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This paragraph was written by my daughter this morning. She is nine, and will be ten in October. She did Wordsmith Apprentice and Wordsmith previously, but Wordsmith Craftsman is too high-schooly. Can you give me some ideas about what kind of writing program will work for her? I know there is a really excellent paragraph hiding in there, but I don't know how to find it.
The assignment was to write a descriptive paragraph about brownies using all the senses.
Brownies
I like Mom's brownies. In a rectangular pan, the brittle crust that will break if you touch it and the stiff edges hide the soft body... the heart of the brownie. That heart of the brownie smells sweet and delicious. It is light and warm and sticky, but slippery. They taste like sugar and chocolate. And with ice cream they are simply sublime. Brownies are good.
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Thanks for the ideas. I'll pass them along to the other group leaders.
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I have been there.
I am not pushing my children I am trying desperately to KEEP UP!
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Anyone with opinions on books for kids?... Anyone?
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Our homeschool group does a book club for the kids. There are four levels, Pre-Readers - my group, Early Readers, Middle Readers - my older son is here and Advanced Readers - my daughter is here. For the Pre-Readers, I pick a theme and read two or three books about that theme and we do a craft. For the Early Readers, a book is picked the leader reads it and they do a craft. For the Middle Readers, a book is picked, the kids read it at home before Book Club day and then discuss the book and do a craft. For the Advanced Readers, a book is picked, the kids read it and then they discuss it.
This year I am doing Pre-Readers and my son wants to do Penguins, Pizza, Rocket Ships and Kitties for our first few themes. I think they are reasonable for the 3 to 6 year olds that usually make up Pre-Readers. Do you have any other ideas for good themes? (This is a secular group with people of many faiths and none at all so no Christmas or Easter themes.)
But I need to give suggestions for the other groups that my kids are in and I am kind of stuck.
Last year the Early Readers read mostly Magic School Bus books, the thin ones. These kids are at Frog and Toad level mostly. They range in age from about 6 to 9 or so. I technically don't need to provide suggestions for this group, but since I am involved with all of the other ones, I figured I should have some ideas for here too.
The Middle Readers read books like The Mouse and the Motorcycle and Maniac Magee last year. They are looking for more books at about this level. These kids range in age from about 7 to 12 or so.
The Advanced Readers read Count of Monte Cristo and The Pretties last year. They are looking for more books that require real thought and have complex themes. These kids are mostly 13 and up.
So any good ideas from the Hive?
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spaghetti and meatballs here
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Absolutely!
Not only am I having fun teaching my four year old my older kids are enjoying it too. After lunch we all do the k4/preschool craft of the day. Last week we were doing the letter A. We made alligators from toilet paper rolls, painted with carrots and apples, used an apple peeler, made paper airplanes and used potato head pieces in play doh.
Picture a mom, a nine year old, a seven year old and a four year old, all giggling about how the alligators look more like lizards and the potato head guy with eyes in the front and the back of the head must be mom because she sees everything.
It might be our favorite part of the day. It is definitely the silliest part.
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My dd9 has two webkinz, both cats. My ds7 has one, also a cat. And ds4 has one, still another cat.
They have made a house for the cats with cardboard boxes and play cats at least once a week. I can't tell when the last time anyone was on the computer playing webkinz.
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We are using Dancing Bears Reading from Sound Foundations.
It is working really well for my youngest. You can look at the entire book online and decide if it is right for you. I love how it teaches sounds and blending.
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The problem I see with this method is that it doesn't give credit for LEARNING the material. I feel homework should be a for learning the material and there should not be a penalty for getting homework incorrect, except for the necessity to do it again.
He gives credit for getting the homework correct. If your student is getting all the homework correct the first time, then the work level is probably too low. I think homework should be graded as Done/Not Done for points and then graded correct/incorrect for actual learning. And no penalty for getting the answer incorrect!
I would hate for a student to attempt the homework set, get the problems wrong, go home and try again and loose all those points for homework, but get it correct on the test. It seems to me that grades should be based on the student learning the material not on getting it correct the first time.
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My kids.
They don't want to go to school anywhere but home. They want to homeschool and since it works for me and them... we homeschool.
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Is it a bad sign that I have absolutely no idea? I know they were not born on weekends....
I asked my husband...my oldest was born at about 2:30 in the afternoon on a Tuesday
My middlest was born about 10:30 in the morning on a Monday.
And the little guy was born about 10:30 at night also on a Monday.
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I wish it were otherwise. But we are done.
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Thanks, it makes me smile whenever I see it.
