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My girls are enrolled in the Classical Conversations co-op for a 4th year in a row, and I would say that the CC curriculum is the core of what we use. I am also influenced by Charlotte Mason and WTM.
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I think......
Grace (3rd)
Math U See Delta or A Beka Math 3
Handbook of Nature Study
A Reason For Handwriting
Classical Conversations Foundations incl. 100 Veritas Press History Cards
Classical Conversations Essentials incl. Essentials of the English Language and US Based History Writing
Spelling Plus
Dictation Plus
Lots of Ambleside Online Year 3 recommended books for narration and reading incl. A Child's History of the World, Trial and Triumph, Squanto, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Through The Looking Glass
Lily (1st)
Classical Conversations Foundations incl Veritas Press 100 History Cards
Handbook of Nature Study
First Language Lessons, First Grade
Phonics Museum
Handwriting Without Tears
BOB Books
Math U See Alpha or Abeka Math 1
Spelling Plus (we will see how reading goes!)
lots of Ambleside Online Year 1 recommended books for narration incl The Red Fairy, Blue Fairy, Holling C. Holling, D'Aulaire, Milne...
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muffinmom: I read celebrity-babies too! I only remember a few times a week, Saturday is usually the only day I manage to get there with any regularity (unless Im stalking someone who is overdue or the Jolie/Pitt annoucement or something (: )
1) I still have a crush on my first crush! Embarassing!
2) I think Zac Efron (HS Musical) is just about the cutest thing.. see crush on my first crush bc he lookes like him! LOL
3) Nora Roberts, Diana Gabaldon, Stephenie Meyer mindless romance novels. They do need to be really well written fluff though!
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http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/chrysostom
I just started and would love to get to know some people here better through their blogs! I am a lurker and a not very regular poster here.. but I am a real life friend of very regular poster 3lilreds who blogs at sunflowerhouse.blogspot.com if that gives me any Hive Mind street cred :)
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1.) How many kids do you have and what are their ages?
4, their ages are DD1 8 1/2, DD2 51/2, DD3 2 1/2, and DS9 months.
2.) What is your favorite food?
chocolate :) I like a lot of Thai foods.
3.) What is your favorite movie?
Much Ado About Nothing, LOTR, Star Wars, Matrix are also favorites
4.) Coke, Pepsi or neither?
Water, Lemonade, or Dr. pepper
5.) What is your favorite book?
Bible, the HP series, Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon and The Book of God by Walter Wangerin, Jr.
6.) What is your least favorite household job?
laundry
7.) What is your favorite season?
Autumn
8.) What is your favorite sport?
gymnastics or ice skating
9.) What is your favorite holiday?
Christmas
10.) What is your least favorite store you have to shop in?
Our local Kmart
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LOL......I actually find them easier 2 yrs apart than 3! ;) Honestly. Seriously. Not joking. My kids that are 3 yrs apart don't interact nearly as easily as the ones that are closer in age. Diapers only last a couple of yrs. They are here to stay a LOT longer than that. :)
I have four, three girls and one boy. My oldest and second are 3 years apart, and my second and third are 3 years apart. My third and fourth are 2 years apart, and I totally prefer the 2 year spread. Having only had it once, it may be that my two youngest are just really easy children... but it seems to me that age 3 has been the hardest age so far for my girls. And having a newborn and a 3 year old at the same time, at least the 2 who have been three so far in my house, it was much much harder on me.
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I have one son and 3 daughters. Our son is intact. I researched circumcision and decided that I did not want my son circumcised. I asked my husband what he thought, and he (though circumcised), said that he did not feel it was medically necessary and that the New Testament seemed pretty clear to him on the fact that circumcision was no longer necessary as far as a biblical arguement. And we are not Jewish, so we were not going to have him circumcised for a religious reason.
