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Lets see, we started the year off with In Search of the Source, a missionary bio from Sonlight, now we are reading The Vile Village in the Series of Unfortunate Events series. Those are great reads, btw :o). I keep trying to start A Tale of 2 Cities, but we keep getting bogged down and bail out. Sigh. Its not like we can't handle the hard stuff. We've read lots of classics, like Great Expectations, Once and Future King etc... not sure what exactly it is about Tale of 2 Cities. Oh well. After Lemony Snicket, we're due for a good juicy classic.
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Well, after all day trudging around the L.A. County Fair (which was a blast, btw), just about everything, from feet to legs to back to head! I just took 2 advil, and when it kicks in, I'll go to bed.
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I'll put my 2c in for Aleks also. We've been using it for about 2-3 months. My dd doesn't *love* it, but she does it. At least I know that she can't get away with learning and then forgetting, because the program won't let her. Heh heh. I personally could not keep up with what she really did and did not know. It would seem like she was "getting it", then she would bomb tests again and again. Aleks keeps total accountability. They either know it or they don't.
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Do NOT hold back on subjects he is ready to learn just because he lacks the writing skills. Work on those skills at a comfortable pace, and compensate in the other subjects. Do the math orally, use magnet numbers, you write the problems...whatever. Do not let writing hold up learning. This is a really fast way to uninspire a bright kid. My son in almost 12 now, and *still* struggles with the physical act of writing. Yes, he still has to do a lot of it, but it is still a painful experience. But, he read at age 3, and is gifted in many areas. So thats my 2c. He'll get the writing, never fear. He's still a little bunchkin.
Kayleen
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Oh honey.......mine is almost 12 now, and we still deal frequently with this......I don't want to really discourage you, but with some kids you have to hunker down for the long haul. My best advice? do your best with it TODAY. Purpose in your heart to find positive things to say to and think about your child. Wildly celebrate tiny successes. Continue to tweak. Hug, kiss, and slurp up your child at least twice daily. Discipline as necessary, but connect at all costs. I have a now 17yo dd who just about did me in before age 13 when she became mostly rational (actually a bit over rational :o) ), and my ds 11 ranks right up there with his sister in difficulty level. Rotsa Ruck :o).
Kayleen
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Lightwedge, hands down....timberdoodle.com.....different sizes and colors. These are the best, and they double as bookmarks.
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Some good ones:
Joseph and the Technicolor dreamcoat
Wicked (definitely)
Annie
Oliver
Guys and Dolls
South Pacific
The King and I
Phantom of the Opera
Le Mis
Beauty and the Beast
And there are a lot more out there. Having a son of theatrical bent, I was launched into the wonderful world of musical theater almost 2 years ago, when he joined a large(200 kids, k-12) community children's musical theater group to do Peter Pan (he got the part of Michael, and got to fly!!...it was so fun!). My then 9th grader joined in for the next one, Oliver, and then my 11th grader joined the others to do Joseph. Very fun. They will doing Music Man this fall and Wizard of Oz in the spring. It's a strangely addictive thing, but there are so many great songs! Have fun!
Kayleen
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I heartily second Fabers Piano Adventures. It is very well done, and easy to use. Make sure you get all 4 of the components (lesson, theory, technique, and performance). They all mesh together, and make for a more well rounded experience. Faber is great.
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My ds takes piano at $30 per half hr, and between the cost of lessons, music books/sheet music, and various fees for festivals, competitions etc., not to mention 5 week months, it probably averages 150 a month. My dd's lessons are about 125 per month. Just the way it is.
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It really is both a regional as well as a cultural thing. I grew up in churches where you dressed decently nice for church. ie dress or nice skirt, blouse or nice shirt, sunday sandals or shoes. While I don't think God "cares" in one sense of the word, I think there is something to be said for learning to dress for an occasion. Dr. Laura once said something that has stuck with me, when some teenager called her asking about this issue. She said that dressing nicely "elevates the occasion", and that religious services in her opinion were occasions that ought to be elevated. I have mulled that over more than once, and I have decided that I agree with her. We live in So CA, and our church dresses (in general) middle of the road to nice for Sunday Morning (a few girls/women in jeans, but not the majority, and most in nice pants/skirts/dresses), and casual for Sun night (jeans/shorts/whatever). The Pastor wears suits in the morning, and casual at night. I focus more on modesty with my girls, and the principle of "elevating the occasion". My general rule with my ds is shirts with collars, usually no jeans. He varies between nice casual, with tennis shoes/sandals, and dress casual, with sunday shoes. Sometimes it depends on the state of the laundry LOL :o).
HTH,
Kayleen
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Well, I don't know that I would have thrown Great Expectations at my kids and expected them to read it on their own, but we did it as a read aloud last year when my kids were 16, 14, and 11, and they loved it......Dickens is such a master of description, I've found that he improves vastly on *hearing* him. And his sense of humor is fantastic....even in GE. So take the advice of others, I suppose, and find one of his lighter works, but I had to speak up in favor of Dickens. We like him at our house.
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Oh, and you can have her just do the easy grammar while you wait to start the other. Don't worry. It will be ok.
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Don't know if you want to hear this, but R&S 7 is WAY to hard for a kid that doesn't yet know parts of speech. Its even too hard for many 7th graders that DO know them, LOL! If you like R&S, I would get levels 5 and 6, and get through as many of the grammar lessons as you can comfortable get through this year. You might be able to double up on some of them in level 5. Skip the writing. Level 5 will lay a great foundation that your dd needs. Trust me, she will NOT be behind in a year if you do this. And don't skip the oral reviews at the beginning of lessons, or the written reviews at the end. Make her do the worksheets and tests to really cement things in there. R&S grammar is advanced by level 6, and gets more so by levels 7 and 8. If your dd gets through level 6 by the end of 8th, thats great! Perfectly OK, REALLY (honest). Levels 7 and 8 make great HS level grammar courses. And I'm not just trying to make you feel better.......its the truth. So be of good cheer.
