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#15917 - 05/13/08 06:08 PM Re: Who's doing what--let us know [Re: HeyDad]
Ania Offline
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Registered: 02/07/06
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Loc: away...
Charter school with subject acceleration and some online classes.

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#15920 - 05/13/08 08:09 PM Re: Who's doing what--let us know [Re: acs]
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Registered: 05/01/06
Posts: 203
Loc: Texas
DD8 is currently in 3rd grade in a Spanish immersion program at a public lab school. DD5 will enter K next year in the same program.

Summer

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#15923 - 05/13/08 08:49 PM Re: Who's doing what--let us know [Re: Texas Summer]
bianc850a Offline
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Registered: 12/02/07
Posts: 268
Loc: California
DD8 - Private HG school - 4th grade with 5/6 grade math.

Additional Science/Math/Engineering/Technology (STEM) will be available as after/before school elective activities for elementary school grades starting in the fall. We finally got a math specialist for the lower school!!!


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#15924 - 05/13/08 08:56 PM Re: Who's doing what--let us know [Re: bianc850a]
Kriston Offline
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Registered: 09/19/07
Posts: 3765
Loc: here! Where else? (Duh!)
DOK, bianca, DOK...

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#15928 - 05/14/08 04:06 AM Re: Who's doing what--let us know [Re: squirt]
Dottie Offline
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Registered: 06/30/06
Posts: 3267
Loc: The Real World
"Regular Public School" doesn't seem to paint the full picture, even for my girls, LOL! Here's our deal for next year...

DD13, 9th (+1), honors classes and GT seminar (((insert ooohing sound))))
DD11, 6th with GT pullout
DS9, 6th (+2) with more for math (haggling out details soon!) and GT pullout

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#15938 - 05/14/08 06:17 AM Re: Who's doing what--let us know [Re: Dottie]
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Registered: 05/25/07
Posts: 265
Dottie -- you have your own version of public school with lots of unique stuff you've worked out. It's almost individualized instruction within a big system. cool

For us next year,

DS -- going to a self-contained HG+ public school class for kids with "radically different needs", max 12 kids per grade level for the district
DS -- same HG+ program
DD -- self-contained MG classroom, also in public school

This will be a new program for us in a new district, but we're hopeful. Until now, we'd been following Dottie's model of trying to agitate and work with the school for changes, which has been ok, but there's a lot of room for improvement.

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#15941 - 05/14/08 06:38 AM Re: Who's doing what--let us know [Re: gratified3]
Kriston Offline
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Registered: 09/19/07
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DOK for the self-contained HG+ classrooms and GT seminars...

*sigh*

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#15944 - 05/14/08 07:04 AM Re: Who's doing what--let us know [Re: Kriston]
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Registered: 04/05/08
Posts: 741
DOK as well...... double sigh.....

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#15957 - 05/14/08 09:12 AM Re: Who's doing what--let us know [Re: Dazed&Confuzed]
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Registered: 05/26/07
Posts: 1218
Loc: West coast, USA
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD.OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

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#15967 - 05/14/08 10:50 AM Re: Who's doing what--let us know [Re: incogneato]
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Registered: 03/10/08
Posts: 72
Loc: Texas
Originally Posted By: incogneato

I guess you can say we are trial homeschooling this summer, but it's not that different than what we have been doing during summer and afterschool.

The girls will have swim team in the mornings, then in the afternoon they will have a fun learning session.

They are already pretty excited about it as we are in the process of sketching it out. They will choose which day is science day, math day, language arts day, etc and then I will provide things for each of them to do. They will be asked to spend 30 minutes on a project and then are free to continue or do whatever else they want for the rest of the day.
Friday is for whatever we want to do. No swim team, so we can go on field trips, do crafts of sit around and do nothing if we wish! smile
We also plan on doing other fun stuff like going on vacation, amusement parks, camping etc.
We are all excited, it looks like a very fun summer!


It does sound like a fun summer, 'Neato! And thanks for the ideas about how to rotate the learning time. Even though we're staying with public school in the fall, I am going to try some schooling at home this summer. For some reason I've bristled at schedules since I stopped working, even if I make them. Apparently I don't like being told what to do, even if I'm the one doing the telling! But I have realized that I need some type of schedule--even a loose "guideline"--to stay on track, and your idea sounds great, especially for the summer.

Thanks for sharing!

Oh, yes, and I'm joining the others who are drooling over the HG classes and seminar. DOK, indeed!


Edited by AmyEJ (05/14/08 10:52 AM)

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