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My church usually had a bible passage for the entire week. Last year was Psalm 23 & this year Psalm 100, the kids help come up with motions and the passages are practiced frequently. Plus it's announced ahead of time if parents want to help at home.
Music may help, Seeds has a lot of verses and you can find them at the website. You could also try YouTube.
If you want something less expensive than books for the kids to write in, you could use cardstock. If you have several verses you could punch a couple holes along an edge and feed a ribbon through to make a booklet.
Yes, the cardstock idea is good; I think I will for sure use that. I also like the Seeds idea. I've also been Googling more things. I want filler ideas for when we have extra time, also.
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I have always participated in VBS, but am usually in charge of the crafts. I liked the craft area because everything was laid out for me step by step. This year, I'm a lead teacher for 3rd/4th grade and while we are given a "bible manual" that covers each days theme & readings, we are left to creatively make it our own & format it our own way. I am not a creative person and am starting to panic. :scared:
How have some of you had your kids memorize & write the daily bible verses or added simple activities to reinforce them? I know one year one of the teachers bought blank books that she had them decorate & write them in, along with a daily prayer. I like that idea, but am not sure if I have to buy them myself or if the church will reimburse me. I'll probably have at least 15-20 kids.
We are doing GoFish Shine this year. Any ideas are very much appreciated!
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I have a friend who just got divorced, has one dd & is in her mid-40's. She's not ready yet, but has been thinking about it. Her issue is that she lives out in the country and the nearest fairly large city is 40 minute away. Otherwise, she's right next to a small town where everyone knows everyone, and it is slim pickings. She's not comfortable with on-line dating, so I'm not sure what advice to give her, either. And she doesn't deserve another man like the one she had! I don't want her to latch on to the first guy that comes along just because he's all there is.
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I am borrowing a laptop while mine is repaired and for some reason I can no longer link anything, cut and paste anything, etc. but I urge you to do a search on the General Education board for Soror's Relaxed Math thread. Awesome resources there and some of those might help....
That is such a great thread, I got lots of ideas for dd. I don't want her to feel somethings wrong with her because she's not getting everything she thinks she should by the time she thinks she should! Especially, because that's an issue I had. I did terribly in math all through school (don't even mention algebra :eek: ) but then I took a business math class in college and got a "B". It was a defining moment for me.
If there are other ways we can bolster her math & make it fun for a while, I am all for it.
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Try to do practice with real life situations since it is different than any book situation and making that transition is a thing to work on--and might be no matter what curriculum you use.
Critical Thinking has a series of word problem books where the first 60 or so problems in each book have all the same numbers, but the goal is to figure out from the word problem what operation needs to be done with those numbers. If she is in Delta you can get the level that has the four operations, but not yet fractions, decimals or percents. Then as she finished the next levels of MUS you could add on the word problem books that have fractions, decimals, and percents as you reach those levels.
Thank you! I knew I needed something like this, but wasn't sure what it was! :hurray: This is a big help.
What about something like Kitchen Table Math? I've looked at samples & reviews but wasn't sure if it would frustrate her at this point or not.
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Have you thought about pairing your MUS with some TT? Might give you that balance you're wanting. The TT lessons are short (typically 20 problems!) and spiral, where your MUS is more conceptual. Indeed, TT is what brought up my dd's computation speed and got that real world carryover to where her grandma was noticing her doing more math in her head when she was shopping, that kind of thing. Gentle spiral is definitely what did it, that and the miracle of getting through puberty, ugh.
I have, in fact that's what we were doing for a while, but then she started to get upset because TT did things a bit differently (the way the carry in multiplication & other tiny things) and said it confused her. She also would worry because TT would start to introduce certain concepts MUS hadn't gone over yet. Such as fractions. I didn't think that would be a big deal, and thought she could skip those but then it became a problem because they include lots of different concepts in their tests. I was still considering having her start up with the TT again anyway, though. That might be the easiest one to introduce without completely abandoning MUS and starting over again.
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My dd is almost finished with MUS Delta, and I am concerned that while she is able to do fairly well with all of the practice pages and the tests, she can't seem to figure out how to do real world math. And isn't that the ultimate goal? Little things that come up where we need to use math to figure them out, she can't. She does okay with the MUS story problems, but that's because they go along with the particular concept she's just learned. Any other type, she can't handle.
