Just Another Jen
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1 hour ago, prairiewindmomma said:
Article 1: I'm reminded of Dolores Umbridge, and feel like a Weasley. My children have written plans in a planner and a dedicated workspace, but we're as equally likely to eat chocolate cake while working through algebra 2 as we are to take an hour off for a walk on a beautiful spring afternoon. School is a part of our daily rhythm, but it isn't the only way to achieve truth/goodness/beauty/moral behavior. Order and discipline aren't our chief objectives.
Article 2: I find that this article has many of the same problems as the first. He speaks of taxonomy and order and process and content and somehow convolutes that into a moral imperative to educate our children classically in order to stave off the decline of society.
I'm right there with you. I guess the bottom line is that their magazine is indeed an advertisement for their methods and products. If classical ed is to be compared to the Wizarding World I'm a Weasley or possibly a Lovegood. We use curriculum and I decide what my kids learn every year based on my own research and experience. We also hardly ever sit at a desk/table and I feel complete freedom in adapting any and all curriculum to suit my students. I do agree that all their articles come off sounding a bit authoritarian. Luckily, I feel fine ignoring their tone.
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As long as you are on the Charter site you get the charter materials. They appear to be separate as the many.many downloads I've purchased from the original site aren't there.
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I think they mean for it to take a year for kids ages 2-4th grades. There are also review weeks built in that stretch it out to 32 weeks? Highlands Latin school runs about that length and the materials are based on those they use at that school. We are starting now and will probably do 2 lessons a week and go into First Form when we're done. We also school year round so its no big deal to start now.
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I ordered Grammar School Latin and just ripped the box open. As I'm looking it over they took out memorizing religious phrases and changed up some of the vocab. We're going to speed through it from now till Fall when I hope to start first form. I'm just giddy about not having to secularize it all myself.
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Disclaimer-I don't work for or receive anything from Memoria Press.
That said, I enjoy using their materials and thus far have secularized them myself. I just found out that they started a charter school page and will customize a secular core for you if you call them.
I just ordered our new latin stuff from this page and am so excited about trying them out. https://charter.memoriapress.com/
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We're putting the band back together! (so to speak) I'm looking for guest bloggers to contribute articles about classical homeschooling. This blog is non-profit, so there is no exchange of cash- but you can promote your blog inside your post. Even though it has been mostly dormant, we still have high numbers and a lot of subscribers. So, come on over and play in the Sandbox
Here's a list of blog post ideas:
Day in the Life
Planning your year/scheduling
Planning a course (especially high school)
Curriculum reviews (what did you love or hate?)
Planning field trips
Putting together a good set of homeschool science equipment
Any unusual elective class that you have designed
Foreign Language Study at Home
Car schooling
Homeschooling and the professional child (sports, acting, etc.)
Learning alongside your child
Year-round homeschoolingHit me up with your ideas. When your post runs, you'll have a blurb at the bottom where you can promote your blog/business/stand-up routine? Whatever.
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We used to school year round and since my kids have late birthdays we would start new materials in January. I still had them graduate according to a normal American school schedule.
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Didn't it seem like the electric appliance industry-sponsored the content?
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We need an "oldschooler" subforum.
There is another oldschooler who used to post at the main forums who now only posts at private subforums. Unlike Ellie and I, she still has a late-life baby that is still quite young. But she felt like her contributions and questions about her little one were not only unwanted but offensive. So she went away.
Truly, we do not always know what is meant. Especially when we have presuppositions formed when something else was the norm. None of us would have grouped those curricula into any single label. It is unnatural for us to do that know. The differences in those curricula would change our advice.
I'm trying to isolate the differences and explain them, but maybe shouldn't bother. I'm not going to just leave, like my dear friend did, but...really, we sometimes struggle to know what you mean. Societies that push their elders aside instead of trying to find a way to keep them integrated, usually are not as successful. With all our lacks and annoying habits, and maybe ESPECIALLY and BECAUSE of them, we provide balance and history.
A different approach to Ellie's question might have resulted in some great advice or a good story or something useful or pleasurable. Probably not now, though.
Things have changed so much!!!! Really, newbies do NOT understand how much. And they are working with the presupposition that things were as they are now. That is a flawed presupposition. And we are starting to enter chronological snobbery in homeschooling as much as we have adopted it for older books.
