MrsWeasley
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I'm using AAS with my kindergartener and third grader. I had gone through several spelling programs with my oldest: this is the first one where she's actually retained and applied her spelling lessons to her writing. I really love it!
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I hate my house. It's a fixer upper, and I honestly feel like I'm drowning under the weight of home repairs I don't have the money or ability to fix. I often fantasize about just abandoning the property and letting it go into foreclosure.
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I got married in 2008 at 21. My parents paid for food, which was about $500 and let me host it at their single family home, as we lived in a one bedroom apartment at the time. This was a very, very informal wedding, mostly because we were young and already had a child eating up most of our money. Sometimes, I regret that, and if possible for us, I hope to contribute more to my children's weddings. My in-laws hate my parents, but they hated them (and me) before then.
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How does Dead Panic compare to Castle Panic? What about Ocean Labyrinth to the original? If you have Evolution, how does it play with 2-3 players?
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His room is completely dismantled as we've been drywalling. The blue kura bed with the blue bed tent though is what he has for his bed:
http://mommabird.net/2013/07/big-boy-bed-ikea-kura-bunk-bed/
This is the blanket in his bedset, and the rest match:
Maybe later I'll take a picture of the nightstand (which is a darker blue) and his train table (which is a bright blue).
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Because our local place charges a delivery fee, I only do 15%. I'm hoping that part of that fee goes to the driver, but I admit that I'm not sure about that.
Most pizza places do not give part of that delivery fee to the driver.
I give 20%.
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My six year old has been saying for over a year he wants a pink bedroom, and since we need to paint, I think we'll do it. A lot of his furniture, though, is bright or dark blue. I'm looking for suggestions for wall and trim colors. Thanks.
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We used OPGTR. We did supplement with Progressive Phonics, Bob Books, etc... I like that it did eventually taught him to read. I liked the cost. I did feel like it was a slog at times, and there were times where it moved faster than he was ready. It's not completely secular, which I didn't realize until we were pretty far into it. IDK if I will use this for my third kid when he's ready or not.
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Tentatively:
Math: Beast Academy 5C and 5D, maybe starting AoPS Pre-Algebra
Language Arts: finishing FLL4 (and then I don't know what we'll do for grammar, maybe Hake), WWE4, finishing AAS4 and starting AAS5
Spanish: Rosetta Stone, maybe a tutor if I can scrounge up the money
Fine Arts: Suzuki Piano, Harmony Fine Arts Grade 5
History: SotW 1, supplementing with Joy Hakim's The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way
Science: Ellen McHenry's Protozoa, Botany, Cells, and The Brain
Geography: Draw Europe
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It depends. My kids' dad swears casually frequently. We also have different ideas about what constitutes a swear word, but none of it is hate speech. I've decided that casual swearing is not a battle worth having with him. Angry swearing, swearing at my kids, well, that I think is just completely unacceptable.
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Not my kid, but a twelve year old in our homeschool group made a netflix and chill joke in front of me, like I wouldn't know, until I gave him the hairy eyeball.
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I don't think it's crazy, but I don't think we could maintain a regular rhythm of school with two full days out of the house. Any way you could do the co-op in the afternoon only and do school in the morning?
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Following.
Most I have heard from went RS>BA>AOPS or RS>RS+BA>AOPS.
My firstborn didn't do RS, but this is my plan for my second. We might switch him after RS B if by some miracle BA 2 is done in time.
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I'm impressed, too. I live in the town I grew up. This quiz places me exactly in the town next door to my town (a bigger city in my state but by no means a big city). Amazing!
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It really depends on the school. My daughter attended a well-rated public school. The school didn't focus on reading instruct, just writing weirdly. Many kids at the end of kindergarten couldn't read and still went onto first.
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I drive a 2008 Toyotoa Sienna. We have over 100,000 miles on it, and we haven't had any significant repairs.
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Oh, my two year old was quoting from Click Clack Moo earlier today. That's definitely another we've read a million times!
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What about A to Z Mysteries? I don't know if they count as "real life" stories, but they aren't historical or fantasy.
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I find using the length of the private lesson a good indication of how long the child should practice. When my daughter first started piano at seven years old, I expected her to practice for half an hour, just like her lesson length. My six-year-old has been playing violin for two years. When he first started, he had twenty-minute lessons and practiced for twenty minutes. Now he has lessons for half an hour and practices on average 45 minutes a day. A LOT of that time, though, is spent on review, polishing things he already plays easily. I wouldn't expect that long from a beginner at that age. Daily practice is more important than length of practice, IMHO. Another thing that will help with knowing how long to expect your child to practice is to get specific assignments from the teacher.
This is how I daught my daughter (at 7) her piano keys: https://www.musicmotion.com/Games/piano-races-game.asp
It was fun and worked for us.
ETA: I found that teaching a kid to find D was much easier than C, so we started with that note and then worked our way to memorizing the other notes. I know that's not how most people do it, but that's how we did.
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My two year old loves The Napping House, The Runaway Bunny, Good Night Moon, Five Little Monkeys, The House in the Night, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Olivia, Little Blue Truck, Awake to Nap, The Pout Pout Fish, Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes, Everywhere Babies, All the World, I Stink!, Roadwork, Bear Snores On, You Are My Sunshine, Freight Train by Donald Crews, Muncha Muncha Muncha!, My Truck is Stuck, Peek-a-Who?, Baby Beluga, Llama Llama Red Pajama, The Snowy Day, and Time for Bed.
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No idea. Lots of medium-big dogs, but I'm not a dog person. And people look at you like you have decapitated heads stored in your deep freezer when you tell them that.
Totally a tangent, but I know! I'm really allergic to dogs. Not being able to breathe when handling them despite that I take a daily antihistamine pretty distinctly makes me not a dog person, but people seem to think it's a moral failure that I want to have nothing to do with your dog. People don't act that way about my comparable allergy to cats and horses. I wish it could be treated with the same moral neutrality as peanut butter.
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My oldest, with fine but straight hair, could do her hair independently. My second child has the same fine hair but very curly. It's curly, so the shrinkage varies, but it's always past his shoulders. Wet, it's probably halfway past his back. He doesn't want to shower every morning, so he sprays himself with a curl reviving spray (that works ok) and then tries to comb it. I've tried to teach him to start towards the bottom and work his way up. He just gets really frustrated, especially with the back. I always end up finishing up with him, after her struggles for maybe ten minutes. I have very curly hair like him, but it's not as fine and I shower every day. It really only takes me five minutes to do my hair. His hair just gets so much more tangled than mine, even though we comb every day. He likes having long hair. He wants to grow his hair to his butt. He cried last time I took him to get his hair cut and cut it to his shoulders. I really want him to move towards more independence in this area. Mamas of kids with long curly hair, how can I help him learn to comb independently?
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Pretty classic dogs: labs, german shepherds, bulldogs, and retrievers. We live in the midwest.
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How far are you in AAS?
One day in Boston, what to see?
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We definitely loved the Freedom Trail, but we walked it over a few days. If I only had a day, I would start at Boston Common, walk to the Boston Massacre site and visit the Old State House, have lunch at Fanuiel Hall, go to Old North Church (and take the tour of the bell tower), and end the day at the USS Constitution Museum.