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    Life ins, IRAs, stocks for 18 yo

    in General Education Discussion Board

    Posted · Edited by Tina

    Another reason for buying life insurance at this point, is if there are serious health related issues that may cause very high rates when they go to buy later or in case they become uninsurable . Yes, at this point they are not married with dependents, but if there's a big risk for becoming uninsurable later, or with exorbatant rates when they go to get it later, at least they have SOME and at a very low annual premium!

     

    I don't know about buying stocks and bonds at this point, not knowing anything about it. Here's something I had bookmarked: http://www.smg2000.org/

    Living Geography Books

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted

    Same with this list:

     

    Alabama:

     

    A Picture Book of Rosa Parks - Adler

    From Plant to Blue Jeans - Hommedieu (re: cotton)

    Life on a Plantation - Kalman

    Plantations - Stone

    Eli Whitney - Alter

     

    Alaska:

    Mama Do You Love Me?

    A Child's Alaska

    Mush!

    Circle of Thanks

    Akiak

     

    Arizona:

    Tuesday in Arizona

    Cottonwood Trees - Prevost

    Squirrel's Song - Wolkstein

    Is My Friend at Home? Bierhorst

     

    Arkansas:

    Come Go With Me: Old Time Stories From the Southern

    Mountains - Thomas (re: Oachita Mountains)

     

    California:

    How Far Felipe?

    Smoky Night

    Condor's Egg

    Striking it Rich

    Nine for California

     

    Colorado:

    Fat Chance Claude

    Stones, Bones and Petroglyphs - Goodman

    Native Americans and Mesa Verde - Martell

     

    Connecticut:

    Solomon Grundy

    Warm as Wool (or Ohio?)

     

    Delaware:

    The Legend of the Cranberry

    The Light in the Forest (books on tape)

    Standing in the Light (video)

     

    Florida:

    Elizabeth and Larry and Ed

    A Visit to Grandma's

    St. Augustine (video)

    A Kid's Guide to Florida

    The Great Pig Search

    Freddy Goes to Florida

    All Dressed up and Nowhere to Go

    My Family Vacation

    The Worst Goes South

    Beezy

     

    Georgia:

    Georgia Music

    Peach and Blue - Kilborne

    A Confederate Girl - Steele

    Mama and Me and the Model T

     

    Hawaii:

    The Last Princess: Ka'Iulani - Guzzetti

    Haleakalala National Park - Radlander

    Hawaii in Words and Pictures - Fradin

    The Last Hawaiian Queen - Stanley

    The Island Below the Star

    Dear Katie, the Volcano is a Girl - George

    Punia and the King of Sharks

    Luka's Quilt

     

    Idaho:

    Mailing May

    Wolf: Return of a Legend (video re: Sawtooth Mountains)

    One Potato - Porter

    Sunday Potatoes, Monday Potatoes - Shiefman

    More Potatoes - Belsam

    Potato - Watts

    The Enormous Potato - Davis

    Potato: A Tale From the Great Depression - Leid

     

    Illinois:

    The Journey

    Joshua's Westward Journal

     

    Indiana:

    The Floating House

    Story of Johnny Appleseed - Aliki

    True Tale of Johnny Appleseed - Hodges

    Johnny Appleseed: A Tall Tale - Steven Kellogg

    Johnny Appleseed: The Story of a Legend - Will Moses

    A Place Called Freedom

     

    Iowa:

    Eve and Smithy

    Story of Paul Bunyan - Emberly

     

    Kansas:

    Wagon Wheels

    The Loudest, Fastest, Best Drummer in Kansas

    Climbing Kansas Mountains

    The Van Gogh Cafe

     

    Kentucky:

    Your Best Friend, Kate

    Daniel Boone

    Just in Time for Christmas

    Kentucky Troll: Mysteries Underground (nat. geo.

    video on Mammoth Cave, et al)

    'B' is for Bluegrass

    Kentucky in Words and Pictures

     

    Louisiana:

    Why Lapin's Ears are Long

    All the "Clovis Crawfish" books

    Mimi and Jean Paul's Cajun Mardi Gras

    Cajun Through and Through

    Feydra Leroux: A Cajun Tall-Tale

     

    Maine:

