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I loved your family ledger article. My husband and I are doing Financial Peace U right now, and this looks like a great way to extend the lessons to the kids.
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Here is a useful website that would let him play with making all kinds of graphs. http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/
You would have to help him, especially at first, but I bet he would figure some things out on his own too. The neat thing about it is that once the data is entered you can then select different options to show the data graphed in different ways.
Hope that helps!
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Conservatory teacher, but you set the boundaries. He may be the teacher and will give her the environment to thrive musically, but you are still the parent can shelter her and not let him push too much. As long as she still has an opportunity to be six in other ways, and she also loves the lessons, then go for it. Full disclosure, my personal bias is against Suzuki anyway, but in this case where even the Suzuki teacher admits he doesn't have a lot to offer her, it seems an easy choice to me.
Best of luck in your decision!
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I'm not sure the age of your daughter, but NASA has space math units that you should take a look at for her starting around PreAlgebra level. Not a book suggestion, but something my space mad daughter enjoys...
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A fabulous book about what happened in the West during the war of 1812 is called "When the Mississippi Ran Backwards" by Jay Feldman. Really, I can't say enough about this book!
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Sorry to get your hopes up.
Shucks. 😣
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Did you know that there are AOPS geometry videos on Hippocampus that are not on the AoPS site?
http://www.hippocampus.org/HippoCampus/Algebra%20%26%20Geometry
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I don't think you need both. They are both designed for classrooms, but can be done at home. If your kids like worksheets, Dr. Dave's has some in the back, as well as an image CD. Dr. Dave's is not a regular schoolbook, meaning it is not something that you hand kids to read. It is more like a broad script for a teacher to follow for a lesson. (Scripts work well for me when introducing new material.) So Dr. Dave's approach is more like "say this, do this demo, have the kids try this," and TOPS is more self-discovery. Hand them the stuff with the cards or activity sheets and see what they get out of it. It has some teacher notes to help you know what to look for. I think it also depends on how much time you have to spend on a science lesson. The Dr. Dave approach would go faster and TOPS takes longer. I often have used the Dr. Dave lessons to introduce new stuff, and the TOPS lessons for the kids to explore the concepts more on their own.
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I think you have some great resources listed there! We have the Snap circuits, TOPS, Dr. Dave, and Make electronics here. I think they can all be used successfully at home. We like Dave's a little better than TOPS, but both are good. Make elec. might be better for your oldest; it is certainly MY favorite to use when I am playing around.
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Where does one buy math nerdy posters? I think my son would like some.
Here are some you can print or have printed.
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TOPS has a unit called Far Out Math that is designed to show how slide rules work. You make your own paper one and then use it.
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The charter school should tell her what THEY think she should use to fill in the gaps! Gee, what are they there for anyway if they can't do that!
ALEKS math online would fill in gaps.
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I posted the best results, which were obtained by going daily to get pond water for the tadpoles. Then they all lived. The many other times that we tried to raise tadpoles and used treated tap water, all of them died.
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My dd10 wants a "geeky math shirt" and seasons of Mythbusters. She misses it now that it isn't streaming on our netflix anymore.
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SWB, any updates on what is going on with this? Did all of the deleting help out? Hoping everything is working out.
Blessings!
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My very agreeable daughter, who will do almost anything I ask her of her, hated Classical Historian. She liked the history detective book, but the other stuff was just way too boring. This is one of the few programs we used only for half the year before jumping ship to another program.
We do like the Stanford materials very much.
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We are doing schoolwork. Dd is doing history, science, math, Latin, writing, programming, logic, and literature. Ds does history, science, math, word roots, writing, grammar, spelling, and logic. They both do memory work. Most stuff gets done. We're not out of the house 15-20 hours weekly (unless you count hockey, including weekends). Its more like 8, because not everything happens every week.
Maybe it's more of an ideal of doing our schoolwork in the mornings and our activities in the afternoons that I seek, and our schedule doesn't work that way.
My kids' closest friends are in the homeschool group. They have known these kids since they were 3 and 4. Those are their main friends.
Ok, so it sounds like none of the activities are ones you are willing to let go of. Then just acknowledge that all the school work won't get done and be ok with it. Your oldest is fine, ahead of traditional expectations, and your younger is getting the tutoring he needs most, and covering a lot of material as well. Something has to give, and if it can't be the activities, then it has to be the schoolwork. There are only so many hours in the week, and it is not realistic to expect to do all of these activities and such a full load of middle school work. Programming is logic, so have dd drop logic. Can you use a more streamlined LA program for ds? Or drop logic for him, too, at least until he is finished with speech therapy?
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Guest hollow is notorious (in a wonderful way) for having WAY more scheduled than any normal person could do. It is a banquet to choose from, and it is not possible to do everything, so maybe you need to help your daughter choose from the activities.
Also, everyone is different, but I personally don't count bible study as school time. School studies eventually come to an end, but bible study doesn't. I'd rather see 20 minutes of it at the beginning and end of each day getting focused and refreshed, using it the way I'd hope she would lifelong, rather than counting it as school time.
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The two Dr. Dave's Science Manuals from Royal Fireworks Press that I have are excellent. http://www.rfwp.com/pages/dr-daves-teaching-manuals/
I second this suggestion
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Connect the thoughts has one, only $12.
http://www.connectthethoughts.net/lower--electives.php?course=34094
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There is a test book available for each volume with multiple choice, fill in the blank, true/false, and one short answer question for each chapter. Of course, free is always nice to find, too!
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Yes, one that clicks, and/or has a light that flashes. One daughter likes the clicks and the other can't stand it; she only uses the flashing light. We originally got it for the tuner feature for their other instruments, but the digital metronome is nice.
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Anyplace that sells CFLs is required to accept them for recycling, at least in my state.
AoPS-How do you teach it?
in Logic Stage & Middle Grade Challenges
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Yep. Independent work here too, not taught. It does help for me to read ahead of my daughter so that I can answer any questions she may have quickly.