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Hi, just something else to add to the mix. Have you looked at Galore Park? My son really loves Latin Prep and So you really want to learn science. You can order them from Horrible Books (also the horrible histories that are great fun).
He also really enjoys Life of Fred, we are just finishing the elementary series (apples-jellybeans) and getting ready for fractions in the New year.
IEW has some good resources other than writing. We have been having a lot of success with Phonetic Zoo and Linguistic Development through poem memorization. He really likes the independent nature of it and the fact that it involves a portable cd player with headphones.
Best of luck.
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Thanks for the heads up.
We finally caved and started Hey Andrew this year with the thought of maybe doing First Start online with MP next fall (I just want him to get comfortable with the alphabet) This is worth a look though as he did not do well with Latina Christiana and is doing well with Latin Prep.
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Possibly, I will look into it.
Thank you! It is a silly thing, but member since gives more weight than post count. It is very different, but the faster the boards are getting and the more I am understanding them, the more I am thinking this all could be good. Other than the fact that it makes me feel very old :huh: . Thanks for all the work and the patience to walk us all through it.
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I agree it would be nice to see the 'member since' with the post count again. I still consider myself a homeschool newbie and knowing how long someone has been on these boards helps a lot when I'm trying to work out issues.
You don't have to click the profile to view it though. If you hover over the user name, it'll show up in a floating window.
Ok, the hover thing is cool. I could possibly get used to that, I would still like it under the post count though! :hurray:
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I know it is small beans in all the work you are doing, but is there any chance the member since can be back showing up with posts? I know I am being terribly judgy, but, when reading on the internet there are certain things I look for to see how much weight I put on a post. People join and can have post counts as high as mine within 6 months. I see it is on the member profile page, but I really don't want to click on every single profile to see how long they have been members here when I am reading about grammar :svengo:
Thank you in advance for considering the request :thumbup1:
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On the old forums, if you moused over a thread title you could see a brief preview of the beginning of the text. That was really helpful for deciding whether or not a thread with a cryptic or vague title was something I wanted to read. Can we get that back, please?
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We are using it, but it is a supplement. We were using Evan Moor editing and Fix it well, uses Tom Sawyer instead of those silly for education paragraphs about kites etc...
Diagraming is important. We have only really dove into it this year (5th grade), but you it is useful for more advanced writing. When your child is in 10th grade writing a research paper, there will be those funny sentences. The ones that just are not right. When you diagram the sentence, it usually becomes clear where the issue is. In other words it is a very advanced editing tool.
I am learning diagraming along with my kids as I was never taught it in school. We are enjoying it. Also, I am very visual and as we are getting into more complicated grammar (beyond 8 parts of speech) the diagram helps to give a visual.
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I am thinking it would all make more sense if I were 10 years younger....
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Still can't find a list of my posts. It is bringing up all sorts. Help!
I can for you Chucki, but not on my own member page
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I guess I didn't see that. I'll have to re-read the thread. Most of us said we didn't have the time or interest to follow the latest fashions, but that's not the same as saying we are bedraggled! I am quite neat and presentable, thank you, and so are all the homeschooling Moms of my acquaintance.
We also said that we can't "play house" all day but we all spoke of the various ways we handle housekeeping as homeschooling mothers. We don't clean while everyone is gone for the day, but our houses are quite clean.
It's not either/or. It's a matter of priorities, time management, and tremendous hard work, whatever kind of mother you are or how you educate your kids. People tend to do the things they really want to do. If you care about keeping a very clean house, as I do, you'll get it done somehow, even if you homeschool. If you want to stay physically fit, you will get up at 5 a.m. and work out, even if you homeschool. If you want to go to Bible studies in the school day, you will arrange for the childcare and fit the missed lessons into your evening. It all depends on your own health and determination. Your homeschool would be an outgrowth of yourself. It's not a club that you join. It's an extension of your life and your convictions.
If you don't think you can homeschool without turning into a slouchy mess or letting your house go to pot, don't do it.
Yeah, I didn't read the posts that way either.
:iagree: I was a little taken aback about the super messy house and bedraggled mom comment. To some of us it's not a priority to be dressed to the nines in the latest fashion or to have a spotless BH&G photo shoot of a home, but that doesn't mean we just let it all go to he!! in a handbasket either.If those things are important to you, you find a way to make the time for them.
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Yes, my house can't make a magazine, but it is clean. It might not always be tidy, and there are books everywhere, but it is cozy and clean.
I also would not call myself bedraggled. I have always been a jeans and t shirt gal, but I am showered and my hair is brushed and in a neat pony or braid. I don't wear make up (never had) but my face is cleaned and moisturized. I am also the one whose kids join her when getting her eyebrows waxed.
OP, you were asking about time management and how to get things done with kids in tow, that is what I answered. I think you need to re read if you were seeing the responses as us being a bedraggled mess with dirty houses and displeased husbands.
My husband loves coming home to a house filled with music and laughter. I might not be dressed to the 9's, but he gets lots of hugs and love when he enters our house.
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Homeschooling is a paradigm shift. My house is never completely clean. My hair is usually in a bun. I live in yoga pants. I schedule my things last. I put my kids education before everything else. I look at it as my career.
