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If her grandkids were in ps, she would probably be asking how their grades are, etc. Perhaps if you just showed them some of the work they are especially proud of, or better yet, let the kids show her. We get very few negative comments, but mil is always talking about her other ps grandkids and what they are doing in school, but never asks how our ds is doing. I make a point to show her things, and she has been showing more positive interest.
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Well, we did our best with it, so we are going to give it a few days. We've tried canned air and the hairdryer, and dh had it opened up. I'm just kind of lost - I have so much curriculum on there, especially TOG... Time to start loading up the desktop. :glare: I'm so glad I've been faithful with backing up!
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Thank you!!!
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I saw a science curriculum in someones sig., and after checking it out I saw it uses Elements of Science from Thames and Kosmos, which ds received as a gift. I bookmarked the site, but it seems my laptop is no longer working.:crying: Does anyone know what I'm talking about? I've been looking for a way incorporate this kit into some kind of science program and I was so excited when I saw this.
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and now it's not working!!!!:willy_nilly: I had a 3 yr warranty that expired 2 months ago, so if DH can't do something I'm out of luck.:crying: Just had to vent...
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My mil frequently visits her brother on Long Island, and they always go out to eat to one of 2 restaurants. He always treats due to money considerations on mils end. DH has customers on LI, so his next trip he is going to get a gift cert. to each of the 2 restaurants, and she'll be able to treat next time. Ds picked out a whole bunch of her favorite munchies for when she watches her sappy movies. (the Hallmark channel is killing me!!!:eek:)
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It doesn't make jello, per se, but dispenses hot, almost boiling water. I use a cup of the hot water, dissolve the jello, then add a cup of cold water. I can make jello this way in under two minutes, and either freeze it into pops or cool it in the fridge as normal. I also use it to make hot water to mix with vinegar as a cleaner. Lots of uses for it around here, but coffee is still my personal choice!!
Ds always want to make jello - I thought I was the only one who used the Keurig this way. :001_smile: I also use it for au gratin potato mixes, stuffing, oatmeal, etc. Basically anything that needs a cup of boiling water! I have to remember to run some clean water through first, otherwise the jello tastes like coffee.:tongue_smilie:
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I am looking to see how people really implement TOG. I downloaded their 3 week schedual the other night and have been reading it. It sounds great, seems to be a little heavy on paper usage though! (as in it took me something like 100 pages to print and I didnt even print everything!) :)
When ordering the print version do you have huge binders loaded with millions of papers like Sonlight?
Anyway I want to see it actually used.
I use DE, and I really don't print that much. I look at the reading assignments on screen and copy down the various assignments into a check off type of planner I designed. I will print out the writing assignments page relevant to my son's level along with any Writing Aids sheets needed, and the maps for the week. I also print the student activity pages for my son's level. I will occasionally print out the teacher's notes, and that would be the largest print job of the week. I only do this when we are travelling, and I print it double sided. I think this week I printed 8 pages. I don't mind reading on my computer at all, but I know some people do. I don't have a blog, but I will be happy to share how we do our week or answer any questions. There are a few yahoo groups too.
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I buy our books a unit at a time so that I can spread out the cost. The first unit I purchased all new so we could get started right away, and I started purchasing used for the next unit. I'm very picky about book condition, and I've been pleasantly surprised by some of the books I've rec'd from Bookmooch. I often do well with ebay also. If I see a book that I know is going to be used at some point in the future, even Year 4, and it is in good shape, I go ahead and buy or Mooch it. Whatever I don't have in time for the next unit, I will buy new from Bookshelf Central. I'm now looking for some reasonably priced bookshelves to house our growing library. Most of these books I would like to keep. Keep checking the for sale listings here - I've seen a few bundles listed in like new condition.
