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I have had 3 similar rashes (me or my kids lol)
1. was "abnormal" german measles. I had had all my shots, 3 doctors I went to were stupefide about what it was, i finally went and saw a lovely chinese doctor, who told me this, and gave me cream for it, so it ended up lasting overall (from onset) about 2 weeks. There was one point where it looked like I had been burnt from top to bottom, it started off as a rash, but the rashes formed together and created massive welts.
2. Seen on my son & daughters - heat rash, but unless you are in a hotter area over there...
3, Contact Dermatitis, I think its called. Basically contact allergy. Were you wearing poly clothes or something? I still haven't figured out what I get the allergy from, it just happens every now and again, and even after multiple detailings of our house and anything I have touched I am still unsure.
Other than that, no ideas :grouphug:
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This is under their FAQs
Can I use your curriculum easily in a secular manner?
Living Books Curriculum concurs with Charlotte Mason's idea that all knowledge comes from God, whether it is labeled secular or religious. The founders of Living Books Curriculum have a "Christian worldview" that is reflected in the curriculum. They believe God is the original and only creator of the universe. However, they choose books that are "living" and nourish the mind, whether or not they use Christian terminology.
Its not a very ideal answer, is it?
Looking at it now, (at first grade) it has biblical studies, so obiously you would omit that. My worry is the history. It states "from creation to..." so you wouldn't have pre-history or early man I presume. And the problem is figuring out how much biblical is interwoven with the history stuff.
The books themselves all look secular though. Their is actually quite a number in each grade I would recommend.
Okay, I had a quick look through the sample. Removing the bible study is simple enough, but I was right in the area of history. It talks about (for ancients) the flood, and creation related stuff. Secularising the History segement would probably be akin to secularising TOG. Its doable, but not easy.
If you wanted it for the stuff other than the history & bible, it should be fine. But at that, I would just recommend using their guides as a list of books to get. So I wouldn't recommend purchasing the curriculum itself, but its upto you
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What I would suggest by looking at your photo, if you don't want nude, is to choose a lipstick that is slightly lighter with a litter more pink hue than your natural lips. I usually go with a matt lipstick, blot off then apply a matt type (hard to explain) gloss. The gloss I choose is one that doesn't leave sticky/wet residues, but leaves the kind of light shine that suggest you have just licked your lips.
I have a very pale complexion too! I actually dress alternative/emp/punk/goth. DH once said to me, if I actually did goth makeup, without even putting foundation on, I would look like I have been dead for quite a while! lol. I usually stick to natural make-up though, luckily!
I always suggest seeing a makeup counter girl and getting her opinion for the sort of thing your going for. For some reason, its doubly hard, if not impossible, to choose your own make-up that suits you, unless you have the classic model look (peaches and cream skin, almond eyes, blank slate etc). I have diplomas in Make-up and beauty and whilst I can sit there and in a few minutes make up somebody elses face, figuring out my own colours is another story. :lol: Anything I do on myself makes me look like a drag queen, so I stick to black mascara & eyeliner (I have long lashes, but they are blonde), a $2 blush that I love (I swear if that goes out of business, I'm stuffed, it took me 10 years to find a blush that suits me!) and either lip liner or matte lipstick for my lips (yes, I have actually used lip liner for all parts of my lips! Just because sparkly is in at the moment and I am having trouble replacing and finding a new matte lipstick. And some bubble clear dries-on gloss stuff.
If you naturally pale/fair and are wearing red, with your face you'll want to accentuate as much as possible without going over the top (otherwise the red will wash you out, and make you look paler) so go as bright as you can with your lipstick, without being garish (and nothing "too" pink, always go for the red-type of pink or a pale/nude or possibly depending upon the colour some sort of orange/pink sunrise) and do not forget the cheeks, you'll need something to give you the peaches and cream even with the red dress/clothing on.
What I try to do if I am planning something is to find something about palm sized that is roughly the same colour as the outfit, this way whilst I am experimenting with make-up, I can have that "color swatch" near me, and can also hold whatever it is under my chin to see the overall effect of what the colouring does to my face.
Some people can get away with just red lippy/or nothing with the red dress, but not many.
