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I'm sorry, I don't remember your question.:tongue_smilie:
It happens to me all the time. I used to pride myself on my memory and now I find myself staring blankly while I try to remember/focus my thoughts. A few days ago I looked at my camera (which I have had for 3 years) for at least 45 seconds while I was trying to remember where the usb cable plugs into it.:001_huh:
:iagree: and I was going to start my post with the exact same sentence! :lol:
About once a month I call up my friend and say "I think I need that stuff. You know, the natural medicine for losing your memory." (Just googled it: ginko biloba! :tongue_smilie:) I seriously forget EVERYTHING. I was pretty forgetful before I had DD, but I think it has just gotten worse since I have so much in my brain to try and hold on to. I have a planner in which I have to write everything or it doesn't happen.
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I was wondering sort of the same thing. I kept reading about people needing to get third jobs to stay off assistance and I had to wonder who, at that point, would be raising their children?
Maybe my priorities are skewed, but I think being a parent WITH your children takes precidence over not recieving assistance EVER.
:iagree: In the interest of full disclosure, I should say that I do get food stamps. I'm also a full time student. Yes- I could work full time (well, I'd probably have to work two jobs to pay rent, food, daycare, work costs, etc.) However. (And this is a big however to me) I feel that me being in school is a bigger investment in the future, and raises the chances that I will be able to get out of poverty. (No guarantee of course, but the odds of making a livable wage go up with each degree)
And... I'm a single parent. Everyone has read (or heard of) the studies that show children of single parents are more likely to have children young themselves, be in poverty, be in jail, not go to college.... I think that is strongly correlated to the fact that many children of single parents don't have a good relationship with their parent- that even the parents who mean well are often just too busy working to be there for the children emotionally, physically, and educationally.
Homeschooling my daughter is an investment in HER future, and hopefully breaking the cycle.
I'll gladly accept food stamps for a couple years in order to not need help for the rest of either of our lives. And to be in a position to contribute to society and actually help others.
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I have killed this thread with my goofiness. Is my prize in the mail? Could I choose it? Could it be a deck of basic Rightstart cards?:D
Hey, I start the thread.... so if you get some, I do too! :D
DD and I have been playing make 10 dominos for the last couple days. I can see how much quicker she's able to figure out the missing part. Probably going to pick up some index cards and make a set of cards for Go to the Dump.
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Not on my nightstand since we are visiting family, but the in progress books are:
Delivered From Distraction
Brazil: Five Centuries of Change
Torture in Brazil
English Grammar for Students of French
Diploma of Whiteness
Maiz y Coca-Cola
Hm. I need some fiction in my life!! :tongue_smilie:
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Is anyone else having issues with google/blogger tonight?
Everytime I try to access my favorites, I'm forced to sign back in. And I've tried to comment on three different blogs (one of them being my own!) and I'm unable to. It brings me to a sign in screen, I sign in, it takes me back to the blog with my comment where I hit "submit" and am brought once again to a sign in screen.
What gives? I have "keep me signed in" checked- and I've never had this problem before! :confused:
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Here's our weekly report. No summer break for us. We'd rather have lighter schedules in the fall/spring, when the weather is nice and we want to be outside!! :tongue_smilie:
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If we have time, we'll start SOTW 1 in the last half of K. We are doing American History from June-mid December. We are taking 6 weeks off, and instead of going back to American we'll probably just switch to SOTW. That'll give us almost a year and a half to finish it in case we need it, and extra time for 2-4 if we don't.
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Thank you everyone!! I think we are going to go ahead and move on, but continue to practice with the bonds to memorize them. DD is anxious to get on with the rest of the book, and I think using some of the suggestions in this thread she'll get the number bonds down soon. :D
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... are going to be the death of us.
Do these really have to be memorized? DD understands the concept, and given a whole, or a whole + 1 part, can figure out the missing part, but needs to actually work it out with manipulatives. She doesn't have the numbers memorized.
We put Singapore away awhile ago because number bonds just weren't clicking and worked on "life math" for awhile. Came back to Singapore and are pretty much in the same position.
