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My 5yo dd will be finished with Pre-K at the school she currently attends, which is run by our church, mid-May. I understand that Kinder under the WTM paradigm is mostly a prep for 1st grade. I still do want to make it a more-formal thing, given she has been in a more-formal setting for the past 8 or so months.
Since she has no idea about "summer vacation", should I go ahead and just start up in June? Frankly, I'm SOOOO excited to get going that I just don't want to wait! (We're already dong 100EZ and some formal Bible at home.) Here in Almost Mexico, due to the blistering hot and monsoonal summers (TORRENTIAL rain June - September) the public school year ends in May and picks up again the first week in August, just so the kids can get a break INSIDE during the hottest part of the year.
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I'm not looking for Veggie Tales or other quirky-animated type Easter-time story.
My 3 and 5 year old girls want to see a story about Jesus' experience. They know the scriptural account (they always want to hear the "Jesus Died on the Cross" story from the wonderful (pull no punches) Jesus Storybook Bible. Ideas?? Is "The Passion For Kids" any good?
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So much of childhood is role playing...good and bad. I think perhaps this is an area of Christian liberty. It's kind of like modest dress. We can all agree walking around na*ed would not be modest! But some think women should wear long dresses all the time, some are ok with pants, some think tank tops are ok, some think they are awful. I think we would all agree that a child acting like, say Freddy Kruger or Satan or Jason from Friday the 13th-that would be weird! But pirates, cops & robbers, cowboys & Indians? Most of the time the kids who are dressing up like this are too young to know all the history of it. I strongly believe that boys are born with that innate desire to protect and battle. I was determined to have no play guns for my oldest. So he picks up a stick that is slightly bent and starts "shooting" with it.
Anyway, that's just my 2 cents. In the long run, we each have to answer to our own conscience and do what we believe is right in the eyes of the Lord. If it bothers you, then I would not allow it. At the same time, you will have to respect the fact that others will not feel this way, and not be judgemental of them (I'm not saying that you are, just a caution, as I have lost a friendship with someone who became very judgemental of me because I did not agree with her standards of modesty).
BUMP! There have been so many good analyses here...I wouldn't add anything fresh.
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Every character is named with a very specific purpose in mind. Most are named after authors, or it is strongly hinted. For example, Charlotte S. Lewis -- C.S. Lewis. (She was the redhead with whom Dr. Farraday the physicist was in love -- got killed of a few weeks ago, but who knows if that's permanent on The Island!) :lurk5:
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I have the teacher's manual, and I think I've opened it twice.
BTW, Continuing Education Press, the publisher of the GD series went out of business yesterday. So it might be hard to find soon, unless a different publisher picks it up.
AAACK! :ack2: I'm so sorry to hear that! I just bought a workbook up on Amazon a few minutes ago...I figure it's a cheap investment. I can at least take a look at it and decide if it is, indeed, for us.
Thanks for the heads up!!!!!
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What phonics program would be a good follow-on to 100EZ lessons for my 5 year old? (Those of you who read my other thread re: the horrible frustration with 100EZ will be happy to learn that now that I've cut out the awful script and eased up on the writing, my daughter actually looks forward to her lesson and is learning! :thumbup:
So far, I've only looked at Explode the Code...has such great reviews. Any other suggestions?
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I've decided to start out my 5 yo on Getty Dubay Italic for handwriting. For those of you who use GD, did you use the instructor manual and/or the blackline masters? or just the actual book (Book A, Book B, etc.)
Thanks!
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I've been getting UTI's since I was 5 years old. It got to a point where I'd have one every year, sometimes twice; more in a bad year.
In the 12.5 years we've lived in this home, I've gotten one or two. I drank cranberry faithfully but got sick of it.
Two weeks ago I awoke with one and was upset because I felt it was far too advanced for anything natural. I heard raw, organic, unprocessed apple cider vinegar would work on them (I give it to my mother daily who is prone to UTI. She was on maintenance antibiotics just to keep UTI away. Two months and counting with none - this is GOOD!) so I made a strooooooooong glass of vinegar water and the infection went away! I was shocked! I've been drinking it ever since.
Try to get your daughter to drink cranberry juice and put some of the vinegar water in. If she'll drink it, the UTI will go away without meds!
If you do put her on meds, please get some good probiotics at the health food store to put her on once she's finished her meds. They will replace the good bacteria that the antibiotics kill. They're completely safe.
Sorry, not the answer you were looking for, but maybe this will help you in the future!
Ooooh, I like this idea. I'm going to try it out while we're waiting...she actually LIKES vinegar...her favorite dressing is oil and vinegar, strong on the vinegar!
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Well, I finally got her to go...she thought it wasn't scary to go into a clean metal bowl in the bathtub. :lol: I find that humorous.
Good news is the rapid test came back negative for a UTI, but so did the first one...it was only after the 4 day culture that we found out she did indeed have one. The not knowing is worse than the actual treatment in my mind!
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Or you can drap saran wrap over the bowl and cup it down in toward the water of the toilet, so that it makes a large bowl or cup, if you will. She can then use the bathroom as per normal and you can dip the clean container into the urine you've caught, then dump the rest into the bowl.
And THIS is why I post on this board!!! I am JUST NOT THAT CREATIVE! Thanks for this great idea. I'm gonna try it out right now.
