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i was thinking it did look great for my younger ones.
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I'm really interested in them both.
I'm looking into sciences for my K, 3/4th grader, 6th and 7th grader. If I can keep them all together I would like to.
But if not, I'd like to at least group my K and 3rd grader together and 6 and 7th grader together.
Thanks in advance
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We are in houma - worried about flooding over here as well. They expect water to take 8 days to make it's way out here. Prayers for your Cajunrose. Keep in touch :grouphug:
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so we basically the next level is prealgebra? I just keep looking and I'm not sure what math "7" is supposed to be. When I look over TOC of other programs that are a 7 it seems we are covering those things now.
thanks for the feedback. I'm going to look into pre-algebra next!
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Next year will be our second year hs'ing. We used Elemental Science Chemistry this year for my 3rd, 4th and 5th graders. Next year I would like to switch to Apologia as I just really love the look of it. My kids didn't love Elemental Science as much as I did and I think they would love this curriculum. My plan was elemental science Biology next year.
But I don't really know a lot about the Apologia sciences so where to start? Feedback please! I will have a K, 4, 6, 7 next year. I want to keep them together.
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my ds is coming to the end of MM6 and I'm not sure where to go next. He has completed LOF Fractions and is working through LOF Decimals as well.
Suggestions?
Thanks
Michelle
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yes!! my 4 yo is playing tball right now and our pictures would look about the same as yours!! And during soccer this season, he ran off the field mid-game to bring me a flower he had picked. I thought well at least he loves me haha!!
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My ds is about to finish MM6 and I'm wondering where to go next? He has also worked through LOF Fractions and is currently working through LOF Decimals.
Thanks.
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The first thing that popped in my mind when reading the thread so far is: why WOULDN'T an atheist take a lost purse back into the store in hopes of finding the owner? It had never occured to me that they wouldn't.:huh:
I do not think of atheists as "immoral" people simply because they are atheists. That's just... odd.
:iagree: I think it's odd that we need an article to say that non-believers are moral. All people of any "group" can be moral, just as all people of any "group" can be immoral.
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:grouphug: many prayers for her and your family
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I'm in southeast Louisiana. Our seafood industry seems to be picking back up. Local shrimpers say they look "real nice" :) We had a big seafood fest in the French Market this past week to encourage the purchase of fresh, local seafood, with lots of cooking exhibitions and tastings :).
I believe there are some areas where the oil is still visible in the marshes. I'm not really sure but there was a recent news report about a team that found some oil in some remote marshes. It's so sad that the restoration of precious wetlands didn't seem to be a concern to the federal government until this disaster occurred.
My husband owns an oil/gas multi-service dock in Port Fourchon and work is starting to pick up with the issuing of drilling permits but it has been a long, hard road. Times have been tough and the economy has suffered. Greatly. We have laid off many, many, many people. It has been a trying, sad time for us all.
Thanks for thinking of us, Bill.
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1) I've got to come up with a better way of keeping a schedule. I plan enthusiastically, but real life intrudes. Amazing how that happens. Well you know what they say - Man plans and G-d laughs - that seems to be the story of my laugh!!:grouphug:
2) Charlotte Mason was right about habit training. We are all happier with the structure of making our beds before breakfast and sitting down together for lunch to practice our table etiquette. I said this in my post as well. As much as I love structure, the kids love it more!
4) Morning tea is "brain juice" for math. No kidding. Half a cup of black tea with a half cup of milk turns math scales into math symphony. I am definitely going to try this! Maybe morning tea will be part of our new routine :)
6) Even if I don't think they learned anything in the day, they will always surprise me by remembering far, far more than I thought they would. :iagree:These are my favorite moments.
8) You run out of eraser before you run out of pencil. and crayons, glue, pens, markers, sharpeys, wipe off markers...etc. etc.
10) Letting go of content to focus on skills is liberating, not a sentence of drudgery. I couldn't have said it better!
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what a terrible way for Jennifer's very thoughtful thread about a wonderful holiday to end.
