I'm sorry, @gardenmom5, I'm scraping the bottom of the bucket looking for some pity for you - and coming up empty. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Perhaps if I could taste the "potato" 🥐 myself, your pain would become clearer... (Truly, I hope this doesn't reignite your hospital/pneumonia nightmare thing. That sounded awful.)

My youngest dd was in a co-op class that used that as a loose spine. They paired a science topic with an art project and used a blank sketch book to capture some of both. It was a great class. At younger ages work to build the inherent love of science and it will pay off later when they are interested in taking deeper topics with enthusiasm because they "love science"

Reminded me of this Calvin & Hobbes -

I don't know if you will enjoy it, but I did. Mr. Krakauer does a good job of dramatizing real stories. I first read this book years ago and on a recommendation paired it with the book Annapurna: A Woman's Place, by Arlene Bloom. It was interesting to see the similarities and differences - particularly in the decision making process. I finished Unseen World this week and was deeply dissatisfied with it. It plodded and the exposition struck me as uneven. The ending was disappointingly a non-event and the main character never seemed to perceptibly grow. As a palate cleanser I quickly started a different book (Trust No One - appropriate to how I'm feeling about authors and internet reviews at the moment) and I keep reminding myself that I also finished the Odyssey this weekend, the foundation for many, many good stories. I'll still be bitter until I return that other book to the library, though. 😉

My past searches have turned up nothing that is comparable to the non-secular Fallacy Detective and Art of Argument. One complicating factor is that there is no comprehensive, agreed upon set of fallacies. One text that I found for logic is "Nonsense" by Robert Gula. It is an approachable book with concise discussions of many fallacies. However, there are no practice exercises ofp any kind. If you are interested I could easily imagine turning each chapter into a few hours of study by trolling the internet for additional resources to solidify the concepts. You may decide that exposure is sufficient. The end of the Nonsense book touches on the topic of Symbolic Logic. I found a good text online for Symbolic Logic that had some exercises and answers (but not solutions) that we dabbled in when I taught Patty Paper Geometry. I remembered studying symbolic Logic in middle school, and then it being useful when I was doing computer coding later in a college class. Lastly, if your student is interested you could also look at some basic philosophical arguments as an extension of the logic study. I really like the discussion points in the book Philosophy for Kids. We often read these at dinner so dh could join in. Each short chapter introduces a philosopher, gives an example of their position and then leaves you with a few discussion points. (Beware, the second book is a very different format and I didn't find it useful at all)

I think they provide two versions of each chapter test. You could use one as a pretest, and still have one in reserve if she ends up needing to work through the chapter. A few providers have summer "bootcamps" if she just needs a brief, overall review. Myhomeschoolmathclass and somebody else, maybe Mr. D.

I didn't have a good wall space to use, so I made one that accordion-folded into a book. My approach was a lot like ScoutTN's. I made cards for SotW with a card for each section. Every 5 chapters we would spend history time reviewing the last 5 chapters as we put on the timeline cards. I made the timeline on cardstock and then sandwiched it between contact paper. That way I can use repositionable glue dots to attach the cards - and then take them all off for the next dc.

I only did timelines for history, but I made my own, so adding other topics would have been easy. Ours folds accordian-style, but leaving it flat to hang up would work. I printed timeline divisions in the center of a bunch of cardstock. Then I sandwiched the cardstock between clear shelf adhesive. I used PowerPoint to make 2x3 cards, cut them apart, and sandwiched those in contact adhesive also. Every card had a title, date and picture. It was a fun summer project.

I wonder if the Tops Task Card Series would work for you. They are published by topic, there is a comprehensive materials list up front, and a fair amount of teacher support. The task cards are written to the student and are hands-on activities exploring the topic of the book. Ouch, looks like they are rebuilding after the Camp Fire in Paradise, CA - still open, though!

Isn't that a great feeling?!!?

Are they using AOPS Pre-algebra? That scenario happened here, but then ds ended up spending a year and a half in that Pre-A book, so the worry was for naught. If your dc are more mathy and happen to only need a year for Pre-A, you could always do a semester of Pre-Geometry with Patty Paper Geometry or you could work one of the shorter AOPS books like Number Theory or Counting and Probability. I say, just go with it and be sure they are solid as they go, even if that means it takes a little longer than a school year to finish the book - no worries! you have an extra semester to play with! Your students will be happier later with a super strong foundation.

First, I'm impressed you know homeschoolers who talk about testing at all. I'm planning to have my two freshmen take CLEP for Spanish this spring/summer after they finish Spanish 4. I'm looking at doing this through ModernStates.org, which would reimburse the testing costs and eliminate that com, at least. It may or may not help later, but I haven't found a downside. I don't have confidence in possible AP outcomes at this point, I'm intimidated by the thought of arranging a testing site, and they don't want to continue Spanish for a 5th year (AP), so this decision is pretty clear-cut for this subject for us.

Duo has some grammar if he reads the "tips" for each lesson group. However, it wouldn't be easy to use that grammar teaching to directly supplement a class because it is often broken up into bits for each group of lessons. I wonder if you could afford/find a few sessions with a on a service like italki specifically to review grammar? Alternatively you could check for a used text book or something like this French grammar workbook. Maybe the BBC French materials online, they have a grammar section here. I agree with @Maize that practice is what makes it stick. If it were my dc I would probably sit with them and choose supplemental material and then schedule out time to work on it, maybe with you if that is an option or else on his/her own.

Is it his first year studying the language? What language is it? What, specifically is he struggling with? Are you asking to try to help him do better this year, or are you thinking about making a change for next year? I'm all questions today, aren't I? (But really, I think we need a bit more info to help you out)

I've been using The Illustrated Guide with reasonable success this year. The .PDF of the book is free, but I had to buy the paper version. The labs are written in a very step-by-step manner. We won't have time to do every lab in the book, but most of them. ETA: I see you eliminated this, just thought I would add my experience in case you reconsider at some point.

Seems likely since the system will try to blow hour air through those vents, and isn't set up for the water resistance. This is presuming that the actual system is above water? Yikes the situation sounds bad. Do you know where the water is coming from? Perhaps you should turn off power to the house? Ohhh, Monday mornings can be hard!

Double check that the thread is still correctly threaded. With one project I had it seemed to come out of one of the threading points. I'm explaining awkwardly but 1) it cost me$to find out that 2) I was overlooking an obvious problem that 3) was surely, somehow, my fault. 🤫😄

Wow! That sounds so holistic. And delicious

So cute! Is he a pet, than? Will he have free run off your garden plot in the off-season to "when" the soil? When we had chickens I was disappointed to discover that they didn't restrict their foraging to pests, but we're happy to sample the produce also.

Quill, thanks for all the great travel pictures! You are really fueling my aspirational travel plans!

We are hardiness neighbors. 🙋🏻‍♀️ Seed starting is such an optimistic process!

Well, unfortunately, if you've developed an allergy to deodorant you're going to have to stop using it if you want to stop reacting to it. In previous threads some people have talked about success using Milk of Magnesia as a deodorant - one you get used to it. Maybe it isn't a depositante allergy? You said you weren't sold on that. Your description really sounds like it, but do you think it might be something else specifically?

Have you tried quitting deodorant altogether?

You could, perhaps, photocopy those passages that need underlining?

It is on my "to be read" pile -although write a ways down. Glad to hear such glowing reviews.