    Blueberries for Sal

    One Morning in Maine

    Miss Rumphius

    Grandpappy

    Grandmother Bryant's Pocket

    Time of Wonder

     

    Maryland:

    Molly Bannaky

     

    Massachusetts:

    Make Way for Ducklings

    Cranberry Thanksgiving

    She's Wearing a Dead Bird on her Head

    A Picture Book of Paul Revere

    Plimoth Plantation (video)

    Across the Wide, Dark Sea

    Paul Revere's Midnight Ride

    Which Way to the Revolution

    Letting Swift River Go

     

    Michigan:

    Paul Bunyan: How a Terrible Timber Fellar Became a Legend - Rogers

    Paul Bunyan Fights the Monster Plants - Blassingame

    The Christmas Tree Ship

    The Log Cabin Church

    Mrs. Mack

     

    Minnesota:

    Follow the Stars: A Native American Woodlands Tale - Rodanas

    Legend of the Lady Slipper - Lunge-Larsen

    Sacred Harvest: Wild Rice - Reggiunti

     

    Mississippi:

    Freedom School, Yes!

    Oh Lord, I Wish I was a Buzzard

    Grandaddy's Gift

    Little Toot on the Mississippi

     

    Missouri:

    Mark Twain and Huck Finn - Ross

    River Boy: The Story of Mark Twain - Anderson

    Mark Twain and the Queens of the Mississippi - Harness

    Mark Twain? What Kind of Name is That? Quackenbush

    (what kind of name is *that*?)

    Tom Sawyer, Danger in the Graveyard - Richardson

    Tom Sawyer Gives up the Brush (video - 30 minutes)

    Wagons West!

    Fiddlin' Sam Dengler

    There Goes Lowell's Party - Hershenhorn

     

    Montana:

    Once We Had a Horse

     

    Nebraska:

    Dandelions

    The Huckabuck Family

     

    Nevada:

    Tulip Sees America (covers several states)

    Any books on desert life, particularly the Mojave,

    would work for studying this state. Books on red

    rock canyonlands would also work.

     

    New Hampshire:

    Ox Cart Man (or is this Vermont?)

    Lucy's Summer

    Sara Whitcher's Story

     

    New Jersey:

    The Colony of New Jersey

    The 18 Penny Goose

     

    New Mexico:

    Josephina books

    Spanish and Colonial Santa Fe (video)

    Carlos and the Cornfield

    Cowboy's Roundup on an American Ranch

    Los Posadas: An Hispanic Christmas Celebration

    Grandmother's Adobe House

     

    New York:

    My New York

    How Pizza Came to Queens

    Anna, Grandpa and the Big Storm

    The Inside-Outside Book of New York City

    Liberty

    The Story of the Statue of Liberty

    Joe and the Skyscraper

    Under New York

     

    North Carolina:

    Back Home

    My Great Aunt Arizona

    Mountain Boy

    The Colony of North Carolina

    The Jack Tales

    Grandfather's Land: We are Mountain People - Fitch

     

    North Dakota:

    River Friendly, River Wild – Kurtz

    Thrashin' Time: Harvest Days in the Dakotas

     

    Ohio:

    Aurora Means Dawn

    Lentil

    (Warm as Wool may fit better here than previously stated state)

    Flatboats on the Ohio: Westward Bound

     

    Oklahoma:

    I Have Heard of a Land

    Angels in the Dust

    They Came From the Bronx: How the Buffalo Were Saved

     

    Oregon:

    Oregon's Journey

    Long Ago in Oregon

    Roughing it on the Oregon Trail

     

    Pennsylvania:

    Just Plain Fancy

    A Humble Life: Plain Poems

    The Folks in the Valley

    The Egg Tree

    The Colony of Pennsylvania

    Pioneer Church

    Bewildered for Three Days

    Punxatawney Phil

     

    Rhode Island:

    Finding Providence: The Story of Roger Williams

    The Colony of Rhode Island

    Loud and Crowing (Rhode Island Red roosters)

    Roger Williams and Rhode Island (video)

     

    South Carolina:

    Carolina Shout!

    The Colony of South Carolina

     

    South Dakota:

    Mount Rushmore (two titles)

    Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox - Bleeter

     

    Tennessee:

    Swamp Angel

    Davy Crockett (Rabbit Ears, w/ tape)

    Lucky with Potatoes (do they grow these in Tennessee?)

