Ronald Dahl books are funny and the Pippi Longstocking books, too. Sent from my HTC Desire Eye using Tapatalk

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I am not Mennonite, but Baptist. I use the 2nd-4th grade Bible curriculum and having noticed any issues, but my theology might not be as far off as yours. I've always felt that they were Scriptural in perspective not denominational. I've always assumed their theology came in later grades.

I love the Rod and Staff Bible Readers grades 2-4 for an easy to understand but thorough coverage of the Bible stories. I feel like it is more in-depth, truer to Scripture, and sensitive to when children need clarification of culture or application than other Bible story books for kids. I use this on top of Awana for my younger kids. Plus, we doing a chronological daily family bible time together at least five nights a week. They read the readers on their own, study Awana verses for memorization, and we have discussions during family bible time. If we didn't have time for Awana club due to sports, I would work through booklets with them.

As a schoolteacher in a school where students frequently get lice, I stopped getting it from students (I have long hair) when I started washing my hair with tea tree oil shampoo on a regular basis. Tea tree oil works better IMO and is natural.

Henry and Mudge series and Amelia Bedelia are two of my favorites

What are they interested in?

I wouldn't worry too much. I teach at a public school, and most years they review and reteach the writing process and basic principals of how writing workshop works. First grade is right near the beginning, and I'm sure your son has already recieved an adequate foundation in writing from being in a classical school. He may even be ahead of some.;)

On my blog at http://seekingequalibrium.blogspot.com/ I've posted a couple of piggyback songs I wrote for teaching young children the basic science taxonomy. I have two for the animal kingdom right now. Hopefully, I can find the ones I wrote for the plant kingdom. I wanted to post them so that others can get use out of them. I thought they would be good for the grammar stage for science. Feel free to use, make copies of, share, or change as you see fit. Just please do not resell or use for commercial purposes. :001_smile:

Supposedly, this was rated the number one language learning software above Rosetta Stone. It is actually less expensive too. Has anyone heard of it, and does anyone know if it works in a homeschooling atmosphere?

I'm on my seventh year teaching third and fourth grade age students--the same age as your son, and it is definately high quality! I wish I could get that kind of work on a regular basis from my students.

We will be homeschooling our children for middle school, but my elementary age girls will go to the public school where I teach. I do a little afterschool--Bible, cursive, but want to do more next year especially with history. I would love more ideas about afterschooling.

Glad no one thinks I hate SOTW! I absolutely love it and wish I could get our public school to adopt it, but I don't think I could get them to see how it aligns with Missouri standards. (Although I know I could make it fit! :tongue_smilie:) Anyway, I had thought about using my favorite stories from SOTW, but I was having a hard time thinking of the top stories. I guess I was thinking to myself, "What stories would best enhance the cultural literacy and support the background knowledge of these kids?" Which topics deserve more in-depth attention?

We can teach religion from an objective perspective as it relates to history.

Teachers have no say in the curriculum per se, but we have lots of say about how we use the curriculum, how we structure it, and what we add to it. Teachers are supposed to be trained to teach not the curriculum but the standards, and the standards are often open ended. Social studies is not tested at the third grade level, but reading is, and from what I understand, a good background in social studies and science will help with reading comprehension as students get older. My school principal leaves lots of leeway for teachers to teach according to their best professional knowledge, and knowing how great classical education is from my own experience homeschooling my children, I want to bring the best that I can to the parameters of my schooling environment. And when it comes to teaching great history, the classical schoolers have it! So that is why I do not visit regular public school boards. So what would you guys consider the top 30 historical events/periods that children need to know for a good background knowledge and cultural literacy? I know you can answer me that! ;)

I'm looking for some wisdom from the hive. I am a public school teacher-third grade. I am looking over the Social studies text, and after using Story of the World, I have to say, I absolutely HATE it! It covers things by abstract concepts such as maps, communities, regions, cultures when kids have no background knowledge to which to attach these ideas. They need historical stories and memory work. Can anyone give me a basic spine of the best stories, historical events, etc. that would give my third graders a basic understanding of history and culture so that words like "communities," "government," "economics," and "region" actually give them enough examples and context to make sense? I feel strongly that without an understanding of where people and culture began and grew through the stories of history, it is too difficult to understand such abstract concepts that our social studies book tries to teach. I can't just use the Story of the World set because that is meant to be done over four years. I need an outline or resource that gives an overview of world history for young kids that gives me time to make the connections to my curriculum in one year. (By the way, the kids in my district are quite impoverished as far as background knowledge and cultural literacy.)

:iagree: I read this book in college, and I stopped dating until I felt assurance that the guy I liked was the one God wanted for me. I just enjoyed being friends with guys until then. When I finally had assurance that one of my guy friends was "the one," I started dating him, got engaged 6 months later, and married the next year. Twelve years later, I am married to him still, and I am so glad I did not date several of the other guy friends I had in college. Some of them are still my facebook friends to this day, and I am so glad I chose to go about finding a spouse in this way.

My 11 year old aspie daughter has had two years of public school and four years of homeschool. We will be homeschooling her again next year. I asked her what was important to her and would help her most this next year, and she said she wanted a schedule like they have in public school. This makes sense based on what I've heard about aspies, so we will be making sure she has a schedule this year.

I was an exchange student in Finland in 1994. A cousin of my host family was in technical school and was anxious to show me this new thing called the web. It didn't make much sense to me at the time, and to be honest, did not really interest me at all. To think, now, how it has changed the world!

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I sense that this may cause interesting problems in the future. Especially as some use the technology for evil while others are totally ignorant of the possibilities and dangers. Not only that, but it appears that those who have money and skills to more readily access technology may have advantages and power over those who don't. And yet, the thought many of you expressed, I ask myself: Is it really worth trying, and in fact, can it be detrimental trying to think and live at that kind of pace and level of technological submersion?

(Sorry: exponential) Does anyone else feel overwhelmed by the increasing speed and growth in knowledge and technology in the world? Especially as one responsible for the education of children? I sometimes feel as I will never adapt fast enough in order to give my children the cutting edge skills they need. In fact, I already feel behind the times in many ways. Sometimes, I just want to scream, "Slow down world--I can't keep up!" :willy_nilly:

Being tapped or poked in order to get my attention. I don't know why that bugs me. And my big pet peeve, is people popping their knuckles--AAAAACK!

I think that the violations by Saudi Arabia against freedom and human rights is horrible. Their government is extremely repressive according to my knowledge. Why should any of us even do business with them? :glare: