They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing--Nice!

I've been looking for an online timeline resource that my DD can use with minimal input from me to create her own timeline. BeeDocs is only for a Mac user. With this tool, a student can create a 3-D timeline with ease. A brief video on how to create a timeline using BeeDocs. This tool is a winner!

Outside accountability? :grouphug: For the 12-year-old it might help if he looks at the big picture of his life. Where does he want to be five years from now? You could use This I Believe as a starting point. He needs to write and will need to write for any future job he might hold. When my kids do this to me, I take it as a sign that they do not take me seriously and walk all over me doing whatever they please. For me, outside accountability works. Even my overachieving DD risked academic probation at the 12-13 age. With your 8-year-old I would focus on the basics and allow playtime so long as it is not screen time. Read to her.

If a student wants to attend a UC in California those A-G requirements are hard to satisfy with an online school. In fact, online science classes do not qualify. The student needs to take a SAT subject test for science classes to qualify. The score on the SAT Subject test needs to meet requirements too. My DD took a summer school lab bio. class at a high school to meet UC requirements. She took the SAT subject test for all other science classes. Fine arts is treated the same way as the sciences. Not just any art class with work to meet the requirements. The UC accepted an AP music class with a test score 3 or above to satisfy this requirement.

K12 virtual must vary from state to state because we tried K12 for high school after homeschooling via a charter school (I picked and planned our course of study) for k-8. K12 high school was a step down academically. DD now attends Laurel Springs online Gifted Academy. The workload is huge, and kids really need to be organized, self-starters to succeed with online school. The teacher feedback is excellent.

These numbers are similar to the numbers I got back last month. My doc was not overly concerned. It is borderline high cholesterol. I swim 3-4 times a week, and I am not overweight. I thought I ate reasonably well. Age has a lot to do with my numbers rising. The best recommendation I received from my doc was to increase fiber because bad cholesterol sticks to fiber and will exit your body. She also suggested altering my diet to include more fruits and vegetables, more fish, poultry and legumes, less red meat, sugar, white flour, and no packaged foods. Unfortunately, there isn't much I can alter in my diet. I started using flax meal and eating oatmeal every morning. Lowering dough (bread, cookies, and crackers.) carbs is a good idea.

Encourage going to college. Go look at some local colleges. Talking with some military recruiters in an informal setting might be a good motivational start so long as she does all the talking and you hang in the background. One of the reasons I found an private, online school for my DD is she needed to be responsible for her schooling. I keep my distance, and even when I ask, "How's it going?" she bristles. She does not want to be micro-managed. She pushes deadlines to the 11th hour, yet she gets it done because she wants to go to college. The school has clear guidelines and expectations to complete classes. This separation, going to an online school, lets me just be a mom and not a teacher too. It is much better for our relationship, I think she is getting a better education, and I know she will succeed when she gets to college.

Motivation needs to come from your DD not you. What does your DD want to do after high school? She is going to butt heads with you if she has no direction. She can have this power struggle with you over school and the years will slip by. Maybe she needs to volunteer or work to appreciate an education.

Just saying, the weight will be difficult if next to impossible to get off even with exercise and a good diet. My doc does not advocate multivitamins. She would rather her patients eat a good, well-rounded diet, go outside for vit-D, and get some daily exercise. A good source of vit-B12 is nutritional yeast. My DDs like nut yeast on popcorn. Cholesterol & triglycerides, along with blood pressure will all go with menopause. Heart disease is the #1 killer of women and men.

Hours. I've never tabulated the hours I spend rolling out pie dough or mixing up pancake batter. I am a messy cook. It's just the way I cook, but it always looks like a cyclone came through the kitchen. Every dish is dirty; pans and bowls stacked with little saucers scattered about. I do try to wash as I go, but clean up takes longer than actual cooking. I cook from scratch.

This is one of my faves too.

Numbers not so accurate. It would be double the annual income on the calculator to live in my county. Gas and food are much higher, as is housing.

The downside of satellite internet is uploading content. It is soooo sllloooowww. We live out of cell phone service, but we do have a private, community broadband service. It reminds me of the old community phone service where everyone share a single phone line, but in our case it is a single broadband signal that bounces hither and yon. However, If one person in the system decides to download volumes of information or watch a movie the whole system suffers and loads nothing. For us, there is no alternative.

DD did college visits last fall in her junior year. Thanks for the RIT tip. DD is looking for "target" schools and this one fits. DD is also working on application essays. Yikes! This is an expensive process.

How about using a two gal drinking water container. It comes with a spigot.

Hey Plum~ This is a great idea. I was looking for a way to solve the daily work problem. Now that I've mapped out "The Big Picture" for each subject, a weekly rotating generic subject schedule is a good way to keep everything moving forward while at the same time allow for changes. Did you post a screenshot to a generic schedule??

What I have for LA going into 6th grade: Shurley English without the writing sections Spelling Workout Daily Paragraph Editing Vocabulary from Classical Roots Literature Study: The Art of Poetry-A delightful surprise. Reading units-Dystopian fiction, non-fiction, speeches, historical fiction, and poetry. Writing: The Creative Writer Sadlier-Oxford Writing Workshop maybe doing 2 levels in one year and working one grade level ahead-The is a basic writing course.

Hake Grammar and Writing is a less expensive possibility and probably more straight forward than WWS. It does cover diagramming. Grammar and writing could be separate programs. Rules of the Game for grammar and Sadlier-Oxford Writing Workshop together would be a basic solution too. Writing isn't about the program it is about teaching good expression, understanding purpose and audience, writing all the time, and having a dedicated reader that encourages the writing process with plenty of revision.

My kids are only slightly above average. We've used Sadlier-Oxford in the past, but it was too easy even at a level or two ahead. The kids learned nothing new. I also have EftRU, but I am too busy to make it work. My compromise is Vocabulary from Classical Roots because it is more than just vocabulary. We may do two levels a year if necessary.

Thanks for this thread. I was thinking I needed to add Horizons Math for review, but a combination of CWP and Process Skills might be better.

8 days post elbow sprain from falling off a skateboard. Fri: 45 min swim to see how my arm felt. Fingers hurt and it was hard to hold the kick board. Arm felt better on Sat morn. Sat:45 min cardio walk uphill. Working on extending the arm, rotating, and bring the arm close to the body. The tendons are so messed up. Applying heat.

Time to get back to practicing that piano.

Would love to replace my Klean Kanteen with a Hydro Flask. Will a Hydro Flask 40oz fit into a car cup holder? 40 oz is the right amount of water, but the 24 oz seems to be the only one that is slim enough to fit into a car cup holder. THANKS FOR ALL THE LINKS! :hurray:

I am still trying to figure out how to orient myself in OneNote on a Mac. What I've done is put all subjects as a tab file at the top. Along the right, within individual tab files, I created one page as a 36 week overview for that subject so I can fit everything I want to do within a specific time frame. My goal is to plan an entire year for a single subject. I also made a weekly plan that I put at the top of my 36 week overview. It's a work in progress.

I've found the bolded above to be true. The less sugar you eat the less you want to eat. Sugar hides in everything, so read your labels. I so dislike sugar hangovers. You know, the day after you've eaten way too much sugar and you feel lousy the next day. One solution to the fruit juice/sugar problem--I fill a glass 1/4 with juice and the rest with sparkling mineral water. It's bit more fun than just plain water all the time.