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Some great ideas here!
MomofOneFunOne you've convinced me! I just went onto Gymboree and ordered DDs uniform skirt and cardigan, I will go with the boys to get shorts and sweaters. Then I'm going to order homeschool t-shirts from Cafe Press. I'll present them all to the kids on the first day.
I wanted to make an extra special first day for DD as her friends will all be going to school, and both my boys had special first days at school.
So we will do the uniforms
DD will get a new backpack with some special supplies
The boys will get their stationary (pretty boring)
And I'm in the process of organising a party for homeschoolers on the first day public school goes back.
Of course this is all for 28th Jan 2009, so I'm plenty organised LOL
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The group I used to attend was great, I've stopped going because they seem to expect people to be Christians and I'm not, so it's sad but there you go.
Anyway, we had an email list where people would say if they needed ideas about a particular thing, and people would bring their resources in that area to share. Other than that it was show and tell with people showing things that were new or they thought might interest others. It works really well, it's a lovely evening of chat and sharing.
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Well, the quick answer for me is that I don't see fats as unhealthy. I haven't bought into the "low-fat" diet idea and I *like* butter on my vegies. Not tons, but some anyway. And on my bread and on my pancakes and on my crackers ...
Well I'm not American, but I have to say I 100% agree with this.
Also isn't it interesting that since all these diet products came out and fat became "evil", the population is so much heavier.
I LOVE butter and I don't have diet/lite/low fat products in the house and our entire family is not even slightly over weight. I'd say that the key to a healthy diet is lots of good fresh food, exercise and balance in the other stuff.
Congrats on your weight loss OP, that's impressive!!
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Here's a very ambitious Medieval lapbook based totally on SOTW 2--Even if you did half of it, it would be pretty cool!
If you go to "home" at the above link, you'll see other lapbooks, too.
WOW!! That's fabulous!!
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Love the roll up map idea!
We are about to move too, I have our new space all planned. I will put up pictures in a few weeks.
My current favourite thing is our credenzas, we got them from Ikea, they are on wheels so we can take them whereever we are working. We each have one and it holds all our folders, books etc. They don't sell them anymore, but this is what they are like
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Me: I was born at 12 midday, I'm a night owl
DS J: Born at 3am, nightowl
DS C: Born at 9pm, earlybird.
DD M: Born at 3pm, nightowl
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but somehow, it always seems to overwhelm me. With younger ones(One of my ds's is 5, the other 8) do you suggest what to put into it or let them come up with the ideas? I just can't seem to figure out how to get us started on this. Also, my younger ds is a very hands on kind of guy, but this seems like it may be over his head. He will be 6 at the end of November. Any thoughts? We are doing a lot of myths and starting into the Ancients, so I think we could have some great lap books out of that.
Thanks.
The way we did lapbooking for Ancients was to put all Narrations into booklet form, DS chose what type of booklet. And then if anything else grabbed his attention we made a booklet for that too. Nothing was preplanned, and we just put all the booklets into a ziplock bag and arranged the lapbook when we had finished. I didn't bother trying to pre-plan them, I've done that once or twice and it's never worked. On one or two of them we ended up with a couple of gaps in the book so we discussed together what to put into the gaps.
One of the best lapbooking tools I have is something I made up in January, it's a lapbook with all the different folds in it that I could find online, so when we need to choose a fold we just have a look at that.
6 may be too young, although my 4yo DD likes lapbooks they do need to be preplanned. So you might need to think about what folds you are going to do for things and even make them up ahead of time.
I think the best lapbook supplies to have on hand is lots of coloured card and some split pins. If you are a scrapbooker/stamper you can also utilise supplies from that.
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But the book Can You Keep A Secret? by Sophie Kinsella was very enjoyable. I actually LOL'ed several times while reading.
