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We got "Go Nuts" a few years ago. I think my dc were about 7 and 9 at the time. My younger ds sort of liked it, but older ds hated it. We only played it a few times. They both have loved "Loot" for years.
Not much help, sorry.
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I've looked at this for 2 years. Have you done it?
Yes, my older ds did a National History Day project last year, and he's doing another one this year. Last year he and his friends made a documentary. It was a great experience for them! They had to research the topic, put the documentary together, and then they had to answer questions about it at the actual competition. He found a professor at a local college to use as an "expert witness," and ds had a fabulous time talking history with the professor.
They were researching a world war 2 era project, and they found lots of primary sources online that were accessible.
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We had my oldest tested when he was five because we were thinking about enrolling him in a private school that required testing. He had some very high scores and some very low scores, and I think it was helpful to have external validation of both his highs and lows.
His testing was done at a University, but there are private psychologists that can do testing. There's lots of information here:
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I'm happy to hear that things are going so well! If you have time to share, I'd also love to hear about the mini-conference with MCT and SWB.
Also, just curious, what level of MCT did you start with? I debated switching to MCT this year, but didn't, and now I'm having regrets.
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Thanks, those are all good points. DS says he prefers the ACT. However, he might qualify for the SET program, so maybe we should have him do the SAT. Maybe we'll just flip a coin.
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My ds (7th grade) is going to take a test for CTY this December. We're wavering on whether he should do the ACT or the SAT. The ACT is a little cheaper, and he won't have to worry about the writing section. DH and I both took SATs when we were young (many eons ago), and it seems like the SAT is still more popular.
Is one test better to take than the other?
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That's great! :thumbup:
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I'd highly recommend a National History Day project (http://www.nhd.org/). The project can be in various forms (paper, documentary, website, etc.), and the students must use primary sources.
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I'm in! It sounds like a wonderful idea.
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I haven't had to do a resume' or cover letter for at least 10 years. How have they changed? Last I did a resume', it was supposed to state an objective, list education, and work experience - and all fit on one page. Where can I find good examples and tips?
If you google "resume" you'll get a ton of sites that can help. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/719/1/ has some basic information. I don't think that fitting it all onto one page is critical, but I'm not an expert.
Good luck!
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Shoes? What are shoes? I'm a slippers girl!!!!! :)
:iagree:I'm trying flylady again now, but I can't wear shoes inside. I just can't do it!
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Wow, it looks like I was totally wrong in thinking that he had to explain the gap in his cover letter. We're working on a new resume (non-chronological), and a cover letter. Thanks everyone!
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Thanks so much for the encouragement so far! He can't get a job if he doesn't apply, so I'm going to do my best to help him.
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My dh's job ended about 1.5 years ago, due to funding cuts, not related to his job performance. We both looked for jobs for a while, and I found a full-time job about 1 year ago. He's been homeschooling the kids while I've been working, and he hasn't applied for any jobs for over a year.
A company is opening an office in our town, and they have listed a job in his field that looks perfect for him. He has not applied for the job because he has a "gap" in his resume, and he isn't sure how to address his unemployment in his cover letter. I've made a bunch of suggestions, but he isn't trying. I really, really would love for him to get a job, and I could go back to home schooling the dc. He would like the job, but thinks it is hopeless, and thus hasn't applied.
I'm adding a poll, but any suggestions or comments are more than welcome! Help me get back to homeschooling!
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What I think he might learn is:
1) Everything is easy.
2) I'm better than everyone else.
3) I don't have to work hard to succeed.
I personally think that those lessons could haunt him later in life. This is why I homeschool my ds.
Ruth in NZ
:iagree::iagree: I experienced the same thing when I hit college.
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I would not assume that IQ levels always correlate to scores on an achievement test like the MAP. In other words, I would not assume that the one whose MAP scores are average necessarily has a lower IQ than the others. In fact, with very bright siblings, I'd keep an eye out for learning difficulties in the average one. Just my PSA for the day. (e.g., my 2E-ish kiddos have had widely varied scores on the reading sections of those types of tests, from average to over 90th for the same kid, though they usually do extremely well on the math sections.)
I agree with SKL that some gifted kids may be more emotionally sensitive, but that does not necessarily mean grumpy.
:iagree::iagree:
My kids are very different in personality, but both are gifted.
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The honeymoon period has ended. :glare: It ended 3 weeks ago, but I've been trying to find a happy medium. No such luck.
We started with Spelling, Math and handwriting.
--He hates handwriting, always has, this is nothing new.
--Math, he is bored with. Singapore 1A. He doesn't know the number bonds, but wants to talk about multiplication all day. I read on the Hoagies site that HG+ kids sometimes need to learn concepts in a parallel progression instead of linearly. Um.....what? :lol::lol::lol::lol: I know what it means, but do I skip ahead and pray the arithmetic comes along? He gets the whole number bonds,and partsto a whole thing, he just doesn't know the facts, and wants nothing to do with drills or games. He will sometimes play math dice, I guess we can just keep doing that for a while.
I ordered LOF Apples, and he read the whole thing during a 2 hour car trip. (HE wanted to bring it, I had no idea he would actually read it. :001_huh: He doesn't want to go over itagain, he can tell me what happened in every chapter. I just ordered the rest, and I'll hold them hostage and read them with him this time. I'm not really sure where they fit into our curriculum, but, it can't hurt, right?
