Is there another organization like HSLDA?

Thanks for all the great ideas!!

It's been awhile since I posted & I can't figure the search out so I will ask and either I'll get answers or links...either way, great! Does anyone have a routine posted in their house for how the day flows....or a schedule of some sort. For example 9-12 school 12-1 lunch 1-??....free time 5-7 dinner & family time Anything like this? Does it help? Do you stick to it? Do you schedule reading time..TV time...play time?

Thanks for all the suggestions, especially the ones who don't "limit". That's kind of what I was thinking. We've all been sick with one thing or the other since before Christmas, and we've just gotten into a really bad habit with it. We just have to retrain out of it, plus summer will be here soon, and then the thing only gets turned on every once in awhile.

Does anyone here limit TV time? I was wondering if anyone has in place, a system, such as if you do X, Y and Z, you get 30 minutes of TV today..or something similar. My boys are 10, and I think we've just started down a bad a track where the TV is the center and not enough reading and relaxing activities. They don't sit and watch for hours, and both are competitive gymnasts, so physical activity isn't what they are lacking, but I just don't think we've had enough focus on educational activities, outside of getting school books done.

I saw these but I still don't understand what to tell them. In KY it says send a letter to xyz and you're done.

Any Indiana homeschoolers!! I homeschool in KY, but I have friends wishing to pull thier boys out of school in IN at Christmas Break. What do they need to do? Send a letter...to whom?? thanks! dana

This list helped get my boys intersted http://www.excellenceinwriting.com/files/Books%20for%20Boys%20Who%20Would....pdf FWIW, my boys are almost 10 and are just now getting the interest to read on their own. & they still love to have me read to them.

We just bought our lefty a left handed pair of scissors and here is why When a lefty uses "univeral" scissors, they can't see where they are lining up their scissors. The top blade is in the way unlike a right handed person. He kept saying I can't see where I'm cutting and well, we looked at it from his point of view and well he was right. We got them on Amazon. He can use right handed ones, but prefers his lefty ones when he is home and working on projects

Flipping all over the place.....even after 3 hrs of practice mine comes home and continues to flip all over the place...LOL. Best of luck!!! Something of interest though you may want to see if it is coming to your town is the Kellogg's Tour of Gymnastics Champions

Thanks for the suggestions!! Anyone else? I think I've seen people do "block" schedules, how do those work....pros/cons??

I would definetly do that! You may search USAG and see if there is a gym that is a member of that in your area. http://usagym.org/pages/index.html

Anyone ever do this...I'm sure they have, does it work? Trying to get rid of monotony for my husband who carries out the day to day school. Every M, T, W, Th- MUS, reading, & literature guide (memoria press) Latin, spelling, art, music & pe worked in on their days The other things do in a rotation of weeks: 1st week- WWE & FLL each day 2nd week- History each day 3rd week- Science each day Repeat rotation

:iagree: Yes, just because you can "do" the skills the perfection is what moves you up. Toes pointed, legs straight, arms this way or that way.....every.single.time.

Our gym has a website where you can see based on age & skill where the child should be placed BUT, there are some classes you can't take until you've been "asked" to move up to them. Generally, you have to start at the bottom then move up the chain. How many classes have you been to? Even my son was put in a very low level class initially, he could do standing back tucks and series of back handsprings, from being in competitive cheer, but they put him in a gymnastics class with kids didn't know how to do cartwheel. We moved up after a few weeks. It was tough watching that class for sure!! Some of it is based on skill, some on age/maturity & then dedication. Once you move up to teams, it's a whole new game too.

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There is a Yahoo group called math u see swap, you may find some used stuff there

did anyone see this?? http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-father-daughter-dances-gender-discrimination-20120918,0,2172144.story

I've gotten some of the workbooks http://www.mottmedia.com/pages/publications.asp?Pub=scope. They are nice to reinforce phonics & spelling in one.

I thought my boys would never "read". I kept comparing them to my friends' children (mostly girls) who were reading Harry Potter at 7 and Magic School bus at 5. You know what, they are 9 3/4 now and and devouring books, and at 9 1/2 they still couldn't "read". It comes, patience, persistance and for us, reading longer novels to them (Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Mr Popper's Penguins type books), and giving them Frog & Toad over and over again. And over night, it seems it has just clicked. They have always looked and tried to read, but got frustrated easily, and now they will ask for help with a word. Also find books for boys' interest, this has been huge in opening them up to reading: http://us.penguingroup.com/static/packages/us/yreaders/books4boys/agegrade_picture.php Best of luck...it will come promise

I see these statements with most of my public school mom friends about 2 weeks after school has let out for summer, and a few days into winter/spring breaks "can't wait for them to go back", then the "celebrations" when school starts. I've been on the ps side for a few short months, I cried the first day and after every long break. I can't imagine saying "I want to be away from my kids!" And these are the very same parents who can't understand why their kids don't want to be around them, well if you've told them for years you want to be away from them, eventually they get the message. I travel for work. I'm often gone 3 days a week, 2 or 3 weeks a month, so I get plenty of "breaks". Not a one of them do I enjoy. I have people who tell me how lucky I am to get these "breaks" :001_huh: Really? I miss the smiles, the hugs, the kisses, that's supposed to be a happy thing? It's the sacrifice I make so the twins can be homeschooled. Definitely not an action to get away from kids, hubby, family, the dog ect.

Here's a the kicker, the book says it is model of the Earth...the teacher told them to write down, yes a globe is a map because, Mr history teacher said so!!! :blink::blink:

A friend of mine's son is in ps 6th grade. One of the questions on his history test is "Is a globe a map? :001_huh:". Thoughts of how to answer.

My 9 yr old boys have also been bitten by the reading bug at bedtime...and we let it happen. Unless we have somewhere we HAVE to be the next morning, I'm letting it go, I am just overjoyed by reading...FINALLY!