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I used to make re-born dolls about 4-5 years ago.
A lot of people purchase kits or blank dolls. I used berenger (sp? lol) dolls and other ones I came across.
The most gruesome parts were (cutting inside the back of the eye, and yanking out the eye/socket. lol, and when I had gotten to stage 3 or 4 baking, I am sure if people came in at that point it would of literally looking like I was roasting parts of a baby :lol:
One time I had parts cooling on the bench and the neighbour came in and let out a shriek, I had to calm her down explain to her and show her the parts weren't real LOL. (She was on the other side of the room so just saw various "parts" sticking out of the cloth
I gave up after DS was born, actually the last bit I did on a re-born was painting the veins, then I started having contractions, and left big blue blobs inside the arms :D lol, I acetone-d it to start again, but never got round to it. I gave away all my parts and bits.
Its was fun, but it was like my 3d felting, too many sharp and dangerous bits to be near the kids, and too much of a steady hand/concentration required.
The people who buy them...I don't know. I've made all sorts of dolls, sculptures, art etc, but I have always kept them or given them away as presents etc, I'd be no good at selling stuff that I have put my heart into making.
I've seen people collecting them like you would other things (so having them in a sort of setup in a glass cabinet) but anything else is just a bit too weird for me. But then again, we do make them to be as real as possible, I researched with each doll, based on its size, what sort of age it would be, and made the final product to that, I check weights, and duly weighted the doll in the appropriate places, so the simple fact is, we were making a doll for all intents and purposes was to be "as real as possible".
I just like making them, I don't know about anything else :lol:
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awwwww.....Seriously?
First, I get the books, because the program wasn't out yet. I planned to do AAS with A, and fold the books in.
Second, I only found out a short while ago that the AAR Level 1 had come out, so I duly went and purchased the set, and decided we'll start aar first and bring in aas halfways through...
Third, the level 1 just arrived on my doorstep YESTERDAY
fourth, i live in AUSTRALIA.
I'm going to go chuck a little child wobbily now, I need it......
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Right, I can now say I have tried pretty much all the suggestions on this thread
AND>........
......I'm broken. :svengo:
Tried teaching about inner thoughts and voicing thoughts, tried understanding from her angle, tried to get her siblings involved in the conversation for back and forth banter.
Nope, she's a one person role-playing machine. :willy_nilly:
TWO HOURS of me conversing with her in her varied role-play scenarios (mostly princesses going to the ball, and her "doing" (aka knotting) my hair, all the while keeping up a running commentary, telling me what to say, me role-playing.
At the end of the two - hour (did I mention this went on for two hours? :001_huh: :lol: ) I tried another tactic. Why don't you draw your story or what your feeling, be FREE! with the paper and pen! be at one! write your thoughts down......obviously she took this literally, as she then proceeded to go "I am the husband writing to my madly in love wife, this is the paper I am writing on and I am making a wonderful drawing for her to cherish...yada yada, yada yada. And on and on it went whilst she was drawing.
So it came down to last resorts "Darling, mummy loves you and your wonderfully interesting dialogue, but mummy needs a rest from the constant conversation, can you please not talk for a bit, sweetie?" "*in deep mans voice* Oh, but I have to give this drawing to the lovely lady I met, here you go madam" and she hands a beautiful drawing accentuated with a billion hearts to me. NAWWWW.
We did a mini on-the-spot science lesson on anatomy of different animals by labelling her drawings....then.....
By the end of it, I went back to my old habit "darling, mummy needs to plan school stuff, why don't you take mummys pen and paper and go into the dining room (aka other side of the house) and fill up the WHOLE book with wonderful drawings?
*5 minutes later barely heard from other side of the house* mutter...muttter...blah blah blah....mutter mutter....kings...queens....castle....princess.....fairy mermaid....letter....drawing....drawing.
:lol:
Well, you can't say I didn't give it a go.
