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Once you do gradually wean yourselves off the HFCS and sugar, one thing that will help is to use organic fruit when/if you can afford it. Or local strawberries. (I'm not gullible enough for you to tell me that you can use local bananas.)
Julie
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Minimus Latin
Latin for Children
Latin Prep (I adore this curriculum!!) - for middle schoolers & up
Story of the World (and especially the Activity Guides)
Michael Clay Thompson - "Town" books. "Call me Fishmeal......"
Life of Fred
Right Start Math
Singapore Math (but only after you run out of Right Start stuff!!)
"The Elements" and "Carbon Chemistry" by McHenry
Real Science 4 Kids - Physics Level 1, Chemistry Level 1
Growing with Grammar
Artistic Pursuits
Music Ace Deluxe (does this count as curriculum? :lol:)
I'm sure there is more.
Julie
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Well, there are a few that I couldn't have done without -- "Corners" comes to mind. The games are mostly used to solidify the math facts. Would you rather use flashcards for that? I would rather play games. My son loved all the games. I would recommend doing the games as outlined in the program -- you do NOT have to buy the "Math Games" book, since all the games are in the actual Lesson books for Levels A and B --- and then if you don't like a particular game or don't find it effective, don't play it again. What I always advise people beginning Level A (or B) is ignore the "if you have time" instruction. In other words, it will say at the end of the lesson something like: "With the remaining time, play "__________." And it will give you the instructions. I would say, make time -- even if it takes you much longer to get through the Level. Otherwise, you are not getting the full benefit from the program.
But your mileage may vary!
Best wishes,
Julie
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Since a few other people mentioned Yachats, Oregon, my favorite hotel in the whole world is there: the Overleaf Lodge. Every single room has an unobstructed view of the ocean. The sunsets are crazy, and the tidepooling is the best ever. People come from miles around to walk the path that is right outside your hotel door. Very romantic.
But if you actually want to swim in the ocean and not just look at the sunset, my favorite place is Hapuna Beach on the big island (Hawai'i). The only hotel right there at the beach is the Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel (I'm close with that name). It is just okay. But what makes it special (and the reason I tolerate its mediocrity) is that you can snorkel or bodysurf before breakfast if you are staying at the hotel, hours before the first beachgoers show up! Again, not a great hotel (and the food is overpriced like 99 percent of Hawaii resorts), but oh man that beach..... and the views are to die for. If you stay at the Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, you are entitled to visit the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel as much as you like. There is a shuttle bus between them, or you can walk along the cliffs. The Mauna Kea Beach Hotel is crazy expensive, and there's no other way I would get to visit if I didn't get privileges by staying at its "sister" hotel. If you stay there, I would eat at a nearby town. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of the nearby town but there are a few good restaurants there, and they are much better value than the resorts.
ETA: The restaurant I was thinking of is actually on Kauai, so that would be too far, LOL! On the big island, our favorite restaurant was Roy's at Waikoloa (sp). We went there three times during one vacation. And I know you aren't bringing children, but for those who will, Roy's has a multi-course dinner just for kids, which begins with free quesadillas while the adults are still mulling over the menu! Excellent for hungry, tired sunburned kids who have been at the pool all day. And for the adults, there is to-die-for chocoloate souffle and excellent seafood. http://www.frommers.com/destinations/hawaiithebigisland/D34858.html
Have fun choosing!
Julie
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To answer your question, yes. I will also add that they need a whole lot of sleep. More sleep than you've ever thought possible!
Julie
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Do you really think Aubrey is ever going to post here again? That was REALLY helpful. Just what she was looking for. :tongue_smilie:
Julie
We have an insect museum here and there used to be a sign listing the number of parts per container. PB, tomato paste, and toothpaste were listed. Here is a similar link::ack2:
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I have no idea what your religion is.
You don't? Really? Then you aren't using all of the clues.
Oh, by the way, I don't have any memories at all until I was almost 7 years old.
Buddhabelly
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She sounds like a perfect fit for the Latin-Centered Curriculum. The curriculum is exactly like what she is describing! I recommend the second edition of the book.
Julie
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This is not really addressing your main question, but please don't run. Running is so bad for your body. It mashes together your vertebrae and puts a ton (not literally) of force onto your joints.
If you find a therapeutic yoga class (especially someone trained by Desikachar, also called "Healing Yoga"), you will not need to visit any doctors at all. Please walk instead -- your body will thank you for it!
Julie
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Hi Angelene,
Henle was written as a high school program. You don't mention whether your sixth-grader is young or old or "just exactly sixth grade," but Henle is a lot for the average sixth grader. I would recommend Latin Prep instead. It is really funny (although you may have to explain some of the "British humour" to him), and it is written directly to the student. So for example, the author will say, "I really hate to tell you this, but this next verb does not follow any of the rules you just learned." Except he's funnier than that.
