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Please write this down in a baby book, memory book or something. Print out a picture of him at five homeschooling and write on the back. Something. It's just too cute and needs to be remembered. :) :)
I agree. This is priceless!
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I would love to go on a thru-hike of the AT or any other long trail, for that matter. I've hiked a good bit over the last several years, recently hiking up to the tea houses at Lake Louise and King's Throne as well. There is something so centering and peaceful about hiking, and I have grown to love the time spent doing it.
A book I really enjoyed reading about the AT, and have reread recently is, Becoming Odyssa, by Jennifer Pharr Davis. If you can find it at the library, I highly recommend it.
There is a forum specifically for those planning a thru-hike (whiteblaze.net), so maybe that will be of some help to you.
Good luck!
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Sorry to bring up this topic so late, but I had a couple of ideas to add.
Have you looked at The Boy Who Sailed Around the World Alone by Robin Graham? This is the young person's version of the book, Dove.
One more thing I had in mind was anything by Jacques Cousteau. I have one of his books, The Silent World.
Oh, a couple of more things.....
* Our Living World of Nature, Life of the Ocean
* The JASON Project
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Jury's Out:
KISS ~ I have MCT Town for this year, but am always wondering if we're not covering grammar, punctuation, format, etc., thoroughly enough. MCT feels deep, but not wide. I worry. We're trying KISS for a couple of weeks. So far, not feeling it. I hope I can begin to feel it though, as I think it brings something useful to the table. Even alongside MCT.
Near miss:
Peter Pan. After 1 chapter I had frustrated & fussy children. "I didn't understand one single thing!!" Same report after a re-read. These are good little readers. Rather than give up I read the first 3 chapters to them. They finally came to understand the voice of the story & the back & forth of the action & the narrator. Now they're taking over with confidence. PLUS it's an interesting story. They can't wait to see what's next. Whew. That was close ;).
I think it can be hard to *get* KISS at first, but sticking with it will have payoffs.
As for Peter Pan, we loved the audiobook version read by Jim Dale. Completely captivating! If all else fails, give that version a try.
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Here's my mushroom pie :) http://cajunstrawberry.blogspot.com/2013/08/mushroom-pot-pie.html
That looks yummy! Thanks for the recipe. I have a new box of fresh mushrooms, so I'll have to try that one in the next day or so.
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Mushroom pot pie from scratch.
Would you share your recipe, please? I have been wanting to make a vegan vegetable pot pie, and this one sounds wonderful.
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Where have the elementary SMSG texts gone? The link is no longer working for me.
Anyone know?
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We just finished the Peter and the Starcstchers series, and we all LOVED it!
I had read about the books here on WTM board, and recently found the Starcatchers volume at the thrift store. I was delighted with the find, so I'll be on the lookout for the other volumes. I need to look for the titles and order.
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Oh my goodness! You've all mentioned so many great titles! I'll have to expand my list of read-alouds for the year.
We're starting out our year with Peter and the Starcatchers. So far, we love it.
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I like to halve them, then cut into slices. To this I add sliced onions, red, yellow and green bell peppers, and tomato. I put all of the sliced veggies in a bowl, then drizzle with a little olive oil and shake on some McCormick's Garlic and Herb Salt Free seasoning, a bit of ground pepper and sea or kosher salt. I heat up a cast iron skillet grill, then add the veggies and cook until they are softening.
Serve this:
* over pasta with a bit of sun-dried tomato pesto
* on a sandwich (ciabatta rolls are nice) with hummus and kalamata olives
* on top of a salad
* over polenta
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I'm making the grilled buffalo millet sandwich from the veganricha blog here, and homemade sweet potato (baked) fries. For dessert, we're having Luna and Larry's Salted Cream and Chocolate Coconut Bluss frozen dessert served with sliced strawberries. Yum!
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Would it be feasible to take a waffle iron (assuming you already have one, that is)? We love to have waffles for supper, and that would be something quick to mix together. It wouldn't take long to cook some sausage or bacon to go with this. You could take some add-ins to make it fun, like chocolate chips, pecans, banana, etc.
