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  1. My children are never ill. Really. I can't remember the last time they were. - No Vaccines - Only Organic Food - Veggie Juice Everyday - No Tap Water - Lots of Sleep - Lots of Natural Exercise (walking, chores ;) ) - No Fizzy Drinks, No Sugar - Breastfeeding for 3 Years - Never Wash Hands Before Dinner I don't believe in supplements. Unless as a medication. Good food is enough.
  2. Note that these don't necessarily make your life easier, than if you'd keep your children separately, as they both require quite some planning. If you like planning, than either is great. Did you have a look at Konos? It is a lot of fun!
  3. I'm using Konos, not everything, just some units. And I add my own units. It doesn't take that much planning. Choose the activities you want to do, write down the material you need for it, and get some books (library or shop). That's really it. Of course you can add lapbooks and that sort, but that will take more time to plan.
  4. Our library is hopeless, so I have to buy all the books we read. I guess moving to a cheaper curriculum for math gives me more money to buy books. Singapore is a lot cheaper than CLE. I'll consider that!
  5. Hi, No I'm not worried about him progressing to slow, he's progressing so fast. If he goes on like this he'll be in grade 2 material before the age of 4. It's that I feel bad about myself, for not have given him these opportunities before. I only found out about this when I gave him the preschool material. All the signs were there, I just didn't see it. My problem is: he doesn't really like play that much. Yes he likes Rush Hour and his LEGO's but nothing gives him more satisfaction than a textbook/workbook, and also books. I just don't know what to use, I can't keep buying things, curriculum, books. A walk is great, but after that he just wants to sit down and study. I need advice on what to do, what to use. This is all new to me. My younger son is sooo different, he can play for hours (and sleep for hours). My eldest never slept as a baby during the day and wasn't able to play by himself. He can't play with toys longer than 5 minutes. Only books and workbooks do that. He can go on for hours in those.
  6. Thank you for replying. Yes it's the 3 year old. He loves doing things on paper, and he likes doing curriculum. He also loves reading. I'm trying to get a good combination of that. As soon as I try to do things more losely, just 'discover', he doesn't seem to like it that much. He gobbles up workbooks/textbooks. So that is really not the point, it's his way of learning. I have living math books, they're nice for reading aloud, but they are not enough for him. He wants to go deeper, KWIM? I can't keep buying them, so that he can read them for 10 minutes, and than to have them standing in our bookcase. Library is not an option. An instrument sounds great, but again...costs a lot of money, something to keep in mind for his birthday maybe.
  7. I need help. I really feel like I made a lot of mistakes regarding my son. I feel like I'm letting him go to slow, but the curriculum he's using is SLOW! I wanted something that was christian and gentle...well I got it...and I have a boy who lost his enthousiasm. He does it without complaining, but he lost that spark... I need something that stays interesting in the long run. I keep buying things and it's driving me crazy...and my purse! I also feel that he can do much more than that I'm letting him. I felt like: This is what we have, this is what we'll do. He is getting worse in his behaviour, but I think this is because of him being bored. When things are new, and interesting he is such a well behaved boy. I read the stories here on the board from birth onwards and I think: That's him! But than I read that those children were reading very early and doing math at 2 etc. I never offered him changes to do this. Yes he did some on his fingers when he learned about numbers, and he figured out himself that he could add them and subtract them. But I never offered him anything, because I didn't see it!! It was after I gave him the preschool curriculum (that I was planning to use for 2 years :blushing:), which he gobbled up in 3 months time, that I realized that all the 'strange' behaviour could easily be giftedness. I put him into MEP R and after that I've tried MEP 1 but I'm really not a math teacher. We did half of Word Mastery and it went well. But he started to complain that it was boring. We're now using CLE for LA, Reading and MATH....poor choice. It's working, and I love it, he loves the stories, he does it willingly. But I feel that he could have been in grade 2 with reading if I would have just let him. Or if we kept using Word Mastery dispite complains. CLE was like starting all over again with the difference that it includes writing. I had some problems with math. I got some responds on this board, of him being so young etc. and just to let him play and be a child. That's my problem, he likes it...for 10 minutes, and than his brain needs something to chew on! But after I gave him an abacus things have changed tremendously and he has been teaching himself with the abacus. You see...I'm not a mathy person, and teaching it...:w00t: I want to, I just don't know how. I was thinking of EGPY grade 1, but Dh thinks it's too expensive. Also the question of having him tested or not has been keeping us busy. What if he really was far more intelligent than we think...we'd be doing the wrong thing keeping him in CLE. He loves doing it, as it keeps him busy, but I see a difference in him when he has something new to chew on. I gave him the game 'Rush Hour' which he loved, and for 2 days he has been behaving sooooo well. Today we did CLE again and the jumping around and silly noises started again. I'm fine with silly noises, don't get me wrong if that's what he is like. But why doesn't he do that within the 2 hours after his brain had something to chew on. The only time he doesn't wiggle at all is when I read a book to him. We though he might have ADHD, and almost started the process of having him tested, but thank you well-trained mind forum :D I'm sooo glad we didn't go that route. Sorry for rambling on about this. I just need good advice. I'm tired of spending money. I can tell that I'm not doing the right thing with Ds right now. I really don't want to buy anything new, and don't think that's the solution right now. It's really hard for me to gain information on this as English is not my mother language. Please help. I want to do the right thing for my son.
