Nov. 2, 2009 - Homeschool Nation Closing!!!
That's right. The Homeschool Nation will no longer continue. It was a long and hard decision for the Old Schoolhouse Magazine. The closing date is November 6, 2009.
Hope the blog helped!
I will continue my blog at www.homeschoolblogger.com/testimony
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Oct. 30, 2009 - My struggle
If there is anyone out there who can help me?
I am so devastated because my son's Suzuki violin teacher is not willing to advance him. Here's what happened.
My sons have a robotics team that they are doing. We had a presentation to do yesterday. Also, my younger son had these bumps on his body that he needed to get minor surgery yesterday.
My sons practiced their violin all this week. My older son did not do the scale. His violin teacher is adding more stuff to his lessons. In fact she is adding so much more stuff, my son cannot do his Suzuki pieces. She takes up the lesson time doing other things. He has to work on sight reading and playing. He has to work on other work sheets. He ends up spending his time working on other stuff and not the Suzuki pieces.
September of 2008, my older son started in book 2 of Suzuki violin. It is October 2009 and he is still in book 2. She will not promote him to book 2. He still does not have the right pitch and so, he is still doing the last three pieces in book 2. 
We listened all week to the book 2 CD. He played his section 28 times. He played it for her and she told it was still not good enough. So, now he has to play it 30 times. AAAA!
I just want to know is this discouraging to a child? Will this effect my son's self-esteem? He is going into pre-adolescence. This is a time when children need to feel that they can accomplish something. This woman is giving my son a reason to quit. What can I do?
Thank you to anyone who can share.
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Oct. 23, 2009 - I will not complain
You know the Bible says do all things without grumbling or complaining. I should take heed of this statement because I complained about a curriculum. The program, Lyrical Life Science: Human Body, was confusing. The full words to the songs were in the appendix at the back of the book. That was confusing because for months we kept saying how aweful it was that we did not have all the words to the song to sing a long to the CD. Well, we found the words after two months, duh. I had already written on my blog how I was not a fan of the program. It turns out the words were there in the book just not with the title and other stuff.
Well, my older son does well on the IOWAs, but he never scores too high in the science. The highest he gets is about in the high 70s. The last one he got in the low 90s, specifically 93, in science. He told me that he clearly remembered the words to one of the songs from lyrical science and that helped him answer a few questions correctly. Wow! The songs did come in handy. Well, I am humble to say that most curriculae are good out there. Most of the time, I realize that it is what I feel is comfortable to teach and user friendly to me. So, if I don't like a curriculum, it might be that it did not work for me. I realize that when you read a review and it is negative look at why.
I think that I need to look more at what kind of a mom I am and the kind of mom a person reviewing may be. I know that as long as the curriculum is following some standard and your child is learning than it is a good program.
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Oct. 12, 2009 - My son's soccer team is number one
My younger son's travel team is ranked number one in his division as of today. They have 3 wins, no ties, and 1 loss of the 4 games played so far. Their total score is 9 points, but the second place team has 8 points. We play them next Sunday. So pray for us!!
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Oct. 9, 2009 - My Weekly Report
We had a rough week since my sons were sick on Thursday. I am just going to summarize the week by subjects.
Mathematics:
My first born son went through several exercises this week in Primary Mathematics 6B. He is doing the reviews in the textbook to wrap up the week, then he will complete 3 chapters of Life of Fred and the bridge today. So, he has completed 6 exercies and 2 reviews in the beginning.
My second son has slowly worked through several pages of practices in Primary Mathematics 3A. It is a struggle for him, but he is slowly working it through.
History:
My first born completed 3 chapters of Story of the World. He completed 4 chapters in Our Island Story.
My second completed one chapter of Story of the World. They both summarize by narrating to me.
Writing and Grammar:
My older son completed week 2 of Classical Writing Beginning Poetry.
My younger son completed lessons 28- 31 of First Language Lessons 3.
Logic:
The older is doing Building Thinking Skills book 3 Verbal. He has completed he is doing maps and directions in the sequencing section.
The younger is doing Building Thinking Skills book 2. He is just beginning the book.
Latin:
My older son started Henle Book 1 this week. He is only doing two exercises a week because I want him to learn more Spanish this year.
My younger son completed lesson 1 of Latina Christiana I.
Science:
The boys are on a FIRST Lego League team. They are currently doing research about pot holes as our theme is about transportation. I think what is neat is my younger son's Latin word is porto. He learned transport as a derivative of that word and he is learning about transportation.
We are doing this program for science for now.
This week for our FLL team we went to the library to learn how to do research.
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