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We don't do oral narration or handwriting practice anymore, but other than that it's pretty much exactly what my 10 almost 11 year old 5th grader does daily. The written narration is based on her history reading for the day.
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We do a certain amount of time per day of assigned reading. I give them a list of books I think they'd like and books that go along with their history studies and books I think they "should" read at that age and they read from that list for an hour per day in 7th and 8th grade. I also have them do a couple of lit guides as @Lori D. suggests.
ETA: It posted before I was finished.
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I participated in the linked above event at Conner Prairie in Indiana in approx 2013 or 2014 with my teen kids. It was very eye opening and included a "debriefing" session afterwards where we explored our (temporary and mild) feelings of powerlessness and how that might translate to the modern experience of racism (long lasting and definitely not mild). I think it did help me and my teens develop more empathy and compassion and recognize our privilege a little bit more as well as deepen our historical understanding of how the Underground Railroad worked.
From my understanding at the time, both the experience itself and debriefing session had been vetted and approved by local civil rights and African American groups as being worthwhile and appropriate, although I understand that of course not all African Americans and other civil rights activists will necessarily agree. But it's not like a bunch of white people just suddenly decided to charge people to "play slave" with no thought to the consequences; there is quite a bit more nuance to it than that.
I'm not really interested in arguing about it or defending myself, although if any of you have any non-confrontational comments or questions I'd be glad to respond. And I'm not really sure if I would participate in this type of program again or not. I just wanted to input some context.
I don't know anything about the Ohio program.
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DD14 is getting the Artemis Fowl series
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Not in those terms, although a student could take it that direction and obviously there is a moral component to some of the things they're comparing.
The first several lessons are about tools of comparison.
Then they write essays comparing a journey to the South Pole with Lindberg's flight, Helen Keller and Alice Paul, the telephone and the phonograph, boxing and baseball, and love letters from Napoleon and Keats.
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I love love love self checkout! I am more efficient than the checkers anyway. They never load my reuseable shopping bags correctly and they are always only half filled. I can do my full grocery cart family of 8 weekly trip easily and quickly myself. I usually have one kid go get an extra cart to put the full bags in after I scan them because the loading area isn't usually big enough.
Some people rant and rave about it like it's taking jobs away from people, but I'm pretty sure they can keep the same number of employees busy by doing pick-up orders. I mean, there were only ever 2-3 cashiers working at a time anyway 🤷♀️
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We do a speech class through NCFCA (speech and debate) with other hs'ers every fall for several weeks throughout their school years and I give them a cumulative credit senior year on their transcript. We really like the collaborative aspect of this for speech - they gets lots of feedback from peers and teachers alike.
After taking speech for several years as young kids, they often have the opposite problem that @EKS described - they write an essay as if they are giving a speech and we really have to work to to get them to write a formal essay, not write a speech lol!
They give and critique several types of speeches - persuasive, informational, impromptu, interpretation of literature, etc.
We read several speeches in Lend Me Your Ears too and talk about what makes them great and try to memorize/present some of them the way they might have been presented. If there is video of them being presented we listen to that too. (Some are too old to have video.)
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16 hours ago, Terabith said:
That's horrifying, stop it!!! 😳😳😳
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It's so interesting the differences in family/cultural expectations re hosting a meal! My mom taught me that if you invited someone to your home, you made all the food. The end. It never occurred to me that this wasn't universal.
So when we got married and moved out of state I invited a bunch of new friends from our new church to our home for New Year's Eve and I had fun planning out all the appetizers I would make just like my mom always did. The people I invited kept asking me what they could bring and I started to get my feelings hurt. Did they think I couldn't cook???
It turns out that in my new church community (similar to Mennonites) it's culturally expected to take a dish or two everywhere you go. Meals are almost always a community effort. They thought I was weird and a control freak for not letting them.
I've learned to adapt and I definitely prefer their way now, after having tried it both ways several times.