  8. not a manipulative.... http://rainbowresource.com/product/My+Calendar+Book/021786/1294845794-1243613 You don't really need any manipulatives to use the program, though I would add some as well :001_smile:
  9. I'm not organized in many other ways, but this part is organized! I do tie in some science in a history unit if it leads to that. For Lewis and Clark, there is this book called 'Animals on the Trail with Lewis and Clark, and also 'Plants on the Trail with Lewis and Clark'. But I would still cover plants and animals in a different unit, or whatever else you're using for science, as you'd probably hit the subject very briefly.
  10. I enjoyed reading this topic so much! :D We had 2 today: - 'You really have to go sleep now. Come on, be a good Daddy to your doggy (stuffed animal), and go sleep, so that he can sleep as well. You keep him awake' 'First of all: I am way to young to be a Daddy. Second: Human beings can not be the daddy of a dog! I'm the BOSS. - I try narration with my boy every now and then, but he is not liking it one bit. 'So, what did we read?'. 'A book' 'What was the book about?' 'You were the one reading it to me, if anyone knows, it would be you!' 'I do know what the book is about, but I want you to tell it to me, so that I know, if you understand it as well' 'Well why don't you just ask?' '....did you?' 'Oh yes I did, it was so interesting. It was about thunderstorms, hail, water vapour, weather forecasting......and of he goes explaining :001_huh:
  11. No, Dh will come in and ask: Where are my keys? What are we having for lunch? :lol: Do I start to sound like unorganized chaos? I'll have to start making a few changes... :D
  12. Thank you for all the good advice! I really should be more strict :glare: I'm going to talk to DH about this tonight. Maybe we can have Wednesdays of for visitors, or do everything in the morning and naptime. I have everything spread out over the whole day, so my schedule will always be disrupted, when someone shows up unexpectedly. Do you answers the phone during schooltime? And what about DH popping in and out of the schoolroom? I like the last one a lot, but not sure if this will work when dc get older. :lurk5:
  13. ehm.. other homeschoolers coming over to play, friends, relatives, church members, someone dropping in to stay for dinner. And everytime someone calls, I rush off to get some chores done. It takes quite some time to prepare extra food, prepare the guest beds etc. Ds3 really thrives on a routine. I haven't been able to keep up with this, because of all the interruptions.
  14. But what if this happens on at least a monthly base? And we get a lot of visitors during the week. We always felt that we should open up our house for anyone who wants to come, but I'm starting to have my doubts about it now. Most people can come in the weekends anyway.
  15. I gave my dc tea from 6 months onwards :001_huh: Is there something wrong with tea :confused: I only give them herbal tea.
  16. How do you deal with visitors wanting to come over in the middle of your homeschool week. ( I mean people who stay longer than just a morning or so...) I never seem to be able to stick to any schedule (I made plenty :D) and mostly because people think, that because we homeschool they can come whenever suits them. I'm a bit tired of this...but can I do that? Telling people that they can only come on Saturday and Sunday? :001_huh: It's not really a problem yet as dc are still young, but as they grow older: I do have to replace school...!? And do you do any 'schoolwork' when you have people over? (I mean staying overnight for a longer period) I know my ds would get crazy not doing anything for a longer period of time. We're going to visit family later this month, but I really want to keep up with what we're doing right now. Is it 'done' to bring the stuff along, and retreat to a bedroom to do 'school'? Or am I just a very rude person :tongue_smilie:?
  17. Choose a topic, pick the amount of time you have (1 week? a month?), choose books (both readers and read-alouds), maps to go along with it, maybe some worksheets or reproducibles. Do you want to notebook, make a lapbook, another project? What kind of activities do you want to do? I don't do Year Long planning (didn't hear that one before) but I have most of my unit study cycle planned out. I have a magazine holder for each unit - a file folder would be waaaay to small! I can just grab a topic from my shelf and GO! It has everything in it that I need for each unit, I just add books to it as Ds gets older.
  18. I though I would, but I never seem to have time for it, or patience :001_huh:
  19. CLE Learning to Read. It's not really that much fun, but it works! Ds loves it as well
  20. I voted dishes, because that's my least favourite. But to be honest, I like doing chores :tongue_smilie: it just all depends on the amount of sleep I had. Cleaning the bathroom, that's my favourite: I LOVE IT! it's so nice to step into a clean bathroom.
  21. Can I throw in 2 more: Egermeier and 101 Favorite Stories from the Bible very accurate IMHO
  22. :001_huh: I don't understand. If they're chosen, you can't do anything. Pleading doesn't help...?
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