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Has anyone used natural supplements that seemed to help? Like Kava kava? Has anyone taken that?
Thank you again everyone!
Oh My...I have tried this.....it was awful!! I was having periods of intense anxiety and wanted to try something "easy" that was not a drug, and I thought I was desperate, but not THAT desperate! I ordered some online from somewhere and it came in a container like cocoa comes in. You just stir a tablespoon into your drink. It tasted like drinking dirt. I think I tried it hot as well as cold. Just plain nasty. For my episodes, I ended up taking a beta blocker and it stopped the adreneline rush that would happen when I felt the panic rising. I did not have nonstop panic though.
So, my recommendation is not to waste your $$ on Kavakava;)
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check out History Odyssy from Pandia Press. It is a classical approach to history. My ds/7th grade is using it this year and he is very independent with it. It covers literature, history and geography in a syllabus that is already done for you. we like it!
It also comes in different levels for different ages. we are using ancients level 2 this yea.
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I went to www.myfitnesspal.com and began logging what I eat in a day. I am trying to stay around 1300 cal./day. Somedays I feel full on that and others I could eat the rug I am standing on:) But, it has been fun to see how the calories add up - as long as you are honest about what you eat and size. I lost weight using the website and its free. I also logged my exercise and it will add the extra calories you burned to what you can eat. It's a tool that helps.....
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I might have posted in one the links that Sue posted but thought I would answer as well.
My ds/7th/12yrs is doing HO level 2 ancients. He is really enjoying that he can open his syllabus and do his history without waiting for me or his little bro. He is the kind of kid that likes little snippits and can write a summary of what he reads. He retains it, because he will spout information that he learned reading KFH days after reading it. I have added to the reading list just because we were used to SOTW and SL lists. I also am adding in a few selections from Omnibus I and will use the Omnibus guide along with the books. That way he gets a deeper read on at least a few books.
I think for this year a lighter history is what this mom needed, so that it is not meaty is not bothering me.
He is going through IEW Ancients lessons for writing quickly and then we will begin Essay Voyage with MCT. So, the writing portion is not a factor for us. Although he does do well at summarizing what he has read.
I am not sure if we will continue with HO as next year I may be ready to dive into the Omnibus program with ds. We'll wait and see what next year brings. I think HO is a fine program, although as I stated I am adding to it.
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My ds/10th is using the Ancient Period Lit course now. He is not one of those readers that could keep up and understand what he was reading if we did Omnibus full-speed...KWIM. So, I decided to go with Smarr because it was all laid out for me and included writing instruction. He likes it very much and the lessons are not overwhelming. He spend more time on it the weeks he has a paper due (there are 7 major papers along with grammar/writing lessons throughout), but usually it is quite managable. He is a math oriented student so this seemed to fit us well. Good lit selections but not the main focus of our program this year.
HTH:)
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for my ds 12/7th....History Odyssey Ancients level 2, Apologia General Science, MCT WWW 1 and magic Lens 1, IEW Ancient writing lessons (we are pusing through quickly just as review and then will pick up MCT Essay Voyage), CD Pre-algebra. I am adding literature and history reading as the list with HO is quite lite for ds.
It is all working quite well. He loves that this year he is more independent with me checking behind him. I am impressed that he actually does his work and takes pride in doing it well. You know, going from elementary to middle school and be a jump:001_smile:
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We're trying:
Which level and components are you using?
We are using Magic Lens 1 and WWW1. I have Essay voyage on the shelf to pick up later in the year. My ds using it is 12 (7th gr)
How's it going?
I'm not sure:001_huh: He seems to like WWW and picks up stems quickly. He already knows many of them from his year of Latin. I don't think its too easy for him. Magic Lens is just so-so right now. It may be how I am using it. We pick it up and read the next section and go over how the sentences are labeled in the four-level analysis. It feels though like we are missing something?? He seems bored (yawns a lot while we are reading.) I love grammar and try to get him into it, but it is not working like I thought. I don't have the 4practice book yet, because I thought we needed to get through the first few chapters of grammar before we began practicing it...is that how everyone else has done it? It seems like most who love the program, began in the early years. Maybe it's not the kind of program that you can jump into in 7th gr.?? We are sticking with it, but not loving it. I don't see any benefit to stopping a program. Seems like we will learn something just by sticking with it...I just wish we enjoyed it more.
Are you supplementing, with what? No supplementing yet, but may have to when we get to clauses! He has less experience with that.
Is this your first experience with MCT?
Yes...this is our first year.