Very Rude, MrsTwain.
I applaud you Bill - you are a wise man :grouphug:
Chag Passover Sameach!!
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Count me in this number!! We have about 5 weeks left of school (only 3 lessons of elemental science and 6 lessons of sotw left!!!).
I have learned that although I love schedules and structure, my kids love it more.
I really love open and go/scripted type curriculums (I.e. elemental science, SOTW+AG)
I have learned that I bite off more than I can chew and that a curriculum need not have a lot of bells and whistles to be a great choice.
My children read more now than they ever have - E.V.E.R. It's the single most exciting development.
Although I have not done any end of year testing or given any grades this year, I have seen my children's skills grow in ways that please them and please me. I have seen their academic success bring them joy and increase self-confidence.
I'm still trying to figure out what makes a great reading "curriculum" or if just reading and journaling about it works.
I have no idea how to homeschool 5 kids, cook, clean, taxi everyone to everything and not feel like i'm failing somewhere...
Some days I feel like an epic failure but most days I know that I made the right choice for my children and we could never imagine them going back to public/private school.
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Oh I'm so glad someone has asked this question!! I've been doing this with my son. He is 4 (will be 5 in June) and we've been just learning phonics rules as they come up in the step into reading level readers we have and some little basic readers. Although he would really LOVE to read every book we own!!
I was wondering if I was really doing him a disservice but he seems to loathe any sit down phonics work because what he really loves is to sit and read! And really who am I to stop him??!!
He seems to be able to catch on fairly quickly to the rule and remember. We do review Progressive Phonics (the one lesson type thing he will tolerate).
Next year he will start K and in my mind I kept thinking okay what phonics/learn to read program will I buy and my husband keeps saying but, Michelle - he seems to be past that don't you think?? I just don't know where to go with him??
I'm going to go check out I See Sam books. He will be my first child homeschooling from the very beginning so it's brand new territory :) Exciting but new!!
I don't want to quash his love of reading by forcing some structured instruction down his throat :001_huh:
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Thanks Jennifer :)
I figure we don't really need a law to tell us what's in our soul. We know. We feel it.
Have a great and blessed Pesach!
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My father is jewish and my mother is not. I know in my soul that I am a jew but I know to be recognized as a jew I must convert. I will one day. Life is a complicated process :) BUT I do live a jewish lifestyle and raise my kids as such. We are not STRICTLY observant as my father who became an observant hasidic jew about 14/15 years ago but we are not messianic christians but jews.
Maybe not recognized by jewish law but jews nonetheless ....
As a side note to the OP, thanks for the sites you recommended :)
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I don't have any advice since next year I will have my first high schooler but I do know that while I plan to have my child(ren) meet the requirements as much as possible, we don't have to meet them as rigidly. while they must graduate with 24 credits they don't have to have PE perse and the electives are purely my own (or the child's) decision. After a wonderful suggestion by a fellow HIVE member, I looked up the requirements by a local college that my daughter would be interested in I'm using their requirements along with state requirements to work up my daughter's high school schedule.
It might have been on the http://www.hslda.com website where I read in the home study package that LA students don't have to meet the same class requirements as public/private school kids.
You may want to check there or talk to your local school board rep?
Good luck!
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Thanks so much for the feedback!! I really do have a plan for 4th grade but McRuffy seemed so child-friendly that I was drawn to it. OTH, it does seem like a very solid K program.
Homeschooling 5 kids next year, I want something that will be engaging fun but not very momma-work heavy. Any opinions on the color math???
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I've been considering their curriculum for K but have been perusing their LA/Reading Curriculum for 4th grade. Any feedback out there?
I would very much appreciation it for both K and 4th grade - the good, the bad and the ugly.
