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    CLE (SE) Math 601 and 701 light units - first five lessons scanned?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    Does anyone have these light units that they can scan for me please, pretty please?  I have ordered these from CLP but I am still waiting for their arrival.  I have been asked to tutor my husband's boss's kids starting tomorrow for a period of 4 weeks and was planning on using this with them as part of their math curriculum.  So if anyone that has these and is willing to scan and email them to me we can get started on these right away.  

     

    TIA for anyone's help.   :001_smile:

    DK History Definitive Visual Guide with SOTW2

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    I have a 4th grader and a 6th grader and I decided to do SOTW2 with both with the older following along with K12HO. Last year we used the Kingfisher Illustrated History of the World and the Usborne Internet Linked Encyclopedia of World History. We had the HDVG but I decided to wait until this year to use it with my older one. So perhaps my question should be has anyone lined up K12HO with HDVG - since I have the SOTW2 and K12HO already lined up?

     

    Thanks for any help.

    Sonlight books in 4-year history cycle

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    I know I have come across a list on this forum which had all the Sonlight books listed in the 4-year history cycle. I had it saved on my last computer as a bookmark but that computer crashed and now I am desperate to find this list again. I have done lots of searches again and can't find it.

     

    Please, can someone point me in the right direction?

     

    TIA.

    Considering the option of going Vegan? Any advice?

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    You say that as if it's a bad thing, LOL. I really respect the information that comes from this Foundation. I eat vegan half the year for the reasons Patty Joanna described above (religious), but for the other half my ideal diet is healthy and organic plants, grass-fed beef and pork, raw dairy from our goats, eggs from our free-range chickens, soaked grains, fermented foods, and things made in my kitchen from scratch with whole-food ingredients (this is an ideal that I'm working toward). These are healthy, whole foods eaten by most societies for millennia.

     

    I applaud you for your diet. You eat healthier than the majority of Americans on the SAD (Standard American Diet) diet. Obviously, I personally don't agree with the inclusion of animal based products which is what the Weston A. Price Foundation advocates - butter as a superfood anyone? Here is a link to the article by Joel Fuhrman MD titled The Truth About the Weston A. Price Foundation. Here.

     

    But to each their own. I do not want to enter into a full-blazed argument over the rights/wrongs of vegan/animal diet here on this forum. I am relatively new here and I really respect this forum for my new homeschooling journey. And I would like to stick around for while. :001_smile: As the original OP has requested, tips and ideas for her vegan curiosity, there have been great resources recommended by less provocative posters than I. ;) But when I saw a thread on veganism I couldn't help myself and had a little rant! - it was past my bedtime - sorry - slap wrist - won't do that again. I am a vegan not just for health reasons, but mainly for ethical and religious reasons. So if there is someone here is vegan half the year - great! - we have more in common than otherwise.

     

    Now, back to homeschooling for me.....:D

    Considering the option of going Vegan? Any advice?

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    There are some pretty strong rebuttals of forks over knives.

    Here's one

     

    I watched it. I was not impressed with the science. It did a great job of proving that eating vegan is better than eating the processed terrible crap that many people eat. However, it was not so great at proving that the vegan diet is better than eating a whole foods diet that includes meat.

     

    Here is a snippet from that critique:

    "For the record, I’m not dissecting this movie because I think everything in it is terrible. Quite the opposite, in fact. I believe the “plant-based diet doctors†got a lot of things right, and a diet of whole, unprocessed plant foods (i.e., Real Food) can bring tremendous health improvements for people who were formerly eating a low-nutrient, high-crap diet."

     

    And here is another snippet:

    "In case you aren’t yet convinced that I’ve made it my life’s mission to critique everything related to T. Colin Campbell, this should seal the deal."

     

    So although she is on board with the overall general message of the film, the rest of the critique was predominantly taking apart Dr. Campbell's research. Interesting, how she really enthuses over Dr. Esselstyn. Anyway, to each their own and everyone has a right to their own opinion.:001_smile:

     

    I still don't know how to multi-quote so I will have to post again to another quote! :tongue_smilie:

    Considering the option of going Vegan? Any advice?

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    There is a lot of great information here about eating a Real Food diet that includes lots of great animal fats, pastured meats and dairy and so on. There is also some great info on veganism and how difficult it is to actually be healthy while eating as a vegan.

     

     

     

     

     

    :iagree:

     

    Sarah, who is the blogger, is actually a board member of the Weston A. Price Foundation. Another prime example of checking where your source of information is coming from.

    Considering the option of going Vegan? Any advice?

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    I also totally and fundamentally disagree that being vegan is unhealthy. Come on people - the lack of protein myth in a vegan diet is sooooooooooooo last millenium. Just watch the movie "Forks Over Knives" and all the research and clinical studies are there to prove it. With that being said, you can be unhealthy on a vegan diet because you can still eat a lot of junk food that is technically vegan. But eating a whole foods, plant based diet with a lot of fresh fruit and vegetables is the way to go - it is the diet for today and of the future.

     

    For a great resource and recipes google the Engine 2 Diet (written by the son of Dr. Esselstyn who is the Chief Surgeon of the Cleveland Clinic and one of the persons featured in the film "Forks Over Knives".)

     

    The Protein Myth and the Calcium Myth (ie we need calcium from dairy) are just a few of the propoganda pills we've had to swallow from the Meat and Dairy industries. It's time more people wake up and stop drinking the Kool-aid.

    BFSU?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    Love BFSU. We have been using it for a few weeks now at an accelerated pace for 3rd and 5th grader (roughly 2 chapters a week). I love how it is laying a great foundation of science for them. There is a yahoo group which I have joined. I have looked at a lot of the various threads here but there is one thing I can't seem to find. In the book, at the end of each chapter, there is a recommended list of books for further understanding. However, most of these titles are geared at the lower elementary level. I have been searching for a similar list aimed at older kids. The yahoo groups does not have this list; although there is one in the attached files, but it is blank! Sorry, didn't mean to hijack this thread.:glare:

     

    Definitely recommend the series.:001_smile:

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