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I empathize. I LOVE cheese - probably my most favorite food ever. I'm trying to follow the Mediterranean diet and use it more as an accent. I'm not much of a meat eater though, so I do substitute cheese sometimes as a main ingredient.
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Congratulations! He's bee-you-tee-full!
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Nope, my boys have read them.
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I haven't seen people on the For Sale board selling copied workbooks, but I do agree it's wrong to do so. I try to pay close attention to any workbooks and consumables I buy and if it's permitted, I will sometimes make copies for each of my children. I wouldn't re-sell the original though, but I might donate it. If the company doesn't allow copying within the family (Catholic Heritage Curriculum is one I know of) then I will buy individual copies for each child. Now I *have* sold unused workbooks - ones that I bought and maybe looked through but never used. I think we should give authors/publishers their due. I'm sure they work very hard at coming up with great curricula - makes me happy that I don't have to do it myself :D
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:seeya: I'm Yvette, I have four children - ds1 is 13 and going into 9th grade, ds2 is 12 and going into 7th, dd1 is 9 and going into 4th and dd2 is 6 and going into first.
We are not really classical homeschoolers (shhh...don't tell anyone), more eclectic and laid-back, I'd say.
I became Orthodox in April of '08. The rest of my family is Catholic but they usually come to Divine Liturgy with me. I attend a tiny mission OCA church, which I love, but wish it was bigger. I feel kind of lonely most of the time. I'm glad you gals are here :)
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You ordered LAST week and it came??? Was it beginning Algebra? I ordered 3 weeks ago and got a back order email. He said it was the first time that it was back ordered EVER. I'm wondering where mine is if you got yours last week. :confused:
Yes, it was Beginning Algebra, and it came in a few days. I'd email them and ask 'cause that doesn't seem right that you haven't got yours :(
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I just have to put in a plug for Stanley Schmidt/Polka Dot Publishing. I ordered LOF Algebra last week. Not only did they ship it priority for free, but it was packaged very securely and came autographed. So big points from me for great customer service! Also, I appreciate that the books are so reasonably priced.
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When I followed the link, it said 9 am to 12 pm ET. It's 3:44 pm now, so I don't know if I'll get anything--obviously past the time allowed, but it did let me fill out the form, and it said to check my email in about 6 weeks.
Oops, I obviously misread it - I thought from another forum where I originally heard about it that it was a.m.'s only. Good to know!
I did get an email today saying that a coupon was on its way.
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Get free chocolate Friday mornings 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. ET.
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I like Silicone Glove from Avon. I used it when I delivered newspapers and my hands would get all dry and rough.
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I'm slightly freaking out about it. My biggest concern is keeping records/transcripts since we have never kept grades before. I sure I will figure it out.
Just wanted to say hi. I'll be reading all the posts from you high school pros.
My oldest is going to be a freshman too! :D This will be our first year with grades and records as well. I've been reading Cafi Cohen's books on preparing for college and she has a lot of great tips and sample transcripts, so I'm getting a pretty good feel for what we'll need to do.
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Dinosaurs :D I did a class with some younger kids this year on dinosaurs. We made dinosaurs out of Sculpey clay, we made some cardboard models (press and punch out type), we also made archaeopteryx (sp?) gliders and a couple of other things. I read a short picture book type story each time. It was a lot of fun.
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Ok. I'm just frustrated...but why can't kids just be born knowing how to read?? My ds7 has finally improved by leaps and bounds but still struggles with fluency. Honestly? I'm just tired of it all. I don't mind math, history, spelling...anything! But phonics is burning me out!!!!!
We are using SSRW and though I loved it...now I hate it. Can I please switch to something not so teacher intensive? Perhaps it's my pregnancy hormones or the fact that I am not liking being pregnant in the summer (read: I'm constantly cranky!).
If I switch...how do I know where to start? I'm tired of spending sooooo much time on phonics!!!
I think I might need to be put in a mental hospital for this!:willy_nilly:
Liz in NC
:iagree: I hear you. I keep hoping my youngest dd will teach herself to read :glare: She has not caught onto phonics at all. The only reading she is able to do is sight reading, i.e. Dick and Jane. I wish we could get over this hurdle.
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I'll probably be spending around $650 for my oldest, then another $200 for my 2nd ds, so around $850. If I end up buying a microscope, it'll be another $100-200. I was lucky last year and didn't have to buy much of anything. This year is going to be a bit painful, and I'm still working out how I'm going to pay for it all. :tongue_smilie:
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Its a girl! 5 and 5 now. My girls were so excited. My husband and I thaught it was a boy. But we are never right. Her name is Hadassah Madeline (the girls love madeline the movie.)
Congratulations! I was right :D What a beautiful name!
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I'll guess girl - I like equal numbers of each!
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I like A Reason for Handwriting. It's a nice program, and it's worked well with my #2 ds who is a very reluctant writer.
I also like Happy Handwriting and Cheerful Cursive from Mastery Publications.
