Friday, June 25, 2021

Home Ecology and Play/Naturkundeklasse und Spiel

On Tuesday, we had our last home ecology class.  I prepared a zucchini dish for the slow cooker and then we left for our class.  

Am Dienstag war unsere letzte Naturkundeklasse.  Dafür habe ich einen Eintopf mit Zucchini in den Schongarer ("langsamen Kochtopf") gesteckt, bevor wir weggefahren sind.    



Our class was about insects: Look at these gypsy moth caterpillars!
In unserer Klasse ging es um Insekten: Hier sind viele Schwammspinnerraupen!

Looking for insects: No more mask requirments!
Wir suchen Insekten: Man braucht keine Masken mehr!

Dogbane
Hundsgift

Milkweed in bloom
Blühende Seidenpflanze

Norway Spruce
Fichte

Golden Alexander

Jonathan and Flora are playing baseball.
Jonathan und Flora spielen Baseball.



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Flora's nasturtium
Floras Kapuzinerkresse





Flora does not have to walk Cooper during the summer, but she still sometimes goes over and takes him for a walk.
Flora muß im Sommer nicht mit Cooper vormittags spazieren gehen, aber manchmal holt sie ihn doch ab und führt ihn aus.


Today, we have to hand in our fourth quarterly reports and the results of the standardized tests.  Veronika and Miriam reached the highest possible percentile and Flora reached the 81st.  We are so proud of all three girls.  For Flora, this is a huge milestone.  She not only reached the required percentile for homeschoolers in NYS in her first test, but surpassed it by far!  NF 1 is no fun when it comes to learning and studying, but Flora's continuous efforts in combination with different educational materials than the ones I used for the other four, have made a huge difference.  We are so happy for her!  Miriam has now officially finished high school, but we will keep working on a few subjects, especially math.  She will take the SAT in the fall.  

Heute müssen wir unser viertes Quartalzeugnis abgeben und auch die Ergebnisse der Tests, die jetzt gekommen sind.  Veronika und Miriam haben die höchstmögliche Perzentile erreicht und Flora hat die 81. erreicht.  Wir sind auf alle drei Mädchen sehr stolz.  Für Flora ist das ein tolles Ergebnis.  Sie hat nicht nur die Mindestperzentile für Kinder, die in New York zu Hause unterrichtet werden, erreicht, sondern sie bei weitem überschritten.  NF 1 erschwert den betroffenen Kindern das Lernen in vielerlei Hinsicht, aber Floras stetige Bemühungen und meine Auswahl von ganz anderen Lernmitteln als für die anderen Kinder, haben einen riesigen Unterschied gemacht.  Wir freuen uns mit ihr.  Miriam hat damit offiziell die Schule beendet, doch werden wir noch vor allen Dingen weiter an Mathe arbeiten, damit sie dann im Herbst die Aufnahmeprüfung für Colleges machen kann.     


P.S. But we do have summer school in our house.
P.S. Auch wenn offiziell der letzte Schultag ist, gibt es in unserem Haus ein wenig Sommerschule.




4 comments:

  1. Well done Flora that is a massive achievement 🙂. Well done to you Eva for adjusting your teaching and materials to help Flora reach her goals, you are one epic homeschool mum ❤️❤️

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    1. I was so relieved when the results came back! I thought she might not be able to reach the minimum percentile, which would have put her homeschool status in jeopardy. There are still many things we need to work on (spelling is just one of them), but over a year ago, she could not even read all of the test instructions! Now she not only read them, but knew what she had to do, and answered all questions. Some of the things we have used for learning to read I discovered in England. There are not many tools like that available here. Most of the remedial materials here are meant for schools and/or cost an arm and a leg. It has been a complicated journey in trying to help her particular learning challenges, but I must have done something right :). Thank for you compliment!

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  2. Congratulations to Flora and to you too, Eva! This is happy news. I'm always impressed with the resources you find, and you are a wonderful teacher :)

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    1. Thanks so much and yes, I am so relieved! She has come so far and is making good progress. I was worried, our homeschool would end up on probation for her or that I would have to go the special needs route, which would have been so complicated. We do have a lady who helps NF1 children in our county, but I have never contacted her. I think she only gives ideas, like, who could help such a child, but I think I know most of those ideas anyway. When I ordered the PASS test for Flora, the lady working there said that her nephew also had NF1! I was so surprised. You never hear about other children like that.

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