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I've heard oboe and tuba are good choices for scholarships, as not many kids play them. Sadly, my boys picked trumpet and saxophone.
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Thanks Candid, Jenny, and Regentrude. I appreciate your responses. I think I am going to keep choir, band, art, and robotics as extras, not electives. I don't think enough actual instruction was provided to merit awarding credit for these.
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In reading these responses I realized that some things I was calling "extra-curriculars", others are calling "electives". How do you make the distinction between them? Or should I start a new thread for this question?
To answer the OP, my ds studied computer programming and music history as electives this year. He also earned PE credit. But he also took art classes, sang in a choir, played in the concert band and the steel drum band, took saxophone lessons, and was a member of two robotics teams. So maybe those were electives as well?
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Spanish 1 through veritable press online academy. They also use the Bob Jones curriculum.
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I like AcademicRecords.net for transcripts.
I'm trying to pull up this site, but I get a message that says the link is broken. Is it working for anyone else?
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We used HOAW and added the DK History encyclopedia, as well as two Teaching Company courses.
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Mrs. Pliego is a wonderful, enthusiastic teacher. My kids were pretty fluent in spanish after 2 yrs with her. She is very enthusiastic and a native speaker that has an obvious love for teaching,
Thanks Michelle. This is good to know. :001_smile:
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I also wonder if Mrs. Pliego would be the better choice simply because she also teaches Spanish 2, so my ds would have the continuity of the same teacher for two years. And maybe she would do a better job of preparing her students for Spanish 2, because she knows what she will expect them to be able to do next year?
But Mrs. Rupert seems to have more formal teaching experience than Mrs. Pliego, which can be important in a classroom situation. She has been teaching high school Spanish for seven years.
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Becky Pilego has taught through VPSA for 2 years - so it will be her third year teaching.
I believe Letty is new.
We had a new teacher this year. The teacher was very nice, knew the material and we liked her, but there was a learning curve for utilizing the technology.
Thank you! This is really helpful. Do you feel that your child would have been better off not having a new teacher? In the end did the technology learning curve negatively impact your student?
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So I guess one of the major points of this thread is: THE SCHEDULE MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE.
If one order of subjects is difficult, try another order. If one way (short periods, long periods, twice a day, once a day, once a week all at once, at the library, at home, with or without music) doesn't work, try another. And we should make sure that we teach our children this because when they are adults, they will have to schedule their tasks themselves.
Nan
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Ha ha Elizabeth! He did ask to see their profiles and thought either one sounded good. :D
I have read positive reviews of Mrs. Pliego on these forums, but I can't find any reviews for Mrs. Rupert. A spot just opened up in Mrs. Pliego's class, and it has been offered to us, but I have to decide by 4pm! (He is currently registered in Mrs. Rupert's class).
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I need to quickly decide between these two Spanish teachers for Veritas Press Spanish 1. Help please! I must decide today!
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- Schedule the student's struggle area LAST in the day -- struggle areas "drain their batteries", and if you do that at the start of the day, they've got nothing left for any other schoolwork; if you save the problem area for last, they have lots of "battery energy" to excel in the non-problem areas earlier, plus they get through the problem area faster/easier knowing they will be done after it and are free to go recharge, with no more school demands on their "battery" for that day.
Hmmm... this is the opposite approach from what we have done with my ds's toughest subject - math. For him tackling it first thing, while he is fresh, seems to help him concentrate better. And he likes not having it hanging over his head all day. Doing his favorite subjects last feels like a reward to him.
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There was a boy on ds's baseball team a few years ago named "Blade". Why would you do that to your kid? It immediately made me think of switchblades and gangs.
I personally like unusual names, having grown up with one, but I really don't care for names that are really out there, and "Blade" falls into that camp for me.
This year there is a kid on the team named "Games" and everyone keeps calling him "James". I wouldn't do that to my kid either.
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My friend had a similar problem, and it turned out to be something with her inner ear that the doctor said would resolve on its own. And it did, maybe a month or two later. But I would go and get checked out. It could be all kinds of things.
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Thanks Regentrude.
Anyone else?
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I am planning ds14's Medieval History course for next year. We will be using SWB's History of the Medieval World as our spine, and I would like to add a Teaching Company course or two. I am looking for recommendations for courses that would compliment our study without being redundant.
For example, Dorsey Armstrong's Medieval World course sounds interesting, but I wonder if it would simply be covering the same material as HoMW. Would we be better off choosing something like Jennifer Paxton's lectures on Medieval England?
I would love to hear which courses others have used, and enjoyed, for studying this time period.
Thanks!
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Our 10th grade plan:
Geometry - Teaching Textbooks
AP Environmental Science - PA Homeschoolers
Spanish 1 - Veritas Academy
Medieval History - SWB's HoMW, plus TC courses
Brit Lit - still deciding...
Composition - Laurel Tree Tutorials
Plus: fencing lessons, soccer, art, drama, band, steel drum band, robotics, choir, youth group, and volunteer work... yeah, we're never home!
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My dd has not had a problem with her school's cafeteria. It is large, and offers a lot of options. She is allergic to peanuts and eggs. This means there is a lot that she can't eat, but there has never been a time when she has not had food available that she likes (or likes well enough to eat). The salad bar is very good, and she eats a lot of salad. She stays away from the Chinese grill because you pick what you want, then they cook it for you and one of the options is peanut oil. Because that may still be in the pans, she skips that food option completely.
She can't eat a lot of common breakfast foods, so she adjusted her meal plan so she has fewer meals and she keeps breakfast food in her room. She usually has oatmeal, yogurt, fruit, and cereal to eat for breakfast. That way she doesn't need to deal with all the eggs in the cafeteria. There is also a kitchen available in her dorm and very few students ever use it. She often cooks for herself and her roommates.
My ds attends a school with a much smaller cafeteria and far fewer food choices. His university allows students with severe food allergies or other documented dietary restrictions to live in an on-campus apartment with a kitchen. Other students are not allowed to live there and must have a meal plan.
This is good to know. Thanks for sharing. Are your daughter's allergies life-threatening? Has she had problems with cross-contamination of safe foods? My ds has life-threatening allergies to dairy and eggs, which eliminates most every breakfast food, and many soups, pasta dishes, casseroles, and salad dressings. I think his best option will likely be an apartment with his own kitchen.
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My dd chose to apply only to colleges that allowed freshmen to live in self-catering dorms.
That being said, eating together is a *huge* part of building community. She lost a lot on that side.
Can you tell me what a self-catering dorm is? I have not heard this term before. My ds has life-threatening food allergies, so I will be dealing with all of this in a few years.
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I have the 4 year high school planner, and I use it myself for record-keeping for ds's transcript. He thought it was too big to use for his daily schedule, so he uses one of their one-year high school planners.
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I thought the children situation was better this year. I still wish people understood that babies cooing loudly is just as bad as crying. And I wish people with several children and all of their toys would be nice enough to sit in the back instead of distracting all of the people behind them. But there seemed to be less dc in general, and that made it better.
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Outdoor cats/neighbor concerns - what do you do?
in General Education Discussion Board
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Thanks for the squirt gun tip! I am going to have a super soaker ready the next time my neighbor's cat comes near my bird feeder.
And yeah, I think it is rude to let your pet run loose in the neighborhood.