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Holy Days of obligation are tricky because you don't have a regular schedule for them, like Sunday. Half the time, I don't even know my mass time option and have to call or look it up online. It is always a little crazy getting there for us. I have been trying the last few years to have a default mass time we try to make on special Holy Days. We go to 8:30 am mass if at all possible now. It has helped make it less chaotic.
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I see what you are saying now...
I think they have added all of those characters to The Hobbit, it sounds like they are adding the White Council, which Gandalf attended during The Hobbit but was never really discussed within the book.
I agree! Looks like the White Council to me, too. Personally, as a life-long Tolkien fan, I am excited to see it and am happy they are adding in some of the extra material! I'm just trying to exercise caution for my kids so they get to experience it all in the best way.
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The Hobbit was released first. Most people read The Hobbit first because it is intended to be read first.
Lord of the Rings contains spoilers for The Hobbit, not the other way around.
I understand The Hobbit comes first. It is just the new movie is not limiting itself to the characters/material in The Hobbit itself. It is featuring many characters you meet for the first time in LoTR, like Galadriel, Legolas, Saurman, and Frodo. I really like my kids to read a book and "meet" the characters in the author's words before they see them on screen so they can create their own personal vision of them, not just adopt some moviemaker's ideas. If I take my son to see this movie, he'll meet these characters on screen before he reads about them in th books, coloring his very first impressions of them. That is the kind of "spoilers" I'm talking about.
I'll probably breakdown and take him anyway.:tongue_smilie:
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Well, there may not be major plot spoils, but they are going to be introducing all kinds of characters (Galadriel, Legolas, Saurman, Frodo, etc.) out of the context of the books. As someone who has read all the books and knows all the characters well, I am looking forward to it. But looking at it through the eyes of a kid who has only read The Hobbit and is unfamiliar with all those characters, it could be confusing and will certainly color his first impressions of a number of big characters in LoTR. And I would be shocked if they don't give away a little about the nature of the ring. Right now, my son just thinks it's a cool little magic ring....
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I meant to add that I am very strict about viewing material for my kids, but am seriously considering taking my 2nd grader to the movie. My main concern is it is going to reveal spoilers about The Lord of Rings, which he won't read for awhile. They are adding so much extra material to the movie!
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I read it to my 2nd grader this past summer, and he enjoyed it tremendously. We had to discuss some vocabulary and plot points, but he definitely followed the story and came to know the characters. I think it is a very appropriate read aloud for 4th graders.
Here is a brief parent guide to the movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903624/parentalguide#certification
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Not a contest, but a walk to see if you can find an owl. You use a CD of the owl sounds. Here's some info on owls. Maybe you could provide some pellets to dissect and then go look for an owl.
I'd probably stick to games, tho!
Oh, my mistake! That sounds fun. It is a fairly populated bird sanctuary so it could definitely have some owls there. maybe I can download some owl calls on my dh's phone and they can try to lure an owl out.
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I like hearing from moms who have BTDT so I say post away!
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I can see the boys loving an owl hooting contest. Not so sure about the neighbors.:lol:
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Oooo, flashlight tag sounds fun. Do you tag someone by catching them in your light?
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Here is the Math through Art thread: http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/showthread.php?t=434584
I also second living math books. They have helped bring math love to our home!
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So every few months we have an outdoor get-together for the boys in our neighborhood. We take all the boys down to the bird sanctuary/small wilderness a block away from us and then come back to our backyard. It is about 20 boys, ages 4-12.
We are having one tonight, and I am in need of some new ideas for activities for the boys! In the past, we have set up a very basic orienteering course with clues to finding the s'mores stuff in the bird sanctuary. We usually do tug of war and some kind of nerd gun target shooting. Also, the boys help build a fire ring from some old bricks we have and help set up the camp fire.
Anyway, it is going to be dark very early tonight so some of our usual activities are out, like target shooting and orienteering. We still plan to do tug of war and the camp fire. Any other ideas??
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So glad you have a wonderful priest and parish! That is such a blessing. And a good priest makes an overdue confession much easier.
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Oh, Lori D., mentioned some I forgot to mention: The Relunctant Dragon by Grahame and The Princess and the Goblin by MacDonald. Anything with a dragon or goblin was good after The Hobbit at our house.
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I read The Chronicles of Narnia and The Hobbit with my seven year old this summer, too, and he is dying for LOTR. I agree on waiting on it, though.
We've tried to follow different strands of interest from the two. We kept reading books with anthropomorphic animals, like The Wind in the Willows. I think we may start Redwall soon, but am deciding if I want to do them as read alouds or save them for silent reading.
We followed the Norse and Germanic heroic threads in The Hobbit by reading Ian Serraillier's version of Beowulf, which was surprisingly a big hit. That lead us to reading some other epic poems, like Katherine Paterson's retelling of Parvizal and Seraillier's Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Now we're planning on following up on the Greek mythology references in The Chronicles by reading some Greek mythology. I think we are going to start with Mary Pope Osbourne's Tales from the Odyssey.
There are so many ways to go beyond just fantasy books. Though a good fantasy series is always fun!
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Can you tell me more about these detailed lesson plans for the BFSU program?
What do they include? Are they available to people who aren't registered with Aquinas Learning?
They include a streamlined version of a lesson based on BFSU (basically each cycle of AL now has it's own flow chart weaving between the different threads of BFSU) made to be as parent-friendly as possible. Also, included are suggested activities, book lists, and links to related websites and videos.