We have made chicken and dumplings in the crock pot in the past. I think we left the chicken cooking in the crock pot. When we returned, I turned the heat to high, and added a can of cheap biscuits for the dumplings. Turned out great and everyone enjoyed it.
What about a package of brisket in the crock pot? You could make sandwiches with it upon returning from the parks and serve chips and dips or whatever.
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Warriner's Grammar and Composition First or Second Course
I think the answer keys can be found at Seton or a few other places for around $8.
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To answer your question, I generally don't believe a recently-turned-10yo *should* be able to outline (to two levels, or did you do more than two?) a dense text (such as you described) on his own right now, understand the dense info., and retain the dense info. A kid that age might be able to, might be capable of learning how to, etc., but should? No. And I think it's especially unusual for boys that age to do be able to do so.
As far as the *method* you used to show him how to pull info. from a text, I think that is fine (whiteboard, discussing, showing him how to organize it outline-style). But I would take all those skills that are wrapped up in your final expectation and slow them down. Is it really he (as you stated) who is trying to figure out how to retain info., or is it you who hopes to quickly be able to get him to be able to? Rushing these skills could backfire once he hits puberty. And I wouldn't force learning these skills through a dense text at this age, either. If he enjoys it, go for it. But if it's a struggle, use less dense material.
Halcyon, I don't think 8FilltheHeart means that you shouldn't teach the reading/notetaking/retaining skills with material covering lipids/carbohydrates/nucleic acid - I believe she's probably reacting to your comments that your son's science reading is "dense." Yes, that stuff comes across as quite dense for a 10yo - if your son is into it, by all means use it. But I think her point was that that type of dense reading material isn't *necessary for this age,* and yet it seems to be part of your requirements of him (why not let him practice notetaking on less dense material?).
I've read through threads you've started over the past few months about him or your school schedule. You often seem frustrated or dissatisfied with how things are going for him academically. I also know you've talked about him being accelerated, and I know you've been doing Henle Latin with him for awhile, starting at age eight or nine. Those threads (and this one) plus this knowledge indicate to me that you, well, might be pushing him a little too much. Even your post on his stress-induced knuckle-cracking - you talked there about it being mostly related to his academics. Yes, you wrote that he does it when not stressed, but it seems the habit was borne from stress?
I have a bright, accelerated son, too, who could probably have started Henle earlier than he did, and probably could have started algebra earlier than he did. I'm glad now that I didn't go that route, because he hit the "brain-fog" that someone mentioned to you in an earlier thread, and things came to a standstill with his learning. He is coming out on the other side of that fog now, and not having covered denser materials in his younger years has not hindered him from learning them now. And he has been able to learn, on easier materials, the skills necessary to mine denser materials now. The skills come easily to him now, making the reading (AKA studying) easier to organize and retain, which seems to be your goal.
:iagree: Colleen said brilliantly what I would have posted here. I always try to listen to those around here who have BTDT, and I find that it really helps my perspective on things. 8 here has so much more experience than I have with homeschooling, and I tend to think of her as my Yoda. She sees what is at the end of the road, while I'm way back at the "2,986 miles to What Comes Next City" sign on the foot trail.
Back to the topic at hand..... Yes, I do read out loud and talk, discuss and otherwise teach from books.
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Thank you for all the responses!
I wasn't overly pleased with the ER docs apparent lack of concern, but she did make sure to tell me that I needed to get with my OB this week and come up with a plan.
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I would ask if thyroid testing has been done, and at least ask your OB if it could be looked into as a possibility. Do you have any family history of thyroid problems?
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I don't know if it's been posted earlier in this thread, or I might have missed it, but have you had your thyroid checked? I had HG for one of my pregnancies, and I thought I was losing my mind! My OB finally took the advice of another OB and tested my thyroid function. It was waaay out of whack, and once it was corrected with anti-thyroid medication, I began to feel much better. I was on a med to slow my heart rate for a while too, and that helped. But I could never really eat and keep anything down until the thyroid problem was treated.
