Homeschool Chat

[DawnM]

Where did all the hsers go?

Are you all out shopping?????

I can't bear to brave the crowds so whatever is not gotten is just not gotten!

 

[wvdislover]

Where did all the hsers go?

Are you all out shopping?????

I can't bear to brave the crowds so whatever is not gotten is just not gotten!

I'm still home, but I've been busy cooking, cleaning (mother-in-law arrived yesterday), and wrapping (still not done with that, though!). I do still have a couple of things to pick up, but I don't have to battle crowds too much where I need to go.

Merry Christmas everybody!!!

 

[Denine]

We have been busy. Just finishing up school for the week. This completes the first half of 1st grade. We have 2 days next week then we are going to visit friends in Richmond, VA for New Years.

I have to go finish getting ready for CE dinner since church is at 4, but we need to be there at 3PM to get a good seat.

DD has 13 more days of 1st grade math.

Have a Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!

 

[graygables]

I've been trying to pack for our move, finish 2 papers for school, and finishing our Symbols of Christmas and 12 Days of Christmas lapbooks. Did you know the 12 Days of Christmas is actually a Christian teaching song??? I had NO idea and I now have a much greater appreciation for it!

Hubby's birthday is today, so in addition to the Christmas cooking/baking I have to do, I have to bake his cake and make his stuffed shells dinner.

Did I mention PACKING??? We leave in 3 days and my to-do list is longer than Santa's!

 

[storybookmum]

Did you know the 12 Days of Christmas is actually a Christian teaching song??? I had NO idea and I now have a much greater appreciation for it!

Now that has me curious! When you're not busy, lol - tell us what that means!

 

[graygables]

Now that has me curious! When you're not busy, lol - tell us what that means!

I'm taking a breather, so here goes:

1st Day, Partridge in a Pear Tree: Jesus (Luke 13:34)

2nd Day, Two Turtle Doves: the Old Testament and the New Testament (2 Tim 3:16)

3rd Day, Three French Hens: the Three Theological Virtues, Faith, Hope, Love (1 Corinthians 13:13)

4th Day, Four Calling Birds: the 4 gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John

5th Day, Five Golden Rings: the first 5 books of the Old Testament, also called the Torah or the Pentateuch, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. They "give the history of man's sins and God's response".

6th Day, Six Geese a'Laying: 6 days of Creation (Genesis 1:31)

7th Day, Seven Swans a'Swimming: 7 Gifts of the Holy Spirit:
Propehcy
Ministry
Teaching
Exhortation
Giving
Leading
Compassion (Romans 12:6)

8th Day, Eight Maids a'Milking: the 8 Beatitudes (Matt 5: 3-10)

9th Day, Nine Ladies Dancing: 9 Fruit of the Holy Spirit (Gal 5:22-23)
Joy
Peace
Patience
Kindness
Goodness
Faithfulness
Gentleness
Self-Control

10th Day, Ten Lords a'Leaping: the Ten Commandments

11th Day, Eleven Pipers Piping: the 11 Faithful Apostles (Luke 6:13-16)

12th Day, Twelve Drummers Drumming: 12 Point of Doctrine in the Apostle's Creed:

1. I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of
heaven and earth.
2. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.
3. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit
and born of the virgin Mary.
4. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified,
died, and was buried. He descended into hell.
5. On the third day he rose again. He ascended into
heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the
Father.
6. He will come again to judge the living and the
dead.
7. I believe in the Holy Spirit,
8. The holy catholic Church (catholic, as used in the
creeds, is a term from old Greek that describes the
universal Christian church, not the Catholic
denomination),
9. The communion of saints,
10. The forgiveness of sins,
11. The resurrection of the body,
12. And life everlasting.

We really enjoyed working the lapbook for this one and I had NO idea! The song has taken on new meaning and we will sing it much more often now.

ETA: "me" in the song is the Church and "my true love" represents God

 

[NHWX]

Though it wasn't too relaxing for most of the day with all the cooking and cleaning the downstairs. Somehow upstairs has gotten forgotten. I'm banished out of the kitchen for a while so that the kids can make me something for Christmas.