But, she already has some addition facts memorized and can do addition under 15 or so in her head. She can also do subtraction, mostly with manipulatives but some in her head also.
Is it enough that she understands the concept? Can we move on? She's really hating it and biting at the bit to move on, but I'm worried that we'll have trouble later.
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I started a blog, meant only for myself to journal, in 2009. After making one post in 2009, one in 2010 and following up at a breakneck speed with one post now in 2011...I actually do want to invite a couple family members to see my blog. But I can't figure out how! When I go to wordpress.com and search for the name of my log-in, it comes back with nothing. So I don't know how to tell anyone to find it. What I would like is to be able to send a link and give a password to view my blog. Is that possible?
I don't know anything about wordpress, but I don't feel so bad about my (complete lack of) posting. :D I have three blogs (all for different things) with less than 10 posts each in 2011.
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DD never took to either, but I offered the paci. I didn't want her to be a thumb-sucker. Hands are just so.... germy. :tongue_smilie:Plus, as others have said- the paci can be taken away.
The only time DD actually wanted a paci was to chew on the hard part when her top two teeth were coming in. And that was just because it was there- and she was chewing on everything, no real preference for a pacifier.
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That was fun. I spelled most of the words right.... the ones I missed were the words I've never heard before! :tongue_smilie:
Thanks for the reminder, just set the bee to record. DD loves to watch.
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I'd definitely be interested. I'm a fairly novice speaker, but would contribute what I can! :D
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In "red neck world" it is know as the "beer fridge"---doesn't matter if you keep beer in it or not, that is just what you call it.
:lol: When I was growing up, there was always a fridge in the garage, stocked almost exclusively with beer. (Occasionally some fish or venison... :tongue_smilie:)
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Glad your first day went (mostly) well, and sorry for the impending sick day!
We started today too. (But, let's pretend like we didn't start til NEXT Monday, when I actually planned to start. Someone needs to pay closer attention to the calendar and stop jumping the gun... :tongue_smilie: Guess we have time for another week of vacation during the year sometime!)
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Confidence in how you are teaching and training your child is your best "weapon" in the review process. Since this was our first year homeschooling and we are unsure of how long we'll keep them home, we wanted to go with county review to "keep up with what they expect". It wasn't until we'd been through the entire year that we decided our goals and the goals of the school board just don't always mesh. ;) Having a bit more freedom was our ultimate reason for choosing to go with an oversight group this year.
You will do fine with portfolio review. My kindergartener's binder was the least of his complaints this past year. :glare:
Well, that's good news. I'm definitely confident in the education my daughter is getting. :D Or... confident it's better than she'd get if I sent her to school anyways. :tongue_smilie:I guess I'm just concerned about the review because... well. My idea of a good education and what's important to learn aren't exactly what big brother thinks my 5 year old should be learning! :lol:
I just need to get through two years in this state.... and hopefully we'll be in Texas after that and can forget about it.
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After my first year homeschooling, the teacher who did the portfolio review said I needed to date everything...... so I bought a date stamp at Wal-mart for about $10.00 well worth it! It gets so old for the kids to have to write the date on everything and they love to just stamp and go.....
This is such a great idea! ...adding to my wish list... :D
Thank you everyone. It seems like I'll basically have to hope for the luck of the draw and get a good reviewer. :glare: My only child is 5, so hopefully they won't be too tough on me!
I'm just going to let go of the nervousness. If worse comes to worse, I'll just join the umbrella group, but I'm going to go ahead and try it on my own for this year.
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We are watching it now. (Had to DVR, race was on tonight! :tongue_smilie:) Our next door neighbor is singing, DD is scanning the singers trying to find him. :001_smile:
But, it is very powerful. The stories are really making me tear up.
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(I'm in MD)
For those who do portfolio reviews, do you date all your material? I'm sort of torn whether I'm going to do the portfolio review or try and get together the money to join an umbrella. I'd *rather* do the portfolio option (financial reasons :tongue_smilie:), but also don't want to get to our January review and be told we aren't doing it right. Should I make sure to put dates on everything? (What about workbooks? Do I really need to date every page?)
