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  1. I posted this in the K-8 Board, but thought I would post it over here to see if anyone might have any recommendations.

     

    My dd11 has decided that she really wants to learn several languages before she graduates. She has mentioned Italian, Romanian, French, and Chinese. She has also mentioned wanting to learn ASL. She will be in 6th grade next year. I honestly have NO idea where to even start her. She will be working with a lady who teaches Latin next year. Do we just start with Latin and add in a new language every year or two? What would be the best approach to teaching a child multiple languages in a 6 year time span?

     

    Thanks!

  2. My dd11 has decided that she really wants to learn several languages before she graduates. She has mentioned Italian, Romanian, French, and Chinese. She has also mentioned wanting to learn ASL. She will be in 6th grade next year. I honestly have NO idea where to even start her. She will be working with a lady who teaches Latin next year. Do we just start with Latin and add in a new language every year or two? What would be the best approach to teaching a child multiple languages in a 6 year time span?

     

    Thanks!

  3. My dd11 is wanting to do a study on animals for 6th grade next year. I have looked at Apologia Zoology, but am concerned that it will be too light for a 6th grader. Are there any other options? She will be doing General Science in 7th grade and Physical Science in 8th.

     

    Thanks.

  4. We are using Tro's Introductory Chemistry. This course is taught over a full school year as a high school chemistry course or over one semester (with 1/4 to 1/3 of the chapters dropped) as a chemistry for non-science majors course in community colleges and universities.

     

    I think the text is set up quite nicely with lots of worked-out examples. All problems in the problem-sets are set up in pairs, so I work through an assortment of the evens for my chemistry class and I assign the odds.

     

    The solution manual is essential. It has worked out solutions to all the problems, both evens and odds.

     

    Will be adding this to my list to check out. Thanks.

  5. I have a ds who is heading towards a STEM career. What would you recommend in the way of Chemistry? He is finishing up BJU Biology using DIVE right now. He will be taking Geometry and Algebra II next year to get him up to speed on math. I have everything else figured out for 10th, but am completely stuck on Chemistry.

     

    Thanks!

  6. Well, I am a little skewed on youth groups as my dh and I are leaders in our youth group. We are extremely blessed to have a youth pastor who has been at our church for over 10 years and his calling is youth ministry and not just a stepping stone into a senior pastor position.

     

    With that said, it is definitely a bad idea to have a youth leader be that close to the age of the students. The students have a very hard time respecting the authority of someone who just got out of school themselves. They look upon them more as friends. We do have a couple of early 20 somethings in our youth department, but they are under other leaders so they can be mentored into a position they feel called to. We also have a couple of retreats we do every year in which college kids lead small family groups. These are also always overseen by the youth pastor and the other youth leaders to make sure nothing is being said that isn't biblical.

     

    I would be the first to remove my kids from any youth group that the church thought it perfectly okay for someone so young to be in charge of.

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