Willow
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:grouphug: feel any better? I LOVE MUS. Our math life has been converted. I think you may need to slow down a little. i know how i feel on any box day. I try to read it all at once ;).
Decimal street is fine. Just start again. watch the video, try it yourself, play with the blocks, and most important of all join the yahoo MUS group. they are wonderful.
Hint 1. don't try to teach the kids until you understand it yourself. I learnt new stuff in alpha, let alone the other levels :001_huh:.
Hint 2. It takes as long as it takes, both for you and the kids. If you spend a week, a month or even 6 months on a single lesson so be it. The aim is to educate your kids, not to finish calculus at 12. If your kids stick on a lesson, lay off for a week. come back to it. maybe lay off for a month and do some baking instead!
Hint 3. we ditched the songs....but others love them. If it isn't working for you don't use it.
Hope you feel better soon
Willow.
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I would also tell her (mind you some of our our allergies are life threatening and likely to land us in ER just kissing hello to someone who has eaten certain foods!)
I would also (always) bring food you can eat everywhere you go.
In your case I would mention the wheat and say you will bring your own safe bread, mention the corn syrup also but stress it isn't life threatening, and then she can avoid most of it without stressing about tiny 'hidden' amounts.
Same with your dd. Pick the most troublesome bits, and don't worry too much about the others, but obviously be as 'good' as you can the week before and afterwards to reduce the stress on your bodies.
I always cook for all allergies (I'm used to it) but I still love it when the visitors bring something to help.
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Video-text, but it is very expensive indeed, so you might have to search for 2nd hand. It is possible to buy 1 unit at a time, but you will go through 'A' very quickly indeed, by 'B' you should slow down a bit and right down by 'C', so you may need to have a and b before you start.
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My dd 14 used it and did really really well, she has become an accomplished artist, although she no longer draws the 'draw today' way.
My ds then 9, was too young for the programme. I would recommend 12+.
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I have done it in the past, so probably an older version.
I found some sheets a little repetitive for my advanced dd. It was good though, just check you aren't repeating work in a different way if you child doesn't need to.
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I'm suggesting MUS too. It has transformed maths with my ds11. he came out of Teaching textbooks (where he tested into pre alg!!!!) and went into alpha, we skipped through beta as he knew the concept, just didn't know the facts, now we are in gamma and have slowed way down. We watch the video and then do the pages over the next 3 or 4 days. we also do the on-line drill
there is a yahoo MUS group that is VERY helpful
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Hopping onto this thread. I am trying to decide between AAS and Phonic Zoo for ds 11 who is an almost non-functioning speller.
Any reviews?
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I think the thing that has hindered my children's education the most has been my own aspirations for them. I read all about "my child the scholar", and about kids who HS and finish High School at 14 and go to Harvard.
But my kids are regular kids. They are unlikely to go to Harvard, one of them is unlikely to go to college of any kind. He is about 18 months behind in all areas.
But since I have learnt to relax they have learned to love to read, even my later reader. We have books to read for school, but not all the time, just sometimes, like one a term. If I really want them to have read a book I read it to them. Other than that I let them choose their own reading. We have DEAR ever day (Drop Everything And Read) here we sit for half an hour and read. everyone in the house does this, even dh if he is home.
Rule 1. silence
Rule 2. stay put unless you need the loo
Rule 3. Make sure you have enough to read
Rule 4. You must choose your own reading
Rule 5. No-one else (even mum) is allowed to comment on your choice of reading.
Rule 6. No-one is allowed to quiz anyone else about what they have read, or ask for narrations, or how many pages, or even if the book was enjoyed. This is PERSONAL reading. However if you want to tell someone about your book then that is great too, but don't insist they read it!
So they start by reading asterix, or comics, but after a number (lots) of years of Famous Five, Sweet valley kids, Horse stories, my dd graduated to Dickens, Shakespeare, and Jane Austen. I had introduced these in read alouds, but they were her choice.
The other big revelation came from the same DD. She said "if you like that curriculum so much why don't YOU do it" I took the point, and now try to match the curriculum to the kid, rather than to me!!!!!
Try to relax and enjoy the ride. the kids will do better.
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hang on a moment. here we have a demonstrably unsafe situation. the kids were a, too near the fireworks and b, the fireworks were not being set off in a safe manner. This has to be the case as the fireworks hit a child. It is the only logical scenario.
Your son is 5. He sees a situation that is unsafe, but the adults insist it is safe. The adults tell him to sit down and stay put. He applies his logic. "If I stay here I may be burnt" so he does the only thing he can (in this overheated situation a 5 year old cannot tell an adult that what he is doing is wrong) and removes himself from the situation. He is confused and unhappy. After all, I suspect, in his life adults do not set out to hurt little kids, and now this is EXACTLY what is happening, so he cries, probably more from confusion than from fear, but fear will come into it. Why shouldn't a child fear fire, especially if he has seen his friend hurt?
Your child acted in a sensible and mature way.
WHY did the adults carry on?
Why did not everyone take their child home?
Would you let your child play on the freeway?
Would you let your child play with lighted matches?
Would you let your child play with live ammunition?
Now tell me the difference between playing with live ammo and playing with fireworks? Both explosives, both kill and maim.
The adults setting off the fireworks are out of order (I want to use stronger words here). They have hurt a child and then have prevented other children from moving to safety. What are we actually teaching them here? To ignore accidents? That it is OK to hurt people? that if its explosives it doesn't count if people get hurt?