I've been thinking about schoolwork that will change with Jan. '09. My younger son just isn't clicking with his math and I think it's time to put it away and try something new. So I've been doing some research on that. Our K12 contract for him (independent homeschoolers) runs out 2/8/09 and so I've been thinking about what might be good to do. I think we'll probably continue the Literature and History classes. I think we might do a self-directed unit on astronomy for winter quarter science class.

Our older son finished the math test from heck last Friday. I can definitely recommend that you never try to have a child do an enormously long calculus mid-term during a 12 day power outage. The poor kid is working so hard on this course (at time, other times he's a slacker, go figure!), no one would ever say that he's cheating if they looked at his grades. He needs something interesting to put in this spring as a semester course. We've been tossing around ideas but nothing has really seemed perfect.

I still need to wrap gifts and clean the aforementioned upstairs!

NHWX

 

[Disney Mommy 3]

Graygables~ Thanks!! That is awesome!! I heard that somewhere a looooong time ago,but forgot most of it!! I am going to print this out for my kiddos!!!!

Merry Christmas all!!!!

 

[DawnM]

I had to look this up!

Apparently it is controversial as to whether this is actually the reason the song was written/intended, but that doesn't matter to me.....if you can find meaning and apply it, that works for me.

I will have to do this next year.

Where did you order the lap book?

Dawn

I'm taking a breather, so here goes:

1st Day, Partridge in a Pear Tree: Jesus (Luke 13:34)

2nd Day, Two Turtle Doves: the Old Testament and the New Testament (2 Tim 3:16)

3rd Day, Three French Hens: the Three Theological Virtues, Faith, Hope, Love (1 Corinthians 13:13)

4th Day, Four Calling Birds: the 4 gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John

5th Day, Five Golden Rings: the first 5 books of the Old Testament, also called the Torah or the Pentateuch, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. They "give the history of man's sins and God's response".

6th Day, Six Geese a'Laying: 6 days of Creation (Genesis 1:31)

7th Day, Seven Swans a'Swimming: 7 Gifts of the Holy Spirit:
Propehcy
Ministry
Teaching
Exhortation
Giving
Leading
Compassion (Romans 12:6)

8th Day, Eight Maids a'Milking: the 8 Beatitudes (Matt 5: 3-10)

9th Day, Nine Ladies Dancing: 9 Fruit of the Holy Spirit (Gal 5:22-23)
Joy
Peace
Patience
Kindness
Goodness
Faithfulness
Gentleness
Self-Control

10th Day, Ten Lords a'Leaping: the Ten Commandments

11th Day, Eleven Pipers Piping: the 11 Faithful Apostles (Luke 6:13-16)

12th Day, Twelve Drummers Drumming: 12 Point of Doctrine in the Apostle's Creed:

1. I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of
heaven and earth.
2. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.
3. He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit
and born of the virgin Mary.
4. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified,
died, and was buried. He descended into hell.
5. On the third day he rose again. He ascended into
heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the
Father.
6. He will come again to judge the living and the
dead.
7. I believe in the Holy Spirit,
8. The holy catholic Church (catholic, as used in the
creeds, is a term from old Greek that describes the
universal Christian church, not the Catholic
denomination),
9. The communion of saints,
10. The forgiveness of sins,
11. The resurrection of the body,
12. And life everlasting.

We really enjoyed working the lapbook for this one and I had NO idea! The song has taken on new meaning and we will sing it much more often now.

ETA: "me" in the song is the Church and "my true love" represents God

 

[graygables]

I had to look this up!

Apparently it is controversial as to whether this is actually the reason the song was written/intended, but that doesn't matter to me.....if you can find meaning and apply it, that works for me.

I will have to do this next year.

Where did you order the lap book?

Dawn

Our curriculum this year has been lapbooks from http://www.handsofachild.com/shop/ We're using Math U See and lapbooks. I joined as a super-member back when they were having a huge sale and stocked up on about 15 different e-books, It's been fantastic and my DDs are actually asking to do schoolwork!

