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Have you considered Math Mammoth? If she likes to work independently it might be a good option as the instruction is in the work text and is written to the student. It is inexpensive and the author will email you a huge sample packet if you sign up for her email list. I buy the printed workbooks from Rainbow Resource, I think Educents has them on sale right now as well. And Homeschool Buyers Co-op has the PDF's on sale though I think the promotion ends today.
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Are we still waiting for OUR registered letter? :laugh:
You know, the public schools have been trying to figure out how to get the attention of homeschoolers for a long time. Looks like this one finally hit on a successful strategy: send a registered letter, let the recipient know it is out there, and then don't deliver it. Must've bribed the post office... :d -
Depends on the situation. If I ask a child to please bring me a book and they bring it, then walk away as I say Thanks, I don't consider them rude. If they make a card for Grandma and she tells them Thank You, I would expect them to respond with You're Welcome.
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My room sharing kids are 10g, 8b, 6g, they are perfectly comfortable being in there together. They mostly go in the bathroom to change clothes (their bedroom actually doesn't have a door at the moment because the hinges stripped out and I haven't got it fixed). I shared a bedroom with a sister and two brothers when I was 10. My brothers were 12 and 5 and my sister was 8, sharing a room didn't bother us. I imagine we also went in the bathroom when we wanted privacy, though I don't specifically remember.
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Dd 10 and I enjoyed the broadcast, though I had a headache afterward from crying too much. Those videos....though actually it was the opening song by the choir that got me started. Not that it's a bad thing, but I don't always appreciate that choking up reaction I just can't seem to control.
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Library book sales. We have a 2001 World book set we bought that way a few years back, my kids read it all the time.
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Clearly the mail carrier has been replaced by a snail. Federal budget cuts, ya know...
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I went to the local high school today, researching future options. It's a big school, I wasn't sure where the main entrance was so I asked someone in the parking lot who looked like a teacher. He said the doors are kept locked except for one that he pointed out, I asked if that was where the main office was and he said no, that's at the other end of the building, I could go around to it if I wanted as there was another unlocked door at that end or I could just walk through the building. I thought it was kind of funny that he kind of made a big deal about the doors being locked but then pointed me to the unlocked door at the far end of the building from the office. I decided to go around to the door by the office and check in before walking through the building...
Really I think it is sad that there have to be rules in place to keep people out of schools, but I guess some sad things are just reality. I do think common sense should prevail over letter of the law!
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Well, I asked and the "hive" has spoken.:-)
I really wondered whether my expectations were too high, and I see that they are. Have you ever gotten so tangled up in your emotions that you're not sure you're thinking straight and logically about things? My family has been through a LOT and there are some other factors involved that I won't go into, but the fact remains that I need to chill out. I am really going to try to relax about this and accept them for who they are. TRY...a hard thing where the heart is concerned.
Thanks for everyone's gentle input. Just what I was looking for.
You know, you DO get the chance to make those grandparenting dreams a reality--when you have your own grandkids :)
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We didnt watch TV at home, I have happy memories of watching TV and eating junk at grandmas house.
Enjoy what you do have and dont let idealized wishes get in the way.
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I like Tell Me More, we had access through a library at one point. Of all the computer based programs I have tried though I have liked Fluenz the best.
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This happened to my roommate in college, and I don't remember it being a very big deal. There were minor things he had to do in order to get in-state residency, so, for example, he had to use his college address as his permanent address (the address on his licence, checks, car registration, insurance, etc.).
I do suspect it varies from state to state. I wonder if the age of the student plays a part too - would this student be 18 at the time of residency?
The student is 19.
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I do have two boys who are not as passionate about their music but enjoy playing. When my dd started playing, I had no idea how she would progress and allowed her interest to guide practice just as I did with the boys. That approach worked well for all my kids. Different kids learn differently and have different interest levels. I didn't have any goals of my own for their music except that they enjoy it.
I took years of piano lessons (10 years) and hated to practice maybe in part because my parents required me to practice a certain amount of time every day. It seemed a disruption to the things I wanted to do in my free time like play outside with the neighbor kids or read a book. I wanted my kids to have a different experience with music.
It has been hard for me to find the right balance between encouraging/supporting and requiring. My eight year old is very musical, he plays a bit of several instruments and really enjoys playing by ear, but doing the hard work to gain new skills doesn't usually happen unless I require it. I think kids with good executive function skills can take the lead in practicing, but those without may need more external scaffolding or they really struggle to get the practicing done even when they have internal motivation to play.