     

    Texas:

    Legend of the Bluebonnet

    Beats Me, Claude

    Armadillo Rodeo

    Bluebonnet at Dinosaur Valley State Park

    Bubba the Cowboy Prince

    Susanna of the Alamo

    The Inside-Outside Book of Texas

    Armadillo from Amarillo

    The West Texas Chili Monster

    Jalepeno Hal

    The Cowboy and the Black-eyed Pea

    Fish Fry

    Freedom's Gifts: A Juneteenth Story

    Ganzy Remembers

    Prairie Christmas

    A Cowboy Named Ernestine

     

    Utah:

    Salt Lake City - Doubleday

    Grandfather's Gold Watch

     

    Vermont:

    Least of All

    The Wonderful Hay Tumble

    Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf

    Snowflake Bentley

     

    Virginia:

    The Relatives Came

    When the Whipoorwill Calls

    One Christmas Dawn

    Appalachia: Voices of Sleeping Birds

    The Blue Hill Meadows

    Night in the Country

    This Year's Garden

     

    Washington:

    Island Time

    A Horse's Tale

     

    West Virginia:

    When I was Young in the Mountains

    In November

    But I'll be Back Again

    Scarecrow

    Silver Packages

    Waiting to Waltz

     

    Wisconsin:

    Giant Ball of String

    Dance at Grandpa's

    Christmas in the Big Woods

    Winter Days in the Big Woods

    The Deer in the Wood

    Going to Town

    Summertime in the Big Woods

     

    Wyoming:

    Tonweya and the Eagles - YellowRobe

    Lakota Hoop Dancer - LeftHandBull

    Iktomi and the Buzzard - Goble

    Jack Creek Cowboy

    Washington, D.C.:

    Capitol: Washington, D.C. From A to Z

    The White House

    The Wall

    Inside-Outside Book of Washington, D.C.

     

    Puerto Rico:

    The Outside Dog

    Take a Trip to Puerto Rico

    Sergio and the Hurricane

    Abuelita's Paradise

     

    Virgin Islands:

    The Day the Hurricane Happened

    Izzard

     

    Pacific Territories:

    U.S. Territories and Possessions

    Pacific Islands

    Living Geography Books

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted

    I'm sorry I can't credit the person who made the following list, but I saved this years ago.

     

    a book by DK called Children Just Like Me: Celebrations!

     

    Children From Australia to Zimbabwe: A Photographic Journey Around the World, by Maya Ajmera and Ana Rhesa Versola.

     

     

    Australia:

    Pumpkin Runner, Arnold

    Where the Forest Meets the Sea, Baker

    Bossy Boots, Cox

    Bright Star, Crew

    Dial-a-Croc, Dumbleton

    Flood Fish, Eversole

    Possum Magic, Fox (home?)

    Big Rain Coming, Germein

    Don’t Dig so Deep, Nicholas! Harrison

    Counting by Kangaroos, Hulme

    Ernie Dances to the Didgeridoo, Lester

    Wombat Goes Walkabout, Morpurgo

    Rainforest Children, Pittawpy

    Farmer Schulz’s Ducks, Thiele

    Snap! Vaughan

    Wombat Stew, Vaughan

    Biggest Frog in Australia (home)

    Rescuers Down Under – video

    A Waltz Through the Hills – video

    Old Shell, New Shell, Ward

    Old Woman Who Loved to Read, Winch

     

    Brazil:

    Count your way through Brazil, Haskins

    How Night Came From the Sea, Gerson

    Amazon Boy, Lewin

    In a Bottle with a Cork on Top, Skurzynski

     

    China:

    Ruby’s Wish, Bridges

    Story of Kites, Compestine

    Visit to China, Packard

    Moon Festival, Russell

    Chinese New Year, Schaefer

    Chinatown, Low

    My Chinatown: One Year in Poems, Mak

     

     

    Dominican Republic:

    Dominican Republic – Cobblestone

     

    Ecuador:

    Kid’s Discover: Equator

     

    France:

    King’s Day: Louis XIV of France, Aliki

    Giraffe that Walked to Paris, Milton

    Joan of Arc: Heroine of France, Tompert

    King Tree, French

    Boneparte, Chall

    Happy Lion, Fatio

    Happy Lion in Africa, Fatio

    Happy Lion’s Quest

    Happy Lion’s Rabbits

    Happy Lion’s Treasure

    Happy Lion’s Vacation

    Three Happy Lions (do all these really have to do with France?)

