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We adopted internationally while living in NJ. Readoption was not necessary at the time but we did it anyway. We wanted her to have an American birth certificate. If I ever lost the ones from China it would be costly and nearly impossible to replace. My DH's workplace also started giving an adoption refund of $10,000 of eligible fees. It cost us less than $200 to file and then took about 2 months to get a court date. Once we readopted her, we had a NJ birth certificate and his job reimbursed us the 10K.
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The dx opened up speech, OT, PT and gave him an IEP that the school followed. In high school he was part of the "Stars" program which was a dual enrollment (for free) at the local community college. He stayed enrolled for an extra year in the high school and would take the bus from home to the high school, and then the high school would bus him to the college for several classes and then back home again. He went for three years (junior, senior and then stars years) and completed his Associates degree. The high school (private) had their own teachers that would stay at the college during the day to help the kids get to where they needed to go.
He was able to get all his basic college classes done this way and this past year he transferred to a different college (independently) to finish his Bachelors degree.
I have to say that although I LOVE homeschooling my kids, he was one that definitely benefited from being in the private school. And, since the public school transferred him to the private school, it was at no cost to us.
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Thank you to everyone that responded! I was pretty certain that is what I wanted, so I'm going to go for it.
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We need to replace our wall oven and I really would like to get a double oven. Our oven space is only 24 inches. I don't do a ton of cooking, but I do cook every day for dinner. We don't have a big family, there are only four of us here. I don't really need a double oven, but I figured it can't hurt to have a second oven.
Pro's and con's?
It really is more of a want then a need. It's not something we plan on having to replace again anytime soon so it's not like I can change my mind later.
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We listen to audio books in the car too. The Jim Weiss ones are our favorites as are the Story of the World CD's. I buy them used on FB homeschool pages.
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Your daughter sounds just like my son. His Pediatrician diagnosed him with PDD at age 3 and officially diagnosed by a neurologist with autism at age 7. He is now 22 and in his third year of college. He is a published poet and talented artist.
I found that the "label" of autism opened a ton of doors for him. For me, it was a confirmation of what I already suspected and was actually a relief. He was able to attend a private school for kids with autism from 3rd grade on. Don't be afraid of a diagnosis, it is not the end of the world, but the beginning of helping your child live to her fullest.
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Here's the dress dd6 wanted.
http://www.kohls.com/product/prd-1694291/iz-amy-byer-asymmetrical-glitter-dress-girls-7-16.jsp
Before you say "that's not so bad," understand that the colors were a lot more vivid (garish) in the store, and the glitter was cranked to 11. And the design is totally wrong for her still toddler-like body.
I think my daughter picked out that same one lol.. no, she didn't get it. She is NOT a girly girl, hates pink and anything princess, but OMG does she love gaudy, tacky and sparkly. She wears a dress all the time when she isn't in her karate gi. If it's blue or yellow and sparkles, she wants it. This is the dress we settled on. It's blue, sparkly and has an uneven hemline. I think it's cute, she thinks it's a bit "tame" but loves it.
THIS was her first choice:
I thought this one was cute and would satisfy her need for silky and glitter, but they didn't have the green in her size.
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We have to "drive to town" for most things too. We coordinate errands with other activities or DH runs them after work when he is already on town.
Same here. We need to go to town five times a week for my daughters karate class so I do any errands at that point. Wednesday and Sunday are the only days we have nothing planned other then Church, but that is literally around the corner and not 10 miles away like everything else.
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I have not started formal 'writng' instruction yet, so I'll stay out of that discussion... :laugh:
As for handwriting, I've used lots of things, and, well, they all teach how to form letters and words, lol.
HWWOT: This is a good program, especially for children who have either learned their letters incorrectly and need to change or for children who struggle with handwriting to begin with. That said, I've used it with a very quick learner with no learning challenges and it worked fine too. :001_smile: I would say that unless there are big obstacles in your child's handwriting, you won't need all the components for this program. The workbook itself is plenty.
A Reason For Handwriting: simple, easy, again no need for the teacher's manual.
Explode the Code: Although this is more of a phonics program, these workbooks incorporate a lot of writing as well. The first three books (the primers) teach all the consonants, and ETC 1 teaches vowels. My kids tend to like them and willingly drag them out when they're bored.
Printing With Pictures: A very nice program without a ton of repetition.
For cursive, when that time came, we have loved Cheerful Cursive. It is painless and my daughter hasn't 'forgotten' how to do it months later.
All that said, A Reason for Handwriting and Cheerful Cursive are religious, if that makes any difference to you. :001_smile:
I can't say enough good things about A Reason For Handwriting. I started my daughter out on this in Preschool and now in 3rd grade she prefers to write exclusively in cursive. She has beautiful handwriting. She LOVED writing the scriptures on day four and being able to color the pages.
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Well I just ordered the Plague! project for my two to do at the end of this year. This type of thing is pretty foreign to them but I saw it last year and wished I could use it during their middle ages study this year. This updated version for homeschool looks do-able for us! It looks like they suggest 3 weeks so I can do some shuffling to free up 3 weeks at the end of the school year and just after we hit that time period in History! Looks like a good opportunity to stretch my students.
I'm still not excited about next year though!
My daughter will be just starting 4th grade in the fall so I think she might be a little too young for this, but I am DEFINITELY getting it for 5th or 6th grade. I really love the looks of everything on their website.
Edited to add: After reading more on their website I'm going to get Plague!. My daughter will be 9 next month and the website suggests age 10 and up. I'm hoping to be able to use it towards the end of next year. I have already blown through my entire budget for next year so I'm listing things on FB to sell so I can buy it lol..
I really need to stop clicking links and reading threads like this one.