To gloss over, minimize, and reinvent the history of homeschooing is a mistake. A colossal mistake.
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For your older kids or you exercise minded individuals, I don't know where he got it, but my Dh signed up for a "Walk to Mordor" program on the computer. He logs in his millage and it tells him how far he has run in relation to the Tolkien books.
I found the walk to rivendell program. We are hoping to get new bikes and bike there as opposed to walking- but we'll see how it all shakes out. I'll google mordor and see if I can find it. I wonder what the distance difference is? Probably a lot.
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Is your 17 year old participating, or is it mostly just the 10 y.o.?
Oh yeah- She is all in. She is working full time so I don't know how much she'll do- but the motivation is there. She is actually planning most of the art projects for me.
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Makes me wish my kids were still young! (Youngest is a senior in high school now. Hard to believe!) We would have loved it as a family!
My kids are 10,17.20,22,25. This whole idea stems from me realizing that this is my last 10 yo and I'd better make it count. My older kids are all so excited to help. They keep texting me with random ideas to tie the book to the outdoors. It's been really fun.
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I'm so glad I'm not the only one that thinks this will be so fun! I'm really looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with.
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I just thought I'd hop over here and invite any and all interested parties to spend the Summer in Middle Earth. I'm going to run a series of posts all Summer long on my blog with Shire like activities. We'll be reading The Hobbit aloud and doing all kinds of fun stuff.
It's all free and above board- kind of like a long distance Co-Op of Tolkien fans and their kids. I'll do a blog linky thing so we can steal from each other.
I've got a few posts up on my blog explaining it all and we'll be reading from May 18- August 31.
It's all secular and the only real requirement is that you promise not to make fun of my crafting skills. :)
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Katie,
That is the same surgery my Dh had. The first 24 hours after were uncomfortable but since then its been smooth sailing. He also had a hernia repaired and now he is already 40 pounds down since his surgery in March. He feels great and is so glad he did it. Good Luck!!
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My husband just had the sleeve surgery last week. He is so happy that he finally did it. He really only had one day of discomfort and is losing weight like crazy already. PM me if you have any questions.
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They are all worth reading and are a higher reading level than most books today. I would look through the contents and pick a volume that has stories that your son has not read yet. I would skip 1 and 2. Swiss Family Robinson is in Volume 3. King Arthur is in volume 5. Let me know if you'd like more info and I can grab them off the shelf for you.
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It works out fine. When you are in class your mod is for 6.4 after it is complete they give you the code to make it compatible with the current version.
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Me too! I've managed to stick with my bullet journal since April.
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It really is all speculation until you have to deal with unacceptable to your household situations with adult children. I will not talk details but for most parents this is a hard situation and usually come about because nothing else is working.
Details are not necessary. The child can also make it seem like he/she is the innocent party and does not deserve the treatment.
I would not judge. It can be very hard.
That is so true. In fact the child probably also really believes that he/she is the innocent party. I never think the parent is in the wrong when I her about those kind of situations. I know that they probably already gave the kid a zillion chances.
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We bought 2 coleman brand double high and they are still going strong at the 1 year mark. They were about $70 at Target. They get used a couple weekends a month.
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I don't know that I;d go that far. But I did have 10 years between my oldest and youngest. She was 13 when my son was 3 and potty training. Teen tantrums and toddler tantrums in the same day totally drained me, and it was quite a big part of the reason that we went ahead and "put a stop" to having any more children. But my oldest has never been an easy kid. She's quite a handful, even though she really is a GOOD kid.. (something I have to remind myself of. She's a good kid. She's a good kid. She's a good kid. Even though she's hard to live with. She's a good kid.)
On the other hand, we are fairly sure our other kids will be a bit easier, although there is always that one change that they'll act like knuckleheads.
Bad day here. I know it sounds harsh. But I am so tired between teenage nonsense, elder care, the financial stress of paying 2 mortgages for a year, and home educating I just want everyone to stop causing me any unnecessary stress. Hopefully I will get a full nights sleep and feel better.
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In all honesty if I had known how hard the teenage years would be I would have had fewer children. I just had no clue. Of course none of mine have come out on the other side so maybe I will feel differently later. Sigh.
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I started a Facebook group this morning where we can all talk Secular Ed- https://www.facebook.com/groups/1392201754219831/?ref=br_rs
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