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Love the list!
I got dd a large RA doll, about 30", and she still plays with her. It is the big sister doll to all her babies, her reading companion, and dance partner.
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Ugh! I have a HUGE load in my cart with them right now. They have been very slow for me in the past too and I'm very hesitant. But, CBD doesn't even have several of the books I need...and neither does Amazon. Plus, the shipping from CBD would be over $20 because it's 10% of the order. So, I am hesitant, but going to do it. *sigh*
I did just read the shipping section and it said that orders over $150 would be sent UPS. Mine will be heavy too. Hopefully that will be faster.......
With CBD, call them and ask for free shipping. They give you a code for orders over $100.
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Had this happen a few times with RR and now I shop exclusively CBD or Amazon for new items. I even can get better shipping from ebay sellers when I decide to shop used.
I am with you, no excuse for the order to take 9 days to get to the shipper if everything was available. Lamp post is another seller who takes the "whenever I get around to it attitude' with orders.
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We have 6 weeks under our belts so took this week off. It has been going smoothly but during this off week I plan on making some changes.
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I felt they were rigorous and thorough. I have never used the DVD's though, we did the experiments which I felt were excellent (but they do require lots of lab materials).
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Do not get sucked in! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!
Kidding! :laugh: I've not been seduced by the power of the
dark sideBeekeeper's Quilt. (Or Babette; that's another one that lures people in.) I've just read about others' projects--that it's cute and take-along but that it takes a lot lot lot of commitment, especially with the seaming. Good luck!PS--if you do decide to do it we have a support group for blanket makers on Ravelry in the Stash and Burn Listeners Group here. ;)
Too funny, but if a support group is needed for those who have done this I might stay away. If I decide to go ahead I will proceed with caution.
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I will finish up my mittens this week and looking for my next project. This looks fun and can be a great bring along project. I have more then enough little left over balls of yarn to get started.
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Nope.
Usually when it is first mentioned in the curriculum each year I have them make a 100 chart on graph paper, then find the primes (circled in red). This paper is then kept for them to refer to if needed. By high school they usually have it memorized just from use.
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I finished knitting the shrug but after seaming it I had to rip out the seam and reseam it. I found out the hard way that seaming is hard and not to be done as you would a sewn garment. Anyway, the reseaming is finished and though it is not perfect it will do.
I also started a pair of mittens following a cute pattern I found on Ravelry (Mrs. Musgrove's Mittens) however by row 13 I came across an error in the pattern (easy to fix) but many more after that. Needless to say, my confidence in the pattern was gone so I frogged it and am now trying a new pattern, Thames Street Mittens. So far it seams easy but with enough interest to keep me from getting bored.
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We had trouble with Astronomy too. It was just a boring subject for us and we are nature study people. I think it was the fact that most of the things we were reading in Apologia were things we could not see and experience. Most other science topics you can see up close examples of what is studied or hand on studies. With astronomy you see stars and the moon. If you are lucky you can see some planets but those look pretty much like stars to get excited about.
Some things that helped us:
the Jan Van Cleaves Astronomy for Every Kid book (or something like that). This has lots of easy to do experiments with at home supplies.
drop the activity book and do the lapbook from A Journey through Learning.
if your children are real young, pre read the Apologia and make a few notes, then get library books on the planet being studied and while they look throuh the book you can tell them neat info you got from the text.
do nightly walks outside to look at the sky and keep a night sky journal, write simple things like "cloudy and cannot see the stars" "moon has a cloud floating by it" "saw the big dipper"
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Never guess what we found on our lawn this morning...a cell phone. I believe we have become the cell phone whisperers. Lucky it was near a parked car. Left note on car and the owner got their phone back.
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I am not sure what the difference is between scrapbooking and notebooking .
Keep a history scrapbook or a science scrapbook or both. You could include narrations, have the kids label things - diagrams, maps, fill in charts... For science, you could do simple experiments, take photos, then scrapbook the photos with captions, explanations of the experiment, illustrations, etc. Or you could just have them make scrapbook pages about animals or elements or anything along those lines.
This is what we do but I call it notebooking, I take pictures of all projects and activities then let them narrate what is happening to caption the picture. I also take a picture of a book or dd holding a book she just read and then write a short book review/report under it.
What if they notebook but have an organizer bin full of scrapbooking supplies: fancy paper, stickers, colored brads, ribbons, decorative scissors, stencils, punches) to use to decorate their pages.
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Thanks all! The owner called and should be picking it up soon.
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I found a very expensive cell phone this morning on our way to the farmers market. I went back where I found it and placed a PHONE FOUND flyer. I am extremely cell phone challenged and first hate the idea of looking through the phone for owner info (if any is available) and second I would not even know where to look. Hopefully the owner will call the phone. Right now I have it sitting in a drawer in an unused room just in case they can listen in or use the camera to look around.
What if they never call...what do I do with this thing? What if they think it was stolen and report it? Argh....maybe I should have just left it.