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We are doing Swimming Creatures next year for fourth grade. My daughter works independently (by choice) on everything and I think it will be a good fit. She will need some help with projects and maybe some pronouncing but for the most part I think she will do just fine. Our books came last week and she has been reading them already and can't wait to start.
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My daughter can't wait to start Apologia Zoology Swimming Creatures. The books came last week and I think she has already read through half of it! She cannot wait to make the ocean box. We are going to Florida in July (I know, uggh.. the heat!) for her karate competition so we are going to stop at Sea World on our way down.
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My user name is Berta, but that is not my real name. My Great grandmother was named Berta and my father was her favorite. (Thankfully) He didn't have the heart to name me it lol.. But, I have heard stories of how fond he was of her so to honor her I named my first and still my favorite chicken, Berta. A lot of my chickens are named names that I like, have meaning, but didn't choose for my kids.
Some are names that my kids have picked that kept up the tradition of naming an "old lady" name and not necessarily one I would have chosen for my kids, like Helga. I have a Lucy, Hazel, Mary, Berta, Bertha and Clara. My roosters are Rob and James. Right now I have a hatch of six baby chicks and only one is a female and unnamed. I was talking with my girls today trying to come up with a name for her and I started thinking about this thread. I think I'm going to name her Mabel.
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Tessa was one of my favorite names but my then DH vetoed it because he didn't like the band Tesla.
My niece is named Avalon. They would not tell anyone the name of the baby before she was born because they didn't want to hear all the naysayers. I admit, when I first heard her name I thought of a car, Toyota Avalon or the name of a local township. But my niece is adorable and now I love the name.
I'm still trying to see the cute little girl named Mabel, but I can't.
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No advice, but I could have written your post. I am shy, an introvert and have actually taken zero's in high school rather then get up in front of a class. Want to know what I do for a living?? lol... I am a Wedding Officiant. I stand up in front of hundreds of people at times and perform weddings.
As long as I have my script in front of me, I'm OK. As long as I don't know anyone in attendance, I'm OK. But put me in a room with people I know and I clam up. I'm still trying to figure out why I am so strange lol.
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Christian Light Education (CLE), ACE, Starline Press (I am an authorized re-seller). They are all independent, workbook style that require very little teacher help.
That said, we are using Apologia Zoology 2 this upcoming year. My daughter is very independent and after looking through the textbook, notebooking book and supplies it is something she will be able to do on her own, with very little help on the experiments.
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Venting involves communicating your frustration, not degrading the other parties involved, especially when they made perfectly reasonable decisions - that usually falls under the category of bashing.
IME here, venting is fine and will often reveal a number of others who have experienced the same situation and the same feelings toward it. However, I have noticed that this forum is not a place that will rubber stamp Approval on any comment that others feel is out of line or inaccurate. Bashing usually results in an equal and opposite reaction.
If your post had been about how frustrated you were with yourself for getting your dc's hopes up prematurely or how frustrated you were with classes that do not fill or with the apathy in your community that results in low enrollments in things that interest your family, you would have probably had a very different response. I am gently trying to suggest that you look in the mirror rather than blaming this situation on the instructor or those here who were honest enough to point out to you that they thought your comments were out of line.
It takes a rather thick skin to venture personal comments on the internet. This site is no exception. I have often thought of the old tag line about needing flame proof undies to participate in certain sites, at times even this one.
Exactly.
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I don't even have a list ready.
Maybe you should tell me what all you're doing, you know... to pass the time :).I switched all of my daughters curriculum early in the year. It just wasn't working for her so I spent a lot of time talking to her to find out what exactly she wanted, then bought it. She just did her testing and she did extremely well so we are sticking to what we used this year. I'm not crazy about most of it, but it's working for her. The only thing I bought differently for the next grade was science, which is what just came yesterday.
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Our schedule is pretty unusual too. We get up by 8:30 and have breakfast. Then we do our outdoor chores and tidy up the house. We have lunch around noon and then we start our schoolwork. It gets too hot here in the summer to be outdoors for long in the afternoon, so that is school time. My daughter is in competition training which takes up about 15 hrs per week. On Tuesdays we don't do school work because we have training and library time. On Wednesday (the only day we have nothing scheduled outside of the house) we concentrate on getting a lot of school work done. It usually works out that we work on schoolwork 3-4 times per week. Because we spend a lot of school time on Wednesdays, we are actually ahead this year.
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Do I think you need one, no. For me, it was much easier and less of a hassle with my daughter to learn with a workbook. She is a workbook kid. I started her off with A Reason For Handwriting in preschool and she went all the way thru E. She is begging for F, but she really doesn't need it at all, her handwriting is beautiful. The workbooks are not expensive and I liked that she learned scripture verses while learning manuscript and cursive.
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My grandmother used to sing to me:
"Mabel Mabel sweet and able, get your elbows off the table!" .
Not a fan of the name Mabel.
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Another Amazon Prime Princess here.
According to FedEx tracking my science books from Christian Book sitting at the post office. The science kit came today, but the books are sitting there, lonely, waiting to be delivered tomorrow.
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Orthaheels.
We are no shoes inside for everyone but me. For years, I couldn't walk across my house without shoes. I have learned some stretching techniques that really help, but I still wear Shoes most of the time.
You could just get a pair is shoes with great support and designate them 'indoor shoes." Orthaheel makes slippers, but I haven't tried them. I would rather just wear normal shoes but not wear them outside.I bought the Orthaheel sandals out of desperation. We were headed to Disney World and I knew I would not last a full day walking. I absolutely LOVE Orthaheel! I bought them from Amazon and they are the only shoes I can wear now. I used to wear Crocs all the time, they were the most comfy shoes I had owned prior to Orthaheel.
where do you sell curriculum these days?
in The Chat Board
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Facebook has a few good pages for selling. Varage sale is good too, I have several things listed on there.