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I may go back to Cosmeo if we decide to use Elementary Spanish this year. We used Cosmeo for a few months last year before finding the onlineG3 subscription. It lacks a lot of the content for older kids, but mine are still fairly young.
BrainPop I'm probably going to have to subscribe to, because my kids love it. I'll email the company and find out how difficult it would be to set up a co-op for WTM'ers.
Oh, please, please do!!
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I don't know much about them, but the Simply Music videos might be what you're looking for. You can get more information through the Homeschool Buyers' Coop.
My favourite books are Piano Adventures, but I think they're best used with a teacher (if you have some music background, they might be a place to start).
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I used to live in Nepean, too!
Now in another part of the national capital region.
National Capital Region here, too! Actually, we've just recently discovered the Almonte beach, and I would move to Almonte in a second. What a gorgeous little town!Ahh, yes. I have every intention of retiring in Almonte some day. :D Love that place.
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Thank you, all!
I tried the suggested tests. The first one yielded pain only when pressing, not after releasing, so that was promising. Then I tried hitting her heels. It didn't cause her pain. In fact, shortly after, she said she was feeling a lot better, as if the hits had jarred something that was out of place back into place. Weird. At any rate, she seems fine now. I will watch her closely over the next few days just in case anything worse is taking place.
Thanks again!!! Your help was so appreciated!
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My 10yo daughter is wailing and crying on her bed. In the past half hour, she's started complaining that her stomach hurts in a particular spot. She says it's not like a normal stomach ache, and by the way she's carrying on, I think she's right. She's not normally so dramatic. How can I tell if this is worth sitting in an emergency room for 6 hours?
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Whoa, very cool! (I feel so little.)
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I would start by playing a lot of "match my note" throughout the day, as often as possible. Simply play a note on the piano or sing a single note and hold it; then have them find that note and match it. You may have to prompt them to go higher or lower until they find it. Be sure to use notes in their range (so, the lower end of your singing range, or around the middle of the piano for boys of that age). They should get better over time.
After they are competent, try to have them echo a two-note phrase each time. Continue to expand what they echo.
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Shipping to and from the States is outrageous. How about we Canucks have our own thread for curriculum sales, and sell to each other?
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Don't worry--you're not alone!
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We just finished a mammal classification study this week and it has helped cement taxonomy into my children.
Wow, thanks so much for this. You did a lot of legwork! I'm doing a taxonomy study with my daughter over the summer, so I'm going to be relying on your blog!
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Well, ginger rocks my world. And poppies make me very happy.
There are other flavours and flowers that I could have been: LemongrassSweetPea would suit me fine, too. :) Or ChilePeony?
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Welcome to "Camp Work to Death" where we will work you harder than a rented mule! We hope you enjoy your stay here which begins with 4:30 a.m. calisthetics and should you be unable to rise so punctually, our handy dandy drill sergeant will beat the inside of a metal trash can next to your ear to assist you in rising promptly.
5:30 a.m., a wonderful zero star breakfast of powdered, runny eggs, and oatmeal cooked to a fine gruel will be provided for you each and every morning. You have 5 minutes to eat. Bon Appetite!
5:35. a.m. hard, demoralizing labor. Can you say, dig holes and fill them up? The lawn also needs mowing and here are your scissors, get at it. These weeds need to be uprooted...here is your teaspoon. The floors of this building need to be cleaned and here is your toothbrush...they'll be white glove tested at the end of the day. At some point, you will also be indentured to a local farmer and it will be your job to move manure piles from location to new location and back again. Did we mention that it is entirely possible to muck out a horse stall with tweezers and fondue forks? Oh yes, you should learn a great deal about yourself from the experience.
Warm water breaks at 7:30 a.m., 10:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Potty breaks - well, find a tree or a bush or something...don't use the poison ivy for toilet paper...inmates here have made that mistake before and it isn't pretty.
Lunch - in line with our full health program, we'll be surving you a choice of more gruel or an unsweetened peanut butter sandwich/ no jelly. Also, carrot sticks, raisins, and more warm water or if you prefer, prune juice.
3:00 p.m. - 5:00p.m. every.single.day, because we like you so much, you get a break from your physical labor. You have 5 minutes to shower and then it's off to the nursing home where you get to spend the rest of the two hours reading aloud to the elderly.
Upon return from the nursing home, supper - a lovely concoction of powdered, runny scrambled eggs, stale bread crumbs, spinach, and chopped bologna browned in tomato juice and served over dried out tortilla. You have 10 minutes to eat it. Warm, powdered milk or prune juice upon request.
5:45 p.m. - 7:45 p.m. do your laundry, clean the kitchen, scoop dog doo from each of the neighbors lawns since it is good for your character development to help beautify the neighborhood.
7:45 p.m. - lights out.