 

[DawnM]

Great!

We are doing a unit study to compliment Sonlight. We are using Time Travelers.

I do have a lapbook that was a freebie from handsofachild.com but we haven't used it yet. I will be using it next....Colonial Times I think it is.

My kids are really enjoying Time Travelers too.....

Oh, just looked it up.....I have the Moon Unit from handsofachild that I got as a freebie......the Colonial Freebie I have is from Knowlegebox Central.

Dawn

Our curriculum this year has been lapbooks from http://www.handsofachild.com/shop/ We're using Math U See and lapbooks. I joined as a super-member back when they were having a huge sale and stocked up on about 15 different e-books, It's been fantastic and my DDs are actually asking to do schoolwork!

 

[DawnM]

Hands of a Child question:

What are the memberships? It says one per month.....are those ones THEY choose, or do you get to pick?

thanks,

Dawn

 

[graygables]

Hands of a Child question:

What are the memberships? It says one per month.....are those ones THEY choose, or do you get to pick?

I haven't had a chance to really look into it yet, but I believe the free ones are ones they design/choose (I think they may be previews of the privately commissioned ones before they offer them to the public). The membership gets you a discount on the regular books, too, in addition to all the freebies.

 

[storybookmum]

Thank you for the 12 Days of Christmas, Graygables. That's pretty neat.

 

[DawnM]

Ah, ok. I would rather choose mine as we follow a curriculum and this would be a supplement. $60 a year wouldn't be worth it for the discount as it is only 10% of a discount and I wouldn't buy nearly that amount ($600 worth) to break even.

Thanks,

Dawn

I haven't had a chance to really look into it yet, but I believe the free ones are ones they design/choose (I think they may be previews of the privately commissioned ones before they offer them to the public). The membership gets you a discount on the regular books, too, in addition to all the freebies.

 

[wvdislover]

I may look into these. We need to revamp what we're doing with DD11. We've been doing a unit study on American Girls (Portraits of American Girlhood), but I've been having trouble getting her to do a lot of the activities. She doesn't think they're "fun" (although I've told her school isn't always going to be fun...there is also some work involved). I think with her Asperger's, it hasn't been appealing to her, b/c it isn't personal to her. The assignments have no meaning to her. There's no "purpose" in her life to many of the assignments. She enjoys reading the books, and I enjoy her learning about history from a personal perspective, but I'm tired of fighting with her on all the assignments. Part of the problem is, she just doesn't like to do anything where she has to exert physical or mental energy (who does?), but with the AS, the problem is compounded. I need to find a new way for her to learn, but make it more interesting to her, so maybe she'll work at it more. I've even looked at going back to SOS for some stuff, but she didn't get much out of that last year, or doing some kind of workbook, so she can see a beginning and end to her work each day

 

[mommyof2princesses]

Has anyone every attended the homeschool days at Colonial Williamsburg? We are thinking of going next month but I wanted to make sure that we get to do everything that a normal admission would. Anyone ever gone?

 

[PoohBear]

Has anyone every attended the homeschool days at Colonial Williamsburg? We are thinking of going next month but I wanted to make sure that we get to do everything that a normal admission would. Anyone ever gone?

We have not been there with the kids. We have been wanting to take them and this would be a great opportunity. I will have to look into this myself.
Thanks for the heads up

 

[Nicolepa]

So I ordered Saxon Math for my kids. Math 2 for my 1st grader and 6/5 w/dive for my 3rd grader. I will be HS my son next year but my daughter will remain at school. For right now I am wanting to use these as a supplement for them.

So my question is do you think is it enough for my 1st grader to do just the first page of the worksheets and only do the second if he has problems? I was thinking for now, until school ends we would do the Saxon 3x a week or so, first page only unless he had a problem.

My daughter I will let work at her own pace on this while school is in and then for the summer a lesson a day.

So does that sound OK?

 

[Denine]

I didn't even know they had HS days at Williamsburg. That is cool. When are they?
We are actually going there tomorrow. We are here in Richmond visiting friends.