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Maela

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  1. If I could have friends and family move with me?? anywhere but here! Probably, the southern Appalachians. Or Savannah, Georgia or Charleston, South Carolina.
  2. :iagree: I really don't like tangible gifts. Unless it's something I've really been wanting. This year I'm hoping for a new pair of garden gloves in my stocking. :)
  3. Sunday: sprints (I alternate very fast running with walking). I don't record time or distance. I go different ways each time and do what I feel like doing that day. Usually I'm gone about twenty minutes. With my iPod on, it's really enjoyable. Monday: the kids were with their grandma, so was able to do a half hour fast walk Tuesday: strengthening exercises (push-ups and the like; also use 5 lb free weights) Wednesday: break today. Although maybe I'll feel like doing something tonight before bed after eating all that candy. :tongue_smilie:
  4. This is only the beginning of our first year, but I imagine things working the best for us like this:
  5. I know I'm a little late to this thread, but I saw it and read it all, and I feel a little better now. :-). I also don't fit in a box, and it's really been bothering me. I have some good friends, but lately I feel like such an outsider when I'm with them. Or anywhere where I live, really. I'm not Christian (or any other mainstream religion - in fact I identify mostly with Pagan religions), I homeschool, I don't feel the need to dress super modestly, I home birthed, I breastfed for more than a year, I'm a minimalist, I'm not super crafty, I'm a tree-hugger/hippie, I don't spank my kids. we belong to a wonderful UU church, but there I'm way too mainstream. I don't spank, but I'm not really a gentle discipline mother. And I have a few libertarian/conservative views. I didn't graduate from college (and i'm not planning on going back), i'm a SAHM with no desire to ever get a 'real' career. So, no matter who I'm with, I'm the crazy one with some really weird views on things. The non-Christian one is the one that has been bothering me the most lately. I feel really judged. :-(. Except when I'm at church (UU). I feel like my friends are 'sad for me'. Christianity is a huge part of their lives and so it's me tioned a lot, which is understandable, but it's kind of talked about as if everyone is Christian and that is the good way of life. They know I'm not Christian, but I think they either forget sometimes or they want to set a good example. Or something. Thanks for letting me vent.
  6. I have never heard of Time of Wonder. Everything else we've read. My kids would remember them because we have them and have read them more than once.
  7. I am still new at this. My daughter kind of led me. I was wanting to wait until she was older (at least five) to work on reading and other academics, but she was asking lots of questions at two and reading by four. Because she's so advanced we're doing a somewhat advanced kindergarten this year, which means more sitting than I would have thought. Two to three hours broken up by lots of play/outings. But the only things I really plan on requiring are Singapore, FLL, and WWE. So far there hasn't been a need for "requiring." When the time comes though, it will be a this is your part of the agreement in order for us to homeschool type mini "lecture." She and I had to sign an 'official agreement' for our homeschool charter school, so it's already been explained to her what she agrees to do to be a part of this school. My son is three and much less interested in academic subjects than DD was at this age. Although he has recently become interested in the letters and their sounds. So my goal is to have him know his letters - lowercase and uppercase - by four years old. Then at four requiring just a few minutes per day to work on OPGTR. Then at five, I'll reassess. His birthday is just a month after the cutoff for kindergarten in our state, so I'm not sure how I'm going to handle that.
  8. Going to do this too. I asked a similar question on the K-8 Curriculum Board, and many people told me it was too early. But I really feel like she would enjoy this, and I'm not planning on pushing at all.
  9. I'm happy to find this thread. About to purchase WWE1 for my five-year-old.
  10. Thanks. This is what I was thinking. I could always buy FLL & WWE now, but save it for later if she's not interested. I know that kindergarten is a time for playing and exploring, but DD has always been ahead of her age in attention span and wanting to sit and learn. At 18 months she was asking me the names of the letters on our fridge. I mentioned to her that they each make a sound, and then she wanted to learn all those. By three she was sounding out CVC words and by four asking us to spell words for her to figure out. She really enjoys this stuff.
  11. Thank you everyone for the replies. I really needed some feedback. See I thought that WWE1 had a lot of copywork? So I thought that would be enough for handwriting. Her handwriting is pretty good on the primary lines - especially when she takes her time. She has a hard time making more than one sentence at a time all by herself (thought in her head to sentence on the paper), but I thought WWE1 was mostly copywork and a little dictation. Maybe I misunderstood. And I thought FLL1 was all oral, so I figured it wouldn't be too much for her. Another thing, don't both FLL and WWE have very short lessons - like 10-15 minutes? I thought FLL was exactly that?
  12. I have a Kindergarten-aged daughter who loves to read. She is not really advanced in writing (more like early first grade level), but reads at a third or fourth grade level. We going through a local charter school that we're loving so far. She's currently using the Houghton-Mifflin second grade reader and practice book. I don't like it. After reading TWTM and spending some time here at the forums, I came up with this tentative plan for language arts this year: - Writing With Ease (not sure what level we'd start with, but I'm assuming the first?) - First Language Lessons (Level 1?) - For spelling I was thinking of just making word lists using words from the Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading (which I already have). We would go over the spelling 'rule' that the words in my made up list follow and then make a notebook page of it. Or maybe just quiz her on the words and work on the ones she gets wrong. - Reading lots of high-quality books - together and on her own - and discussing them. Notebooking a bit too. Is this enough? Too much?
  13. I was just about to post a similar question. I hope it's okay to post it here. (I'm new. :) Let me know if I should have started a new thread.) I have a five year old kindergartner who reads extremely well. Her comprehension is above grade-level. I am planning on getting WWE1 and FLL1 and working with her on spelling. She reads A LOT with me and on her own. I'm encouraging notebooking a couple times a week on what we read. So I was just thinking today, is a reading curriculum/program really necessary? Can we just continue reading the way we have, as long as we discuss the stories/characters/plot often? We're currently using the second grade reader from Houghton-Mifflin, but it's not really doing much for us. And I don't like most of the worksheets in the practice book.
  14. My daughter (5) will stay up until 11 or 12 reading if we let her. So we give her 30-45 minutes with a flashlight after we tuck her in. Then she has to try to sleep because I know she needs more sleep than what she was getting when we let her read as much as she wanted.
  15. I'd say 85% are from the library, 10% from Amazon, and 5% from a regular bookstore.
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