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I had mine out 7 years ago, and it was pretty simple. I've never had any problems since. The only thing I had was that after the surgery, I couldn't lie down in a prone position; for some reason it hurt a lot. The nurses said that sometimes happens and to sleep in a recliner for a day. That worked--we had to borrow a recliner!
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I like to embroider and sew. I do a lot of quilts but at the moment am doing dresses for my girls and my new obsession: bookbags with actual bookcovers sewn in. (Like, retro ancient bookcovers that no one would actually read, but that have neat cover art, that is, ugly but fun cover art.)
I do like to cross stitch but am picky about patterns, and haven't come across a good one in a while. So give me some links to historical or literary patterns, I'd love that! My last cross-stitch project was a while ago, but this was it; the rabbit and millefleurs pillow at the top.
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We learned these too. They're very handy, I learned them as a kid and still hum them to myself every so often!Here are the songs my kids learn in our church, you can hear them or print out the sheet music:The Books in the Old Testament
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Yes! Partly because yesterday I made the trip to the big city and the homeschool store. I needed one or two things and figured I might as well get some of the stuff I needed for next year too.
So yesterday I bought:
Elem. Greek I (whee!)
SWO D
Italic Handwriting A and E, one for each kid
Adventures with Atoms and Molecules I and II
Usborne Encyclopedia of Science
and pH strips.
I still have to buy a few things like CW Aesop B and Saxon 54 online, but those can wait a while. And I already have SOTW 3 waiting.
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Oh, that looks so fun! My daughter would love to do something like that someday.
Also, I'd never heard of your books (sorry) but they look fun, and I put one on hold at the library. ;)
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There's also some fun Doctor Who merchandise...
You can get great stuff at some castles. I once bought a neat wooden sword and knight tunic for my little cousin when I went. My kids play with the sword now.
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Classical Writing!
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My kid likes it, though I think the grammar crossword is by far the most useful. I'm not convinced of the educational value of word searches (though I like them). Parse strings is tricky but good too.
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My MIL commented recently that she never made any of her kids (all boys) help her out with the housework, and that she regretted that. It explained a lot! My (wonderful) husband is not much good with housework except dishes, which he did growing up--no dishwasher. So my vote is: make them do those chores, your future DILs will thank you.
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I like Land and Literature of England: A Historical Account by Robert M. Adams, but it might be too in-depth for your purposes.
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IME Saxon K is great for a 4yo/preK. It's very simple and fun. It starts with things like "let's count to 5." I'm using it right now with my 4yo and she loves it and asks for more. We started when my older daughter was just 5, and she demanded 3 lessons at a time--the next thing we knew we were using Saxon 1 for her K year.
Edit: and yeah, you can skip anything that's too hard. It won't matter.
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Ha! What a good idea, though. I'll have to start doing that in high school. I've heard a lot of professors complain about students who don't read the syllabus.
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We're in Chico! Nice to see some locals here. Are you getting snow in Paradise by any chance?
Hey Daisy, I was born in Bakersfield. I went to Norris School.
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We've enjoyed Musikgarten and kung fu (not at a studio, but in a guy's garage; very homely and inexpensive).
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I was at Target yesterday and they had cute playdresses and skirts for $15 and less. My 7yo loves to wear dresses, so we bought two. The dresses are sleeveless, and we'll use them as jumpers.
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SWB said at a recent seminar that you could tell when a kid started saying "How do you know?" :D Kids enter the logic stage at different times in different subjects, so you have to watch carefully. A kid who's good at science might be in the logic stage there but still in grammar in something else.
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I've read the essay until the beginning of the "Classical Christian Education" part, and I disagree with the premise. She overstates a lot about WTM's philosophy. I'm not sure I'd really call Hirsch a "classical" guy anyway, and I think she's describing classical education all wrong. But the big thing is her insistence that a student must learn from first principles; that true learning can only take place when you have gone through the entire history of a subject.
