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    in General Education Discussion Board

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    13 minutes ago, Slache said:

    Is it traditional for the bride and groom to pay for the clothing of the flower girl? She's picked out a $300 dress and a $180 pair of shoes and I don't want it to become a point of argument. She asked if we could buy her dress and I said yes, planning to get a white Easter dress at Costco for $18, not $480 worth of clothing for a growing child. We have to get the boys suits, too.

    I don’t know who traditionally pays, but I’ve never heard of the flower girl picking her own dress?  The bride chooses it to coordinate with her flowers and the rest of the bridal party.

    3rd Grade World History Ideas

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    30 minutes ago, nixpix5 said:

    I think it would be super hard to find an older version but my library store often has really old books for a quarter (got an original Burgess Bird Book there!) so I wanted to mention it just in case you stumble upon an older copy and you think they are equal. A ton of editing was done. The old copy had a part if I remember correctly that talks about everyone who lived around the fertile crescent (Tigris and Euphrates) were white. They literally said there were 3 families of white people and everyone descended from them. It was BS crazy. That whole section was redone and is now accurate. That is just one example of issues with the old one.

    Hoo boy.  Don't these people understand that before sunscreen and clothing the white skin thing did not work well in large parts of the world? ?

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    3rd Grade World History Ideas

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    4 minutes ago, nixpix5 said:

    I really like this one for 2nd and 3rd grade. It has a nice flow, and it is easy to understand and digest. I often pull it from the shelf when I need information about events I deem important but SOTW doesn't cover as well. With that said, make sure you find an updated copy as the first printing is ripe with racism. The Calvert School version has fixed most of those issues but occasionally you will find a significant slant or a potential moment of cringing. I have edited a couple of sentences on the fly but for the most part, it is great.

    Thanks for the warning.  I've only ever seen the Calvert copy.

    The Big Book of Lively Latin

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    2 hours ago, SusanC said:

    I used it with my older two and just started it again with my youngest this summer. My understanding is that books one and two cover the material of a first year high school class. I print out a chapter at a time and we do one (occasionally two) double-sided pages a day. Our schedule varied between 4 and 5 days a week, but I think we spent three school years working through it. We would usually listen to her pronounce the vocabulary, but other than that we rarely made use of anything online. 

    The one thing we do differently is I use Anki for flashcards because the paper ones quickly got out of control. Anki is wholly independent.

    Thanks!

    Did your kids continue with Latin after Lively Latin?  If so, what did you use?

    Story of the World memory work: favorites sources? ideas?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    On 6/15/2018 at 2:13 PM, serendipitous journey said:

    Well, yes, that would be it!  This is just what I was wishing I had time to design: memory work cards with real art.  But these folks thought to include maps too.  Ooooh, happy dance! 

    For others: these really do look ideal for beautiful, comprehensive SOTW memory work.  There are cards to go with each of the 4 volumes of SOTW, color-coded to match the volumes.  Quoting from the website description of the Ancients cards:

    "The Ancient History Cards coordinate with Story of the World, vol 1 (Ancient Times), by Susan Wise Bauer.  There are two sets of cards per SOTW volume; set 1 covers chapters 1-22, set 2 covers chapters 23-42.  Each card coordinates with one chapter within SOTW and contains artwork, a memory sentence, summary, and map relating to a specific historical event.  The Ancient History Cards (set 1 and 2) will take the student through ancient history, from early nomads to the split of the Roman Empire.  Both card sets contain additional information – memory work recommended by The Well-Trained Mind, by Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer.  For convenience, these Memory Cards are clearly identified with an ‘M.’"

    These look truly ecumenical and aligned with the books.  The first art image seems to be one of the Lascaux cave paintings, which just made me happy.

    Does anyone have these that could tell me about the included memory work for ancient history?

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