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I also took the risk and just received my paper books today (I'm old fashioned and really like my books!) It's so cute! I haven't ordered the Science Play book yet, but will get it in the next week or so. I have a 2.5 and 4.5 year old I'll be doing it with this fall. I'm excited about it!
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I will be there for Friday and Saturday. Maybe tomorrow evening. But I'll have all the kiddos with me and dh so we won't be able to take in a lot of the workshops.
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Ikea has some cute gender neutral duvet covers. We currently have our 2 y/o DS and 4y/o DD sharing a room. I will admit that we just put light pink curtains up in that room tonight because DD was so adamant and told us "but Wesley likes pink too, mommy!" Pink and boys does not bother us at all though and for now, the 2 y/o does not care. If the store had red curtains, I probably would have picked those, though, because they would have matched the comforters better.
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I really wanted to like Easy Grammer. It seemed well thought out and organized. I liked the mastery approach. But after 6 months of EG3 with my 3rd grader this year, she was doing the same as your dd. She did not seem to be retaining much. So we bailed and went with FLL. We've only been with FLL for 3 months or so now, so I can't say yet how much she's retaining, but the retention seems to be better than it was with EG.
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No clue. I'm 31, born and raised in the U.S.
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Also completely different, but here's our plan for 4th grade:
Math: Rightstart level D
Science: Real Science Odyssey Chemistry, Level 1
History/Geography/Read-alouds: MFW Creation to the Greeks Deluxe, covers several subjects
LA/Writing/Penmanship/Spelling: Phonics Road to Reading (also covers several subjects, all aspects of LA), also using FLL 3 (will finish halfway through the year and continue to FLL 4), and WWE 3-4
Art: Atelier Art, Level 2
Spanish: Power Glide Spanish
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We used it for the 1st month of the school year, but ended up ditching it. Like a PP said, it took 45-60 min. to complete an entire lesson with power-ups/warm-ups. And my dd was not yet a very independent reader at the beginning of the year, so I had to read every problem to her. It was just too much for us and we ended up switching back to a previous program we had used. We also didn't like the spiral approach and how many different things were hit on in each lesson. I'm sure this would work for some families, especially if you have used Saxon in the younger grades and liked it. It just wasn't for us, it completely overwhelmed my dd every lesson.
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I have not read all the replies. However, we are also a family of 7, children ages 9 and under. So, kind of in the same boat. And we just were on a long road trip (moving, but kind of similar). First, without lying, there are very few hotel rooms that will allow that many people, despite the fact that several of them are babies/toddlers. The ones that I did find were over $100, or you had to get 2 adjoining rooms.
However, that said, I couldn't imagine trying to camp with so many littles and with an agenda of trying to travel and get places. The only way I would do that is if we were staying in a cabin, so clean up and getting out in the morning was very easy. Also, we personally do not have enough cargo space in our van for all the camping gear we would need + all the things we need for the trip itself. And don't forget food, which will be much more difficult if you are not near home or near eatery places.
We looked at campgrounds, but in the end, we opted for hotels. I don't know what it costs normally as we get a military discount, but we got a marriott suite, 2 bedrooms, living room and full kitchinette, for $108/night, which was quite comfortable for our large family.
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I just do not get the point of sorting legos. Actually, I don't get how they are so messy that you wouldn't allow your kids to have them. They play then throw them in a box. Done. I do love that layngo though!!
Agreed! My dd is so good about cleaning up her legos because she treasures them greatly! Whenever she has extra money, she buys another lego set. And she would never want to dump them all together because she knows which pieces go with which set still. She keeps 2-3 sets in each plastic bin that stack on top of each other.
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If I felt that love would grow, then I might. I would have to have a lot of respect and friendship with him as well as valuing his other good qualities. But in reality, I would would probably wait to see if love grew, rather than marry and hope it did.
I've heard that this is what happens in arranged marriages, love grows if you are lucky.
I voted yes, but with these same qualifications. I think you can grow to love most anyone if you work at it.
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But 2 or 3 more that are very close, but not quite "bare your soul" close.
