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K12's Human Odyssey series tops SOTW or at least is an excellent sequel.
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I was previewing this series online recently.
Excellent material as always from K12.
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Sweet Potato Casserole
3 cups cooked sweet potatoes mashed (Approximately 5 sweet potatoes)
1/2 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup butter, melted
1/2 cup millk
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Topping
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup flour
1/3 cup butter, melted
1 cup pecans, roughly chopped
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In mixing bowl, combined mashed potatoes with brown sugar, melted butter, milk, eggs, and vanilla. Break up any chunks of sweet potato with your spoon. Mixture should be smooth.
In a separate bowl, use fingers to combine flour, brown sugar, melted butter and peacans for the topping. Set aside.
Spoon sweet potato mixture into an oven safe dish and sprinkle pecan mixture evenly over the top.
Bake for 30-35 minutes, until sweet potatoes are warmed through and the topping has formed a crust.
Bon Appetit!
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I love sauerkraut! And MomsintheGarden must love me because she has embarked on making it here!! :001_smile: Unfortunately, we have no idea what we are doing!! :tongue_smilie:
She has invested in some equipment for this effort including the fermenting crock pot. Unfortunately, the poi pounder has been delayed repeatedly, so we are having to improvise. (And now that I look at it, I think that thing is too small...)
Anyway, we are adding the cabbage into the crock in layers and pressing it as well as we can, but the liquid is not yet covering the cabbage. So that brings up some important questions:
1) What do you use to pound/crush the cabbage? Right now we are using the plunger from one of our food processors for lack of anything else that looks suitable.
2) We decided to go with the minimum amount of salt because we don't want it to be too salty. But I'm wondering if the extra salt is critical to help get the juices out of the cabbage (like in cucumber salad).
3) How much do you normally have to pulverize the cabbage? Is there such a thing as too much?
4) How long does it take for the liquids to come out of the cabbage? I know with coleslaw it gets wetter as it sits. Perhaps we need to give it time?
5) Do you find your arms get much stronger when you make sauerkraut?:tongue_smilie:
Thanks in advance for any sauerkraut tips you can give us!
I had to chuckle when I saw your thread, because I was promoted to "Chief Kraut" maker in 1981.
1. To pound the cabbage you need a wooden cabbagae tamper.
2. Yes, salt is critical for getting the juices of the cabbage to flow.
3. As far a pulverizing the cabbage my parents instructed me to "beat
the cabbage for approximatley 20-30 minutes per day.
4. It depends on the combination of salt used and the length of pulverzing
done per day.
5. Yes, it builds arm muscles.
Here is a website you might want to look at for more information www.wisementrading.com/foodpreserving/harsch_crocks.htm
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Jeff West is the illustrator for the Writing With Ease series.
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Thank you!
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Dh and I are looking at science for the upcoming logic stage.
I've seen Classic Quest Science mentioned on the forums and have viewed the curriculum on their website.
For those who have used this curriculum what are the strengths and weaknesses of it? What did you like or dislike about the curriculum?
Thank you!
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I would skip it and move onto something else.
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I am considering this for my dd next year. She would be 7 yo then.
If you stayed with it what is it that you did like and dislike?
If you decided against it, why?
Thanks muchly!
Our family uses the WTM, but I peruse the book selections on AO for ideas.
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Have you looked at the resource "Learning With the Movies" at www.christianbook.com ?
A couple of my personal favorites are "Mrs. Miniver" and "Journey for Margaret."
The BBC America catalog has an entire section devoted to WWII movies/documentaries. www.bbcamericashop.com
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Here are some of the ways we have experienced Shakespeare in our home...
Checking out picture books of the plays from the public library.
Go to www.amazon.com type in the words Shakespeare and click on children's books.
Reading E. Nesbit's "Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare" and Charles and Mary Lamb's "Lambs Tales from Shakespeare."
Watching the BBC Shakespeare the Animated Tales at www.youtube.com
Watching the BBC/Time Life "The Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare" on dvd.
Going to see live performances of the plays.
Our favorite so far has been this group www.doorshakespeare.com
Visiting the local Renaissance Fair.
Staging performances via the "Polly Pocket Drama Troupe."
Have fun!
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Mid-semester math poll! :bigear: Which math curriculum do you love-and why?
DUH! Forgot Singapore!!:001_huh:
Back when Dh and I were looking at math curriculums we decided to print out assessment test of the three most popular at the time: Saxon, Singapore and Horizons.
For three evenings he and I took the assessment tests ourselves.
Based on what we had experienced/our employment backgrounds, we chose Horizons.
I have written a review of Horizons K Math on www.amazon.com if you would like to reference it.
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I started a thread in October and got so many great ideas that I thought I would try again.
So what poetry are you memorizing this month?
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Over the River and Through the Woods by Lydia Marie Child
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20/20 Hindsight here as well.
Focus on reading skills and exposing your child to the world.
I needed a reading program for my first few as I didn't know how to teach reading. So you may want something to teach phonics.