I dont know if anyone posted about this, but very many men who are intact suffered at the hands of uninformed doctors when they were forcibly retracted as children. Many older men have issues with phimosis. There are two kinds of phimosis, natal and acquired:
Acquired phimosis happens when the skin has been forcibly retracted and tears in the skin result from that forcible retraction. Over years, the skin becomes harder on that scar tissue than on the rest of the skin. The highest rates of aquired phimosis happen to be found in the US. Natal phimosis is very rare here and in other countries, where there is a true inability to retract that usually requires surgery.
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we have used CLE Math for First and Second grades, and are starting on Third grade with my oldest. I am starting my 5 yr old out on CLE Math first grade this fall.
It works really well for my oldest daughter. She has done very well and likes it a lot. I am hoping it works well for my second, too.
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[My ds, with severe SPD, had most of your ds's problems (some were hyper instead of hypo), but treatment took about a year for the SPD. He was 7 when we started. However, the secondary effects of SPD needed work outside of OT. This would include self-esteem, temper and social skills. These behaviors often are a result or a self-defense to the initial problems but become ingrained and stay even after the SPD is partially or even fully remediated. Social classes or a special type of drama class where the children act out their problems are sometimes recomended.
Here are a few things your OT could help you with:
1) Teach you how to see the signs of an incipient meltdown and how to derail it.
2) If you missed the signs, teach you how to calm your ds promptly
3) Your ds should have a sensory diet to help him. A few things that might be included is heavy shoes, tight clothes, sleeping under heavy blankets, chewy foods or crunchy foods (not both), drinking through straws, chewing gum, etc.
4) There are a few sports that are good for SPD patients. Swimming, martial arts and horse back riding were recommended for my ds. Wrestling was recommended for him to get his needed deep pressure therapy once he hit puberty and started rejecting hugs.
Some of your ds's problems are compounded by his APD. I would guess his avoideness of outside social situations is probably a major one. Remember he probably doesn't understand conversation and feels at a loss. If you think of how a deaf person relates to conversation and social interaction, you might better understand his social avoideness problems.
A ST can help him with many of his auditory problems. I don't know your ds's exact APD problems but a few things my ds's OT worked with him on were sound discrimination, expressive and receptive language, and auditory memory. Towards the end of therapy, the ST worked on more social type language skills -- tone of voice, volume, word selection and general conversation.
A couple of other things you might consider is The Listening Program (or other sound therapy) and food allergies/sensitivities. I used TLP with my ds and it did help *somewhat* with his sensitivity to loud noises. He's still sensitive, but he doesn't go flying off the handle like he used to. Sensitivities to wheat or the milk protein Cassien can create problems with impulse control, which allows tempers to flare. Have you check for either of these problems? You can do a search on my name and dairy or milk to find out how to test for cassien asensitivities. I'm sorry, but I don't know how to test for wheat problems.
Finally, I've known of some SPD clinics that kept their patients for years. However my ds's first OT said that even my ds, with severe SPD, should only take a year to remediate. And we did it only one day a week until about a month or two before she moved out ot state (which is why ds had 2 OT's) Now my ds was only 7, so that would possibly affect how long he needed therapy. And he wasn't "cured", he still needed to maintain his sensory diet and participate in one of his sports. And his handwriting was still bad. But he didn't need the intensive hour-long therapy with an OT.
But I'd start looking at the experience of your ds's therapist (is she certified in SPD? has lots of experience? or is she moonlighting and actually specializes in a different area?) Also check if your ds and OT are a good match. Also talk to her and find out why you aren't seeing better results. There may be good reasons that we aren't party to.
We were in OT for a year, and the first two items you listed about how to spot a potential meltdown and how to calm your child pronto, along with providing ideas for a sensory diet were totally NOT my experience.
*sigh*
You are really fortunate.
I so need to get my 8 yr old back into therapy. We could find no OT in our area certified in SPD or anything I had no idea that certification in SPD existed until I read your post. And we live in the Raleigh NC area, a large city!