Having hosted a meal where 60+ people are served, I can honestly say that I can see where Marney is coming from, although I dislike her tone 😉 Serving large groups of people in your home is stressful, whether you do the whole meal yourself or it's potluck, and so I always grant a little extra grace to the person willing to serve it, even if I'd do it differently myself.
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We use Dr Wile's books which are written directly to the student so I don't have to teach them physics, Dr Wile does 🙂 If they get stuck my DH or I help them, but most of it is very well explained and we don't have to help often.
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The gift of time, sweet time.
My kids could take a solid college prep course of study and still have time for 8 hours of sleep a night, family time and meals around the table, social activities, and extracurriculars. They weren't stressed to the max all the time.
We have time for talking and interacting with each other and finding out how we each think about the world a little differently. We have time to forge deep relationships.
They have extended time with their siblings to forge relationships with them too.
They have time to develop interests and passions unique to them, rather than a "you must pick from this list of pre-approved school activities".
They have time to figure out what they like and don't like and what makes them tick outside of the intense social scrutiny and judgement of "the pack" that they'd be immersed in if they were in ps.
We're only given so much time with our kids, and then they're grown. Hs'ing high school helps us make the most of it.
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My DD is currently using Dr Wile's new biology and is enjoying it and learning a lot. She is also doing the online class through his website, but those are closed to new registrations and are $$$. I think they do offer recorded lectures for a smaller fee than the live classes if you needed extra help understanding a concept but don't want the full live graded class.
This is our first year using the online class. Up til now, my high schoolers have all used Dr Wile's books without any extra online materials and done just fine and they were well prepared for college science courses.
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2 hours ago, Momof3sweetgirls said:
I am a Christian and in theory mealtimes sound lovely, like the stuff Sally Clarkson writes about. In reality its fairly chaotic but hopefully that will improve as the kids age. I do know a huge part of it is my perspective on it, it is part of the job I've been given and I want to do it without grumbling.
It's definitely chaotic here too sometimes! But I think Jesus would enjoy a meal where you talk and act silly and watch the toddler dump over their peas for the umpeenth time 🙂
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I always pace the content of my homemade courses based on how much time I want them to spend each day. If they watch a 2 hour documentary, that's two days worth on the syllabus. If I want them to read something and then research a little more and write about it, I try to estimate how many hours that will take. It's highly unlikely you'll be able to get to allllll the great resources on any given topic, so I found it was easier to figure out how much time and then prioritize resources to match the time required.
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I don't know what your faith background is, so this may not apply to you at all.
I had a major turnaround of attitude about cooking when I realized that sitting around a table together every day was quite possibly the most important thing I could do for my kids and my family to foster healthy relationships. Not because I cooked anything special as the meal (sometimes it was mac n cheese and hot dogs) but because the act of sitting down to it and talking over it every night was so special. So I started picturing Jesus sitting down with us every night at the table and talking with us and that helps my attitude about it immensely 😊
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I think of my 3 year old as a kind of really big toddler. I mean, I'm not doing preschool with her, because any kind of "school" isn't really developmentally appropriate for her. And she still takes a nap. But maybe that's because she's my tagalong baby ...
4 year olds I'm not sure about. I'm not going to quibble with anyone if they still call their 4 year old a toddler, but I might give them the side eye.
I definitely would not ever call a 5 or 6 year old a toddler.
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As a kid I grew up with both sides of my family living nearby, so we'd always do my dad's side for a lunch meal and my mom's side for an evening meal on the actual holiday day. I loooooooved this as a kid, but once I became a parent I realized just how stressful that must have been for my mom.
When we got married we moved 1.5 and 4.5 hrs away from each of my and DH's families. When our kids were little we prioritized seeing cousins and grandparents over our own little family holiday plans. We have 8 siblings in between us, so scheduling is hard anyway, let alone if someone is dogmatic about their own plans. So sometimes we were at my parents' house, sometimes at my IL's, rarely at home on the actual holiday. We'd squeeze in our little family holiday into whatever day was left. We've created our own little traditions over the years, which also evolve and change as the family grows and changes. My kids were always very glad we prioritized cousin time.
