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Oh yeah baby.....I know what you're going through. My youngest ds all the way. Unfortunately middle dd is also competitive. We work on it a LOT, but sometimes you have to pick your battles. My youngest is now 12.5 and middle dd is almost 16, and they *still* (banging head repeatedly against wall) race to the car, front door of house, up the stairs, ...and on and on.... while I dutifully whine in the background "It is *NOT!!!!* a race!! What *IS* it with you people!!!". We work constantly on encouraging, loving, helping, not competing with each other etc.. In your case, with a younger dd, I would consistently make him do over *every* time it comes up. Racing up the stairs? Oops, come back down here and do it again slowly! Followed by "It was wrong for me to make xyz into a race...will you forgive me?" Make him practice saying "ladies first!" and holding the door for his sister whenever they are coming home, or getting in the car, or wherever. Maybe make a chart for "good losing" to reward for losing gracefully a certain number of times. Have him do a chore for his sister every time he decides to make something a competition with her. IOW, be creative and consistent. Be proactive in situations where you know he is liable to do this stuff....I've frequently had to have my ds, or dd walk behind me on the way to the car, door, whatever, so that they physically cannot race. Meaning as we are leaving "wherever", I'll immediately say "ds, you need to walk behind me please....do NOT get ahead of me!". Or, in your case, maybe require him to physically follow his sister. I say all of this in a true spirit of empathy, believe me. As I said mine are almost 13 and 16, and it is still a struggle sometimes. I know. You didn't want to hear that :o).
Kayleen
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I think the order would be Augustus Caesar (ancient), Columbus and Sons (medieval), John Smith (late 1500's, 1600's), George Washington (1700's), Lincoln (1800's).
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This is too amazing....but does anyone else agree that is is so TOTALLY a "guy thing" to think up?? Methinks all those sheepherders had a little too much time on their hands :o).....anyway, I enjoyed it.
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OK, here's my prelim plan...I'm sure it will change
Bible: AWANA
Math: finish Kinetic books Alg 1, some TT geometry
English: LL7 plus CLE (some hybrid of these 2...need to work on it), either R&S 7 OR CLE LA, outside writing class, Word roots software
History: Journey Across Time (Spielvogel - middle school world hist) interactive cd version, historical fiction
Science: probably Apologia General, but being tempted by Rainbow...stay tuned
Languages: Elementary Greek 1, Irrashai Japanese
Logic: Fallacy Detective (did Thinking toolbox this year), Art of Argument
Fine Arts: Piano, Musical Theater, Children's Choir
PE: Swimming/volleyball with our isp, Taekwondo
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There is the Redwall series also
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I would advise letting her wear makeup if she wants......and chances are she'll want to. You may not want her to feel like she needs makeup, but I guarantee she'll feel like she needs makeup at some point, if it hasn't been taken care of another way, and I think you will need to be ok with that. JMO.
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I would use supernanny's sleep separation technique
http://www.supernanny.co.uk/TV-Show/Clips/Clips/Sleep-Separation-Technique.aspx
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I would definitely look at the God's Design books. Here is a link to the series that would cover geology. 1 of the 3 books covers astronomy, but you wouldn't have to get it. It is multilevel, they just updated it, so it is in color, has teacher helps, worksheets, projects, etc. Anyway, check it out...it looks great, and very simple to use. http://www.answersingenesis.org/PublicStore/catalog/Gods-Design-for-Heaven-Earth,194.aspx
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Hi, my middle dd deals with trich on a fairly mild level, but if you really want info from real parents, go the the parents_ttm yahoo group, join, and then search with the word toddlers. you'll get lots of info, not to mention you can ask anything you want. Trich is a tricky thing :o). Sometimes toddlers grow out of it, sometimes they don't. No one really knows definitively what makes people (of any age) do it. Meaning it seems to be a behavior with an infinite number of possible causes. I have heard, though, that the odds are better for stopping the behavior in an infant or toddler. Anyway, there is lots of info to be had. My dd began around age 11, so it's a different animal than what you are dealing with. Get informed, though.
