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    PSA: Vegan does not necessarily = healthy

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    Once again, I apologize for offending vegans. So not my intent. I wasn't hung up on them being vegan- they were! As I said before, they were shouting the word vegan all over the store. If they had been shouting about paleo or gluten-free or whatever, then that's what my post would have been about. The PSA was supposed to be funny- I would have put it for any diet type. Guess I should have added a smily. And that couple is not my only experience with vegan people. I've lived with vegans and vegetarians most of my adult life. I've even considered going vegan myself.

     

    And once again, you had to be there. If you had seen how these people were acting, you might not have posted about it like I did, but you would have seen how ridiculous the situation was. I feel like I'm being judged on this one post in the same manner that you feel that I was judging vegans by that one couple.

    I got what you were saying and I'm sure I am not the only one.

    Building Thinking Skills Primary vs Lollipop Logic for Grade 1

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    We've used the Critical Thinking series Beginner and Primary and all of the Lollipop Logic. My DD (4.5) definitely preferred Lollipop Logic, although as others have mentioned they are easy to breeze through. I've purchased other logic books through Prufrock and she's really been enjoying them and because they are a bit above her age level, they've slowed her down so she isn't finishing them in a matter of days :001_smile:

     

    My DD really enjoyed the Beginner book when she was 2.5-3yo and my son is getting a lot of use out of it too. Since it is fairly expensive, I cut off the binding and had the book bound. I sit with them to do the activities and they just use their finger rather than a pencil. The Primary book is much more writing intensive. The first part of the book deals with attribute blocks but after awhile I could tell DD was really bored. It started getting really repetitive for her. Early on I realized she had outgrown the book before we had even started. She is not one for repetition so we quit about halfway through. The rest of the book seems much more focused on writing rather than logic. A page will introduce a theme such as vehicles. There are the 10-15 pages dedicated to vehicles. First they are just identifying them, then writing them, then they do things like writing them and writing the differences between two (sea vs land, most passengers vs least passengers). After the attribute block section there weren't any visual spatial activities (unlike Lollipop which is almost all VS activities) and it was very heavy on analytical thinking. After the beginner book I think I just had a different idea in my mind of what it was going to be, and I was a little disappointed. I felt like the last half of the book is better taught verbally (discussing differences and similarities among foods, occupations, vehicles, etc) rather than focusing so much on writing and at DD's young age she would much rather do the visual logic activities that you find in Can You Find Me?, Lollipop Logic, Thinker Doodles, and Visual Perceptual Skill Building.

    Thank you for this. I think we'll start with LL and move on to the Thinkerdoodles and VPSB. He gets frustrated with too much writing as he is not doing very well with that area yet.

    Building Thinking Skills Primary vs Lollipop Logic for Grade 1

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    Looks like we're in the same place with our rising 1st graders... It's always hard to know which way to go. I think my guy will do better with the easier material. He's been doing DEL this year and loves it so I was hoping to find something similar for next year. He handles challenging material well but there comes a point where he will shut down. He's always been that way. Potty training was not fun.

    That is how my son is...if he gets to a point where it is too much he will shut down and say he can't do it.I want it to get progressively harder of course...but wasn't sure if LL will do that in all 3 books or if it would be much better to do the investment in the Critical thinking ones

    Science--can we just read books?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    :iagree: My ds11 loves Odyssey from Carus Publishing!

     

    ETA: Other magazine recommendations? I have an 11 yo and a 9 yo, who would love more magazine. I was looking at Nat Geographic Kids, but understand from reviews that it is full of ads and junk.

    I haven't seen any in my edition..but I have National Geographic Little Kids so maybe that is different.

     

    Also NWF.org does 3 levels of kids science magazines...Ranger Rick, Big Backyard (we get this) and Wild Animal Baby.

    Talk me down, b/c BFSU just ticked me off

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    I guess I'm just shocked that there could be any objection to a discussion against supernatural beliefs in a secular science book.

     

    Stripe's point about him being religious indicates that he's not anti God or anti religion, so take his wording based on that background.

     

    I'm pretty religious myself, but I like my science texts to stay, well, scientific. ;) Once you start making allowances for religious/spiritual thinking, the question comes: "whose religious/spiritual thinking do you accept?" and then it becomes a whole messy can of worms. That's why I too, don't touch the creationist/religious based texts with a ten foot pole either.

     

    My religious belief is not founded upon scientific thinking, and my scientific thinking is not founded upon belief. Each has its own place.

    I used a book from Christian Liberty Press for a while for my kinder kiddo and I had to toss it finally....it was more religious than scientific. I've used the BFSU book and am on the Yahoo list and I like it very much...I think it is great and very well written. I don't use it anymore because I am too lazy to go and get stuff every week when I have a short schedule for schooling...hence why I got Noeo for next year. I thought it was a great book and its wording in the beginning didn't offend me.

    Why do homeschoolers eat their own?

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    So true. When I looked into ps last year for ds13 1 school we looked at told me they were putting him into a 4th grade classroom because that was his academic level, and the receptionist added with snark "no one ever teaches properly at home". I was there asking about special ed programs, teachers aide etc. We had all of ds13's testing to show he was spec ed not a student that wasn't taught. They didn't care, they had it in their heads that homeschooling automatically = failure.

     

    As for ALE's the way my province is set up all homeschoolers must register and based on how you register you get a certain level of funding. I am changing how we reg next year to increase our funding, which means by gov't labels we will be part time ps'ers not fulltime hsers. I don't care if some homeschoolers think it is a sell out or something. The fact is without that funding to pay for curric, supplies, lessons etc I could not homeschool at all. I see so many people on here struggling to buy even the most basic, cheapest curric out there, trying to do it all for free because they can not afford the math text they want etc. The funding to buy those things is worth the extra hoops. In my case next year in addition to the normal 2 visits per year to check on our homeschool, we will have weekly contact with an overseeing teacher in the subjects we joined, and a 3rd midyear visit. In exchange I will get around $1365 per student next year. I even still get to order my own curric using PO #'s, In fact the board we are going with next year has an agreement with a future shop location in the city to take PO #'s so that I can go in and buy computers for the kids, or a new printer/scanner/copier, or new fax machine etc without paying a cent out of pocket. Good thing too when I don't have 2 nickels to rub together.

     

    ALE's are not going to compromise homeschooling imo, in fact they are helping bring more students home and giving families the opportunity to really choose the way they want to educate their kids instead of worrying that they can not afford to get any curric to actually use.

     

    There is no purpose in attacking other homeschoolers for the way they educate their kids. As long as they are actually educating them (or at least providing a rich environment in which to learn in the case of unschoolers) then everyone should just butt out, and get off their pedestal kwim

    So true. I agree with this on so many levels...the day may come when I have to use one of these programs and I'd rather do this then send DS to B&M school. I can still supplement, tweak somewhat, and keep an eye on friends.

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