bus shrinks and a boy from the class eats it accidentally... It covers the digestive system, the circulatory system, the nervous system, and a little about the pulmonary system.
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Sounds so strange.... I love our library. Our library system covers several counties and one time my daughter tore some pages from a book... I went to Barnes and Noble and bought the same book and went to the library with both. The librarian was shocked that I would offer to replace the book.. She scanned the new book into the system with a new barcode sticker. Then she marked a line through the bar code on the book that was damaged and gave it to me saying my daughter could have that one..
Another time my son lost a book from his PS and the librarian told me I could either pay the $20 lost book fine or go buy a new book for $3.99 from Barnes and Noble....
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I think the hard copy was a waste of money for us... I have him do the coloring pages and the maps but it would have been easier to print them from the PDF. We've only done 2 projects (mummified chicken and the pyramid) and those I could have printed off as well.
I do go over the questions and narrations with each unit BUT.... again... not worth the hardcopy price.
JMO.
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Yes, 100%. We own a business and I could continue to run it with our current technicians (minus DH of course). I am a Physical Therapist so I could also return to work and actually we would be ahead of where we are now financially. But it would make me sick to put the kiddos back in the public schools here.
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We start at 9:00 and do math, spelling, comprehension and history before lunch... However, after lunch their is reading, piano, science, sometimes more history, PE....
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DS is in 2nd grade and we try to shoot for 4 hrs/day plus independent reading time.
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I have my son tell me a bit about what he reads, but I certainly don't go through copywork and narration and summarization and and and... Talk about sucking the fun out of learning!
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My best friend's daughter has spina bifida and they have had nothing but the best experiences with Mayo since she was born 8 years ago. She has worked with a team of specialists, not just one doctor, because her issues have run the gammet from hydrocephalus to open wounds to neurological issues to pneumonia to... well, you get the picture.
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We did the 200 level because he was completing missing any sort of education regarding measurement or story problems and background in time and money was weak so while he breezed through questions re: addition/subtraction, greater/less than, and fractions, he had no clue where to even start on a story problem or measurement, and he would stumble through time telling questions and money questions (particularly if their were dollars and change involved). I wanted him to basically start 'from the beginning' on those topics so he would have confidence in his abilities.
Maybe what I'll do is continue having him work his way through the 200 level... Typically he does 2-3 pretests before he hits one that he struggles with. We do all the suggested work for that lesson and then either move on to the next pretest (if he struggled on the 1st or 2nd pretest) or pull out some additional practice depending on time and his level of understanding. We try to spend 30-45 mins on math each day regardless of the number of lessons he goes through. Math is his favorite thing to do so I actually have to tell him he needs to stop once it nears the hour mark.
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I just started HS'ing in January. DS is 2nd grade.
So I started with CLE Math because I wanted DS to succeed easily with his math starting out. He loves math and I wanted to keep his confidence high. I didn't want to overwhelm him. However, we are breezing through CLE's 2nd grade math (occasionally we will run into something they didn't cover in PS but typically not). I am trying to fill in the gaps and challenge him using worksheets from an Evan Moore book and and things I find online.
Thoughts?
Sigh...okay...DS needs something else...
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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We use CLE for Science but we pick and choose which LightUnits we use based on our interests. Since we are doing SOTW1 I stuck with SWB's suggestion to start science with animals... We used 202 (Animals and their Habitats), 203 (Mammals You know) and 204 (Learning about Birds). We picked animals/topics DS was interested in and researched them further. Sometimes he would have questions about animals that weren't studied so we'd look into them independently. We checked out library books, researched on the internet, went to the zoo/wildlife preserves/sanctuaries, etc... We are going to start on the 300 level soon and go through it in the same way... 301:You Grow and Change and 304: You are what you eat to cover the human body and then go through 302 Plants and 303 Animals: Growth and Change. We will stop, supplement, research, and just make science fun.