Not sure, but as a USA player I had to explain a "torch" was a flashlight, lol.

Thanks!! That looks much more appropriate for her.

Oh, the ADHD is KILLING The Sponge in science. I feel so bad for her. Science is her obssession and her gift, but the lack of focus, slow reading, and slow processing speed in a 1.5 minute game is like her own personal &*%$. She spends ages just picking each square to click on, I ended up reading the questions aloud so she would have any chance of answering them, and if it's a fill-in-the-blank her processing/retrieval speed means she eats up a third of the time just thinking about it usually. Her little sister who doesn't even "like" science has twice her average. And this is on her medication (makes her functional but you can still see the signs, esp in timed or pressure situations). Off of it I can't even imagine how it would go. :(

AT the beginning are chapters on teaching methodolgies and how children learn. I loved them, but all you need from those to actually teach BFSU is the flow chart in there, lol. It just shows all the various ways the lessons can flow into each other--sometimes lessons from different areas are complementary, like how the earth rotates and the lesson on compass directions.

That's what I'm planning to switch to when they finally release it!

I keep reading about the trouble people have but I don't get it. I pick the lesson, skim quickly over the presentation, grab the stuff it says we need, and teach it. The end. The most prep I ever do is to get library books first. We are a pretty science-y house, if that makes a difference. I don't need to highlight or study or any of that with it. It's just a discussion with the student with several simple demonstrations within the discussion to lead the students to their own discovery/conclusions. A handful of the lessons are longer term, but those don't require more prep. They are just lessons like, start observing the trees in your area, draw pictures in a nature journal when you see one and identify it with a field guide. Keep it up over the year just on the side. We went through all of BFSU I that way and BFSU II looks like it will be the same.

Super timed math facts also freak dd out and make her freeze up. We use math bingo, Math Rider, and Math Dots mostly (all apps or software).

I only use the Tamiflu if there is someone at risk of complications. (((HUGS))) We had the flu in Dec. And recovered through most of Jan. YUCK.

I use it open-and-go. All the prep I do is getting library books related to the topic, if that.

She did wonderfully! Wait, you're in SF? If that's the Utah SF, we'll be living ten min away soon. Cool!

Yup, MEP 1 may only go through ten, but in the first half The Drama is doing things like 4+ ___ is 3 less than 2+6. It really makes them think and understand the numbers/relationships. And it's fun! Dd loves it.

ME!!!!! I love the readers but that's it. Argh. If we hadn't already gone through several lessons (consumable pages) I would just sell it. The readers are fantastic, though.

BFSU!!!!!

This winter has been CRAZY for virulent strains of junk. Ick. We got several when the kids weren't even in any outside classes, just church! These days I am quite happy with colds compared to what we had earlier and what other people have had.

(((Hugs)))!

We will be starting in a few weeks! However, we will have the basement to ourselves and it's essentially a seperate home, but with a shared entrance and shared laundry. We did all share the same small home for a month and were fine, amazingly. My parents rock. And are not elderly, so not very applicable to where this thread is going.

The epi-pen is the reason why I take my purse EVERYWHERE, even if hubby is driving and I won't need anything else in it. We haven't needed it yet, thank goodness, but he's also never actually had the nuts he tested so allergic to. The rashes and hives and "lip hurts!" just from cross-contamination is scary enough. OP, I can't imagine "severe peanut allergy" together with not checking ingredients and not carrying an epi-pen. I checked ingredients on everything even with The Sponge, who had allergic esophagitis and would just get severe reflux from dairy.

The girls are loving it so far!! My girls are both in the 4-7 and not typists, but they are having a great time. Even my phonics-hating K'er got "Speed Demon" on the first two levels of literacy, and flew through the first level of math. AND she was happy getting 2nd and 3rd when normally she is upset if she doesn't win. She was really focused. The Sponge doesn't type and has focusing issues (part of the ADHD) but she completed all the of the literacy levels and ended up with Almost Einstein, and is happy to have gold medallions to look at.

All I bought were magnets and a little rock set.

I just get the related books from the library and read a few of them together, then pretty much open and go, tweaking as I read to use whatever materials we have on hand. We finished BFSU I that way, and I plan to do the same on BFSU II. I just pick whatever lesson order fits to me. Jumping around is fine, or going all the way through one thread at a time is fine. As for "don't accomplish much actual deep learning?" BFSU is THE meatiest science curriculum for the age I've found. Period.

Good, since we were root canal-ing and at dance class for most of the day!

You can also branch out to children's poetry books, easier non-fiction books, and hard picture books. They tend to have a lot of pictures.

http://www.worldeducationgames.com/WEG2013/#3

I hadn't heard of this before!! I just registered the girls. They're excited. Each subject runs for 48 hours? So we could start literacy tomorrow, then maths the next day, and science the next? We have to be out of the house most of today.

I have horrible astigmastism and my coordination ends where my glasses do. Coordination is a dirty word here, LOL. Pretty much zero depth perception once you get past the edge of my glasses, so essentially my peripheral vision.