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So sorry to hear this, Jean. You are in our thoughts and prayers. Hopefully the weather will dry out soon!
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Wow, Laura! Major transition, but sounds absolutely wonderful. That is very exciting for you... Nothing like a fresh start! Great.
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Or Turkish! I wish there were more standardized, recognized language tests for other languages! Oh well, I'll keep looking...
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I like Reya's advice about transitioning to real books at that age/ability, since obviously the simple act of decoding seems well understood. But if you, as I did, want to "make sure" that your kid's reading comprehension is indeed developing appropriately, you could use the McCall-Crabbs Test Lessons in Reading, which is a great series of brief reading passages, with 10 questions, which the student has 3 minutes to read and answer. The answer key gives an approximate reading level for each exercise.
You can buy it from Rainbow Resources at http://www.rainbowresource.com/product/McCall-Crabbs+A-E/009101/1213302989-1606249
It was definitely a fun resource for my kids at that age, and they did all the books (A to F, or whatever it was).
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My kids enjoy practicing, probably because it brings success to performing, which they do pretty regularly. In fact, they have both practiced their instruments every single day for over ten years now. That is amazing but true! It's definitely an expected and not-unpleasant part of our day.
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Could you use this list which covers US History-- the Hippocampus videos. Each segment is quite short, and you could easily do several sections per day and zip through a lot of important, necessary events...
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I feel like I'm a personal walking advertisment for the Teaching Company, since we've enjoyed so many of their series! They are really great, and help the kids more fully understand and remember these important topics. Just today we watched a lecture on Gilgamesh-- fun!
For tenth grade World History (which I assume is a one-year sweep through all world history?), and for someone just getting into the Teaching Company, the Linwood: World History, Fertile Crescent to American History, would be a great place to start.
Now, if your library carries these DVD's then I would highly recommend dipping into other series as your studies come along-- for instance, if you are studying Ancient History, look at the Great Authors of the Western Tradition lectures, the Foundations of Western Civilization series, Art Across the Ages series, the History of World Literature series, Books that Have Made History series, , Great Battles of the Ancient World series, etc... then you can pick and choose a few lectures on the topics/events/literature that you are studying. Very effective!
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I don't have the time or energy to really enjoy my kids anymore. My day is consumed w/ disciplining, cleaning, doing laundry, feeding the baby, feeding the baby again, cleaning up "poop" b/c my almost 3yo just can't seem to get it together and use the bathroom, clearing away this pile of junk or that pile of paper, screaming at the kids to straighten up the living room for the 100th time (only to have it messed up 5 minutes later), finding new doctors b/c our insurance doesn't cover our current doctor (the one we've been going to for over 10 years and who I'm comfortable with and who doesn't question our decisions NOT to vaccinate), worrying about how to pay this bill or that bill, feeling guilty b/c I can't take the kids to a friend's house 20 miles away or sign them up for "x" activity b/c we don't have it in our budget. You get the picture. I've ruined my kids b/c of my stress. I see "me" in them more often than I want to admit.
Oh, Sue! I wish I could give you some encouragement. All I know that this is definitely a season in your life, and one day you probably, unfathomably, will even look back on these years with nostalgia and contentment! I have really found that as my kids grow up, things are much, much easier on me. My youngest is now 12, and it is amazing how far we have all come. So, hopefully you'll see improvement as time goes on, and that your days will get increasingly easier, more enjoyable and more satisfying, as many of us "older" moms can attest!
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Does your library carry any Teaching Company series? They have a course on American Literature, which includes a lecture on the Scarlet Letter. That might be a way to check out the major themes of the book, in a short 30-minute lesson...
http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/coursedesclong2.aspx?cid=250&pc=Literature%20and%20English%20Language
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Actually, I thought of that, though it hasn't crossed ds's mind. Why they have to give these tests so early in the morning is beyond me! Why not 9:00 instead of 8:00? Then everyone could come in, their meal digested, ETC!
I agree! When my ds took an AP exam in May, he needed to be there by 7:15am! And it was about 35 minutes from our house. Can you believe that! Well, those poor high school students were the probably the same ones who board the 6:30am bus each morning for class. Terrible! Seriously, that's one huge benefit of homeschooling!
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Phyllis, could you simply fill out a transcript form like the online one from Covenant College, with the information about what course, what grade, what student, and then use that? It might look official enough for a high school admissions officer...
http://www.covenant.edu/admissions/trad/adm/home/hs_guidelines.php
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Good job! That's a nice extensive essay for a seventh grader! This is what I would tell her-- go ahead and copy/paste into a word document, then line space it at 1.5, divide up the paragraphs with indentation, give it a title, author and date.
Then work on word usage. Is the opening sentence a good introduction? Is there a wrap-up conclusion? Are all the facts included in their proper paragraphs? Are there any word-choices that you want to change, particulary given your audience (if it is an expository essay, do you want to refer to reader directly, or not?).
