Praying. I will miss you and hope you can come back soon :grouphug:

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:iagree: I hide my menu plan from my dc for just this reason!

If he would happy and feel safe with a loft bed, then I would consider it; especially in a small room.

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Yes, me too!!!

Can't get it out of my head......"Mommy needs some time to herself that's why you're sitting here with me"... :D

Yes!!! And I am having more and more of these moments the older I get :001_smile:

Sometimes you just don't know what a curriculum is really like until you have used it and used it for a while.... Sometimes one year of a curriculum is fantastic for you and your dc but the next is a complete disaster..... You are definitely not alone. :grouphug:

DH says I should get out more but I prefer to hang out here in my pjs :lol:

do you ever come across old posts from people who don't seem to hang around here much anymore and you genuinely feel quite sad and actually MISS them????? I don't post much but I lurk a lot ..... I guess I'm just the sentimental type. I really would like to start a "where are they now?" thread but I guess that would be overstepping the line :D

Thanks for the update. I was wondering how it went. I will be praying.

I know I have seen a list like that somewhere before but I can't find it now.... maybe it was on the five in a row message board? Anyway, I found this..... http://www.homeschoolshare.com/master_geography_index.php it also lists all the homeschool share units as well as the FIAR books by country so may be a bit of a pain to use....HTH

:party: How long had you been doing TOG before enrolling in the classes? How does it work with your other dc?

We have only watched up to lesson 7 of Epsilon (and we only use it as a supplement just because I already own it) but I think the explanations and use of the fraction overlays so far is excellent. FWIW, I looked on the website and saw that they had lesson 7 as an example. I think they should have shown an earlier lesson.... lesson 7 is hard to jump into without having seen the previous lessons.

I like both but I wasn't very good at making the time to actually teach the lesson from the R&S TM. Some may disagree but I think most of the review is in the TM. CLE was a better choice for us because the review is built in. "MIch elle" switched from R&S to CLE and has older dc so you could do a search for her posts to learn more.

I can't even imagine how difficult this is for you :grouphug::grouphug::grouphug:

Wow... I had never thought about it like that... but I do see your point. (I had been considering the issue from my position as a parent)

Well, we have only used up to grade 5, but unless the upper grades are different, the writing assignments are part of the language arts light units. Even then, I think a lot of CLE users supplement the language arts light units with an additional writing curriculum.

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I think the blue book would be too easy for him now but I am not that all familiar with the magic treehouse books. The best place to ask would be the LLATL group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LLATL/)... the co-author of LLATL is on there and often answers questions. All the best!

A lot of you were mentioning your church has a policy of two teachers per children's class. I don't think our church has an official policy but it seems that children under five or six have a teacher and an assistant but the children over this age generally have one teacher. What is the policy or practice at your church? Are you happy with it?

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I have really appreciated reading your replies. It looks like we might continue to homeschool my older dd longer than I had expected so I have been thinking ahead to what our high school might look like in a few years. Sometimes I wonder if it is worth pushing her in certain subjects (eg. math and science) when she may not end up pursuing those subjects at a higher level ...... but then she is only 11 and it is too early to say what she may end up doing...

I was reading the thread about high schoolers doing "average work" and I wondered when you knew or planned that that is what your high school dc would be doing? Was it always obvious that your dc wouldn't be headed for a STEM career or become a english lit. major at college and you made your middle school (or even elementary) curriculum choices accordingly? When did you start considering some subjects as less important and choose the easier and less thorough curriculum to get them done? I would love to hear your stories :)