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    Quick mastitis help!?

    in The Chat Board

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    I'm on the garlic wagon. I also used tea tree oil topically avoiding the nipple.

     

    After I discovered garlic and TTO I never had mastitis progress to the flu like symptom stage but before... Oh my that was the sickest I've ever been. Hope you feel better soon!

    Miquon and Rods

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    We started with MUS rods. My kids were familiar with them so we started Miquon using scored rods. I bought C-rods to use for fractions thinking my kids wouldn't associate a number value with the rods. It didn't work, just playing with the rods my kids figured out the value and when fractions rolled around my very literal kid couldn't grasp 1/3 rd or 2/3 rds. It was alway "no mom that's not 2/3rds that is 4." Or "mom that's not 1, it's 6.â€

     

    I do like the scored rods because my kids quickly see groups I.e. two groups of 2 with another 1 is 5, two groups of 3 is 6 etc.

     

    My kids don't count the scours on the rods, that has never been an issue.

     

    I suppose it would depend on the child, we are not experiencing any of the negatives "the stringent" have warned about. We're also fairly new to this rodeo, I have yet to develop any "stringencies" :-)

    Telling God's Story..

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    The full texts are available on scribd. The level 2 activity guide is a mere ~$3 on Amazon.

     

    We are doing level 1 this year, we are enjoying it. The focus on Christ's love far surpasses anything else I've seen. We use the coloring pages, the kids color while I read. Occasionally we'll do an activity when we have a slow week.

     

    I do supplement with The Bible Study Guide For All Ages. The BSGFAA is great for learning the Bible stories and TGS fills in the meaning of it all.

     

    I call BSGFAA the parts and TGS the whole :-)

    OPG or AAR?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    AAR is thorough no need to be concerned there.

     

    AAR is a wonderful program. IMHO it is best suited for kids that need methodical, explicit instruction. If your child picks up reading easily AAR's pace, although adjustable, may be frustrating. If your child struggles with reading AAR is worth it's weight in gold!

    What would YOU do to fix schools (s/o private school)

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    I like Sal Khan's model. Currently the variable in education is how much we learn, what's fixed is the time we have to learn it. That needs to be flipped!

     

    Move back to a modified one room school house approach. Allow multiple ages and abilities in one room with a teacher/facilitator. Use students as mentors/tutors. Once a child masters a basic set of skills let them go whether they are 12 or 20.

     

    In theory students will gain better mastery of subjects as they tutor skills they have mastered. The artificial social environment created by keeping a large group of same age students with one teacher will be replaced with a more realistic environment, kinda like what kids will encounter outside of school, where information an experience can flow up and down the age spectrum. I think this has the potential to correct a lot of the behavioral problems we currently see grouping large peer groups together.

     

    This would require a major paradigm shift.

    Feeling discouraged...needing some guidance!

    in PreK and K

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    My boys would not tolerate crafts and workbooks at that age, they had no interest in coloring. They are 6.5 now and we still don't do much for workbooks, they do enjoy coloring, their worksheet tolerance is LOW. We do most things orally. Handwriting is the ONLY thing I make them sit still for and often that is done standing. Reading is snuggle time, they like snuggles enough to tolerate reading.

     

    If I'm met with bad attitudes and protests the problem is mine not theirs. We are doing WWE1 this year, I tried to have them sit and pay attention to the passage when we started. Now 7 weeks in I say "okay, go flop around on the floor. Be ready to answer questions in complete sentences." It defies reason but they do better with comprehension questions while upside down, maybe more blood is in their brains :-)

     

    There's a lecture out there somewhere about "Teaching Boys and Other Children Who Would Rather Build Forts All Day." I listen to it often.

    Mortensen Math book by Geoff White---anyone seen/used this?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    I believe he's in the UK. Crewton Ramone has better prices, he's in HI. Here's his webpage, FYI he's rough around the edges but he knows math.

    http://www.crewtonramoneshouseofmath.com/

     

    That said Mortensen Math is insanely over priced. Miquon has a very similar approach at a fraction of the price. www.educationunboxed.com has wonderful videos many based Miquon.

     

    Steve Demme of Math U See was trained by Mortensen, they parted ways many years ago.

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