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We decided that our kids can leave for college at 17 if they want (she's not even five until next week so it's soooo far off but both of us went to college at 17 so we just assume it'll be an issue for them). We'll let them take a class or two at the local Christian college at 16. And leaving at 17 is assuming they attend a Christian college with some sort of code of conduct. If they want to go somewhere non-religious, they have to wait until they are 18.
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I am planning on teaching my kids to say that they are in the grade that they would be in at school... I have battled with this for sometime and decided that this is best way for us to go. At church all of the Sunday School classes are split up by grade and I plan for her to stay with the kids she is with now (they are still grouped by age until K). So even though we are skipping K altogether, she will tell people she is in Kindergarten because that's the grade she'll be in at church.
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Sometimes this issue makes me want to give up on Facebook.
My news feed yesterday looked like this:
I got so many nice present's for Mothers Day.
I have the best kid's in the world!
To all the mom's on Facebook, have a great day!
I just don't get it! It's more work to put the apostrophe there than to leave it out, so why does this happen so often? My four year old just learned about apostrophes recently and today she wrote "day's". She's four. It's excusable. But from college graduates? I don't get it.
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Thanks for the tips. I plan to use the library but I just LOVE books and want the house to be full of them. I did put some bookcases in my closet and have created a small school area in there. I just saw where someone posted those Ikea shelves and I am thinking about putting those up... somewhere! My house is small and open--very littl wall space! GRRR! If only I could convince the hubby to get rid of the darn TV and huge entertainment center... that area would be PERFECT for a huge bookcase and baskets!
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I don't have any brilliant recommendations for you but I just wanted to say that you just made me have a "duh!" moment. We are planning to follow the WTM first grade science pattern and I kept thinking "THat stinks! We start animals in September and our zoo closes for the year in October. We won't get to do some of the stuff I had come up with!" (We have a very hands-on children's zoo and we have a family membership). DUH! We could just do science over the summer, at least the animal section and then take a break when school starts to settle into the other stuff and pick up the human body right after Christmas.... which will fall in line perfectly with our March trip to Disney World since Epcot has some fabulous human body stuff!
So anyway, just wanted to say THANKS for posting this because you helped my plans fall into place!
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We are planning on something like this....
Monday and Friday: 2-3 hours, mostly the "fun" parts of school like science experiments, art projects, and history. These are the days my son will be home from preschool with us so I want him to be able to at least get a little education in.
Tuesday and Thursday: Little guy is at preschool from 9 - 12:30 so we will use this time for handwriting, grammar, writing, and anything else that involves us being less distracted by the little dude. :) I have a five year old who has one heck of an ability to focus, she has a better attention span than I do so this should be harder for me than her!
Wednesday: Home school PE, library day, Bible Quiz team and at kids choir at church at night. No formal school work on Wednesdays, ever! :)
I don't plan on more than 3.5 hours per day in the first couple of years. My daughter's a reader so I'll encourage her to read books that work with our formal studies in the afternoon but won't force it. Some days all she wants to read is "It's Sharing Day with Dora" over and over and I am good with that (for now!).
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We bought our house pre-kids. After apartment life, it seemed like a palace. But three bedrooms and a tiny kitchen don't seem so amazing when we are approaching our new life as a home school family. I don't have any SPACE... I managed to make room for one bookcase and one computer desk for school stuff. But I know we are going to quickly out grow this space. We have no basement, no empty rooms, no empty closets.
I did manage to do a mega-purge of our entire house and probably donated/tossed/sold about 1/3 of everything we own. I'm feeling a little better now but still nervous.
So I'm really looking for some stories of people making it work in a small house. Classical education is really all about tons and tons of books. Where do you keep them all in your very small house? How do you stay organized?
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Answers In Genesis (the people who did the Creation Museum in Ohio) have an entire science curriculum and also tons of books on creation at different age levels from preschool to adults. I have read some of their adult stuff for college but haven't had a chance to see their kid stuff.
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Thanks! I was just eyeing those a few minutes ago. I am a product of public school "social studies" and teaching history is the one part of home school that scares me to death. I think these books seem interesting and non-intimidating since we will really be learning history together!
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I had every intention of doing cursive first but my daughter taught herself to write the whole alphabet by copying from books when she was very young (not even three)... so she obviously learned to print. She is now asking to learn to write "the pretty way" so we are working on cursive!
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OK, So WWE doesn't cover grammar or handwriting? That is what I was mostly confused about. And I am guessing based on my reading so far that even with SOTW, plenty of supplemental reading should be done?
Thanks!
