Carnism in elementary school curriculum (homeschooling content)

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Hello, I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the right place.

ds is in the primary grades and we do have a certain amount of leeway as far as curriculum choices in our area, but there is just so much carnism in all of the workbooks directed towards this age group! In an ideal world, i would spend all day doing fun, hands-on projects instead of using workbooks while I attend to other responsibilities or would wake up at 4 AM to make the time to rewrite such gems as today's grammar lesson, which instructs him to combine the following two sentences:

Joe's favourite food is steak.

Joe's favourite food is also cheese pizza.

but that just isn't always possible.

any advice? TIA
 
He's not really old enough to rewrite assignments yet, but we could definitely start heading in that general direction.

I took a bottle of white-out to Joe so he likes broccoli and avocados now, but ds will notice and hopefully start thinking about it. Yesterday's spelling workbook had a margin note about "grade" meaning the incline of a slope as well as A+, B-, etc. so it's really not that different.

Fortunately, we won't have any problems with charter school employees or purchase orders, so I'm afraid this must sound like whining to working parents with kids in bad public schools. It kind of is, but I'd like to pick your brains and I can't post things like this on my homeschooling forums without inciting debate/flame war.
 
veg1973 said:
He's not really old enough to rewrite assignments yet, but we could definitely start heading in that general direction.

I took a bottle of white-out to Joe so he likes broccoli and avocados now, but ds will notice and hopefully start thinking about it. Yesterday's spelling workbook had a margin note about "grade" meaning the incline of a slope as well as A+, B-, etc. so it's really not that different.

Fortunately, we won't have any problems with charter school employees or purchase orders, so I'm afraid this must sound like whining to working parents with kids in bad public schools. It kind of is, but I'd like to pick your brains and I can't post things like this on my homeschooling forums without inciting debate/flame war.
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Do you have to use your district's materials, or do you have leeway? There is a lot of really interesting stuff that isn't workbooks...And lots of premade workbook pages online that you could print after choosing appropriate ones.

Like I just have to say, young children often really like nature journalling. You go for a little walk, can even be in the yard sometimes, and he finds something of interest, like a stick or a dandelion or an ant, and draws it. Then he can write about it, or orally tell you, and you write the sentence. Then you sometimes end up researching the cool thing from the journal and learning more. K, I'll shut up now. I loved teaching my kids (we did school and lots of home enrichment learning.)
 
Why not just supplement the workbooks with suitable material and your explanation?

Your kids will be confronted with carnism everywhere out there, better to explain it to them and teach them to be aware of it, other than raise them in an utopian (but possibly unrealistic) environment where people are compassionate and friendly (which would not prepare them for the reality of the world out there)
 
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