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This is how it is in our house as well. I love to read! Growing up my best friend's mother was a librarian, I always had/have my nose in a book. Dc so far take after my engineer dh, they read for utility more than pleasure.
These last few threads have made me think a lot about our reading selections and my focus.
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Could you look for used copies? I have found the old Ballentine issues used. They are the ones I originally read as a child and I love them.
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Some things I did with a toddler who wanted all my attention. I would pull the highchair up to the school table and either have a snack or activity - fingerpainting with pudding, the above mentioned activity bags, cheerios. Toddler would be on one side of me dc who needed my attention on the other side. I got an Ergo carrier and put toddler in it and walked around from on dc to the other dc helping with school work while bouncing baby on my back. Circle time was a great thing to include all the dc in an activity together.
Kendra at http://www.preschoolersandpeace.com has lots of great ideas for homeschooling with littles. When all else failed, we would pack up the stroller or jump in the car and go to the park, library or we would just take a break. On better days, I would work on training toddler to start playing more independently in playpen ...this worked with some dc and not so well with others.
Just keep swimming!
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I had the same problem two weeks ago. The tech guy I spoke to said it was a glitch in the system. He was able to fix it while I was on the phone with him. Sometimes the licensing portion doesn't apply to your account. I think they are working on it. I hope you get an answer soon!
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OPG is better, hands down, imo.
We owned a copy of 100EZ lessons and ditched it once OPG came out.
OPG is deeper, broader, and more visually appealing.
:iagree: I am on my 4th time through Opgr with youngest dd. I stared with 100EZ Lessons and then used PP. Once OPGtR came out, I sold the others. I know some don't like the script and the font, but I dont read the script, I just teach the lesson. Sometimes we read from the book, sometimes I write out the sentences to read on a whiteboard or an index card. OPGR take dc through 4th grade reading level, the others are no so complete.
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I am very thankful for all your replies. This has been wonderful. I listened to to workshop tha Sebastian linked...it was fascinating.
I was so annoyed yesterday, but the Lord with some help from the Hive has turned this into something very good in our house. My teens and I talked about this issue all afternoon. I have been listening intently many of the Circe talks and have read that great thread on classical ed. The scales have fallen from my eyes. I have gotten caught up in curriculum, requirements for high school, and the bustle of a multi-generaltional household of nine. Truth, beauty and virtue will be my focus. Yesterday we looked for it in Mathmatics. I can't wait to see what today will bring!
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This!! Thank you. I am printing this out and I am going to share this when sit down with these adults and discuss the impact of Youth leaders on young minds! (with you permission of course!)
I just had a talk with my Father, who just happens to be a physicist, and what I have come to see -with a little help from the hive- is that we use Algebra without realizing it. I asked my son "Once you have learned something, how can you be sure that you are not using that information to solve problems?" I think that these folks see Algebra as an equation that is written out like they had in their highschool textbooks.
Off to listen to that workshop and print up some math problems!
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I agree. These children of mine do not know what they want to do in life, so they don't have a focus yet. I also think that when you don't want to do something, any excuse will do. I should revise what I said about Ds, he does like math - ok he tolerates it. Dd is the math hater in the house ...she is much like her mother was once upon a time.
They are those who are either in college or have degrees in the liberal arts/humanities. My son had a discussion with our Youth Leader's wife and an assistant that they see no use in their life for Algebra. I wish I had been there to challenge what they said, but he just me about it today. I suppose the point was that they can get by without using Algebra in their daily lives. We did go over some example of how we use Algebra to find the unknown. I guess I am looking for more.
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I am readly to scream! :banghead:
My children don't want to do their math, Algebra is challenging it makes you think ...hard. I get that, but I tell them it is important. That this is just the beginning of Mathmatics everything up to this point was just the "phonics" of math. I expect them to look at me with two heads when I tell them that they need to progress through the harder concepts, it helps you to thing logically, etc. I know that they don't believe me and that is fine, I get it, they are teenagers and they question everything. It is not a question on how to get them to do the work, for they will do the work and they will learn, but of how to appreciate the relevance of what they are learning.
What is driving me crazy is that some of the adults in their lives specifically at church, some young -youth group leaders, some older and much respected, have expressed to my children that Algebra is useless. :confused:. That they have no use in "real" life for Algebra, it is a class to pass and then forget.
The thread on truth, virtue and beauty is really helping me to think a lot these last few days. I just talked to ds about this, I think he gets what I am saying, but I am not strong in math. Some of these ideas a new to me and I need some expert help.
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Dd is doing this, she took Apologia Bio last year and is now studying Marine Biology. She is very happy with her choice. It has given dd the perspective and time she needed to want to do chemistry next year.
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Tapestry of Grace Year 4 goes up to President Obama
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Thanks for the update! I have been hoping you'd pop in, so glad you are doing well!
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I was feel discouraged today after reading another thread, thanks for posting! I am going to go listen to this now.
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Our enrichment co-op meets 2x/month. Classes we have offered highschoolers:
Art
Gym
Girls Fitness
Music (Last year we did a Musical - Godspell)
Cooking
Public Speaking
Drama
Literature - Shakespeare, Narnia
Writing workshop
Every year we offer a Science Lab this year was Chemestry
Spanish Conversation
Psychology
Home and Life Skills
Crime Scene Investigation
Legislature
Volunteer/ Public Service
Yearbook/Newsletter
Photography
SAT Prep
Finaces
Some of our higschoolers have taught classes to the younger children as well, or assisted in classes
one student is teaching sign language to dd5's class, she loves it.