If you take a whole school year for Latin Prep 1, you will do fine! I agree with everyone else that has recommended it. I am still hanging on to Latin for Children just for reference (true confessions: it is for the preposition songs -- does Latin Prep have a way to learn which prepositions take the accusative and which take the ablative that are as good as those silly songs in LFC?), but Latin Prep is going swimmingly for us this year. We are in Chapter 8 now, and we do all of the textbook exercises and most of the workbook exercises.
Have fun!
Julie
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My son remembers nothing of Henry and Mudge. It broke my heart. We read those books together over and over when he was five or six. He has no memory of them at all! I love that family.
Julie
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Now where were you on the "what happens after death" thread that got closed right after I posted on it? :glare:
Seriously, though, am I the only one who thinks/believes (I wouldn't agree with my religion just because someone told me to) that the time before birth is the same as the time after death? Don't answer that, or the thread will get locked. I will just say that many children ---- many, many, many children --- remember "before birth" (I'll leave it at that) until they are about two years old. My son was verbal at a very young age (before he could crawl or walk) and told me a lot. But then afterwards he forgot.
Just for those that are interested, that's why children can "see" people or images that their parents can't. So don't assume that your children are lying to you -- they are just closer to the "before birth/after death" realm than you are so they can see those beings who are not quite, um HERE.
Julie
I think it depends on the child. Dd can't remember where she put that book she had in her hand mere seconds ago. She remembers very little about her life before she was about 5. Ds remembers, and can describe the room at the hospital that he was born in, and a sandwich he saw me eating while he was lying in his clear plastic bassinet there. He remembers wondering what that green stuff (lettuce) was that was hanging out of that thing I was eating. When he was about 5 he had a complete emotional breakdown one day in which he, loudly and in a panic, bewailed the fact that he could no longer remember that place he lived in before he was born. Gee, if only I'd known he HAD such memories, I'd have been sure to ask him about them before he forgot...lol. He was periodically mournful about that for quite a while, poor little soul, and wandered around looking quite lost and forlorn. -
Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, by Dee Brown (Henry Holt).
Surviving Columbus: The Story of the Pueblo People, 1995 (PBS Video).
A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn (HarperCollins).
Morning Girl, by Michael Dorris (Hyperion).
Sparrow Hawk, by Meridel Le Seur (Holy Cow! Press)
The People Shall Continue, by Simon Ortiz (Children's Book Press)
Encounter, by Jane Yolen (Harcourt Brace)
Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children (Fulcrum)
Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (Rethinking Schools);
Thunder Rolling in the Mountains, by Scott O'Dell and Elizabeth Hall (Houghton Mifflin).
Kahtahah, A Tlingit Girl (Alaska Northwest Books)
Acoma: People of the White Rock (Schiffer Publishing)
Canyon de Chelly, Its People and Rock Art (University of Arizona Press)America A.D. 1000: The Land and the Legends (National Geographic)
FICTION:
Ekoomiak, Normee "Arctic Memories" (1988);
Louise Edrich (Ojibwe): The Birchbark House (1999), The Game of Silence (2005), The Porcupine Year (2008);
Gaikesheyongai, Sally "The Seven Fires: An Ojibway Prophecy (1994);
Tim Tingle, "Walking the Choctaw Road: Stories from Red People Memory" (2003)
Nichols, Richard, "A Story to Tell: Traditions of a Tlingit Community"(1998);
Yazzie, Evangeline Parsons (Diné), Dzáni Yázhi Naazbaa’/Little Woman Warrior Who Came Home: A Story of the Navajo Long Walk (2005);
Zitkala-Sa/Gertrude Bonnin (Yankton), American Indian Stories. (1921), 2003 reprinted;
King, Thomas (Cherokee), A Coyote Columbus Story (1992);
Grace, Catherine O’Neill, and Marge Bruchac (Abenaki), "1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving" (2001);
Wallis, Velma (Gwich’in), Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival (1993);
Spooner, Michael, "Last Child." (2005);
Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve (Lakota), " When Thunders Spoke" (1974).
Madeleine L'Engle, "A Wind in the Door," "A Swiftly Tilting Planet," "Many Waters," "An Acceptable Time."
Fred Gipson, "Old Yeller" (HarperTrophy);
Lois Lowry, "Number the Stars" (Yearling):
Robert Louis Stevenson, "Kidnapped" and "Treasure Island" (Puffin);
Louisa May Alcott, "Little Women" (Puffin Classics);
Lois Lenski, "Strawberry Girl" (HarperCollins).
I know the last things on the list aren't particuarly Native American, but I was too tired to edit my literature list! I highlighted those resources that have proved particularly cool or amazing.
Have fun! Oh, this is for about 5th-6th grade.