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OK, so I'm a cheapskate. And we have an AWESOME second hand book store in town that I'm addicted to... and so I found a copy of The Well Trained Mind there for $8 (woohoo!) but it's not the newest version so it doesn't mention Writing With Ease or Story of the World.
I'm just wondering if someone could explain to me which books mentioned in the older version can be replaced with these???
We are starting first grade in September so I am planning to collect the books and stuff over the summer and my head is spinning a little!
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Hi! I'm new around here and super excited to finally find what I was looking for when it comes to home school theory. The Well Trained Mind is EXACTLY what I want for my kids.
My daughter is, so far, fairly advanced compared to the other kiddos in her preschool class (she attends pre-K at our church using ABB PreK curriculum but we will begin home school in the fall). I'm not ready to label her gifted at this point because from what I can tell she seems to just WANT it more than the average kid (I was in the gifted program in elementary through high school, so it's not a far-fetched idea, I guess, but I'm trying really hard not to expect my kids to live up to a standard I set. I want them to be who they are). For example, She came to me the week of her fourth birthday and said, "I am four now, I need to know how to read." And that was that. She was reading in weeks. But she doesn't just GET IT the first time -- she has to try and work at it, if that makes sense. She's doing some basic addition and subtraction now, nothing at the super genius level, but more than most of the kids in her class can do.
Anyway, I was looking at so many Kindergarten programs and it just seems like she is beyond most of it. I'm not spending $300 on books so she can count pictures of ducks and practice writing the letter "B", ya know? That's why we are home schooling, so she doesn't have to sit through that in school.
We are planning on an eclectic curriculum (ABB for math, phonics and handwriting, Answers In Genesis for science, thinking about Story of the World for history, and completely unsure for writing because A Beka really falls short in that area plus she'll be in gymnastics, dance, 4-H and Bible Quiz team). Right now the plan I am considering is to jump ahead to first grade curriculum. BUT, the plan is to go super slowly with it and take two years to complete the first grade stuff, unless she really takes off and runs with it. That way if she sort of "levels out" at second grade, we will end up right where we need to be. If it seems like she can handle keeping pace and doing the first grade in one year, I will follow her lead. But if we need to take it slowly, we will.
Does this make sense? I don't want to push her too hard but I also fear holding her back--that is what happened to me until the 5th grade when I FINALLY got put in a program that suited me. I am thinking this may be a way to test the waters without putting too much pressure on either of us.
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My kiddo was two years old before she uttered anything intelligible and when she did, it was a full sentence--and a complete and total LIE. Yup, my kid's first words were a lie.
We were at a store and she was mad at me for not letting her grab things off the clothing racks. She looked a stranger square in the eye, pointed at me, opened her mouth and said to the stranger, "She hit me." I most certainly had NOT hit her and didn't even know where she learned that word!!!
Hilarious. I nearly fainted. First of all, she SPOKE. Second of all, she knew how to lie and use words I didn't know she knew. That's when I knew she was gonna be trouble, hahahaha! :)
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I was wondering the same thing. My soon to be five years old and a Kindergartener is really ready, I think. I don't think my younger one will be but my older kiddo has always been two steps ahead of where she should be... Right now my plan is to skip Kinder stuff altogether and give us two years to slowly go through first grade curriculum. That will let us ease into home schooling without getting overwhelmed. Whenever I look at K stuff, she's already mastered it all... for fun on the weekends she staples papers together and writes "books". Mostly "I love mommy and daddy. I like school. I got a present" journal type stuff... but she is well beyond writing a letter A fifteen times to get it right, ya know? I battle with encouraging her and pushing her too hard... it's such a fine line. But I figure I'll be better at figuring that out than a random teacher at a public school, so we will figure it out!
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Hello! I'm new here... and I'm at a sort of cross roads.
I am a graduate of Pensacola Christian College, publisher of A Beka Book. I worked in their advertising department and my husband worked in publishing. We know ABB inside out, to say the least.
I have ALWAYS known I'd use ABB for home schooling. Before i even had kids, I knew it. :) But then I was teaching in a private school and found the literature to be... terrible. So then I thought I'd use it for everything BUT literature.
Then I started researching different home school concepts, methods, etc, and came across the Well Trained Mind. I just knew it was what I wanted from a home school program. Now I am wondering how well ABB is going to fit in at all... I do like their handwriting, grammar and phonics. ANd mostly I like their math, at least through elementary.
Can anyone give me any input?
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Debit card. I do keep ONE credit card for hotel reservations just because it's annoying to have a hold on the account for weeks or even months. But I always make sure I have the cash set aside to pay the bill the moment it comes in.