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Original Hans Christian Anderson stories
AA Milne
Original or edited Fairy tales (the ones all children know)
Classic Fairytales from other countries
Shakespeare - I have a little book of classic poems. I read them out to A last year, and asked her what she thought they meant, then draw a picture of her "meaning"
Aesop's Fables
A Christmas Carol
Alice in Wonderland
Peter Rabbit
Anne of Green Gables
Treasure Island
Wizard of Oz
A Light exists in the Spring (Poem) - Emily Dickonson
Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle Book
Stone Soup
True Animal Tales - We just grabbed a book about real life heroic animals
Charlottes Web
Roald Dahl
True People - Any books suitable for the intended audience about real life people (charles darwin, albert einstein, Bach, Beethoven)
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Thank you for the replies!
I am nearly finished with the new logbook, so A and I will be able to fill that out together.
Next time she has an appointment, BOTH DH & I will go. This solves a few problems at once:
1. I can be their to re-direct any conversation
2. That means the other two kids will come, the educator went a bit bewildered before when the other two monkeys were there, so it may work in our favour to off-set her a bit.
3. I will "prepare" A before the next visit, so she knows the sorts of things the doctor will ask, and can reply with ease (she really doesn't count school as "learning" just fun LOL, so although she can count, does maths, & LA, if someone asks her "does she know?" her answer is usually "no" . She even does it to me, I'll say do you know the alphabet sounds? "no" I'll point to each letter and she'll do the sounds, she just doesn't realize the "connection" in relation to questions like that, even after I say "see! you do know the letter sounds" :001_huh::D
4. She's bubbly and wonderful, but she doesn't like questions fired at her like that. MIL did the very same thing and ended up traumatising her. So I can be there to diffuse any situation that it might make her upset.
5. A can take her log, and a school project with her on the next visit, I will tell her to show the Educator and tell her all about her school stuff. If I get A to talk to her, A will babble incessantly on and on about all the great things she did. Then the educator won't have to ask questions lol.
6. Before the next visit, I will look into our rights, know where we stand with the appointed team. If its something we are doing wrong, and thats why we still have her, in all honesty why doesn't she just say "you are doing such and such wrong" because then I would have some sort of guideline and re-adjust :tongue_smilie: . Hopefully I can also come up with a mantra to babble under my breath to keep me calm focused and not get upset.
7. I will look around for local diabetes groups. You know, for some reason I never thought of this? :001_huh: derp! :lol: If theres a team, then there must be people LOL!. It would be nice for A to have a friend with diabetes, as her only diabetes friend is "Ruby" the bear (from JDRF).
8. A very big thank you! :D I just really couldn't see anything logically, hence why I posted here, usually I can step back from the situation and figure it out, but this last session was sort of like the fly on the elephants back, and it reminded me too much of the situation with MIL. I get really upset when people direct that sort of thing at my children, I really prefer them to direct it at me. And I don't do good with subtle type manipulation, I really prefer it when people put their cards out on the table, at least then I have something to answer back to, although I can imagine that conversation.
Her: I do not like you
Me: Why?
Her: I just don't
Me: Okay then, good to know :D
Her: You shouldn't be homeschooling!
Me: Why?
Her: You just shouldn't!
Me: Right. Thank you for letting me know.
Her: You don't do a good job with A!
Me: How don't I?
Her: You just don't!
Me: Ok. Good good. Nice chat.
I don't think that would solve the situation somehow, especially seeing as I can actually hear her giving those answers! :lol:
P.S. On a totally unrelated note - why does my "there" keep coming out written as "their"? LOL. Very weird. Obviously this computer is going even more broken then normal
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I do think your original post felt a bit confusing. I didn't so much think that you weren't caring properly for your dd, just that the diabetes team perhaps thought care was not quite up to par. You seemed to imply (with the info about your own illnesses, plus the word "rainbows") that diabetes care was not going as smoothly as it otherwise could. I'm sorry if that was taken wrongly.
