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  1. ILB, you might want to see if your library has a copy of "The Well Trained Mind" by Susan Wise Bauer. Even if it doesn't appeal to you, classical education ideas abound here. It's more a method, a map, a guide. You might find something interesting there and also it would take some of the mystery out of words that get flung about here.. Also, go to the Rainbow Resource Catalog and order yourself a free copy and have it sent home. Visit other areas of the board, they are not all inclusive full time homeschooling boards, all sorts of people in different situations visit around here.
  2. Before I bother, would a pit stop for an appendix of links shared thus far in this discussion be helpful? I can gather, give brief description and post if it would be helpful. ps: Tanton is a lot of fun. :)
  3. Laura did you know you can get them drilled?
  4. Okay, the Dana center is about to become a favorite. Thanks mathwonk.
  5. Hi Laura, I have this one: http://www.walmart.com/ip/14922617?wmlspartner=wlpa&adid=22222222227000547859&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=13689404710&wl4=&wl5=pla&wl6=34445648230&veh=sem
  6. Math and History are the big focus here. Neither one will be addressed on level or content wise for PS this year. Anything we get done beyond that is sheer gravy. I have no idea what their idea of "Homework" is...or when she'll recover from the introduction of PS. I know she'll be exhausted and jello head when she comes home at first.
  7. Nope, not allergic, will get some peanut oil. On another note, watching Rhee on Pioneer Kitchen show..and now I've been introduced to the idea of a customized paint job on my Kitchen Aid. I am dying here. She has ruined me forever. I will stop at Walmart and buy some pretty stickers? Go top shelf and get some glitter ones? I might just walk out to the dining room and tell that man I ************NEED************* one like Rhee. I mean seriously, go look at this thing. It's practically a Rembrandt. http://www.unamorecustomshoppe.com/exclusive-the-original-pioneer-woman-edition-custom-floral-kitchenaid-mixer-artisan-series-mixer-included/
  8. Wendy, do you buy rice flour and make your own tempura? Jean, what oils work best for Asian cooking, anything special? I'll need to make a trip to the grocery store. No way am I making rice paper for the rolls. That I'll shelf buy...lol.
  9. I have a new kitchen toy - deep fryer...and besides these hushpuppies someone wants so much..what else? Have any favorite web sites, books or recipes? We are fans of international foods, spicy is alright here. :) Any opinion on the best oils to buy or create for it?
  10. http://business.time.com/2013/07/25/jane-austen-to-grace-british-10-pound-notes-our-nominees-for-u-s-currency-are/ Be pretty cool to frame one of these and put it near a collection, right?
  11. Do I care? Absolutely NOT. The way grades come about in school vs. that pathway which we do at home are two vastly different worlds. Perfect example of this is when the kid would bring home math papers. I'd rifle though them, noting that it had errors. I would then ask her, "So, you need some work on this skill, has your teacher covered where the misunderstanding is?" Answer, "No." My task is then to look into the work, correct the missing information or shore up the skill. Who cares what grade she got? Does she get retested, corrected? That's what I care about. And frankly, some of the grades/topics and test methods are so tilted to a system that will be lost in the later years. I look to build those skills for the long term, and not the short. The record book means nothing to me at all. It's laughable.
  12. I'm putting out the materials for the kids timeline art. And suddenly I thought, "Hey, why don't I put my own readings and works up there too?" Weird?
  13. Is anyone else reading/studying for themselves? What's going on in your world? I just picked up a ton of good books myself. All historical pretty much...but a really great one is "The Intellectual Life" by A. G. Sertillanges. What a treat! Translated edition, the original was written in the 20's in French. Doing some Revolutionary War, 1491, Adams, 1776, Jefferson, most the titles are by David McCullough. Also doing some local history reading, very entertaining bio in particular is Eulalie, an early feminist of this area. I have no idea what in this survey brought me to this article through my rambling notes, but it's pretty good, written about a guy named Kircher who I'm unfamiliar with, a polymath which died the day before the famous Medici Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Bernini has a documentary section in Netflix if anyone is interested..anyway..here's a link to the article full of good writing like this passage: Less celebrated has been Kircher’s prose style, with its unchecked streams of words flowing around gorgeous engravings fashioned by artisans toiling in print houses throughout Europe. Kircher’s writing is some of the most rebarbative, unreliable, undigested and polyglot the world has ever known, bursting at the seams with learning, overflowing with ideas and possibilities, and pointing confusingly in many different directions. To be fair, many admired his style, and some even sought to imitate it; nonetheless, it groans with an appalling amount of verbosity that would make any print cartridge run dry. Now come on, that is funny. If you want to read the entirety, it's here: http://www.thenation.com/article/173649/kirchers-cosmos-athanasius-kircher?page=full#
  14. http://freelibrary.lib.overdrive.com/08DCA97A-0C34-4EEA-BAE4-94A12F71F6C3/10/50/en/Default.htm It's pretty decent in the history offerings.
  15. My search skills are not bringing it up. Anyone remember keywords or whatever for it?
  16. Sertillanges on solitude: Without retirement, there is no inspiration. But within the circle of the lamplight, the stars of thought gather above us, as it were in a firmament. When silence takes possession of you; when far from the racket of the human highway the sacred fire flames up in the stillness; when peace, which is the tranquility of order, puts order in your thoughts, feelings, and investigations, you are in the supreme disposition for learning; you can bring your materials together; you can create; you are definitely at your working point; it is not the moment to dwell on wretched trifles, to half live while time runs by, and to sell heaven for nothings.
  17. I had to wait three week via ILL. The foreword alone is incredible. I can't even describe, and I have quite the vocabulary when I want to bust a move.
  18. yappity yap, blah blah blah Go find this and graze http://www.amazon.com/The-Intellectual-Life-Conditions-Methods/dp/0813206464/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
  19. I did unfriend the page. Way early yesterday when it first went up...and it was due to promoting the other side of stereotypes.
  20. That little guy looks just like his maternal Grandpa.
  21. The bibliography is most interesting, don't miss it. More on prelection: http://ecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1069&context=luc_theses&sei-redir=1&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fscholar.google.com%2Fscholar%3Fq%3Dprelection%2Bjesuit%26btnG%3D%26hl%3Den%26as_sdt%3D0%252C41#search=%22prelection%20jesuit%22 Loyola has great stuff. :)
  22. We did something like this not long ago as a test run. Academics in the beginning? Forget it. Being in a classroom and learning the closed social system was the biggest thing to navigate. I wouldn't expect much in the first month as far as open spaces to check up on academics. It's exhausting. Secondarily, once that gets figured out and hit tempo, math and history for us are the hot spots. PS isn't going to even come close. Leap years in difference. So, in fresh hindsight, the struggle was social primarily. Vocabulary issues were talked a lot about at home as well (that being the difference of home vs. school). I don't know if we'll have the same experience where we are now, but just recently the outside activity after hours was quite a commitment. Lots of plays, performances, fundraiser things to attend, that sort of thing. I probably spent a good five hours a week there after hours, but it was a small community..and a good one too. Do you know if you are going to have to change your own personal schedule much to accommodate that?
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