So she claims that a child should not be taught about the solar system before he can understand Copernicus and Galileo, and atoms should not be taught until the end of an entire physics course. This is nonsense (which would result in very few people knowing anything about atoms). There is no particular reason that the order of discovery should be the order in which a subject is taught, and indeed I should think it would often be counterproductive.
As an example, I offer calculus. A student can learn a lot of calculus and do solid, useful things with it by, say, 17. He can go on to study higher-level calculus in college, may even use it daily in his work as an adult. Yet the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus is a vastly complex proof that is well above the abilities of most people who learn calculus. A math major would learn it in college, but not a physics major or an engineering major. My husband uses high-level calculus in his work and thinks it's fun, but he's never even read the proof (though it's on a shelf somewhere around here). If we didn't teach calculus to anyone who couldn't first understand the Fundamental Theorem that underlies it, it would be limited to a few people and modern engineering would simply not exist.
Besides which, it's ridiculous to say that a child shouldn't be allowed to learn neat things like the solar system. Think of all the fun we'd miss!
The author says that teaching students anything without doing it from first principles is not education, but indoctrination. Then, at one point, she happily describes one of her students catching her teacher out in 'bad teaching' by presenting a conclusion before all the evidence. But why does the student believe that such a method is bad teaching? Because she's been indoctrinated to believe it, right?
She then goes on to say that values or morals cannot be discussed by younger children at all, since one needs to know pretty much everything ever known before one is able to talk about honesty, justice, and so on. That's just silly.
So. Classical education isn't for everyone, and it isn't the only way to get a decent education. But (as the all-knowing mother of a 7yo) IMO it's got a better chance than many ways. I'm hoping that this method will help me to raise kids who are curious about the world, able to think and speak clearly, and generally well-equipped to be productive, articulate citizens of our country.
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We do use grade levels--my daughter is in 2nd grade. She likes to know what to say to people, and how she relates to her PS friends (which is most of them, there aren't a lot of homeschoolers here). That has very little to do with the actual work that she's doing, but it's a convenient way to tell people where we are and make them happy.
So I don't know that you'll miss anything; it's just a convenient thing to say.
I am confused by this comment.I really feel like the lower unevolved life form now. I never expected to be judged by asking a question trying to do the right thing for my ds. -
I too think it may have something to do with all the chemicals and hormones we've poured into our environment. Our air, water, and food has a lot of stuff in it that we don't fully understand.
Autoimmune problems generally seem to be on the rise, though we have also learned to diagnose them better. I think a few generations ago, a person would just have been considered "sickly"--or would have died sooner.
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When I dictate, I read the whole selection out loud to start, then the sentence, and then I break the sentence up into sections.
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"Classical" as in Greeks and Romans. Classical Studies is when you focus on Greek/Roman mythology, history, literature.
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Oh thank you. We will miss him very much.
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I mostly like sewing blogs, like Sew Mama Sew and Thimble. I've got 4 or so I read regularly, and they link to others. They often have great little tutorials in making various fun projects.
Oh, and Modesty Zone. I love them.
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I'm a CW person, but I'm no expert, we're in Aesop A. You could try looking through the previews on Lulu--you can look at several pages in each book. Also, you can ask questions on the message board.
It took me a while to wrap my brain around what they're trying to do, but once I grasped it, I got very excited about it.
How do I explain ancient Greek nudity to a 7yr old girl?
in General Education Discussion Board
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It's my understanding that the Greeks' love of nudity in art was considered pretty weird by other peoples of the time, regardless of climate. And the Greeks didn't go out in public naked; the men worked out naked, they often partied naked, but they still wouldn't dream of being seen undressed on the street. (Women, of course, didn't do any of that stuff unless they were courtesans. Even the statues of women were modestly clothed for a long time; nude women in art were a shocking innovation that came long afterwards.)
Nude statues of young men were an idealization of perfection. And there was also a lot of sex. Greeks were kind of weird about sex, they had plenty of their own hang-ups.