I make an excellent Viking! Not!:001_smile:
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Just checking to see if my avatar works...
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Testing will NOT help you find materials to challenge him. The people who administer the tests are NOT aware of the materials available to home schoolers. They know about testing and little else.
We went to Gifted Development Center in Denver.
Our criteria were: totally flipped out by what my kids were doing and getting conflicting answers from the people around us. We tested in part to get third party to help us figure out what reality was.
When we found out the numbers... my kids enjoyed the same materials they had enjoyed the week before. They didn't change because we knew the numbers from a test. My daughter loved Redwall before the test. She loved it after. My son loved Roller Coaster Tycoon before the test. He loved it after the test.
I haven't found the numbers to be particularly helpful at all for figuring out what materials will work. Maybe it helped with figuring out that it was alright to skip already known material. But as to figuring out which math to use... I had to pick one I thought would work and give a placement test. And so on for other subjects. The tests just didn't help.
Good luck.
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I don't know if this is a stupid question or not, but..
If you buy organic foods would that make them be not GMOs?
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Are you doing the Points of Interest that go with the weeks Daily Questions? That is where the meat of the program is located.
My kids looked up the answers in the atlas.
We also did some of the activities for the week each day. And reviewed the previous day's information each day for the week. So on Thursday we reviewed the information from Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and then did whatever I had planned for Thursday.
I usually went to the library and got books about the country, people, fairy tales, plants and animals for that week. I usually had a stock of about 20-35 books for the week. My daughter usually read all of the books. My son would get through about 10 or so.
It generally took my daughter about an hour to do the daily questions, review and read books or wikipedia search whatever country information, plant information, and/or other information we did that day. She usually had 2-4 pages of information. My son did less because he writes and reads much slower but he generally did the daily questions, review and one page of other stuff in his hour.
Both kids really liked Trail Guide.
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I wish I could be more encouraging. We stopped VT for the same reasons you are hating it. It was a huge burden on our lives and for us it just wasn't worth it.
I can't be much help with the VT, but I will send you a hug because it sounds like you need one.
:grouphug:
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Thank you for the help. I took him to Urgent Care because I needed to in order to sleep tonight. He has a virus that is causing the tiredness and maybe the vomiting. And is allergic to something which is causing the hives and maybe the vomiting.
We don't know what he got into that is causing the hives. He ate a cookie last night that contained peanuts and that is a possibility but the timing is long, it would mean that the peanuts caused vomiting after about 2 hours and the hives at about 14 hours. I think that is a little long for an allergic reaction. But I don't know.
Thank you for listening to me.
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He has had the chicken pox shot, so I don't think so.
I looked up a picture on google, the spots don't look like chicken pox. I think I'll be grateful for that one.
Thank you.
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Calling Dr. Hive....
My 4 year old woke up last night about 12:00 and vomited all over his bed and him and everything else. We spent until about 1:00 getting him cleaned up and settled. Then he slept until about 6:00. This morning he vomited the water I gave him this morning about 6:30 but did alright most of the day, even playing play doh with big brother for a while.
About 2:00 he went to sleep and I thought all was well. He has now woken up and is running a low fever (99.9) and is covered in itchy little bumps. I thought he might have tangled with a bug in the quilts he was sleeping on but there are just too many and I think he has hives. I put some sun burn relief gel on the spots, it said it was good for minor itches. And at the time I still thought he tangled with the bug. He is now very quiet and acting sick. He hasn't wanted anything other than his blankie and bunny since he woke up. He isn't even interested in watching tv.
Of course, his doctor's office is closed for the day. So I am asking here, what can I do to help my little guy. Is this an Urgent Care level of problem or should I deal with this at home? And if I should deal with it, how?
(He is four and weighs just under 40 pounds.)
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Mud pie Blizzard... from Dairy Queen
It is coffee ice cream with oreos.
I like others too, but a Mud Pie blizzard is amazing.
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Have her take some benadryl, if it is a simple bug bite then it will take the red out and help with the itch.
Also take a pen and draw a circle around the edge of the red part. If the bite jumps the line overnight, then you might not be dealing with a simple bug bite. You might be looking at cellulitis, which sounds awful if you google it, but usually is cleared up with a week of antibiotics. (Been there, done that, TWICE!)
I hope she feels better soon.
Help me figure out about this writing assignment...
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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Thank you! Amazon has lost my copy of Writing With Ease and the new one should be here soon. I am so happy that WWE might be able to help her. I bought it for ideas for my ds7.
And I did think the brownie paragraph was pretty good. I think we will try editing this paragraph this week and another paragraph next week.