It probably was. I'm looking through a rather pink haze at the moment LOL. I didn't really think we have an option, basically from the moment she was diagnosed, we were "assigned" a team. I have never even met the supposed "doctor". Basically from the moment she stepped in, it felt akin to constantly being on what would amount to a strong CPS radar in the US lol. She's just made me feel consistently like I am not doing enough, and I could always do better, like I must be perfect in every way :glare: which hurts, as I am always putting DDs health first, but it never seems to be enough for her "perfect eyes". She seems to think (which in a way she does, hence the overflow of my post) that she can interfere and nose into every aspect of our lives, all the time, its similar to being in a fishbowl. And honestly, because of what I seem to have counted about the law out here (goodness, someone correct me if I am wrong and can end this situation somehow) it feels like it will never end, and we will constantly be viewed under a microscope, no privacy.
In a way I would actually prefer something like CPS, at least if they feel their is some kind of problem, they check up, realize their isn't and thats the end of the story.
I am sorry if anything felt harsh :grouphug: I honestly didn't mean to be, but it hurts to constantly have to defend every action I make, and to have been under this scrutiny for 18 months is just starting to make me both teary and angry. If there is another option, I am all ears.
So I am big-time apologizing for my all over the place writing, and for any harsh words, obviously I am too emotionally wrought to come at this from my normal logical perspective, so it seems to be screwing with my writing skills as well.
xxx
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I will add this into the initial post as well.
We take good care of my daughter. Everything is strictly controlled, our first and foremost thought is her health. Because of her age, she is constantly going on/off through growth spurts, which means she eats a lot more, dosage has to be adjusted etc (we adjust it ourselves now) basically we know exactly whats going in each and every day, but SHE doesn't. So she runs through each and every single meter readin asking why about each one that is not absolutely perfect (between 6-7.5 in her opinion, but its fine for the child to have anywhere from 4.5-10) and any readings above that mark were usually within the two hour time frame of eating (we may of taken a reading because she looked low, or to double check things etc)
I am sorry to those who have taken upon themselves to believe that the reason I wrote this was because I was NOT taking care of my daughter. I do not get where those assumations can from? :001_huh:
The reason surrounding the educator and the whole question: We live in Australia, so rules may be different here, I am honestly not sure why we still have an educator, and I don't really want to say something truely bad about her, but she does seem to be one of those people who likes to "micro-manage" when its not needed. She also was supposed to help us out at the very very beginning, and told us to contact her 24/7, half the time her phone was off and she wouldn't ring back till a day or two later and the other half the phone just rang out. She seems to like being in control of every possible situation, and really we are supposed to be seeing the doctor "her boss" more often, but apparently, he's a very busy man, so we see him twice a year, if that, shes the one who seems to take over the doctors duties. Any appointment that is supposed to be with him, is more likely to end up being with her. She is also in control (somehow, even though shes "not" on the official documents) of the rest of the team. So basically unless I can get ahold of the actual Dr (pretty impossible) she's the head honcho. We are also in a country area, making it hard to get to anywhere else, I believe this is the only Diabetes team for about 2 hours.
Reasons why we homeschool: Not that this seems to have anything to do with it, but ONE of the many, many reasons why we homeschool is that the school cannot legally inject with glucagon. If my daughter passes out, they would have to call an ambulance. There is also many other diabetes related problems with sending her to school. (BUT these aren't the only reasons we homeschool).
So: Above is all the info. She is basically head-honcho, I am just trying to diffuse the situation in a small town, without making it harder on my daughter or husband. I can look into trying to let her out of the loop, but until then I just need some strategies to :chillpill: her out. We have tried to go above and beyond, I spoke to her about getting a diabetes curriculum together for DD, to teach her all the things she needs to know, and help her start being a bit more independant, the educator originally was excited about this idea (or her version of excited anyway :tongue_smilie: ) but then never finalised/responded.
Other Notes: DD has become excited about Ancient Egypt so I managed to get a scrapbook kit, and am making her, her very own little log book, so she can start keeping accounts of her own on her levels, food etc (cause shes not reading yet, I have made sure to make it okay for pre-reading (draw what you ate for lunch, breakfast clipart so she knows where to put the meter level for that, and one area for carbs (mummy tells her, and she writes), and one notes section (she dictates her thoughts, events to me and I write it down)
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We use Harmony Fine Arts & MusIQ Piano Curriculum, so between the two, we get plenty of composer study & music appreciation
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Right now, I'm taking the higher road...that is avoiding the person :lol: and DH sees them instead, which he just sits their quietly.
