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I'm just gonna leave this here and back out slowly:
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Signing Time
Leap Frog Letter Factory
They Might Be Giants - Here Come the ABCs, 123s & Science
Richard Scarry's Best ____ Video Ever series (OOP but at many libraries)
Preschool Prep Letters and Numbers <!-- Never watched these here, but we LOVE the sight words and blends and digraphs so I bet they're great-->
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It's just another mostly harmless noise feed, like the radio and email and Facetube and Pinbook. :D Turn it on and see if you like what you hear.
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(1) Good for you!
(2) If someone shared that with me, I would have a zillion questions. Perhaps you might consider, in advance, what aspects you are ready to talk about and what you might want to say, as well as techniques for signaling to your family that you are open to discussion and conversation, but not to argument, condemnation or dissuasion?
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This thread is delicious. I'm glad I stopped by. :)
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Oh, of course, No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain is amazing. OK, so he's probably drunk more often than he's sober, and I guess there must be some bleeped swearing and innuendo in there to, but gosh, the sights and the food and the cultural exposition are unparalleled.
If you have Amazon Prime, you can stream many/most of the seasons for free.
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After reading this frightening article, I got the TDAP shot and insisted that all caregivers (husband, grandparents) get it as well.
I know whooping cough could hurt or kill a newborn, and I think the idea of "vaccine injury" is mass hysteria at its worst, so for me it was an easy decision. YMMV.
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Another vote for Good Eats. I really believe that show is a curriculum in itself, and it was directly inspired by TV science shows like Mr. Wizard.
Top Chef is actually the one show we all watch as a family. There is swearing (bleeped out) and some strife, but we love it.
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Home schooling has been one of the most successful social movements of the last 50 years. Back in 1980, when it was largely seen as a faith-based fringe movement, the practice was illegal in 30 states. Over time, home schooling has become a mainstream educational option, with the reasons for why parents choose it, and the resources, support groups and curriculum available to help them, growing every day.
Today, nearly 1.8 million American children are home-schooled, according to the Department of Education, more than double the number just two decades ago. But despite its explosive growth, home schooling is still a remarkably deregulated enterprise.
This evening, as part of the week-long education series “Getting Schooled,†America Tonight takes a hard look at how some states are still struggling to figure out how to oversee educational standards for home-schooled students, and whether a lack of regulation is leaving children vulnerable to educational neglect, and even abuse.
As a part of our coverage, we want to hear from home-schoolers in their own words.
- If you’ve been home-schooled, tell us the best, and the worst, part of your experience, and whether you'd want your own children to be home-schooled one day.
- If you’re a home-schooling parent, tell us why you chose that option, and the best and worst part of your experience. Do you think home schooling should be regulated more in your state?
Let us know your answers, which could be featured in our coverage, in the fields below, or using the hashtag #homeschoolkid on Twitter. You can find some of those repsonses below. And catch the rest of the “Getting Schooled†series on America Tonight at 9 p.m. ET every night this week.
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I'm in the camp of Laura writing out a draft memoir in each case, but Rose being the primary "novelizer" refining the language and the POV and the chapter breaks and such.
Another topic on the historiography of the books is that the land claim that Pa made in LHOTP was pretty darn shady. There's an article called Little Squatter on the Osage Diminished Reserve that really changed my perspective on the Ingalls family and the books overall. Among many other things, the Oak Soldier that she describes was around 30 or so years earlier and was misnamed at the very least.
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Thank you for pioneering and for sharing your story here!
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I agree with the advice to pull him out now (if you can do that in your situation) and then have him repeat K. Stop thinking about it as "failure." It's KINDERGARTEN. You really can't fail kindergarten,. This is just a mismatch based on chronological age vs. developmental age vs. academic push-down.
Reading this guy may help:
http://www.heyquitpushing.com/why-sooner-inst-better.html
When he comes back around next year, he will be ready to be an amazing kindergartener. Can you find a DK/Pre-K/TK program for him to transfer to? It sounds like really just needs two years of K, which is now standard practice in many communities.
Last but not least, I've read that when educators recommend a "repeat" or a "hold back," it's easier on everyone to do it earlier, rather than later, i.e. K or first is better than second, which is better than third, etc.
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...if you are in a market like New York, say, where the public schools are lousy and the private schools are ridiculously expensive, then homeschooling provides an opportunity for people who don’t have enough money for private school but value their kids’ education too much to send them to public school to still live in New York as opposed to having to move somewhere else. I think those are all similar problems for people in a lot of different areas.
Similar circumstances in Los Angeles. I can't fathom doing the monkey dance necessary to get into a private school here, much less pay the tuition for 13 YEARS. (~$32,000 not counting inflation x 13 = $416,000 ha ha ha) And the public schools appear to be prisons (of mediocrity and petty bureaucracy and general malaise).
