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  1. Anyone else have a child who does this? My nine-year-old reads words fine, but has difficulty reversing numbers, which has caused a lot of problems with multiplication, so that he's quite a bit behind in math. For example, today he said 9x7=36.
  2. You all were very helpful when we were planning our east coast trip. Now we are taking Amtrak cross-country (4 days!--any tips for that are welcome, too). We will arrive in Oakland, and we have 10 days (some of which we need to spend with family). We'll be going as far south as Monterey Bay Aquarium and as far north as Redwood National Park. We'll spend a couple days in San Francisco, but I feel like I know the city okay. It's the other areas I don't know. With limited time, I don't know that we'll get to Yosemite or the other national parks. So, any must-sees or travel tips for the area?
  3. My daughter is 12 and my son is 9. We do the majority of our reading as read-alouds. We are currently working our way through the last several years of major award (and honors)winners: Newbery, Orbis Pictus, Jane Addams, Coretta Scott King, Scott O'Dell. We are having a great time!
  4. If you go to Mike's Pastries for cannolis, you may decide this is not a one-time trip. ;-P
  5. And...one of those moments where you read through the post and responses, thinking of what you can add. Then, you reach the last response and know immediately that the op is years old. :-p
  6. If this topic of primate "kidnapping" interests you, you might be interested in the 2013 Newbery Medal winner, The One and Only Ivan. It's a quick read (though it's not a picture book), and it's really good, based very loosely on the story of a real silverback gorilla.
  7. Right--I hope you don't think I was being critical--I was saying the additional accreditation was a good thing.
  8. Yeah, I'm not sure--I only know what I've heard in probably-liberal-biased media, but this did remind me of one other thing. In addition to regional accreditation, TTUIS is also accredited by the state education association. Most online schools are not--I don't know if this is a difference in what states accredit or if this actually says something more, but it may be a consideration for some, as it is an additional level of accreditation.
  9. I've only seriously considered TTUISD, University of Texas Austin, Missouri, and Indiana. Of course, the Texas schools use the Texas-specific textbooks, and I'm afraid our family's politics may be too liberal for that to work for us. Between Missouri and Indiana, I like the interface of them both, with Indiana having an edge. I like that Missouri seems to have a broader range of classes, but I like the very clear 3-program track of Indiana. We have friends who have attended and taught at Indiana. So, that's what we're weighing. :-)
  10. Greta, if you considered Indiana, can you tell me why you ruled it out? It's our frontrunner right now, though I also like Missouri (but they want students to be 14+).
  11. My daughter's only twelve, but I've fallen behind in the mandatory teaching of French (we're in NB). I thought perhaps I would have her take a course through a university-affiliated online high school, such as Indiana University. I know there are numerous other possibilities, and that Texas Tech. is quite popular. Any opinions on such schools would be appreciated. :-)
  12. Lol. She's wise. Yes, I have "locked down" a lot of internet on her computer.
  13. I'm just starting to get it together for next year. I'd love to hear what others with these grade levels have planned or have just completed. :-)
  14. Thank you all for this--the livejournal sounds like a good idea; I also heard about something called dreamwidth.
  15. Thank you--she reads and writes My Little Pony fanfiction. there is a FIMfiction site that focuses on this, but there is some really inappropriate content there.
  16. My daughter (12) likes to write fan fiction. Do any of your children also do this? Are there any fanfiction websites you are comfortable with them posting on? (I'm worried about predators.)
  17. I'm especially looking for math/vocabulary/French for seventh and third grade, but would love to hear about favorites in general.
  18. I woke up thinking about this. This doesn't answer the OP, but the idea that one knows little about "one's own history" if one thinks this country is founded on atrocities seems ludicrous to me. I can trace my White son's history back to England, but my Black daughter's history gets murky several generations sooner because of slavery. when I first started to teach her about Harriet Tubman as a strong Black female role model, she was about eight. She stopped me, "Mama, I really can't hear any more of this now. Maybe when I'm older. It's just too sad." She's now twelve. What I teach and what she chooses to investigate and learn for herself are different. I was recently planning our Eastern US history tour, which we should be taking in the next month or so. I chose not to plan Williamsburg, as the inequity during that time is so clear it is difficult for anyone in our family to face. But I really would like to see Mt. Vernon, Monticello, Montpelier. My daughter asked why I value the knowledge and experience of these men so much when they valued people like her so little. It's true--our founding fathers chose to OWN other people. How can that not be seen as an atrocity, one committed even by those who founded our country. Yes, they talked and wrote about struggling with the idea of slavery, but they still owned people, and violence against those people happened on their watch. Some other questions that have come up for her lately that relate to this topic: Why didn't people in the North, like people in Boston, refuse to let their seaports be used for slave trade? If people in the North (where we live) were against slavery, why did they buy products grown and made by slaves? How can people talk about taking responsibility and making amends personally, when we haven't done/don't do this as a country? Why do people still accept treating other people as "less than" if they're not White? (Concerns about UN funding in regard to Africa, after reading a book about Rwanda--I don't know as much about this as she likely does; and the fact that people are still willing to buy clothes made in sweatshops--this after the Bangladesh tragedies) Someone wrote about the US being no less guilty of atrocities than other countries. This may well be true, but for my children, it is US and Canadian history that they see as theirs and that they get to know more personally.
  19. Thank you all for the great ideas! I'd like him to do Scouts, but he's so painfully shy.
  20. My son is 9 and would like to learn more about whittling and woodcarving. I, of course, am concerned about his fingers. Any suggestions (books, websites, etc.)?
  21. Do you know of any online writing groups (not a class, just a group, though I guess I would consider a class) where children can share their writing (stories, in our case) and receive feedback from other children? An already established group would be great, but if not, do any of you have children/teens who like to write who would be interested in sharing their writing, and offering feedback, with other kids? My kids both like to write stories, but without a local group right now, they don't have an audience beyond family. I was thinking maybe we could do something in "social groups," or on FB or yahoo groups, if others are interested.
  22. Thank you all for these great ideas! We are really looking forward to this. :-)
  23. My cross-country/Southwest trip has been postponed until fall (I didn't realize how soon it would get so hot there!) So, in the meantime, we are going to do an Eastern corridor trip. We've lived in Maine for quite some time, so, for now, we are skipping Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts. We are also skipping New York, Washington, DC, and Florida for now. If you were doing an extended field trip, where would you consider a can't miss in the following states: Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina. We may even get as far as eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, and Georgia. We're thinking national parks and seashores (Shenandoah, Cape Hatteras, for sure), historical sites (especially the Civil War sites from Gettysburg down), a science museum or two (suggestions?) and maybe an amusement/theme park to add some fun. We'll likely be camping. Any ideas to enrich our trip are welcome and appreciated. :-) Oh, and "we" are me, dd age 12, and ds age 9. If we plan an awesome trip, granddaughter age 5 may wish to come, too.
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