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For me, almost all those things can be done with kids in tow, or when dh is home. Some of those aren't important to me, (ie. events for woman).My kids will be grown and gone before I know it. Then I'll have plenty of time to myself.
As for the things I could get done with them gone, (Sewing, cleaning, baking). They would rather be home with me then those things. They can also help with them.
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For me the biggest sacrifice of homeschooling was that of my time. It was hard to get around that idea, that I just would not be doing that. My youngest is in kindy this year, all the other moms from the moms group are going to lunch and coffee, shopping etc.... and I am not invited unless I can find a babysitter as it is an adults only lunch. So, the last 6 months I have been focusing on making some more homeschool mom friends, and that has helped.
Each kid has a bag with things they bring with them when we go out to appointments. They are very good at sitting in a corner and doing their activities. They even come with for eyebrow waxing. At first, people thought it was strange when I walked in to "grownup things" at "grown up times", now people are used to us, and are always complementing me on how well behaved my children are. They even have started planning for them being there.
I went to my dentist last week, and as I walked in, the reception asked if the kids could hang in the waiting room with her. She had brought in a movie for them and hot chocolate (with mini marshmallows). They have a big TV, that usually shows what the office can do (whitening etc...) she took that dvd out and in went the muppets.
Now, there are certain things that you don't want to do with kids. Planning. DH asked work a few years ago, he works on Veteran's Day and Memorial Day and I plan my appointments for the Tuesday after. Tomorrow is OBGYN, Mammogram, and a massage (as I have to do both of those other on the same day) In May I do my Oncologist and yearly physical. If anything comes up, I schedule it for those, most can wait until one of those days.
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I told hubby I felt like we were dragging a bit. I told him I was exhausted trying to keep the older ones on track, the younger ones were no problem, but they were standing around at times waiting for the older two and I to stop our "discussion". How on earth did I raise to politician/debaters?
Anyway, he told me to make a list of what I needed this weekend. I told him, a clean house and some chores had to be reassigned for my sanity. I was tired of being the chore police to an adult.
He stepped in and did it. My house hasn't been this clean in a year. It wasn't terrible, I would have allowed any of you in to visit (who wants a visit to Ontario??) I just wouldn't have allowed you past the main living areas.
I feel so much better now!
When we started homeschooling I slowly added another subject a few days/weeks at a time. So, this past week we have finished our SOS Science 4 and SOTW 1. So, I'm looking forward to a new curriculum come Tuesday. Hubby is done his major farming so I'm delegating the older two to him. Whenever they start up, I'll send them to Daddy. That will teach them! :lol: Maybe they will start to realize that I'm the softer one of the two parents when they want permission for things they want to do! LOL
Sweet Hubby!
Mine caught up on all the laundry, cooked dinner last night and did the prep for today's dinner.
We are doing well. I am sure we are technically ahead or behind in some subjects, but I am chillin and going with the flow this year. We are doing year round school, so we will get where we need to be eventually as long as we keep at it.
Soccer is over, so our schedule's are a little easier. We have had a little of the fall blah's, but we seem to get them every fall and I am not worrying over it this year (hence, it doesn't seem as bad this year)
My kids are also minecraft ones:D
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Where in England are you travelling to for the wedding?
You could have a look on the National trust website and English heritage Website for a lot of ideas. Though a lot of places will be closed in January.
The UK is definitely damp and cold and grey in January and often things are on go slow because of snow or frozen slush holding up roads.
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Where?
North Wales is great for Castles
The Scottish/English border is great with Hadrian's wall ruins, and the lake district nearby (swallows and amazons)
Wiltshire is full of cute little villages with thatched roof cottages. The town of Lacock ( filmed in Pride and Prejudice, Harry Potter etc...) Longleat is amazing (a historic home you can tour with a drive around Safari Park) We stayed here for 5 days and LOVED it http://www.centerparcs.co.uk/villages/longleat/index.jsp
In Watford they have the new Harry Potter exhibit at Leavedson Studios which is supposed to be wonderful.
Cornwall has the Poldark mines, cliffs, Lands end, St. Michaels mount and lots of Arthurian legend.
Unless you are driving in the area, Stonehenge is really not worth the detour nowadays. You can't roam through it.
Portsmouth is a nice city with a lot of naval history including a great d-day museum. People always talk about storming the beach at Normandy, but Portsmouth is where they left from. There are a lot of historic ships there to tour.
Bath is well, Bath. Interesting and pretty town.
London is great. We like the Strand Palace hotel. It is walking distance to Trafalgar Square and St. James park (and just around the corner from the theater showing the Lion King) They have a GREAT included breakfast and good deals.
The eye and the Tower of London are both fun. Hampton Court is also cool. It was Henry the 8th's summer palace and has a cool maze.
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DH has vetoed Duncan and Verity. If we have two more daughters I think he will consent to Verity in the end, but he will never agree for Duncan. I have managed to avoid having to use Gunther so far, but may use it as a middle name if we have another boy.
Have you read the Poldark books? There is a Verity in them.