Kayleen
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well, I read about this particular pencil gripper, and of all the pencil grippers out there, it definitely looks the most "cheat proof"....as in "go ahead...try to have a wrong grip with your fingers in this thing!". It appears to be marketed for rather intractable kids. http://writingclaw.com/default.aspx
Kayleen
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I am....my parents were missionaries in West Africa, so I was born in France, came back to the states at about 18 mo old, went back to Africa when I was 10, and lived there till I graduated from High School. I have wonderful memories of those times, but it definitely changes how you view american society, and gives you a more global perspective on life. We were back for a year when I was in 10th grade, and was definitely NOT impressed with typical american teen culture LOL! Course, coming from a 3rd world country, where certain food items were just not available, we got our share of laughs when we would veeeeeery slooooooowwwwly lick and nibble our way through the milky way bar! We definitely appreciated things like electricity, and running water. Grocery stores were a marvel. I genuinely feel blessed to have had that perspective, though. In some ways, I wish my kids could have a little of it, but......well, you can't make everyone's life the same. My oldest dd got a teeny taste last summer when she went down to Mexico to build houses. On the negative side, I think I developed a yearning to stay put at all costs. As an adult, I love living near family, not moving, having things stable. Overall, however, I'm glad I grew up overseas.
Kayleen
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my rule of thumb on the privacy settings was "friends"...meaning setting most things so that only those that you have "accepted" as friends can see. I did put down "friends of friends" for contacting, because at least then, if, for instance, old college friend so-and-so who in a fb friend of my sister's, sees me as a friend on my sister's fb page, she can e-mail me via facebook to request to be a friend. Once you are signed up, the "wall" (think personal bulletin board) is automatically there. When you post a status update, all your friends are alerted via their friends list that you have done so. Friends can see/go to your wall and post something there, or comment on anything you have posted (like a status report), or anything anyone has posted. "Poking" is just a widget program that lets you send a funny "hey you" type message to anyone you wish to be jokey with. It's an easy way to say happy birthday, congrats, happy "whatever" day, or whatever. When you upload photos to your photo section, you can put labels or "tags" on the people in the picture, so that if you scroll your mouse over the picture, the names of the people will pop up. When you "tag" people in your photos who are also fb friends, it will show up automatically on their wall (and yours) that you "tagged" them in a photo, and will post a thumbnail of the pic as well to their wall and yours. That way they know if you recently posted a pic with them in it. And yes, they can always see your pictures anyway if they go to your page and look at them. Its just an alert. FB is really just a communal bulletin board. Everyone has their own (wall), and everyone's friends can see each other's. Very quick real time way to communicate, chat, comment, or share pictures. But remember, you are totally in control of who your friends are, and who sees your wall. I only mentioned poking and tagging because you asked about poking, and I was confused at first about tagging. I'm pretty new on fb too. There a lots of other things you can do as well.
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I agree with this. I know that the state of a kids heart is certainly not determined by the color of his hair, but I get similar first impressions. It's attention getting behavior plain and simple. Obviously not evil or rebellious, but certainly a "look at me, I'm different" sort of statement. I would personally think that that violates the spirit (not the letter) of the rules. JMO.
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Me: frumpy housewife no doubt....I have no particular sense of style, I don't like makeup, and I'm terrible at dressing myself. I'm not totally dishevelled or anything, but I don't have color coordinated accessories or the like, iykwim.
Hubby: I'm sure he could never be pegged. I mean...he's a cpa, but he hates suits, likes to backpack/hike, wears jeans or cargo pants most of the time at home. Pretty casual at heart, and looks pretty nondescript. OTOH, when he *does* wear a suit......sigh.....I swoon all over again. Not sure what it is about him in a suit, but gosh he looks cute in one! ;o)!
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Well, I personally think it's a really important *tool* to use in understanding grammar. It's a visual organization tool, in a nutshell. There are many ways to learn and understand grammar, and many ways to organize the information you learn. Some methods use colors to highlight different parts of speech/parts of sentences, some use underlining techniques, some use an auditory/oral method to sort through it all (like Shurley for instance). Diagramming is a visual method of seeing & understanding grammar. If I've learned one thing in my many years of homeschooling, it's that the more ways I can approach a subject being learned, the better it gets learned. So labeling sentences is good, but learning to ask questions (ala shurley) as you label is better, and learning to diagram what you have just spoken and labeled is even better! Not that diagramming is the be all end all of grammar, but it is a very powerful visual tool to help understand it. It really isn't hard, and most books start with the basics and go a step at a time. R&S 4 would be a great place to start with a 10 yr old. It won't be too hard to teach, and you'll learn as you go as well.
