lovemy9kids
-
Posts
514 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Blogs
Classifieds
Store
Posts posted by lovemy9kids
-
-
1. How hard is it on your family? (I'm talking about being gone 4 days/nights a week.)
2. Under what circumstances would you consider this?
3. Is the extra income and relief of acute financial stress, worth the sacrifice of him being gone?
4. What do you do to make it easier on you and the children? (i.e. skype etc.)
5. If you are a Christian, what are your thoughts.
6. Any other thoughts, warnings, advice, opinions? :bigear:
Thank you so much. I will eagerly await your responses :001_smile:
Renee
-
So far our year stinks!
I'm having a *really* hard time with the new baby (the 18month old). Just not meshing.
I got pneumonia the end of July and took over a month to get rid of it.
Monkey got very sick 10 days ago and just now getting relief (dr figured out the issue and gave us a fix...yay!). I've held her almost non-stop this entire time.
I'm freaking out about finances after losing a huge chunk of montly money.
We are drowning in clean laundry (6yo got hers put up and 17yo got the men's put up...the rest....).
I have a killer toothache the last two days and really need to make it til Sept 29th.
I have a little Eeyore who *really* makes it hard for me to stay pleasant. He is *so* much smarter than what he will actually DO.
I'm so worried school is never gonna get done the way I want it to (we are doing a little each day).
:grouphug:
My heart goes out to you. Life is so hard sometimes, and when you are a mom, you just have to keep going. And toothaches are a real bummer!!!!
Renee
-
My house is a mess, my mind is a blur, and I'm ready for summer vacation.....
:lol: I'm right there with you!
-
-
-
:grouphug::grouphug::grouphug::grouphug: and prayers.
-
I feel ya. I'm not motivated either. I was , but it was squashed by lots of financial stuff that has creeped up on us so I"m totally stressed out now. My mind is now on other things other than school now.
I'm right there with you!
-
Aren't those copyrighted?
-
-
A few of us store our pages over at hslaunch .
Just type sotw into HSlaunch's search files box and it will detail a list of SOTW options. Then flick through the two page list for the SOTW3 options.
Thanks for sharing that link. I've never heard of it before! I just saved a bunch of SOTW 2 note booking pages to my computer :001_smile: I'm always amazed at the helpful information I find on this board. Love it!
-
So you'd only have 1 sheet of paper per week for each child? If so, how? I kept trying it last year but I'd get multiple pages per week no matter what.
Yes, you can absolutely do this. Also, you can choose between a calendar, assignment list, daily task list, or agenda report. Personally, I like the calendar view. You can also change the font etc. on the next screen. It's all in what you click when the option window comes up. You choose what you want it to display and where the page break comes in. You just have to play around with it or watch the videos. I do better just experimenting with it. HST is so versatile. It is definitely worth the time you put into learning how to use it.
I don't know if that makes any sense. I hope I helped :001_smile:
-
HST = HomeSchool Tracker
Also, fabulous customer service. I once messed up my database and at 10 PM, the owner debugged my database, sent it back to me, and thanks me for using HST.
:iagree: This has been my experience also. Not just once but repeatedly.
-
I started with HST+ last night, and already have 80% of our books and curriculum cataloged in the library, tagged by subject and type, and location and it is now searchable and totally awesome. I am SO happy with it.
:thumbup:
I'm at the library finishing up entering the first unit of TOG. Happy planning!
-
I am definitely past my 30 days as I bought it the first week. It is definitely not beta...they should still be in-house testing.
I am willing to bet that the August release will be shy of a lot of updates. There is constant talk of how it will be continually evolving even after the August release. I am going to be honest right now with anyone that is considering still purchasing it. Save your money. You won't be able to plan this year properly. They haven't met a lot of their dates for updates already and then the bugs and kinks to the updates are massive.
Go to the facebook page and just read through the comments and you will see how much difficulty every one is having using it and how many people are requesting refunds. Even in the webinars when it is moving horribly slow for them, they will talk about their internet is acting up or the weather and not own up to the fact that there are issues.
They were eager to get it going and left out a lot of steps that will drive paying customers away. From the massive interface changes and total reworking of the homeschool planning side of the planner, it really appears that they had no clue what was already available to the homeschool community in terms of digital planners and that their competition's planning capabilities far outstripped their original interface.
I could have lit my money on fire and felt better about it than I do right now with a login to a useless planner that I can't even print anything from. I would say come back in a year and check it out. It may be pretty good this time next year. They should have spent this year in-house testing, then doing a small outside group testing, then releasing a bigger group beta (free) before releasing a fully functional product.
I would not recommend it to anyone at this point.
:iagree:
You took the words right out of my mouth. ;) This is exactly what I have been ranting about to my husband. Thank you for expressing, so well, my frustration over this whole thing. If they weren't charging people, I would completely understand and be a lot more patient. But as it is, I feel like it was false advertising and they should publicly apologize. I am back to my trusty HST+. It may not be as pretty, but it can do nearly anything I want it to. I would encourage those of you who are on the fence about HST. Spend some time learning how to use it. It is extremely functional for homeschooling purposes and the customer service is excellent.
