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Thank you for sharing this! I'm really looking forward to listening. Some of the speakers are definitely people I want to hear!
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I'm looking forward to our break week that's for sure. 1.5 weeks to go! In the meantime I'm being inspired and encouraged by Julie Bogart's Bravewriter podcast and her new book that just arrived today! ❤️
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44 minutes ago, Kfamily said:
I was curious if these are the ones that you mean: The Great Ideas Program?
I have 3 of the books that are on the left in the photo of this link. I've looked at them but have not made use of them yet. 🙂
HathiTrust has a full view file of one of these: The Development of Political Theory and Government, in case anyone else wants to see it.
Yes, those are the ones.
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In the box my dad gave me were also 2 volumes of Adler's syntopicon as well as one random volume of War and Peace that looks like ot belongs to the Great Books set. The syntopicon looks really interesting, but I've only had time to glance at it thus far.
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Thank you, Lori D. I had seen some of the threads you linked but some were new to me!
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So my dad gave me a set of these and they look really interesting. They don't contain the original texts of the authors mentioned/discussed beyond some significant quotes, but the idea behind the set seems to be a thorough introduction to various great works on a variety of topics. Curious if anyone has these and has used them with their children in any way? I'm very intrigued and am hoping to find a way to incorporate these into our studies.
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2 hours ago, Sarah0000 said:
The 3-4 Ray's looks perfect for computation. Do you guys require your students to narrate what they are doing to get the answer, especially in multi step problems? Or maybe that's best left for when he's older and in the meantime perhaps just add in terminology drill?
One thing I like about Ray's is how new types of oral problems are introduced with a step by step breakdown of how to go about solving them. If my kids need that breakdown we go through it and then only return to it if they start to struggle a bit. Sometimes we don't even need to cover it at all, other times we go over several problems step by step before they're able to get comfortable with that type of problem. But mostly if they're giving me correct answers I don't bother asking them how they're getting there. I find that so much oral practice really gives me a good sense of where they understand and where they struggle so it's easy to tailor our work accordingly.
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Ray's Arithmetic might work. That's what we've been using for several years. The Primer might be a little easy if he's already in 4A, so maybe look at Intellectual Arithmetic, which is meant to be done orally all the way through.
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I had shingles around that age. Mine did show on the skin, so it was easier to identify, but even to this day when I get overly stressed/burnt out I will start to feel the burning/tingling/itching feeling in that area that was affected without any kind of outward evidence on my skin. So it could very well be that, even with nothing showing on her skin.
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On 7/23/2018 at 11:24 PM, Slache said:
We live in Oregon and the cost of living is too high so we have to move. We keep bouncing back and forth on locations so I thought I'd ask a bunch of strangers on the internet where we should go. Things that are important to us include:
- Good homeschool laws
- Forgiving immunization laws
- Low cost of living
- Income tax, sales tax, personal property tax, property tax, etc.
- Conservative politics
My husband wants to live close to Cincinnati, I want to live far from Cincinnati so we need a good middle. I like the west coast, he likes the midwest and we both like the south. Nothing brings me more joy than the beach.
Thank you for deciding my entire life for me.
Having just spent a gorgeous day at the beach on Lake Erie, I'm putting in a plug for the Cleveland area. Four hours or so from Cincinnati, easy to homeschool here, snow in the winters, but not too severe (unless you live east of Cleveland - then you get lake effect snow. The southwest suburbs get less). Then there's the Metroparks - an AMAZING park system that spans around 77 miles in the Greater Cleveland area, full of hiking trails, freshwater beaches, nature centers (that even offer homeschool programs on occasion). It's a great area.
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So while I have not actually suffered from PF myself I have a friend for whom this book has been really helpful:
Every Woman's Guide to Foot Pain Relief
I've read some of her other books for issues of my own and am totally impressed. Hope that's helpful!
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So many good books listed already! We just recently discovered The Wingfeather Saga by Andrew Peterson and they are excellent. Lots to discuss and ponder. I wasn't so sure when I read the first one, but by the end of the second book I was sold.
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I just heard about this! Really excited for when it comes out!
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The Lemon Tree is an excellent book that looks at the Jewish/Palestinian relations since WWII. It's an adult book I suppose, but I think an 8th grader could potentially handle it if you plan to read along with him. It's really well done and I did not precieve overt bias one way or the other. I felt it was very balanced.
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Through the Mind to the Heart is my blog. I rarely post anymore because I just don't seem to have the time I did before, but occasionally I do still write a bit. I'm always in awe of regular bloggers - where do they find time?!
