Heart_Mom
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Watching....
I have a son that fits that category to a T! Same grade and ALL about birds!!
Pam
Pam, yes! My daughter LOVES birds. She has been passionate about then since she was a little girl and just recently, we finally acquired two birds as pets for her. She would love to spend a year in a serious study of birds! :)
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My daughter will be in 8th this year. I was considering Apologia Biology at the local co-op, but I'm not sure it's the best choice for this year. My daughter learns easily, but hasn't done a rigorous science course yet.
Do you know of an avian science course that would be appropriate for an 8th grader and would be rigorous enough to prepare my daughter for taking biology the following year?
Thank you!
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I've been very pleased with TT. My 9th, 7th, & 4th graders are using it and my younger children are using Horizons.
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Ivory Bar Soap from the grocery store.
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Great question! In my simplified version, you would put that on your "soon" page. Every day when you set up your today page, you look over the soon page to see if anything needs to be moved over to today.
In my real life version, at the beginning of every month, I set up a page that breaks my month into weeks, and then I plug things into the week I need to do it. I also have a "future log" that lists out all of the upcoming months. There's a lot of different ways to handle future tasks. The common thread is that you have some place to put that future task, then you move it over to the daily page when appropriate.
Thanks for that explanation! I've been intrigued by Bullet Journals, but this was the missing piece. :)
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I mostly use it on my phone unless I have a ton of info to input at knew time, like our yearly church calendar of events or something like that. On the app when I add something new I can either make it an event or a reminder. Reminders get crossed out if I mark them as done but get moved to the next day if they don't get crossed out. I mostly create things as events because when I first got the program they didn't have the reminder feature and I still haven't got used to using it but I can see it would be useful if I ever got into the habit of it.
That's a great feature! I'm using Google Calendar on my laptop, so I don't think they have anything like that for the web version.
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Two words- bullet journal.
It's life-changing. Do not be intimidated by all the fancy blogs out there. At it's heart, it's a totally utilitarian task management system that requires zero fanciness.
Try it. Grab a spare spiral notebook from around your house (or composition book, or notepad, whatever). Now write down absolutely every task that you need to do. Now break those tasks into do now, do soon, do later. Write the do laters on a new page. Ditto the other 2 categories. For the rest of the day, work off your "do today" list. When you wake up tomorrow, transfer anything you didn't get done onto a new page and try again.
This is a super simplified version, but if you do that every day this week, I think you'll know if it's a good fit for you. Then you can dive into the depths of google and see the many ways to modify the system.
I really LOVE this idea.
One question: How do you handle future tasks? For instance, if I need to remember to bring something to co-op on Friday morning, how could I use a Bullet Journal to remind me?
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I puffy heart love Google Calendar and if I ever lost internet access our lives would come to a screeching halt. 😂
I keep appointments on there, to do lists, deadlines, everything. My family jokes that if it's not on my Google Calendar then it doesn't exist and won't happen.
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Do you keep your to-do lists in the "Tasks" section? I'm curious because I use Google Calendar for appointment and reminders, but not for to-do's.
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One of my four loves math. He's doing Horizons 1st grade.
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This would be very frustrating to me. I don't understand why people will sometimes take no precautions to avoid exposing others to whatever illness is going through their home ... especially a stomach bug!
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I second the pumice stone. I actually use mine on my heels while I'm in the shower, then lotion up with Eucerin after my shower. This makes a huge difference when I'm consistent with it.
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I just ignore posts like that, and if someone adds me to a group without asking me, I just leave the group.
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I'm so sorry ... praying. :(
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If you have purchased Barton Level 3 in the past few years, could you please message me?
Thank you!
***edited to add: My question was answered, so I don't need any more help. Thank you! :)
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When my dc were younger, our schedule was this:
Monday and Tuesday: Official School Days. No errands, no field trips, no involved crafty things for me, no appointments, nothin'. We stayed home (until after Mr. Ellie came home, when there might be ballet class or something). All Official School Stuff set out on the table to be done or not. Since we weren't going anywhere or doing anything, dc mostly did their Official School Stuff. :-)
Wednesday: Library. That's it. usually to a larger library than the one near us, and we'd be away from home for a couple of hours. Sometimes we visited friends on the way home, but usually we just came home and read the library books or otherwise goofed off.
