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Oh that's great! A big weight off your mind.
Glad you have worked out the guest room thing too.
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I did think about that, but I feel that in doing so I fail to do both world and local history justice. I'd rather have a years concerted effort. And as he is quite likely going to be overseas during his 12th grade year, he would miss modern altogether which is not ideal. Also I have another child on the history rotation, so I want to keep them together.
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I spent some time with him over the summer holidays looking at Rome.
My schedule goes:
8th Grade Medieval/Renaissance
9th Early Modern
10th Modern
11th Australia/New Zealand history
12th either student exchange or in depth study of the time period of his choice.
So I can't go back and start at Ancients really, because he likely wouldn't get modern or our country/ies history which is important.
So age/grade wise he is smack between the 7th and 11th grade recommendations in TWTM for Middle Ages, and that's my dilemma.
Thanks for the spine recommendations Lori, I was looking at Western Civilisation, it's made it into my Amazon cart, so I think we will get that. But then if HO covers our area too, hmmm. Big decision!
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We move on the 23rd of August, I've started decluttering already, one area a day. Yesterday I cleaned out my desk, it's my great-grandfathers desk and full of pigeon holes. I threw away two bins of paper and one of rubbish. Today is the scrapbooking cupboard. Tomorrow I'm going to start on the box of stuff I have about my Mum and Dad and scan to digital and throw them away.
You can do it!!
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Oh so nice to hear I'm not alone!
We call DD Yabber Yabber Jibber Jabber because she never stops, it's like a constant narration of everything that happens around her.
She likes audio books too. We are buying her either an MP3 player or a CD player for her birthday.
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I like fountain pens. DH bought me a beautiful italian nibbed with a Greek glass handle for my birthday with italian sepia ink :001_wub:
It's not terribly portable though, so for portablility a fine nibbed cartridge fountain pen.
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I have celiacs. I always warn in advance that I can't eat anything with gluten in it. Actually most people have been really good about cooking stuff I can eat, but I always check the labels just in case, because it's hidden in so many things. Yes it feels rude, but I just have to get over that I think.
And I always carry food with me too.
Perhaps you could offer to cook for everyone one night to give your hosts a break, if that's something they would feel OK about.
Actually I'm going to a cocktail party next week, I'm about to start making a very large evening clutch so I can fit food in it. Sigh.
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If there is a God who actually has any power - what is he really doing with it?
If God could feed the children manna in the desert - why can't he feed the children who die every day in this age?
Has God forsaken us - if there ever was one to begin with?
Sometimes - I feel it is easier to believe in no God than a god who doesn't care.
This was the crux of the matter for me. The thing that ended my Christian faith.
For me a loving God can't be in control of this world where too much bad stuff happens.
And for me personally, the deaths of my Father, Mother and Best Friend in close succession was too much.
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Does the BS have an understanding of homeschooling? It seems to me that a lot of "experts" in this situation recommend public school because that's what they know
I agree with other posters, if YOU feel that your DD would be better off in PS by all means try it, but if you don't feel she would don't be swayed by "experts."
Also, nothing is forever, you put her in PS and it doesnt work, pull her out. No harm no foul....most likely anyway.
Pamelas sons reaction is certainly food for thought. I know my DS was abjectly miserable there too. So I guess if you try it, then do so with the aim of pulling her quick if it starts to go bad.
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I would really love your input into something.
My DS has been home from school a year now.
He did Ancients in 7th Grade at school, albiet rather inadequately...they ran out of time for ROME. I mean HELLO!!!! Anyway...
We are in 8th grade now and using History Odyssey Middle Ages Level 2. We are not enjoying it much, it has rather too much outlining and summarising and not enough reading. The final straw for me personally was when I realised that while it spends enormous amounts of lessons on areas of the world that haven't impacted our particular history much, and something like 8 lessons on Shakespeare, it spends only one on the Tudors. Perhaps it's because it's a US program and we are Australian/New Zealanders but I found that quite extraordinary.
So long story short. Next year we will be doing Early Modern and after examining all the ready made programs out there I've decided to do it the WTM way.
What I dont know is whether DS is ready for rhetoric stage. He is certainly capable of reading and understanding most of the books. But not all, particularly given the book list for Early Modern assumes an 11th grader.
I'm not sure that he would be able to do the required analysis and writing.
I'd also love to hear from some Brits or Down Under types who want to give things a rather more British than US slant.
I would love some input into how you would go about planning for this. Starting from scratch is rather terrifying!
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I used HST for a month before upgrading. I'm glad I didn't wait longer as there were a few things that I needed to change in order to make the plus features work, and some needed to be changed in every assignment for certain subjects...the ability to have subject and course for instance meant some changes.
I like it a lot, the kids like the print outs, I'm happy with the way that it's recording what I'm doing. I LOVE the lesson plans! There are a lot of features I'll never need but that's fine. I'm still trying to work out the Lesson Plan schedules and a few other things, but I just need to sit down and commit some time to it.
It took quite a bit of time at first but now it takes me about 30 mins on a friday planning for the next week, and 5 mins a day inputting tasks complete and marks.
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Thanks so much both of you :)
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I have tried to do a search on the forum, but I'm not doing a great job of searching :(
J is 8th grade, but a very good reader. We are using History Odyssey 2 Middle Ages, which has little to no additional reading for China, India, Japan, The East and the Renaissance.