We couldn't really even get an OT who had much experience with sensory issues. Grace got a lot of help with her fine motor and motor planning issues. But sensory, not so much. And Sensory Therapists were not covered by insurance. We have recently had another very serious spiking in sensory overload stuff in our house, and I feel like Im losing my mind. I have the OOSC and the OOSC has fun and I even have Raising a Sensory Smart Child. But I just dont understand how to put a sensory diet together for her... and I totally dont know how to calm her down right away. My younger daughter has opposite sensory issues, and weve found that we can give her deep pressure to calm her. But still no idea with our oldest.
Thanks for psoting this. I need to make some calls on Monday.
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Has your husband looked at the Foundations curriculum to see what it offers?
It is quite complete once you take a look at it. Inside you will find that you history and science assignments are scheduled.
For example the history assignment for week one goes along with the history sentence which is about Columbus’ voyage. The history assignment (found in the upper left had corner of the foundations book) is to read pages 1 -8 of the history text. This is more than enough for younger children but older children would use the information in the text as a starting point and would research further using other sources of information. If you look further you will find the science assignment for week one is to read chapter one in the science text.
Next CC recommends that your child reads great books. For week one I would choose a book like Pedro's Journal, a historical fiction book about Columbus' Voyage written from the point of view of a cabin boy.
Now to that you would only need to cover math and language. If you like FLL then stick with it and add in some copy work/dictation (or think about SWB's writing book), reading instructions and spelling.
The nice thing about cc is that the science experiments and basic fine arts projects are covered.
Hope this helps!
Susan
what text are you referring to in the suggestion that they read pages 1-8 of the text to go wirh the history sentence?
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I am finding myself to be fairly overwhelmed in teaching my 2nd grader... I have a K4, a 2 yr old, and a 6 month old as well. I *love* how my teaching portion is scripted in the First Language Lessons Level 3 grammar book, and I was wondering if I could get some curriculum recommendations for other teacher's manuals like that? Im not sure yet if we want to continue with an eclectic mix, or if we want to get a boxed curriculum for 3rd and Kindergarten next year, I am pretty open to ideas.
We do Classical Conversations co-op, and I was told that we only needed to do language arts and math outside of their curriculum.
My husband, however, would like for me to do Bible, Math, Science, Spelling, Handwriting, History, and Grammar in addition to Classical Conversations. So I'm wondering about a boxed curriculum being easier to deal with than many different types plus Classical Conversations. I'm very confused.
We currently love Christian Light Math and FLL Level 3. I don't love but Grace does great with Spelling Plus and Dictation Plus.
We have done OK with Christian Light science, but I'd be open to more suggestions for science. I assume we would go back to SOTW for history, though with our co-op, she gets history sentences and 100 history cards, and it seems like enough history to me for right now. Classical Conversations seems to recommend Shurley Grammar, but I'm not sure if she'd transition to level 3 or level 4 after doing FLL Level 3 this year.
Sorry if Im babbling, the baby has me distracted. Hopefully someone can give me some suggestions and description of curriculum.
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My daughter Grace asked at 7, and little sister Lily said "me too, me too!"... so they got pierced at 7 and 4. Grace kept hers. Lily opted to let hers close. We've had no problems with Grace's ears, using highj quality earrings only, washing when we brush teeth twice a day.
I don't want to homebirth!!!
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I can't say that I have any words of wisdom for you. The first thing I thought of was that your mind is being prepared for an unexpected birth situation.. that you want things to go one way, but your mind keeps telling you to be open to something different.
I think one of my first thoughts after seeing a positive pregnancy test is "Im gonna have to push again!!!!", and it comes to me from time to time during pregnancy, and a lot there toward the end when the pushing is imminent.
I will be praying that you come to a place of peace about where to birth, and that wherever you do birth, you feel the support and love you need, and that as a result of this particular labor, you don't feel the way you have before in your child's first weeks.