TIA
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Welcome to high school! :)
Looks like you are in Louisiana; a helpful starting point into high school planning is to look at your state's requirements for high school graduation, PLUS the admission requirements of your state's public universities (here is LSU's list). This will give you a very general framework of "what needs to be covered" over all 4 years of high school, and then you can start adding in electives, and figuring out what programs to use to cover your coursework
Looks like LA has a basic and an advanced set of requirements, and you look like you are easily on track for accomplishing the advanced set of high school graduation requirements, with your 9th grade year looking like:
1 credit = English
1 credit = Math: Algebra 1
1 credit = Social Studies: Geography OR History
1 credit = Science: Physical Science
1 credit = French
?? credit = Drama
.5 credit = Logic (.25 credit if *JUST* Fallacy Detective)
TOTAL = 5.5 to 6.5 credits
Looks good! And it looks like you've selected solid programs to accomplish many of your credits. BEST of luck as you embark on your high school adventure! Warmest regards, Lori D.
Lori, thank you soooo much for the links!!! sometimes I feel like a floundering fish with this older kid!! You are a lifesaver!! :grouphug:
Do you have an opinion on my algebra options?? She is a very visual learner when it comes to math and this math option has been a g_dsend. We looked over Teaching Textbooks but it didn't seem to cover as much as YourTeacher and so far she has EXCELLED in math when she never has before. But I have recently discovered that some high school math programs are frowned upon like MUS??
As far as her working through a Psat workbook, I plan to have her start taking the ACT at the end of 9th grade so I just want her to be prepared.
Thanks for the info about Visual Link foreign language:001_smile:
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I will have my first high schooler next year. She only homeschooled half a year this year. It's been an adjustment for her to say the least. While my 4 other children adore homeschooling, she's been the reluctant homeschooler. She's definitely on board but sometimes still whines about the workload.
Anyway - I'm struggling with coming up with a plan for next year. I need to start planning so I can start purchasing a little at a time for each of the kids between now and the start of next school year. As a side note, I will be having each of them work on time4learning over the summer just to keep them engaged at the grade levels they currently are in.
So here's my plan and questions:
Language Arts:
I am interested in BJU Fundamentals of Lit 9 or Reading from a List with Lit Guides
Winston Grammar or Jensens Grammar
Vocab from Classical Roots
Comprehensive Composition
Algebra 1 - YourTeacher.Com w/LoF Algebra 1
Cultural Geography BJU
History of the World Ancients (?) Do they need to History and Geography in 9th Grade??
Physical Science BJU (since we mostly lost this year and she has barely completed the curriculum this year and BJU offers a 9th grade phys science curr.) or Apologia or some other Biology.
Fallacy Detective and Other logic book
French 1 - recommendations??
Drama (afterschool) plus i know there's an elective hs workbook out there
PSAT workbook
Any and all recommendations suggestions and feedback are welcomed, begged for and appreciated.
Thanks
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I could have written the OP's question myself. I have not been able to find a lit program that doesn't draw battles and tears. But real-book reading just makes them happy as can be. AND they choose GREAT books!! But I constantly have that nagging feeling I'm missing something. I bought this -
but I cannot figure a way to work it into our day or really use it. Even though it seems so straight forward....do I get the books it mentioned or not? do they read them? what?
I'm going to see if my local bookstore has the ones mentioned above.
Thanks a bunch!
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:grouphug::grouphug::grouphug::grouphug::grouphug: you really need a hug :grouphug::grouphug::grouphug:
Anyone who knows anything about gynecology and women's health issues...
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I haven't read all the responses but b/c of the issues I was having with my cycle my OB had recommended a hysterectomy. UM no. I hate surgery and anything close to it and it felt very elective.
She suggested the ablation. I was 31. She did tell me that more than likely it would be a recurring problem and I would have to readdress the issue. But I felt like the ablation is almost recovery time free compared with the hysterectomy and she said she we could revisit my options when necessay. 3 years later I'm only occassionally spotting. I know everyone is different but I would MOST DEFINETELY get a 2nd opinion.
The ablation is definitely a temporary fix to a problem that will prob. require a hysterectomy (uterine) to fix but in this case procrastination in the way of ablation seems like a good option unless you are all for a uterine hysterectomy.