Janeway
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I have a family member that used a weak geometry program and then went on and to 780 on the math SAT. I think it was o the computer, the one by Alpha Omega. Switched on School House is what it was called. But, I know she had to sit with her child and go over every lesson. But she did get it done in a month. In their case, the child was headed back to public school and they wanted to get that done before returning. They did it through a private school distance learning program.
Edited to add: I asked the mom and she apparently used really strong math for algebra and algebra 2. and on. Just not the geometry. And apparently, she sat with her kids a lot during the geometry and taught the lessons.
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About 80% of college students change their majors at least once, which is not too surprising, really. What 18yo knows exactly what they want to do for the rest of their life? I sure as heck didn't.
I still don't know! He asked me what I would major in and i had no idea. LOL
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He texted me a short bit ago, minutes ago actually, that he did change his major. He is not going all the way over to physics, but he is taking a major that will allow him enough electives to take some physics. Then he said he will consider grad school after that. So I think that went well.
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No, you do not need to know right away. Most STEM majors do not graduate in four years, and many students switch majors.
It is impossible to prepare children to have the sufficient insight into every degree area that they can always know beforehand what they will enjoy and be good at, because you cannot expose them to the level of work they will need to do in college. They may have great interest in a subject, but when confronted with upper level work may realize they are lacking aptitude. Conversely, they may come across a discipline they did not even know existed, be inspired by a great professor, and switch into a field they had not dreamed of. There is nothing we can do as parents except prepare them well so that they have a realistic choice of major, in other words, not label them "STEM" or "humanities" kids, but give them a well rounded college prep education.
Graduating in four years is nice, but not absolutely necessary - especially not when going into a field with high job security and good salaries.
I would encourage your cousin's son to make the switch, see what credits transfer, take summer courses, get a loan - anything but being stuck in a major he feels unhappy with. Nothing is worse than the regret "if I only had...". He should go for it. Sophomore year is not too late. He needs to make an appointment with the department advisor and see what possibilities he would have doubling up on credits, take online credits over the summer, to get caught up.
ETA: Specifically for your cousin's son: after 3 semesters of college, i.e. halfway through sophomore year, most physics majors have taken only two courses that directly pertain to their major: Intro to mechanics, and intro to electricity and magnetism. Most students take their first physics class in spring of freshman year because they take calc 1 in the fall. He really needs to talk to the departmental advisor; this should not be too hard to catch up if it is something he really wants.
He should inquire about the possibility of self studying and credit by examination!
My understanding is that he cannot. He is at a private university on a 4 yr scholarship. Which now makes me wonder something else. When you get scholarships, are they always for four years? Can they go longer? How does that work? Do they make exceptions?
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My cousin's child was here the last few days. He is end of sophomore year and regrets his major. But it is too late. He wishes he had done physics so it is too late to change to physics and still graduate on time, which he needs to. Now I am worried I am not going to expose my children to enough or give them enough chances that they will know when they need to. Figuring it out when you get to college is fine when you are majoring in humanities or social sciences, but for STEM fields, you need to know right away.
I am getting worried....How does all this work for everyone else?
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Please help me with my math progression. We've been using Horizons and I do like it thus far. However, I know I'll eventually have to switch to something else. Should I stick with Horizons through Algebra and then figure out what to do? Should I do Lials BCM(6th), then Pre-Algebra(7th), then Jacob's Algrebra(8th), Geometry(9th)? Or should I use something entirely different? My husband is an engineer and I was an accountant previously so we're not afraid of math or teaching it. :)
Thank you so much for the help!
My child did Horizon's through 6th grade and then Jacob's algebra.
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Dd's selection index (not the PSAT score) puts her right on the bubble for our state for the NMSF cutoff using past years' numbers. I'm going to write to CB and have her officially declared as qualifying for the NM----it's an option for kids who decide to graduate early.
So if she makes the cutoff, does anyone know the last possible date to take the SAT for the finalist step? Please say it's October because I don't think I could get her to sit the June test...
(Still haven't received her Dec ACT scores grr)
It has to be before that. They declare the finalists in May.
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Unless he is just very gifted in this area, I would wait on LC until he is older. It is meant for 3/4 grade. And if you push it too much, it won't be fun for him and he will dread it. You want to foster a love of learning now. The love of learning will carry him far in life.
