Crafty Mathy Mom
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All VBSs are free around here. Some charge extra if you want a t-shirt or CD with the songs.
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I hate losing things. It seems like I can find anything that anyone else loses, but if I lose something it's gone forever.
Did you check in and around the Apologia book?
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I would homeschool no matter what. I would just feel more lonely.
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Wear them around the house for a day. Your children will let you know if you look like grandma. At least mine did.:tongue_smilie:
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BBC's Dance Mat Typing is fun and free.
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:iagree: I have an older edition of Spelling Power that has a list of 30ish activities. A lot are repetitive like use your finger to write the words on sandpaper, then later the same activity repeats with felt. I read through the list and made cards for the few activities that appealed to my children. We don't even do the activities unless a word has been missed 3 times.
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Married 18 years today.
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1. We like the curriculum. The material is more advanced that the other "Exploring Creation With..." titles. Fourth and sixth grade should be perfect.
2. We use the notebooking journal. It has comprehension questions, notebooking pages, puzzles, pages for the experiments, and a sample schedule. I look at the activities for a given week when I'm making out my grocery list.
3. We are on lesson 12. I have been able to find everything needed for the labs so far.
Hope this helps.
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:bigear: I was about to ask the same question. We have done R & S for grades 3-6 and would like a change.
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When the tornado struck our local Lowes, the employees made everyone go to the back where the offices and employee break rooms are. That part of the store was made of concrete blocks. The store was destroyed, but everyone made it out.
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I was able to use this tool to convert from Wordpress to Blogger.
http://wordpress2blogger.appspot.com/
I did have to resize most of my photos, but it was mostly painless. I wrote a post about the transition. I was with Homeschoolblogger which is a Wordpress platform.
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And please make sure that they know how to fill in their personal information on the answer sheet. I helped administer the ITBS to eighth graders. Several were puzzled about how to fill in their names and bubble the letters underneath.
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:iagree: I got exactly the same thing.
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Biographies.
The children's section is horrible. If you want a book about a non American, you are pretty much out of luck. There are a few biographies for American presidents. They have Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln, Kennedy, and 5 on Obama. They didn't even have anything on Florence Nightingale in the adult section. But they do have lots of biographies for popular sports and music stars. Just not one for Beethoven or Bach. Sigh.
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A blog friend of mine is doing Boxcar Children with her co-op.
http://joyfulmotherofsixchildren.blogspot.com/
The top post is about Boxcar Children. She has another a bit further down.
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:iagree: I have one of the cookbooks. There are a few recipes that have become family favorites, but I could never follow one of the weekly plans without doing a lot of substitution. Kind of defeated the purpose for me.
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I have scenes from the Brood XIX Cicada invasion. Link is in my signature.
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I'm a lefty. I use Getty-Dubay Italics with my kids. It is the closest curriculum to my natural writing which is mostly connected printing. It is easy and legible. Learning traditional looped cursive was difficult for me. I remember getting "messy work" on many of my papers in school because I couldn't get the slant.
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Yes, but only things without moving parts and new containers. We've bought sinks, toilets, doors, cabinet knobs, and hardware. We've been burned on faucets, a stove, and bucket of spackle that had been opened and the top was dry.
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I've heard that soaking them in cooled black tea helps. The tannic acid is supposed to inhibit bacterial growth.
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We are using Apologia's Anatomy this year. In my opinion, the book is geared toward upper elementary grades. I've been reading the lessons aloud. My sixth grader enjoys the book and the notebooking journal. Most of the information goes over my first grader's head. He enjoys the activities though. I haven't looked at the Jr. Notebook, but if it involves a lot of writing, my son wouldn't enjoy it at all.
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We've enjoyed Understood Betsy, The Princess and the Goblin, and Eight Cousins on Librivox. I may think of more later.
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I make a general overview of what I want each child to accomplish and the materials needed for the year. Then I detail plan only a few days in advance. That way I don't beat myself up when only math gets done.:tongue_smilie:
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MP3 Player with large buttons
in General Education Discussion Board
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I am looking for a MP3 player with large (huge?) buttons for my visually impaired father-in-law. It needs to be VERY simple to operate. Ideally it would turn on and start playing where it left off. We tried to have him use one of the kid's Sansa Clips, but he couldn't manage it.
He broke his hip last October and has lost most of his mobility. Since Christmas his vision has declined to almost nil. Reading was one of his favorite activities. I would love to load a player with audiobooks for him.
Any ideas?