BUT after what I was summaried about the last visit, I am :mad: seeing red. If I was their, I probably would of gone off my nut, which probably wouldn't have gone down well. Probably would of made things a lot worse actually, but I don't udnerstand what to do now.
Heres the recap:
My daughter has type 1 diabetes, so she has a diabetes educator. Shes been diagnosed for over a year and a half, so I don't understand why we still have an "educator" instead of just the doctor and rest of the team, but thats neither here nor there.
This lady gets my back up, as such, I decided its best to let DH deal with all visits with her. She doesn't know I have CFS as well as a host of other medical problems (IMO its none of her business), and basically blames any problems on me (without actually saying it, but you know the sort, holds eye contact/glares at you when re-iterating stuff etc), so she doesn't know/understand my daughter is not the only one with medical problems, and apparently we should be doing "rainbow" with everything, and be perfect. But we are not.
Anyhoo The Problem at hand:
Last session DD went in there for her checkup, and the lady seemed to spend most of the time interrogating my daughter! Asking her questions, and basically trying to make her perform like a gosh darn monkey!
Asking if we were still homeschooling (yes, just like we were the last time you asked), asking her if she could count (poor DD just started counting 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 etc) and asking if she could read! Then obviously getting annoyed because she couldn't! If she were in school, she probably wouldn't be reading either! and if she was, it word be sight words (DD went through ETC primers last year and is due to start AAR soon, she has some drama blending, we are hoping AAR will get her into reading). She directed all questions at DD totally ignoring DH (DH just stood back and let her interrogate DD, but I know DH just remains quiet in these sorts of settings, its basically why I prefer him to go). She just kept asking her more and more forcing questions, obviously trying to find everywhere we are failing and to show how bad a job we are doing!
I don't know what to do?
If I stay quiet about this, that means that its okay for her to just interrogate and use my daughter as a performing monkey (and that is NOT ok), BUT given who she is, we have to "make nice" to her, as she can make our lives a living hell. I also need to show some semblance that DD is doing well with homeschooling as elsewise she WILL find what she accounts as failings and will look into getting the head doctor to speak to us to try to talk us into putting DD into school.
Basically I have to try to find a way to appease her a little, make sure she knows DD IS learning, so she calms down on the whole forefront, without making too many waves.
Can anybody help?
UPDATE!! (ADDED IN AFTER INITIAL REPLIES)
I will add this into the initial post as well.
We take good care of my daughter. Everything is strictly controlled, our first and foremost thought is her health. Because of her age, she is constantly going on/off through growth spurts, which means she eats a lot more, dosage has to be adjusted etc (we adjust it ourselves now) basically we know exactly whats going in each and every day, but SHE doesn't. So she runs through each and every single meter readin asking why about each one that is not absolutely perfect (between 6-7.5 in her opinion, but its fine for the child to have anywhere from 4.5-10) and any readings above that mark were usually within the two hour time frame of eating (we may of taken a reading because she looked low, or to double check things etc)
I am sorry to those who have taken upon themselves to believe that the reason I wrote this was because I was NOT taking care of my daughter. I do not get where those assumations can from? :001_huh:
The reason surrounding the educator and the whole question: We live in Australia, so rules may be different here, I am honestly not sure why we still have an educator, and I don't really want to say something truely bad about her, but she does seem to be one of those people who likes to "micro-manage" when its not needed. She also was supposed to help us out at the very very beginning, and told us to contact her 24/7, half the time her phone was off and she wouldn't ring back till a day or two later and the other half the phone just rang out. She seems to like being in control of every possible situation, and really we are supposed to be seeing the doctor "her boss" more often, but apparently, he's a very busy man, so we see him twice a year, if that, shes the one who seems to take over the doctors duties. Any appointment that is supposed to be with him, is more likely to end up being with her. She is also in control (somehow, even though shes "not" on the official documents) of the rest of the team. So basically unless I can get ahold of the actual Dr (pretty impossible) she's the head honcho. We are also in a country area, making it hard to get to anywhere else, I believe this is the only Diabetes team for about 2 hours.