I feel very guilty, because we curriculum hopped a lot when she was younger due to her anxiety & OCD issues. We would probably have been better off sticking with Saxon, since they cover so much and introduce many word problems. I don't know how we could ever switch now, though because having used MUS, it would be a nightmare to try & put her into a spiral program (to try and figure out which level). I just don't know how to help her, and she feels dumb when she can't figure out easy answers in our daily life. A spiral math would probably work better because they would be constantly reviewing so maybe that would help her.
Sorry, I'm rambling, but I'm so discouraged. :(
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I had to read your post because I'm doing my cleanse & am off coffee right now-and I wanted to torture myself. :001_smile:
You could always by a Keurig, which makes excellent coffee, much better than any other regular brewer, IMO. Make your cup of Keurig, and add the mocha flavoring or a bit of hot chocolate to it. You should see if any of your friends have a Keurig so that you can try it out on theirs & see if it tastes as good.
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Yes. I always wanted a huge family, because I'm an only child and don't have any cousins or extended family that live near us. We had lots of infertility issues, so again, I do feel blessed to have 2 healthy, wonderful children. But I love kids, and that yearning never goes away. Dh is also much older than me and I'm 47, so he did have a vasectomy 5 years ago. Prior to that, I always hoped that we would somehow be blessed with a little miracle, even though the odds were against us.
Now that my dc are getting older, that yearning is even worse! Honestly, I feel something must be wrong with me, that I need to work on some things because I just feel this sense of loss. I'm glad they are growing up on the one hand-I mean I'm enjoying these stages with them, but I feel loss. I would love to adopt or be a foster parent, but dh is just not open to that.
I really feel for you, because I can't imagine knowing at 29 that that was it. :grouphug:
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Good luck with the coffee. I just finished 30 days of no coffee (among other things). Of everything coffee was the only thing I missed. I did OK with green tea for two weeks or so and then it just didn't cut it anymore.
That being said, when I added the coffee back it didn't taste nearly as good as I remembered.
The green tea is already not cutting it! I miss my coffee. I automatically went to pour it this morning before I remembered.
I am making dh abstain from the coffee with me, though. :D I know that's mean of me, but he has never loved coffee the way I do. He drinks it more as a habit.
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Luckily, I can have green tea. It's not coffee, but at least it's hot. :001_smile:
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I started my cleanse yesterday. For the first 8 days I can only have fruits & vegetables, plus a shake 2-3 times per day. I had to say goodbye to my beloved coffee for 21 days. :(
Has anyone else done one? Words of wisdom?
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Love 4-H!!! We've been doing it for 5 years. The first 3, we belonged to another club and while my kids liked it, they love this one. All of the families are super friendly and helpful (and there are 5 other hs families besides us, which is nice), the leaders are veterans who've done it forever, and we have lots of project leaders. We just got a new county agent who's terrific, and so now it's even better.
They have been able to explore new interests, gained knowledge in so many areas, have taken trips, gone to art camp, science camp, gained leadership experience and their public speaking skills have expanded tremendously. I cannot say enough good things about 4-H! I love chaperoning on trips, and have been a project leader as well.
I don't know what is available in your area, but if the club you join isn't the perfect fit, I encourage you to try to find another one. It's so worth it!
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Yes you can use all those good books that you own. The first year I did TOG all I could afford were three books for my D student. Everything else was pulled from the public domain, my library, or from my own bookshelves ( I own SL K-100). If a question wasn't covered in the book we read then we discussed the answer and moved on.
You don't have to print from the Loom, especially with younger kids, just copy the pages from your year plan. The workbooks are on the Loom because many of us reformat the pages and make workbooks.
What year is the year plan you are working with? Mine is very easy to use so I'm a little confused and wondering if this is an older edition?
I'm going out on a limb here, but it sounds like your not really sure how you want to homeschool next year and I think that is coming through in your posts. Maybe you need to determine your goals for next year, and then focus on curriculum? TOG may not be it, but if you aren't happy with SL, MFW, HOD, or TOG then you need to really look at what goals you have and how to best meet them. Maybe following a literature based curriculum just isn't the right choice right now, or for that matter following any set curriculum, and that's ok too.
:lol: You're being so nice & diplomatic about it, but it's true, I am a crazy flake! And, you are absolutely right with your advice. I sat down with dh, we discussed out dc's strengths & weaknesses, goals, you name it!
