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Here in Georgia homeschool parents are exempt from jury duty if they can show there are no reasonably available alternatives. I think you might qualify!
-Amber
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I agree. That's one reason why I jumped ship to the Lost Tools of Writing which is linked in my signature.
Thanks for the link. I will check it out.
-Amber
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The yahoo group Veritas Classical has a schedule in their files section that matches up SOTW with the OT/AE cards. You might join the group to get a look at it and ask the other members about their experiences. The link is:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Veritasclassical/
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I am amazed at what my 6 year olds can spell after 6 months of using it. My 9 year old is a natural speller, but SWR has helped him, too. Rod and Staff is also a good choice if you find SWR overwhelming.
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Ok, I have read about half the posts, but no one has mentioned powdered milk. I told my husband early on that no matter how poor we were, we would NEVER and I do mean NEVER drink powdered milk. I had to as a kid and hated it.:ack2:
Pam
I mentioned that in my post. My Mom would dilute our regular milk with water and powdered milk as if we wouldn't know the difference. Yuck.
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I read about it on the Memoria Press message boards. Here's the quote...
"It's a K-12 resource, keyed to the LCC subjects, and includes selections in Latin and Greek (Koine, Attic, and Homeric) as well as English. There are lots of English poems and speeches, more than 60 hymns and carols, copious Bible memory material (again, in all three languages), folk songs, geography facts, science lists, grammar definitions...it's a big book! It's meant to be a complete memory work resource for LCC families. "
I can't wait until it comes out. It sounds more like a resource book rather than the copybooks that MP already publishes.
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What I mean is, is there any reason that progymnasmata programs like Classical Writing should take so many years to complete? I use CW and like it, but I look down the road and I don't know if I want to do it every year for the next nine years. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
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But for now, I just have mine copy passages from books that we are reading or selections from The Harp and Laurel Wreath.
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I have a child that won't eat white rice unless it has ketchup on it. :ack2: But then he is fine eating fried rice with sprouts and other veggies in it. Go figure.
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Have you looked at Christian Studies by Memoria Press? We are using it over a wide age group (6-13) and are very happy with it.
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We are close to finishing our first year of K and 3rd!
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I stole a pack of Rainbow Stripe Gum when I was 3 or 4. You know, the kind with the Zebra. My mom found it before we got out of the parking lot and made me return it. They made a big deal out of it by calling the manager up front and making me turn it over to him and apologize. I NEVER stole anything again - even though I hung out with a lot of kleptomaniacs in my teen years. So I guess public shame trumps peer pressure, at least in my case.
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Well....that's one way to flush out lurkers! :biggrinjester: Welcome to all!!!
That was my first thought. It seems to be working!
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Home instructor vs teacher guide. Here is the link:
http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9239&highlight=singapore+instructor+guide
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The teacher's guides are for classroom use and the home instructor's guides are for home use. I use the home instructor's guides (HIG) and have found them very helpful, especially in 1A and 1B. The reinforcement games have really helped my 6 year olds grasp the Singapore way of thinking. The home instructor guides for 3A and 3B have mental math sheets in the back which I use for drill. I don't know if other grades do. They also contain answer keys to the textbook and workbook problems. I found the HIG to be very helpful in teaching the "Singapore way" since it is not the way I was taught. I will continue to use them.
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for LFC posted here http://classicalacademicpress.com/images/samples/LFC_possible_schedule.pdf
I pretty much follow that, except we also do copywork and readers throughout the week, too.
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I would never make my children wear floods.
I would never put water on my cereal. :ack2:
I would never dilute the milk with water and powdered milk in order to make it last longer.:ack2::ack2:
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My favorite PHP product is the Well Trained Mind. Reading that is what convinced me I could do this.
As for my avatar, it is a bard. I don't know where the picture is originally from. I came across it when I was researching my husband's family tartan.
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so I think the old posts that don't meet it are basically being granfathered in.
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I have posted before , but never truly introduced myself. Your post gives me a good place to start. I have 4 sons ages 13,9, and 6 year old twins. I homeschool the three youngest. My oldest is deaf and attends a d/hh program in the local schools. I have been homeschooling my 9 year old since the beginning of this school year. He had a VERY bad year at ps last year. It is a long story, but happily since we brought him home he is back to his old self and LOVES learning again. Once I got rolling with the third grader, I pulled the twins out of kindergarten and have never looked back.
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There is a new sticky on the FS/WTB that one has to have 50 posts before listing items for sale. I can understand the reasoning behind it.
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My name is Amber, and I too, am a post-loser. I mostly lurk and post only when I feel I can add something, which isn't often as I just started homeschooling a few months ago. I am going to be very busy the next few days trying to meet my new requirement. I do understand why they are doing this. Some of the posts lately on the FS board seem to be dealers. Well, one post down .... 31 more to go!
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I was going to order the VP lit guide for Robin Hood today, so I am glad I saw these. You just saved me $10!
Thanks,
Amber
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My son was having this same problem this year and it was interfering with his ability to move on in his math program. I used the Multiplication 1 worksheets from the blue series from Math Mammoth. It has a method for learning the facts through oral drilling that includes skip counting forwards than backwards, then adding the sentences, then giving the child a number and asking them to tell you the factors. It took some effort, but my son has his facts down cold now. And, it is cheap - $4.50 for 100 pages or something like that. There are samples on the website MathMammoth.com. We also used TimezAttack for extra practice, which he loved.
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What kind of laundry detergent do you use?
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I buy whatever is cheapest that week.