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KateHW

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About KateHW

  • Birthday 08/24/1971

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    http://www.woollydragonslair.us/
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    Pacific Northwest
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    home: maker, steader, schooler
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    Mom

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  1. I'm saving this book to read to my son around Halloween. http://www.amazon.com/Nightmares-Jason-Segel/dp/0385744269/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1443630799&sr=8-5&keywords=nightmare
  2. Our library catalog has a My Lists feature. I make a list of books I want to check out for each unit/time period throughout the year. Then several weeks before we'll be wanting those books I go to My List, select all, and put them on hold. Then I just pick up the holds. Ours is a 5 county library system, I'd never expect the book I want to be in the particular building I'm visiting so I always search online and put on hold first. Our library is also really good about purchase requests, as long as the item is in print they usually buy them.
  3. I have a notebook for our memory work. So far I've written in some poems, nursery rhymes, songs, historical quotes that I thought we'd be working on for the first half of the year. I'm going to put a sticky flag or a tab from washi tape as we memorize something and a ribbon bookmark on our current selection. Then as we work on it we'd do the current selection and go back and choose a couple of the memorized ones to do too.
  4. My son is 6. He has a list of morning chores that he has to complete before any video game/tv time. This is new, because he was being really slow about getting through the list. To be fair I made a list of my morning chores that I need to do before I turn on my computer too. :) Hopefully both our mornings will be more productive now. All electronics are off an hour before bed and I also make him stop at least a half hour before school. He needs to get out energy after watching tv or playing video games so that he can focus on school. Seriously, he needs to run, jump, dance to get all that stored up energy out. He'll often pause games and shows just to take an energy release break. Other than those rules there are no limits. As long as we don't have other commitments (places to go, school work to do) he can play games or watch shows as he pleases. Sometimes he marathons cartoons (Scooby Doo, My Little Pony, & Ninjago are current faves), sometimes he spends hours at the computer building his town in Minecraft. I only stop it if he is getting cranky and usually all I have to do is suggest a break. While he does have marathon sessions he is really good about self regulating, still loves to play with toys, and plays outside almost every day. Losing video games is usually the punishment for bad behavior. He loses them for a set amount of time and then has to complete a Mom made To Do list to get them back (example of things on list: read 5 books with Mom, draw a picture for Grandma, spend 15 minutes picking up bedroom, help clean living room).
  5. Just received my order from Rainbow Resources with the first one (Mr. Tardy Goes From Here To There) for my first grader, it looks like fun.
  6. For my K, going into 1st, we are watching Liberty Kids as an intro to American history. We watch an episode, read a couple picture books about the event/person in the episode, and if I can find one we like we'll do a craft. It's been fun and easy and he's really learning. For awhile he went around striking a pose and calling out, "give me liberty or give me death!"
  7. No advice but maybe next year I'll have some. :) This upcoming year we will be having another family come to our house and do RSO Life level 1. It'll (hopefully) be great in that we have no transportation during the week and live way out so them coming here means that my son has more time around other kids. I'm stressed about having 4 extra kids in my little house, and trying to keep grumpy old dog separated from kids. I'm a plan and schedule kind of person and they seem to be more go with the flow and right now that is stressing me. What days are we going to meet, who is bringing what supplies? I really need to just start asking and getting an answer even if it makes me feel like a nag. Deep breath. Fun, it's going to be fun!
  8. I get dressed every day, but for me that's jeans and a t-shirt, hair in a pony tail-- no makeup or jewelry. That's all the same if I'm staying home or going out. No shoes though, barefoot or slippers in the house. Invariably if I stay in pj's that's when my inlaws unexpectedly stop by or we get a package I wasn't expecting, so I prefer to be dressed every day. :) My son gets dressed every day and for him that's a t-shirt and sweat pants. He can't stand pj's and sleeps in a t-shirt.
  9. Theory of gravity-- fact, theory of plate tectonics--- fact. The word theory has a different meaning in science than it does in common usage. I'd be disappointed in a science curriculum that didn't understand scientific language and definitions. http://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/0_0_0/howscienceworks_19
  10. Thank you Silver, I did not see that thread when I searched before.
  11. Thanks! Eek, that posted just as another response came in. Hmm, anyone here who actually used Level 1?
  12. I'm looking at Wordly Wise 3000 Level 1 for my 1st grader next year. Rainbow Resources has a Student Book, an Answer Key, and a Teacher Pack. Do I need all of these or can you just do the student book and answer key?
  13. We are starting our Kindergarten year at the end of September. My son turned 5 last January and we had a very relaxed mostly play based K4 year. Language Arts: Ready2Read by the Moffat Girls, I like that I can buy a unit at a time so if it doesn't fit him it's not a huge financial loss. Progressive Phonics Poetry Teas Lots of picture books and chapter books based on what we're learning about and also my son's interests. Handwriting Without Tears K A mommy and son journal Math: Right Start A lots of games Art: Home Art Studio Kindergarten A lot of Pinterest projects (making art is my son's favorite activity) Studying famous artist in conjunction with our geography units. Science: Young Scientist science kits plus a few other companies kits: a physics kit, butterfly house. Units I've created about specific subjects, usually animal based. Music: SQUILT Geography: Every couple of weeks I'm doing a geography unit loosely based on Confession of a Homeschooler's Expedition Earth but without the praying and we're visiting different countries than just the ones covered and I tend to focus more on important artists. I try to include an art project, a fun food dish, and a lot of picture books. History: I'm hoping to start SOTW Ancients mid year, waiting to see how my son's reading and writing is coming along first. I've also bought some theme units from Teachers pay Teachers, a unit study from Build Your Library, a fall bundle from the Moffat Girls with Math & Literacy printouts, Lollipop Logic, Dr. DooRiddles, First Time Analogies. I've got units/themes planned and loosely scheduled through Christmas. Then I plan to reevaluate how it's going, what is working and not working, if I'm trying to do too much or not enough, and then plan for the next semester.
  14. I don't think I'm the one who told you about but I'd be thrilled to get the credit. http://www.kiwicrate.com/Refer?i=KathleenAW
  15. Before trying to go the "traditional" publishing route I highly recommend your daughter educate herself on agents, publishers, and contracts. Read Kristine Kathryn Rusch's and Dean Wesley Smith's articles on the subject. http://kriswrites.com/business-rusch-publishing-articles/ http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/?page_id=860 Good luck to your daughter!
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