Then, lastly, consider if there is any other details or important information that she wants to include? If not, she's done!
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When my dd goes to college she will have a concealed weapons permit and a nice little pistol.
What? It is illegal to carry arms in a mall or university? Oh well, after she shoots the mad psycho who ran into her classroom waving a gun - and she saved all her classmates - we shall see who wants to press charges against her.
The psychos don't listen to the gun or knife control laws. Law abiding citizens should have the right to protect themselves. I have no problem with guns. I think we should all wear them on our belts and see how soon the first weak and useless crazy person tries to walk into a mall or school and shoot everyone up when they know we can defend ourselves against them!
My man has guns - we respect them - dd respects them. Dd actually sleeps with a loaded bb gun on her nightstand! It's the kids who are not taught - or are too hard headed to learn respect for guns - who cause the problem. I love guns, I respect them, and I maintain some sense of fear around them because I respect their power and what they could do if mishandled.
I could easily kill someone with an insulin overdose - are we going to outlaw that?
I could kill someone with silk stockings - are we going to outlaw that as well?
How about we outlaw hydrogenated oils, splenda, saccharine, nutra sweet, genetically modified food....all the silent killers. Especially GM corn which is killing monarch larva and probably now the bees and bats and even little kids are showing up with razor sharp painful fibers coming out of their skin - fibers which have been DNA tested and are found to be fungus and bacteria.......the same fungus and bacteria that Monsanto uses and they affect eucaryotic cells......hmmmmmm?!
I just hope that your dd can be on alert 24/7 against any accidents or mishandling of her weapon, at home, at school, during sleep. Nieces, nephews, curious people, ignorant people in her life might not have the gun training that she's had, but she will still be responsible for every shot from that gun. That to me is too high a responsibility to carry, every day, in every way.
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murder rate in the US (0.042802 per 1,000 people) is much higher than that in the UK (0.0140633 per 1,000 people) and Canada (0.0149063 per 1,000 people).
I'm strongly against all the gun-carrying here in the US, and I do think that there are way too many people killed and injured by accident from all these millions of guns-- often children who should be better protected from such violent instruments.
Although I don't have statistics, I'm sure the murder rate (even with knives) in Japan is way, way, way below that here in America. If people could only attack each other with knives, I bet there would be a huge decrease in murder here in the US.
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I would have him pack a lunch daily with good food (dinner leftovers, perhaps?, fruit, veggies sticks, etc). For that length of time, he'll need something substantial to keep up his strength...
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I like to make a hot, complete sit-down meal for dinner, when we are all together. I over-cook, making sure there would be some left-overs, which I serve for the kids and me for lunch the following day. That way, I get two meals out of one-time cooking, and we avoid unhealthy lunch fare (chips, processed meat, canned soup, whatever). For breakfast, generally everyone makes their own-- fruit, cereal, oatmeal, eggs...
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Our homeschool math club teacher is a real proponent of cinnamon, as an aid to memory, before big tests. I have no idea if there is any science behind it, but it is fun to have cinnamon toast for breakfast that day!
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You probably know about Annenberg Media's French in Action, which is a well known video set and textbook. The videos are available free of charge, and you can purchase the book and workbook from the website. It has been highly recommended as an immersion-program... I planned to use it this year, but went with APEX Learning's French instead...
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Here are three to check out in Pennsylvania-- they are considered good liberal arts schools, so maybe their history or journalism programs are good, but I don't know. All I know is that they seem to be well-regarded, nice safe campuses, good faculty...
Grove City College, http://www.gcc.edu/
Muhlenberg College, http://www.muhlenberg.edu/
Allegheny College, http://www.allegheny.edu/
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We just finished the Teaching Company's series on economics, and it was very interesting, and definitely accessible to an interested ninth grader. Highly recommended! Maybe your library carries it...
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And there is a sequel out now, which my kids are reading, called Mysterious Benedict Society, The Perilous Journey.
But my well-read 12yo dd says that the Mysterious Benedict Society is merely a re-take of a much better novel, called "Story Time" by Edward Bloor...
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I would go with the Sienna-- much easier to drive, safer and more gas efficient...
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Doesn't that look great! I think that would be very neat. One of my all-time favorite movies is the Story of the Weeping Camel, a National Geographic film about a Mongolian family in their yurt. Your library might carry it...
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Okay, let's make a list of the funniest educational Youtube videos that you have seen... What are your favorites? Here are some of mine:
http://www.ryanschoen.com/college.html
two years for AP and high school physics?
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Joan, this doesn't exactly answer your question about physics, but you might consider having your ds check out the Environmental Science AP course, if he is looking to have 5 AP's and wants to shine in sciences. It could be an easily-done science that would not put him over the top in terms of workload.
I say this because my 13 yo ds just took this course and AP exam last semester, and learned a lot, and did quite well... Now he's more confident going into the other AP science courses (bio, chem, physics).
Just a thought!