Editing.....I also had a wild reaction to Phenergan, which only made me feel worse. At one time, I was taking enough Thorazine or Compazine to knock out a horse, but it had almost no affect on me. This kind of diagnosis seems to take forever to make, and life is so miserable in the meantime.
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No, but I am leaning towards it. It seems like every time I go out, I see the semi-trailer truck with all the cages of live chickens headed to the chicken plant. It totally freaks me out and just looks and smells plain gross.
:iagree: I keep thinking about the movie, "Chicken Run", and it bothers me to think that they can't get away from their fate. So sad. It really gets to me.
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It makes me so sad that Calvert has changed so much in recent years. I loved many of their old books! They're less and less interesting and unique now. Humbug!
Is there a list online somewhere of the old books from the Calvert program? I would be very interested to see it.
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Thank you so much, abbeyej! You gave me a good review of the book, Builders of the Old World in the past, so I trust your good judgement.
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Dd 5/6th
Science - So You Really Want to Learn Science book 1; A Child's Story of the Animal World; Exploring the History of Medicine; Milestones in Science (lab kit)
... I think that's all. We also have a list of movies to watch one each week, largely drawn from the AFI 100 list. We're watching in chronological order, so we started with some silent Chaplin films and have since seen King Kong and a Marx Brothers film. The kids are actually really enjoying this! I like that we're not scrambling to find a movie to watch together each week *and* that they're being introduced to so much cultural literacy. They love it when they see references to movies they've seen (last year we watched Gone With the Wind, so of course that was a big one! and they saw Jaws this summer, so another "in" with lots of jokes and cultural references) in various places out in the "real world".
We're starting out mornings with family read-aloud time, either a simple but beautiful children's book (often at a "lower level" than what they're reading on their own -- that's sort of backwards, but it's nice to slow down and see the beauty in some books for children that they read years ago) or poetry, then they do art together. It's made for such a peaceful year so far.
I've not heard of the animal book you have listed. Would you mind sharing the author? It sounds very interesting.
Also, the movies are through Netflix, right?
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I personally like Maxwell's School Composition for that age.
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I also teach that each word wears a *hard hat* (like the yellow construction type), to get my message across. (This always gets a few guffaws from my audience. :D) They have their *job* for that sentence, though it may be different in other sentences.
One example I can think of is down. Since prepositional phrases are at the forefront of the KISS program, we can spot one of those a mile away. However, we know that down is not always a preposition, so we must look at its *job* in the sentence. Which *hard hat* is it wearing in the sentence? Does it carry an object of its own? What does it tell us, and what questions does it answer?
I think that's the kind of thinking you want to instill so that when you analyze the sentences in KISS, there will be less confusion and more understanding.
Oh, and I absolutely agree with boscopup about reading through the whole book yourself before you start teaching.
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Another thing that I think they might have enjoyed memorizing from the Egyptian section would have been the recipe for mummification.:D There's nothing they like better than to rattle off something that would be sure to result in grandparent's dropped jaw syndrome.
I love this. :D
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We use KISS grammar. When we started out, we used Sheldon's Language Lessons to give a background for the parts of speech and punctuation.
I wouldn't advise jumping into the KISS program without that background. There are quite a few *free* programs floating around on googlebooks, if you are looking at something inexpensive.
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My best advise is to make sure that the parts of speech are well understood, and that you've brushed up on your grammar skills as well. An old copy of Warriner's Grammar and Composition is nice to have around for reference. Copies of the Third Course can be found at the usual resellers online for about a dollar plus shipping.
I would also go back to the very fundamentals as you are teaching parts of speech. You could start out by giving very simple sentences, such as, She cried. or Birds sang. Make sure that she understands what a noun is, and also what a verb is, then add on some easy adjectives: The yellow birds sang. or The pretty girl cried. Next you can add some adverbs, and go on from there. Once these parts of speech are understood, then I would start KISS grammar.
Slightly scary, mysterious books to read aloud to 10yo ds...
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The Three Investigators series. I loved those books at that age.