He is thoroughly bored with summarising/outlining and narrating and I would like to add in lots more reading and cut a lot of the writing.
I would love some literature suggestions for him for those areas in the Middle Ages. Links to lists would be just fab.
Thanks in advance :)
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I found asking DS to write his narrations was just too hard. So now we read it and he narrates to me while I type it up. I've also dropped using the word "narration" as it had negative connotations for him. I say "so tell me about what we read"
We put his retellings into a scrapbook along with maps, colouring in and photos of things that we do/make etc
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I'm up because it's 5pm. And I'm about to have a lovely friday night red wine.
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My bet would be not enough water. I have always had good success with zucchini, but we are in a drought and this summer gone mine just stayed the same size for ages, I got one pathetic sized zucchini out of 3 plants. Usually I get more than we can eat. They do need good watering.
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Oh my you really made me laugh! I'm so glad other children can do such *efficient* summaries. Hmmm.
No we didn't do Ancients as J only came out of school at the end of last year, so he did Ancients at school...although they ....you're going to love this....."ran out of time" for Rome. ROME!!! I mean, HELLO, it's ROME!! Sigh. So we did a bit of Rome over the Christmas holidays.
I felt that he rather missed out on outlining lessons but he seems to have picked it up pretty quick. DH and I were talking about his summarising method today, it's what he has learnt at school and the internet which is grabbing bits of information without understanding the whole of what he has read. So I'm actually going to start getting him to speak his summaries to me and I will type them up. Hopefully that will allow his thoughts to flow better and him to more thoroughly analyse what he is reading.
I guess I was expecting slightly less boring writing and slightly more interesting, um, something, interesting something. Not sure what.
I'm pondering changing to Winter Promise for next year, but the postage to Australia doubles the price! OUCH!!
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I really agree :)
We have hosted about 5 now, the shortest for only 2 weeks between two families and the longest for a year. Two of the girls are truely part of our family now, we are very lucky to have a "daughter" in Minnesota who now has a husband and baby (I'm a host grandma!) and a "daughter" in Paraguay.
We have been so enriched by these kids!
I've actually been a hosting co-ordinator too and I think it's actually easier/better to host them when your kids are younger. A lot of families with teens expect their children and their host son/daughter to be best of friends and they seldom are. It's totally different if it's a big/little sibling relationship.
We had our first student 10 years ago when J was just four, and one was actually with us in 1999 when C was born.
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We are just starting it really with J who is in Grade 8. We are up to Lesson 25. (Bearing in mind we school Jan-Dec)
We are "blocking" our history and sciences, so only doing science for the first 15 weeks of school, and now concentrating only on history. I've asked him to do it 2 hours a day 4 days a week. Each 2 hour time slot is one whole lesson. He did get behind to start but is keeping up better since I got him to type up his work rather than write it.
Actually I was coming on to post because J is finding it very boring. He moans that there is outlining or summarising every day and he is sick of outlining and summarising. This is not a good start.
For the Viking Unit rather than getting him to read the entire Usborne Vikings book, I let him choose 3 topics, 1 major and 2 minor and concentrate on those. I will do that again on other things I think.
It's nice to see other people say to chop stuff, so I guess I will do this sort of thing a little bit more from now on. I want him to love history and be passionate about it, and he definitely has an interest in it, but it's being killed with boredom of the constant outlining and summarising.
I'm really torn with what to do for next year, if they had Early Modern Level 3 we may have tried that, so I'm undecided. I suspect another year of HO Level 2 would go down like a cup of cold sick.
eta: He does it pretty independently, I need to be a bit more vigilent about overseeing everything actually. I do really like the independence aspect of it.
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We are from New Zealand where it is not done. I never even thought about it until I found out some US friends were doing it to their boys, then I read up on it. When my DS found out such a practice existed he was horrified.
DH is not done, but his brother is and I have spoken to him about it, he is very very angry about it. He feels that something was taken from his body without his consent for no good reason.
People may say that not many men are upset about it, and perhaps that is the case for your husbands age, because "everyone" had it, then what's to be angry about. But I'd wager that rather more of your sons may be upset about it later in life as it is not the default setting any more, parents have a choice and make it conciously.
As for the nursing home issue, if it came to that I daresay men could get circed at 60, at least they have had their lives worth of use, sensation and protection from their foreskin.
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Sounds pretty UTI-ish. Bleh! The other thing that can sometimes make it all a bit sore is thrush, so maybe worth checking that as well.
UTIs can go from slightly ouchy to incredibly painful and uncomfortable pretty quickly, so it might be worth a visit to the doctors, or at the very least the pharmacy to get some urinary alkaliniser (that doesn't sound right, but it's fizzy stuff you drink and it makes it less ouchy)
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I get a little confused with time zone differences, but I'm thinking it's friday there. So I hope it all went well today.
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We are still less than 1/2 way through our year, but given our pace so far I've already decided FLL3 is likely to last us through 4 as well.
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I read this, too - and my kids do not sit in front until they are 14 AND taller than me. I am 5'2" and sitting in front makes ME nervous about the airbag - I have the seat as far back as I can get it and still work the pedals with the ball of my foot.
Same here, I'm 5'3" and 50kgs, when DS is taller and heavier than me he can sit in the front, until then he is in the back regardless of age. I think we are about a year off that.
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*sigh* one day!