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Dh continually teases me that I'm the only person in the world who calls them emoticons! Glad to know I'm not alone!
He thinks they should just be called emojis.
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(((Hugs))) I can totally relate to that helpless feeling when you can't see how to make any changes.
When I look at your breakdown of their days, it seems like you are taking much longer for most subjects than maybe you need to. My 5th grader takes about 30-40 minutes for math, so that's what I'm comparing to - I can't imagine him being able to sustain his attention for an hour - even what he does now is pushing the limits a bit.
Have you considered combing spelling, grammar and cursive all into one by doing studied dictation and copywork? That would take about 10-15 minutes tops every day.
A pp suggested GSWL - I totally second that idea. It takes a few minutes and you can combine everyone for it.
Can you combine for literature? It may not be an ideal solution for long term, if you have specific books you'd like each of them to read, but for now maybe you could choose one to focus on together, just to give yourself a chance to breathe while you figure out your longer term solutions.
You have so much on your plate. Give yourself permission to let go of some of the non-essentials for a time so you can have the space to think clearly and evaluate rightly.
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Just tell me he will grow up just fine if we don't let him pursue this 100% right now. :lol: Tell me we won't put him in therapy over it or have him miss out on a life playing at the London Philharmonic and composing his own symphonies if we back away slightly. Or insist that he absolutely should do jump in and do what he can because...I don't know. :laugh:
Of course he will be fine. Don't let yourself stress about it. There's no magic window of time in which he must begin formal lessons or he'll somehow lose his innate talent. It will still be there down the road if you and he decide to pursue it then.
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For me, the most difficult part of having a child who can go off at any minute is the condemnation from family and "friends" who think that somehow I was supposed to be able to control her. Other than removing her from the situation, there was no chance to control her once she was out of control. I really wish I had had more support during her childhood years.
I have been experiencing this more and more, even from my parents. I'm finding it very difficult and it's hard to stay positive and try to deal with the behavior calmly and lovingly when I know everyone around me is condemning me for doing it "wrong".
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Most of my kids had one school year where geography replaced their history.
Oooh! This is intriguing! Can you elaborate on this please?
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Is this a sudden change? Has she been in a situation where she might have been abused? If she's been in an in-home daycare or something where you weren't there to supervise and you think it's a possibility I'd look for play therapy in your area.
No, definitely not a sudden change. She has been like this for quite awhile. When she was 3 and 4 I didn't think much about it - but she's now going on 6 and it finally started to strike me that maybe it's not typical for this age.
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Do the meltdowns happen when she is tired or hungry?
Yes, sometimes. But there are other times when I don't think she's either of those things and she still flips out anyway.
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I guess I should probably start keeping a food log. I hope I can... I've tried for other reasons in the past and just can't seem to keep up with it...
I will see about getting an evaluation. Our doctor moved much farther away last year and the insurance assigned a new one, but there isn't really a relationship established yet. Sigh...
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Do you have any other concerns about her development? Tantrumming that is more frequent and intense than normal can be a sign of autism.
Hmm... I've noticed that she's very clumsy and her spatial awareness seems off, but I can't think of any other areas of development that I've noticed as concerning.
She does seem rather asynchronous now that I think of it. She taught herself to write her numbers and letters a couple years ago and is has taught herself basic addition and subtraction along with practicing reading after a couple very minimal "lessons" from me. She is very clumsy with walking and running but she loves to practice things like cartwheels over and over. Last summer she taught herself how to use a ripstick and she'll just go round the driveway on that thing time after time after time. She's really loud when she speaks and has a pretty large vocabulary. She's so loveable with all her little quirks :-) It actually makes me sad because I know most people really just can't even see past the tantrums.
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Has anyone done just vintage math before Algebra?
in General Education Discussion Board
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I haven't logged on to these boards in ages. Sorry I'm late to the party!
We actually still do use Ray's (though, yes, we are using it alongside BA). I have one dd though, who is going to use Ray's almost exclusively this coming year and just occasionally dip her toes in BA when it seems like it might be fun. I have all the BA books, and they have mostly been fun for us, but for this particular dd they are not a good fit. I wanted to make it work because pulling out a workbook and doing a few pages seemed like it was just so much easier than taking the time to go through the oral work in Ray's together. It seemed overwhelming somehow to have to do math with her and also with my 1st grader. But I've realized over the past year that Ray's actually takes way less time and lays such a solid foundation that I was silly to have moved away from it in the first place. I can't wait to get back into it more fully again.
The older two dc never stopped using Intellectual, though we did stop using Practical since they were doing the BA books. They're both in the fractions chapter now and I continue to be so impressed by how thorough it is.