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8 years ago @ Bicultural Homeschool - Cooking Lessions via M... · 0 replies · +3 points
I love that the kids are learning to cook. That's a life skill worth learning. And it's awesome they are learning to make a wide variety of dishes.
Those home delivery meal kits always intrigue me, but based on your blog post, I think I will definitely not be signing up for one. :P
I used to LOVE Let's Dish when they were around - like a precursor to these home delivery meal kits! I would bring a cooler and go to a store front and package my own pre-prepared meals - using fresh meat and vegetables that would go straight into the freezer when I got home. I loved the dishes, and it was fun to prepare the packages myself, too. It definitely felt like I was still cooking the whole meal. And there wasn't a ton of waste for packaging because ingredients were placed out individually in the store, but you combined them yourself, and the recipes always had full disclosure on all ingredients. I remember I used to be able to get 10 meals for about $200, so like $20 a meal meant for a family of 4. Totally worth it. Boy, I miss that place!
Definitely would love to get my kids learning to cook! Thanks for the inspiration!
10 years ago @ Bicultural Homeschool - The Hardest Part of Ho... · 0 replies · +1 points
I definitely agree, too, that it's not JUST that we need to be more flexible with our expectations - which we do! - but to some extent, the child also needs to learn to be more disciplined. We don't get home from school until 3:15, then with snack and some "wind-down" time, I don't expect the kids to start any homework or instrument practice until 4:00. (That's me trying to be more accommodating to their needs!) But that leaves only 3 hours until we start getting ready for bed, plus we have to prepare and eat dinner during that time! There really have been days when my daughter has NOT finished her homework by the time 7:00 rolls around - but she HAS spent 2 hours reading! - and so teaching her to use her time wisely is something we are working on.
10 years ago @ Bicultural Homeschool - Weekly Wrap-up: Irelan... · 0 replies · +1 points
10 years ago @ Bicultural Homeschool - Ireland Culture Unit S... · 0 replies · +1 points
11 years ago @ Bicultural Homeschool - Informal Chinese Lessons · 0 replies · +3 points
A good lesson combining your different smaller units could be stating the date. Like, "Today is March 8 Sunday," "Yesterday was March 7 Saturday," "Tomorrow is March 9 Monday", "My birthday is March 13." All those words are easy to write, too, so they could be good writing lessons for Monkey, too. Especially because many of those words are pictograms that will help show where the words came from, like "month" from "moon" and "day" from "sun".
11 years ago @ Bicultural Homeschool - Weekly Wrap-up: Right-... · 1 reply · +3 points
In elementary school I remember learning a lot about Pilgrims and Native Americans and the Revolutionary War, perhaps more than other kids in other parts of the country might, because I grew up in a suburb of Boston, and so those topics were particularly relatable, as all the events actually occurred in nearby towns. Maybe to get Monkey more excited about social studies / history, you could look into some topics closer to home - like your state and neighboring states' roles in the Revolutionary War, or learn about famous people from your state, or the history of countries related to your family, like China and Ireland.
11 years ago @ Bicultural Homeschool - Kids\' Books About Gro... · 1 reply · +3 points
http://www.pragmaticmom.com/2011/06/top-10-chines...
It's actually a series: The Year of the Book, The Year of the Baby, and The Year of the Fortune Cookie. I can't say I "recommend" them because I haven't read them myself yet, but they were on my radar, and now with this post's prompting, I'm going to go ahead and get them from the library and check them out!
The only "problem" is that these books all feature girls! So maybe they would be good for Bunny, but I don't know if Monkey would be interested in them? I've found that to be true about children's books in general - there are LOTS of books about elementary and middle school girls growing up, but very few books about boys growing up! The boy book market seems to be more about adventure and fantasy, not fiction that mimics real life...
11 years ago @ Bicultural Homeschool - Thanksgiving Art, Scie... · 0 replies · +2 points
11 years ago @ Bicultural Homeschool - Evolution of a Unexpec... · 0 replies · +1 points
11 years ago @ Bicultural Homeschool - Life Goals for Our Hom... · 0 replies · +1 points
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