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I did wear the Little House on the Prairie Dress and bonnet in 2nd grade! What about Honey Hill Bunch dolls? I had Holly Hobbie binders, and Trapper Keepers with the big photographs of flowers on them.
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I'm really enjoying it.
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He's quite tall and lanky and fits right in with his other 7th grade friends.
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He is walking around hugging his stuffed animals and hugging his sister one moment and then causing trouble with his siblings the next. The funny thing is he is 5' 5 1/2" now and size 10 mens feet and he is getting all mushy. He wants to snuggle with mom and he's rolling around wrestling his little brothers- things he wouldn't dare have done 6 months ago. Then, with his new found strength, someone always gets hurt. I'm positive when I see him next he'll be holding the fuzzy duckie he bought at the store yesterday with his Christmas money. It is totally hysterical. "Duckie Wuckie..."he says in a silly little voice to me with a grin on his face.I think the hormones have arrived. I am convinced he has lost it. On the other hand, he is writing reams for school without complaint (my once pencil phobic first born) and taking science and Latin tests with relative ease. He does so many mature an independent things and then this???? Duckie Wuckie??? AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!
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stories? If you have your child take the story and change the characters and setting it will be good practice freeing up from the model also.
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prepositions and definitions and verbs etc. I don't think my grammar children need to fully understand them, but they have the time and ability to memorize then, and it makes 6th grade a whole lot easier. That in turn makes Latin a lot easier.
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I'll pray for you. No words to fix things, but trust God, He won't forsake you.
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on the Progymn. but if I had it to do all over again, I would have studied it for myself when my children were younger than 3rd grade. Now, every year the lower levels get easier and easier to teach because they are natural to me. I'm really enjoying this book: Composition in the Classical Tradition by Frank J. D'Angelo and I didn't buy it for years because of the price, but it has really brought it alive for me. I am using it to really learn the Progymn myself, but I'm doing activities straight from it with my 6th-8th graders too and having a blast. Your children are young and copywork, dictation and narration are essential before third grade. We still do a ton of narrations in all subject areas after third grade. Using CW taught me not to be afraid to teach writing to my children and the new workbooks are very helpful. Either try studying it yourself now, or look into CW for your kids when they are around age 8.
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In our Western culture we laugh off such things, but most of the world acknowledges this reality. As a Christian I believe there is a spiritual battle going on around us. If angels can enter our world, demons can too. That man not
help you at all, but for me, praying has been quite helpful in these situations.
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and have 4 children- 7th, 5th, 3rd and 1st. My husband and I run a 2 day homeschool cooperative school for 21 3rd-8th graders and on the other 3 days I homeschool and run the household, command AWANA, and try to spend more time with my littlest one. I've been learning Classical Education methods since my first born was in first grade and I'm still learning. I'm working hard on mastering Latin, completed Wheelock's +, but still building mastery in many areas- it takes this almost 40 year old brain a while to commit things to long term memory. I'm also chewing on the Progymn in order to really teach it from my heart and not just be stuck following any particular classical writing/composition curriculum.
I'm a math major/former ps teacher... so the teaching thing has been my life since grade 3 when I decided that was my dream. I'm a perpetual student and lover of learning, so I guess that is why Classical Education appeals... what other type of education would make you study like mad to teach a group of 6th graders??
My littlest guy officially is reading well now and I guess I'm closing that chapter in my life- teaching my babies to read. We still snuggle and work on fluency, but you should hear him read. I am completely amazed in a sad sort of way. He is just a first grader but he'd rather die than let me sing those cute phonics museum tunes to him about long u etc. "MOOOOOOOOOOOOm.." he grumps and I have to stop embarrassing him immediately. Well, at least I can still sing him Bible verses!
So now you know who frogpond1 is, the one interested in all the latest classical scoop, and eager to try the hard Singapore bar problems, and willing to try to help on Latin.
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Pass me not oh gentle mother,
Hear my humble cry,
While the other chores your doing,
Do not pass me by!
Laundry, Laundry!
Hear my humble cry,
While the other chores your doing
Do not pass me by...
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/p/a/passment.htm
I actually can hear my washing machine singing this as I go running past it during the day and I have to stop and throw it in the dryer.
That said- I really dislike dealing with the bathrooms, and mount laundry. We have had a problem with too much t.p. usage resulting in "Mt. Flushmore" and that also has me on the edge on a regular basis. I had to plunge the toilet this morning before leaving for co-op, the co-op toilet needed work during lunch, and when I got home I had to do my own again. Totally disgusting!
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things do even out as the progress toward Junior High and you wait for the logic brain to get working. My 6 year old gets very little of my time at the moment because I'm running a two day school etc, but he's reading at a grade level or two above. I just keep trucking on with his reading, meeting him where he is at. My other son was this way in math. In a public classroom the teacher would meet them at their correct levels too- ideally. Just go for it and remember "grade level" designations are more for group settings where maturity comes into play. My first grader may read like a third grader, but I wouldn't expect his body to behave like one, or his attention span. So, when you join in on group classes etc. you really have to take ability and maturity into consideration.
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lots of people buy. I buy meat, but use lots of pasta and potatoes etc. to fill my kids up. The thing I cannot stomach is the price of other convenience snacks that my kids' friends' moms buy. Personally, I am a carnivore. I'd rather eat meat than cake if I had the choice, but I try to buy bulk and get the best prices possible.
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Is there any way to get more posts per page? I feel like I'm totally lost now. I loved sitting down and just seeing all the funny things going on in people's lives, but now to do so I have to do a billion clicks and I suddenly feel completely out of the loop. I've been having a trying week! Is it possible the boards could split into smaller boards?
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and I'm so excited. She's been waiting for years to do this and I was so proud to hear her audition. She was nervous, but overcame her fears and did it. She'll be a second soprano, but I don't really know what that means! :)
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and on Monday and Wednesday I add in 17 more just for the fun of it.
Fall Birthdays: When Did You Start 1st Grade?
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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he may have spurts ahead and times of regression. I didn't start first grade work when my child turned a certain age, but I did when he was ready. By about third or fourth grade you'll have an idea if you should call your child a grade older or not, but remember the logic stage starts in Jr. High and there is a certain amount of brain development there too that has to take place in order to do Jr. High level work. I'd just call him a first grader next fall, but let him work at an honors level. My first born is a Sept. 2nd bday- one day past cut off and he eventually worked up to be that grade higher student, but I wasn't completely certain of it until he began 7th grade. I can tell by his understanding and self-mangagement that he is placed correctly, but this I couldn't see when he was younger. I started SAT testing him at the higher age level around 5th grade and that is when I started to decide his real grade. I wanted to be sure that he was capable of more than just homeschool, but social interactions and classroom work at his grade level. My 4th son is a July 7th b-day and I think he is not mature enough to truely be a first grader right now, but I think by the time he is in 4th or 5th he may have bridged that immaturity gap. I just plug away at him at his level and watch for signs of maturity. With boys they come in such strange ways.
So, all that said, just enjoy your little kindergarten age boy doing first grade work and see where it takes him. It is nice to have a child working ahead of grade level, much nicer than fretting about him getting behind.