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Wii is great for families - even the young ones and Grandma can join in. We all use the Wii together except when ds is playing his Mario games - I can only take so much of those. He can also use his Gamecube games on the Wii. We also have the PS3, and we love it because we can watch Netflix on our TV, watch Blu Ray dvd's, download reasonable games, etc. We also prefer Guitar Hero on the PS3. Dh is more into the violent shooter type games, and PS3 is better for that. My son usually gets games for the Wii over the PS3, while dh will not play any games on the Wii unless it is family type play together games once in a while. I love the Wii for Wii Fit. Ds and I also work up quite a sweat with Wii Outdoor Challenge, which I highly recommend for the kiddies.
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This looks like a lot of fun! Thanks for the link. Have you used it?
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We have the Elite and the Mini. We travel with our Mini - dh just can't live without it. We also have a few older models hanging around somewhere... DH want to get a plumbed unit eventually. We used to bring ours to family parties, but now most family members have their own Keurigs. We never buy our k-cups in the store - way too expensive. We buy most of ours at www.shoffee.com, and a few other places.
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I have a niece and nephew the same ages and we call them "double trouble". They do many of the things you mention, and they spur each other on. My sil has limited the amount of toys they had access to. She would keep one bin in the house, and the rest went into the garage. She would then rotate them every week or two. She also ended up gating areas of the house (especially the kitchen) so they couldn't move around as freely. The only food she would allow out of the kitchen or dining room were very dry foods like pretzels or dry cereal, and juice or water in a no spill cup, and that was only with her supervision. They were not allowed in the kitchen alone at all. (bathroom either, after her little one climbed to the medicine cabinet and ended up in the hospital) She had to stand over them and not let them do anything else until they picked up what they were using. Keeping the toys in the house to only one bin helped with this, and if they still were leaving messes, the amount in the bin became smaller and smaller. SIL has rheumatoid arthritis which is often quite bad, and her dh is not very helpful, so she has had to be very tough for her own sanity, but it took quite a while to get into a groove, and she still has a lot of bad days. If she had cushions left on the floor, she would take them away all day except for after bed time, or the place where she sat. The kids are never sent to their rooms for punishment - they get a time out on the stairs, even if she has to hold them there, or stand right there - one minute for each year of age. It's more work at first, but it pays off. Good luck!
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:iagree::iagree::iagree:
I LOVE TOG! I really felt led to this program, and I am so glad I followed! My ds is also UG, and I agree with the amount of reading. He also enjoys the encyclopedia readings, as well as the other resources. We are also using SOTW as a read aloud, because my son loves it. I was happy to see the chapter correlations for each week. I just love how it is all interwoven. Writing Aids has been a blessing for us. Another thing I love about TOG is the ability to modify it, and go up and down between the levels. My son's weakness is writing, so I have him at level 3 in Writing Aids, and it has been a great help. I know that if a reading selection is too difficult, I can move him down to a lower grammar selection. He's not too fond of the hands on although he loves to read the activity books. We do notebooking pages instead, and it is easy to substitute an activity, or add something interesting that one may run across. I love the idea of an end of unit celebration! Definitely something to look forward to. The teacher notes are amazing and I'm learning so much! I am very tempted to go through the rhetoric level while my son does UG. I could go on for hours about TOG!
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Wow, what a great site! I just spent an hour looking through the different modules. Thanks!
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Ds is not a hands on kind of guy, so we don't do much in the activity department. He does like to read the activity books though, and he likes notebooking pages. I know many families assign reading over the weekend. We don't do that now, but I could see doing it in the upper levels. We do all the required reading for history and literature, but we don't do any of the alternates, unless I can't find a resource. I will do the literature as a read aloud, but I only have one child. I don't think I would if I had multiple kids at different levels. He works through the activity pages fairly quickly, but I will skip some of them. I pick and choose what geography we are going to do, and we use Map Aids. We do the writing and love Writing Aids. I don't do evaluations, lapbooks, or Pop Quiz. It's a good amount of work, but we don't follow a rigid week. Sometimes it's 5 days to do a week plan, sometimes it is 7 or 10.
