Chelli
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58 minutes ago, umsami said:
What is NoS? Is that a WW modification? I'm assuming it's NO s...sugar? salt? starch? Is it like a no-white foods thing?
It stands for no sugar, no snacks, and no seconds on any day except days that start with S (Saturday, Sunday, and Special occasions).
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I wanted to resurrect this thread to post my official review of A Gentle Feast that's up on my blog.
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On 5/20/2018 at 6:39 AM, mama25angels said:
Chelli, if you can, would you please post the schedule here also?
Sorry, I just saw this. Here's the link: https://docs.google.com/file/d/1FO8qiQWaq9AikWXOsffdDQIouBbi58BE/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=msword
It is very much designed for my oldest who enjoys writing and projects so feel free to adapt as needed. There's also a mini unit about superheroes stuck in the middle because a lot of comic book heroes have their origins or counterparts in mythology.
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I created this exact course for my daughter this year. We did a semester of Greek and a semester of World mythology. I used mythologyteacher.com for most of my outline, but I can give you my actual Greek myth semester plan if you want it. We used Edith Hamilton's Mythology as our main book.
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My dd14 is pretty much ready to start her high school experience, except for math. It looks like she won't be taking Pre-Algebra until ninth grade, but she's determined to make up for lost time and work hard over the summers to hopefully have time to dual enroll in College Algebra her senior year. Because of her being behind in math, it means that I'm having to make changes to the traditional high school science sequence to fit her math skills.
We were on pace to have her caught up to do Algebra I in 9th grade, but thanks to Hurricane Harvey, we didn't even get to start our school year until the beginning of November. It wasn't such a big deal for my other two kids because they are so young, but all I could think was, "Seriously, this is her eighth grade year. We had some major work to do and didn't need to get such a late start!" It is what it is though, and we're adjusting.
On a bright note her writing skills are advanced, and she's definitely ready for high school work there.
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I have a homeschool blog:
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I got my young reader's edition (i'm assuming that's the one you mean because it's hard to find) from a dealer in the UK bought through Amazon. It was significantly cheaper even with the shipping.
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In Ikea magazine holders on top of the bookcases in our dining room. They are labeled by subject and contain everything needed for that subject (book, workbook, TM, etc.). She just grabs the subject she needs and goes.
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As a Charlotte Mason homeschooler, we only use worksheets for math. There would be nothing to file since we use living books for everything else.
I do plan for the year, but a folder system wouldn't work.
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Henry and the Chalk Dragon is a recent read aloud that my seven year old son really enjoyed.
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Grew up in Arkansas and we steep.
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We're considering moving across the country to have access to medical marijuana for this reason. I have a very cut and dry, obvious condition that causes chronic pain, ie I'm not someone just claiming I have a vague pain somewhere for some unknown reason. My doctors acknowledge that I'm in a lot of pain, that they should be giving me opioids, but they can't risk doing it. Especially as a long term treatment with no other solution. So I'm in constant pain. Last night, I was sobbing on the floor for half an hour, unable to move.
I love our home. DH loves his job. We don't want to move. But medical marijuana may be our only recourse. We're going on a trip this summer to a recreational state to try it (I'm so boring, I've never smoked marijuana). If it makes a big difference, we might just have to move for that reason alone. (We live in the South, in a state that still has dry counties. We'll be the last to legalize it.)
To the bolded:
Not necessarily. Arkansas legalized medical marijuana in their last election and it still has dry counties. It was the first Southern state to legalize marijuana. Having lived there from birth until I was 23, let's just say, I'm not surprised. It's Arkansas' biggest cash crop and that was when it was illegal.
Good luck finding relief. (((HUGS)))
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For my son next year:
Math: Math in Focus 2
Phonics: LOE Foundations C and D (he started reading this year so we've got to finish!) This will be our only language arts since it includes spelling and some gramamar and literature in Level D.
Bible: Bible Study Guide for All Ages
Everything Else (science, history, geography, CM stuff): A Gentle Feast Red Year mixed with some Wildwood Curriculum
Extras: Our weekly co-op and our Power Hour time each morning, plus he'll play baseball in the spring
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I'm a newbie to this board, and to homeschooling high school, so please be aware that I have no idea what I'm doing, and I'm planning for dd14 who wants to be an actress, so that makes things tricky. She might go to acting school or she might just work on padding her resume by doing various theater productions in the Houston area.