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I have been to 6 countries. Dh has been to at least 9.
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This is our 4th year using TOG, we are currently in year 3 and will start the 2012-2013 school year with Unit 4 of year 3 and then move on to Y4.
This fall I will have 1 R / 1D/ 2 UG and 1 LG student. We do not participate in a TOG Co-op.
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+Sometimes I feel like I'm having a Lloyd Dobler crisis. I don't want to buy anything sold or processed, sell anything bought or processed, or process anything bought, sold, or processed. Or tweak anything bought, sold, or processed. I just want to spend as much time as possible with my children before they go off to college.But I'm not a kickboxer. Or an unschooler. There are certain things I expect the children to learn, and certain skills I expect them to develop. I've just never found any ready-made materials that work for us, as written, for more than five minutes. Things that are supposed to save time turn out to be a preoccupation. :tongue_smilie:
We've tried the DIY approach, either with loose adherence to TWTM or other guidelines, or just with me winging it. These lessons go very well, and the children love it, but it's so hard to stay organized. We get into some great learning in one subject area, and everything else (school & home) falls by the wayside. So then we end up going back to the ready-made stuff -- see my sig -- and we all sort of breathe a sigh of relief.
It's like cooking from scratch (also an issue around here). To some extent, I'm left feeling that the children would do better with a more relaxed mother, a more predictable daily routine, and the educational equivalent of the better brands of store-bought lunch meat and bagged baby carrots. But there has to be a middle ground -- going above the basics, without reaching beyond the limits of what's practical. I'm just not good at finding it.
Help, please; I've fallen down a well built of my own ambitions. Has anyone been in this situation and found a way out? :tongue_smilie:
:grouphug: I see you have a newborn and 4 other dc. Life is very busy in your house, ask me how I know ;). When ever we had a new baby in the house, it always seemed like after the first few months, I would start to notice how "behind" we were, how much was not getting done around the house, the laundry, dishes, science.....I would panic.
So, first I want you to know that you need to give yourself time to work out a new normal for your house, every baby seems to alter the family dynamic and you need time to find what works now.
I found that my children could learn through games, puzzles, stories on cd, science videos. Things they could do independently of Mom. I would try to cover the 3 r's as best I could each day giving priority to the oldest children. I found that my littles were able to make up for lost time easily as long as they learned to respect table time (school time).
I tried packaged curriculum, but the schedules drove me crazy because I could not keep on schedule--too many variables. So, when my children were young I found as many resources that were a) pick up and go, b) non-consumable, and c) easy to use for mulitiple ages. OPGR, SOTW, and Jim Weiss cd's are things we still use for this reason.
Now that my children are older, we follow many of these principles, and we use some dvd lessons as well. My children know that they must "MELT" every day M- math, E- english, L- latin, and T-tunes (piano practice). It takes time to establish habits, and we are still working on it, but doing these things has helped me feel like we are progressing.
I have found the TOG works well for me because it is planned enough to keep us on track, moving forward, but not so scheduled that I feel like I am "behind". MUS has also been a big hit here, but you must find what
works best in your house.
Hope this helps, I know I have wasted too much time worrying and looking for better curriculum when I could have :chillpill: and just allowed myself to do the best I could.
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I think that from what you said, you could make it work without much trouble. Anytime you change programs there are differences you have to accomodate. I'd say you are on the right track.
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I have not used the reinforcement books, but my understanding is exactly what beachnut said. There is no instruction, only sentences to parse and diagram.
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Maybe she could just share the recipe with us, and then you could keep your job!
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I knew a woman who tested her children according to the grade that they had completed not their current grade. So a child tested in the spring of 4th grade would be tested with the 3rd grade test. I have no opinion on which is better, we haven't tested our children in years.
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If we don't stay on topic with this thread, it will be deleted. I think your post is moving toward dangerous territory.
RE: Political Threads SWB says:
I don't want to see political threads here that have nothing to do with home schooling. It was the last presidential election that forced us to ban political avatars, slogans, and partisan discussions. I'm already seeing threads that appear to be posted simply to start political arguments. Not interested, people. Chat about something else, here. Or go talk about politics, somewhere else.
Simple. :001_smile:
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Me three! I don't think I ever stop buying, it must be the nature of the curriculum I use.
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Visual Latin is not a stand alone?...I am planning to use this as well (most likely starting next year), and I thought it was a stand alone...Can it be effective alone?
It is stand alone unless you are giving high school credit, then you would add the Linga Latina for additional credit hours and translation practice.
For those that want to do both, you would start LL after lesson10.
Rosetta Stone Latin or Visual Latin
in K-8 Curriculum Board
Posted · Edited by M&M
I have purchased many, many Latin programs we have had no success until Visual Latin came along. Dwane is very funny and ds now willingly does Latin daily! If you look at the free lessons offered, he gives a lot of good advise for learning any language. You do not need any previous Latin to do Visual Latin.
We have tried Rosetta Stone for Spanish and French and I have nothing good to say about RS.