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Tara, I totally agree, which I know sounds weird given what I posted above. I agree that kids are individuals, and should be treated as such. My oldest dd is the least musically inclined of all my kids. She learned a bit of recorder growing up, we listened to oodles of classical music, and she appreciates music, but I have never made her take lessons of any kind. She's my engineer :o). She is now 19.5, a sophmore in college, and has been teaching herself piano on the fly for a couple years. For fun. Middle dd, more musical, but didn't take lessons of any kind till she begged for violin lessons around age 12 or so. I let her start lessons at age 13, and she is amazingly good now at age 17.5. She also sings in 2 different choirs, and does musical theater. She would have quit a few times if I'd let her, but she needs a bit of a push sometimes so she can see that she really is good at stuff, so I've made her stick with it. She'll be 18 soon, so I realize that won't last forever, but at least she is at the point that she can play in a decent orchestra, or at church if she ever wants to do that. No regrets. ds 14, whom I referenced above was obviously musically gifted from day 1 almost. And loved buttons to push. He just gravitated to keyboards like a little magnet, and could play stuff by ear really early. Gifted and lazy...thats him. In most areas of life. He needs to learn to persevere, as a character issue. Music is so much a part of who he is fundamentally, there is no way he's quitting before getting to advanced level. At that point, he will have earned the freedom to do whatever he wants with his music. We talk a lot about how free he is to play by ear and have fun on the piano because of how much work he's put into it practicing. So even though I'm an E person, I try to make sure things are a good match.
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Another E family here. with the caviat that not all my kids are the same. Oldest did not do formal music lessons (no $ at that point, and she's wired differently). started ds at age 8, glad I waited as he wasn't ready maturity wise till then (although he definitely was musically). We did Kindermusik prior to that. He's 14 now, has a fabulous teacher, and has ups and downs. He might love it one day and hate it the next. He's good at it, though. He does lots of festivals & competitions every year, as well as the certificate of merit program. I've told him he can quit when he finishes all the levels of CM (he's doing level 7, there are 10 levels). Thats it. He loves to play, doesn't like to practice, loves to perform. It is what it is. If I let him quit every time he wanted to....oy. Not happening.
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sounds like you are talking about grammar/writing specifically. You definitely want BJU based on what you said. CLE is very plain vanilla, and has lots of diagramming. BJU has diagramming also, but probably not quite as rigorous, and definitely more colorful. fwiw, I'm using CLE this year, with BJU lit. BJU definitely covers writing more thoroughly. And you can definitely do it all the way through.
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Theater is wonderful. My Son has been with a children/youth musical theater group for about 4 years now. I love our group, but every one is different. Ours does 2 productions a year. They meet once a week for regular ensemble rehearsals. If you child has a lead, there will extra, depending on what lead role it is. I would say that it is a lot of work, especially if your kid wants/gets leads, and especially during production week....for us that's the week leading up to show (we run the show 6x in 3 days, on a weekend). During production week there are mandatory rehearsals every night. Just do your homework. Make sure you know up front what the time committment will be. If my kids were just in the ensemble, it would be pretty minor...once a week for 4 months, then a week of chaos. doable. Of course, mine are hard core, and love trying out for leads. sigh. But the rewards have been totally worth it for us. It's definitely a major niche in my son's life. He's totally a drama king, and never met a stage he didn't like. Self control.....not so good. So it has been a wonderful learning experience for him in etiquette, working in a group, controlling yourself, and all sorts of great side lessons, at the same time as getting to do something he is naturally good at and loves. JMO.
Kayleen
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I don't know.....I had one average, one a bit early, and one even a bit earlier. Mine certainly aren't over the top brilliant or incredibly accelerated, but 1 or 2 of them are probably gifted. ds who read the earliest has amazing auditory ability. I'm convinced that is why he was an early reader. He could easily discriminate sounds. Interestingly, he isn't my most voracious reader. He's very musical, and likes more technical reading, but hates historical fiction. He does like some fantasy. He isn't a fast reader either, I think, because it still goes from his eyes to his ears to his brain. I think he still has to hear it in his head to some degree, although he (at age 14) can read silently. He subvocalized for ev er ...... until age 10 at least. But he looooved to read out loud when he was little, and read fluently with perfect inflection/different voices etc from the time he learned to read. He loved to read stories to the other 3/4 yo's in his sunday school class :o). He's probably my genuinely gifted one, although his sensory issues create certain challenges.
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I haven't read the article, but totally agree. I have very intelligent children that struggle greatly with self control (spd issues etc). Oh how my son loves to gloat about how smart he is (have NEVER encouraged this, btw, he's just prone to a big head). I always tell him that nobody will care how smart he is, but if he never learns to control himself, and make the choice to do what's right in any given situation, life will NOT be good. He's getting there. slowly. We work very very hard on this all the time.
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I happened on it while surfing around for free books right after I got my kindle. Glad to spread the good word :o).
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you're very welcome. I pm'd Holly, so if she pops up, she can answer more of the charter school/Huck questions you might have that I can't answer. Let me know what areas of additional info you might need, and I'll try to help if I can. How long has it been since you lived here, btw? It's a great place to live (aside from the cost of living of course), and there are zillions of homeschoolers. The city has a great website, and you can get lots of info of various kinds there as well.
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If you haven't done so yet, you really need to download the project gutenberg Magic Catalog to your kindle. Once you've done that, you have thousands of free classics literally at your fingertips. Here's what you do. Get online via your wireless or 3G, then type http://bit.ly/gutmagic into the browser. immediately you will be asked if you want to download the magic catalog. Click yes on the mobi version (thats what kindle uses). Bing bang boom. The catalog will then be on your "home" page of books. Click on it to open it, and when you put your cursor on any book and click, you can automatically download that book from your catalog. You don't have to go to a website anymore. It's a beautiful thing. Also, you can do the search feature in the catalog, and search titles, authors, etc. OK, thats my psa. Take it or leave it :o).
