'Just wanted to remind everybody that besides Valentine's Day and Mardi Gras, Chinese New Year is also coming up (Feb 14th this year!). We're having some fun exploring that -- got a Karen Katz book out of the library that's a current favourite -- and we'll go see the Lion Dancers in early February.
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1/17/10 at 10:51am
I like the idea of doing a check of on skills learned every so often and filing that. You've all given me some good ideas.
) lapbook. She's a tough cookie though. All I can say is thank goodness we were already planning to homeschool. She likes a bit of input but not too much direction, the balance is really hard to find. We've tried a couple of different outside activities lately and though she really enjoyed the actual content, they've all been flops because of the teacher/leader. Storytime at the library was going great (and I was enjoying too as in our new area it's normal to see a few two year olds breastfeeding during storytime 
) but they have a different volunteer each week and last week's volunteer was a little over-enthusiastic about "helping" the children with their craft. Suddenly DD doesn't want a bar of storytime *sigh* Oh well. I'm glad I'm learning how to cope with all this now, we don't have to register until 2012 so I've got time to work it all out...
Not with food or anything, just "if you finish this with me, we'll play an extra checkers game".
I'm not. He actually picked up on the concept after I showed him ONCE and we practiced for 10 minutes and then he went back to playing.
Admittedly, this is the crowd I follow but personally would never shun someone for doing academic work with their children before 7. We are all individuals. What works for me and my children will not work for you and yours.
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