-
I second My Well Planned Day
http://www.homeschoolconvention.com/hedua/planners/
It is REALLY remarkable! You can schedule your whole year and it will even help you schedule. If you input what math you are using and how many days/week MWPD puts each lesson on your calendar. If you miss a day you can either drag it to the next day OR let MWPD push every lesson ahead a day. I must have a planner that is easy to manipulate because we hardly ever complete our plans according to how I thought we would.
It's on sale for $40 for the year, but it's going up at the end of the week/month to $65.
Oh, and you can access MWPD from your smartphone. I love this aspect!
Really, watch the video. It's helpful!
Really? I couldn't get it to do anything I needed it to, and it also lost a lot of information I had already entered. I think it will be great in about a year, but for now it is far from ready to be released IMHO. I just asked for a refund.
-
Can you find the TG used at all?
That is a good idea. I will try. :001_smile:
-
I won't say "mess him up", there are few thing 6 cover in Std that was not covered in US. nd some scope shifted here there that you might repeat something and miss something
I will rather still use standard version and use US HIG.
I didn't think you could use the US HIG with the standard edition?
-
Do you mean get the SE HIG? It's sooo expensive. I don't think I can swing nearly $50 for it. I'm really frustrated...... I thought it would be out by now. :(
-
My son has been doing Primary Math 5 Standards Edition. I see that the newer HIG's are not available for level 6 in the Standards Edition. I really don't want to spend $49 for the HIG. Will it really mess him up to go to the US edition? Will there be gaps in his math?
Thanks for your help :001_smile:
-
We have stopped using our dryer completely this summer and save approximately $40 dollars a month. I'm sure we do at least 10 loads a week.
-
:grouphug: I can understand feeling that way. I think I would enjoy hsing more if I could figure out how to make it doable (is that a word?). I sat down today to try and write out a schedule for the upcoming year. I got so frustrated, because I could not make it all fit. It makes me want to just give up.:crying:
-
We each have our own computer and I installed Drop Box on each one. It is a free program that stores a file folder in your My Documents for storage on your hard drive and uploads all information to a secure server. The beauty in this is you have access to all of your files from anywhere in the world as long as you have access to the internet. You can even install an app for it on your phone. You can also share files and/or folders.
I have a folder (titled with their name) for each student that I share with them. Inside the students main folder I have subfolders for each course they will complete for the year along with a schedule folder, submit homework folder, and graded homework folder.
An example of how this looks is as follows:
My Documents
Drop Box
Noah – 11th Grade (this folder is shared so Noah can see everything in it)
Schedules
Submit Homework
Graded Homework
Courses
Physical Science
Geometry
English
TOG Literature
TOG History
TOG Government
TOG Philosophy
Inside the various folders I have the following:
• Schedules
o Daily schedule of the whole week that shows my office hours, co-op times, my teaching times for certain subjects, activities, etc.
o Year schedule that shows dates for our 9 weeks on and 1 week off and the major holidays they have off.
• Submit Homework – Where they place all completed assignments by the due date.
• Graded Homework – I take assignments out of the submit folder; use tracking features to edit, make comments, and assign a grade; and save in this folder for the students to view. They both redo the assignment and put it back in the submit folder; print it out and put it in the appropriate section of their 3-ring binder; or leave it until the end of the 9 weeks.
• Courses – Each course folder has a syllabus for the year and all SAPs, assignments, and support material needed for the current nine weeks.
I have my own teacher’s folder that I do not share (the students do not have access) where I keep teacher notes and plans, quizzes and tests, etc. for each child’s set of courses.
An example is as follows:
My Documents
Drop Box
Jennifer’s Teacher Binder
Noah’s Integrated Physics and Chemistry
Week 1
Week 2
Hasani’s Physical Science
Week 1
Week 2
For each student I setup a 3-ring binder. I have talked about this here.
I also have a teacher’s 3-ring binder. I have set mine up very similar to this one.
Each student has his own planner where they plot out what they plan to do each day for the week coming up. For my oldest I plan to move him to a digital process once I teach him how to use Microsoft Outlook, which I have synched to his Google Calendar and his iPhone. His iPhone is his baby so I know he will not forget anything in it.
With this system my goal is to eliminate so much paper in our lives, printing costs, and the disorganization that runs rampant! We started this system in May and it has worked really well. I am in the process of tweaking it a bit too fit year 3 since we will be part of a virtual co-op and one or two online classes this coming year.
Please let me know if you need clarification on anything or would like to see examples. This entry does not hold any of my formatting. So, if anyone wants me to email it let me know.
Wow Jennifer! That sounds incredible :) I'm not sure if I could be that organized, and get my kids to cooperate ;) I like the drop box idea though. I am going to look into that. How do they do their map work, SAP's etc. Don't you still have to print all that out? I guess I need to re-read your post and really think it through. I'm sure I'll have more questions. :001_smile:
-
:grouphug: My heart goes out to you and your children. I'm so sorry for your pain.
-
If your husband travels a lot for work....
in General Education Discussion Board
Posted
Renee