Have fun,
Kayleen
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I am *right* in the same boat as you :o). We are finishing BJU6 this year and enjoying it, but ds hates hates hates life science. A whole year of it at the depth that BJU goes into it would SO send him over the mental edge (he's a total earth/physical/math kind of guy). Here's my thoughts....the only thing I find lacking in the Apologia middle school books is a bit more intro to life science. I think they do a great job covering the other parts: history, human body, machines etc, earth science, intro to chem/physics..it's really a nice mix, imo, and I see no reason you couldn't do a little hopping with modules between both books. I balk at BJU Life for the very reason that it is SO thorough. If you plan to have them do biology in 9th, it will be quite a bit of repetition (for my kid, this means torture, especially if it is bio). OTOH, I'd like to get a decent *overview* in middle school. I'm considering either throwing the Answers in Gen. books in along with the Apologia Gen. , or there is a really neat video course called Biology 101 (timberdoodle carries it) that I've heard is really very good, but not so lenthy or intensive as to drive anyone batty. The teacherish/curriculum junkie side of me LOVES the looks of the new BJU texts, and would love to charge right through all 3 of them (yeah right, like THAT would happen with this kid...ha!). Sigh. But ds is not me, unfortunately. Apologia is just so much more *doable*. 2 books, not 3 (obviously they want to mess with our minds on the issue of doing Physical Science in 9th grade, forcing us to either A) skip a book or B) mess up our ideal science sequence). So my personal opinion? Go for Apologia, add in some extra life science, mix up the modules as you see fit, version 2 is more colorful but basically the same modules. Get on the Apologia yahoo groups where they have alternative tests (more mult. choice/matching type questions), check out the lapbook/notebooks for the Apologia books on Knowledge Box Central if you want to liven things up. Get a good exp. kit from Sonlight or homesciencetools. I agree with you that the BJU looks *VERY* appealing, though. I wring my hands and drool regularly over it. And 6th has worked very well for us this year, which gnaws at my psyche as well. Oh well. Choices, choices.
Kayleen
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Always do math at the pace of your child, making sure they are really getting it. In my hs isp, everything through 8th grade is just "math 7" or "math 8", no matter what we are doing. LOL, I sure *hope* its ok for 6th graders to do pre alg seeing as my 6th grader is doing regular algebra. I agree with the others who said to be ready to slow down, back up & review occasionally, and the like with younger kids. My son is doing the Kinetic books program online, which is pretty thorough, but doesn't require quite the amount of writing that a text based program would (they type a lot of it). I foresee some moments ahead of solidifying, working on the physical writing more, etc., but thats ok. I'm having him do the Daily Math review workbook (6+ level) as a supplement, to keep all the aritmetic/statistics/probability/geometry etc. stuff in his head. All this to say that you will be fine. Wherever he is when he get to HS is what will go on the transcript. No worries.
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Hey, I agreed with tuckabella and didn't realize it! :).
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Sanford Magic Rub...they are the best! http://www.dickblick.com/products/sanford-magic-rub-eraser/
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Pencils: Ticonderogas, or Mirado black warriors...The ticonderogas have the best erasers
Pens: Pilot G2
The best erasers, although not the pencil topper kind, are the standard size, rectangular white ones...I can't think of the brand. they erase everything really well. I'll try to think of what brand they are...
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Just make sure that the supplements mesh well with the older version......did you note that they have totally revamped and revised the whole curriculum? It looks really nice, acutally. But, as I was looking through it, the worksheets are specifically assigned in the new rewrite, so you'd have to decide where to fit them in the old version. Just a heads up.
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Well, if you are built like me, you'll be cussing it every time you step on to do wii fit as it very sweetly tells you "You are obese!" "You are unbalanced!".....darn thing :o/.
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Well, my parents were missionaries overseas, so I was homeschooled for 5 years...4th grade in the states, half of 5th in French public school, rest of 5th-8th. So my parents were totally fine with it (they retired to the states when my first dd was born). My dh's parents have very little good to say about the public school system in general, so they have always been supportive. I go to a wonderful church where there is no contention over schooling.....there are families of every persuasion and no one gets their panties in a wad over it (our pastor has 7 kids, and their kids have been in public, private, and at home). So I consider myself very blessed to have support on all sides. My part of CA is VERY homeschool friendly, to boot. There are tons of homeschoolers in my city, and I literally never get negative comments from anyone about it. As I said, I am very blessed.
Kayleen
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Totally agreeing with this.....I've done it with 3 out of 3 kids, and its a great combo. It will absolutely solidify all the arithmetic, and the rods are just fun to play with.
Help! My kid's competitiveness is driving his sis crazy!
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Oh yeah, and ds has been a board game nut his whole stinkin' life. Fortunately he often doesn't mind playing alone, but group stuff is occasionally very challenging, and fraught with peril. Playing a board game with his sister's is about a 50-50 proposition. Occasionally it will go well, often it won't. Getting better a little over time.