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    so excited for the conference! and yet so disappointed!

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    I just quit going. It was clear that the organizers weren't interested in having people like me attend. One year they had a workshop on proselytizing that had some really offensive name (I think Confronting or Defeating was in the title). I liked hearing SWB, and I liked meeting with WTMers, but the conference itself offered me nothing, and the strife that surrounded the organizers, and their pettiness, did me in. The year they uninvited the Bravewriter lady because they didn't like some innocuous comment she made on her blog sealed the deal for me.

     

     

    Who uninvited her? What comment?

    I registered for the convention in SC!

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    Matt Walsh will be there. I love his blogs. I would like to sit in with Steve Demme as my son did MUS for a couple of years and we would watch him teach on the video. Of course, I would LOVE to hear Dr. Carson. We seem to have an answer to our toddler dilemma, a really close couple who lives on the way is more than happy to take the kids. My oldest 2 love them like family and they spent a week with us for Christmas so my 2 year old will not see them as complete strangers but I am so nervous about him having a crying fit all night and day with me not being there. He is a mamma's boy through and through.  Congratulations!! you have to tell us all about it!

     

     

    They are pretty family friendly, FTR. I live near Greenville and have been several times. I'm pretty sure you can bring him in, they just ask that you take him out of the lecture hall if he cries.

    The vendor area is huge and not quit so no one would even notice a crying toddler there. lol

     

    I may or may not go to the vendor hall. I havent' decided yet.

    Saxon Math 5/4 Supplemental Resources?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    We are planning to use Saxon Homeschool Math 5/4, 3rd Edition next year.  

     

    Have you used any of these resources?  Did you find it helpful or necessary?  What did you like or not like about it?

     

    Thanks for your help!

     

     

     

     
     

     

    I';m using the Dive cds with it. My 10 yo ds watches the lesson on the computer then does the problems. It's easier for him to do it this way since he doesn't comprehend things as well when he reads them. Plus it's faster.

    S/O a S/O a S/O....curricula: what curricula did you swear you would never use...

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    Saxon math.  I resisted  because it was used in the local ps system in Ga where we lived at the time and I didn't want to do ANTHING that resembled "them."

    Then I gave in.

    Then I got rid of it.

    Got it again.

    Got rid of it.

    I'm back to it now because really after almost 12 years of homeschooling and trying to teach my kids math from waaaaaaaay too many other currics and methods I've realized that Saxon (with LOF and MUS thrown in) is the best way for my kids.

    The rebel in me still thinks Saxon is evil.

    What time does school start at your house?

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    I'm currently homeschooling 5 of them. 14 dd, 11 ds, 10 ds, 8 ds, 8 dd.

    We get up between 10 and 11.

    School gets started around noonish. Mondays we have outside activities so they don't do as much and what gets done gets done at another persons activity.

     

    We are not morning people.

     

     

    ETA: I just tell them to get started and they do. This is one of the few areas they don't struggle with.

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