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Thank you guys! The verbal word problems have been such a great experience for me as a parent-teacher. A friend talked about doing them with your son and it was like a lightning bolt of "OOOooooh, this is how you create a math-rich environment!" My kid can't write and probably won't be able to reliably form numbers for at least two years, so I was stumped about how to build number experience for him. (We do have C-rods and have been using Miquon Orange, but I wanted more than just a curriculum.)
Thank for all these other inspiring ideas. I love the idea of counting from numbers other than one, which I wouldn't have thought to do,
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I'll go so far as to say that I love spiders, and I even let black and brown widows live in my garage and around the property until I had kids. (And then I went on a killing spree because little kids are always more vulnerable health-wise than adults and the risk wasn't worth it. Sorry innocent spiders.) Note: "Before antivenom was available, bites from these spiders caused death in about 5% of the cases. Currently there are adequate medical treatments; deaths from black widow bites are virtually non-existent." Source: http://spiders.ucr.edu/myth.html
I read Be Nice to Spiders by Margaret Bloy Graham to my kids early and often, and I love pointing out varieties of spider web on our nature walks. -
http://anniemurphypaul.com/2014/01/the-importance-of-talking-math-with-kids/
How do you guys do "math talk" at home? Lately we've been doing very basic verbal word problems while driving in the car ("If there are three bananas and you eat one, how many bananas do you have left?") but I would love some other ideas.
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My psychiatrist recommends Nordic Naturals as the lowest-mercury, highest-quality option. (Side note: She once told me that she insists that her own girls take some every single day because the multiple benefits for mood and overall mental health.)
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To quote Dave Ramsey and/or Braveheart, "FREEEEEEDOM!!!"
Congrats!
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There's a wonderful obscure book called Frankie by Wilanne Schnieder Belden about a family of magical people whose new baby grows up to be a griffin/gryphon. Definitely suitable for the 10yo and I think the 6yo would like it too.
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Love that series (and the books before it was a TV show). Thank you so much for the tip about London Hospital! I think I'll try that next.
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What a great topic!
OK, not sure if this counts but going to share anyway:
Last year I bought two hanging strawberry pots. Hung them on the front porch, got some strawberries, and then eventually got lazy about watering them (they're so high up there, man, and I'm both short and lazy) and they basically died. Well, that was apparently just fine with a pair of mourning doves. They turned the pot into a nest and raised two sets of chicks in it! According to Wikipedia, mourning doves have as many as six nests a year, so we're really hoping they come back this year and do it all over again.
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Three ecology books we've liked are The Beaver Pond and The Dead Tree by Alvin Tresselt and The Cactus Hotel by Brenda Guiberson.
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Another vote for all three of these mentioned above: Baby Catcher by Peggy Vincent, Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees by Roger Fouts, and The Power of Habit. Habit has stuck with me for quite a while. Bits of it emerge in my thoughts constantly. Baby Catcher made me understand birth in a way that nothing else did. Next of Kin is startling and perspective changing. (For a bonus good time, chase it down with a watch of the recent Rise of the Planet of the Apes.)
The Millionaire Next Door > I reread this every two years or so. More than any other books, it reminds me of the power of simplicity, radical contentment and personal responsibility.
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Bruce Perry > The subtitle of this book is “what traumatized children can teach us about loss, love and healing†and as such, it is quite a grim read, but Bruce Perry is masterful at explaining how trauma changes the brain, and by extension, how love and peace can nourish it. When I finished this book I was left with new clarity about the nature of the human condition.
Becoming Attached by Robert Karen > This is a history of attachment theory research in fields of psychology and social science. I started in the middle, read to the end and then came back again. We had done some attachment parenting practices because Dr. Sears told us to LOL, but this book is totally not about practice, it’s about everything else. Again, so much clarity after reading this, and quite well-written and fascinating!
Onions in the Stew by Betty MacDonald > ABSOLUTELY. THE. BEST. It’s a memoir of her life with her teenage daughters and second husband on Vashon Island, Washington. Funny and wise and perfect and this is another one I re-read on the regular. (She is the author of the Miss Piggle-Wiggle books for children, and The Egg and I, another memoir, which became a Claudette Colbert movie and then was spun off into about a million Ma and Pa Kettle pictures.)
Among Friends by MFK Fisher > Memoir of her childhood in Whittier, CA. Pretty great.
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* Julia Child's My Time in France
* MFK Fisher's The Art of Eating
* Jeffrey Steingarten's two books
Science book series/authors you like?
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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What children's science book series do you guys recommend?
So far I have the following series on my radar for when I hit the used bookstore. I know there are many more, but distinguishing quality is always the problem!
* Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science
* The Cat in the Hat Learning Library
* Magic School Bus
* Eye Wonder, Eyewitness, Eyewitness Science (basically anything DK publishes)
* How and Why Wonder Book of _____
* Pretty much everything by Millicent E. Selsam, Franklyn Branley, Seymour Simon, Gail Gibbons
What else has been worth your while? I'm buying for the future (stockpiling when I find good prices) so disregard my DS' very young age! :)