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I have never regretted it. Seriously, boxed curriculum will make your life hard. It will come with way way more than you need. And generally, each child does a different thing for each subject. Even teachers in brick and mortar schools drop half of what comes with the program, or more. It is a money maker for textbook makers and even curriculum providers. if they can put 50 things in a program, then they can sell you 50 things under the guise that you need them. Make your life easy. Pick a math, pick a phonics, read for fun, etc.
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I would not expect him to retain everything. Even if he remembers the story word for word, he is only a 2nd grader. He will forget it in the years to come. The point here is to give him the jist of history, not to master it.
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I would not expect him to retain everything. Even if he remembers the story word for word, he is only a 2nd grader. He will forget it in the years to come. The point here is to give him the jist of history, not to master it.
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We are on 5A. My child was in public school. He came home last year. I found one of the books to be redundant, which is likely because there is a different scope and sequence. I am not worried about that at all. I used this with an older child and have worked with Singapore Math before. He really wanted the Singapore Math, so we accepted this issue. I gave him the placement test for 5A and found that he had two topics he still needed to learn. I got the book anyway then because he needs those topics. It is order of operations and the area ones. The rest he has. Overall, 1/3 of the book would be new.
I am thinking of still having him do 100% of the workbook, so he can use the pages for topics he already knows for review. But then only doing the stuff out of the textbook that is new. Unless, of course, he has trouble with those topics in the workbook. So still having him do the entire workbook will show me if he actually has trouble in these areas that he seemed to know weeks ago when he took the test.
Would you consider this a mistake? We already started the book so I do not want to go back and purchase IP or anything. I want to work with what I have.
edited to add: he is a 6th grader. I know not to think about "he is behind" but he really is. His test scores always put him in the 99th and 98th percentile and his former classmates he was in class with will be moving on to algebra or pre algebra in 7th grade, and I did not home school him so he can end up behind where he would have been if he stayed there.
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Give the others free reading time while she finishes. If they were IN school, they would have to busy themselves at their desks for the remainder of the time. Free reading time is actually this wonderful thing that many home schoolers lose out on, in the rush to go from one subject to the next.
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nevermind, sorry..opps!
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I knew a family that home schooled there. But for them, they were missionaries. They were not concerned with getting in to college there or such. They came back to the US before college age and finished here. Their oldest is in college now. The 2nd is a senior in an American high school.
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In the last year, twice, I ended up in the hospital and serious surgery and not able to do anything for several weeks. Nothing that is recurring. I had a baby a few months ago and then had to go back in for complications a couple weeks ago.
During this time, my husband got the kids to do their school work (I left lesson plans) and clean the house and drove them to all their outside activities. They are 6th and 8th grade. I would not go back to work right now. I am still out of commission. But I am thinking maybe I could/should consider it for the near future. I do have younger children. But, they are in preschool/kinder and I send them for it. I plan to send the baby to preschool. I am thinking once the baby can start preschool, which is only part-time, maybe I should head back to work. The olders would still be home schooling, but by then, they should be 8th and 10th grade. It just seems my husband, who works from home, handles it all just fine without me. And a clean house? He took pictures while I was in the hospital and sent them to me.
Anyone do this? I would still do the lesson plans and such. I was offered a job this past year and declined. I am thinking if I could find a good job that pays decent but not full-time. The job this past year was through the university and only during the school year, part days. Basically, it was leading field trips at the university in one of their science centers. It did not pay a ton, but it was only part-time and not every day. Something like that might be perfect and would bring in some extra income.
Anyone?
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This book just gladdens my heart! Have you all seen it? It's called This is My Home, This is My School?
I saw this one at Barnes and Noble!!! It is great! Thanks for reminding me. I did not buy it at the time and completely forgot. I saw it at Christmas and lines were very long so I didn't buy anything.
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This is hard. I am a Christian, but a liberal Christian. And my husband is more of an agnostic. I want my children to be familiar with church and understand it and have a religious upbringing, somewhat. But, we live in the bible belt and it has been difficult to find a church that really fits us. Even the ELCA church is quite different here. We did fall in to a church that was ok. Morally, it isn't really teaching much that we are against. But, we just do not like going. And the youth group keeps leaving the church to do things we do not necessarily want them to do. For example, drive an hour and a half to a nearby city to do ministry work. We opted out of that activity, but now we just got an email that they will be doing it once a month instead confirmation and youth group that Sunday. They are very vague about what the kids will be doing.