And what about block scheduling? Will it cause a problem if we do science and history from June-December and then no more from January-May?
I'm so nervous about this year!
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Looking at the photos, who says Storm's a boy? :tongue_smilie:
Anyone taking bets? :D
Cassy
:iagree:My local news covered this story a couple days ago, and I was looking at the picture and thought "boy"! :tongue_smilie:
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I'm sure the effort did mean a lot to them!! I've had very little Spanish, and the few times I've made an attempt to talk to others they are just thrilled. I bet you really made them feel comfortable, at least like someone was trying to understand.
RE: youtube videos. There are a bunch of things available. DD adores this annoying "Je m'appelle Funny Bear" video, and I don't think she will EVER forget what "Je m'appelle" means. :tongue_smilie:There are videos that explain grammatical concepts that might work for your older children (DD is still too young for the grammar, but I've used both French and Spanish videos for myself that might work for older-children). I don't have any specific videos bookmarked, generally just search around. But both DD and I watch music videos in our target languages. There are LOADS of childrens songs in other languages on youtube.
Oh, and we listen to our local Spanish-language music station. DD isn't officially learning Spanish yet, but I am, so we listen. :D
You could also use the vocab lists in a similar manner to the public schools spelling lists. (Write word three times each, use in a sentence, write definition- in English of course!..) Instead of giving spelling tests you could give them the definition and have them write the word... Stuff that I generally think is busy work when it comes to "spelling," but could be really useful in regards to exposure and memorization of new vocab words.
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Hm.
Well. I think I'd teach both and clarify which is the right one, but encourage them to use at least a form. In general it seems to be easier to learn things the right way from the beginning, than correct something that was learned incorrectly.
And if you were to teach them as synonyms, what happens when you get to past tense? You'd be teaching another concept incorrectly, or at that point you'd have to teach the right usage of ser and estar in order to teach fui/fuiste/etc. vs. estuve/estuviste/estuvo/etc.
(As a side note: One of the ways I keep the difference straight is in general, if I am talking about myself- ser is for permanant conditions, estar is for temporary. I will always be from the same place, so, Soy de Maryland. But I won't always be in the same place, so Estoy en casa. Very simplified, but it helps me keep it straight a little. :tongue_smilie:Might help the kids start to develop a sense of what the difference is)
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I have no experience with SfC, so take what I have to say with a grain of salt, but here's what I've been doing to beef up what we are learning with our French program. (Do you speak Spanish or will you be learning with your children? Much of this requires that you can speak a least a minimum of the target language)
-reading books in the target language.
-I try to incorporate as much French as I can in our daily lives. The simple phrases like "Time to wake up!" "Time to go to bed" "What do you want for dinner?" etc.
-watching movies. Most DVDs allow for language-changes.
-Playing games online. I've found quite a few for French, I'm sure there are some out there in Spanish.
-youtube videos.
-and of course, make every effort to find native speakers or near-native speakers. I'm hoping to hire a local French speaker to keep DD for a couple hours a week and practice French with her- play games, just talk, etc.
I wouldn't worry about necessarily aligning extra practice up with the curriculum. *Eventually* the curriculum and extra stuff will start to reinforce each other. If you are hoping for functional usage of the language, I'd quickly expand outside of the curriculum. A program is a good starting place, but even the very best curriculums won't allow for a decent level of fluency without outside practice.
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Yes. I have a best friend who has been my best friend for 8 years. My daughter is named for her, and her and her husband are my daughter's Godparents and biological aunt and uncle (through DD's father).
We live a couple hours away from each other. Multiple times a week we spend a couple hours on the phone. I tell her everything.
I'm very blessed to have someone like this in my life. She's really kept me sane sometimes. :D
Totally off-topic me-brag... Today I completed a triathlon. :o)
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:party:Awesome job!!!!
I've thought about trying to start a running program, but it will have to wait until DD can join me. Can't very well leave her home alone. :tongue_smilie: