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Mine IS a play-quietly type, but I cannot imagine taking her...I want to pay attention to interesting workshops and focus on ME! I completely understand about nurslings, and I'm not giving the folks who bring their kids a hard time, but it can be distracting. Dog in a stroller - CRAZY! Her, I'm giving a hard time! (See? I NEED to pay attention during grammar workshops...) :)
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My good friend is a pediatrician, and she wishes she had majored in English and minored in biology. She says she got all the bio she needed to know to do her job once she started med. school and did her residency.
She had a full scholarship to a Catholic university and did well there. It was great not to have any loans, as she ended up with plenty of loans once she finished med. school.
Good luck!
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Well, my friends...I have ordered a pair in the name of research. And winter weight. :)
I'm planning on having a friend take pictures while we're at our weekly open-gym morning, so I'll post them when they finally come. I finally resorted to ordering them on eBay, but I contacted the seller today because they won't be here for THREE WEEKS!!! Crazy! We'll see how this saga turns out.
Holly over at June Cleaver Nirvana wrote about buying a pair and it's so funny:
http://www.junecleavernirvana.com/i-bought-pajama-jeans/
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I told my daughter about it last summer when she was 5. ALthough I don't remember using this phrasing, she began saying, "The man STICKS (emphasis ALL hers) his penis in the woman's vagina. Isn't 'vagina' a sparkly word?" Umm...yes...
I offered to hire her out to our friends who were less willing to have the talk, but after she told another five-year-old who immediately covered her ears and yelled, "STOP TALKING ABOUT IT!!!" I decided her delivery could use some work. ;)
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I have this really great dish I always make. We have it at least 6 times a week. It has lots of good stuff in it, like whole grains, vitamins, and minerals. We make ours with raw milk, but you don't have to - although it tastes even better that way. It even has a fancy, foreign-derived name - CEREAL!
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Our co-op rents space from a church, and it costs us over $600 a year. We clean the areas we use in exchange for a discount because the market rate for what we use would be twice what we currently pay. It saves the church money because they don't need to hire a custodial service.
We would never require members to join HSLDA, but maybe this co-op doesn't have liability insurance, so they hope that everyone being in HSLDA will take care of liability issues?
Also, the class fees may or may not be high depending on the length of the co-op. Our co-op meets 30 weeks out of the year, and a student can take up to three classes during each session. My daughter takes about 10 classes a year; classes cost $10 per six-week session. Teachers in our co-op receive vouchers to cover their children's classes, so I teach and cover the cost of her classes. She started with two periods of preschool the first year that we did it, and now she's taken Lego Engineering, Junior First Lego League, American Girl Craft class, cooking, electricity, literature-based math, and Magic School Bus science. Some, like AG crafts, she's taken multiple times as they focus on different historical periods. I would say our co-op isn't purely academic, but it's definitely not just social, either. We have recess and lunch together, but we expect the teachers to be providing an academic experience.
Maybe there are ways you could help improve the co-op. You may have more people get involved if there were more core classes. Our co-op evolved out of an unschooling group that was purely social; some of us wanted a little more, so we got together to create something that offered what we wanted.
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Probably because we're currently reading one at our house, B is for Betsy and the other Betsy books by Caroline Haywood come to mind. They're sweet, funny, and have a nicely-sized font that's not so big that it screams "BABYISH!"
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Not a suggestion to help you out tomorrow, but I run a co-op and we started to require that sub plans be uploaded with class proposals - and must include all the materials to do the activities. This, combined with designated subs (also to be submitted with proposals), will hopefully cut down (notice I didn't say "eliminate!") frantic, last-minute planning! We'll see...our next session starts on Friday... :001_smile:
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Could you try a search for misses sweater vests? I think if you found a few in some fun colors that coordinated with the skirts you already have and paired them with neutral tops, you could have a lot of great new outfits without spending too much! Try JCPenney's, Target, or Chadwick's - I think you'll find some cute things.
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My brother had Legos when we were kids, and I loved playing with his. My husband (an engineer now - big surprise!) played with them incessantly as a child. We have his old sets, mostly space stuff. I bought my four-year-old the "girl" bucket they had at Target with the pink and green bricks. She loved the colors and now happily spends hours in the Lego room - our cat-free guest room - where all the pieces can stay put and not be batted around by mischievous beasts. I really wish we had more of the town sets, so this summer's garage-sale season may be spent looking for some things to build more "earthly" things, and more colorful! I'm sick of grey space stuff!
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I love that a previous poster said, "I never play with them." I really don't play with my daughter, either, and some people think that's weird or mean. I think it means we have vastly different interests - there's a 24-year age gap, so it stands to reason! When my friends complains they have to play with their children all the time or the children are bored, I think THAT'S weird! My daughter can happily entertain herself, and we spend lots of time together learning, reading, and working side-by-side. We also limit screen time to one hour a week after school is done, so I agree that that helps.
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I use Elements all the time for lots of complex stuff; there are numerous ways to make it act much like full Photoshop. I just look around online to find tutorials so that it does what I want without the $500 price tag. Elements definitely has a learning curve, and full Photoshop's is even steeper! You can always start with Elements and upgrade later at a discount if she has truly mastered everything it can do.
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I love the show and tell idea! I think I might steal it for OUR co-op! Thanks for the idea! (Wow - I should tone down the exclamation points...)
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Wow, I posted that at 1:37 p.m., it's now 1:54 p.m. I played Super Mario World for 17 minutes and I'm so done with it for now. See what I mean about brief?!!
