Emba
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Except? It might still work, though. I'm not entirely familiar with the anywhere a mouse goes thing.
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Well, I'll be honest, my DD is 10 and just now has the attention/coordination to use sharp knives without cutting herself every time. When she was younger I let her cut things that were soft, like hotdogs, with a butter knife, and we had a plastic lettuce knife that would also cut a few other vegetables, but yoiyoiu have to use a sawing sort of motion. It is not ideal, but neither is blood and screaming. My DS who is 8 has better coordination and attention, and was able to use sharp knives sooner.
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea strikes me immediately as one that should be saved for later.
Island of the Blue Dolphins is a personal favorite that I read and reread as a kid.
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For the boy I second The Green Ember. Also maybe Narnia books? And E. Nesbitt has a book of dragon stories but I haven't read it, also some other magic themed books, but I'm not sure what the reading level would be.
For the girl...that's tough. My DD enjoyed the "chapter book" adaptations of the Little House series. A very large percentage of the books aimed at that age/reading level seem to be animal themed, though.
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A bowl or pie plate of dry pinto beans asnd a spoon to pour and stir them. I'm not joking, it keeps my 4 year old quite busy, long as I don't use it to often. Sometimes he puts toy trucks in there to haul the beans around. Sometimes he uses doll dishes to play cook and serve them.
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We eat at 6 to leave by 6:30for taekwondo. Get back 8:30 or so, one child brushes teeth, uses the bathroom while the other puts on pajamas. Then they switch. no bedtime reading on those days.
For supper by 6 (and last year class was earlier) I like to have something iin the crockpot, leftovers, or something fast using convenience foods.
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Our library also has some nonfiction historical graphic novels (in the nf section, they aren't really novels but I don't know what else to call them). Something like that, with less text but interesting topics, might work for him.
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Stone Fox - sled dog book
Gary Paulsen also has several dog books that are good. I loved Dogsong when I was a kid.
Also I remember a book I loved called The Machine Gunners, set in England during WW2. By Robert Westall. Prob. out of print, but a library might have it.
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At some point I ran across a free download to make your own book discussion guide. Unfortunately ii have no idea where it was, but you might try googling "write your own book discussion guide"or similar. Sorry I can't be of more help.
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I remember F. 451 as being a book we did in high school. At that point, we did mostly get it, and almost everyone in the class actually liked it. I had read it earlier, but I was an advanced reader, and loved dystopian science fiction. I'm sure I missed a lot, though.
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Worse than that is when you're checking out, and the cashier answers a what is obviously a personal call on his/her cellphone. :cursing:
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Yeah, to me it looks auburn more than strawberry blonde.
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We were big breakfast people....
We choose to make a switch for a couple reasons- My husband needed to start eating breakfast and he leaves early and my daughter seems very sensitive to sugar and/or a lack of protein. So, most mornings, we cook eggs, just eggs. You get used to the monotony and just do it, and we make them the same way almost all of the time. I thought it wolf get old but it hasn't andit has very much simplified our morning routine.
Actually, just eggs and toast would be easiest for me, but I don't eat plain eggs myself, and so I like other options. Plus, (JAWM) my dad had a heart attack pretty young, after eating an egg for breakfast nearly every day as long as I can remember, so I try not to have eggs more than every other day.
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It wasn't until I came to US that I discovered that there are "breakfast" food and "dinner" food. Where I am from we ate whatever whenever.
My husband wouldn't touch eggs in the evening or steak for breakfast. Soooo weird to me. I remember my Dad eating plenty of steak and mashed potatoes before he left for work. :)
Reading this thread reminded me that I need to re-program my children. I am not a morning person and would LOVE to give them leftovers for breakfast.
I was in the Peace Corps in Ecuador, and they don't do breakfast like I was used to. It was all good, though, till the morning I woke up and there was a big mess of crabs boiled up for breakfast. I just can't do seafood that early. The smell makes me nauseous.
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I like these breakfast egg rolls. You can make a big batch and freeze them. They microwave well straight from the freezer.
I have to be sure to make them when my 10 year old is not around, though, or few if any will make it to the freezer.
Oh wow,those look amazing!
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I enjoy plain Greek yogurt with fresh or frozen plain berries or unsweetened applesauce, some chopped walnuts, and cinnamon. I find that in order to eat plain Greek yogurt, I can't do nonfat. It tastes very chalky to me. The whole milk version is much more palatable. My husband, otoh, likes the non-fat version. You could try weaning the kids off the high sugar kind by mixing the plain in with some vanilla yogurt and adding the extras.
Other than that, it's usually a sandwich of some kind---egg and frozen turkey sausage, ham and cheese, turkey, roast beef -- or some kind of toast--peanut butter toast, cheese toast. Leftovers, especially cold pizza, are in rotation as well. Sometimes we make extra pizza just to have some for breakfast the next day.
You could try premaking and freezing homemade French toast where you control the sugar, letting things like vanilla and cinnamon add sweetness.
I grew up with Neese's livermush (http://www.neesesausage.com/products/) for breakfast---sliced thin, dredged in a bit of flour, and pan-fried, on white bread with mayo or served with grits and eggs. :) I tried making it once in college and my roommates about kicked me out over the smell!
I should make extra pizza. I make pizza pretty often anyway.
But livermush. Just the name says a great big NO to me.
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Wow, lots to think about! Except liver sausage. I don't even want to think about that. Sorry Hilda. 😊
Just for clarification, I have nothing against wheat flour, though I have a preference for whole wheat.
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We need lots of protein here too, and few carbs in the morning.
Frittatas are easy and can be made ahead. You can put any amount of veggies in them.
Same with omelettes. We eat lots of omelettes with greens (chard, kale, whatever I have) and other veggies. Really loaded. DS can eat a 3 egg kale, mushroom and sweet potato omelette, some veggie sausage and toast. He'll still need a mid morning snack but it's a good start for him.
Whole wheat bagel and smoked salmon? I like both smoked salmon AND a fried egg on mine.
Breakfast quesadillas? They are so fast--scrambled eggs and beans, salsa, lots of avocado, veggies.
We aren't stuck on just breakfast foods. I love leftovers in the morning, especially something like salmon and quinoa and veggies.
Ooh, lots of good ideas here. Breakfast quesadillas! Why have i not thought of that? But I am not a fish lover, and salmon leftovers are NOT happening at my house.
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So when you say yoghurt, do you mean the naturally occurring sugar in plain yoghurt is already a problem???
Otherwise, my go-to breakfast is yoghurt with whole grain and fresh fruit. No added sugar, but of course there are natural sugars.
No,sorry I wasn't clear on that. I mean the sugared kind. I eat plain yogurt but its a hard sell for mhy kids because they are used to the other kind.
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I have realized that my DD thinks better when she doesn't have any sugary foods at breakfast. I used to serve breakfasts with sugar (cereal, yogurt, oatmeal, muffins, etc) about half the time in the morning, so now, besides eggs and toast, I'm having a hard time coming up with things to serve. But they must not only be non-sugary (for DD), they must be fairly quick and easy (for me, because we have to get up around 6:00 a.m. and my brain isn't firing on all cylinders yet), The exception to the quick and easy rule is things that I can prep ahead. I don't mind putting in the time the night before for something that I can get on the table quickly in the a.m. For example, I spent about 45 minutes last night prepping hard-boiled eggs and bacon for the Pioneer Woman's english muffin melts this morning.
Help me think outside my box here, please.
Breakfasts already in my repertoire that would work:
- eggs and toast (or bagels, english muffins, etc)
- aforementioned muffin melts
- sausage biscuits
- biscuits/gravy (but it's not as fast as I like, even with made-ahead biscuits)
- grits and cheese, or cornmeal mush and cheese
- breakfast burritos (made ahead)
- Peanut butter and banana sandwiches (but DH doesn't exactly approve of this one)
Obviously, my box is very Southern. :)
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I am a box checker, too. I don't use any boxed curriculum. However, I can imagine that the way to make it bearable for me would be to go through it and decide which checkboxes are not necessary - things you can skip or go over very lightly. Then I would make a new, revised list of boxes to check, adding in the things I wanted to do as well as the necessary things from the boxed curriculum. Checking other people's boxes can be frustrating for me. I only like to check boxes I have chosen.
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Not sure how many testers you need, but I have a 10 yr old DD who hasn't retained very much grammar and could probably really benefit from an approach like this, because hands-on activities really help her remember things.
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I used the third grade level of language arts with my dd for awhile. I found the instruction solid for grammar, some reading selections cute and sweet, and the more advanced phonics instruction enlightening, but dropped iit because all I wanted was grammar, not art and geography, and many times the tone was preachy and overly precious. It irritated me. My husband is a preacher, too, it isn't that I prefer secular curriculum.
I think its a pretty good resource if you can take the tone.
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A resource for those who are looking for Bible curriculum: https://calvarycurriculum.com/curriculum/
The "Original" curriculum is free and goes through the whole Bible, for grades 1 through 6. Each lesson has pages for a lower and higher age/ability group, with a coloring page, some fill in the blank/ True-False type questions, and crossword or word search puzzles.
The questions are fairly straightforward factual type questions, not particularly "thinking" questions. It might be a drawback if you're looking for application-type curriculum, but it does also mean that they are fairly free of doctrinal slant, though I haven't used every single one so there might be some (i believe that the organization that makes these available is Baptist, but I could be wrong).
I haven't actually used this for homeschool, but for a multi-age kids' Bible classes at my church. It just struck me today that they would be great for homeschool, especially if you want a curriculum to give kids a good background in the stories of the Bible, and you could add your own thinking/application questions.
Revolutionary War novel suggestions, please
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DD and I are studying the American Revolution, and I'd like some suggestions for novels to go along with that (5th grade). I already have Johnny Tremain and My Brother Sam is Dead, but I'd like other suggestions, especially some on a slightly lower reading level (Scholastic lists Johnny Tremain at a grade level of 5.3 and My Brother Sam as 5.8).