I actually listen in bed after dark. That is the only way I can focus without any distractions.

There is a schedule to combine the three books over 32 weeks. You'll find it if you search the forum. ETA: Found it. But at this stage, perhaps you can consider The Lively Art of Writing instead, followed by Writing With A Thesis (buy an older edition on Alibris.) ETA: If you search for these two books on the forum, you'll find lots of threads discussing it and parents who were happy with them.

Please tell me about this new College Board exam. I only found out about it today from a NYT article (see excerpt below.) Are any of your dc considering the AP CS Principles exam? I found the curriculum and lesson plans on Code.org. Have any of you used the resources on code.org for high school?

Lori, if you are on a Windows computer, you will have the Microsoft Edge browser. I was able to view the archived page that Alta Veste linked in Edge. Or if you are using a Mac, you will have the Safari browser.

You can upload it to Google docs and make it public (just that one doc; we won't see the rest of your docs.)

Alta Veste Academy and Lori D. - you deserve a virtual homeschooling Oscar! Thank you. :)

It's good to see you back. :) Please post a homeschooling update about your hardworking boys, too.

What I'd like to know is, why do so many baffling murders take place in placid English villages? And why do aliens always attack New York City? :D

I looked at it a few years ago. There are cards with a spelling rule in the form of a rhyme printed on one side and spelling words (which follow that rule) on the other side. There is a CD with the rhymes set to a tune. I believe their approach is to help the child remember the rules via music. The spelling rules did not make much sense to me. I preferred the rules in Spalding and SWR. Here is a sample of the teacher's guide. It might give you a better idea of the program.

The dentist will saw off the sides of the tooth to allow space for the crown to fit on both sides. That will be painful and may cause some bleeding. Also, crowns are generally put on teeth which have had the root canal treatment done; otherwise the tooth underneath the crown can get decayed and rot away. The root canal treatment needs local anesthesia. ETA: ask if the dentist can apply a topical anesthetic gel at the site where he will inject the local anesthetic. That reduces the sting of the needle a little.

What does this mean? I searched this phrase and didn't find anything.

Calbear, apologies for the off-topic posts. It's a middle-school level book called How To Study For Success. I got it because it is at a simplified level - just enough info that my impatient 12 yo is willing to endure for a boring subject like study skills. :) Here are other handouts/tips I found online and read/watched with dd: Notetaking & Listening Skills Notetaking Made Easy A Youtube video on notetaking. (All the videos from WatchWellCast are worth watching.)

Yes. Several things that homeschooling parents teach were not taught to me in school. :-) I wasn't taught phonics or spelling rules. I learnt via reading and dictation. I wasn't taught literary analysis or formal essay writing rules. I wrote long answers for every subject and improved as the answers grew longer. :)

I was also never taught. I read a book on study skills last year so that I could teach my dd about note taking. I had developed my own method in college with bullets and abbreviations, but the book taught me a lot more such as reading the text before the class, taking notes from the text first, organizing the notes, leaving empty spaces to fill in after the lecture, leaving space for questions, etc. There are several good videos on Youtube about note taking.

Based on my growing up experience and that of my sister and of my husband's two sisters, yes, she will start liking and loving you after her teenage years. And when she becomes a mom, she will respect your POV again and seek your opinions on things. :)

This is a good, organic approach. You can have him read classics for middle school age, and select his words from those books. My dd12 also learns from reading and context, but she also enjoys reading about etymology. She read Vocabulary Cartoons for fun in the 5th and 6th grades. I didn't quiz her about those words. But to make it a bit more formal now, we are reading through Vocabulary Energizers: Stories of Word Origins and I quiz her on completed words.

In general, I find people use the word "need" indiscriminately these days. They say, "We need to do so-and-so", when they should be saying "We have to do..." or "We should do..." or "We must do..."

I can post them to you if you want. PM me if you are interested.

If you care about correct usage but not about learning all the terminology, look at grammar workbooks published for Singapore 5th/6th grades. They are called assessment books, and your dc may be able to work through them with minimal supervision. One good teaching+practice book is Longman Mastering English Grammar & Vocabulary. It comes with a separate answer key.

If it explained chemical bonds, how was it more elementary than Ellen McHenry's Elements?

She's right. It's called Shitty First Drafts, from her book Bird By Bird. Here's an excerpt.

Wow! The site is down. Did WTMers max out their traffic? :-D

Do you know of any good quality washable incontinence briefs or all-in-one adult cloth diapers?

:iagree: I am using this book with my seventh grader. The concepts taught in the elementary Killgallon book are the same as those in the middle school Killgallon book. Just that the sample sentences are taken from books written for elementary age - books that are good quality/award-winning lit (Sounder, Harry Potter, E B White books, etc.)

So then the white car is indirectly responsible for the accident.