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psp means Private school Sattellite Program....it's the new name for ISP basically. The public schools and charters latched on to the ISP acronym, so "umbrella schools" that are private schools on the books have taken on the new letters to distinguish themselves from the public ISP's. Thats all. If you want info on charter schools and huckleberry, I'll pm HollyVanH, who is on the WTM forum and teaches there. I also know her because our kids are in the same theater group. Maybe she can pop into this discussion and give you some more info. I'm not sure how CAVA works with paying for other classes.
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The others are right. lots of homeschooling groups, Christian and non. Most well known Christian ones are probably Cornerstone (Largish, can do support group only, or psp), Lighthouse (smaller, great people, but waiting list, support only or psp), Advantage Preparatory Schools (fairly large, great people, lots of activities/classes for all ages through high school, psp only). There are numerous charter school programs available that are good, if you are of that persuasion. A thriving secular program is Huckleberry Learning Center, which does a ton of different classes that seem to be around 200 a semester unless you are part of a charter, then free. As someone else said, Grace Com. in Sun Valley has an affiliated psp up through Jr. High. Classical Conversations has a group up here also. I personally am with APS, and it has served me well (have done all 14 years with them so far). Let see, links.....
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HomeschoolingInSCV/
aps4me.com
contactCCHE@yahoo.com (cornerstone christian home educators)
http://www.examiner.com/homeschooling-in-los-angeles/elmarie-hyman
ok..gotta run to bible study...I'll see if I can come up with other helpful links later. BTW, I live in Newhall/Valencia
Kayleen
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Oh yes, I'm with the others. Read the book.
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ah! I'm an old hand. Been a director for almost 25 years. Do not be alarmed. Every page in book 3 has the alphabet in code at the top of the page. Every page starts with "A" on the left, and goes through the alphabet about 1 and a third times. So, on the page where you have to crack the code, just write in the real alphabet underneath the symbols at the top. Voila! You'll have to do the unscrambling (*think* it says congratulations).
Kayleen
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all definitions of all parts of speech, list of 50 prepositions, lists of helping verbs etc, and very basic diagramming. Subject/verb/ maybe adj/adv. Definitely all the memory work done, though. pretty much what would be in SWB's grammar for those grades, or R&S.
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I'm totally being a devil's advocate here ;ob (I'm ultra conservative/modest), but if her son has ever been to the beach, It certainly won't be any worse than that. Probably better. But at age 14......yeah.....no way in my house LOL! Funny the double standard we have sometimes....it's ok to go lounge around in the sand surrounded by scantily clad women, but not go eat around them. hmmmm.
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You can also get some free word games & minefield from amazon. Actually the browser is a version of Safari. I've been pleasantly surprised at how well it actually does work.
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Just got one with Christmas money :o). Yes the cheaper one is good, as long as you have a home wireless network. I can easily access the kindle store with it. Online stuff is pretty tiny print, although you can zoom in. Navigating is sort of tedious, but it can be done. I've been on my facebook etc. for example. It isn't hard to log in at hot spots. Kindle store has lots of free books. Very easy to get, and they tell you what to do (there are prompts). My best book resource other than amazon has been project gutenberg. You can literally download a catalog of all of the books they have in mobi format, and *from the catalog* (now conveniently on your kindle), search by author, title, whatever, and download a book in about 20 sec. No joke. I love it. I spent 2 hrs one night paging through the catalog, and never came to the end of it, I kid you not. Every old classic of whatever genre, you can think of. From P&P et al, to all the collected writings of Abraham Lincoln and everything inbetween. It's frankly awesome. I love my kindle. It's a little unnerving at times...I'll be reading away, and occasionally I'll flick my finger up like I need to flip a page, then I catch myself LOL! Watch me start pushing away at the edge of my paperback next time, thinking I can digitally page turn...Ha! I love having my downloaded books *right there*. When you stop reading, it just keeps that place, and when you come back you're in the right place. It's easy to bookmark places. Easy to go from one book to the next if you do that kind of thing. One thing, tho, make sure you get a book light, and a cover (or you could make your own cover like I did per info online). I could go on rapturously, but I'll quit.:001_smile:
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well, it's only 8:30 am here, but I've been up since 6 getting my 17yodd off to the SAT. Somehow her first name got screwed up when I put it into College board, and it came out a little funky on the ticket. I just noticed it this morning. All's well, tho, as they didn't even look at the ticket. They just checked id against their list, and If they name they had on the list was spelled funky (Camer N instead of Cameron), it didn't faze them. Hope dd survives. She is going to CC, so it's really not imperative that she take it, but I wanted her to just for the experience. She isn't going to ace anything, especially math. She's my art/music kid. But we'll see. Puts iron in your spine to have to take these things :001_smile:
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Oh, this is easy.....Faber Piano Adventures has a whole series of accessory books for each level...popular, classic, rock, jazz, christmas, classical, folk....I don't know what all, but lots to choose from. They are wonderful.
http://pianoadventures.com/publications/mainLibraries/ptbtPiano.html
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Oh no! I'm one of *those* people LOL :o). In the middle of about 4-5 books.
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When my kids were little, not very many. I did a co-op preschool with my girls when they were that age, and they were in AWANA. That was about it. We did PE with our homeschool group once a week starting when my oldest was 1st grade. We kept it pretty light in elementary, really. Once dd's hit Jr. High, though, my life was over LOL! Oh well. It's a season, and I'll miss it when it's over in about 4 years :o).
My DS 5 is driving me insane with his lack of diligence
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really? There are 5yo's that are diligent LOL? Wish I'd had one :o)