(I put together the related books and materials lists and tried to include mostly free websites and videos, but also included links to pertinent lessons/material from paid resources I know many homeschoolers use, such as BrainPop. It is nice just to have everything in one place. Also, I'm working on cross-referencing materials in Yesterday's Classics to the corresponding lessons since many of our families use these materials as well.)
I believe these are only available to AL families, like the rest of the materials.
I agree that CCM seems much more flexible - and it is cheaper!
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We live inside the beltway in VA. I happened to have to come out to western OH with the kids for a funeral on Friday so we've stayed out of the mess. My husband, who is at home in VA, said the lots flickered quite a bit, but we never lost power. We had water pouring into the basement, but he was able to rig up a hose system to bail it out before any damage was done.
We are getting some beautiful snow here in western OH from the storm. The kids are very excited about the first snow of the season.
I have several family members in lower Manhattan. I haven't heard from them since midnight, when everyone was out of power but fine.
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Will do.:grouphug:
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We use this method: http://www.charlottemasonhelp.com/2009/07/our-picture-studies.html
At first I picked artists/prints I knew the boys would love (using Penny Gardener's site as a resource), this year I'm doing Ambleside's rotations: http://www.amblesideonline.org/ArtSch.shtml#thisterm
I use this site as well. I put prints of the workS up in four frames we have by our dining room table so we can discuss them during meals or snack time. Also, I try to pick at least a couple works of art each year that are at a local art museum so we can go see them in person.
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I second maybe trying out Life of Fred as a supplement. My kids are very verbal and love Fred.
Also, if she hates tons of worksheets, maybe do more of the drilling of facts and review via games or apps. I only use paper to introduce new topics, show a concept in an interesting visual way, do word problems, and cement any difficult areas. Everything else we cover through games using cards and c-rods or iPad apps.
If my kids viewed math as just a set of worksheets each day, they would hate it, too!
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We are doing our second year of Aquinas Learning. I think it is closer to a Catholic version of CC than CCM when using it in a group setting since it is based on a paid-mentor style group setting. If you are interested in the CC experience in a group setting, an Aquinas Learning center could be a good fit.
Overall, we've liked AL. It is 27 or 28 weeks of material via 3 cycles. It has memory work for history, geography, Latin, grammar, science, catechism, and math. It also provides instruction in handwriting, spelling, philosophy, and writing (using the IEW program). Music, art, and science experiments are also part of the AL program. Also, there is a "Good Books" discussion at each session that engages the children in Socratic style discusssions, usually based on short stories but which also includes four longer works each year read at home. (The Hobbit was our last family read aloud discussed at AL.) Al provides visual aids for all the memory sentences, along with activity sheets for each subject. The science program provides detailed lesson plans based on the BFSU program, which I really like. They do have songs for some of the memory sentences, but not all of them.
I have also heard very good reports about CCM. In fact, another homeschooling group I'm involved in is going to morph into a CCM co-op next year. I don't know how I am going to choose between the two!
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Aw, they sound precious!!
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Yes and no. I am not a big "baby" person. I enjoy my kids more each year as they can talk and read and think and share. So in many ways, I think I will enjoy the teen years more given my personality.
But.... I have three girls who are three years apart. Can we just say hormones?
My husband and I are both the oldest of large families. Some of us were delightful as teens; others less so. Other much less so. I don't have visions of perfect teens. I just hope we make it through alive and talking. Every one of our siblings who made it to their early mid-20s alive and still talking with the family ( and it has been a close call on a few occasions) eventually came back around to being a normal person. Now they are all delightful again. Well, mostly.
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You are obviously an amazingly patient, loving mom. I only hope I can be as calm and loving when my own are teens someday.
If your DH is more on board with laying down some boundaries, maybe you could pass on some of this daily interaction/guidance/decision-making talks on to him. Sometimes it can get hard for a teen boy to take anything from his mom anymore.
I currently have my 19 year old BIL living in my basement right now. He landed at our house after he starting selling drugs this summer as a way to pay for his $40,000 a year private college that he just hnad to go to, which was just the pinnacle of a long line of poor decisions. (I guess he was at least showing some initiative:001_huh:) Anyway, he needed to get out of my MIL's home, for her sanity and his. He has done much, much better under my husband's guidance than his mom's. He is passing his drug/alcohol tests (I am now realizing I may not be dealing with my kids' urine after potty traing:glare:), working a full time job, and going to CC now. I'm not sure exactly why, but he seems to take suggestion and then follow through much better from a male than female at this point.
Between my three younger brothers and my husband's four younger brothers, we've seemed to observe a time when it was more effective to have a male laying down the law with male teens. This isn't always possible if a dad isn't on board or isn't even there (hence why my BIL is in MY basement), and it certainly isn't always needed. Anyway, you might be doing that already, but I thought I would just throw it out there.
Please explain to me this one aspect of the Electoral College!
in General Education Discussion Board
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Yes, both happen at the same time. One candidate can win the popular vote while losing the electoral vote; the other candidate would lose the popular vote but win the electoral vote.
Interesting tidbit: Maine actually doesn't have a winner-takes-all system for electoral votes. The electoral votes of the state are given congressional district by congressional district. One of the candidate this time around actually spent a lot of money in just one congressional district in Maine in hopes to win that 1 electoral vote as a possible tie-breaker.