Kay in Cal
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Ummm... a few minutes ago?
I got paid today, and our "cutting back" is that we only eat out once a pay period... OK, sometimes twice. But it was "kids eat free" night at Maria's Italian Kitchen, and that's our favorite place!
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So we drove by on our way home from dinner... and there were 100 or more people in line at both stores we passed. But to keep with the spirit of the day, we did stop and buy ice cream and cones at the grocery store for later...
if you want to head to BR tonight, you've still got time to make it (even on the east coast)!
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I'm another who won't give neg rep... if something was that offensive, I'd reply and sign my name. I sign my name to positive rep too, for the most part!
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My ds never liked Magic Tree House much, but Dragonslayer's Academy was the series that finally got him to jump into chapter books. We picked them up based on a recommendation on the old board, and it worked like a charm!
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Thanks... I just copied the message and sent it off to them. I figure there'll be another edition some day, as popular as the book is, right?
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I think reading is key... but they should be able to tell you what they just read in decent detail if they just finished reading it. This can be hard to do if you haven't read the books yourself, but you could skim...
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I've been working on my SOTW II plans, and in both the text and the workbook there is a picture (drawing) of St. Ivan's Basilica labelled as "The Kremlin". It isn't the Kremlin, and isn't even in the Kremlin (which is a fortress containing many buildings). It is NEAR the Kremlin, at one end of Red Square, but the White House is near the Washington Monument--doesn't make them the same thing.
There are several small pictures in the workbook that include one of a gate to the Kremlin itself and churches in the Kremlin, but they aren't labelled as such.
Is there some way to let Peace Hill Press know, just in case they ever do another edition? I assume they care about this sort of thing...
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We're using GWG3 this year, and really loving it. I recently got my copy of GWG4 for next year, and in paging through found that there are a few lessons dealing with certain words being confused. They all seem to be some sort of regional incorrect usage--confusing raise and rise ("The boy raised from his bed."), let and leave ("Leave me come with you!"), lend and borrow ("Will you borrow me your pencil?"), teach and learn ("I learned my dog how to roll over."). I'm fairly certain that I've never heard anyone use any of these words this way in real life (as opposed to on the stage, screen or in a book), and that my son has no idea they can be misused in this way. So skip them, right? Or is there value in realizing that others might misuse them, or talking about regional dialects?
Like I said, we've really been impressed with GWG thus far, and the inclusion of this section seems sort of strange and arbitrary. Is this an ordinary section to have in a grammar book?
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OK... so they have to be 5 by the previous summer... so it's the earliest cutoff, not the latest, right?
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I'm always intrigued by threads about trying to figure what "grade" kids are in. It seems to me that the cutoff dates are so different across the nation!
Here (Los Angeles Unified School District) kindergarteners begin if they turn 5 years old on or before December 2nd.
so...
K -- 5 years old on or before December 2nd
1 -- 6 yo by December 2nd
2 -- 7 yo by December 2nd
3 -- 8 yo by December 2nd
4 -- 9 yo by December 2nd
5 -- 10 yo by December 2nd
etc.
I'm getting the feeling from the boards that we have a late cutoff date... is that the case? I realize it doesn't really matter as homeschoolers (and we ignore the date anyhow), but I'm just curious!
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Michelangelo...
Tape paper to the bottom of a table. Let them lay on their backs and paint upwards--voila, Sistine Chapel!
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Yeah... has anyone done this? I guess we don't have the required number of children (only two) to make it worthwhile to stand in line that long for cheap ice cream. If they had it available during the day, I'd drop by... (there are at least 3 Baskin-Robbins pretty close to my house) but I imagine the line will be dozens of people long, right? I'd rather save the time and spend $5 on ice cream--now, if my quiver was full, so to speak, I'd probably be willing to line up...
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I'm one who really wanted my dh present, and he is also "medical phobic"--he was happy to be up near my head too! He also was nervous about cutting the cord--didn't want to do it. Both times I cut the cord myself, he put his hand on mine as I did, and he really liked that. But actually closing the scissors would have squicked him.
Ironically--since he later spent six months in the hospital, including 8+ weeks in ICU, he's now had far more medical procedures and exposure than he could have ever imagined... and he's got the scars to prove it.
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Tell me about it... mine died for my old phone, and they had stopped making the battery anymore. So I couldn't even BUY a replacement. When I finally bought a new phone a couple of months ago, the guy at the store laughed at my old one, it was so ancient--almost 5 years old, ya know!
It's a conspiracy, I tell ya', a conspiracy!
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Woo-hoo! That is fantastic news!!! Keep us updated, and we'll keep the prayers coming!
