Homeschooling in the Tech Community
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@IRJ said:
I spent my time in Elementary School at a Christian School. I hated it. Everybody was in snooty groups and they got alot of rejects who were expelled from public schools.
We did too, they were called teachers.
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@IRJ said:
Link to the school
http://scs2440.com/When I googled them, I noticed they had super high ratings and satisfied parents.....lol
Mostly just gives you insight into the kinds of parents sending their kids there.
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Thankfully the school that I attended was shut down. I was in the largest class that the school even had, eighteen students in Kindergarten and first grade. The class slowly shrank over the years. It was down to around nine when I left. By senior year only one girl was left. She both graduated valedictorian AND hit the 0th percentile making her both highly coveted and completely ineligible simultaneously for many crappy colleges.
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Sitting in on a history lesson now. The three year old is auditing the six year old's "Egyptian History" class.
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Today's topic? Mummification and tomb culture of ancient Egypt.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Today's topic? Mummification and tomb culture of ancient Egypt.
Is @Dominica teaching this class or do you subscribe to web based lectures?
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The girls do cool history projects. When studying Mesopotamia last year they made river and ziggurat dioramas, did paper puppets of Sumerians and used clay and sticks to make cuneiform tablets!
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Today's topic? Mummification and tomb culture of ancient Egypt.
Is @Dominica teaching this class or do you subscribe to web based lectures?
@dominica is teaching. Although we now get free web resources as Texas is extremely pro-home school and provides a lot of resources.
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We did a lot of listening to pod casts etc. for multiple subjects.
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@Minion-Queen said:
We did a lot of listening to pod casts etc. for multiple subjects.
Was the enriching? Or did you also have hands-on work to do to reinforce the information for the pod cast?
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I can't wait until we are learning about American rail history. We plan on doing some model railroad projects and riding the rails from Chicago to California to explore the old rail trails.
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We are hoping to be up to doing some initial Roman and Greek history in time for the girls to get to visit Greek and Roman ruins in Spain and maybe Italy while we are there so that they can get some tactile enforcement of the concepts and locations. We might visit Greece while we are over there, depending on our schedules.
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@coliver said:
@Minion-Queen said:
We did a lot of listening to pod casts etc. for multiple subjects.
Was the enriching? Or did you also have hands-on work to do to reinforce the information for the pod cast?
Yes we did we went looking for pod casts that matched what we were doing in a subject. It did help.
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Oklahoma is voting to potentially drop AP classes because they are too similar to the Common Core!
https://www.change.org/p/oklahoma-lawmakers-don-t-ban-ap-courses
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@scottalanmiller said:
I can't wait until we are learning about American rail history. We plan on doing some model railroad projects and riding the rails from Chicago to California to explore the old rail trails.
Nerd alert.
Kidding, I love trains, seriously, and when my youngest daughter said she liked trains, she became my favourite
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Grove Social has a model train community you know! Sadly, no one posts there but me. Hop in and we can talk trains there!!
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Hmmm... will try to get that fixed.
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@scottalanmiller You're such a tease
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Sorry, meant for that to work, lol. That site is often used for testing of the NodeBB updates so it breaks more than the others.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Sorry, meant for that to work, lol. That site is often used for testing of the NodeBB updates so it breaks more than the others.
Oh lawd, you don't have a staging environment? Those poor model trains
