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I had it in March - was mostly gastro. Loss of appetite, nausea, bad reaction every time I ate anything (I’d flush up and feel terrible). It was miserable (way worse than the flu), but I didn’t need medical care, so I guess I’d consider it mild-moderate? I did develop MCAS because of my bout with Covid and still am dealing with that now, though. Not sure that will ever go away. The symptoms are pretty similar to what I dealt with during my acute phase, actually. No preexisting conditions or risk factors (because everyone always wants to know, heh)
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Um, thank you, Charlene! The intro to Expository Writing looks like exactly what I'm looking for. I can strip the LOE lessons down to just spelling, and he should get the rest in this class, it looks like. I'm excited about this!
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I have never heard of Attuneup or knew the WTM had an academy online! Going to look both up now...
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I have rising second and fifth graders. I also have a newly turned two year old. I'm hitting a wall with homeschooling, but don't want to give it up as we are military and this works overall. My oldest and I butt heads a lot when it comes to school. He doesn't like to take direction from me, and complains about just about anything I ask him to do. It's wearing me out. So, this year, I want to outsource his Language Arts, the thing he's weakest in and the one I struggled to keep up with this year. I have been using LOE, and I absolutely love it, but it's just too much work to plan a lesson for each of my boys, plus keep the baby entertained while we do it, all while arguing with my oldest to do it. His test scores this year have him advanced in math, but just barely at level in LA. (With the exception of reading, which he is several grades ahead and loves.) know it's mostly my fault for not keeping up on the lessons. Anyone have any ideas? I want a program that is easy for us to follow and gives him a lot of independence. He does okay when I am just guiding him through something versus doing all the teaching and correcting. He's also great with a computer, and loves any chance to do work on it. Something with great books as part of it would also be welcome. He really needs to write more, but hates it. That is definitely a huge factor in our LA frustrations.
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Searching for a history program for elementary
AnaShoo replied to AnaShoo's topic in K-8 Curriculum Board
Thanks everyone for the ideas! Story of the World seems what I am looking for - as much as I want to add in history, I just can't add anything that is prep-intensive right now. -
So, we're now into our second year of homeschooling. I added Spanish this year, and it's going well. We're covering the 3Rs effectively, and I'm happy with the curriculum I've chosen for those. I would really, really like to add some history. I have a K and 3rd grader, and would like something I can do with both. It would be great if it were literature based, but I'm open to ideas. Mostly I want something that isn't too prep intensive as we already have several things, Spanish included, that require a fair amount of prep, plus I have a 4 month old to take care of in the middle of all of this. Any thoughts?
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So, we're now into our second year of homeschooling. I added Spanish this year, and it's going well. We're covering the 3Rs effectively, and I'm happy with the curriculum I've chosen for those. I would really, really like to add some history. I have a K and 3rd grader, and would like something I can do with both. It would be great if it were literature based, but I'm open to ideas. Mostly I want something that isn't too prep intensive as we already have several things, Spanish included, that require a fair amount of prep, plus I have a 4 month old to take care of in the middle of all of this. Any thoughts? ETA: Cross posting this because I didn't put it in the forum I meant to.
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How to best store glue sticks?
AnaShoo replied to cjthedog64's topic in General Education Discussion Board
Curious - I bought glue sticks for the kids about three years ago, and still have a couple we use occasionally. Never had a problem with them drying out, just me misplacing them every time we move! We live in very humid areas, though, so I am curious if that is the real reason. -
I've really fallen in love with AAR, too! We switched after getting about a 1/3 through 100 EZ and he told me he hated it. It does seem to move more slowly than he does, though, which is a problem. I'd recommend it to any parent new to teaching reading to a kid - I think it was great for that. And, despite the fact that he's probably far past it, he still likes doing the lessons, so we'll keep it up to the end of LVL 1, I think.
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You know, I may try this. He already follows along with a lot of what I do with his older brother, so I think it might work out. I might also try giving him the AAS LVL 3 test just to see where he is.
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So, my five year old just read the word, "civilian" to me. He pronounced it correctly, but wanted to know what it meant. This isn't the first time he's read something large and seemingly outside his ability. We're about 3/4 of the way through Level 1 of All About Reading, and I am starting to wonder if buying the next level makes any sense. Instead, I'm thinking about finishing it, then moving on to just having him pick age-appropriate books and reading to me. I'll be starting my 8 year old on LOE's spelling program in the next month or so, so figure I'll then have him do it, too, in a year or two, but working with him on the basic phonograms with their app and the Doodling Dragons book. Buying AAR2 seems almost like forcing him to slow down when he wants to speed up. Thoughts?
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Having more kids when you already feel kinda overwhelmed
AnaShoo replied to Aspasia's topic in The Chat Board
As a child who came from a family of 7 kids, and a mother who just did NOT know when to stop having them, I say don't do it until you feel sane again. It's no fun to be that kid with the mother who is always too exhausted to give enough to all the kids running around. I think my mother tried, but she was so clearly overwhelmed (and I think at times depressed), that we all suffered for it. Even now, we don't have a good relationship. I've taken that to heart when considering my own family size. -
I've never understood the argument that real food is more expensive. We've switched to a nearly all (yep, we still buy the chips sometimes!) whole foods diet and our food budget is pretty much the same. Granted, I don't buy organic, except when I can find it on sale, but it was pretty easy to cut out premade stuff, junk food, and all those packaged drinks of unknown origin without killing our food budget. It DOES take a whole lot more time, but that's a totally different issue.
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We played with triangle dice when playing Dungeons and Dragons as a teenager. I'd be very surprised if you can't find any at a hobby shop or game store (any place that sells the D&D books). I remember bins and bins of colored dice of all different shapes. We'd pick through them and make a set we liked.
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The first 12 months determines much of the rest of our lives?
AnaShoo replied to I.Dup.'s topic in The Chat Board
I haven't read this book, but am skeptical. By all accounts, I had a pretty stable, normal babyhood, but a few years later, when my mother was overwhelmed with my younger sibs (she had four more after me, three of whom are a year apart), and my father sexually abused myself and one of my sisters, my personality dramatically changed. I'd say I'm definitely your description of ambivalently attached now, but don't think this is how I started out. In fact, while she doesn't want to acknowledge anything of what happened while we were growing, I ironically have evidence of this from what my own mother wrote in my baby book. At about age four, I had a dramatic personality change from a child who was outgoing and happy, to one who wouldn't talk to anyone outside the family and was labeled "painfully shy". So, nope, I don't think the first 12 months determines the course of your life.