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Does anyone know if a student can continue to claim in state residency if their parents move out of state? I'm asking for a friend, the student will be attending a Florida university, the family has lived in Florida for two years but the parents are moving this summer after the student graduates from high school.
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I also wasn't impressed with the bit about kids sitting in straight rows of desks while teacher lectures at the front. I really don't think that retaining good things from the past means we have to throw away everything we have learned about education and learning in the last fifty years.
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Does anyone know how to buy ABRSM materials in the States?
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We mostly use it as a reading list and ignore any book that doesn't seem interesting.
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Maybe this one? http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Bedroom-Historical-Fiction-Readers/dp/1571316582/ref=pd_sim_b_29?ie=UTF8&refRID=1PJAFV7HRDW8M5G920RC
ETA
Woops, didn't see it had been referenced already.
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Amazon has demonstrated amazing customer service here as well. I tend to dislike massive companies but they just keep giving me reasons not to dislike them...
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Your daughter may like to try or listen to music from the different "Celtic" traditions (Irish, Scottish, Cape Breton, etc...) as they are all different in style and she might find one she prefers. Youtube is great for listening. Summer music camps are great for trying out different styles. You might try www.thesession.org for finding sessions.
My dd's teacher teaches people all over the world via Skype if you'd like to pm me, I might be able to help you out with people to listen to as well.
I just tried to send a PM but I think the computer ate it. Trying again...
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It helps to acknowledge that none of us is superhuman, and that learning to live and work within the parameters of the life we are living is part of the process of gaining humility and faith. We cannot do or be everything, we cannot give our children every good opportunity, ideal is never more than an idea, we must work within the confines of what is practical.
You have a large family of young children. That can be a great blessing--your children have the chance to grow up close to one another, to laugh and cry together, to learn about resolving conflicts and being understanding of individual differences. It is also a challenge, you and you husband have a lot of little people depending on you for everything from food to guidance to hugs. Finances are tight--that can be a struggle but may also prove a blessing as your children have the chance to learn to weigh costs and opportunities, to not take anything for granted, to see what it means to live within your means and make the best of what you do have. A child who misses out on extra art classes or summer camps or academic enrichment classes but grows up with a realistic concept of budgeting and an understanding of the differences between wants and needs may well have attained something of greater than value than a child who had every opportunity but developed a sense of entitlement.
From a practical standpoint, does your husbands work need to be done from home? Rather than you leaving the house with all the children (exhausting for sure) could he take a laptop and work at the library? Or go in with someone else to share rented office space?
None of us can do the impossible, I think somehow you need to find ways to simplify what is on your plate until possible is achieved. Substitute audiobooks for read alouds, or let the kids watch an hour of PBS in the morning, or put your twelve year old in charge of lunch every day or...(I don't actually know what would be most helpful for or acceptable to your family, these are just examples)
(((Hugs)))
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I'm trying to think of how useful a date line would be. You could walk through Greenwhich with somebody and say, "I'll see you tomorrow", then take two steps forward into tomorrow, or even say, "I'll see you yesterday." "I'll kick your *ss into tomorrow". Yeah, it could be useful.
Though Greenwich is not the date line, that crosses the Pacific Ocean.
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I have a dd who plays violin and wants to do Celtic fiddling, but I have not been able to find any local teachers, groups, sessions, etc.. I wonder if there are fiddlers who teach online? She would still take classical lessons locally. She has taught herself some songs, but I imagine there are techniques and musical traditions specific to fiddling that she could best learn from someone familiar with the genre.This direction sounds lovely but unless you actually have a local fiddle player with good technique themselves and an ability to teach that technique, it is a very limiting option. Even if fiddle music is the way the child decides to go, proper technique will take them much further than poor technique and poor technique, once learned is difficult to undo. A solid foundation will allow the child to go in any direction.
I found a fiddle teacher for my dd when she showed an interest in fiddle music but it was in addition to her Suzuki lessons. If she had learned only from that fiddle teacher, she'd be limited to playing only those tunes with a difficulty and skill level that teacher's technique allowed so all those tunes she now loves to play, with shifting or in "strange" keys or with difficult bowing patterns, might not be accessible to her. Also, she'd not have the skill to later decide to go to classical or jazz music if her interests changed.
I did a blog post about some of what I have learned about music and kids almost a year ago for a blog link up (just ignore the "gifted" part of the title because I think much of it applies to a larger audience).
Registered letter from local school district in CA???? Any ideas?? UPDATE in post 82... It's HERE!!
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Maybe you should take a locksmith with you... ;)