I work 24 hours a week (supposed to be 2 12 hour shifts). The assistant manager does the schedule and asked everyone to put in their dream schedule. So, I emailed her and told her I love my schedule just the way it is but to please give me my days consecutively instead of a day on, day off, day on for 3 reasons. 1. DH is a farmer and I need to help him. It is 80 miles to our farm from our home in town and I can't drive back and forth everyday/other day. 2. DD-6 goes to her dad's house the days I work so if it is on/off/on she goes my house, his house, my house, his house, my house in a 5 day stretch and that is hard on her. 3. I HS so it makes it really hard for her to have consistancy with work if I work with her one day, send worksheets to dads, then back to working with me again. (dad barely makes her do her worksheets and doesn't check them so if they are wrong, oh well UGH!) So, our new schedule came out and 2 weeks out of the schedule I have THREE 8 hour days instead of 2 12's. Great, now I have to cram my teaching into either 2 days or do it on Saturdays with DD. I am just frustrated as all get out. She has said to me "I can't believe you HS, don't your kids drive you crazy?"...NOPE! AND word has gotten around that I am studying for my direct entry midwife which doesn't go over well in a medical establishment. :glare: Ok, vent over. We will work through it and will come out on the other side. Thanks for letting me vent!

Thou shall not covet, thou shall not covet....can I at least :drool: then????

thanks, these are just where we are in math mammoth so we will definately use them! I just printed them all off.

me too MamaT, wanna have a pity party with me? sniff sniff.

Yes, Nakia gave the doses already. The vicodin has tylenol in it which is processed by the liver, ibuprofen/motrin/advil (all the same) are processed by the kidneys. It really works well if you take 2 vicodin then 4 hours later take 800mg (4 that you can take over the counter) ibuprofen then 4 hours later 2 vicodin in a rotating schedule. Hope he gets better soon.

I was in the car today with my sister and my girls and her girls....6 girls and no boys as my DD pointed out. Anyways, my niece had a fun game that was a great education tool as well. You have to give a sentence with all/most of the words that have a certain letter like "A" An ant ate an apple. "B" Busy bees bring back bits of beauty. The first word has to start with said letter and it has to have at least 3 words with that letter and can have other words like "of" etc. Basically you can make up the rules based on age. It was so fun! I had "G" and said "Great green globs of greasy grimey gopher guts give gas." whoot whoot!!! the girls were laughing so hard. They don't know that song obviously! It is a great way to pass time in a car full of kids!

Ok, I am really thinking of getting Abeka spelling to go with our phonics, just so they all go together. I have SWO now but we have not been doing that as we work on phonics. DD is in the 1st grade although we have schooled all summer from K. My questions are for anyone that has used it...does it have the spelling rules in it? does it follow the phonics curricula? (I imagine it does but I don't have the seatwork curriculum guide.) I am just trying to simplify our lessons and I think that if I have something that kind of goes together it would be easier. DD goes to her dad's 2 days a week and I have to send stuff there as well. I know the workbooks don't mess with the WTM attitude but DD does so well with them and likes them. (I like them too!) Thanks!

Do you need Montana? or Texas? I am in Montana but I am going to Texas in 17 days:001_smile: for DSD's boot camp grad. PM me your addy if you do want either/both of those.

I spit out my coffee at this one! GREAT STUFF!!

Do siblings all turn out "gifted"? Not if you're from my family!:lol: My brothers are a prime example of that! I think they are the missing link.

I haven't researched any of the "learning styles". I do know that DD doesn't learn best by just being talked to/read to. She does well with writing it down, workbooky stuff. She doesn't do well with narration where I read her a story and she narrates back to me what happened. If she reads the book herself she does much better with the narration part. I am the same way. I have a hard time listening to people talk and do better reading it myself. I just do the lesson with DD whether it be math, history etc until she gets it. For example GWG, she did the workbook pages and I wrote more sentences, statements, questions and exclaimations on another page and made her tell me what they were and put proper .?! at the end. Then I had her write an example of each one. She did great at writing it but not at me just telling her what it was.

I haven't done foster care let alone for a child that doesn't speak english but can you make up a book with pictures on it with stuff like bath, milk, cookie, sandwich, cup, night night, book, etc etc? That way you can have him/her point to the pictures of what they need. You could also name the stuff in spanish and say it to him in spanish and english and hopefully he would catch on quickly? Just a thought. Good luck!

not to start a fight but really???? what is this about?:confused: I reread the original post and she talked about the gifted program and the gifted teacher and only mentioned that her son was gifted a few times, and that was in a non-bragging way. When she referred to the gifted program and the gifted teacher I would imagine she meant it as any other program like if she was going to see the PE program or meet the PE teacher. I think this was a little harsh!

I downloaded it and took it to Staples on a memory stick. I think it was $20 for both a and b to print in B&W. I like having it on the computer. I printed off all the tests that are in the supplemental materials and for example, the other day DD really didn't follow directions and did a whole math page of subtraction using addition. Instead of having her erase the whole thing I just printed off that page. Easy peasy! I also like having it so when little DD gets big enough, I will just print it again.

sorry you had such a hard day. I definately wouldn't want my kids going to a school with such arrogance either! SNOBS!