Honestly, the reason we were going to try TOG was because the co-op that we're joining (at this point we're just doing science & electives with them) has TOG as their humanities class. I would have loved to join them, so we were "trying it out" on our own this year. I just don't think it's a good fit for us, much as I would love it to be.
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You would go nuts trying to do every single book on a particular level. There are primary and supplemental choices. Are you just looking at the level you need and the primary? I started there when I used TOG and then started searching the library online catalog. If the local library had it and it wasn't used long (i.e. a few weeks), I didn't purchase it. For particularly expensive books, if the library didn't have it, I went with a supplemental/alternate book. If you are coming from SOTW, the supplemental or optional books usually have SOTW so just use that.
BTW, I finally decided TOG was overkill for us personally. I found the books to be too dry for my kids on the whole. You might want to do at least a unit with mainly library books before investing a ton of money in the books, just to be sure TOG itself is a good fit for your family.
Before purchasing it, I had read tons of reviews and blogs, so I did get the whole "smorgasbord" thing but.... I was so surprised that almost none of the books I had were actually used! I have tons of books from SL, MFW, HOD and just misc. ones-good books, and it about broke my heart not to be able to use them. Well, I get that I could use them, but they wouldn't be scheduled in, and there wouldn't be the discussion questions, etc... with them. And I am a big time tweaker, but then I thought about the price for just the TOG guides and kept thinking "I can't afford to tweak this!" Now, if I had younger kids & knew I was going to us TOG all the way through, maybe, because they would be used more than once. But my kids are 10 & 12, and I'm not sure what my high school plans are yet. Also, all of the different cds/discs to try and figure out, print things off of, etc.... That drives me crazy! Trying to make sense of the Loom made me pull my hair out. It wasn't like I just put it in & it had a table of contents with Unit 1, week 1. There were a million little folder & sub-folders, and I still wasn't able to find everything!
I do know someone locally who uses it, so I'm sure I could have her sit down with me. But again, all of that printing of things-I just want a simple set of student sheets!
I know I'm not stupid, and I could figure it out, but I'm just thinking it's way too much time. My dc have lots of other interests besides history, and I don't want those put aside. That's what we've always tended to focus on, the history. Which is important, but how much time???
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We were considering using TOG in September, because we're going to join a TOG co-op the following year, and I wanted a year to "feel it out". I got a good price on the used TOG manuals and was excited. But, I just do not see how in the world we could implement this! There is just sooooo much content! My biggest problem is the book list. Over 88 books, and most of them I don't own, which is unbelieveable, because I have tons of books covering that particular history period!
In the past, we've used things like MFW & SOTW, so we could add books that we had or liked, and with TOG you can't really do that. I could not see purchasing almost 100 books, but the thought of having to try and deal with requesting them from the library & that whole deal makes me crazy, too.
I know everyone raves about TOG because it's so thorough, and in the upper grades the discussion is considered excellent and meaty, but can't I get that some other way? My dc love history, but I feel like using TOG will break our budget, plus take up all our time (if we do it right) and my dc also love science & have other interests. How do you all do it?
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Ugh...I'm at the point of doing the "to do" list is too much...
:iagree: Normally, I am a big list maker, but in this case I have so many huge projects that the thought of having them all written down would make me feel worse. I did start on my schoolroom today (total nightmare) and only did about 15min. Prior to starting, I looked around and almost walked back out again it was so bad. But, after my short time, I did feel I made a bit of a dent in it, and that's what I'm going to do from now on. For once, I'm not going to think about the "big picture". Baby steps, baby! :D
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Okay, I personally don't need a bunch of hypotheticals. We've taught our kids from a very young age-no one should look at or touch your private parts! (Obviously when diapers, etc... are involved, different story, but you get the idea). So, when they are young-too young to know about sexual stuff, definite no-no, and when they are at the age when they know things, curious or not, again definite no-no! I don't think it's okay for my 10, 11, 12 year old to be touching or looking at anyone else or vice versa, because now they are interested in the opposite sex! I get that they are curious (and yes, I can recall being around kindergarten age & "playing doctor" having a boy friend show me his... ) but there are boundaries. Shouldn't we be teaching that? If they are curious, we can educate them the right way, can't we? I don't want my child to ever have a doubt when it comes to wondering if someone touching them is wrong. And I don't mean a hug, etc.....
