kiwik
Members-
Posts
7,465 -
Joined
-
Last visited
-
Days Won
1
kiwik last won the day on June 8 2013
kiwik had the most liked content!
Reputation
6,090 ExcellentAbout kiwik
- Birthday 03/12/1969
Profile Information
-
Gender
Female
Contact Methods
-
Biography
Single, two sons 10 and 8
-
Location
New Zealand
-
Interests
Only reading at the moment - time and money constraints
-
Occupation
Laboratory Technician and logistics person
Recent Profile Visitors
The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.
-
Gap after 2 years Algebra...
kiwik replied to Brittany1116's topic in High School and Self-Education Board
Though the self paced pre algebra didn't do that too much. How about AOPS c&P or NT? Or the free English one whose name escapes me. -
Best online Latin courses/teachers?
kiwik replied to CA Mom's topic in High School and Self-Education Board
ClRC are really good. -
Please help me decide on online English for 9th!
kiwik replied to TreeLoft's topic in High School and Self-Education Board
My 14 year old used CLRC last year and it was excellent. We are going back to do English 3 with Lantern this year but only because the time zone differences are a pain and he is not really that fussed. We might flip back again next year. He has ASD and while he can write he needs a lot of time and support to initiate ideas so we are doubling back and forward a bit - we did Lantern English 1& 2, CLRC LA3 then we are doing Lantern English 3. After that we will decide whether to keep going up or go sideways to CLRC Intro to Lit and Comp. Which is way more than you need to know but I loved CLRC and he will keep doing their Latin despite the time zone issues. ETA. I love the look of Farrar’s classes too but they wouldn’t suit my kids unfortunately. -
I am a single parent who works full time and have home schooled ds14 since he was 8 and ds16 since he was 15. BUT only about 1/3 of my hours are outside the home AND I am dealing with a more forgiving system than that in the US AND my kids are very academically able. Even so ds16 is struggling to maintain any sense of discipline and I have told him I am going to sit with him and work through his most important subjects until he becomes better regulated. Luckily DS14 after some very rough earlier years (it took until he was 10 to get the specialists to take me seriously and do an ASD assessment and after 3 years at school he was pretty messed up) is able to just work his way through a list on the whiteboard without much assistance.
-
Cost. Plus there are a lot of good courses - self paced, on line synchronous and in person.
-
If we did this homeschool thing -- Oldest?
kiwik replied to Drama Llama's topic in High School and Self-Education Board
Yes. My 16 year old came home last year and is finding it harder to self direct than his 14 year old brother who has been home 6 years. And in NZ the system is a lot more flexible in that he can return for the last year without problems provided he has maintained a suitable level and still pass university entrance and go on as if he was at high school all the way. Plus he can get his qualifications with a combination of methods at home. On the down side I can’t graduate him or write a transcript, he has to sit nation wide assessments. -
In my country the only people who would do any kind of arts at high school would be people who loved it or planned a career in it. A Stem student would be doing maths, physics, chemistry, biology and English up to the equivalent of 11th grade. They would then likely drop one science so they could do Calculus and Statistics in their final year as maths splits at that point. Or they might drop English.
-
online schooling options
kiwik replied to Homeschoolmom4412's topic in High School and Self-Education Board
My son did 2 classes with CLRC last uear and the were great. But the combination of high prices once the exchange rate has been factored in and really awkward time once the time zone is factored in has resulted in us deciding yo go back to Lantern English for writing and just do Latin with CLRC next year. -
Me too. I would accept. 10-A =9 (or whatever it was) -A = -1 A= 1
-
Put the babies in the bedroom to sleep while keeping MIL busy somewhere else.
-
Feedback on my DDs schedule...
kiwik replied to TheAttachedMama's topic in High School and Self-Education Board
I am using CLRC to shore up my son's writing. He is at the higher end of the age range but so are others. He has ASD and he struggles to make decisions about what to wrote so I still have to do a lot of support for the actual composition but it is working. He is about to turn 14 and just finishing LA 3. He will do the introduction to composition and high school one over the next two years then have a few years more to practice. We also used and liked Lamtern English but the live classes are good for him. I do use short Lantern English classes for his older brother. -
Mine too. It is 26 months old so hoping to get it fixed under the CGA.
-
Uses for lovely illustrations from destroyed books?
kiwik replied to Laura Corin's topic in The Chat Board
Book for little kids? -
Yes. Don't use the appliance or the outlet until it is sorted. If you van cut power to the outlet do so. If not cover it with electrical tape.