I think you can put a sign on your door "no solicitors or preachers please" and they can't even knock. Otherwise I would just say "thanks, but I am not interested"

Here's a silly question I ask myself when I get down about not having any other "homeschool" moms to talk to... If I sent DD to public school would I worry about making friends with the other PS moms? Probably not...I didn't with DS so why would I do it with DD? I homeschool because I don't like the PS system nor the church school that DD was going to. I think I can do a better job than either of those choices. I don't HS to make friends with other HS people. DD gets a lot of activities without doing them with other HSers. We farm, camp, travel when possible, go swimming, to the movies, to church/sunday school, she also goes camping, 4wheeling etc with her dad on his days. She hangs out with both of my sisters kids and not many other kids and that is OK by me. I at least know the influence she is getting at my sisters houses. AND...I get to hang out with the best HS group of all....THE HIVE!!!

I don't have that problem....my DD just eats them GAG!!!!!!! I have tried to get her to stop. I will have to try the nose spray. I agree with the PP, make his/her life miserable until s/he learns not to do that because it is disrespectful. Maybe someone else could do something back to that person like put dog droppings on their Ipod...(sorry, that was just me reverting back to having 4 younger siblings and we weren't always nice!)

no, I have a 1st grader and we use SOTW and I have the tests...looked at them and put them on the shelf. DD might only get bits and pieces of the chapter and definately not enough to take the tests that go with it. They are kind of hard in my oppinion.

Last For me...The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks For DD...Charlottes Web Current The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein and Ramona the Pest Next...I don't know...going to read this thread for ideas:001_smile: and for DD Ramona the Brave

for 1st grade I only bought the student manual. I use each page to it's full potential for example... the lesson might be only on "statements" A statements tells us something and starts with a capital letter and ends with a period etc etc. Well, the previous lessons were about subjects and predicates. On the "statements" page I have DD circle the subject and underline the predicate to continue her practice. And on the pages that have the child put a S next to the statement that is correct, I actually have DD correct the ones that aren't correct...underline the word that should have a capital letter and add a period to the end. Hope that makes sense. Gives lots more out of the lessons.

hey, if it makes you feel better, my MIL has never groveled to me about my DH's lack of housekeeping skills. She had 9 kids and the boys never had to lift a finger to help in the house. MIL cleaned DH's room until he went to college and did his laundry while he was in college. I am quite sure my husband wouldn't know how to turn on the vaccuum! The boys worked the farm, the girls took care of the house and that is the way it is in our house now...DH pays the bills, I do the housework. It all works out.

This is what I do, and you can have the idea (I got it from someone else and modified it to our curricula) I don't keep a separate page for attendance. If I ever had to show it I would just go and count the days on our planner but you could easily make a spreadsheet with a bunch of squares and write the date in each one that you did school. I fill this out a week ahead and we go from there. No planner on the internet, no filing, no workboxes just my little pages in a binder. I needed something that is portable since we travel frequently to our farm 80 miles away with no internet. I don't have to keep DD's work or show what she is doing but you just keep the best of some of her assignments in a binder marked Math, English, Spelling, History, etc. https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1mLRP2TnaqN3gCVDmWaJMHi99igTaZnvH9LPc8khdlPY&hl=en

I agree with all the posters. History is written by the winners, meaning if Hitler had to write a history book about WW2 it would read very differently than the ones we read in school. I thought I wanted a curriculum with more of a Christian twist to it but just couldn't find one that I liked that started with ancients. I like the idea of going chronologically in order. So, I am sticking with it. My Dd doesn't always show that she is interested either but I know she is retaining at least some stuff when she will say to me "I wonder if the nomads lived in those caves?" while looking at caves boating, or "look, there is King Narmers 2 hats" when we saw a knicknack that was actually something else but looked like Narmer or more recently "mom, there is the King". It was the Sphynx on the front of a carnival ride at the fair. I don't expect my 6yo to become an expert in ancient world history by the end of the year or even to remember 3/4 of it but it puts it in the back of her memory for when we study it again in the 5th and 9th grades. Oh, and to answer you question, I would start with either SOTW 1 or 2 depending on what you want. I want to do the WTM sequence of history, repeating every 4 years. If you touched on ancient Egypt last year you might just start with 2 and catch ancients again in the 5th grade so that you will finish with modern history in the 12th grade. You kind of have to plan ahead in that reguard.

My DD is like OPs child without the gymnastics. She just wants to switch to the "othside" every few minutes. I am sure this is because my milk supply is dwindling. If I am in my recliner she needs to have "ninny" and can say it, cry it, pull my shirt up etc. I don't tell her no if I am just sitting here but I do say no at church, walmart, in public etc. She will not nurse discretely, the more skin showing the better in her opinion:001_smile:. This is absolutely my last child and it took me 8 months to get my milk to come in for adoptive nursing and I never dreamed I would still be nursing at 18 months. I had hoped to go as long as she would and let her self wean but thought she would wean a long time ago....she still likes it so she can still have it. I get asked all the time "when are you going to take that away from her" I am sooo going to borrow the line "I plan on weaning her the summer before she leaves for college!":lol::lol: My sister is in negotiations right now with her DD who is going to be 5 the end of August that she will be done having "ninny" on her birthday:eek: I don't think I will let DD nurse until then but who knows???