Shelly in IL
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I have about 18 pounds to lose. Some incentive would be awesome. Please let me know.
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Have them do their work on graph paper. It keeps things neatly arranged and his math grade has gone through the roof!
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What do you wish you had used? What gaps are you noticing with your students? I have a 6th grader who is doing great, but I want to keep it that way! Currently he is using:
Lial's Basic College Math (will go on to Lial's Intro. Alg in fall)
Rod and Staff Eng. 6 (will move up)
Latin Prep (will move up)
Apologia Exploring Creation with Gen. Science (Will move up mid-year to physical science)
Wordly Wise 3000 (may use some roots program next year)
Veritas Press history
A generic Geography program
Reading/spelling McGuffey Readers
Logic - Logic Liftoff and Analogies for the 21st Century
Does that sound well enough rounded and complete enough to you? My biggest concern is history. Would love to hear from people at this age level who have used Tapestry of Grace and just love it, or any other program and think it is remarkable. Also, I would like to know of some great Geography program also - we're really not pressing that as an important subject, and we probably need to be. Thank you so much.
He is also in a weekly art program, studies piano and has various Bible/Catholic studies. Thanks guys, it's that time of year - to pick and choose again!
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We are using various resources for Bible study/Catholic Study and he is also enrolled in an art class and studies piano.
From the stand point of history, would you mention if you think it would work with the Catholic perspective as well? Thanks.
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What do you wish you had used? What gaps are you noticing with your students? I have a 6th grader who is doing great, but I want to keep it that way! Currently he is using:
Lial's Basic College Math (will go on to Lial's Intro. Alg in fall)
Rod and Staff Eng. 6 (will move up)
Latin Prep (will move up)
Apologia Exploring Creation with Gen. Science (Will move up mid-year to physical science)
Wordly Wise 3000 (may use some roots program next year)
Veritas Press history
A generic Geography program
Reading/spelling McGuffey Readers
Logic - Logic Liftoff and Analogies for the 21st Century
Does that sound well enough rounded and complete enough to you? My biggest concern is history. Would love to hear from people at this age level who have used Tapestry of Grace and just love it, or any other program and think it is remarkable. Also, I would like to know of some great Geography program also - we're really not pressing that as an important subject, and we probably need to be. Thank you so much.
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after not getting to go to any of the others (we lived 14 hour away).
Not many people left my home town, and when I went back nothing really changed with the girls. They all looked consistently better than the boys. The girls were still high schooly in my opinion. I did have several nice conversations with some of the guys whom I was not friends with in H.S. They were nice and were interesting.
That being said, if I wasn't home at the time (we now live 6 hours away) I don't know that I would spend the money or time to get there.
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Sounds like a lot of work to me! But, I am just so excited to get rid of this 1980's look, I am willing and up to anything!
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It holds its beauty and you have low maintenance! We are going to go with it, as soon as we can afford it (we have a 1400 sq. ft. deck all around our house)
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Carbon Copy to Curriculum Board
Math Experts: Need some input about next year...(7th grade)
Currently 6th grade ds is working through Lial's Basic College Math. We have Lial's Introductory Algebra purchased for next year, but we are not married to it if there is something better.
I've heard alot about Jacob's. Is this something that you would recommend over Lials? If so, what level would you put him in?
He is having success with Lial's this year. Maintaining approx a 94% if that has any bearing on your opinion. Thanks.
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dh was a USMC. Now we don't move at all..sigh...
We've lived:
Ohio
several places in Florida
Beaufort, SC, twice
Meridian, MS, twice
2 different places in IL
9 different places used to be more impressive in the 11 years we did it at first. We've been here 7 years, so 9 moves in 18 years doesn't sound as impressive!
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He is a former Protestant scholar who converted to Catholicism after he started to do some research and went to Mass.
Good luck! I am a cradle Catholic who was raised very liberally within the church. It isn't until I attended a very traditional church where they actually taught us what we believed (and why) that I fell in love with our church and Mass.
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Dh got sick exactly 4 weeks ago. He is good now, and hasn't coughed for about 2 days! However, at 3 weeks, he got a reoccurrence of the same bug and had it for a week.
2 ds are in week 4, one is almost better; one would be, but it went into a double ear infection and he is still miserable.
On Thurs. I start week 2. Good luck!:banghead:
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pain from an ear infection.
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independent reading. I read them all first, the for both of my boys, they were the first books where they fell in love with reading. Both boys were 7 or 8. I made the youngest read them all before seeing the movie. He would literally sit down and "read it up," in about an hour.
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I live in a neat older house at the end of approx. a 500 ft. driveway. It is on 6 acres that are picturesque. I would feel very invaded if someone pulled in my driveway for no apparent reason. In fact, someone pulled in my drive a few years ago, and just looked around while in their car. VERY Invasive!!! They left before I could get outside. Photographing would be even more so, as you don't know if they are casing the property for future theft. JMO
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Be interesting to know if you guys are close!
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My son had chronic ear infections. 9 in a 6 month period, 2 winters in a row. ENT had the surgery scheduled for tubes. I was very reluctant. Dh and I decided to try our chiropractor (who is also internal medicine/holistics guy). He put my son on several different things for about 6 weeks. He has only had one ear infection in 5 or 6 years now.
I remember one thing was acidopholus cultures (a special kind, one you took before eating, the other after), another was a psuedo (chinese medicine) anti-biotic that wasn't an antibiotic, called Monolaurin. He had him avoid dairy for that length of time, also.
Are you anywhere near IL? It would be worth the trip to this guy, he is awesome! Anyway ds is hardly sick anymore. It has been wonderful for us. (he hasn't been on any supplements for years):)
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We just visited! Their avg. temps in the summer are in the 80's and dry. If you want to drive, 1 hour north and you're at the Grand Canyon. 45 min. south and you're at Sedona with neat rock slides for swimming and sliding! All over Flag there are wonderful hiking trails, museums, university for university fun, all kinds of outside fun. Can you tell that I want to move there!
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Their classes for Mindstorms are $114 for one night a week. Hope this helps.;)
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when he was 18 months, not only did he know the alphabet song, but he could point to each letter and name it. Also, at 3 years old, he had all the presidents memorized in order.
He has since lost this ability, it seems, as he is almost 12 and doesn't seem to know anything anymore! Just kidding, but pre-adolescence is interesting!
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We bought a 46" Samsung LCD 1080dpi. Anyway, what sold us on the LCD versus plasma, is that our room is inundated with natural light - read major glare on most normal screens. The LCD is non-reflective - we have no glare even in the middle of the day - it is awesome! In the past with our regular tv, we had to shut out as much light as we could just to see the tv.
7th grade science- PH Sci. Explorer, Rainbow Sci, or Apologia Gen??
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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We are starting Gen. Science this year (6th), as we did Chem for the 1st sem., and rounded out the year with Gs.
It is so great, the content is excellent. Difficult concepts, but taught very efficiently. The best part for me is that it is so independent. The book is written to the student. The student is responsible for note taking (previously not something done at our house - and what a skill!!), lab experiments (easy enough to put together, he can even clean up after himself), and report writing about the experiment after EVERY experiment.
There are applied logic questions throughout the chapter. Helps them think about what they are learning. Then there is a quite thorough test review session at the end (pretty involved question/answer).
When we are through, we are definitely using Physical Science. We have had problems finding a science curriculum that fits. This one does perfectly!
HTH!