Math: Pre-Algebra or Algebra I (Math is not her strong suit, but I'm trying to get her through two levels of math this year so she can start Algebra I in ninth grade, possibly at semester.)
Science: Oak Meadow Environmental Science with extra reading and assignments
Language Arts: I teach this at our local co-op. We'll be using Lost Tools of Writing and I'm working on a book list for the class.
History: She requested to study the Victorian Age since she volunteers at a local living history park, and the Victorian house is her favorite to work in. She requested to specifically focus on the cultural history. I've been amazed at how many resources I've already found with just a cursory Google search, so I'm excited to see how this comes together. She'll also do some study on the same time period in the United States.
Speech: Informal Logic from Schole Academy
Electives: Theater for sure and whatever else is offered at our co-op next year (I believe music theory and appreciation will be one).
Does anyone see any glaring holes?
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Drunk coffee, soda, or beer.
Smoked anything
Finished a game of Monopoly
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I have the exact same plan for my ninth grader for the same reasons so I'm following to see if you get other responses.
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I don’t have that problem when I am cooking, though. Everyone eats the majority of the things I cook. We don’t have identical plates of food. Concessions have always been made in a minor way around individual needs from one family member to the next.
The main issue is when DH cooks. I’m just saying I don’t want to go to: “oh, you’re cooking tonight, honey? Okay, well then don’t make any for me; I’m just going to eat my own food preference tonight.†And then repeating that behavior most every time he cooks. It strikes me as quite inconsiderate and I don’t want to encourage that way of thinking - that that is one option; just beg off what the cook made and eat your own choice. Obviously necessary for things that are medical or ethical, but not just because I don’t love a pork chop. Because then that communicates to everyone, “Oh, well, if you don’t LOVE what the cook made, just go make your own frozen pizza or something.†This would mean almost surely everyone is eating poorer-quality choices and the cook is wondering why bother.
I think that your own baggage and history is greatly playing into how you perceive all of this. If your dh is cooking and everyone else is eating except you that does not communicate anything except that mom doesn't like pork chops and rice. As the one who cooks all of our meals, if one person in our family doesn't like something I make, it doesn't make me throw up my hands and say, "Well, I'm never cooking for this ungrateful lot again!" I just file away in my mind that if I choose to make that meal again, I will need an alternative for that person. I feel like you are assuming that your dh and your children are going to react the way your family of origin did to cooking and meal time and this absolutely isn't true.
Practically, I'd do the following:
1) Tell the family that you are worried about diabetes since it runs in your family so some nights you might have an alternative main dish or side dish on your plate than everyone else. It doesn't mean you're not ungrateful to the cook, but that you are trying to make an effort to focus on a specific aspect of your health.
2. After your announcement to the family, on nights that dh cooks remind him of your new diet and ask your dh to throw something in the oven or microwave for you. Make sure it's something easy to prepare (basically heating it up) so that he's not stressed about adding another dish to his meal plan.
3. Recognize that the above solution will require you to plan ahead a bit for the nights that dh cooks to make sure that you have something on hand that he can easily prepare for you. Also recognize that if he forgets or feels overwhelmed with your request, it will probably fall back on you to heat up your own alternative food (another reason to make sure you have something simple on hand so that you're night off from cooking stays that way).
Best of luck
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Cute! Here's a direct link to the downloadable image without needing to pass through FB:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7MVG-caawarRTRtMzZ0YjdXb00/view
ETA: Just realized OP is the actual creator of the image (previously just skimmed, sorry!), wasn't meaning to draw traffic aways from your FB if that is what you were going for!
No worries! I was in a hurry and didn't mess with the actual link. 😀
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I made a free printable reading log that looks like a bookshelf about a year and a half ago. I'm sharing it again today on my blog's Facebook page, and I thought my Hive friends might like to download it as well. It's great to use with your kids or for yourself to track the books you read in 2018. And, of course, some of you might need to print more than one copy to contain all of the books you read in a year!
Happy New Year, Hive!
Link: https://www.facebook.com/ThePlantedTrees/posts/1569408886477767
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You're only supposed to go through the draw pile twice or someone captures both dragons. Either one of those ends the game. At that point everyone adds up their points and the one with the most is the winner.
We almost always go through the draw pile twice before both dragons are captured.
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O Holy Night. It's just beautiful and perfect.
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Can you give a specific example of something that happened in class that made your sons uncomfortable (besides the video)?
Something like, "He was teaching about Samson and Delilah and then said XYZ which really bothered us."
Without a specific example, I'm not sure what to think.
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Hi Chelli,
I hope things are normalizing a bit for you after all of the trauma. You mentioned that we could check back and see how things were going with A Gentle Feast Do you have any additional updates for us?
Thanks!!!
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(I discovered A&P Spelling and MiF through your helpful recommendations, Chelli.... thanks! So I'm curious about your experience with this, too)
Thanks so much for reminding me! I knew I'd forget.
So my official on the blog review is coming out in early 2018, but I'll share some basic thoughts.
Pros:
- Book choices (good mix of more modern and older titles and books that I already have on my shelf)
- Morning Time plans (perfect, absolutely perfect balance of CM and traditional Morning Time)
- Lots of teacher support (once you purchase a package you have access to the forum and private Facebook group where there are Youtube links for all of the poetry, art, music studied so you don't have to hunt those down, also a book about how to give CM exams each term, various schedules to look at, and immediate author feedback on any changes or problems/questions you are having)
- Easy to swap out books you already own or prefer (there are no questions or assignments for a specific book so if you wanted to use something else it doesn't throw anything off the planned schedule other than whiting out what you don't need/want)
- Cheap in the long run (After purchasing the four years, you would have a full CM curriculum for 1st through 12th)
- Student workbooks that include all poems, scripture, book passages, creative writing prompts, etc. all printed with space to copied right there in the workbook. This is a super nice feature although we aren't using it because my kids like to do all that in their own notebook. I can see it being super handy and useful to have it all in one place.
Cons:
- I'm not sure how easy it would be to combine the entire family for content subjects. The Morning Time plans are already prepared to combine all children together, but once you get into the actual core of the program it looks to be more difficult. For history she gives some suggestions of how to combine kids that are in Forms that are close to each other, like combine Form III and II or Form II and I, but nothing about how to combine III, II and I or more. I'm not saying it's not doable, but it might take some work. Also the combining would only be for history, the science plans are written to each form with no suggestions of how to combine. This isn't a big deal to me since I don't like combining my kids anyway, but I know a lot of hs families want to combine. They are all studying the same time period in history so that's nice.
- Not super STEM heavy. In true CM fashion, the science plans for upper grades is pretty weak compared to what most homeschoolers on this board do for middle grade and high school science. The science is solid, but not super rigorous. TBH, I think it would be difficult to write a CM curriculum with super rigorous science unless you had a science background yourself which most CM homeschool moms do not (more lit and history)
- Lack of great literature. The offerings for literature time are slim and sparse. All of the books recommended for extra reading are historical fiction centered, so I completely rewrote the literature part of the plans for my Form III and Form II girls. I wanted to infuse our day with some great books to read, but continue the slow, savoring approach to learning and books that the curriculum has. It was an easy add in, but it did add in some time to our day.
- Added in creative writing prompts. This one might actually be a pro for some people, but included during language arts time are creative writing prompts that are pulled from various subjects they are studying. It's a very Brave Writer-ish approach (Free Write Fridays) meshed with CM. We skip over it and use actual writing curriculum in that slot. Mainly because I hated creative writing prompts in school and my kids don't seem to like them either. Though, I do like that she has the kids do more than just narrate or write narrations with what they are learning.
Let me know if you have any more questions or need clarification.
HTH
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Are the products any good?
Their acne regimen is the only thing that has worked for my teen and we tried EVERYTHING!!! Her face looks amazing (not only is the acne gone, but her skin is very soft, smooth, and glowing)! We got a free sample last summer from a friend who sells it that's how we discovered that it worked so well for her.
And, no, I don't sell it, nor do I buy it through a sales rep. My husband buys it off Ebay for about half the cost because that stuff is expensive.
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Lesson Planning Multiple Curricula
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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I plan as I get books/curricula in the mail so I don't have to do it all at once, but since you already have it all, I'd decide this week to plan two of them, next week two more, etc.
Also, I plan by subject not by date or week, so that if your child works more quickly or more slowly, it doesn't mess up any plans. I plan the entire year out this way, so everything is open and go once we start.
Here's a link to a blog post I wrote detailing my method:
http://www.theplantedtrees.com/2013/08/how-i-plan-our-homeschool-subjects-part.html