Reasons why we homeschool: Not that this seems to have anything to do with it, but ONE of the many, many reasons why we homeschool is that the school cannot legally inject with glucagon. If my daughter passes out, they would have to call an ambulance. There is also many other diabetes related problems with sending her to school. (BUT these aren't the only reasons we homeschool).
So: Above is all the info. She is basically head-honcho, I am just trying to diffuse the situation in a small town, without making it harder on my daughter or husband. I can look into trying to let her out of the loop, but until then I just need some strategies to :chillpill: her out. We have tried to go above and beyond, I spoke to her about getting a diabetes curriculum together for DD, to teach her all the things she needs to know, and help her start being a bit more independant, the educator originally was excited about this idea (or her version of excited anyway :tongue_smilie: ) but then never finalised/responded.
Other Notes: DD has become excited about Ancient Egypt so I managed to get a scrapbook kit, and am making her, her very own little log book, so she can start keeping accounts of her own on her levels, food etc (cause shes not reading yet, I have made sure to make it okay for pre-reading (draw what you ate for lunch, breakfast clipart so she knows where to put the meter level for that, and one area for carbs (mummy tells her, and she writes), and one notes section (she dictates her thoughts, events to me and I write it down)
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You can have mine, i could wear some very cute dresses if mine were smaller. :glare::D
OP, :lol::lol::lol:
You can have mine as well. Its hard to find things to wear when I go shopping unless I want to be the muu-muu mom. :D
To Original Poster - I would of been in tears, probably on the floor, laughing my head off. :tongue_smilie: Men! lol.
Your poor daughter was probably sitting there thinking everyone had gone insane. :lol:
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I think a few of them are nice (pleated points etc) but most are wayyyyy over the top. 1. You don't want to have to remove something (flower etc) with your hands to actually get to the TP. 2. You don't want some scrunched up butterfly to use on your body, 3. You don't want to have to worry that they may be pins etc (as a guest) looking at it and wondering if your going to get pricked.
Whilst the simpler designs may be good for a guest bathroom (i.e. something you don't have to do very often), apart from the folded point, they would all be useless for the everyday bathroom
I am sure if you had one of those elaborate designs in your bathroom the first though the guest would have is 1. ******** what am I supposed to use now? and Number 2. She MUST really be bored! :lol:
To do this, you must either be sitting on the toilet yourself, or kneeling next to do toilet for 15 minutes, to create an elaborate bunny......I would think you were insane too. :tongue_smilie:
My kids do art with the TP, but its more alone the line of scavenger hunt. They trail the TP from one room to the next, till you have a giant scavnager course to follow, and a house that looks like "tricks" after halloween.
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I live in Aus, so am always looking for ebooks for curriculums instead of print. I was initially paranoid, as when they start saying the way you (and the spiel introduced it) that it was going to be something akin to the lock lizard program or something where you have online use of it for a year, so it looks like is a pdf file, so I'm ecstatic, I keep looking at WP's programs, especially Hoot, and also CATW
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With your list, I would say:
Go with Rightstart, look into transferring over to Singapore once you have finished the first level of Rightstart.
Go with AAR, begin AAS when you are about halfway through AAR Level 1. ETC can be used as a supplement for reviewing AAR areas, so just buy Levels 1-2 (maybe 3)
We have been looking into Oak Meadow for DS, so I like the idea of that :) We already basically have a kidnergarten curriculum, but I don't honestly believe DS is suited to the type we have, I am going to be watching him over the next couple of months to try to figure it out
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Um.....sort of ? :001_huh:
I am sure I could piece something together, especially in this hypothetical scenario if it included use of the library, but it would require a lot of work, and probably be more teacher intensive. If I was using TOG, I would probably have all I needed lol.
But no, not really, we only have stuff for the current year and a few bits and pieces for next year. Each of my children learn differently, so require their own thought out curriculum.
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I am doing a sonlight type planner with a 36 week file system, so yes, I plan.
I NEVER plan dates though, everything is Week 1, Day 1. I have a date thing up the top of my excel planner, so when we start that week, I just note down the date started.
