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  1. Seconding The Habit! We used it when it was just getting started. My kiddo enjoyed the experience, and I felt that the community was very safe and encouraging. We only stopped when that child stopped homeschooling, went to a traditional school, and had less time to write. Here's a podcast that gives more insight (same one that is in the signature of the above post, but I know that phones don't always show signatures): https://thehabit.co/andrea-yenne-writes-with-teens/ The first step to participating is to take one of the online writing classes that is offered; THEN your student can join the writing forum.
  2. This. When i call, I try to talk to a nurse who will hopefully determine that I need to come in that same day and then the *nurse* schedules me, not the scheduling department. With our docs, they have some same-day/sick appointments that are not visible to me electronically. If you truly can’t get in to see your PCP, then traveling to Indiana will be no worse and not worth stressing about: both scenarios would have you ending up in an urgent care facility that is unfamiliar to you.
  3. Windshield wiper fluid …. I don’t know if your current wiper fluid has anti-freeze additives in it, but you might want to use up your current supply and then fill your reservoir with wiper fluid that does before you get too far north. Make sure you pack a warm hat and gloves and scarf in case you have an emergency … or just if you have to pump gas. 😜
  4. Be careful with the snow that has drifted across the road. Those spots are still slippery in some spots. Today, I went eastbound on an US Highway, and the road was dry. When I returned home, the westbound lanes were not clear because of drifting snow. I don’t know what route you’ll be taking, but the new I-69 in southern Indiana is surrounded by large farm fields and few tree lines, so that might be where you’re most likely to encounter it. However, if you are headed to Indy, I bet you’ll be routed on I65 which has more trees to impede drifting snow.
  5. Dominoes (for knocking down, not to game with).
  6. Worse case scenario book/game merchandise from their favorite YouTubers there’s always gear for the survivalist…. Fire sticks, jet boil stove, knives of all sorts, stop motion movie gear headlamps for both canary knife for cardboard cutting Knot tying book and practice rope tabletop ping pong set
  7. Not really. I just keep trying to spread a buffet with each trip to the library. Here are some things I try: graphic novels and comic books the branches series non fiction that is more segmented/chunked High Noon books are Hi-Lo books sometimes recommended here. Magazines newsELA used to be a good source for interesting nonfiction but I think you have to pay now.
  8. I like this idea! As a parent of a dyslexic and reluctant reader, *I* have a hard time finding books to suggest to my kiddo … and I know about Hi-Lo books and the discouraging effects of poorly spaced pages, small fonts, and small margins.
  9. Perhaps a video on stressed syllables ... reminding that one might need to change which syllable is stressed, that unaccented vowels are likely to get schwa-ed, some words are nouns when the stress is on the 1st syllable and then verbs when the stress is on the 2nd syllable. Homophones is another video idea. You might get some video ideas from the Nessy channel on YouTube.
  10. So - does the teacher in this case reply to the one-line “thank you” sentence with a one-line email saying “you’re welcome”? If so, then that still seems to further validate the notion that another email motivated by courtesy is just another interruption. Ive pondered this whole scenario many times before, so I’m curious as to what the hive will say.
  11. You might check out Literary-type podcasts, such as Close Reads or A Literary Life podcast. See what books they have chosen and pick from that set of books. That way you can listen to the books in the car and also listen to a discussion about the book in the car, too!
  12. Yes - I listened to the audiobook, and I enjoyed it. The author reads it.
  13. I think Daniel Nayeri’s most recent 2 books might appeal to everyone: Everything Sad is Untrue and The Many Assassinations of Samir the Seller of Dreams
  14. I would teach him typing before I switched writing programs. If you switch writing programs, you're going to spend time floundering and finding your rhythm with the program. I think that same amount of time can be spent learning to type, which will have both short-term and long-term benefits. You say you want to make it easy for him, but he has to do all his writing in cursive, which is so much longer than typing (once a proficient typer)! I can still vividly remember the pain of having to handwrite things, skipping lines, then editing, and then having to rewrite everything just perfectly in pen. (Remember those horrible "erasable" pens?!? They sounded so promising, but provided so much disappointment when you used them.). The inefficiency of it irritated me as a kid and obviously left its mark in my memory; perhaps your child also sees the inefficiency in handwriting drafts. I understand that you want to avoid screens, and you need to do what is right for your family. However, I'd encourage you to count the cost of insisting on handwritten work. Is handwriting in cursive a hill you want to die on ... especially as you enter the tween & teen years? Is it causing him to disdain writing and thus impeding his education? If all his work is handwritten, is the sum of all the writing across subjects too much? If you allow him to type/dictate his writing assignments, would that free up some of his mental energy for creating well-crafted thoughts? If you wanted to avoid screens, you could find a mechanical typewriter or a standalone word processor for the learning-to-type stage. (Making corrections on a typewriter is no fun either. I guess I really dated myself with this post!).
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