I used Getty-Dubay with my oldest son for a little while, but we didn't really like it, plus my dh shuddered over the look of it :D
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I had the red one as a child and loved it. I found another copy and am reading it now to my dd. A few of the stories are a little weird though :D but overall we still like it.
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Understood Betsy, All of a Kind Family (series), Mrs. Pigglewiggle (series), the Borrowers (series). There are some touching moments in Betsy, but no one dies. :-)
:iagree: These are all great. I seem to be quoting you a lot today, Ellie :D
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The Melendy family books by Elizabeth Enright; Half Magic & other books by Edward Eager; The Noisy Village books by Astrid Lindgren.
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Oh, how fun! Drat - I have to go to Modesto on Friday - I wish there was some way to fit this in too :auto: hmmm, I'll have to ponder this.
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Lemme see what I got here...OK, latest list (recent reads bolded)
My list so far
1. Nine Days a Queen
2. Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist
3. Driving Over Lemons
4. Father Arseny: A Cloud of Witnesses
5. Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future
6. Grandma's Wartime Kitchen: World War II and the way we cooked
7. Vanity Fair
8. Spiritual Counsels of Father John of Kronstadt
9. Les Miserables
10. Macy's, Gimbels and Me by Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
11. The Middle Ages by Morris Bishop
12. The Scarlet Letter
13. Our Hearts' True Home, Virginia Nieuwsma, ed.
14. Introducing the Orthodox Church by Anthony M. Coniaris
15. Model Behavior by Jay McInerny
16. Readings in Christianity, compiled by Robert E. Van Voorst
17. Married to a Catholic Priest by Mary Vincent Dally
18. Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive by Robert B. Cialdini
19. Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
20. Gold Rush: A Literary Exploration by various authors
21. Navajo Silver: A Brief History of Navajo Silversmithing by Arthur Woodward
22. Baghdad-by-the-Bay by Herb Caen
23. Encore Provence by Peter Mayle
24. Finding My Way by Borghild Dahl
25. At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon
26. The Suez Canal by Gail Stewart
27. Unseen Warfare - classical spiritual work
28. A Concise History of Bolivia by Herbert Klein (put this one on hold for the time being)
29. In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms by Dr. Laura Schlessinger
30. Ordeal by Innocence by Agatha Christie
31. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
32. New Mexico: A History of Four Centuries by Warren Beck (reading now)
33. Emma by Jane Austen
34. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
35. Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle by Dorothy Gilman
36. Honeymoon with My Brother by Franz Wisner
37. Homeschooler's College Admissions Handbook by Cafi Cohen
38. Nine Coaches Waiting by Mary Stewart
39. Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewart
40. The Stormy Petrel by Mary Stewart (this one was kind of disappointing. I almost didn't finish it. Definitely not up to the standard of her earlier books.)
41. Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss (reading now)
42. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (finally getting around to reading this. It's very good.)
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When we started hsing in San Diego in 1982, I filed an affidavit, because the only hser I knew said that I should. :-) I did that for 5 years, as did almost every other hser.
I didn't know that the hsers in the Los Angeles area had started with the private umbrella thing (not called an umbrella, but that's what it is). Los Angeles Country was very hostile to hsers, and having several families file one affidavit made them more anonymous (a private school with only a couple of students is probably a homeschool). Several of those early founding families were also into that whole accountability thing, which is something I never did understand.
We moved to San Jose in 1987; I filed an affidavit that year, and learned, for the first time, about the umbrella school concept. There were several in the Bay area, all of which were not only pricey but required A TRUCKLOAD of meetings, paperwork, testing, and all that stuff. Uh, no.
But I'm a realist. I figured out that if people wanted an umbrella school, they could enroll in mine.:D However, my school was the alternative one: minimal paperwork (annual proposed course of study, only certain forms when enrolling for the first time), no required meetings (other than an interview when first enrolling), no testing. Parents were just supposed to call me once a month and tell me what they did; I didn't care what they did, but I wanted them to be able to sound like a person capable of teaching (state requirement for being a private school teacher in Calif) so the monthly phone call gave them the opportunity to learn educationalese.:D I kept cum files, did curriculum counseling, requested records from previous schools, transferred records to new schools, kept transcripts (if parents gave me grades), provided work permits...all that stuff. I passed the school on to one of my faithful families when I left Calif; it celebrated 20 years, now the oldest in Northern California. :-)
When people would call and ask for information, I would tell them that the primary benefit of enrolling in my school was the anonymity. All the other stuff was helpful, but most hsers do it all themselves. Now, there was a time when HSLDA recommended that people use an umbrella when withdrawing their dc from a public school in the middle of a school year, or from a government charter school, because those were the ones most likely to be harrassed; since last year's court decision, this might no longer be true.
Now I could see where an umbrella like yours could be very helpful, especially to people just starting out. I do think some people need that extra layer of security - I know I did the first year or so.
I accidently bought a kitten.
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How sweet! Um...yeah...ask my dh how I "accidentally" got a rabbit while he was out of town on a business trip :D