Michelle t
Yes, funny thing is I read and enjoyed one of her other ones and that's why I picked up a shopoholic book. I think that the Shopoholic books just have that lack of respect for the environment due to the rampant consumerism that most irks me. Of course give me rampant consumerism set in the late 1700s with Georgette Heyer and I'm all a goggle :lol:
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My son usually has 2-4 books going at once. I use HST+ and he has all his currently read books logged in and listed. He lets me know when he starts/finishes them.
I don't worry or care how many he is reading, as long as he finishes the few books I assign in reasonable time.
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Math - Math-U-See (will take less time than Saxon)
History - SOTW
Science - Living Learning Books
Latin - Minimus (we did this is 4th grade)
BTW, whenever I hear "memorize about 100 sight words", I think "no wonder it takes the children so long to learn how to read". JMHO.
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Although I'm about to scurry off and look at Living Learning books for myself, because somehow I have missed these and have a great gaping hole in my schedule where science should be :ack2:
We started Minimus in 2nd, but have done most of it in 3rd.
Other suggestions:
Growing with Grammar and First Language Lessons for the Well Trained Mind are both secular grammar programs. We used FLL1/2 in our 2nd grade year and got through it fine in a year with some pruning.
History Odyssey is a secular history program that uses SOTW as one of it's cores. Personally I find SOTW by itself just fine, but it's just something else to look at.
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I have used lapbooking in conjunction with SOTW1.
We put DSs narrations into booklets, and added booklets of things that interested him as we went along. It worked well for major cultures that you spend time on, we did one for each of Egypt, China, Greece and Rome. But it's not great for the other bits and pieces.
Here is his Egypt lapbook http://keptwomansays.blogspot.com/2007/05/lapbooking.html (that particular blog is pretty defunct these days)
This year with SOTW2 we are doing a sort of combination of narrations, notebooking and lapbooking. C either writes his narrations on lined paper, or narrates them to me as I type. Mostly these are just glued into the book but sometimes we make a booklet fold out of them. Then we do the map work and stick that on the same page, with a nice title. If things capture his attention, knights and castles for instance, we make a few booklets on those and stick them onto the pages too. I find this less stress than lapbooking, because it requires fewer booklets to fill up the pages in his book.
Personally I would have arranged things slightly differently on the pages at times, but it's his book and he is proud of it.
http://jumpedtheditch.blogspot.com/2008/08/connors-history-book.html
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That is brilliant! The whole bio-fuel taking food out of peoples mouths makes me just ill. The idea that our cars are more important than peoples lives and right to eat is revolting.
This is a fabulous alternative. Yay!! for clever companies.
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Chick lit is twaddle to me, but sometimes it's a nice break...well, ok, it's probably what I mostly read with some classics tossed in here and there.
LOL Chick lit is twaddle to me too. Some chick lit I just can't tolerate, like the Shopaholic series, they are appalling!! But I read plenty of other chick lit.
At the moment I just can't do the heavy stuff, I haven't read anything highbrow for months. I'm working my way through everything Georgette Heyer has ever written. I love her books and I don't care how twaddly they are. At the end of a long day when I curl up in bed with a book, I want to be entertained so that I can ponder pleasant stories as I go to sleep.
If I can't get a new GH out of the library I generally re-read one of my favourite authors, John Irving, Mary Wesley and Jane Austen. I suppose JA is highbrow, but she's dayum funny too.
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I suppose in theory you could write out the sentences and diagrams he will need into his grammar book, but that would be very tiresome. I think that the workbook is necessary.
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Fidgeting helps some of them focus. I guess you have to decide if they're concentrating fidgeters or just fidgeting fidgeters.
Yes I agree.
I have a fidgeter, and I believe he is a kinaesthetic learner and it actually helps him retain information.
I think the key for this type of child is to provide suitable fidget materials.
My 3 favourites are koosh balls, squeeze balls and small balls of playdough. If I supply him with these he will play with them as he works, and they make no noise.
Like elegantlions child, he also plays quietly during read alouds. Even though he appears to be totally absorbed in what he is playing with, he can still tell you all about what we are reading.
