We have this same problem...and I have found nothing. We are working on an excel spread sheet, and are now throwing away the boxes and putting the disks in envelopes, labeling the envelopes, and putting them into storage boxes. We have probably 2000+ movies (my DH is a collector). It is rediculous. I have not alphabetized the titles yet as we are still putting them in envelopes, but we are seperating them by letter. Once we have sorted them all, I will start inputing them into the spreadsheet and alphabetizing them.

OH GOOD!!! Thank you all for making me feel better!!!!

WOW--that would be a great resource to have for my DS7!

Hi there-- I wrote a post today on my blog, and now I am wondering if I should have. Am I way off base about this? The post was about a local school trying to get a grant for 17 iPods/iTouches from Pepsi. the post is on my blog, link is in my signature.

my son also likes the Happy Scribe--all sorts of different topics, styles, etc. Really pretty cool!

If you download directly to your PC you need to manually pull them into iTunes--either cut and paste or drag them from one window to the other. If you "subscribe" they will go in as a podcast.

I also meant to tell you...I plan for 6 weeks at a time, and print one week at a time and adjust every sunday night what needs to be changed for the following week. This has wored VERY WELL for us. I used to use a teacher book, but hated all the scratch-outs when things changed. Quint knows what to expect this way, and it is really easy to see what needs to be completed.

I have been using the free Excel Weekly planner over at Donna Young's site. She has LOADS to choose from!

Roald Dahl! My 7 year old started with The Magic Finger, just finished Fantastic Mr. Fox and is now onto George's Marvelous Medicine. We have Charlie too--working up to it. Also--Geronimo Stilton is really fun if he is at all into adventure!

We give our 7 year old son $7 a week for spending money. He also does chores--but NOT for money. He lives in the house and has to help out. But, with that said--in order to watch TV he has to do his chores. He has to do 7 chores--again because he is 7.

Last summer we did mini-lessons from Gilligan's Island. (Mostly just island activities--since he was K/1) This summer we are going to do Mork and Mindy (since he asked for it) and I am sure mini-lessons on California and maybe aliens. (I am still working on the details.) I am also planning on doing all the art stuff that I never got around to during the "school year," as well as some basic geography/map skills and lapbooks.

We also use FamilyMint.com. It's a great free on-line "banking system" for kids. We have been using it for about a month now. I like that we can automatically add allowance and seperate it into the different goals our DS7 has (which change frequently!) Right now, we are working on our first goal--a special toy he wants. He gets $7 a week (since he is 7), plus tooth fairy money and odd dollars from relatives, etc. Once we reach the first goal, we will try with two goals, and so on. Because it is his money I am letting him choose his goals and splits (within reason). I want to make sure HE knows what he wants and how to attain said goals.

I just THIS WEEK switched my DS7 over to Math mammoth from MathUSee! He really seems to like it, and it is really pretty inexpensive. He likes that it is colorful and he is always doing different things. He is not one for a ton of manipulatives. He rather play (build) with them than learn to use them correctly. MM has him drawing dots all over the place which he REALLY understands.

I have seen Lava Lamps at FiveBelow. Also at Walmart. I think at Target too.

I am watching Food Inc as I am writing this. I will NOT be allowing my 7 year old to watch it. I think it is too heavy for him. I am personally having issues watching this right now. I would allow him to watch JO Food Revolution.