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I bought one after obsessing about wanting one, played it incessantly for 6 months (or as obsessively and incessantly as one can with a three-year-old around who was not exposed to any screens in our house whatsoever until she was four), let it gather dust for about three months, and then sold it on eBay right before Christmas last year. THAT was a good move, if I do say so myself! But, I second the classic games comment from StaceyinLA. They were great - all the old Mario stuff from when I was a kid. Just buy what comes in the box and then add anything else like extra remotes and nunchucks if you need them...you may never need them! I also did the Game Spot rental thing - like Netflix for games - and was able to rent great games that I wouldn't have bought but enjoyed playing. If I really liked the games I rented, I bought them used from Game Spot at a good discount.
Ooo, talking about video games makes me want to play one now...my daughter even realizes how insane I get with them for a brief period, then it passes. She said a few weeks ago, "Mommy, whenever you play video games, you get incest." "No, sweetie," I said, "you mean 'obsessed,' but you're right, I do."
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We don't fly for environmental reasons, but I would love to visit Dubai and much of the Middle East. I am insanely jealous of you! :) Pack your bags and GO, GO, GO!!!
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Wasn't there an article somewhere about where to be in OPG to start FLL? I thought it was more detailed than wait until lesson 140 in OPG. I could swear I saw it somewhere and now it's gone! Any suggestions? Thanks!
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Remember her eating sunflower seeds and her grandmother talking about getting a groove in your teeth from cracking the shells? I loved the Endless Steppe.
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We use Off! Mosquito Coils at the drive-in and they work SO well! We put them on the roof and we're good to go.
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I bought the dried villi culture from Fermented Treasures and it's been wonderful. The texture, however, was not what I expected - it's not at all thick, nor is it like Elmer's glue, as one person described! Which is probably good... That would be gross!
If I want it to be thick, I have to leave it for 24 hours and then strain it through butter muslin, and even then, I've had one batch be too thin to strain effectively. This week, I had a happy accident. I always stir it up with a spoon and pour 1/2 cup off into a clean quart mason jar, and then I use the blender to whiz the remainder up to improve the texture. The next morning, the whey had dropped out of solution and I had 2 1/2 cups of nice thick yogurt on top. I have no idea whether this will be replicated in next week's batch, but I hope so! I add strawberry jam to the villi and my daughter and I eat it with almost every meal because it's absolutely delicious.
I tried culturing buttermilk using the cultured buttermilk from the grocery store, too, and I had nice thick results from that. I ended up making quark with it for my German friend and she has been enjoying a little taste of home.
Also, I've made yogurt using a yogurt maker and my crockpot, and the ease of making mesophilic yogurt cannot be overemphasized! Who wants to fool around with precise temperatures and timing when you can pour cold milk into a jar with 1/2 cup from your last batch, put it behind your computer monitor, where, for me, it's a perfect 73 degrees F, and have fresh yogurt in the morning?
My point in all this rambling is that I would try whisking up each batch that you have and add 1 tbsp. of each to clean, 1 cup canning jars. Top off with fresh, unhomoginized (if possible) whole milk so that you have a cup of liquid all together, cover each with a coffee filter secured with a rubberband, and leave for 24 hours in a warm place (70 to 75 degrees F - doublecheck with a thermometer). Also, be sure that each jar is several feet away from each other, or culture on successive days, because the cultures may contaminate and weaken each other. That's what the Internets said, anyway!
Finally, I don't know that a vinegar-y smell means that they have gone bad. The whey and different baterias may just smell different. If the results of a new culturing still smell off, though, I would contact the seller and see what they say.
Good luck!
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Coldstone is outrageously expensive...now I really want to make ice cream cake because it'll will be Friday tomorrow. What do you mean that's not a good enough reason?!!
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We had one of those big, rectangular "family-sized" pools - the one where the family shown in the picture on the box must all be three feet tall because no normal-sized family would all be piling in to cool off - and I had a heck of a time keeping it clean. I had a test kit, bleach to add in certain proportions, baking soda - Mr. Google was very helpful in the theoretical application of these chemicals, but practically speaking, it was a mess! Finally, my husband said, "That's it - you're too irresponsible to care for this. It's going!" Did I mention I was pregnant at the time? He wasn't concerned that I wouldn't be able to care for our first-born child, but that pool? NO WAY!
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The Soyatoo stuff is pretty good. You could easily be allergic or sensitive to dairy proteins like casein and whey. My husband is allergic to both, but he's not lactose-intolerant...go figure. Of course, he still can't have dairy, but it's just funny to me that the thing one would suspect isn't the culprit at all!
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I can't wait to use Tom Sawyer as a verb! It's so much better than Google, Facebook, or Wiki!
Phonics-based History Readers?
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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My daughter will start 1st grade in the summer, so I decided to start a more formal science curriculum now so we can kind of get into the swing of things and not leave science out once we get busy with history and grammar and who knows what else...
We're using Paige Hudson's Elemental Science Intro. to Science and it's been a great fit for us so far. She recommends many of the Rookie Read-About Science readers and my library has most of them, so we've been reading those during my daughter's daily reading lessons. She really enjoys them and feels like she's reading "real" books about science.
Does anyone know whether there are similar books like this about history - especially ancient history?
I think she'll be able to read The Usborne Book of World History with some help by the summer, and I plan to do most of our history aloud with SOTW, but these little, accessible readers are so great for her that I would love to find something comparable...or write my own. So far, though, I have, "Long ago," Umm...duh. :tongue_smilie:
TIA!