You have some great ideas! Are you doing this in the fall, spring, year-round? Where I live there is a notable difference in the birds we see at the feeder summer vs winter. Some different birds, some are the same birds with different coloring. It might be interesting to compare what toy see. I wonder if you can do a night walk looking for owls. I think you would want to know where they are nesting. Our local naturalist sometimes knows this. Are you near a migratory "fly-way"? Perhaps you could see sand hill cranes migrating? There is an Audubon group in our area that sometimes uses mist nets. I would be interested to see how that works.

i have mine all do math at the same time and I answer questions or redirect as needed. My Ker could get all her work done while my olders were still doing math.

Based on the other sessions, yes, there will be a recording available, it will be a few days behind the live version, I think you will get an email notifying you. Good luck to the team!

We did what bolt. is suggesting, but found that the parents had to split up. In retrospect for *us* we should have bought a larger tent for car camping. We are a number of years in and still don't see a return to our backpacking ways.

Math Mammoth is written to the student, and with a toddler and an infant on your hands that might be helpful! Like you needed more things to consider. (rueful smile)

On my mobile (as usual) I can't read the full title line! Still waiting to hear what part of public school you've found a use for...

Totally creepy. Try not to let the creepiness dog you. If you ever cross paths with him again pick up a big potted plant, or your chair, or start coughing and hacking like crazy, something to keep him at arms' distance.

Hilarious. I didn't see it in there, but I assume the only liquids you are allowed are root beer or root beer floats? Preferably in icy mugs? We have a convenient hot dog drive-in place near us. I'll have to "float" this idea by dh when he gets home.

I would have them both start in SOTW 1. You may decide later (year 2 maybe) to add extra reading or writing if you want to make history more challenging for her, although you don't have to, not every subject has to be a challenge. I'm digressing, don't worry about 5 years out until you get closer. All sorts of interesting things could happen between now and then! Even if nothing interesting happens, by that age I imagine you and she could decide together what she wants to do going forward and into high school.

I'm sorry your ds struggles with this. Thanks for all the info on the tests!

There are no rules for history that you have to follow! TWTM does recommend the whole four-year cycle thing, but Ms. Bauer (SWB) will not look askance at you for doing what is right for your family. :-) There is a variety of opinions on the value of chronological history, but I suspect everyone would agree on doing what is right for your family. So if moving into early modern feels right, do it. My only note of caution would be that year 4 is more violent and you may want to read ahead a bit if your dd is sensitive.

Based on my own, limited, anecdotal experience: Nope, their parents didn't give one thought to where they were or how long they'd been there, or if it was any kind of imposition. That is not anywhere on their personal radars. Different syringes, and all that. Here is something you know but may not have thought of because you were ambushed, you don't have to have a reason to and them away! It has been a personal revelation to me recently to discover that after 2 hours (or whatever) you can walk up, look everybody in the eye and say, cheerily, "it's time to wrap things up! Time to go!" Usually they don't even question, but if they do, keep smiling and stay firm and vague.

The True Meaning of Smekday was widely enjoyed here, very different from the movie so no worries if you've seen Home. Fortunately, The Milk, by Neil Gaiman. My 6yo, requested Harry Potter, that's been going okay.

In many cases it seems likely that the people making these mistakes have HEARD the word or phrase but never READ them, so their brain has filled in the closest English word (or random syllables) that they know. I'm "racking" my brain to think of one...

Focus on the positive side that you seen to have figured this out before not showing up at this "Rachel's" brunch! Assuming it doesn't turn it to be an elaborate version if the "Rachel at card services" scam. I hope the rsvp didn't ask you to bring a dish!

I like to tease my b/g twins when they are dressed in matching shirts, "hey, you guys look like twins!" "Mo-oom!" My younger went through a phase where she wanted me to change her birthdate so they could be triplets. This was complicated by the fact that we had just gone through a hassle to correct her birthdate on her birth certificate, so she didn't completely believe me when I said we couldn't do it.

The Analytical Grammar people say don't do grammar until 6th grade. Would it be possible to line out that subject altogether, save everybody the related tension? Sorry about all the stress.

The Collier brothers published a similarly broken down series of books. I think they are out of print now, but I found most of them used a few years ago. You might look for The American Revolution: 1763-1783 and Building a New Nation: 1789-1801, and see what you think. I thought they were a bit dry and over the heads of my, then, 3rd graders, but I've hung on to them for middle school. The series is called The Drama of American History.

I would call the local police and see if they can send someone out to "help you understand what the problem is." Soy would even offer. We've had hotels FedEx underwear (not mine, thank goodness!) Thank you for including the name of the hotel in your post.

Fabulous! Inspires me to renew my search for a foreign language tutor. Best of luck to your dd.

A year of games sounds fabulous. I wanted to mention the Kitchen Table math series to you. It would be a math spine for you, nothing directly for your son, though. I'm thinking that if you spend a year with games and living math he will likely continue to progress and you may want an outline of where to go next, or ideas for introducing new topics. This book presents an order of topics and a few ideas about how to approach each topic. The books are sold on the AOPS site.

I was surprised to discover that my state (which no one thinks of as a hot-bed for archaeology) has a state archaeologist. It would be interesting to meet with someone like that who, by virtue of being on the state payroll, may feel that outreach is part off his/her job. Personally I would have an easier time calling archaeology science than history..

Lots of our favorites have been listed, but I didn't see Whizzizzle Phonics - like Uno but encourages reading.

Mindware has a book called Multiplication Mosaics. What you might like is their Addition Adventures book (but for multiplication).

After randomly coming up with spam titles that almost make sense, this was sooo far into crazy-land I had to open it and look. Can I get a vegan version of the chicken carpet anywhere, do you think?