I vetoed a lot on dh’s list. But to be fair he had things like Bono.In the end what worked for our first one was that we both made separate lists and then compared. There were very few names that came up on both lists. Then we talked about the few and picked the one we liked best. For our next two the names were both my suggestion first but he liked them both. We picked pretty quickly and didnt’ make long lists.
This is what we did.
I thought it would be really cool to give our kids the middle names; Trouble, or Danger.But dh said no.
But he no longer remembers saying it. :glare:
So I could have had kids who could honestly say,
Trouble is my middle name!
Or
Danger is my middle name!
My brother has convinced his wife to the middle name Danger for their son.
My dh vetoed Magaret, which is still a favorite. I would have called her Maggie.
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We are using WWS exclusively in middle school (unless WWS3 is slow to come out).
I don't know about WWE because we did not use it, but WWS is very complete and takes my child quite some time to get done every day. I would have a revolt if I had him do more. :001_smile:
Ruth in NZ
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It is about an hour a day 4 times a week. Some assignments take 5 or even 6 days. It is a very complete writing program.
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I pulled my son out at the beginning of 3rd grade.
I usually say just start with math and then add slowly, but if the husband wants a plan that is different.
Math, can she keep the tutor? I would stick to the program she is in as everything else is going to be changing for her. I would get Life of Fred Apples as a supplement. It is fun, and it really helped to remediate my son who was struggling with Math. If they are not keeping the tutor, Kumon really helped to bring us up to speed. We did it for 9 months just for the catch up aspect.
If she has not bought and read The Well Trained Mind, that is a great resource to have. Most libraries have it, I just find I need it on hand. It is also an impressive book to hand to a husband and say "this is what I am doing."
I would also get the Complete Writing with Ease Instructor text. This goes more into the "why" of writing, and gives instruction on how to teach at all 4 levels. She can start with level 1, if that is too easy move onto level 2 etc... Once she has found her stride she can get the workbook if she wants for ease, but the book should be enough for now.
Grammar, I would not jump into FLL. With everything else I would get MCT grammar Island and read through the book together for the rest of this year and call it good. Then maybe FLL3 next year.
Spelling: All About Spelling level 1 is great. Teacher intensive, but fun and really holds your hand through it.
History: The Story of the World is available on Audio. I would get that and listen to it in the car. Pick a time period and listen, and then chat about it. Maybe get the activity book to do maps and drawing. It also has questions to ask. If she is a good reader she can read the text while listening. My son enjoyed listening and coloring a page from the activity book in 3rd grade.
Science: This year, Magic school bus books and DVD's from the library. Popular mechanics for kids, etc.... Maybe get the big bag of science from Timberdoodle.
How is the handwriting? If her print was good and she is transitioning well to cursive, keep going. If not, HWT is a great program.
Christian Ed; there will be lots of advice here.
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Both kids are doing IEW's Linguistic Development through Poetry memorization and enjoying it. It is nice as my 5 year old is able to use the cd's (we have it in a box with a discman) and even with just learning to read she can memorize poems. She listens over and over to them. My older listens once and then just works from the book.
It has
Jabberwocky
The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Tiger
and tons more, we are having a lot of success with it.
Then, they also have Awana:001_smile:
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We are really liking Rod and Staff. It is what a lot of people transition into after FLL. It is religious, but my son likes it. He likes the workbook, and he even took a test and liked that. He was ok with MCT (Liked Grammar Island the most), he really did not gel with FLL.
Best of luck
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Totally Spaced!
November and all is going well. I think I am going to have ds retake the DORA test in January and see if his spelling has improved.
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I don't play it, but my BIL convinced me to get it for ds10, he loves it. Most I can figure, it is a little like electronic legos. Once it is downloaded you don't need internet unless they want to link and play with a friend.
As for screen time, we just use a token system. I got the idea from SWB, and it has been working great here. The kids get tokens on Sunday. For us they each represent 15 minutes. They can earn and lose tokens during the week. If it is not interfering with anything they can use them as they want. 10 year old gets 5 hours a week, 5 year old gets 4. (in 15 min increments). It resets every Sunday. It is for all screen time (ds, itouch, tv, computer etc...)
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I mean really, does anyone ever buy things from this? I am trying to look at curriculum, I do not want to see ads for drugs.
I just don't get it. I guess they just have nothing better to do.....
Vent over.
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Way to go Brandi! I think I will be vacuuming my dryer tomorrow as it has been 5 years....:auto:
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There definitely are different ways that people "share" their wisdom with you. I think the OP is just having a vent after having some run in's with the more annoying kind.
If you have experienced things working on your kids, great! Seizures, diabetes, pretty much all ailments are different in different bodies. I am going to give the OP the benefit of the doubt that she has looked into things, and they are not working with her kid. Just because someone else's kid was cured with it does not make the OP a mom who is doing something wrong. She is dealing with major health issues in a child and has had a frustrating day.
Chickenpatty:grouphug::grouphug::grouphug:
TT is to math as _________ is to spelling?
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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Have you checked out Phonetic Zoo? We struggled with spelling till we found that (and ds is a TT kid).
Here is my review of it