--spelling- AAS 1. So bored with it. The words have all been extremely easy for him. He had some phonograms to learn, especially the vowels, so I'm glad we started with level 1, but now we are at a stand off at step 15. Whining, complaining, carrying on. He hates writing, but now that the words are getting bigger, he needs to see the word as he spells it,or he gets it wrong. He won't use the tiles. I'm thinking I may just write the word for him to finish out the level. I started looking at Spelling Power, does anyone have any experience with this?
Part of the problem is laziness. He just doesn't *want* to do school. So right now, I dropped it all, and just offer up one subject a day, with an activity. He's slowly warming back up to math,but he's seriously all over the place. Yesterday he spent 20 minutes writing addition and multiplication equations on napkins. The answers weren't right, but I just let him go. :001_smile: I've also let him just sit and build things with the cuisinaire rods.
You've already gotten lots of good advice. My younger ds (now 10) uses Spelling Power, and it works really well for him, but I don't think I'd use it with a child that young. You could look at it though, and see if it would work for you.
Both of my boys hated writing at that age. They liked doing spelling in other ways. Both loved "pudding spelling." Put pudding on a plate, smear it around with a spoon, and let him draw the word in it with his finger. You can do it with sand or rice in a pan too.
I'd second the suggestion to skip around in the math book. And letting him just play with cuisinaire rods or other math manipulatives sounds like a good idea too.
Hope that helps,
Have fun!
Jean
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Let's keep our fingers crossed that Jean and her gaggle of PhD siblings will put together something great! :)
Thanks for the description. I think my older ds might really enjoy the AoPS.
As far as my "gaggle" goes, we're just at the stage of sitting around and saying "wouldn't it be cool if..."
Jean
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I'm curious about what you mean by AoPS style classes, since my kids have never taken any of their classes. My husband, my brother and I all have PhD's in different science fields, and we've been thinking about trying to set up online science classes. My brother is the only one of us that has a teaching certificate (California).
I'm assuming from what you said that you prefer "live" classes, with chat?
Jean
Hello Hivers teaching HSers,We signed him up for AofPS and quite frankly, it's the best decision we've made in our hsing journey, apart from deciding to homeschool. I didn't realize how much he enjoys 'competing' and how thrilled he is when a tough question comes on the board that he can't answer but somebody else can. It motivates him, spurs him on somehow. It's as if he's finally getting to piece together this math puzzle that makes much more sense to him than it ever will to me.
Warmly, Tricia
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I love AAS for my 2nd child but it wouldn't be a good fit for my "natural speller" oldest. I use Spelling Power with her. It's individualized so it doesn't have all the busywork of traditional spelling workbooks like SWO.
:iagree: I do the exact same thing, but it's my 1st child that uses AAS and my 2nd that uses Spelling Power.
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Just out of curiosity, how many people out there with smell sensitivity also have allergies? I wonder if there is any connection.
My very sensitive ds has lots of environmental allergies (dust, pollen, etc.), but no food allergies, at least as far as we know.
Interesting question!
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It isn't necessary to go bland, just work with him on the acceptable smell list as you go through the spice cabinet. My sensitive guy insists on spicing the pizza sauce now so that it has a sufficient amt!
:iagree::iagree: My super sensitive ds now likes some quite spicy foods. Sometimes the spice will enable him to eat things that he wouldn't otherwise.
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My older ds has smell sensitivities (and many other sensitivities). He's now 12, and I must say he has gotten MUCH better over the years. When he was young, he couldn't sit at the breakfast table if there was a glass of orange juice there, because the smell bothered him so much. If dh cooked bacon or fish, he'd hide under the blankets in his room. He still notices the smells, and he'll ask me to move the orange juice glass farther away from him, but it isn't as big a deal.
I generally try to cook things separately. DS won't eat tomato sauce, or any form of tomato really. So if I'm making lasagna or enchiladas, I'll save a portion without any sauce for him. We've gradually expanded his repertoire, but he is still pretty limited in what he will eat.
You could try "The Sensitive Child" book. I read it a few years ago, and I don't remember exactly what it was like. At the time, I wanted my dh to read it, since he seemed to have trouble understanding how our ds could be so sensitive.
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I love my kids for who they are and can't imagine them any other way, but knowing issues/difficulties that come with the gifted turf I think they would have a happier and more satisfied life if they were bright.I wish my kids were less asynchronous, had fewer overexcitabilities, and had no 2E issues.
:iagree::iagree::iagree: I totally agree with both of these!
struggles with LOF algebra - need advice
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My ds, who normally loves word problems, had trouble with some of the ones in LOF algebra. For him, the hard part was writing down an equation from the word problem, since he was used to solving things naturally in his head. I supplemented by writing lots of word problems for him (I used a Star Wars theme to keep his interest up), and he only had to write an equation, not solve it.
Honestly, both my dc love Fred, but I found it took a lot of supplementing. My older ds is doing geometry now, and he agreed to switch to Jacob's Geometry instead of using LOF.
I also agree that just because the author says that they should work it on their own, doesn't necessarily mean that is right for your child. I don't think all children learn the same way.