Saille
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Yeah, the pumpkin is totally why. I'm betting that Sam's Club muffins are moist because of vegetable oil, but if you substitute applesauce, you'll get the moistness without all the fat.
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Week after week, she came to soccer and complained and was SO UPSET about the fact that her daughter could not read, yet she would do nothing productive to help. She would spend hours writing letters and emails to the school, talking to lawyers, etc. I just couldn't understand it. So many parents believe that they are just not capable of solving some of these issues themselves.
I've had a similar experience, in that parents pay out the yang for the tutoring my employer provides...some people take out educational loans. They ask me what they can do to help their children with language arts, and the fact of the matter is, most of my students who are remedial do not read for pleasure, nor are they read to. So many concepts are intuitive, self-evident to a degree, if you love to read and value a well-written book. So I say, "Read to your child, no matter his or her age. Read something s/he couldn't read on his or her own." They don't have time. "Check out audiobooks and listen to them in the car, or let your child listen to them at bedtime." And it's perfectly clear in their eyes that they are not willing to go to the library. They just won't do it. I'm talking bright, educated, successful people. Not everything is a service, but I think there are people who look at education that way. There's a wall there. It never occurs to some (not all) parents how important modeling and support can be...much more important than knowing everything.
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A third vote for the NME. I'm trying to talk ds9 into the Exploratory Latin Exam. We do NaNoWriMo Young Writers' Program, and some Citizen Science projects
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Look at the split across the poll results! I find that fascinating. Mine (the two closest) are a five and a seven, respectively.
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I have to join the hillarious camp. I love the author's quirky tongue-in-cheek writing. They are dark, but in such an over-the-top way, which (if a kid can see it) is actually a mockery of dark books, I think.
:iagree:
They are such a fun, camped up look at Gothic novels. I was a Jane Eyre addict, and I find them hilarious. Lemony Snicket also gave an interview on Fresh Air once, and he sang an entire madrigal he'd composed for Count Olaf.
My favorite part:
(When you listen to it, it becomes that old fa-la-la sort of singing...you know, "Di-di, di-di-di...")When you see Count Olaf, you're suddenly full ofDisgust and despair and dismay.
In the whole of the soul of Count Olaf
There's no love, when you see Count Olaf, count to zero...
Then scream and run away.
Scream, scream, scream, and run away.
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run,
Or die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die.
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run,
Or die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die.
I need to pull those back out and remind the kids they're there.
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I already "like" them, but I shared the link.
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Thanks, Sophie! Be forewarned, I was told yesterday that some of these are in dialect and hard for native speakers to read...I'll understand if you take a look and find I'm asking the impossible!
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I have seen this book come up for sale on a lot of homeschool sites, so I'm hoping someone here has a copy. If you do, would you be willing to give me some insight into the contents? I have searched and searched for a TOC or index online, and have had zero luck.
Thanks!
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I am trying to translate some folklore on a Dutch archive. Google translator works...ish. I get the gist, but not the details. Anyone out there who might be willing to take a look at a handful of one-paragraph stories for me?
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No snow day at our house...we have a break week next week anyway, so it seems a little silly. We'll see about tomorrow, though. We're supposed to get a foot of snow tonight, and we've been working so hard that they've been playing in the snow in the dark, some days.
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All four of those sound extremely useful. We are planning to be at the Cinci conference, and I'd either attend those or buy the mp3s.
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Thank you! My friend and I were driving ourselves to drink.
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I can't find any backing for using it as a pronoun. I'm at my tutoring job right now, and this sentence was in an exercise about identifying adjectives. The teacher's manual did NOT include it as an adjective, and this wild goose chase is an effort to explain *why*. I'm increasingly convinced that the TM was wrong.
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Right!
Doubles games follow most of these rules.
I'd have games as the subject, follow as the predicate, and rules as the object, if it weren't part of a prep. phrase. Now, it does appear to me that a prep. phrase can serve the function of a direct object, so maybe that's why "most" can modify "rules"?
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That's where I got stuck, too. It looked like it was modifying rules, but I didn't know if an adj. outside a prep. phrase could modify the object of a preposition.
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In this sentence:
"Doubles games follow most of these rules."
what is the word "most" doing? Is it an adverb of degree?
Thanks!
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I'm not Muslim, but the two books you mentioned are both books I've read with my kids and liked...I suspect many others here have as well, during the Ancients year in the WTM rotation.
Here are some threads I found that might be helpful:
One on doing Muslim religious studies during the homeschooling day,
one on an Arabic language curriculum, though perhaps your sons already read Arabic,
A thread critiquing Kinza Academy materials.
HTH
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After developing some food intolerances and GERD, I've opted to live on coffee.
Well, *yeah*. It IS the finest organic suspension ever devised.
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Thanks for posting that!
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And her kids even said that in her book, she'd made it sound like she was harsher than she actually was.
Well, OK, but if the alternative was your very high-maintenance mother being white-hot p*&ssed at you, isn't that what you *would* say? I think someone already made the point upthread that cuddling after that very high-stress piano lesson might have been about currying the favor of the volatile person, not necessarily mother-daughter bonding.
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Hugs, Sue. We've eliminated a lot of that stuff over the years, but doing it over time by choice is a very different experience than having to do it as a crash course all at once. I know I'd find it very intimidating. The gluten-free and ancestral diet stuff still freaks me right out.
The simplified meal tips you got upthread are good ideas, and I'm also a big fan of soup and other one-pot meals if you're having to change your eating habits and regular meal plans. I don't know where in PA you are, but if you check on localharvest.org, you should be able to find local farms and farmer's markets, which would be a good source of unsprayed produce and pastured meats. I hope things settle down for you all soon. You and your son have been in my thoughts and prayers.
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Her work hasn't turned them into children (so far) who don't want to be successful.
To be fair, we have no clue how the children feel about this situation.
Great Moments in Home Education and the Death of February
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The tax refund came and I'm able to order next year's supplies, how's that? We've had a good month; I just don't love February. True story.