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Yes, that was sort of what I was thinking... that we'll fairly soon hit some level of challenge. Maybe in a year or two. We do the same thing--if my ds gets 100% on the pretest, he just skips the chapter. Right now, that's at least half the time. But like you said, even looking at SWO F (just 2 books down the road), I can tell you that my ds would miss (at least at first!) words like "banquet" "acknowledge" and "schedule". If he still doesn't slow down, we'll have covered spelling patterns basic through advanced and can move on to even richer vocabulary... though SWO G and H are more focused on vocab development as it is.
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Take care of yourself. I'm sorry for your loss, and will keep you in prayer.
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Probably depends on where you live... I'm in So. Cal, and I pay $20 an hour. I would guess it would be less in Ks? Maybe not if you just charge by the house... set it at $60 and clean the whole house in 3 hours.
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We have kids the same age, and my 6yo just finished SWO C as well, also rarely misses a word and remembers them after he has practiced the one or two he misses. I'm interested in folks' answers, but also in how kids learn to spell without "spelling".
My question in our case is: His spelling/writing is certainly not up to an adult level yet. I mean, he does fine with the type of words in SWO C, but his creative writing, emails, etc are fraught with misspellings of more advanced vocabulary (and he has quite the vocabulary).
My plan has been to just let him plug along through SWO doing a chapter a day (figuring we'd finish D, E, F in 2nd grade, move on to something else), and eventually his spelling will catch up with his reading. In other words, how WOULD you improve spelling without a spelling program? We will be doing CW Aesop next year, and GWG 4 as well.
I have to say that my dh (the primary teacher in our homeschool) doesn't feel comfortable totally dropping spelling as a subject. There were some words that we found that he didn't do correctly right off--like missing the silent l in "could" "would" "should" when we first tested.
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Yep. Not a kid's book, IMHO, and I didn't like it at all. Very very dark. The musical was wonderful, however... probably because they changed it significantly.
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Sounds like jealousy to me as well....
My own personal take on dealing with criticism of my family (a not-infrequent occurance for pastoral families) is to acknowledge and reframe it; ie:
"Your son is so loud, how do you stand it?" "Yes, we just cherish his exuberance!"
"Your husband isn't very involved in XYZ at church." "Yes, I love that he's so committed to raising our children!"
You get the picture. These are taken from my experience, but it does seem to work fairly well in a conversation. In other words, you don't "recognize" that the comment is intended as criticism, but affirm thier observation as legitimate, and then reframe it as a positive characteristic. Takes the wind right out of thier sails, if done with a smile and enough "bean dip"!
As to feeling better about it later... I still come home and fume and fume. Why can't everyone just love and cherish my family as much as I do? Cause they are so great, you know?!
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On a good day I get 2-3 hours of free time, usually after the kids are in bed (say 9:30-11:30pm). That does mean that I'm ignoring at least some things that need to be done, otherwise I'd never have a free moment. But I just absolutely need some time! Occasionally I get up early, but I tend to use that time for work.
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I'd rep you, Drew, but I've done it too recently.... !
I would have been so disappointed if my dh had not come to the birth of our children! Again, shouldn't it be up to the mom and dad in question, rather than throwing around words like NEVER??
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Though there are some churches that are multi-ethnic, and attract those who prefer multi-cultural worship.
I'm a young(ish) white female pastor who serves a multi-ethnic (about 50/50 caucasian/other) church. We have as many Africans (born in Ghana, Cote D'Ivoire, Cameroon and Kenya) as African-Americans. In my six years with this congregation, the church has been trending away from being an older all-white congregation to being a younger blended ethnic community. Our real growing edge is Iranian members, a lot of Farsi speakers in our area. I moved from Orange County, and I absolutely love the diversity--we have members who come from all over the world--17 countries of origin at last count. Now we are beginning a merger process with a nearby church--they are almost 100 percent older anglos, but the pastor there is African-American. He and I will be co-pastors together of our new larger church! He's excited about having a more diverse congregation, we're excited about having a more financially stable base, and both of us are excited about working together. As for brainedness--we haven't fully worked out job descriptions yet, but basically he's the planner/administrator type and I'm the preacher/evangelist.
So worshipping with those NOT like yourself can also be a great place of comfort.
What is your favorite Latin Program ?
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We did Prima Latina and the first half of Latina Christiana... and at that point ds was just plain bored! We switched to Minimus (now Minimus Secundus) for this year, and it has been great... he loves the stories, the colorful pictures, etc. I like the inclusion of actual archeological and mythological Roman content as well.
I think we'll be moving on to Latin Prep, eventually aiming for Cambridge.
Maybe it's just a British think, ya know?