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  1. I haven't read the book but would like to, now that I know it exists. Too bad it doesn't seem to exist outside the Kindle platform (I don't have a kindle) I just want to point out that there are plenty of 18+ year old freshmen who start college and finish college with a major that was "co-chosen" or just plain "chosen". So I don't think it's really a rare thing in college. Not every family has the same view of college. I think that it is ok for parents who are paying for the tuition "co-choosing" their young adults major doesn't strike me as wrong or bad in any way. Personally I"m not sure that I'd ever go that way with my own kids/students but I'm always so happy when I see other families doing this sort of thing. Its cool to see the options available to home schoolers and it's cool to see home schoolers thriving in a variety of different ways.
  2. i seem to recall The Seven Deadly Sins, an anime streaming on Netflix (I"m in the US), had a surprising range of languages for both audio and subtitles on it. I would check other anime too, if they don't like The Seven Deadly Sins.
  3. I've thought about this book off and on for years and have NEVER been able to find it. I have thought about asking here several times, but never did in case I'm a crazy woman who dreamt the whole thing. It was over 10 years ago, I was cleaning the refrigerator and my little brothers were listening to a kids book on tape, so I don't have any physical information to go off of. It' wasn't very long so its not a chapter book--it would've been a picture book. I think it's historical fiction. It might be nonfiction, but I think it's fiction. The premise is there are a set of brothers (I think it's 3 of them) who are living in one place and their father has gone west for Gold or Land or whatever. Anyway, he sends them a letter telling them that he will need to come across the country to live with him now that he's established a place for them. He draws them a map or sends them directions (can't remember which. It was an audio book)--it's set in Rural, Early America. In the letter he's like "You are my brave boys, so I know you can do it" or something like that. They have been told to walk west for X number of days until they come to such and such feature, then turn in such and such direction. I remember that at one point they are camping in the wild (obviously) and the brother on watch falls asleep and the fire burns low and a HUGE snake comes and is curled up next to one of the sleeping brothers. His brothers wake him up and are like DONT MOVE and the 3 boys sit there terrified of startling this snake and unable to move. Finally when it gets cool the snake slithers off. I was in and out of the room, so missed a lot of what comes next, but I'm pretty sure that the boys reach their dad in the end, and when he sees them again, he reprises the same way he signed off his letter like "I knew you could do it because you're my brave boys" or something like that. Anyone have any idea what book this was?
  4. Sorry the link isn't working for me. Can you post it again? Or give me the name so I can find it. Wait...is this it? http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/roasted-asparagus-with-balsamic-browned-butter
  5. So, this is my 3rd time buying asparagus with the intention of eating it, so I'm hoping that I get lucky and this works out! (The first time we had power outages and the food went bad, the second time it burned black in the oven because I thought I'd set the timer but I hadn't.) How do you, dear asparagus veterans, suggest I cook it?
  6. It can. I think that it has for a few long term, frequent posters. However, Miquon was conceived and designed as the supplementary math lab activities for children who attended the private school. Miquon lab sheets were never meant to be a full on, stand alone program. Does that mean that you CANT use it as a full program? Of course not. But just know that it was meant as a lab component that supplemented whatever math the classroom teacher was doing, much like the lab component to a science class. Lore Rasmussen was a "remedial" math teacher--she created activities to exemplify the mathematics principles that children were struggling with in the early grades. For some kids Miquon is "enough", but for others it is not. Because the program was designed to supplement the lessons in the main classrooms, the lab sheets are so flexible that they could be used to introduce, reinforce, extend, challenge etc, but the lab sheets themselves weren't meant to be the only math program used. My understanding is that the program ends at the 3rd grade because it was the expectation that students would eventually phase out of the manipulative-dependent stage and if they'd truly learned those concepts then they would be able to generalize and extrapolate from there. That's why the things that Miquon "lacks" aren't really "lacks". Miquon is "weak" in XYZ, because it wasn't intended to address A-Z, it was meant to do specific things and that is where it's focus is.
  7. You can google "Palabras de alta frecuencia" and then browse through the results to find something that matches your needs.
  8. Personally I really dislike that series and would not trust that series for anything for content. I don't really like the way that they cover the skills either, but the coverage of "content" subjects was just utterly unfounded and inaccurate.
  9. Useful is relative. How old are your children? What resources are available to you either in the family, through the community or affordably online or in bookstores? Any idea what your childrens future careers maybe?
  10. Is there anyway you could ask your son directly? Personally I would NOT want my mother to include such a personal topic that I have no desire to share with the college guidance councilors. This is a very case-by-case thing. I am sorry for your families loss and hope that you are able to find a solution that works for you. Perhaps make a draft of what it would look like to include this in the letter, then sleep on it a few nights.
