Saille
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I have a spelling checker.
It came with my pea sea.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when I rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen
eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Bee fore a veiling checker's Hour
spelling mite decline,
And if we're lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flair,
Their are no fault's with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a ware.
Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped word's fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw's are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays,
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting too pleas.
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We're in it for the duration.
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I thought the same thing when I first got here. Now I have a process for skimming through the new posts. But honestly, this is the best homeschooling forum out there in terms of diverse opinions and a wide, wide range of experience. Stick around.
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That's a great link! (I wonder how many people besides me referenced The Color Purple in '92...I remember being worried at the time that it was too far off the beaten path.)
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LOL...Patrick Stewart was in the Royal Shakespearean Acting Company at one point. I think he'd be pretty sought after for a period film. Better yet was
.I got frustrated at one point b/c every time I saw Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar) in anything, she died. That was annoying. It got to the point where seeing her on the screen became a spoiler.
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Maybe the jumper was a gift to your inner homeschooler, to remind her that she is not forgotten just b/c you're currently schooling outside the home.
I have been wondering all day whether this change involves a geographical move, teleporters (in which case I want one too) or just a looooong commute.
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I figured some of y'all had been reading The Passage...I know some folks here love the vampire novels, although he says it's more an adventure and post-apocalyptic novel. Anyway, Justin Cronin was on Talk of the Nation today, and the list of "big adventure novels" he named as childhood favorites were all books the Hive had recommended to me. Swallows and Amazon, and all of Heinlein's juvenile fiction were at the top of his list. Neil Conan had clearly read the Heinlein novels, as well. Thought someone might find that cool.
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Ha HA! We are building floor to ceiling bookshelves as a result of the garage sale, so I will get to reorganize the shelves soon enough...and bring my poor lost boxed books down from the attic.
A bubble bath. What a good idea.
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OK, so the kids and my dh are out of town until Fri/Sat, and I've got a million things to get done before they get back. BUT, I am taking a homeschool inservice. As in, get my ducks in a row, have some reflective time, and be in a good, centered place when the kids get back and we start rolling. Unfortunately, I'm fresh off of running a week-long, half-day program called Children's Peace Week, and holding a garage sale the day after. Sunday I worked. So, I haven't had a minute to myself to formulate a plan.
I've got three books I'm in the middle of reading: Liping Ma's Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics, MCT's The Conceptual Dialectic, and that Adlerian book, the Paideia Approach, that MCT recommends as a good book on Socratic dialogue. I've got copybooks and memory work to finish. This year's end-of-year reports. Reading lists to finalize. Some cutie things I'd like to make for the kids, like book slings for their rooms, and schultutes. But I guess I don't think of all of those as things I should do during an inservice. Some of them are just tasks.
Anyway, say you had either one or two days, 9-3, to do whatever enriched you and made you feel ready for another year of homeschooling. Got any ideas?
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What everybody else said, with the addition that the sermons/services do always align with the principles. So, this year we had a service run by a member who had gone on a mission along the Amazon river, we've had sermons from our minister that would be familiar in spirit to a lot of Christians about being mindful in your daily life, we've had services run by a professor of religion who happens to be a member on various religious history topics, etc..
Our RE classes run a program called Spirit Play right now. It's a Montessori-based program with a story-telling focus. Each story has a basket with props, and is either about one of our principles, or some aspect of a major world religion. This is a pretty common focus in UU RE, b/c we tend to hold the view that a lot of religious and ethnic conflicts arise from flawed understanding or lack of knowledge about other people, and b/c the principles demand that our members have free access to *good* information about a variety of belief systems. Last year in the ten and up group, our curriculum was about UU sources, history and traditions. This year, I'm running a curriculum called Neighboring Faiths, in which we learn about other religions and take a field trip once a month to a neighboring faith community.
The UU Church is not a cult. John and Abigail Adams, Ben Franklin, Clara Barton, Susan B. Anthony, the Alcotts, Thoreau, Horace Mann...all have ties to the Unitarian Church. Like someone else said, we are a community of freethinkers similar to Quakers.
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I ignored when that happened to me, and discovered that it's a form mailing...they don't really care whether you use their district's forms or not. Just keep the cover letter. Use it to get teacher discount cards at places like Barnes and Noble, which requires it as proof that you homeschool.
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EG1, 2 and 3 and then Athenaze, or EG1 and then Athenaze?
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LOL, I remember feeling that way when I first got here.
I think that, over time, you'll find that there's a core of people here who are deeply committed to a classical education, and who constantly reflect on that process and their desired outcomes. With so many resources available, if SWB tried to fit them all in one book...that would be the whole book, and it would be the size of the yellow pages. One of the great freedoms of homeschooling is the freedom to individualize, based on learning styles and preferences of the children, available planning time or preferred learning style of the parent, how many kids are in the household, what major life events are occurring, etc..