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I guess the bottom line here is this (to me, anyway): "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."-Desmond Tutu
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I agree. I'm also not worried about what someone posts on a blog or types on a website. I hope "standing up" means filing a police report and law enforcement investigating it and bringing it to court.
I have a pastor who has said to someone who came to him for counseling about his "sin issue" (abusing his wife) "Well brother, I'll pray for you and visit you in prison. Now I'm calling the police."
We had a situation where a registered sex offender was out on parole and wanted to attend services. The same pastor agreed to let him attend if he showed up with his mother as an escort who never left him alone or if she couldn't, he could arrange for a deacon to escort him while on the property, he couldn't use the restroom (he didn't live far away so it wasn't a problem) he had to come in at the beginning of the service and leave immediately after (no milling around before or after services) and he could only start attending after all the parents had been called to a meeting and shown his picture and have the situation explained to them. That's how a church handles that situation responsibly.
We had a similar situation. Members are also required to attend a "Child Safety Training for Abuse Prevention" class if they are in any way interacting with the kids-teaching, chaperoning, working in the nursery, etc.... No one is allowed to take a child to the bathroom unless another adult is present, all classrooms are to either have a window to the hallway or doors are to be left open. From what I've heard from friends who attend different churches, this is the norm. I guess I'm totally flabbergasted at the idea of ministers and church members trying to "keep things quiet" or "protect the abuser". I've not done any internet searches to find out how widespread this is, but to blame the "church" or "Christians" in a blanket statement is pretty harsh. Why do we seem to always attack a group when something awful happens? Does everyone have to be lumped into some sort of group???
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Okay, I've read the article, I've been a member of this forum for a long time, and I thought I was pretty well informed, especially with regards to homeschool issues/information. But, I'm confused. What is the "Christian Homeschool Movement"??? I'm Christian, I homeschool, I belong to a homeschool group that is Christian-does that mean I'm part of this "movement"? I'm being totally serious here, not facetious. If there were any hint of sexual abuse in my hs group or church, I know I would not let the church or the group deal with it, believe me. And no one I know would believe in handling such things "internally".
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I started my 8th grader this past year with IEW SWI B. She loved it! She was glad to finally have some rules to structure her papers with.
I tried many other writing programs over the years and never made it very far. I finally tried IEW because I knew that, while she wasn't a reluctant writer, she needed some structure to be able to write papers. IEW was one of the few programs I knew of into which a student could jump when they were older. It worked exactly how I hoped for her.
So you didn't purchase TWSS either? You just had her watch the dvd in SWI B and she was able to complete everything? My dd likes to write-her way. We haven't done any outlining or research papers, reports, etc... That's why I was thinking about getting just SWI B because we're going to try TOG and I don't think their Writing Aids offer the type of instruction I feel dd needs.
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I will have them write the bolded "rules" in their notebooks, and typically we pretty much do what Erica does, the diagramming & composition written. Sometimes I will have them do a bit more-if they haven't done much other writing that day. Also, I have them do all of the written tests. We have done R&S 3 & 4.
I cannot "get" Latin! What should we do?
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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Something is wrong with my brain, because whenever I look at the sample pages of Latina Christiana or LFC, I just can't wrap my brain around it! How am I supposed to teach my children this, and what's the alternative??? We have used SSL, which is way too easy for their ages, but I had it & wanted to finish it. That was no problem. Fun & easy. For next year, I've been going back & forth between LFC & LC, and pretty much decided on LC because LFC seemed way too busy and confusing.
I've been looking at more and more samples of LC and the more I look at how we will have to figure out the declensions, I'm baffled. Well, not totally baffled, but it brings back horrible memories of 2nd year high school French. The first year, I did great and loved it, then entered the grammar part and having to figure out masculine & feminine form, plural, singular, etc.... It wasn't good.
Does any Latin curriculum slowly walk you through? I though possibly GSWL might be good, but one review stated, if you're too old for Latinia Christian, but not ready for Henle, GSWL is good! So, if I think LC is too much, how could we do GSWL?
Maybe I'm selling us all short and making too much for this, but I'm so tired of investing in curriculum that doesn't work, and jumping around.
Do we forget about doing an actual Latin course and just do something like English from the Roots Up? I hate to give up on it, because my whole plan was to do a year of Latin, then add in Spanish. If I can't handle Latin, will I be able to handle any foreign language?