keptwoman
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We initially started because my 8yo has LDs and his new school was not a good match. Then our 14yo just lost his love of learning through the same school and the next one. Since starting though I've found so many new reasons that I didn't know about initially that it's much more of a lifestyle choice than it was initially.
However, I would never discount sending the children back to school. If that's the right thing for a particular time then we would do so.
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Oh wow! Your rooms are inspiring!
We currently use a room adjacent to our kitchen, but it's rather a passageway between living areas so it just has desks and shelves, other stuff is spread all through the house.
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Wow! Thanks for that, it looks fabulous!
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Everything that I have bought has worked. I don't know if it's luck, listening to my gut or good planning/research.
Right now I don't have one piece of curriculum that I have bought feeling good about that has not worked out.
Oh actually I have....Growing with Grammar, it sounded good but after FLL it just felt a bit light. But that was OK, because I bought GWG3 and FLL3 because I couldnt' decide without seeing them both.
Things that give me an instant bad impression are anything with heavily Christian content, but that's my belief system at work rather than anything inherently wrong with the program. Also anything that involves heavy scheduling.
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I hope that I am allowed to post this here.
We are doing SOTW2 Ch3 this week, and I would like to make a monks robe for DS who has an insatiable appetite for dressing up.
I know I can get a pattern at the store, but DH is out of work so we can't really afford that.
Before I go ahead and make up a pattern myself, I wondered if anyone knew of a free one in cyber space. So far my Googling hasn't acheived anything.
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We are 1/3 way through our HS year, I've just worked out that I have spent $2000 this year with another $700 that I need to get before the end of the year :eek:
Only about $400 of that has been one use items though, the rest has been things that will be used for at least 2 children.
This year has been a big year, lots of reference books, and as someone else said, buying from Australia and having to pay USD when you don't earn USD is expensive!
Fortunately by my very vague forecasts of what we are likely to need next year, including reference books it will be about 1/2 that. Phew!
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We've only been going 18 months. I tried scheduling with timetables and it lasted about a day. Then I tried a given order and that lasted a month or two.
Now I give each of my boys a list of what they need to acheive in the day. They tick it off as they do each item.
6 out of the 7 items C's list can be done in any order he chooses. The main topic for the day (Science or history) is done last with me. I put out everything he can do independently the night before.
J works largely independently, referring to me when he needs help.
It works well for us, enabling the boys to work at their own pace and get done what I want them to in a day. C often gets up and knocks off maths and copywork before I've even dragged myself out of bed. He's an early bird.
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I bought R.E.A.L Earth and Space to use with our 8yo/3rd grader. I was quite excited about it, because seemed thorough and it's secular. I have found parts of it just OK and parts a total yawn. DS isn't much interested in it and moans when I get it out.
I am quite disappointed in the depth it goes on some subjects. For instance covering weather, basically you learn there is rain, wind, heat from the sun, a water cycle, an atmosphere.
It's all very very very basic. I felt it wasn't enough. We all know there is rain, but where does it come from? What creates wind? How does the atmosphere help us? Why does the earth not freeze everynight?
None of these were covered, just the fact they existed. I ended up supplimenting heavily for the first section, and I have put it away to look at later in the year when we do another science "block" I'm hoping it might be slightly more helpful for rocks etc.
Perhaps I am being unrealistic in terms of the depth one can go if one is expected to cover Earth Science and Astronomy in a year, I'm pretty new to all this. If that's the case I'd rather do less well rather than more poorly.
I wasn't impressed and won't be getting Earth Science for DD.
Does everything go in a box?
in General Education Discussion Board
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We have also moved a lot. Home doesn't feel like home unless we are unpacked. If we have half our contents still in boxes we just don't feel settled.
I think the purge is a very good idea, I always take moving as an opportunity for a BIG clean out, take lots to the second hand stores, have a yard sale, sell things that are surplus to requirements, lots of things in the garbage. If I don't love it or need it it's gone.
If you are packing yourself it's easy to label things well, but in our experience movers do not label or sort boxes well and you never know where things will be until the boxes are opened.