Should it not be summer break, then you will be given the opportunity to attend school and you will ride the bus. Here is your outfit for every.single.day of school. One pair pink sweatpants, one orange western shirt with pearl snaps, one pair plaid suspenders, one pair old wingtip shoes from the 70's era and look, they are burgundy so they'll be GREAT with your pink sweatpants. We hope you enjoy your ride to school.
Wash, rinse, repeat as often as is necessary to create illumination upon the soul!
Faith - I'd like to get my hands on the hoodlums, but I'd just end up in jail probably.
100% flipping awesome!
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My older boys are 12, 14, and 16.
Here are a few thoughts:
1. I would cut out the video games, the x box, the neighborhood friends, and possibly the youth group for the 15yo. All of those things are helping him desire to grow up to be a teenager and not a man.
I would find better friends and more manly mentors. Civil Air Patrol, some Boy Scout troops, Red Cross volunteering, Speech and Debate Club, Habitat for Humanity youth programs, etc. can help him connect with other young people who are actively trying to grow up. If his youth group is a typical evangelical youth group, see if you and DH can help him learn to lead instead of playing and being a follower. I'd be happy to talk more about that, if you are interested. I realize I'm making assumptions about youth group. Some are better than others, and I will believe you if you say the youth group is the most positive thing your son is doing.
2. I would look at the kind of work I was asking my teen boys to do. Yes, mothers need help running the household when Dad's away a lot, but in my experience that's not the way to teach young men how to work. They resist it. They need very physical and slightly dangerous challenges instead of dishpans and dust rags. That housework is more suited for 9-11yo boys, and that's a good time to teach them the necessary housekeeping and hygiene skills.
The older boys should be mowing lawns and trimming bushes, gardening, painting, chopping wood and maintaining the wood pile, woodworking to make things to sell, being sent on long errands by bike or on foot, and exercising deliberately every day. Have them build a firepit or a brick BBQ by hand and then chop the wood for it. If you need their help with cooking, have them grill and do other kinds of camp cooking.
One of my sons once lived in the backyard for the summer, setting up a very old-fashioned camp and maintaining it. (He followed old Daniel Beard books like The American Boy's Handy Book.) My 14yo is spending this summer building instruments. He's starting with cardboard dulcimers and working up to cigar box guitars, aiming to be a luthier in several years. These things are real work and help to build men.
3. Paying jobs can be practically impossible for teens to find nowadays. We circumvented the problem during this past school year by letting our boys promote themselves as volunteers in community settings where volunteers are not always expected. When the situation is presented to the storekeeper or librarian or whoever, the adults are surprisingly sympathetic.
One of my sons printed a stack of business cards with his name and contact info and the self-appointed title, "Community Volunteer." He found places to go to work every day for no pay other than a chance to network and learn skills. He has beautiful reference letters in his file testifying to his punctuality and professionalism. It's not always about money, not during a recession.
Another son has found 'jobs' for himself by teaching classes for free. He gives lectures and demonstrations on his areas of expertise (American folk music, he plays 5 instruments) and aerospace education in Civil Air Patrol. He has spoken in schools and libraries, and hopes to expand on those this year.
You have to get your kids away from today's apathy. They need motivated and wholesome friends and sympathetic mentors, coaches, and bosses. Don't expect to find what you're looking for in a certain place; the apathy exists in the homeschooling and Christian communities as much as anywhere else. Some of my sons' best friends who share similar goals are from non-Christian, public schooling families. Take each new friend and each new activity on its own merits.
You also have to get your sons to buy into the concept of growing up. You have all of history and the entire world on your side, because it's only here and of late that kids have felt they had an option whether to launch into adulthood or not. Remove the bad influences, replace them with the good, encourage manly pursuits, model doing hard things, and encourage all achievement.
I've written a book! Whew. Obviously I am still in these trenches, and will be for another dozen years. I hope something in this post has been helpful.
Very insightful and helpful post. Thank you! I don't have any sons, but I do hope to help my nephews in this way if I can.
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:iagree:But I have a "no character" rule. DD is allowed to check out one character book (Spongebob, Disney, Arthur, Dora, etc.) each time we go to the library, but she knows that it's up to her to read it- Mommy is under no circumstances reading it to her. :D
I used to tell her that I didn't like those books, now I tell her that they aren't written for reading aloud. Whatever it is, it had worked. She used to wanted stacks of the character books, now, half the time we go to the library she actually forgets to get her one allowed character book because she's so busy getting the "good stuff" as she calls it. (The funny thing is... that's pretty much the only place I draw the line, I do make sure to pick and read lots of quality literature to her, but we also read a lot of twaddle. Just not TV characters!)
Wow, this is pretty much exactly how I approached things. No tv characters!!!
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I've heard people say "rip you up one side and down the other" to mean ranting at someone, but not "strip". Or "rip them apart". Primarily have heard this in the southern part of the U.S.