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My son would have peeked by now. Thankfully our neighbor lets us bring gifts to his house and wrap them there. Once ds knows that we have gifts for him he starts obsessing about them. He has Aspergers and a tic disorder, and it is so much worse before xmas. I guess all the excitement makes him more nervous than usual. I catch him peeking in all the possible hiding places in the house, but he hasn't figured out they are safely next door yet.:D
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I just saw that Toys R Us has lego sets buy-one-get-one-half-off, but it excludes Star Wars! :glare:
Grrr! I hate when they do that! :mad:
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Boundaries in Marriage by Drs. Cloud and Townsend saved our marriage. They have a lot of great resources, not just for marriage. If you have any codependency issues I highly recommend them.
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I don't like to listen to it at all, but I can appreciate the artistry of some of it. Occasionally I enjoy rap when it is combined with other types of music - we are Linkin Park fans around here. I don't like hearing any racist or extremely vulgar lyrics, but I wouldn't say most of my or dh's preferred music is all too clean or wholesome. (dh is BIG Iron Maiden fan, I like a bit of everything, mostly rock - was a Deadhead in my teens:ohmy:) I do keep an eye on my son's music choices, and I'm shocked at the lyrics my 8 yr old niece goes around singing from the current popular dance and pop songs.
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I think KA was sold in '87 or so. I bought my KA in '91. I don't know the model and it's put away at the moment, but I don't think it is labeled Hobart. I worked at a bakery in the late 80's to the early 90's, and all the mixers were Hobart. There were alot of similarities between the commercial mixers and my KA. I don't think they changed the design too much after Whirlpool took over, but they look different now. I can barely lift our mixer, but I hear the newer models aren't as heavy. My mixer is going strong, and we have tons of attachments, so I hope it lasts for at least another 18 years!
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It's your first year, which is all about finding what works and what doesn't, and getting into a groove - not only you, but your kids also. You mentioned that you are using workboxes. My ds could take forever with math. I would cut a sheet in half if possible, and put it in two workboxes with a few more fun things in between. You could do this with any subject that is taking too long. Have you read Sue Patrick's book? She gives lots of tips for making curriculum work and tailoring it to meet your child's needs. I generally will keep with something that's not working for about 3-4 months and try tweaking it in that time. Sometimes I buy something and can tell within a week that it's not going to work. Math was the hardest with us. I finally settled on AOP's Lifepacs and then Teaching Textbooks. He can work independently with this and I don't overload him. It's going slower than I like, but we are both happy with it. Grammar is another program he can do independently. Our first program was too easy, so I moved him up a grade in a different program. That made a big difference. I find with my son that if he is taking too long to do something, it is usually either too easy or too hard. We also use a reward system - a token per box that he can "shop" with at my little store. :) Is your daughter easily distracted? My ds needs low classical music on all day during school or he notices every little sound.
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They sold that part of their business. You can now buy books from:
http://www.bookshelfcentral.com/
Very good service.
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We always have to have some kind of background noise around here, but low enough that it doesn't interfere, and nothing with words. I usually put the light classical station that our cable has. My son can't function in silence. He picks out every sound in the house or neighborhood. It's very distracting to him. He has Aspergers and SPD, and it's definitely a sensory issue with him. I'm ok with this as long as there is no talking - I find I work better with some calm music on low.
Anyone here with IBS?
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I started taking Prozac when I was going through a rough patch. Haven't had any IBS symptoms since, and I'd been suffering with it for 20 yrs. I'd been through all the diets, meds available at the time, nothing helped. I weaned off of Prozac, and 1 1/2 weeks later, I was bent over double in pain again. I started taking the lowest dose just for the IBS. I read a study where they are starting to prescribe low dose antidepressants for IBS, so apparently this isn't a fluke. SIL started a low dose a few weeks ago, and she is getting relief.