Another comment...During the reading of ML1, we'll be reading along about, let's say, subject-verb agreement and the text will interject some sentence from a classic work as an example. Then it goes on to list more as examples and it just feels awkward to continue reading these examples, especially when there is vocabulary my ds doesn't know. Yesterday in our reading from Ch 2 on sentences, we read how sentences are the mirror image of our own mind...i got it, but my ds just thought it was so dumb. The text kept going on and on and we both thought it was quite boring. Am I missing something??
Another question....why does it throw in things that have not been covered yet...like when studying direct objects it lists in the 4-level analysis "appositives?" We have not gone over those much or at all, so then I have to stop and explain that...it just seems to throw all kinds of stuff at us at one time.
Phew...as you can see, I have been thinking about this a lot!! I do not want a program that introduces direct objects and then we do 30 sentences labeling them. But, this just seems harder to implement and understand some days. Thanks for listening. Don't know if there is a question in there anywhere, but feel free to comment on where I might be going wrong.
Thanks!
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We went for a senior preview day and my husband couldn't quit talking about how good the food was. I believe U of R was the #1 rated school for the beauty of their campus. I can't remember where I read that but it is definately true.
they are an expensive school but they have the alumni base and endowments needed to offer substantial merit/financial aid. If U of R had just what your student wanted to study, don't count it out just on the price.
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Having four dss who are readers, I can speak to this issue :). For us some factors in making readers is that my husband and I are readers. Our boys see us reading constantly - newspapers, magazines, books- and discussing what we read. It's just or lifestyle. No TV during the school week helps because sometimes there is just not anything else to do in the evening so the boys pick up a book.
Another help in raising boys that read is to read aloud...alot...when they are young. We started with the oldest and read, and read, and read. The others were listening in while they were playing. We added in more kiddos and they too listened in. You can make almost anything exciting by reading it aloud. Our boys also loved to "listen" to books on tape and Adventures in Odyssey. so they were brought up knowing how to listen. I think from that, they learned that reading can be exciting and even though a book may have hard vocabulary, you can get the jist of it by context of the sentence...KWIM?
These are the things we have done without knowing we were doing it and now we have four dss who read - almost too much! I have to kick them off the couch and make them go outside to skateboard or whatever. We also still read aloud even though on ds has left for college and the other three range from 9-15 yrs. We certainly are perfect homeschoolers in anyway, but our dss are very different temperments and personalities and they READ! I truly believe that this would be true even if we chose to send them to PS.:tongue_smilie:
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I don't know how to post a link but....one poster on this board suggested the Thundershirt!! Google it...it is so neat and affordable. I have a stressed dog whenever I try to take him in the car. We haven't used the shirt exactly the way suggested, but he still likes to put it on.
here is the web address
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We also did a year of geography in 9th grade along with Starting Points Worldview curriculum. I felt that both knowing where in the world things are and knowing your own worldview were good beginnings to high school. We also did BJU Earth and Space science that year. It was a good overlap with the geography.
I can see that so far this year (10th for ds) that the geography and worldview course had an impact.
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I see you are in NOVA...have you looked at Christopher Newport University? Both the pres. and his wife are christians and is trickles down into the school quite a bit. We know many kids who have been very happy at this secular school. We hear the campus is beautiful and the dorms are lovely.
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but wanted to say that I have used LC for three dss. #3 is enjoyng it now. He would tell you that he loves Latin. I am no Latin expert/teacher, but I follow the book and we memorize lists and practice singing and saying the words. Then we play go fish, concentration and whatever other games I can come up with. We love it and it works great. Just our experience.
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I can recommend an History/Lit. we are using History Odyssey. We are using Ancients Level 2. My ds is in 7th gr. and I needed him to begin being more independent too. He loves that he can open up his syllabus and begin working on his own. He has been keeping up with it very well. It has lessons with check boxes. The only drawback, for us, is that there are only about eight books scheduled for the year. We are adding in way more reading than that. The curriculum also has geography and summarizing included in the activities. It is classical approach to history also.
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but I wanted to comment also.
I have taught all four of my dss to read with 100EZ. They are all excellent readers. For two, I did continue with "reading lessons" using SL's I Can Read It program. But we never make it through the whole SL schedule with it, before they took off reading books from the library.
I think of all the things we have done together homeschooling, teaching my boys to read has brought me the most pleasure. Looking back, I really miss the cuddling on the couch together. I know my goal is to lead them to indepenence, but some days, I would like to have one day of them bringing me the100 EZ book and asking to be taught!
We are such readers that we do still read aloud some even with high schoolers!
It is an inexpensive book and can be found used many places. If you try it, you haven't lost much if you hate it. It is not a difficult program and I love that you don't need anything else.
