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Is it possible to break what you are doing down into more manageable chunks? Our spelling time each day is VERY short, and I do AAS with two children. If you search for other AAS threads, I have written our schedule several times.
I hope that helps a little.
Jennie
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Not about bags, but remember to freeze your items in the quantities you plan to use. For example, I store most of my fruit in 2 cup amounts, which is what I use for a certain cobbler recipe. Then if I decide to make a pie, I can just grab two bags of it. Other items, like blueberries, I freeze individually on a cookie sheet and then put the frozen berries into the bags so that they remain loose and I can easily remove how ever many I want to sprinkle on things or in larger quantities for baking. I do this also with meat balls, hamburger patties, etc. That way I don't have to defrost a large quantity and use it all up quickly.
I do this also.
Jennie
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We did just FIAR with my first grader and 4 yo preschooler. It worked just fine. Given the ages of your older two children, I think I would skip over using B4FIAR and just start with FIAR.
We used it as our regular curriculum in kindergarten, first and second grade along with math, phonics and handwriting.
Jennie
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I have been looking at the Tell Me More for quite a while now. I am thinking about using it with my 15 yo son, but my almost 13 yo dd would probably like it, too. Can you do two different languages or does it have to be one language for all the users?
Jennie
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I also have just used good quality freezer bags. I would think a vacuum sealer might do a better job though. I have not used one. After some time ice crystals do form in the bags that I use. Mostly I just freeze berries and green peppers. I can almost everything else that I want to put up for the winter.
Jennie
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I still dont see how you click on samples in the math??
Johanna,
If you click into browse curriculum, then click on a grade, you will see the listing of all the subjects with a picture of the lightunits. Under the description it says, "View Details". Click on that. now look where you see all the lightunits available for ordering. If you scroll over each of the individual lightunit numbers you will see that they are links. Click on them. Then you will see "Math 202 Sample" or something like that. Click on that and the samples will come up in a pdf file.
That is one way to get there.
The only math lightunit samples that aren't there are the high school courses. These are not Sunrise Editions.
Jennie
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Michelle,
Thank you for posting this. I was going to do it, but time got away from me. I was so excited about this when I found out about it this morning. It took me a minute to figure it out because it wasn't an "obvious" click.
I noticed they didn't really have any first grade samples.
Thanks again.
Jennie
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Well, my oldest is 15, and there is still a parent with him. Once he got to be around 11 my dh started going with him to his appointment. Now, I have to send detailed notes with my husband about ds health issues. These are well visits. If it was an illness I would probably go as I wouldn't want dh to have to leave work.
No matter how comforatable I am with a doctor, I don't want my minor child questioned by a doctor out of the presence of a parent. I have heard too much bad press to chance it.
Jennie
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Yes, that is a tough one. We started with Ping. It isn't quite so heart wrenching. :)
Jennie
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We go every other year.
Jennie
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I'm with the others. I eat them and so does everyone else around here.
Jennie
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Honestly, I didn't worry about spelling until they were reading. My natural spellers were the ones that picked up phonics quickly and once they learned to read they just took off. They were reading things I never taught them. They were the children who picked up conventional spelling from reading. My other two did not take to phonics well. It was a lot of work for them. Even though they both read well they tend to not notice the conventional spelling in a book.
Jennie
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When I used a written planner, I just used a teacher planner from the teacher supply store. I actually prefer Homeschool Tracker. I have been using it for almost eight years now.
Jennie
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How much time is left in your school year? Do you follow a more traditional school calendar?
I have done both depending on how early we finished. Sometimes I have gone into the next level, and other times I have done other math activities such as games, math computer games, pattern blocks, etc.
Jennie
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Five in a Row.
For the 2-6 crowd this is the most wonderful special, gentle, inspiring, enjoyable, do-able, affordable, fun, interesting, educational program you can get. You get more bang for your buck and your time than any other preschool/early ed "program." and it doesn't *feel* like a "program."
You have to stick with it for two units, and you have to understand that it's not a highly academic thing. It's more about enjoying each other and loving learning, than about teaching your children to be the smartest kid on the block, though they very well can be if you give them a good well rounded life alongside FIAR.
