School Calendar Hi Jackie, On my home page, I have posted a course schedule. You are welcome to follow along with the schedule my class is keeping and use any of the online resources (lab report examples, assignment examples, etc.) I have posted for my classes online. Please remember that the materials are copyrighted. I am giving you permission to print one copy of the schedule. Please see my member profile for my home page address. Hope that helps. Steve
I will say sorry that I'm sorry for being so brash earlier, yes Jackie was right, we do get lots of new people here trying to sell stuff to us, and post links to sell stuff. I'm just leary sometimes. once you are here for a while please find the "our favororite sites" that would be a good place to put your science links......
Steve, www.donnayoung.org has a schedule for all of Apologia, giving pretty much two weeks per module. This is what we try to follow. She has "bookmarks" which I've printed on tagboard. Rachael keeps it in her book, and checks off what she's done. Usually, we get behind when "life" gets in our way. Last year, we had to work a bit in the summer. I told her she needed to finish one module before camp, and the last one between camp and us leaving on vacation.
It's okay, Amy. Let me tell you a little about myself. I am a former classically-trained medical technologist (4 years) turned research chemist (19 years) turned teacher (8 years ago). I have been a Christian for 40 years, but believed that God created life on earth via evolution and the universe via the Big Bang. Eight-years ago, I met Dr. Jay Wile. His books and writings radically changed my point of view. I have been teaching his books now for six years. It is my God-directed mission to teach Creation science. I am hoping that forums may help me increase the spread of this message. I am not here to sell you anything. I am here to help you educate your students so that they won't go through life (like I did) doubting their Biblical origins. Hope that helps. Steve
Hi Jackie, Donna Young's schedule is great. Please use it. Mine is also available as well, as are the helps the web page provides. The more helps available the better. Donna and I are colaborers in helping you educate your students. The flexibility of home schooling is what makes it good and bad. The good is you can take breaks and investigate the daily stuff God presents. The bad is that your student in college will not be so fortunate. I enforce a schedule in my classes because I keep my eye of the future ball. I have 486 college credits under my belt (mostly in math and science) with a 3.81 GPA. I got there by learning to effectively schedule and sticking to it. I try to impart my students with the same discipline. You are correct life gets in the way. I had to ask for an extension this year for a class I am taking due to my having bronchitis. Do the best you can to stay on schedule - but if you need summer, then you need summer to finish. School should not be bondage. God Bless, Steve
Jackie, thanks for the link! I love it. I came across a presidential fact that will come in handy next quarter! Patty
Welcome Steve. I recognized your name and info right away (after reading the Apologia website countless times and clicking over to the Potter School). For anyone interested...Steve's on the Potter school teacher list...see link below. http://www.pottersschool.org/tps/teachers.htm I think it's cool that you're on here and interested in helping. My kiddos aren't using Apologia yet but my oldest will once she's ready for middle school science...she's 9 1/2 right now and I'm hoping to do Elementary Botany with all three in the Spring/Summer. Anyway, just wanted to say hi. I'm sure you'll get link posting priviledges soon! Rhonda C. Ft. Monroe, VA
Thanks, Rhonda. Not everyone can afford Potter's School. I am trying to find less expensive ways to help those on a budget. I came up with two ideas: (1) post audio recordings of my classes and lecture notes online and (2) answer forum questions one hour per day. I am listed on three forums and will eventually call one of them home base. I copy/paste my vignettes to all three. I came to Homeschool Spot via a member recommendation. I am glad I did. You seem to be a great bunch and have some caring moderators. I am sure that I will earn their trust in the near future. Pleased to meet you. God Bless, Steve
Welcome Steve, Just checked out the site, that is actually a bargain compared to how much I have been paying for our curriculum.