So basically my kids are already well acquainted with the concept that it's the getting together that counts, not the time/date. And with the idea that time with extended family is important and desirable. So hopefully that continues, but so much depends on who they marry and what their family traditions might be 🤷♀️
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My 2nd DS is extremely social, and he was also very worried about this when we started hs'ing when he was in 4th grade. I made extra efforts for a few years to have frequent playdates with friends, but by Jr high this was no longer necessary because he'd made new friends in our hs'ing activities and felt fulfilled that way.
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The CB website says that because they make twice as much money if you take it twice 😉
If you and she are happy with her score after the 1st time, there's no need to take it twice. A little bit of trig is helpful with the SAT, but if your kid does well with math then the little bit required is easy to learn from a good prep book. (knowing what SOH-CAH-TOA means is about the extent of it, I believe, but I could be wrong)
My kids prepped over junior year and took the test in the spring and that was it.
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I think Mercy's aunt is the one who had to figure it out, it sounds like the woman who gave birth knew.
We just went to the MSI a couple weeks ago as a family and saw this exhibit. My DD and I had very different reactions. I was saddened to think of so much loss and heartache contained in one room, but awed at the beauty of God's creation. My DD was horrified and thought it was disrespectful. We are both born again believers and have very similar personalities, yet we had very different emotional responses. So I can imagine in larger society with even more dissimilar people of different backgrounds the responses would run the gamut.
Eta to clarify: We went to the museum and while we were there this is one exhibit we saw. We didn't go specifically to see this exhibit or any other. They also had cross sections of a person's entire body on display in a different exhibit, and that was much much more disturbing to me than the babies.
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8 hours ago, bolt. said:
it's a management duty to stop 'expecting' what they aren't 'inspecting'. Good oversight solves a lot of 'lazy worker' problems, both in the short term (they know someone will check) and the long term (they get into good habits and become reliable).
So what leads to this problem: Is it lazy working? Or is it inactive supervision? Or both. "Good work ethic" enables lazy supervision. Good supervision leads to jobs getting done correctly and satisfactorily regardless of work-ethics. It's a joint responsibility that doesn't fall solely to a worker working solo. (I know this from my homeschooling journey! But maybe more business owners need to face the reality that direct employee management is an important role: and it's been slack for a long time.)
Thanks for this reminder - very timely for me right now in hs'ing my current high schooler! 🙂
As far as the discussion goes, I would like to add that while it's certainly difficult, it is possible to get a quality college education and pay for it by working summers and part time. My oldest did it and just graduated in May. He went to Purdue, which is an inexpensive state school, and he lived at home 1 year and commuted a half hour each way every day and then got an inexpensive apartment after that. He worked full time during the summer and ~20 hrs a week during the school year doing computer programming making $15/hr. Later on in his school years he became a TA and financed himself that way. Was this easy? No, not at all. But he made choices that made it possible. Choices that many people his age aren't/weren't willing to make, like working instead of partying and socializing.
I realize that not all people have the options my son did. Although most do live near a community college at least and most could get a job for $15/hr, that doesn't mean it's a universal option by any means. But I do think that many, many people aren't willing to make the choices that make it possible, and that kind of attitude ("I shouldn't have to make choices that I don't like in order to get where I want to go") is probably what most people who complain about "kids these days" are getting at.
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2 hours ago, cintinative said:
How did you decide what to include?
I only included 9ish works of literature each year - the ones that sounded the most impressive to me lol - and only the main text/video series, not every resource we used. I figured it was overkill to list more and they'd still get the flavor of what we accomplished.
I figured I'd rather someone read/skim the whole abbreviated thing than have someone decide not to read the unabridged version 🙂
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12 pt font, 9-10 pages, one paragraph per course, very abbreviated reading list
What is your favorite resources for tutoring various language arts components?
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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For young students?
All About Reading/All About Spelling and Treasured Conversations (a guide to grammar and composition from @8filltheheart. If that was all we did other than read good books up til about 4th grade we'd probably be fine.