Our children used FIAR when they were young. It was great. They still remember the stories and things the learned. The stories give them great hooks to hang their learning on.
Jennie
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From what I saw on their website, it looks as though they have just changed the binding. I don't know as any of the content is different.
Jennie
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Like some others have mentioned, our family would not be involved as we feel it is important for the children to be in worship with us as a family. Our church has children's church, but our children do not go down. They stay with us and have been doing so since the youngest were around 3 or 4.
So, I marked your last box.
Jennie
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Thank you Stacia' date=' I now she will love this. I will sign up right-away. This is right up her alley. :001_smile:
[b']Kathy, thank you, but I'm afraid I'm new at this and I don't know what 4-H stands for :confused:.[/b] I've seen it mentioned at other threads, I feel really :tongue_smilie:. I have a feeling I should know. I'f you can kindy reply I would really appreciate.:001_rolleyes:. I'm a future HMSCer and I'm learning as I go. I just joined last week.
Jennie
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These tiles definitely would slide through a toilet paper tube, so yes, they proabably would be considered a choking hazzard. Our magnets stick securely, but no one in my house has put them in their mouth.
We have our magnets set up on two old cookie sheets. It is not my "ideal" set up, but it is better than life before magnets.
Jennie
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Thank you ladies' date=' I do have a sewing machine that is collecting dust. I purchased it thinking I was going to take classes, but like a lot of things this never got done. I will get try to find the hand sewn one first like mentioned. I think I will have a pretty good feel if she will continue.
I didn't know that they had sewing classes for kids. I think she will love making her own pillowcases. Maybe I should join her in the class if they let me, I have a feeling they will send me with the older ladies:tongue_smilie:.
Thanks everyone :auto:.[/quote']
I took classes at JoAnn's for 6 months when I was first learning. It was money well spent.
Jennie
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A pillow case is good. I would suggest as straight skirt with a casing and hem next, and then some pajama pants after that.
Jennie
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My daughter started with straight needles when she was 8, but her teacher moved her to circular needles during the first class. For her, the circular needles were just what she needed. I can't remember what size she started with. Oh, and my dd just started with the garter stich. That is all she knows right now. She didn't exactly stick with it.
Jennie
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My 12 yo learned to swallow pills in a spoonful of yogurt, and my 9 yo swallows hers with applesauce because she doesn't yogurt. My other 9 yo still has a hard time swallowing. She does better with applesauce because it isn't as smooth as yogurt, and she can't detect the pill as easily.
Jennie
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Well, first of all my decision are based on the requirements of my state. Each level, elementary, junior high and high school, have certain required courses in my state.
In elementary school, we are required to do history and science. I do history three days per week (Monday through Wednesday) and science two days per week (Thursday and Friday). I like to do these subjects on consecutive days for continuity sake. When the children reach 5th or 6th grade then we go to 4-5 days per week in these subjects, but they are also doing more of the work independently.
Art and music I used to do once a week in a co-op. Now they get hit the last week of each quarter. I really wish they were once a week. I am just not good at fitting them in. If I leave them for Friday, we are all tired, and no one especially me wants to do them. It is a little sad. I wish we did more.
I haven't done foreign language too much with my elementary kids, and home ec. is every day but informally. They all cook and bake with me. They make their own breakfasts and lunches now. Some of it is interest driven. One of my twins is in 4-H and she gets a lot of home skills there.
Jennie
Help on freezing foods...
in General Education Discussion Board
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Joanna,
There are two methods for canning. One is the boiling water bath (BWB) canner and the other is the pressure canner. The boiling water bath canner is used for high acid foods such as fruits, pickles, jams and jellies. The pressure canner is used for low acid vegetables, meats, and convenience foods such as soups and stews.
I have been canning for about 8+ years, and I have only used a BWB canner. I do a lot of fruits, tomato sauces (no meat), pickles, jams, and such. My canner was my mom's. I also have another BWB canner that was given to me by a neighbor when they were cleaning out the home of a deceased neighbor. I just bought a pressure canner last year, but I have not used it yet.
Jennie