Yup, Potter's is extremely reasonable. There are, however, folks that even PS's reasonable tuition is a stretch. Missionaries overseas, single moms, and multiple student homes often can't afford PS on their limited budgets. The audio/lecture program and forum interactions will allow me to serve other families that I can't reach through Potter's. Potter's is an AWESOME school; but I am here to help the other groups as I have time. God Bless, Steve
Hi Sommer, I have opened a new topic "Science Helps" under the home schooling forum. You might want to check it out. Thanks so much for the welcome. I am glad I found you all. God Bless, Steve
Hey Steve- Welcome! I have used Apologia in teaching 2 highschool homeschooled kids. Loved it! I LOVE SCIENCE though. I am using Exploring Astronomy right now for my 3 and 5 year old. We do most of the experiments and I use what I can. I dont focus on the little details but the big picture for them. BUT my 5 year old gave his grandfather a pretty detailed explaination of "thermonuclear fusion" the other day. It was too cute as he could barely say the word, but he really did remember what it meant in relationship to the sun. I am not sure what you were saying about College and hs kids though?? I was ps educated and VERY unprepared for college. I did well, but I spend the whole first semester figuring out how to learn. I was so used to just showing up to class and taking a test based on a pretest answer key or notes from a teacher in high school. I had no idea how to read a book and get information from it. Homeschool kids can take a break from schooling when they want usually but they generally learn how to learn on their own. Maybe this isnt what you meant but I know for one my kids will learn how to learn even if I cant or dont teach them something. Glad you joined -- now I am going to look for your science helps.......
Dear Jill, I totally agree with you. Students do need to learn to learn on there own. A good teacher fosters that ability. However, I am not sure I would want to cross a bridge build by a self-taught engineer or go to a concert held by a self-taught pianist. What I was simply saying is there comes a point in any student's development that self-education is not going to cut it or parent-assisted education is not going to be enough in all areas of interest. A good parent/teacher needs to recognize his or limitations: I could no more teach music to my students than the man in the moon, but I can teach them to love science. I would need to find a piano teacher if my student were musically inclined. I am sorry your ps experience was so bad, but please don't judge every teacher by it. My wife is a 30 year ps veteran teacher and I taught in ps for three years prior to joining Potter's School. If you feel that you can teach your student as much about chemistry or piano or your student can learn as much about science or music on their own as they can working with a 23-year veteran research chemist and former medical technologist who happens to be a teacher at present or a studied music teacher, then I would question that thinking. Eventually, a student is going to need professional instruction in some area to reach his or her full potential. I hope this helps you understand further where I am coming from. I would also everyone remind that most of the patriarchs of the Bible and Jesus, himself, sat under a mentor's/teacher's instruction. If we could all learn everything on our own, then why would God provide Teachers for his church and hold those Teachers to a greater accountability? God Bless, Steve
yes please! it sounds like a site that many may like to use/see (and have now) and rather than bombard the poor guy with pm's, can someone who now has it please post it? there's way too many snowflake things on google. :lol: (this isn't like someone said "hey, please can a long term member post the link to my work-at-home-business" ... if this is educational, it would be nice if we all could share in it. )
Hi Again, As soon as they allow me to post links, I will go back and fill in all the blank spaces and missing links in my posts. I am sure that the priviledge will be coming shortly. The moderators are just protecting you from people like me who have their own business. They just need to see that I am here to help, not sell or market. I think it is a wise move on their part. Be patient! The links will be coming shortly. So far I have had 31 requests for the addresses, which is not overwhelming considering I answer about 200 e-mails per week and I am on Christmas holiday at present. God Bless, Steve
i'm just a little frustrated - we're actually back into the snow lapbook we were doing before the holidays and i saw: and was quite interested and then people are all talking about it and it's like, okay, somebody say where it is already!
oh man, now i had to laugh...i was frustrated because of it being a snow link and having been looking for lots of those, and now rosenon pm'ed me, it turns out that the one you all are talking about here is the same one i posted in the links section on november 27th, so i already had this one bookmarked. :lol: thread here :lol:
