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    Are there any simple/beginner Spanish videos on youtube?

    in Bilingual Education Board

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    I'm sure there's plenty of YouTube options but Salsa & Destinos are "curriculum" that start from the very beginning level completely in Spanish

     

    Salsa is great for the preschool audience with puppets

    http://www.gpb.org/salsa/term/episode

     

    Destinos is a relatively engaging telenovela for adults

    https://www.learner.org/series/destinos/watch/

     

    HBO and Disney also broadcasts all their shows with a Spanish audio programming if you are able to switch it on your TV (cable/dish). When my kids were younger, I actually learned quite a bit by watching Dora la Exploradora with them in Spanish.

     

    Good luck!

    Teaching math to gifted learners

    in Accelerated Learner Board

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    Some books, and not necessarily for teaching gifted learners...

     

    I found Liping Ma's Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States interesting when I read it years ago.

    https://www.amazon.com/Knowing-Teaching-Elementary-Mathematics-Understanding/dp/0415873843/

     

    Or maybe Maria Montessori's writings/methods or Moebius Noodles?

    https://www.amazon.com/Moebius-Noodles-Natural-Yelena-McManaman/dp/0977693953

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    Congressional Award Discussion (questions, updates, etc)

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    I think my son will have to do a summer week somewhere if he wants to get all the volunteer hours done. 

     

    You may already know this... Doing a big CHUNK during summer would work but be careful about having ALL the hours during a "summer week". There are minimum months of activity required.

     

    http://congressionalaward.org/program/how-it-works/program-requirements/

     

    Months of Activity

    Along with the hour requirement, the higher levels of the Award require that your activities be spread out over a minimum amount of months.

    Please note the following:

    1. The minimum month requirements apply to Voluntary Public Service, Personal Development, and Physical Fitness. You must accumulate the necessary hours over a certain amount of months. For example, the Bronze Medal requires a minimum of seven months of activity in Voluntary Public Service, seven months of activity in Personal Development, and seven months of activity in Physical Fitness.
    2. Months do not need to be consecutive. For instance, if you register with the Award in January and work on Personal Development in January, February and March and then do not work on any Personal Development until October, November and December that would count as six months of activity.
    3. Months are cumulative. For example, the seven months of activity you complete at the Bronze Medal level will be carried over to the next level, leaving a minimum of five more months of activity needed in order to qualify for the Silver Medal.
    4. Months may only be counted once in the same activity area. For instance, if you play soccer and softball during the same six month period for your Physical Fitness activity, you will only get credit for six months of activity, not 12 months of activity. If different goals overlap in the same month, the month may only be counted once for the respective program area.
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    Congressional Award Discussion (questions, updates, etc)

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    I had a similar question and was given the response below by our program manager. Sounds like you can just submit for the highest level she qualifies.

     

    "Once she has accumulated enough hours/months for an award level, she can submit her Record Book for review of that level. Those hours/months will count towards higher award requirements so she could continue submitting new hours/months once she has enough for higher awards. That being said, she can also submit a Record Book for a higher level, and if it is approved, she would receive that award as well as the lower awards. For example, if she submitted a Silver Medal Record Book and it was approved, she would receive the Silver Medal as well as the Bronze Medal and all three certificate levels."

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    Online Spanish?

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    We've done Homeschool Spanish Academy (HSA) and also classes with Ray Leven. She enjoyed the classes with HSA but progress was erratic and her grammar instruction seems weak. She learned a lot with Ray but also found him to be "mean" (impatient, but not necessarily to her) and speaks with heavy non-native Spanish accent. 

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    Can anyone compare ANKI vs Quizlet?

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    Anki is a pain to set up but the SRS (spaced repetition learning system) helps retain info better for long term memory. You need to setup everything on the computer then have the option to use as an app on the phone or on the computer. Quizlet is good for preparing for a quiz/test if you need to learn a limited set of info. We've recently started using Memrise.com which is easier & more fun to use than Anki but also implements the efficient SRS method. The free version works well for us but the pro upgrade is supposed to make learning more efficient. 

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    Destinos for Spanish - If you've used this, Help!!

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    We enjoyed Destinos as a fun supplement. If it's not your main curriculum and you're just looking for some extra listening practice, the videos and free online resources should be sufficient. We found a copy of the textbook from the library. I don't even know what edition the textbook was but it seemed to match the online videos just fine. The textbook was handy but not critical. We've never seen or used the workbook.

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    Has anyone ever done One Year Adventure Novel in a group setting?

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    DD did OYAN this past year with some friends. We let the girls watch the videos each week then share/discuss what they wrote. I think they would have gotten more out of the program with an adult guiding the discussion but girls still enjoyed it & still learned quite a bit. They had all completed NaNoWriMo together the previous year with a teacher, so already had some experience planning & writing a novel.

     

    If you're doing it as a group, you purchase the curriculum as a group license (same price as individual license) and each additional participant purchases a separate workbook. I originally bought the program on sale through HSBC then contacted them to convert it to a group license. There are roughly 80 video lessons, 40 for planning using the workbook and 40 actual writing. There's an online forum, which we didn't use, for sharing work and getting feedback. The girls met once a week and watched about 3 lessons each meeting and did the writing assignments together. Some of the longer writings, they completed at home and shared at the following week.

     

    HTH

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    What online classes are a level between Athena's & G3?

    in Accelerated Learner Board

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    We've never done Athena but G3 sounds like it could be a good fit for you. DD took lit classes at G3 from age 9-11. Although she had already read a few books herself, she still thoroughly enjoyed the high level input and discussions. While some assignments gave the student opportunities to express more, there wasn't much required writing, and many kids seemed to submit the bare minimum 1-3 sentence answers. Things have supposedly changed this year but back then, it seemed too light for a solid high school course especially wrt writing. But it was perfect for a strong pre-teen reader who wanted to engaging content and peers.

    Taking the SAT more than once?

    in High School and Self-Education Board

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    I don't know how reliable this resource is, but the link gives you an idea of the range of possibilities here.

    http://www.powerscore.com/sat/help/sat_survey.cfm

    Method Key:

    1 = Combines the highest individual math, reading, and writing from multiple tests
    2 = Takes the highest single test administration
    3 = Takes the score from the most recent test adminstration
    4 = Averages all of the test administrations
    5 = Other

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