Posts by Lillian J

Quote: Originally Posted by onatightrope  I agree with the rest of the posters here, but I had another thing to add.  There is nothing in the standard 5th grade curriculum that is more important than the lesson...

I sure wish we could sit together over a few cups of mint tea and really talk about all this instead of trying to communicate via a cold screen. I can certainly understand how you're feeling, but I want to say that it really doesn't...

Quote: Originally Posted by Mama Soltera  The school said they don't need a letter saying I'm withdrawing her. She goes to school now in a different district than the one I live in (where we would be homeschooling)....

Quote: Originally Posted by pek64  Getting back to math-- any ideas for getting those who would rather do anything other than math to actually enjoy math? Or at least tolerate it?   Here's some good reading on...

SweetSilver clarified what she was asking about - it was what problems the tutor had been trying to work with. What the tutor was referring to was the deadening of all those kids to math - making them think that...

Is it the remembering of the arithmetic facts that she's finding so hard? Maybe she could learn them more easily with games of all kinds, either hands-on or computer, or maybe she'd at least find it less painful. You might browse...

I just want to add to what I wrote above, that social life is much more crucially important to some children and teens than it is to others. I knew several moms who pulled their sons out of school around age 9 or 10 to homeschool, and...

Quote: Originally Posted by 3littlelambs  from the *few* HSing books I've read, they all seem to assert that this bond is one of the unique byproducts of HSing. I definitely hope so! It is one of the chief reasons I...

I have absolutely no doubt that it created a tighter bond with my own child, and that it created a tighter bond between his homeschooled friends and their parents. I was in a little crafts class tonight where everyone was chiming in...

Yes, it's a great place to homeschool! It hasn't been called the R-4 for a while, though, because that was just the name of the paper form, and those have been replaced by the online form. So it's now just a PSA, for private school...