Anne/Ankara
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Certainly some areas might experience colder temperatures, some warmer, some stormier... not necessarily all warmer!
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Thanks, Beth, that looks very interesting! I think I may order a copy for my budding engineers. Thanks for sharing!.
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Well, I haven't read them myself, but my kids liked Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow. You might want to check them out. I believe they are suitable for a 13 year old.
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That's terrible! I hope she recovers soon. And I will drink my milk and eat my cheese and brocolli! You can tell your mom that all of us here are watching our calcium intake because of her!
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That's terrible-- I hope you and your family are okay! That is very alarming for all the fragile people who live there. You are in my prayers.
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It's funny, my ds is taking an Environmental Science class at a university this term, studying global warming and other environmental issues. Yesterday in Pittsburgh it was 62 degrees, another record high for our area. And then my son started talking about his class to his homeschooled math club friends, and they all seemed to deny that there was any evidence of global warming and all. Amazing! This was a group of middle school kids who I would have thought were reasonably well-educated about current events. I wonder if they resist the idea of global warming as a problem, since many politicians (Al Gore) who talk about it are more liberal than they are...
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I agree with the other posters that outsourcing has been a tremendous help to our homeschool experience-- it allows me to do household stuff (cooking, cleaning, shopping), and time to myself, and the kids enjoy getting together with other children and learning from adults with greater knowledge than I have, in a number of areas.
We currently outsource our art and music instruction totally, and have dabbled in online classes (French), and now a university course (Env. Science). We have always enriched with sports, museum classes, math workshops, etc. So we don't have 24/7 time together to get on each other's nerves.
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I'm so sorry to hear that, Jean. I know how you feel, that you really don't have time to get sick! You're in my prayers.
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I give my dd age 11 a list sometimes, and she works through it independently. Some subjects we do together, but many things she can do independently. Totally fine with me. But I do check on the work done each day, and don't wait for a week to expire before finding out whether something has been done (correctly!).
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I definitely believe public school, particularly in high school, is an acceptable choice for any family. There are many advantages to it, although significant disadvantages too. We probably won't go that route, because our children are in several groups of friends (both homeschooled and public schooled) so they don't have that "left out and lonely" feeling. But if they did suffer from their homeschool routine (education and/or social life), I would definitely investigate the local schools. No dead bodies required!
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I jog three miles a day, everyday (except when traveling overseas), and I have been doing it for almost 30 years. Amazing! I enjoy it and plan to continue for another 30 years... is there a "Believe it or Not" record here? Fun and healthy.
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That is so very difficult. All my prayers are with you and your family during this difficult time. Let us know how things go for you! Best wishes and regards.
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We're going to do Ancients next year, ninth grade, with the reading list from WTM, but also some High School Ancient Literature anthologies, so we move right along. I don't want to get bogged down if some of the longer book-length works are too tedius for us, so I want the option of reading only "selections" from some of these Great Books.
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My ds is just starting the college experience in sciences, and is now taking an Environmental Science course this term to prepare him for "doing college." In the fall, I expect he will take the college Biology with lab, which will be somewhat of a jump for him (he will be in ninth grade) but he has done one year of elementary biology and one year of logic stage biology, so I think he will be fine. He's taken a lot of summer programs/workshops in the field and loves studying it.
Our plan is to have him take all his science courses with lab at the university over the coming years as he progresses through high school.
I think you would be fine with your son taking a physics course next year, at the community college.
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Gwen, I bought the Thinkwell biology set of CD's last year from them for about $90, if I recall correctly. These are nice tutorials on AP or College Biology, and are very well done. I did not try the testing option or the online grading and such. I see that you can purchase the CD's from EBAY for about $60, but they would not have an online account, I guess, so no grading (but of course you would have the CD's for later use and it wouldn't be a one-year account or anything). The 7 CD's seem to cover everything that you need.
But the Cyber-Ed, now how does that work? What is the cheapest form that you can order and receive a set of CD's for the AP Biology course? It looks like it is divided into many subsets, and if you buy the whole biology series, it is big bucks ($2500?). What would correspond to the AP Biology course? Hard to see!
Anyone else with information? We are starting biology again next year, so I am interested in what is available for a reasonable price...
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We do the National History Day research paper project each year, and it takes about 6 weeks to write (and research a ten page paper).
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It's probably ALEKS math, the one many people recommend. I haven't used it yet myself, but I understand it is quite good, and reasonably priced. It is a web-based program.
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Elementary-- not a single one, although I have fuzzy impressions of many of them. In junior high I can begin to remember their names.... no principals, however. Many I never visited their offices!
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How about exploring more activities? We have remained connected with many families and made new friends through community sports (YMCA, rec soccer and such), art school, music school, library, museum programs and such. Even if these other youngsters are not true "friends," even having many and varied acquaintances could lessen any feelings of lonlieness.
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Actually, it is great fun-- and there are a lot of teams participating! In the earlier elementary grades, there were about 25 teams! But that winnowed down over time, and now the 7th & 8th grade Battle only has five teams this year. Also, they usually choose one non-fiction, and one "classic" and the rest run of the mill books, but often we do find a new author or two from the list that we wouldn't have read otherwise.
This year, the list includes:
Cooney: Code Orange
Mass: A Mango-Shaped Space
Card: Ender's Game
Schlosser: Chew on This (this is the author of Fast Food Nation)
Bauer: Backwater
Crutcher: Sledding Hill
Koja: Straydog
Bloor: Tangerine
Brooks: Martyn Pig
Cornish: Monster Blood Tatoo
Usually the teams divide up the list so all the books are read by someone. Often we read the whole list, just for fun!
Here's the link for our rules-- maybe other libraries do the same!
http://sewickleylibraryteens.pbwiki.com/Battle%20of%20the%20Books
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Second grade is young, but some copywork and dictation might be very helpful (simple, short sentences). My kids also like writing captions for illustrations, which seems easier than full sentences sometimes. And I certainly would be willing to "help" her spell words, by sounding them out myself outloud and helping her choose the right letter combinations that she needs. If it is a tough word, just go ahead and tell her directly..
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We used it when our kids were very little. It was a fun, pre-school game, that had activities that you had to listen to and then click the correct answer. If you son can already read quite well, I don't know that the version we used (ten years ago!) would be helpful... can you see a demo? When we bought the software, it was inexpensive (about $30 as I recall).
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Our library holds a "Battle of the Books" where you get a group of 5 kids together, on a team, and then everyone has about a month to read 7 books or so, then on Battle night, the moderator asks trivia questions, and the team who answers the most ones correctly wins! We've done this for several years now. It is great fun, and usually we win, so that makes it even more enjoyable!
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Laura, I've been wondering how your family has been doing with all those blizzards and train delays in China. Hopefully that hasn't impacted your area. Terrible! I can only imagine the plight of those travelers, waiting 5 days in cold rain to board a train home. So sad.
Global Warming-- do you think it is a problem?
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Wow, lots of interesting opinions and views! Fascinating subject that really deserves more in-depth analysis. Thanks for everyone's comments and links! My son will be heading to Switzerland next month over spring break to look at some of the disappearing glaciers there, so that will also be a very informative look at global climate changes in the past decades. Very interesting!