I have always been against banning fireworks, but I have changed my mind. I shall now join the campaign to ban them. I find it hard to believe parents can act in this manner. I can only assume the firework setters wanted to minimize the accident to lessen their culpability.
And BTW for you 'toughen up' folks. Why does scaring a child more make it less scared? I think hiding in the garage is the RIGHT AND SAFE RESPONSE.
Willow.
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We have gone back to gamma with MUS (from TT pre-alg with ds 11)
You don't need the manipulatives with an older child, but I splashed out for the workbooks. We don't use every page, but its there if we need to. however you can print out worksheets from the web-page, but these are just 'sums' the workbook presents the material in a number of ways.
With MUS it is counter productive to move on until you master those facts. We spent a day (rather than the average of a week or so) per lesson for x2, x10 and x5. A week on x3 another week on x9 and we have been stuck in x6 for a fortnight now, not sure why this is not sticking, but is I think related to 'real life' which has been a bit erratic recently!
There is also a MUS yahoo site full of people like us!
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Sounds like my ds too (also 11). Its not just saxon as well, we got the same thing with TT.
We switched to MUS, and went back to multiplication and division, so these skills became automatic. It worked for us, as he now enjoys maths and is doing much better.
Also a word about curriculum that says you MUST do something with it (like do every question, or do it in THIS order etc).
1. The author has never met your child
2. it is YOUR curriculum, you paid for it and you may do what you like with it ;) (yes, anything! Miss out half the questions, only do odd questions, skip half the lessons because he knows this stuff, hang around in one lesson for 3 weeks or more to make sure he truly understands the material, or toss the whole lot in the trash and go to the park instead. :lol: )
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I am a Quaker attender.
I believe there is that of God in everyone. To kill a person is to kill that which is of God. I believe that taking of life is wrong under ANY circumstances.
Willow
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I used to live (in the UK) on the edge of the estate that belonged to lady Jane Grey. Poor kid, she never ever wanted to be Queen, she only did it because they said it was her duty and she got beheaded for her pains.
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Ds is now 11. Thankfully he is very small for his age and we got away with using the ladies until he was almost 10. Now he uses the mens and I stand outside and shout to him at intervals. If he did not shout right back I would have NO COMPUNCTION WHATEVER to go right on in there to get him!!!!!!
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Arthur...Sutcliffe
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MUS has a skip count cd. 2 sets of songs on it. One secular one Bible based.
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TT is either a love it or hate it programme I think. We have really tried (2 kids 3 levels) and still cannot get on with it. However I have kept the courses as I use it to learn things I don't know! My best RL friend loves it, as do all her dc.
I would stick with what works, there seems to be no rhyme or reason why one programme works for one kid and not for another. So if you and your son are happy with MUS then stick with it. Read LOF for fun and enrichment if you like (its very funny). The same goes for HS math, most courses are great, from MUS to Video-text to Jacobs. What matters is what works for your kids so he feels happy and confident with maths, because only then will he learn.
Willow
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The easiest way to cook them is if you have a slow cooker.
Put beans and water in before you go to bed (remember they swell so lots of water....) put the crock pot on high, and they are ready to use in the morning. We have cheap night electric so I often do this.
Also beans freeze well, so do a batch, freeze them in your family sized portions and they are as easy to use as canned beans.
Note red kidney beans MUST have a fast 10 min boil before use, so do that before slow cooking. This kills the toxins.
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Hi Suzanne,
glad you have emerged from lurkerhood. Hope you like it here.
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I am older than you, and was never beautiful. I am generally assumed to be 5-10 years older than my age. ;) Sadly, our culture has made a religion of youth and beauty.
I have a favorite poem. "Warning" by Jenny Joseph. It starts
"When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat that dosen't go and doesn't suit me."
It is all about pleasing oneself at last, and is rather funny. I have plans to be a mad old biddy who wears a big straw hat and gardens and makes huge bowls of pasta salad for every village function. I will have no kids to worry about, and when they come back to visit I shall spoil my grandkids rotten, and send them away again.
I think I am rather looking forward to it.....
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Flying IS different since 9/11. Maybe I feel different about it as dd and I missed it. We were up in the Hills on camp. We were dropped off, and when the cars left we said things like "anything could happen this week and we wouldn't know...."
The first thing they said when they came to pick us up was "Have you heard..."
BUT, I have flown both long and short haul since. And its OK. They take so many precautions now I truly do not think it could happen again. Flying is always difficult, there is something strange about it no matter how much you understand about airflow over wings causing lift!
Its OK. If you want to fly, do it. And stay calm so you don't pass your worries onto ds.
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Teaching Company lectures
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Thank you for this
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Thank you all. I think going back does seem the best thing, but moving through it as quickly as he can get those facts down.
After all we can re-sell the teachers materials, but dh says we can have savings money for this as he feels its really important.
Those of you who have gone back with an older child have not regretted it, and that seems important to me.
I discussed it with ds, and he is fine to give it a go. Its important to have him on board with this I think.
Thank you all so much for your help
MUS box day! It looks difficult to teach!!
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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To start with watch it yourself late at night, make sure you truly understand it. then watch again the next day with your dc....if they like to watch. My ds doesn't always watch the video, but i always do.
later you may not need to watch at night and just watch with the dc, whatever works for you.
Willow