I have the SL-type planner, and Supplies, Movies and Books List. So every 4-6 weeks, I purchase supplies needed for the next 6 week lot. I hold books for us from the library and collect them at 1-3 week intervals (we can hold/put them aside for us online, so just have to go in and pick them up). Movies are organised weekly and there for us to use.
Basically if I had to jog around at the last moment and try to figure out what we need, school would never get done, as we would never have the supplies. DH would interrupt, kids would start going nuts at one another, and it wouldn't work.
I prefer to have the whole year there and waiting for whenever I am ready and not have to think about bits and pieces, photocopying, supplies etc.
But if I was using certain curriculums, I would probably not have to do much at all, or anything really, in the ways of plans/supplies. But we piece together our own sort of curriculum, and most of our subjects are very interactive, hands on, so require forethought and planning to tie into one another.
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Most programs that are literature based. We LOVE books, but I don't really understand the need for buying a curriculum that is mainly made up of books and a schedule that tells you when to read them.
I collect my own literature throughout the year and I schedule those into the next years curriculum.
And if I wanted to use a complete "living books" approach, I would do it myself lol. So yes, I don't really understand how people get so excited over stuff like that.
And HOD, it sounded fantastic, great, brilliant, everyone was always recommending it, so I went and looked at the sample and :confused: totally underwhelmed, so thought maybe I was missing something and spent the next 20 minutes rushing round the website with :001_huh: this look on my face. Every now and again I go back to the site and always just leave with a big question mark.
I have TOG envy, so pretty, so many pages, all sooo yummy. But, I prefer secular materials, we are not secular, but we prefer to have our bible time separate, and we prefer materials based on scientific facts and theories (which is why I like RS4K, it leaves a nice open area to discuss every view, theory & fact). I looked at the TOG sample and for why everyone is going on about it, I was underwhelmed, to me its akin to sonlight, with biblical facts weaved in, and disucssion questions. But for some reason, I keep getting excited over it and keep drooling over TOG. I have found is a catching disease, nicnamed "TOG envy" and can cause ecstatic drooling, and nonsensical rambling. :D In reality, I would probably look at getting TOG if I wasn't a tweaker. Its a "perfect" program, but to me, tweaking would negate how great it is.
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I'm not sure I'm thinking of the right thread :001_huh:, I got confused about OP stating something about double sided worksheets lol.
I assume you mean the File Crate System inspired by dawn. We used it last year, I liked the general idea of it, but I'm going to do it differently this year, I'm figuring out my own setup with binders.
Reasons for straying away from file crates:
- I hate file folder metal bits screeching. It has that fingers on chalkboard feel.
-My 2 archive boxes (see above reason for why I chose heavy duty cardboard) still couldn't handle the weight, even when moving into 2 separate boxes.
- They are HEAVY and I needed to store them on the top shelf, trying to pull one down could of resulted in a very bad accident
- The pages in the folders would bend, crease, fold easily.
Basically the system would be good for what Dawn uses it for, weekly ideas, magazines snippings, the odd bit of paper etc, but for homeschooling? it just wasn't suitable for us, and I didn't actually cut up any workbooks, if I did that, the folders might of burst! lol
I looked around, researched the finer bits of SL, workboxes, file crates, and also looked into School Teachers ways of organizing and planning, so I think I have come up with a system that will actually work for us here. I'm hoping I will be finished with it soon and will be putting up photos and details on my blog, I don't want to mention anything now, as I may still change a thing or two before I am done with it. :D
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I LOVE my kirby vacuum
BUT I bought it secondhand, off eBay. I wouldn't buy one off the salesperson 1. too expensive & 2. As OP's said, they are extremely pushy.
I'm against salespersons full stop. If they want my attention, they can drop a brouchure in my mailbox. My mailbox, I actually pay attention to whats inside, as I can peruse at my own pleasure, and store stuff for thinking about later on. I DON'T like being pushed into purchasing something.
Phone salesmans get the "I'm not interested......I'm hanging up now" *put phone down*
or "No thank you" and if they continue on, I just leave the phone off the hook for them to prattle on to themselves.
