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[Cecilia]

LibraryMama, that sounds like plain old Home Ec to me.

[Stephanie]

I think it would certainly be a home ec, but if you're needing another title for the records...

Emergency Management Skills with Basic First Aide?

Life Skills 101?

Disaster Survival / Home Safety?

Primitive Living Skills?

[LibraryMama]

All great ideas! I suppose we'll see what direction this particular course takes & name it after the fact.

Do y'all school year-round? I did more unschooling with my son, but my daughter wants more structure. She started today so she'd have a few extra free days throughout the year & it took her forever to finish! Don't know if I scheduled too much or if she was just pokey, since I had to work today & her dad was out mowing.
We'll get it worked out.

Hope your week is off to a great start!

[Stephanie]

We pretty much go year round, but do have an official start of the 'new year' , which is right about now. <img src="http://mrssurvival.c...IR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

My girls like more structure too, that's interesting. Finally I just bought some workbooks so they could 'feel' like they were 'doing' school, and it didn't hurt anything. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />

Edited by Stephanie, 27 December 2010 - 08:42 AM.

[Stephanie]

Hi all!! We haven't posted on this thread for a while, I thought I'd give it a little bump.

With the tornadoes of last week and the OBL death. we've been doing a LOT of CURRENT AFFAIRS.

We've read personal accounts written by tornado survivors. This has led to some great discussion, prayer and investigations.

I'm in the process of reviewing the 9-11 tragedy as 5 of my children are too young to remember that terrible day. I feel they have to know about terrorism to understand why everyone is talking about Bin Laden.

What have you taught your children lately??

[windmorn]

1st time in 3 weeks dd has done her long division without tears or help!!!!

[Jeepers]

1st time in 3 weeks dd has done her long division without tears or help!!!!

Cheering for Windmorn's DD too!


Hang in there sister, you're getting it!

[Stephanie]

I can't believe it has been four years since I started this thread. Truly, time has flown by!

An activity that I did with the five youngest caused me to come locate this very thread to post about it and share with other Mom's needing to keep their children busy and learning this summer.

Last month I took my mom to a group painting class where we all painted with acrylic paints on canvas. It was so fun, even for total beginners like us. So, I decided then that I wanted my kids to have this experience. Finally, we did it today.

I found these very helpful instructional youtubes that guided us along and I was so proud of how food they each did. If you will go to my blog and look at the post called _Lanscaped by God_, you will see the link to the YouTube and a picture of our paintings. We can't wit to do it again. We had so much fun.

https://stephanierodda.wordpress.com/

[Amishway Homesteaders]

Teaching kids..................................

Did another Museum tour today (been doing them for over 35 years now I think?) and the stuff kids don't know anymore?

Part of old tour talked about milk and cheese and I would ask what we divide milk into so we get cheese? Then I would start to say:

"Little miss Muffit sat on her tuffet eating her..........................

and they would all finish it!

NOW they just look at me like I am from another Planet?

They also have no idea about things they Parents did as kids: like playing board games, marbles, jumping rope, etc.

The best part is I used to say "If you are interested in something I said go home and look it up in a book or go to the Library and ask for help.

NOW I just say "GOOGLE IT"! and they all know what I mean.

 

 I am getting to old for this...................................

[dogmom4]

I teach nursery rhymes to my preschoolers every year be cause its a wonderful way to teach language and vocabulary. We have them recite them for their parents at the end of the year...many parents have never heard them. Don't think the public schools are putting much emphasis on then anymore.

[Stephanie]

I for one think such things as nursery rhymes and even old hymns should be passed on and preserved. Too many times as we have sought to improve, we have thrown out the baby with the bath water. Bad idea.