Oakblossoms
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Play outside a lot. Collect lots of nature stuff and start a nature table, basket or shelf. Put a big magnifying glass there. Get a kid size pair of binoculars. We use a pill box, the kind with days of the week, to collect little dead bugs we find.
Buy Magic School Bus DVD's to watch.
Get a blank journal for the child and yourself. Practice drawing something like a tree throughout the year.
Children that age love nature. It is a great time to really connect to science in a pretty fluid way.
The only science kit I like for younger kids is Stepping into Science from Thames and Kosmos.
Raise butterflies, collect some tadpoles from a pond. Observe, Observe, Observe. We did a weather tree one year. That was really fun. I just drew my own. I am on my iPad so I will be back with links.
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I hope we bloom where God plants us.
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Yeah I think we will definitely get warmer layers, a freezer, a generator :). I am trying to steer him towards the town with the Azure stop. We lived in Alaska when I was a child and I thought it was my fun. It was a real pain for my mom to run to the store.
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He is looking at 4 houses and they are all in small towns. Three are in towns with services. So, it will be a town. But, nothing like we are used to. The closet city will be Billings, MT. I am really pushing for a particular town which coincidently my dh father reccommeded without me knowing it. It won't be farm living.
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Oh priorities are still the same!
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I was thinking brain leakage. I don't seem to leak anywhere else but my brain. I am so dumb these days. I am constantly stopping mid-sentence and having to remember where I was going.
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We are moving to the country. No YMCA. No Costco for at least 2 hours. Lots of snow. No Family. Huge adjustment.
Any thoughts or maybe just a whole lot of prayers and positive energy thrown my way please.
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I might use the spreadsheet thing next year!
We only have 5 kids. I have the older two most independent this year out of necessity. I have been solo parenting while my husband works and lives in another state. We are moving at the end of this month.
I like having a time to read together at least once a day. Usually it is mid-day.
My oldest has a 4 year planner from The Well Planned Day. I use a Well Planned Day planner for the next two.
I wish I had grand advice. But, I have been in survival mode. I just juggle a lot and plan my day to be really long. We don't get up early and everyone works best at different times. I need breaks through the day for my sanity or I end up angry and bitter and yelling. So, we never get done at 3. Someone is always doing schoolwork or helping to watch a baby while I help someone.
We have a YMCA here and that is the biggest thing I will miss. They have amazing daycare. My older three are safe to roam freely. I often drop the little two at childcare and take a steam and nice long got shower. It is like a spa :)
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Thanks everyone :). I find it funny when a piece of paper is more helpful then my phone.
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We are only going a few states away and it is one highway :). So, I was just hoping to easily find a few places to stop along the way. I can't figure out if I want to do it in 2 days or push through 1.
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I am trying to plan our moving trip. We are driving a truck and our van. I was hoping to find something to show me the route and rest stops. I know I could just get a map and all. But, I looooooove my technology :p
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I think homeschooling is for everyone. So, if I don't feel good it isn't working.
I am so attracted to Waldorf but it doesn't work. I am not crafty at all.
I am always surprised at what works especially since my kids are so different. I am coming up on my 4th Preschooler. I have been thinking a lot about what I want for her. My first two went to PS. My third has some special needs. She seems to be doing well and it is going to be so different with her.
One thing I have learned is less is more for us. One good book is ways better than a million extras and crafty stuff and well timed TV shows. One book and discussions so they can connect to other things is nice.
Quite a bit of what we use now is PHP stuff which I always fight but it works.
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Thanks! That thread drove me bonkers. Do we have a social group?
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Can you request books for free?
If you are planning on ordering a sonlight core, then just go to Betterworldbooks and order used books and the KONOS volume. You could get an awesome set up for your family.
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Yes it would. I just like to mention that we did a lot of reading because people often think KONOS is this really difficult curriculum that you spend hours planning and you need to see and have lots of things. I am not particularly crafting. I can't see. The only thing I ever sewed for KONOS was done by hand. We tracked and "killed" stuffed animals. Then we turned them into coonskin hats.
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I was going to say KONOS, as well. It is fun and flexible. We did a lot of reading because my older two loved reading. we would get a big basket of library books. I was amazed at how I would be reading a book and they could pick out the trait.
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My husband has had increasingly horrible health issues and depression. He has at least one family member with diagnosed Celiac. He was really bad over a month ago and I told him he has Celiac. If he doesn't want to land in the hospital or worse give up gluten. And, he did. And guess what all these things are going away.
We have three children with unique issues that I can certainly link to gluten now. So we are all GF now. Well trying.
My dh lives two states away and he is GF. He doesn't care about testing. He is done. He made a mistake and ate soy sauce at a restaurant and he effects were scary.
I am trying to work on a GF kitchen so when we get move this summer that can be one less shock. We are moving from PNW to Midwest and it is going to be culture shock.
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My oldest three are boys. They are all completely different in personality and learning. One thing they all have in common is dawdling in schoolwork. Mix things up during the day. Make sure you are taking a break between tasks to jump around or fidget with some Lego. Give a cookie and milk for a treat. If he sits and tries to learn, the work can't sink into his brain. He really will be wasting everyone's time. Don't take a summer break. Just continue to do a smaller amout of work through the summer.
He just needs practice learning to get work finished. Since, you are the mom you get to help. Setting a timer for say 15 minutes and get him to work in 15 increments for each subject for a week. Then add 5 minutes each week till you are up to 45- 1 hour for the subject.
SWB has a great talk out now titled Homeschooling the Real Child. It is on the PHP store as a download. I keep it on my phone and listen to it when I think I must be crazy and there is something wrong with all my children :p
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It is in my pile but I haven't looked. I have yet to order anything from them. 10 years of homeschooling and there are curriculum I haven't tried :)
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Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design http://www.amazon.com/Politically-Incorrect-Darwinism-Intelligent-Design/dp/1596980133/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_S_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=1MM3E217W50E3&coliid=I1X7H78X03JNNC
We have never done a logic class. I realized my oldest is really stuck on being right. I want him to be able to stick up for his beliefs,in a logical respectable manner.So, you might consider that, as well.
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He used to love science but he seems to be a History guy now. I went to back to school in my 30's. It kind of help me see we can be more flexible than I was led to believe.
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Would this count for a chemistry credit?
CHEM 101 DVD
Exploring the World of Chemistry by Tiner
Exploring the World of Physics by Tiner
Friendly Chemistry
Thames and Kosmos Chemistry Kit
He couldn't manage Algebra. He fumbled through for 6 months. So, I knocked him back down to gain some confidence. He doesn't need to graduate at 18.
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Yeah I would love to hear more. My oldest likes open and go. But, he tends to be ultra-conservative to a fault. I don't need someone pushing him too far over.
Science curr choices
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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Weather tree post from my blog http://oakblossomsacademy.blogspot.com/2010/02/weather-tree.html