Door salesmans get: "Nope, sorry, not interested, uh huh, great for you, ........my children are trained maulers....goodbye" *slams door*
OR *opens door and listens to first half of speel "OMG! Really, hahaha, thats classic, your a moron for believing that" *door closes*
I am not nice to sales people, my one big fault, but I dislike immensely anybody bothering me at my home, as my home is not an entertainment/visitor hostel, its a place where my family can relax, and be in peace without interruptions.
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We have the same problem here. A just goes on and on and on. DH is a talker, he likes to do this annoying thing of blurting something out, decending into silence, and just when your reading/writing again, blurting something else out, he can do this all day and night (seriously if he wakes up in the middle of the night for one of the kids, he'll jabber on and on to them). A has obviously picked up on this gene, and is a non-stop chatterer, telling stories to herself, telling the other kids what to do, commentating on everything she is doing.
Whilst if we are in school mode, I don't mind it, when mummy is trying to relax by reading, or is planning school stuff, it gets very very frustrating, as her natural voice is qutie high, and when she gets in this mode, it goes to almost a squeal, like having an ambulance siren right next to you.
If anyone has any ideas for this, I would also love to hear. Only option I have come up with is making sure they are on the other side of the house, or giving them a flashlight, telling them to go to their room and tell ghost stories under the doona (this blocks out a fair amount of noise, but then some get scared and start squealing and chasing each other lol :lol: can't win)
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I didn't "dislike" it exactly. I actually thought it was cute.
We did K LA. The problem was, it was wayyy too much writing for my daughter, and the repetition was exhausting. For her to write "Road" was a lot for her, to write out our ginormous address 3 times, and then do other bits, was exhausting for her. The LA was too integrated for us. We prefer separate LA's so we can adjust to her individual style.
For example - Explode the Code is usually a winner in many households, but for us, there was too much repetition for her. She "gets" it and doesn't understand was she has to do page after page about the same thing.
For children who like repetition, and an intergrated LA, it would probably go down quite well. I can't advise on the whole LA, as we have only used K.
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oldest dd became engaged about five years ago. we were in australia, she was in san francisco. she told us over skype. we were all excited and happy..... and a little sad because she was there and we weren't, and because its a big "next" step in life.....
we love our son in law. we also really like him a lot.
but fwiw, so many people kept asking us if we liked him. we had already decided that it didn't matter one iota if we liked him or not; they were engaged, she was happy, and it was our job to love them both.
things that have helped: finding things we all enjoy to do together, asking his opinion on things and listening to what he says, letting him know when he does something we really appreciate, thanking him for taking care of our daughter, and for bringing her to see us..... saying "yes" as often as possible to suggestions, invitations, etc... not being negative with him or about him, exchanging gifts and news with his parents....
:grouphug:
ann
Where's the like button? +1 :D Love this.
Oak Meadow just for Art? or something else?
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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A link might be helpful, as I have been hanging around the Oak Meadow store, but I haven't seen what your talking about?
For First grade, their is the....ahhhhhhhhhh. I think I figured it out.
Your talking about the"Craft Kit"
The "6 - Main Lesson Books" Is I believe like blank art books, they are what Oak Meadow uses for all their lessons, not a "lesson plan"
Lemme go check my Pinterest, I may have a few things of interest.
Okay, if your looking for the Craft part of Oak Meadow, you'll want to look for a book called "The first book of crafts" I think its available in Kindergarten and Grade 2, but for some reasoon, its probably intergreated in the syllabus for Grade 1.
Elsewise:
Preschool Art, or Maryann Kohl books
Harmony Fine Arts: http://harmonyartmom.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/announcing-hfa-grade-2-medieval-and.html
The Bearth Institute (Earthschooling): http://thebearthinstitute.memberlodge.com/Default.aspx?pageId=1186640
Seasons of Joy Enrichment Curriculum: http://ourseasonsofjoy.com/seasons-of-joy-store/
Wee Folk Art: http://weefolkart.com/content/homeschool-companion-guides
Little Acorn Learning: http://littleacornlearning.com/
Or look at places like Christopherus, Waldorf with Walls for books on drawing/Art/Crafts
Or just google Waldorf Art :)
HTH xxx