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We homeschool year around, our school year is the calender year.
We start for the year in Mid January and end mid december. In between I schedule 40 weeks of learning. Then we take breaks when we need them. We are taking time off to watch the Olympics (and do some art) and time off when we move. We took time off a month or so ago when we all got a bit burnt out. So we take a week here and there where/when we need it.
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I get heaps. Probably 50 or so a day. I don't care, I never even look at my GMail account, I look at my messages when Outlook downloads them.
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Lots of the kids art
A time line
A solar system chart
A list of things to take when we go out
The GDI alphabet
Timetable
And my current favourite...our family Code of Chivalry
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I used to keep my books and manuals separate from the children's. But then life gets complicated when you are teaching three at once. :001_smile:
Now a LOT of subjects are put into those cardboard magazine file boxes before they are slid into the bookshelf. When the child is assigned to work on a specific subject, MOST of what they need is in that bin. AND EVERYTHING that I need is in there too. Hsing three at a time requires me to do a lot of floating. When I float to the child, they have already fetched everything that they need and everything that *I* need in order to interact around this subject.
It took me a while, but I eventually was forced to move from a place of keeping my "teacher" materials separate from the child's books. Now I tend to think in terms of "Sixth grade grammar" - everything in ONE place. The child fetches it and the child puts it away - all of it. :001_smile:
Peace,
Janice
Enjoy your little people
Enjoy your journey
Janice I like that idea! Thanks :)
We are moving in 3 weeks and I have a whole new school room planned, but I'm starting to consider how I will arrange things and this is helpful.
In this house our supplies are spread between 3 rooms so it will be nice to have them all in one!
The best thing we have is that we each have a credenza from Ikea on castors, it has 3 small drawers, room for 3 magazine boxes and a bunch of file folders. We each keep our books etc in this and can take the credenzas to wherever we are working.
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I managed it, it took me a while though.
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I agree with Karen and OhElizabeth.
Blessings,
Karen
Also agreeing. I found when my children started to get antsy about doing "narration" I changed the way I asked. "so tell me about what we just read" is what I mostly use. I have also found this very useful for my school educated 14yo as he has never learnt to pull the main points from something and organise his thoughts. Verbalising the main points, or what the reading was about helps him crystalise his thoughts and makes it easier to then put it down on paper.
We are also using SWR to fix the inventive spelling, and it's working well.
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With my Miss 4:
To learn to obey willingly
To clean up after herself
To occupy herself
To play in the sandbox and look at insects and sing songs, and act crazy, paint and be a cutie pie.
Educationally:
I have MUS Primer for if she asks for Maths, which is only occasionally, we are on to place value.
I have GDI book A and B for if she asks how to write something, which is maybe once a week.
I have SWR and Finger Phonics to learn her letters and sounds, which she does every few days.
I am planning to buy various maths manipulatives for her to play with and have a living math shelf set up in the new house.
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I vote Minimus too. It's a good gentle beginning and the history is all wrapped up in it too. We are loving it here.
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Dawn, I know you really want to keep breastfeeding, so I'm saying this with that in mind. Bottles of formula are a slippery slope to weaning. Partly because a baby may prefer the faster/less effort method of getting the milk and mostly because unless you are pumping at the same time it will affect your supply. If you want to do an evening bottle, I'd definitely stick to expressed milk, and use a teat with the smallest hole you can find so baby still has to work for the milk.
I've seen so many people start with one bottle of formula and end up weaning not long after.
Like others I'd be suspecting a food reaction of some kind.
Good luck with finding the answer, breastfeeding can sure be hard work at times!
Logic classes - are they necessary? I'm thinking not...
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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Another thanks to Holly, I'm going to go order that book now. It sounds like just what I'm looking for and I must embarrasingly admit to having a HUGE stack of Critical Thinking Press books that I don't even know where to start with *blush*
I think I'll sell 'em.