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I'm not sure if it would fit your requirements, but I have a menu mailer subscription that I LOVE! It's gluten/casein optional, fairly heavy on the meat if you do the regular subscription, light on the meat if you do the budget mailer. Carbs would be all complex, whole grain carbs. You could easily sub any pork called for with another meat. And the mailers don't often call for pork, or it's usually optional if they do. It's here:
http://www.cookingtf.com/menu-mailer/
I've been getting this mailer for 2 years now and still love it and use so many of the recipes on a regular basis!
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I think I would love it if....my computer was not too old to handle having the curriculum open and also opening the links at the same time. I put it on my kindle, but I have to open it through adobe to get the links to work, which is also a bit of a pain. In general, I dislike pdf curriculums, I prefer old-fashioned books. But since we recently got a kindle, I'm trying to like them and give them a chance. The curriculum itself looks very well laid out!
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I love FLL!
:iagree: However, I do skip things in FLL1 and do 2 or 3 lessons a day with my dd2, since we just started it at 7 years old. Previously both girls were doing Daily Grammar and they dreaded it and nothing was sticking. So FLL is a breath of fresh air. She would be totally bored if I made her do every writing assignment and only did 1 lesson a day. This way we won't have 80 lessons on nouns. My girls love the poetry memorization, however, and I'm sure some kids would loathe that part.
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Thanks Woolybear! Those worksheets look great. I'm planning to get those workbooks. Do I need one for each child? I'm assuming I would, but thought I'd double check.
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My 7 & 9 yr olds had so much fun doing the first lesson from this today! I really like what I see so far!
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Thank you! I love the company that produced this e-book and have and use several of their other products. They've worked so well for us! I had been eyeing this one, but didn't want to spend the money on it. This is perfect!
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I listed some vintage resources here. I am working on coming up with several weeks worth of lessons, but this is slow going. You can do things very similar by using these the books that I have linked. I listed 108 weeks, grades 5-8 (3 years, which I know will take another year regardless because of rabbit trails) . I have 2 blocks across the page, one for materials and one for the lesson/activity. We keep a nature book. Inside are sketches, printouts from web research, photographs, writings, etc. We even add poems.
I started with this book. You can write inside the book and make your notes. We spent a year or so working through this book. I really like the scavenger hunt as well as the activities about "your spot" to record what they see and hear. It is a very gentle journal to complete without much "mom" work.:lol:
Ooo, I like that too.
Kristin, I may use some of your ideas for my 4.5 yr old. Thanks!
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We've done the basics, like lots of walks in the woods, taking time to explore whatever catches the kids' fancy, coloring on paper over tree bark or leaves to get the outline of the item, etc.
I've never really followed a nature study curriculum or book, however. My girls will be pre-k, 2nd, and 4th grade next year and I'd like to do some more nature study with them. But most of the books look a little intimidating. Are there any books/guides that you've found to be really easy to implement and actually stick with?
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First, let me say that I totally understand how you feel and often find myself in exactly the same scenario.
One thing that I've found remarkably helpful is a book called 1-2-3 Magic. It's a pretty easy read and a very simple technique to employ. And although I still find myself yelling sometimes, it really has cut down on my yelling and has helped my children to start obeying much quicker. As long as I'm consistent, we rarely have the escalation that would come from their normal disobedience or ignoring my requests to do things.
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Yeah I try to resist the temptation to freak out if one of my kids seems behind in something. I guess I feel guilty. Like maybe I didn't do something right.
And then there is this dumb fear that if they ever have to go to school then everyone will blame me if they are behind. Because I'm just the dumb mom who has no business thinking she could teach anything.
In terms of how I feel about other people's kids, I don't say anything because frankly I'm not worried about other people's kids. :D Hopefully that doesn't sound bad. But really, not my business.
:iagree: That's exactly how I feel. It is really hard to trust the process.
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Along the same lines, I had seen that there would be free shopping on Saturday from 3-6 (no shopping pass necessary, but also no free workshops and this is after the used curriculum sale ends). Is that still an option? I can't seem to find the information anywhere on the website now that the conference is happening.