Call your insurance company! They might cover something like this. Might not, but it doesn't hurt to call and find out. If anything they would be a good source for what your options are.

This is my son! Thank You! Your post is very encourging. We'll keep plodding along. Overwhelmed is my son. He learns from books, which is why Peace Hill products work so well with him. When it comes to math and he has to put pencil to paper I lose him. He just sees large amounts of work. It helps when I tell him he just has to do every other problem. It will be interesting to see how the FLL3 workbook goes with him and sentence diagramming....Eeeek!

Rice Pudding! Yum!

I won't, I won't do it, I won't open it!

I was going to say the same. If a g is followed by E I or Y it sounds like a J.

I forgot I ordered this! Mine isn't here yet, but I'm sure it will be soon. My son is going to love it! I think I'm going to put it in his room either above or below his world map.

Yay! We got all our curriculum in the mail yesterday! :party: I bought Earth and Space for my 3rd grader, this is the first science curriculum I've purchased, not that that makes a difference. He has either taken resource classes or we've done unit studies until now. Question One: I spent way too much time trying to scan copies out of the book! How do you do it? I'm thinking I'll have to cut out the reproducible. Why didn't they perforate the pages! Question Two: There is no way my son can handle The "Write About It!" assignment at the end of the units. He is 8 and will be starting FLL3 and WWE3 this year. I think it's a good goal for him to be able to write a paragraph on his own by the end of the year, but until then how would you suggest going about this assignment? Oral, narration, step-by-step hand holding?

My 20-year old daughter struggled with reading all through elementry school and is now an avid reader. My son, who loved books from the day he was born (no joke), started reading at 4 and still loves books today.

oh gosh! These are all so funny. Thanks for the chuckle!

:iagree: Diagramming just made sense to me! My son will start it this year. I hope he likes it. :glare:

We did a section a day 4-days a week with any addtional reading/crafts/cooking projects at the end of the chapter. We finished before the end of the school year.

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I use post-it notes for bookmarks. They don't slip and I have plenty of those around.

I print a chapter at a time and put it in a 3-ring binder. I have a sections labeled To Do, Answer Key, and Done. I print in B/W at home on a laser printer. I believe i'm in draft mode as well, but I don't cheap out on paper. Good quality heavy paper is worth the extra.

I'm waiting on my order as well. Placed it on the 24th and Amazon said it wouldn't be shipped until Aug 11th! Then they sent an Email saying it would ship Aug 3rd. Hmmm...ok that's better. So what happens next, I get a shipping conformation yesterday! :glare:

I don't write out weekly plans. It's stresses me out too much when we don't get it done. What I do is use Homeschool Skedtrack. We check off each lesson as we do it. If we don't get it done the program pushes it back a day. Love it! I leave an extra 3-weeks at the end of our school year, which allows for unexpected days off, sick days or needing to spend extra time on a lesson. Stress free! Just involves a lot of set up before school starts, but I love that part.

What ended up working for us is: Day1: Read the first page and do the 2nd Day2: 3rd page Day3: 4th page Day4: Quiz, write missed words three times Pretty much the same pattern for the review lessons, but day 3 gets the last two pages. If he bombs the test then I'll make up a word search, or some type of word puzzle for him to do and re-test.

I'm on board! In fact, half the time I need to pause to think what the proper acronym is! I could have typed it out faster!:lol:

Of course you can stop reading it! I have version sitting here by Michael Morpurgo (I think it was listed in SOTW AG) that I picked up in the juvenile section of the library. Looks like an easy read, but my son has been reading a book for his book club and hasn't gotten to it yet. Maybe I should read it! :tongue_smilie:

:iagree: That is what I was thinking the whole time. I read the Beatrix Potter bio on that same site and it talked about her growing up in isolation and being educated at home by a governess. A governess not a tutor! Then the author compares Pennsylvania's strict teacher certification to California and Texas' homeschool regulations. HUH? At least use the same state in the comparison! She accuses parents of using isolated incidents and then she herself uses isolated incidents. THEN, the links at the bottom for books are all in English Pounds...maybe she needs to be more concerned about what is going on in England and not America?

I count everything independent reading, zoo trips, museums, nature walks, library events, piano practice, recitals, team sports. Oh, and actual seat work with curriculum! :tongue_smilie: We have to do 180 days or 1000 hours. I find it easier to count hours since there are times we that we do at least something everyday even if it is just an hour.

That is my son! But lately I've noticed he doesn't want to go back and do the ones I've crossed out. I really need to get a white board! Think I'll add that to my back to school list. To answer the OP, I have him do every other problem on pages that he 1) understands how to and can do the problems. 2) The pages that have LOTS of practice on them. Right now he is working on multiplication and division, he needs the practice so I have him do all the problems.

:iagree: I do the same thing. I spend an hour at the computer placing holds for the next three or four chapters just to end up with a stack of books we never get to. I feel like I'm wasting library resources! :tongue_smilie:

They have distribution centers all over the place. It never takes more then a couple days to get a movie. Even with new releases Netflix will often say there is a waiting period and we still end up getting it right away. The one thing you should know with new releases is that Netflix gets them about 4-weeks after they are released! I think that is one way they keep costs down. It's the best $11 a month we spend. In fact, we are going to cancel cable after our current promotion price is over.

I've received free updates in the past. When my son was in 1st grade it was updated 3 times and I was able to download the new one each time. Currclick makes it very easy to get updates! For this fall used Kagi, I'm hoping it's just as easy.