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We did not use one but it would have helped. For the most part dd was able to figure out what needed to go in the blank. Most of the verses we needed were in the back of the Study book so it was not a big problem. We are about to start our next book and I did not buy the recommended Bible, we will just use the versions I have here.
As for how we are doing the books. Since dd is 8 I don't follow the schedule the book has. Instead I break it into bite size chunks, It took us about 11 weeks to get through the Genesis 1-2 book, For the first half of the book I helped her but then she understood how to do it she does it on her own. We did not do memory verses with the Genesis book but will be doing them with the next book. Prior to working in the book I went through and marked the daily amount she needed to do adding a start and stop mark on the pages. It takes her about 15-20 mns to do a days lesson.
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Inspired by a video by Anita Luvera Mayer I watched a few weeks ago, and Chris in VA 's Smashbook idea I'm going to try and work on having a inspiration book. I've already bought a spiral bound book. I do already have planning guides I use for weaving projects I'm currently working on, but I wonder about a "to do" type of thing. Color ideas, inspirations photos, projects you want to get to someday... that kind of thing. Do you have a place for your inspirations, or is it here, there, and everywhere like me?
I started a SMASH book. I am having fun with it. It is recording all we do or celebrate this year. I put everything in it, wrapping paper scraps, movie tickets, feather from a walk, paper menu from a date night, I even put a power bar wrapper in it since it is my favorite snack. And of course I journal about it all, add kid quotes, book quotes, everything I want to remember. My plan is to start another one with inspirational ideas for crafts I want to make and all the adjustments, color, material I want to use.
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Have 2 more inches to knit on my shrug. Can not wait to have this thing finished. Also started looking at hat pattern. Time to get those started so my family will have warm heads when winter comes. Ds will be the hard one to knit for. He is extremely picky. He felt all my yarn stash (over 30 different yarns) and they were either too itchy, scratchy, not soft, too fuzzy, or something. Dh is picky about color, this is a man who will pick anything brown so he does not have to think about it, but ask him about a hat and he has many opinions about color. DD is too easy, she wants many hats in all sorts of colors, trying to pick just one is the problem.
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We are the 'interesting" neighbors on our block. After we were here a few weeks we started meeting the neighbors and when they found out we were from Louisiana we would get the Ahh, or the Ohh type of response as in "so that explains it."
We are pretty odd compare to the quite neighbors. We practice fencing in the yard and have a science table with decomposing animals on it, plus dd and I do most of her school outside. During snow, dd has been known to go out and play in it at 6am tp play on the snow hills we make her.
Around here the neighbors stay inside and watch us live happy lives through their windows (I have seen them).
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My dd is doing 4th grade work and her reading schedule looks like this:
Assigned reading: at least 10 pages a day
Reading lesson: use BJU Reading, we do together and takes about 30 mins
Writing: BJU Reading has enrichment activities after the lessons that include writing ideas related to literary content. We also read a poetry book and try writing the different types of poetry.
Free Reading: I don't have any rules here because she reads so much on her own. She reads chapter books ranging from Diary of Wimpy Kids to Harry Potter book 4(currently reading this) but also likes picture books.
Read alouds:I read to her from the SL core D books 20-30 mins, her dad reads at night about 15-20 mins, and audio books for car rides
Vocabulary is in the BJU reading but we sporadically do Wordly Wise.
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Minstrel in the Tower
Castle Diary
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His own tools
Shop Vac
Erector sets
Box of used appliances to take apart
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I think Wordsmith Apprentice will be enough if used as written. The grammar I found was a great review and covered in an interesting way. We will use it next year with my dd (grade 4, 9-10yr old) along with a spelling curriculum and I know it will be enough for my writing loving dd.
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This year we are using http://www.amazon.com/Childs-Introduction-Poetry-Mountains-Battles/dp/1579122825/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1376308503&sr=1-1&keywords=child%27s+introduction+to+poetry
After reading about a type of poetry I have dd work on creating her own. So far this has been a great success.
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This year our spelling notebook is used the following way:
Each lesson/list dd writes her spelling words in script
Spelling rule is written on a special page dedicated to rules
Spelling words are then used correctly in a sentence
Spelling test
A page is dedicated to commonly misspelled words she makes.
A mother's stern voice has power
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Living in a college town that has just earned the "One of the top Party Schools" title has it's interesting drawbacks, weekend drunks. At 3am one tried to enter our home thinking it was his friends. Thank God he was not aggressive, just totally blitzed. So while my husband is on the phone with the police I am talking through the glass door to this guy. I could tell he was determined to come in so I finally had to use my stern mommy voice. I told him very sternly to go sit down on the swing for five minutes and wait. He did, but came back a minute later. Again I told him very sternly his time was not up yet and go back and sit, he did but before he did her looks at me and says 'I don't like you" in a very pout-y voice. A minute or two later the police arrive and the rest of the night was quiet.
Funny thing is the door he kept trying to enter is one that is sealed and has a deck box in front of it. He had to move the box to try the door. Poor kid, he really thought he was at his friends house and could not figure out what was happening.