    Jean-Marie at the Fair, Francoise (and other Jean-Marie books)

    Inspector Peckit, Freeman

    Dinner at Mabritte’s, Garland

    Truffle Hunter, Moore

    Harry and Lulu, Yorinks

     

    Guatemala:

    Mama and Papa have a Store, Carling

    Abuela’s Weave, Castaneda

    Sleeping Bread: Story, Czernecki

    Iguana Beach, Franklin

     

    Hungary:

    Song for Lena, Hippely

     

    India:

    Heart of a Tiger, Arnold

    Story of Little Babaji, Bannerman

    Story of Little Black Sambo, Bannerman

    Lakshui, the Water Buffalo Who Wouldn’t, Gobhai

    Cow for Jaya, Grant

    Poombah of Badoombah, Lillegard

    Baya, Baya, Lulla-by-a, McDonald

    Gay-Neck: Story of a Pidgeon, Mukerji (audio)

    Golden Serpent, Myers

    Rikki-Tikki – video

    Nine Animals and the Well, Rumford

     

     

     

     

    Japan:

    Old Man who Made the Trees Bloom, Jijii

    Magic Fan, Baker

    Crane Girl, Charles

    Painter and the Wild Swans, Clement

    How My Parents Learned to Eat, Friedman (audio)

    Ten Oni Drummers, Gollub

    Girl from the Snow Country, Hidaka

    Kenji and the Magic Geese, Johnson

    Yoshi’s Feast, Kajikawa

    Carp for Kimiko, Kroll

    Seven Gods of Luck, Kudler

    Yoshiko and the Foreigner, Little

    Moshi, Moshi, London

    Dragon Kite, Luenn

    Pair of Red Clogs, Matsuno

    Cherry Tree, MacCaughrean

    Emperor’s Plum Tree, Nikly

    Tea with Milk, Say

    Long Silk Strand, Williams

     

    Kenya:

    Ndito Runs, Anderson

    Family in Kenya, Griffin

     

    Lithuania:

    Music of the Soviet Union (Lithuanian folksongs)

    Lithuania, Lerner Publications

     

    Mexico:

    Mexico ABC’s, Hieman

    Hummingbird’s Gift, Czernecki

    Manuela’s Gift, Estes

    Nine Days to Christmas, Ets

    Under the Lemon Moon, Fine

    How Nanita Learned to Make Flan, Geeslin

    In Rosa’s Mexico, Geeslin

    On Ramon’s Farm, Geeslin

    Moon was at a Fiesta, Gollub

    Twenty-five Mixtec Cats, Gollub

    Lorenzo, the Naughty Parrot, Johnston

    Day of the Dead, Johnston

    Magic Maguey, Johnston

    Ghost Wings, Joosse

    Piggy Bank Gonzales, Kent

    Butterfly Boy, Kroll

    Hill of Fire, Lewis (audio)

    Blanca’s Feather, Madrigal

    Trandi’s Braids, Madrigal

    Blue Bug Visits Mexico, Poulet

    Today is the Day, Riecken

    Mice and Beans, Ryan

     

     

    Nigeria:

    Take a Trip to Nigeria, Lye

    Bikes for Rent! Olaleye

    Grandfather’s Work, Onyefulu

    Mysterious Gold and Purple Box, Watson

    Saying Goodbye, Onyefulu

     

    Oman:

    An Arab Family, Dutton

     

    Philippines:

    Take a Trip to the Philippines, Oleksy

     

    Qatar:

    Qatar, Augustin

     

    Russia:

    A Look at Russia, Frost

    Babushka Babayaga, Polacco

    Philipok, Tolstoy

    Little Kim’s Doll, Yaroshevskaya

    Three Cheers for Catherine the Great, Best (audio)

    Apple Pie and Onions, Caseley

    A Piece of Home, Levitin

    Trees of the Dancing Goats, Polacco

    Uncle Vova’s Tree, Polacco

    Dream Jar, Pryor

    Twenty-two Russian Tales for Young Children, Tolstoy

     

    Senegal:

    In Bikole: Eight Modern Stories About Life in a West African Village, Gilroy

    Senegal in Pictures, Lerner Publications

     

    Turkey:

    Take a Trip to Turkey, Lye

     

    United States

     

    Since we’re also doing a more specific US study, I’ve chosen books from all the other “U†countries:

     

    Ukraine:

    Ukraine – Cobblestone

     

    Uganda:

    Beatrice’s Goat, McBrier (this is about the Heifer Project)

     

    Uruguay:

    Uruguay in Pictures, Haverstock

     

    United Kingdom:

    The Queen’s Progress: An Elizabethan Alphabet, Davidson

    Anno’s Britain, Anno

    Country Mouse Cottage: How we Lived 100 Years Ago, Brooks

    Town Mouse House: How we Lived 100 Years Ago, Brooks

     

    Vietnam:

    Vietnam, Allard

    Lotus Seed, Garland

    Grandfather’s Dream, Keller

    Walking Stick, Trottier

     

    Western Samoa:

    Samoans – Cobblestone

     

    Yemen:

    Yemen in Pictures, Lerner Publications

     

    Zimbabwe:

    Gugu’s House, Stock

    Where are You Going, Manyoni? Stock

    Chemistry 101 by Westfield Studios

    in Logic Stage & Middle Grade Challenges

    Posted

    I liked it much better than the Biology! Very logically set up, with the point to understand how the periodic table is set up and what the elements are, and very well planned. It starts with biographic material on all the folks who were instrumental in discovering the beginning elements through when the table was developed. My ds who loves biographies loved that part!

     

    It does not include the math many might like included in a high school class. If you've used Biology 101 you know what his set up of 'classes' is like. I think one could add easily to 'fatten up' the class, but for me and my non-future scientific sons, it is a great basics of chemistry. I highly recommend it, especially for the logic stage!

     

    Can't wait for the physics class that should come out next year!

    Co-op questions: Does this sound good to you? Why or why not?

    in General Education Discussion Board

    Posted · Edited by Tina

    The state organization here said groups are in a decline in general, all over. In some places more families are doing K-12 or something, and just staying at home to school.

     

    That said, I'm part of a co-op that's been around for about 15 years. We started initially with specific classes for various age groups, as enrichment to do things in a group setting. Art, science, math/geography games, and music (6th and under) and art, science and speech for 7th and up. The group met bi-weekly through the school year. 8 years ago the teens switched to doing a dinner theatre and the yearbook.

    Several years ago the music class for the youngers changed to a Team challenge class; highly creative and artsy fun with a shared project.

     

    A year or two later, a band and choir were started (with a paid instructor), these on a weekly basis, along with more academic classes taught by parents- foreign language, watercolor painting, algebra, chemistry, etc. Then we had more young kids there waiting, so some parents put together PE, preschool, lit discussion, etc., so every age would have choices. We offered whatever someone wanted to teach; the instructor basically charged for her books and materials. Some classes were just a half year.

     

    BTW, does your group have a website or host a homeschooling 101 at Barnes and Noble or someplace that would let newer homeschoolers know about you? Where can new homeschoolers get info on your group ?

     

    Fast forward to last year, and for the bi-weekly classes, we were losing our younger groups as we aged out/graduated. At the weekly classes, attendance had dropped to no one wanting to teach a filler class, but everyone wanting band and choir yet. These parents were afraid of the bi-weekly classes because they had to TEACH!

    We had to merge the two groups due to the cost of building usage. And everyone (well almost everyone) loved it! Merging band and choir into the schedule was a bit tricky, but it was nice really being one group again! The year end evaluations said they wanted it to stay together. Cost? $20 annual fee, $40 per child for all, plus band and choir fees for those instructors if you take those.

    BTW, band and choir only met at another location last year for the odd weeks, and that was covered by donations at the band/choir programs.

     

    I think your fees would be prohibitive for folks here, and I wouldn't like the 10 week classes. I prefer the bi-weekly classes that stretch through the school year for 16-17 weeks. BTW, we have moms team teaching the bi-weekly classes. They can take turns or trade months, or one be lead teacher as long as the two agree on it.

     

    BTW, does your group have a website or host a homeschooling 101 at Barnes and Noble or someplace that would let newer homeschoolers know about you? Where can new homeschoolers get info on your group ?

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