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Ditto to the Dankso's. I had one pair for 8 years, and just got my second pair. Even my husband wears them (and he's a manly USAF officer!!!!). I have a pair of red patent leather "professionals" (the model) on right now in fact. I even wear them in the summer time (which is 10 months out of the year here!) without socks.
Privo also makes really, really comfortable shoes of good quality, and often on sale at nordstrom.com and zappos.com.
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Go to See's! They cost a bit more, but honestly not that much, and they taste SOOOOO good!
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Sounds obvious, but how about the good old rubber snake or big, but not too big ominous-looking plastic spider in an unexpected location?
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Okay, this is one of those delicate issues. I have been trying for the past 5 hours to get her to give a sample into a cup so the Clinic can do the dip test for a UTI, and she just WON'T do it. She says she's scared of the cup.
I have tried incentives, taking privileges away; unforunately, I've shown her all gamut of emotions -- I don't feel like the strong mommy right now. I'm telling you, I'm at the end of my rope. I was actually in tears at the doctor's office (we are now home...) because of this. Sounds dumb, I know, but this is the last straw in a long line of awfulness that is the month of March. In our household, we have experienced the following: 2 streps, 2 UTIs prior to this one, pink eye, bronchitis, severe constipation in my 5 year old, I've had a weird virus for 5 weeks that developed into bronchitis, so I have had the wonderful follow-up infection to too many antibiotics....this was ust the straw the broke the camel's back. TMI I KNOW!!!! I'm just WORN OUT!
So back to the subject...any ideas? While on Base I even took her to the toy section of the BX and told her we could pick out a toy, and then come back and get it after she went in the cup. Nope. I've been shoving the fluids down, and she won't even go normally -- hasn't gone since she woke up at 7:00 this morning, and now it is 2:30. I know it is probably uncomfortable for her to go, but....
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Thanks! I think I'll just stick with my previous plan. I think I'm suffering from PMS -- preschooler misbehaving syndrom -- and I'm wiped out today!
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COSTCO!!!! Their organic peanut-only peanut butter is delicious. Have to mix in the oil, just like L. Scudders.
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I've been reading to my 5 and 3 yo girls who eat it up! They DO get it. My older, especially, asks some pretty deep questions that lead to great theological discussions.
Go for it!
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Okay, I thought I had it down for my 5 yo DD for Kinder next year. I was going to mix-n-match Italic writing, Generations of Grace Bible, MathUSEE, an unknown LA/phonics program b/c we're working through 100EZ for reading right now, and fill in the rest.
Now I'm wondering (after reading the many excited about Sonlight posts - catalogs have been shipped) if we should do "SL in a box...". We LOVE LOVE LOVE reading. In fact one of my biggest problems is that we have so many of the books on the list already, that we'd have to order the core curr. piece by piece.
So let me ask this. By way of comparison to SL, what CLASSICAL "kinder-in-a-box" is out there? I'm so confused now that I think I need someone to lay it all out for me!
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I absolutely love, love, love the entire Philosophy line (I don't have any stake in them). It's not cheap, but not the most expensive, either. (BTW, has anyone else noticed how drugstore skincare is creeping up and joining the price of "counter" stuff???)
The skincare products range from very light to very rich.
I am 40, and have had acne problems since college. For the first time every, my acne is GONE, and I used to rely on makeup to cover up the blemishes. Now my skin is so clear that I don't HAVE to use makeup unless I want to!!!! (Their makeup line is minimal but wonderful. Once you switch from liquid foundation to mineral/powder, you will never go back to gloppy liquid again.)
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Anything "wrapped" (like spring rolls, pot stickers, etc.) because what is inside is a mystery :)
Or you know how bumbling bad guys in old movies used to carry out bodies wrapped up in carpets? You could do pigs in blankets...
Have fun!
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I keep a box for bread-baking. I have a delicioso focaccia recipe that calls for mashed potato, and I never seem to have a potato on hand when I need it. I use the "Idahoan" brand, but they may be a west-coast only bread. I have failed to find any, though, without added stuff (which I assume are preservatives...I don't mean added sour cream or milk or anything). I can't find any that are just 100% dehydrated potato and nothing else. Anyone else had luck?
PS Think twice before you use Potato Buds in the King Arthur guaranteed 100% whole wheat bread recipe...I had little "potato polka dots" :lol: throughout the bread. Didn't taste wierd, just looked funny!
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I just found a whole blog devoted to pencils!!!!
http://www.penciltalk.org/ :lol:
I, too, have enjoyed this thread so much!
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30+ tomatoes on the vine, tons of flowers.
Dried out lettuce :(
Gorgeous herbs
Doesn't seem possible, but life is strange here in Almost Mexico!
Pics on my blog:
http://bikebookandbread.blogspot.com/2009/03/tomatoes.html
http://bikebookandbread.blogspot.com/2009/03/more-garden-pix.html
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Should but don't. Horrible eczema here in Almost Mexico.
(To Christians) Good Easter movie for young children?
in General Education Discussion Board
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Clarification re: "The Passion for Kids" -- I thought I read somewhere that a children's version of "The Passion" had been made...not SHOWING "The Passion of the Christ" to a 5 and 3 year old!