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I am only "schooling" a kindergartener so we have pretty short days. We school during naps for the most part. Other than that we hang out in a baby-proofed school room. He creates destruction and I clean up after him when we are done.
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Thanks for the info. Very bummed.
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I know that Discovery Streaming used to be available with an APTPlus membership. Is it still? I have APTPlus but since my DD is only five we do not yet have an umbrella school, so when I signed up for APTPlus I registered as a parent instead of a homeschooler. I do not see Discovery Streaming when I log in. Would it be there if I registered as a homeschooler?
Thanks,
Pam
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I am so sorry about the rift in your friendship. I'm RC, and I would happily attend your children's baptisms although I wouldn't receive communion at your church. And I do not have a clue what being RC has to do with no spending holidays with you?? Except for the communion issue, this is not a good reflection of RC teaching. It makes me sad when friendships end over religion.
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Just picked up one of these carts.
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Oh my head is spinning already! Thank you so much for all of the advice. I am copying and pasting notes! I will be sure to spend lots of time before I leave prepping in the next few weeks.
This conference is my 40th birthday present. I am going with three friends and just can't wait (though I imagine after about 12 hours I will be really missing the kids).
Thanks again!
Pam
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I am going to the Greenville convention next month with some friends (no kids). I am feeling the need to plan ahead. What are your best convention-going tips for a newbie?
Thanks,
Pam
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It seemed like a bit of overkill for me. I will say that was the year my DH was gone and I was pregnant and caring for a 4 and 2yo. Maybe we didn't have enough activities and I know I didn't keep up with it. On the other hand it was nice to have a place to put paper items.
What I have done for now was made a folder for THIS WEEK, THIS MONTH, FUTURE, PENDING, CONSIDER, and ARCHIVE. Many fewer folders but it works on about the same principal. I also keep seasonal ideas in another binder, so those do not go in my folders -- it is mostly just household stuff.
Pam
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I agree with the other posters. Here is my take on preschool
http://everydaysnapshots.blogspot.com/2010/10/preschool-revisited.html
That said, my almost 4yo tags along with my 5yo in doing Five in a Row and he loves it. You can also find similar-style units for free on http://www.homeschoolshare.com to see if that style works for you. FIAR is awesome, though.
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I am not familiar with OPG, so this may be redundant or totally off the level. Have you tried playing some games? Make some word cards of words she should be able to read. Put the cards in a circle, roll the die, and move a counter (Little Pet, Little Pony, some doll) around the circle. If she can read the word she keeps it. On your turn miss every now and then to keep it even, BUT she has to catch the mistake.
Or you could change it up a bit by adding in some Progressive Phonics. (http://www.progressivephonics.com). You have to register, but it is free. My 5.5yo loves it. We do it in addition to Reading Made Easy.
Other than that you can back off for a few weeks and then try again. Just keep reading to her.
Good luck!
Pam
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thank you for responding. i have fll1 and am not sure if i want to use it when ds1 starts 1st next summer or just wait until he is in 3rd and use something else.
I've been going back and forth with this one too. Plan on starting WWE1 next year for first grade. We already do poetry memorization. I would prefer doing picture narration with the Come Look With Me book. That just leaves the parts of speech-type things in FLL to cover. Since it is only for exposure and not mastery, I think I can do exposure with School House Rock and a few fun games of Silly Sentences. I may throw in a couple of Montessori grammar "games" and have that be it.
Pam
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Amazon and Barnes and Noble.com both carry used copies. Not sure if all vendors ship to Canada, but I got a couple of the units really, really, really cheap by going that route.
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In our home, when my dc were little, we didn't have "subjects." We just learned stuff. Sometimes it looked like Official School Stuff, sometimes it didn't. We learned about things until we were tired of learning about them, then we learned about other things.
I LOVE this!
We do math and reading daily. 10-15 minutes in our curriculums or through games. Some times we do handwriting. Most days I write what she dictates to me in highlighter and she just writes over my letters. We do FIAR in the afternoons -- almost exclusively conversational -- they hate to cut and paste and do anything like a worksheet. We cook and do art or science experiments based on our unit study. They love to put the story disk on the world map each day. We read books about things that interest us. If there is something we want to know more about, we find videos or interactive websites on the computer.
We like to learn a lot through games -- we have a saints matching game and a continents matching game. The continents one is new, but we have played the saints one many times. I was amazed at how quickly my daughter learned St. Bernadette, St. Therese, and St. Thomas More among others. I have decided that if there is something I want her to know I will just make it into a matching game. As we turn over the cards I throw in little facts about the contents. :D
We do memory work each morning right after prayers. They love to memorize poems but we also do phone numbers, address, Bible verses. We try to have tea time with reading about once a week or so -- seasonal poems or favorite picture books, real china tea set, some sweet we have made.
I like to think that we are unlike school in that learning is something we enjoy doing together. I love the Sunday afternoons that my 3yo runs in the door and says, "Mom, we forgot to do school today!"
Pam
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I am working on my December Daily for this year - you can see it under the scrapbooking tag on my blog. That said, I am having such a tough time making time for even digital scrapbooking. Someone sent me the Project Life info last week, and I think I am going to go for it. I haven't done traditional scrapbooking in a long time, but figure I will be OK since there is no adhesive involved. (I am adhesively challenged.) Maybe I can keep up with that this year.