Julie
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Just wanted to add that Singapore 5A and 5B (Textbook and Workbook) would flesh out a fifth grade year nicely. I would do Singapore 5A, then LOF Fractions, then Singapore 5B, then Decimals/Percents. But you will probably want to plan the year out ahead of time (1/4 of the school year for each "part"), and then slow down as needed (or speed up if there is too much repetition at times).
Singapore CWP (Challenging Word Problems) 5 will keep you hopping in the summer if you need to keep up your skills.
Have fun!
Julie
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If there was such a booklist, it would violate copyright. The recommended books are listed in the Activity Books, which are available from Peace Hill Press and other vendors. It is worth the price of the books even if that's all you use them for. I also enjoy the activities and the review questions.
Julie
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Wow, y'all must be using a different curriculum if a chapter of CE takes you a whole week? We do one hour of Language Arts a day, and if we are doing Caesar's English, we do one chapter. This is for an 11-year-old that just turned 11. They only introduce about four new words in each chapter; the rest is just review.
We usually end up doing it four times a week, which works out to 4 chapters/lessons per week.
Julie
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Just wanted to clarify that I didn't resurrect the old thread; it was Lori D.
Not that I'm defensive or anything. :tongue_smilie:
Julie
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But the DVD is the fun part of Primer A. Really fun. Without it, it is just.....Latin.
Julie
P.S. Be sure to get the newest (revised) version of the DVD. They re-made it a few years ago to include more grammar explanation, so you don't just have to take it on faith so much.
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Paragraph Town has lots of assignments. They are separate; look in the very last section of the TM. It is pages 111-207 and much of it is not in the student book.
Julie
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Too true. I wish I'd thought of that! :lol::lol:
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Not a problem, unless this is your daily breakfast. Then it would be a big problem: http://eng.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=4&no=384385&rel_no=1
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I was watching the very first episode of the Addams Family and guess what, they homeschooled! The first episode involves a truant officer. Watch the whole thing -- or at least the whole segment here. It is one of three. There is a priceless line in the episode: "Why would you have children just to get rid of them?" Heh.
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My "religion", Buddhism, teaches reincarnation. Teachings differ as to how long between lives. The more detailed teachings say that what you are doing/thinking in the hour of death makes a huge difference both in the form of your future reincarnation and how fortunate you will be in that realm. There are specific practices one can do. The concept of karma tells us that every thought, word, deed, and especially intention that you have not only has a consequence, but is a cause. It is a cause of future thoughts, actions, etc. (both yours and others) in this life and also has an effect on your future life.
Boddhisattvas have made a vow that they will return to this life and help other sentient beings. So even though you do NOT have to be reincarnated if you are fully realized (aware of your true nature, also called "enlightened"), enlightened beings do return because they have compassion for others. So if enlightened beings are living here on earth, they experience it as nirvana because they have perfect view. They do not suffer due to the delusion that we will be happy if we get what we want and avoid things/events we don't want. Clear as mud, eh?
Buddhists believe that the above would hold true whether you are a Christian, Buddhist, or an "I'm not sure."
Not feeling very eloquent today, so I'll edit if I can say it better later today.
Julie
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Hello,
You don't say how old your CE student(s) is/are. I think that makes a difference in terms of how much you do per day. I would suggest one lesson every other day, perhaps doing Grammar Town on alternate days. Is that how you are doing it now? Grammar Town goes very quickly, and then you can substitute Practice Town after that.
But if the student is eight years old, I would agree that a whole lesson of CE might be a lot. But for a 10 or 11-year-old, it's fine. We take turns reading it aloud, since much of CE is examples from fine literature. Don't forget to notice that there are components of CE in the Teacher Book that are not in the student book. Took us a while to discover that!
We didn't plan out how to do "Town," but this is how it ended up. Grammar Town for a week, then began Caesar's English (interspersed with Grammar Town sometimes), then around Lesson 14 of CE we began Paragraph Town and so we left CE for about three weeks. Now we are done with Paragraph Town (including the extra lessons at the end) and are back to CE. After one more week of CE (one lesson per day but only four days per week), we will begin Building Poems. Can't wait to get to the poetry book -- I think/hope that we're saving the best for last! Oh, wait. I forgot Practice Town. We have done some of it, but not nearly all. I guess we will get back to that after the poetry unit.
I had every intention of going back to Homer, but it was really excruciating.
Julie
Can you share your experience with Elementary Greek?
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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We are just finishing up Year Two of Elementary Greek. My son is doing quite well with it. You will like it better if you are Christian, since the vocabulary focuses on New Testament words like apostle, God, Gallilee (sp?) and the memory work is Bible verses. But my son has done quite well with it and can even understand augmented words (imperfect). I, however, was left in the dust. :p I tried, really I tried!
Julie