I feel like there is so much good to be done right here in our little town, they could do that. My husband and I agreed right away that we did not want them to leave in the morning and traveling that far like that. In the fall, we always had a time conflict so it was not an issue. And they only did it a couple or three times. Now it seems that once a month they are doing that. And once a month they are doing something at a prison. I am unsure where the prison is as the ministry is called by a name and does not seem to reference a specific prison. I get that this might be something that others find to be great. And I am all for doing community service. But I just do not want that. I already do volunteer work right here in town. We could use more volunteers. I like taking my children with me to the things I do. I do not mind them doing other volunteer work for some hours, even a few hours a week. But driving that far to do something elsewhere, I am not getting. My own volunteer work, in our area, deals with homeless children, homeless families, and I also help with maintaining park and public areas too sometimes, like gardening, weeding, etc. Meanwhile, there are NO volunteer opportunities within the church. Is that just odd? I think it is odd. The kids are driving 1.5 to a city to do the same exact things that we are paying others to do around the church. It feels like it is all for show.
I feel obligated to go to give my children a religious component to our home school. But, I just do not like it at all. Our town is not huge and I am not willing to consider the more conservative churches (specifically, I do not want my children being a part of the anti-gay anything). Would it be terrible for us to just stop? Honestly, this is our main social thing. Or would it be better to keep going, but then continue to opt out of these trips? How would I replace this social outlet? My children do have extracurriculars, is that enough? They each have 2 classes a week outsourced. And they have 3 classes each a week of physical outsourced.
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He sounds like a joiner, so I would not go with it. Plus, I think the violin and cello conflict with each other. You will want to run that by both teachers. It has something to do with how something is played opposite on the two instruments.
I have a child who is a joiner. It is great, seemingly. He is always eager to get out and do everything. Wonderful. But, not at all practical. And if your child does all these instruments, in addition to you going broke, he will simply be ok at several things but not really good at anything. It is much easier to take a sampling of things but never invest in mastering anything. It takes a lot more commitment and work to stick it out in one thing, or two, and master them. He is doing piano and violin. I would let him drop violin for cello, or let him add in either the wind instrument or choir. But that would be it. One "instrument" per type. But honestly, I would really say just piano and one other. He sounds excited and quite gifted, but it won't help him to jump around a lot and spread himself thin.
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I do drill on the side. So every day, math has 3 parts. One lesson from the textbook, 1 from the workbook. If it is a big review, then that counts as two. Can do 2 from the work book or 2 from the textbook in stead of one of each. Textbook lesson has to come before the workbook lesson. The 3rd part is review or drill. It can be doing a computer program with review drill, or it can be in the form of Keys to Fractions, etc. Three things, every day. It is plenty here! But, for my son who did not like Singapore, we did Horizons.
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Miquon. It looks so cool! I never have gotten it and tried it yet.
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This child was in public school through most of 4th grade. He is in 6th grade now. We spent the last while doing make up work of covering important things the public school did not cover, like doing math with a calculator, handwriting, grammar mechanics, you get the idea. I feel like we are finally on track for basic skills. Now I want to add in some "social studies." I know that term is hated here, but bear with me please.
For all of middle school, I would like him to learn some basic US history, US geography, and maybe world geography. We listen to SOTW on the side. I do not think I have any good audiobooks on US history but would love some. For US history, I would love to focus on early explorers and the Colonial period. We have already listen to and done so much of SOTW, I think we have a good grip. Starting in 9th grade, I want to do the 4 yr cycle for high school. So right now, I just want to focus on some gaps I think he should have before then. It would be great if I could use resources that I already have or that are free or inexpensive. He is a wiggly Willy or whatever the term is, so would be good to fit that.
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I have had it with 2 column proofs now. It is not at all that they are difficult. They are easy for me and easy for my son. But they are tedious and I am tired of doing them. My son is tired of them too. He is getting them 100% correct.
I was thinking since I already have the Jurgenson's, I should just alter the lessons to emphasize what I want focused on. But, I am also considering that perhaps I just need to switch program altogether?
I have decided on Serra's blue book, I do not remember the name, sorry. I saw it at the store, but it is closed today so I would not be able to get it until the holidays are over. I am also considering Teaching Textbooks, SOS, AOP (not AoP), and BJU. Anything else worth considering? He completed Foerster's Algebra 1 already. Abeka? Should I consider Abeka? He prefers books to computer programs. CK12.org?
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And how does Audible work? Thanks! We have been listening and re-listening to SOTW since 2004. It might be nice to have more....something for an older audience.
Science seems to be the popular topic of the day
in High School and Self-Education Board
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Psychology is either a social science or a social studies. If the school differentiates between Humanities and Social Science, then it is a Social Science. If the school does social studies and science for categories, then it is social studies.