Other than that--go for walks, cook and bake, read lots of books, explore your library and any preschool programs they might have, play outside (in your yard or at a park), practice math through games and everyday activities, muck about in crafts, ect.
Full time school comes soon enough--use that K year to engage your child in the wonder of our world.
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Thanks for the input....I really need to get a copy of WTM :001_smile:. I have read some of it from a copy I got at the library.
You are welcome!
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Here is what we have used for grammar and writing so far...
First Language Lessons by Jessie Wise
(The edition with the boy holding the butterfly on the cover.)
Comic Strip Grammar
The Complete Book of Grammar and Punctuation
Learning Language Arts Through Literature
Writing With Ease
As Dd is a logical thinker by nature, she prefers curriculum which teaches concepts in a logical sequence. The only curriculum she did not care for was LLATL.
On the flipside Dh and I have liked everything with the exception of LLATL.
LLATL contains a lot of hands on activities, which did not appeal to Dd.
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Hindsight is 20/20 so they say, so here are my thoughts.
If we had to do it all over again, Dh and I would have followed Jessie and Susan's plan in the WTM for Kindergarten. (See page 215 of the WTM 2009 edition.)
Instead of following the WTM, we purchased a "pre-planned" curriculum.
While this particular curriculum works well for others, it did not work well for Dd. In the end we abandoned the pre-planned curriculum in favor of the WTM.
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Horizons teaches multiplication by correlating the topic to addition.
The mulitiplication tables are introduced gradually with concepts being repeated in the "spiraling" teaching techinique and drill repetition.
We have used Horizons from the beginning along with School House Rock and math games.
Dh and I are happy to report Dd has a firm grasp on the concept of mulitiplication.
For more information on Horizons Math you can visit their website at www.aop.org
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I highly recommend CHOW - especially for a 6 yo (the others are geared for older kids AFAIK). We are doing an overview this year with CHOW (9 and 7 yos) and enjoying it. The chapters are a nice length, a few illustrations and some dates to remember. It does hop around a bit, but stays generally in chronological order. (For example, the chapter on the Jews covers from Abraham to King David - a fairly long stretch.) We are reading 2-3 chapters a week (we skipped chapters 1-4 and started with Egypt). Make sure you get an updated version.
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Dd loved CHOW so much we read it twice.
Excellent book!
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The Indian in the Cupboard (my mom found lots of Barbie dolls behind cabinet doors :))
I love it!
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I *really* want to to SOTW with my kids....but honestly, they are just not interested right now. I know that you need to start it in first grade to make the history cycle three times. We're already behind since DD is in 2nd. Do you think it would be okay to do SOTW for 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades? Or are the middle school years too old for SOTW? Then move on to something more in depth during the high school years? And for the time being, just go off on some interest-led rabbit trails for history from now through 4th grade?
Is that do-able? Or no?
Dd wasn't interested in SOTW during 1st Grade, so we switched to "A Child's History of the World" by V.M. Hillyer.
Dd who is now a 5th grader is interested in reading SOTW.
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What are your favorite Thanksgiving books? They can be just entertaining or educational. I have a 3 year old, 2 5 year olds, and a 7 year old.
Thanks
Cindy
The Thanksgiving Story by Alice Dalgliesh
Cranberry Thanksgiving by Wende Devlin
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie by Alison Jackson
Margaret Pumphrey's Pilgrim Stories by Elva Jean Hall
A Plump and Perky Turkey by Teresa Bateman
Over the River and Through the Wood by Lydia Marie Child
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Welcome! :hurray:
Your academic plan looks great!
Looking forward to reading your threads/posts here on the WTM Forums!
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So what books left such a lasting impression on you that you can't wait to share them with your kids. Any kind of book - it can be a living book or textbook or comic book- whatever.
For me I remember being totally immersed in True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi.
Please add your memorable must haves for me to add to my x-mas wishlist!!
Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
Andrew Henry's Meadow by Doris Burn
The Bear's Christmas by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Strawberry Girl by Lois Lenski
Blue Ridge Billy by Lois Lenski
The Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mary Poppins
Pippi Longstocking and Pippi in the South Seas by Astrid Lindergren
Ramona the Pest (Entire Henry and Ramona series) by Beverly Cleary
Ralph S. Mouse by Beverly Cleary
Katie John by Mary Calhoun
The Borrowers by Mary Norton
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle series
Hans Brinker by Mary Mapes Dodge
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Jester
Childhood of Famous Americans series
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Where the Red Fern Grows and Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls
101 Dalmations by Dodie Smith
The Story of the Trapp Familly Singers by Maria Von Trapp
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Sounder by William H. Armstrong
The Complete Works by William Shakespeare
1984 by George Orwell
Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Good-bye Mister Chips by James Hilton
Making sauerkraut!! Any experts out there?
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The crock my parents had was opened to the air.
I placed a dinner plate and tea towel over it to keep out the insects, since it was late July when I was making kraut.
The pounder I used had a handle which branched out into a cylinder shape.
I think it belonged to my great grandparents in the 1800's.
I only pounded the top of the kraut.
Keep me posted on how it turns out!
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