  11. What have you done so far in French? What is their background with French. How is their English literacy? What sort of French resources are local to you? Does your library do interlibrary loans? Is there a highschool and/or college near you that teach French classes? (Potential language peers, not suggesting that you enroll them) Have you used MeetUp and Facebook for local-to-you French Conversational Groups?
  12. I think maybe you are reading too much in to the comment, OP.
  13. They aren't monolingual but I highly recommend the following to English dominant families who are serious about Spanish Language Acquisition. Kids Stuff Spanish Spanish for Beginners (A. Wilkes, The new version has a CD) Berlitz Kids Spanish: Adventures with Nicholas trilogy Play and Learn Spanish Berlitz Kids Spanish Picture dictionary* Just Look n Learn Spanish Picture Dictionary* Kids Can Press Spanish & English Phrasebook *These are bilingual picture dictionaries that use each word in a full sentence in both languages.
  14. What are your kids oral/conversational Spanish like? Can they understand fluently spoken Spanish? Do they speak?
  15. I own Revised Edition of The Usborne First Thousand Words in Spanish The Usborne Book of Everyday Words in Spanish Neither of these books contain any English in the main body of work. Each page spread is a scene with a picture and various items labeled ONLY in Spanish along the margin. Both of these books have a 1-page English introduction in the front and in the back of both is a 3-column word list in the back of the book, arranged alphabetically by Spanish and formatted like this Spanish -- Pronunciation -- English so something like Pollo ----- poh-YOH -- chicken But The Usborne First 100 Words in Spanish does have English in a smaller print beneath each of the Spanish words. And has the same type of word list in the back. If the children are learning to read/ Speak Spanish from some one who can then these pages aren't going to help or harm them. The pronunciation given is Castilian Spanish, but I read speak with a different accent so I don't use those pages myself.
  16. Does your library system have those First 1000 Words in Spanish books? You can look through them and order a personal copy of the one ypou like the best.
  17. I think the fact that your daughter CAN read well makes her much less likely to stall or regress. If she were still learning to read, and you put English phonics and reading lessons on hold then she's going to be more likely to have her abilities to stagnate or regress.
  18. No experience with immersion schools, but I lived abroad as a child. We were friends with a family that had many English language books. My older siblings loved to read and read many of their books even while living and attending school in a different language. I liked to read the books that had short stories and excerpts in them or nonfiction. I didn't read as much or as regularly as my siblings. In the whole, our reading ability did not suffer in the least. I think that so long as your daughter continues to read and socialize in English then her English skills will continue to develop. Have you taught your daughter to read phonetically in Spanish yet? Which reading book did you settle on? How is it going?
  19. Use YouTube Videos to learn the alphabet and basic reading with correct pronunciation. Manuela Duca has some good reading videos on her channel, but I'm sure you could find something flashier, more entertaining if he wanted it. KidsTVItaliano and Storia e Canzoni per Bambini are full of videos that are animated, colorful and will expose him to songs, vocabulary and basic grammar and such. Basically, go on YouTube and look up series that he likes in English or that he liked in English and add on "per Bambini" is "for kids" and "in Italiano" is in Italian, so you can search many things and tag on those two phrases and get a lot of Italian Language hits. For Video Courses there is Professor Toto Muzzy Useful Book series that I always recommend Italian for Beginners by Angela Wilkes. There are different versions. The old one that had no audio, an internet linked version and one that comes with a CD. They are all identical on the inside, it's just that it seems difficult to get a used set with the Kids Stuff Italian Berlitz Kids Adventures with Nicholas Books are bilingual and come with CDs and have simple enough sentence structure that you can understand a lot of what is happening after a few readings of the English and learning key vocab from the 100 Words A Visit to Grandma The Missing Cat The Five Crayons Berlitz Kids Picture Dictionary in Italian*** This is a valuable resource because unlike many Kids Dictionaries, each word is used in an illustrated sentence and the translation is given so its a great way to learn more of the language.
  20. What an amazing opportunity! What does Grandma hate to do? Avoid that. Have the kids make a list of things that they'd like to learn about that they never really have enough structure or time for. Maybe they can study a foreign language together. Does Grandma have any manual skills that she doesn't use much any more? This could be a great opportunity to pass on a skill. Can she sew knit, crochet, etc?
  21. Personally, I'd opt out of this event and take my money and go do something else with my kids either for cheaper or where I get a better value.
  22. Dick and Jane series :rofl: I See Sam series.
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