Thursday: Field trip. Every.single.Thursday we left the house for a field trip. Mostly just the three of us, sometimes invited a handful of friends if I wanted to go somewhere that required a group. Sometimes it had to do with something we were studying, but mostly not.
Friday: Clean house, once-a-month park day.
We took off a couple of weeks in the Spring around Easter; a couple of weeks off in late August/early September; and Thanksgiving through about the middle of January. We just kept working on Official School Stuff until we were finished or grew tired of it, then moved on to The Next Thing. We "promoted" in the fall, for the sake of Sunday school teachers and grandparents and random people who only know how to talk about children and grade levels instead of age. :-)
Your schedule sounds fun! Did you only do formal math two days per week? And did you continue this schedule through high school?
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I like to keep up math and writing in some form. So in the summer, my children will do those things about 3 days per week. I'm not really looking for them to progress, just not lose skills. I know for child who is finishing K, that if we don't do a bit of reading and writing over the next 3 months, that it will be like starting over in August.
I hope to add some games in there too! :)
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I didn't have a FB account until a few years ago, but I got one so I could keep in better touch with my sisters. I do love that aspect of it, but it's a time waster for me. I just get sucked in and spend too much time there. I really don't want to delete my account, because checking in once a week is not a problem. Here's my solution: I asked my husband to change my password for me. So now, about once per week, I ask him to put in the password, I check it for a few minutes, then I log out. Otherwise the draw is too strong to hang there when I should be doing something else.
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I used Horizons K-6, and I only used the TM for the answer key ! I would not switch curriculums just because you don't have the manual, especially when it's only first grade. You will be just fine. :)
Thank you. This is helpful.
I think I need to remember that while Horizons is designed to have all the extra thing in the TM, that not all math programs even have those. And if I need to drill addition facts later, it's no biggie.
I think my ideal would be to add math games in instead of doing so much drill.
Thanks, Jeanne! :)
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We had similar goals for dc to go away. In theory it sounded great, and it is. But I had a medium-sized breakdown for about three months after first dd left two years ago (I turned 40 at about the same time, so it was a double whammy.) She is twelve hours away. It was the end of an era, and an era I loved SOOOO much. No more whole family traveling here and there together, no more all sitting around the living room reading together, no more working together on projects. We were very, very close, even through the teen years, and now our family is dwindling (second dd leaves in the fall, and though she will be only 45 minutes away, we want to treat it like she is far away.) I go wildly back and forth between "let's adopt a half dozen kids and do it all over again" and "I can't wait until I can have a career and we can travel far and wide."
We talk every day at least once, and I send roughly monthly care packages. We have had plenty of parenting left to do... getting her through etiquette questions of first internships and jobs, dealing with issues in groups she runs and learning to lead, filling out paperwork and dealing with money.
I think the hardest part was that it was about so much more than missing one child. It was about change in general, and the first step toward a new family structure and a transition. :(
You all are helping me to better appreciate my current stage with all my kiddos here. It's so nutty here sometimes, but also so wonderful ... so full of life and bubbling over with fun and activity. This was the reality check I needed today.
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Nope. If a DC needed a little work on addition facts in 1 or multiplication in 3 we just added it in then. DD/2nd used an old Rod and Staff bee and blossom set (addition facts up to 20) for a little while in Horizons 1. All the scheduled drill and extra pages would have been overkill for this particular DC. A struggling kid may need more.
Another DC loved racing timers and used XtraMath. Plain flashcards would work just as well.
Thank you!
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I am using 1st grade right now (along with 3rd and 5th) and I think the level of independence will vary from child to child. My kindergartner (who is using CLE Math 1) is simply not focused enough to do it all on her own, but my older kids do (with the exception of me usually teaching new material - takes just a few minutes a day). I do think I could probably train her to be more independent if necessary.
Thank you!
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CLE is another option.
Thank you! I hadn't thought of that. Is it designed to be fairly independent even at the 1st grade level?
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Any other thoughts?
I'd especially like to hear from other people who used Horizons Math mostly just from the student workbooks.Thank you! :)
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I didn't get to read the previous replies, but my father-in-law lives with us. When he was having trouble keeping weight on, his doctor prescribed oral Megace. It's helped him to gain the weight he needed and keeps up his appetite so he's actually hungry at meal time.
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Avian (Bird) Science Recommendation for 8th/9th Grade Level?
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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Bump! :)