Another Canadian jumping in here--"tore a strip off" is just yelling at someone in an intense way... letting them "have it". I think it was the "literally" that threw some people off. :tongue_smilie:
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... any thing you do to mentally add/subtract/multiply/divide without having to use paper is mental math. Another trick is to add multidigit numbers left to right...readjust if there's carrying, but adding them left to right in your brain is less work since you already say the digits in that order. Another trick is rounding...if you need to add prices in your head, you round to the nearest dollar. If you need an exact answer to 97cents plus $2.05, you add $1+$2, then you add the extra 5cents and subtract the missing 3 cents that were rounded off. When you learn the doubles facts, and use them to get doubles +1 facts...that's mental math. I think of it as anything that involves juggling the quanties in your head.
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But what I cannot stand (and do forbid) is the repetition of the same identical words or other utterance more than 3x in a row. I don't care what it is, 3x is more than enough.
Oh, lordy, this. THIS!! Unfortunately, this is something I get to experience every day, multiple times a day. My dd loves little "catchy bits" of song or noise, so much so that she puts them on broken record status.
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Good whistling is a joy, bad whistling is not.
My dad was a fabulous whistler, and I remember his polkas and hymns and waltzes punctuating my childhood. All important news was "broken" to us with a preamble of music as he approached. Strauss was big, Sousa, and just about anything Lawrence Welk would have played, too. How I miss it.
Often, in our on-the-cheap sojourns, my mother and brothers and I would sit on the suitcases in some train station while my father walked from hotel to hotel to negotiate a good price we didn't have to pay a taxi to get to. Periodically he'd stop back in to see how we were, and a dirge would echo up in those domed train stations, and we kids would not reassemble; but oh, if The Beer Barrel Polka struck up, we'd all run back from our adventures to grab our suitcase, and start heading to the origin of that sound.
That just made me so happy to read. What a neat dad.
My grandpa was a whistler, too... I love joyful, tuneful whistling. As a kid, I enjoyed listening to Roger Whittaker. (Weird choice for a kid, I know!)
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I always wonder why so many vegans, if they're opposed to eating meat for moral reasons, are always on the lookout for the perfect veggie burger. I mean, they think it's cruel to be eating ground animal meat, but they have no problem loving the flavor and trying to make something else in nature imitate it? LOL
I just keep picturing a reformed cannibal trying a chicken leg, then throwing his head back with satisfaction and saying, "YES! Tastes like human!!"
:lol: All in fun here! (I could really care less about the titles people want to give themselves. lol)
I'll preface my answer with this: I'm not a vegetarian. That said, I love vegetarian food and have many veg/vegan meals.
I'm on the lookout for the perfect veggie burger because I want a handy, healthy, summery thing--that tastes fantastic--to eat between two halves of a bun with all the yummy condiments. I don't want one that tastes like meat... many people don't enjoy that soy-based fake meat flavour at all. Personally, I'm looking for a pefect combo of mushrooms, beans, and spices that fries up into a delicious dream. And when I find it, I'll make big batches and stock my freezer.
I know that's certainly been true of the ones I've tried. Which isn't much, since I eat meat, LOL.I've always been curious about that as well . . . why go to all the trouble to avoid meat and then eat fake meat? I don't intend that with snark or disrespect; just something I've been genuinely curious about. I have an SDA friend who is vegan and she goes through vegan lunch meat like crazy.
I don't enjoy fake meat, but I understand why a vegetarian might want to eat it... it tastes good, their tastebuds are used to a certain flavour, and maybe they need a good, easy hit of protein.
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I love, love, love the idea of it.
Love the planning, choosing, implementing.
Love teaching.
But this month I am about to pull my hair out. My daughter is making me crazy. I have never, ever seen such foot dragging in all my life. She just doesn't want to work at all. This makes me hate homeschooling right now. In my heart, I don't hate it, but this is ridiculous. :glare: :crying:
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My plan is to:
- have her work through a typing program
- finish the math book, if not done by end of June (it won't be)
- finish the Ancients (SOTW)... oh, man, are we behind on that one
- do a book of French (didn't do any this year)
- continue regular piano through summer
- train for a 2k together
- summer reading incentive program
- lots and lots of hands-on fun (science, art, building stuff, free play, etc.)
- field trips
- finish other bits and bobs that didn't get finished this year
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I personally prefer to photograph my art with a good camera and in good lighting, rather than scan it. You end up with a similar digital product, but I like the way it "transfers" over. You can also use any media you desire.
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Yes, I am considering it. :(
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We had a (well-meaning) relative give my sister, age 5 or so, a ouija board for Christmas. I think she thought it was a board game of some sort. My mother kind of freaked and wouldn't even bring it home in the car.
Anyone have the rules for By Jove, the board game?
in General Education Discussion Board
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Boardgamegeek.com usually has the rules to almost everything, but not this one. However, there is a thread in which someone offers to email the rules... you could try pm-ing them on that site (I guess you'd have to sign up for the site). Here's the link:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/104950/rules-for-vintage-by-jove-game