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Mine are 5 and almost 4 so take this for what it is worth, but that is the direction we are heading with FIAR. I keep pulling my hair out and they are sending the message loud and clear that they don't want to cut, paste, or make notebooks or lapbooks. So we are going to read and discuss. We find things on the map, watch a relevant video or two, make something in the kitchen, act something out, but no cut and paste. That said, I am just shooting for exposure at this point.
Good luck!
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Joyofsix - The water with fruit idea is fantastic. I am going to try that one. How do you make your homemade cheese spread?
Thanks for all of the ideas everyone!
Pam
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Not your fault at all and I am so sorry this happened to you.
I was asleep for my emergency C-section with my last. I think I finally got to see him about 12 hours later -- they wheeled my hospital bed down to the nursery so I could look at him in his oxygen bubble. I didn't get to hold him until four days later in the NICU. I am so relieved that he is fine now I really don't feel anything else.
Sometimes I do question if my overdoing things worsened my situation. Sometimes I feel a tiny bit guilty that he was "evicted" before he was ready. I had an undiagnosed placenta previa (despite two Level II ultrasounds). I started bleeding at 30 weeks and went to the hospital on bed rest for 10 days. They were about to let me go home when the bleeding started again. 12 hours later my blood pressure crashed and they put me under and delivered him.
If only my previa had been identified. If only my DH had not been TDY for training during my entire pregnancy. If only I had not been home alone caring for a 4 and 2 year old. I ask myself a lot.
But he is fine now and all is OK, thanks be to God.
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I do plan meals in that I will write a list of things to eat. Sometimes I make a list for a week, sometimes two, every once and a while I do it for a month. I try to add a combination of quick and easy, crock pot, meatless, favorites, etc. when I make the list. I make my grocery list from that and do my shopping.
Then when the time comes to plan dinner each morning (or night before if I am on the ball) I look at the list and choose the option that will be best for us with our schedule or fits my current mood. That way I am not boxing myself in to roast on Monday, spaghetti on Tuesday, etc, but I still have a "plan".
If you do this weekly you can look at the circulars and see what is on sale before you make your list of meals. You can also make a master-list of all the meals your family likes and pull from those -- less thinking that way. Another thing I do to save time is brown hamburger in bulk and freeze in portions or cook chicken, shred it, and freeze in portions. I do the same with dried beans. That REALLY helps.
Pam
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Wonderful thread - and yes, I have read all 48 pages so far. :-)
Two years ago I started searching for something more. If there were so many churches, who held the Truth. Due to the witness of Catholics I had met, I started my search at the Catholic Church and have been there ever since. (I am not even sure there is an EO church in my neck of Alabama!) It was a beautiful trip home and a great place to be.
Thanks for the interesting reading.
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Rain gutter book ledges are the BEST idea ever! So cool.
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Here is ours from last spring. Most of the Montessori items are gone now (we are shifting focus) so the shelves are filled with different things, but most everything else is the same.
Fun looking at everyones!
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We've been pretty eclectic in K and I imagine that we will continue to be. Also I anticipate next year being my toughest one for homeschooling because I will have a 22 month old and a 4yo along for the ride. :)
Math - MEP
Reading - RME/Progressive Phonics
Writing - WWE1
English - FLL1
All else - FIAR
We will also listen to SOTW 1 and follow any rabbit trails that peak our interest.
We will also take time out from FIAR to do some GEMS units for additional science. We supplement with a mix of games, computer learning, videos.
And I reserve the right to change my mind about any of it. :tongue_smilie:
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The bells are in the ITouch clock -- just one of the alarm choices so you already have it!
OK, I found the iBreviary which is a free app. That one has the Hours and the daily Mass.
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I can't find the free app you are talking about. The ones I see are paid apps. :confused:
I do have the Magnificat app. It is free and then it is $1.99 a month for the content -- much cheaper than a paper subscription.
Also, I set the alarm on my ITouch for the church bells to ring in the morning, afternoon and at night to remind me to pray. Now I just need to get better at stopping and doing it instead of ignoring the alarm. :glare:
Is there a first grade science like SOTW?
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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We are really looking forward to reading SOTW next year for first grade. I love the format of great story, a bit of narration, a coloring page, some read alongs and an activity or two if you want. We have used and enjoyed FIAR for K, though I do tend to over plan it. :glare: We will continue to row some books as my first grader will be my oldest.
I have BFSU and frankly it overwhelms me to look at it. And part of me is not as concerned that my 6yo develop scientific understanding so much as think science is something cool to learn about. I think there is plenty of time later for the understanding to come. And I really want something like SOTW in that it can be open and go.
What I would really like for first grade science is the same format as SOTW. All done for me with something to read, a bit of narration, a coloring page, some additional reading suggestions (if desired) and an activity (experiment) if we choose. We aren't picky about secular or creation-based in first grade so either would be fine. No worksheets or paper crafts. No text book, but a living book or living text.
Am I going to have to make this up myself?
Thanks!
Pam