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Hey...we are doing the same thing! It's good to know others thought that SMARR Ancients and HOAW would go nicely together. I was beginning to doubt myself that it was a good idea.
My son has started SMARR last week and he likes it so far.
As far as the HOAW, we are reading three chapters per week, keeping a journal of at least three people and three dates from each reading that he finds interesting and important. I also found a mid-term test that some fantastic mom wrote on this board! It covers the first three units of the book (up to ch. 42). Plus we are aiming to write two small papers the first semester. The second semester will be one small paper, and one research report on something from HOAW.
That's our plan and we should finish the book by the end of the school year.
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Twigs,
Along with my DVD came a booklet that has and outline for her course and suggested discusstin questions. I think she breaks up her lectures according to the chapters (like Ch1-3). It has been a long time since I went through it, but I remember it being very good. I would just jump in and begin reading and then watch the lecture.
HTH,
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Edamame!
I love to cook so anything having to do with food makes me smile:001_smile:
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:iagree::iagree::iagree:....I am all about Covenant these days and highly recommend it! They really care for their students. The faculty and upper-classmen work hard to get to know the freshmen and live life with them. I think that makes the transition to college-life so much easier and enjoyable!
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This was a highlight for us and we go to DC often. We lived in NC at the time and called our representative's office to set up a tour of the Capitol building and they took us in to see congress in action. Maybe you can check to see if congress will be in session when you are there....
Anyway, one of Elizabeth Dole's aides took us under the building to the subway system which connects the Dirksen office building with the Capitol and we rode with Hillary Clinton! The kids thought that was pretty cool. This aide gave us a great tour with lots of stories about the art around the capitol building.
So give your rep or senator a call and see if they can accommodate your family when you are there. It is well worth it!
And of course go up in the Washington Monument.
We stayed close to the mall in a private owned old-time hotel called The Harrington Hotel. It has the original marble staircases and little elevators. We thought it was fun and some of the rooms can hold a family of five comfortably. The price is pretty good for where it is...one block off the mall right near the Old Post Office (which also has a tower you can go up in and see all around the mall area). That way we could walk most places.
Just a few ideas to get you started. Have fun planning!
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I too have been writing up my own lesson plans for using these DVD's with apologia biology this fall. My ds is going to really benefit from the lectures and fill-in notes. I scheduled it just as the poster above suggests, but also filled in expermiment days and dissections in the spring.
My question is....did you all buy the slide set that apologia suggets at $80?? i was hoping to be done purchasing for this fall, and don't really want to spend the $$$. I wonder if my ds will get out of the program what he needs, if we don't do the slide experiments??? i feel like he will have a less than average year if we skip it.....just frustrated about the price. I have the microscope, so I may just go ahead and buy them. Anyway, it does look like it is going to be a lot of work to keep up with the reading, lectures, and experiments. I made the schedule and it covers up to 35 weeks of school. It is a lofty goal. But, I feel like if we shoot for a big goal and only reach 2/3 of it, we'll still have done enough for a full credit course.
How are you all handling experiments...are you planning on doing most?
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I went to http://www.donnayoung.org and printed out a 4-yr. plan form and began filling it in. It was a good way to put it on paper so I could see it.
She has a form that lists by subject. It was a great help at the beginning for me.:)
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I have also used it for many years. My oldest (just graduated) came out of the womb knowing grammar and loves to correct us, so I can't count him when reviewing Shurley:001_smile:
But, I have used it for two other dss and they both learned much basic grammar. I had one son for 3rd-6th in Shurley and then last year I decided to try R&S since it was given to me free. I found some things that I don't remember covering in Shurley that we learned in R&S. One thing not covered much or clearly was pronoun usage as far as using objective case pronouns, Indefinate pronouns, and relative pronouns. Working with different kinds of clauses was something that my dss seem to miss in Shurley also.
Now that I have written that down, I can say that my dss still use the question and answer format to find parts of speech! It works with finding the basic parts of the sentence but I find that it did not work when we were working with adjective or adverbial clauses. Also, my guys memorized the jingles (even though they rolled their eyes!) but now refer to them often.
I would say Shurley is for elementary grades. I think it was good reinforcement to change grammar curriculum after using Shurley for awhile. That way, I felt like I got it all covered. We have used Shurley, Our Mother Tongue, and R&S...this year we made the jump to MCT for one ds. I am a little apprehensive, but we're going to give it a go! I am also using Shurley 4 for my youngest ds and plan to keep at it for a couple of years.
HTH.
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She has lesson plans for most of the Apologia books - both 1st and 2nd edition
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Check out Grove city in PA!:)