I recently sprang for an expensive set of history books to use during the Logic stage, b/c they are rife with primary sources and (still) cheaper than buying a bunch of Jackdaws. They offer a narrative approach to history that the Kingfisher History Encyclopedia lacks (though we have it and will use it), and I think they'll be a good fit for us, and very much in keeping with our goals.
OTOH, some of us just love a curriculum fair. :tongue_smilie:
HTH,
Sarah.
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My kids have done Greek Code Cracker, and are now working through Elementary Greek 1. Our goal is to move from Koine to Attic. Would the Hive recommend working through the entire EG series before making that transition? Or would it make sense to switch over sooner? If we did so, what program would make the most sense to do next? Galore Park? Athanaze? Something else?
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Deb, that post is brilliant! Thank you! I didn't see it until just now.
I got LP1 two days ago, and I've been thinking as I looked through it that we would miss the history and derivative studies. You hit the nail on the head WRT pacing. LL moves slower, but I also know that the things my kids learn, they remember. It's reassuring to know that there are passage translations in BB2, as that's one area where LP was scoring higher for me. I think we are going to keep going with Lively Latin. It looks like LP1 and part of LP2 would be review if you'd finished BB2. Even if BB2 takes two years, we'll still have time to get through LP or SYRWTLL by ninth grade, and go on to read literature in high school.
I will be watching with interest to see what you discover after BB2: whether you are happy with Latin Prep or whether you prefer a move to SYRWTLL.
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I think you are getting good advice about checking out the cabin and looking into a short sale. If the cabin is that much less than your mortgage, you'll be able to pay down debt and make a downpayment fund for a house somewhere else.
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Do people have the 25# bag shipped? Is that wickedly expensive? Or can grocery stores order in 25# bags?
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I just looked at one of my own and realized I'm a moving target:
Anyone want to weigh in on some fictional reading list decisions?
I'd rather weigh in on some real ones...
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Updated the list on my blog...with an additional question for those MCT fans out there.
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I don't know much about their catalog, but I use their unbleached white and whole wheat flour all the time, and have for about ten years. Also, their cookbook is a basic staple. An elderly man I worked for in high school casually offered it to me, and it has turned out to be one of the best gifts I ever got. I use it constantly, for pancakes, muffins, cakes, breads, etc.. The only baking cookbook that I use to a comparable degree is the Magnolia Bakery Cookbook, and KAF still wins, hands-down.
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I personally have strong feelings on 2 books from your alternate list.
The House of Sixty Fathers: I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this book!!
Peter Pan: I HATE, HATE, HATE this book!!
Does that help? :001_smile:
LOL...well, I haven't heard any strong negatives on Sixty Fathers yet, so that's good.
helena, I'm so excited for you! I love surprises like that.
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Ohgosh, I can feel my heart rate going up just reading this thread.
I tutor part-time and teach RE at my church; that's also a paid position. From the end of August to the beginning of October I will see little of my family on weekends. After SAT prep is done, it will get a bit better until spring, but I'll still work both weekend days and one weekday evening. We also homestead, so there is always the garden and the poultry to consider, and most of that falls to me b/c I am home during the day. Summer was supposed to be calmer, but has not been, due to dh's POE being short-staffed. He's working weekends and having random, single days off (not necessarily two in a week). He's salaried, so there's no overtime. I'm very tired, and very much counting on dh taking the kids to Ohio during the last week of August.
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Animal Family is wonderful! If you enjoy that one, try Bat Poet too.
We are back. It was fun, but we ran out of stuff to do. We have a Flat Mattie here right now though, and we took her with us. I'm about to go start the cake. Devil's Food with black cherries and whipped cream...mmmm.
We have both of those, The Golden Key, and The Light Princess, too. I think those are all of the McDonald/Sendak collaborations. I love those books.
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mcconnellboys, you should be able to comment without being a google member. I do, however, have moderated comments. The spammers found me a while ago, and submit very inappropriate links.
Ancients next, LibraryLover? Well then, allow me: Black Ships Before Troy.
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See, there are other books to be a heretic about besides Swallows and Amazons!
I don't *have* to have Terabithia. If I really want some Paterson, I could do one of her novels set in Japan...
ETA that it is ds*9*'s BIRTHDAY today. We are headed for the Victorian Leisure Fair at Erie Canal Village, and then I am responsible for producing an enormous number of carbs, as he wants cake, but also wants blueberry pancakes for dinner...the only reason I've gotten to post this much so far is b/c my mother sent him a huge Atlantis Lego set, so he's completely immersed in that.
Don't forget to sign your family up!!! One week left!
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Our packet came yesterday, and we got a free game, too! Thanks so much for posting this!