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dd17 (senior): Trig at CC (fall), Worldviews at homeschool coop for bible, SL core 300, Musical theater, Cambridge Latin bk 3, Swimming/volleyball with hs group, Intro to computers at CC(spring).
dd15 (10th): Alg (Aleks)/Geom (TT), US Hist (BJUP hs coop), Biology (Apologia hs coop), bible (hscoop), Spanish (finish SOS 1), Theater, BJU literature, Grammar Key cd, outside writing class, swimming/volleyball with hs group.
ds 11 (6th) Kinetic books Alg1/Daily Math Review/CWP 6, History Odyssey Mod Times level 1, R&S 6, CLE reading 6, SL readers to go with mod. history, BJU 6 science/Apologia general, Sentence Composing for Elementary/dictation/Remedia outlining bk 2/Jump In (some nebulous combo for writing anyway), AWANA, Piano lessons, Theater, PE coop
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yep, just got the e-mail about this. Here is HSLDA's article, and fwiw, the actual ruling that is linked is a great read.
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http://www.sharmusic.com/violins_beg_body.asp?catID=2
http://swstrings.com/rentals.jsp
both of these are reputable establishments.
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Yes, LOTS of reasons. Which all amount to they are mostly junk. And whatever teacher you happen to get will probably pitch that 50$ special right where it belongs. Do yourself and your dd a favor and rent a good violin for 15$ a month or so from Shar, Southwest Strings, or some other reputable establishment until you find out whether this is something you want to stick with. Besides that, a 7yo is growing, and it is easy to switch sizes if you are renting. Believe me, my dd began taking violin when she was 13 (sort of old, I know), and the violin we rented first from the performing arts studio where she takes was an ebay junker. After 2 months we had had it with that thing. When we finally bought a nice (and reasonably priced, btw) violin for dd (nuther story, got a Gliga), the difference was UNimaginable. Really.
HTH,
Kayleen
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Well, you could be creative.....if you think the salon might recognize which of your girls voices that it was talking on the phone, you could ask them to listen to each child say something, and then see if they could tell you which it was. OR, if they have the messages, you could pop on down and listen to them.....then you would know eh? Just telling your girls you plan to do this might prompt a confession either way. Just a thought.
Kayleen
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If it's just the black button things that are popping out (causing the strap to pop off), then you can go to their website and request replacement ones. They sent me a little bag with a whole bunch of them. If indeed the strap itself is broken, I'm sure they'll replace that as well. HTH,
Kayleen
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This is SO odd. I live in S. CA, and the only "segregated" churches I know of are by language. Spanish, Korean, etc. Our church certainly isn't. We have a whole menagerie of races from white to hispanic to black to japanese to you name it. No one even thinks about it. Really. Not only that, we have several *gasp* mixed race marriages! I'm sure I live in a fairly melting-pot-ish society over her, but it still seems strange to me. Actually, I usually imagine black churches would be more worried about this than predominately white ones, although I'm sure there are *white* churches somewhere that might be sort of racist. Wierd.
Kayleen
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how about almost 12???? I have 2 mouth kids. My 17yr old thankfully is finally past that, but she was a mouth kid for a loooooooooonnnnng time. middle dd not so much. ds *still* stashes such things as legos, coins, misc plastic things, and I don't know what, in his mouth. Sigh. I have extremely sensory kids.......my ds chewed his shirt for years among other things. Lets just say that gum is a staple in our house, and helps a lot. Good luck. Chances are you have a fairly average child that will quit by age 2 or 3.
Kayleen
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well, it's 10 till 6 here in hot southern CA. ds 11 is laying on the couch with jammy pants on watching August Rush for the 2nd time with my other dd's. The girls are holding their guinea pigs and watching and vegging. Yes, they should be picking up or doing other things, but we went to the beach earlier, hit a major traffic jam on the way home so it took 2 hrs instead of 1, and middle dd survived a violin lesson after all that as well. I'm bushed. They're bushed. We're all bushed. Sometime before I go pick dad up at the train station I'll have them take a quick chore break to at least make it look to dad that "something" got done.
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I agree with most of the others, ie, don't put up with it, consequences etc. On the semi rare occasions that mine try this ploy, I love to point out how right they are......"yes honey, life IS unfair......oh, by the way are you enjoying good health today???? You are?, well down at Children's hospital there are a whole bunch of kids who aren't. You're right, life's not very fair. Maybe you'd feel like it was fairer if you were down there too. Oh, and remember when I let you do xyz when everyone else was away? Yep, that wasn't very fair either." I can go on and on pointing out all the unfair good things they enjoy LOL! I always tell them that life is never fair, but this time is unfair in *****'s favor. When I get the whiny "how come ****** got xyz and I didn't??", I just smile and say "because I MUST love him/her more than you". They get a laugh, and they get the point. At least mine laugh because they've heard it before. The first time you try it, it sort of makes them stop and think. Anyway, hope you've gotten some ideas.
Kayleen
What are you reading aloud with your children?
in General Education Discussion Board
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BTW, my kids are 17, 15, and almost 12......and we've been reading aloud a loooooooooooooooooooong time. They won't let me quit. I'm always on the prowl for good ones that we A: haven't read aloud, or B: they haven't read themselves. It's a challenge sometimes.