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Just saw this on the FB page. This includes the new Bio 2. If you get the ebooks for Bio 2, it comes to 77.23 for the student and tm after the discount. Which is pretty good considering the print version of the student book is $132 on amazon (not quite released yet though) So if you have a good printer and don't mind ebooks this is a good time to buy it if you've been waiting as eagerly as me for it to be released. I may not use it this fall, but I plan to use it the next fall for sure.
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Just saw this on the FB page. This includes the new Bio 2. If you get the ebooks for Bio 2, it comes to 77.23 for the student and tm after the discount. Which is pretty good considering the print version of the student book is $132 on amazon (not quite released yet though) So if you have a good printer and don't mind ebooks this is a good time to buy it if you've been waiting as eagerly as me for it to be released. I may not use it this fall, but I plan to use it the next fall for sure.
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I hear you all that have the tall skinny boys. I've been shopping for those elusive 28X36 for years because my brother is that lean buff man with no waist so to speak. Usually he has to go with a 29 and a belt because as others have said the 28s are impossible to find. My brother seems to like the pants at Gap lately. My brother always wants to know why they expect you to be short if you're that skinny.
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Lori D suggested the Oliver and Amanda pig series. These are longish readers, and there are tons of them. My library has 19, I think. They are very cute. Her other suggestion, the Freddy books, is composed of longer chapter books. My library has almost 20 of them. So, she actually suggested nearly 40 chapter books from these two alone. :)
Poppleton is a pig, too. There are quite a few in that series. Dick King-Smith has quite a few pig books as well. You'd be surprised. "The Petsitters Club" has one volume (#5) in which they watch a pig.
Beatrix Potter has Pigling Bland, Stolz has Quentin Corn, and Van Nutt has the Lucky Hart series.
I didn't want to come across as snarky toward LoriD I'm sorry if I did. It's just that I've been at this for about 4 years now, so we've exhausted what our library carries of those series. These aren't books for him to read, these are the books I use as read alouds for him. Again sorry if I seemed ungrateful or snarky.
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Just in case you haven't come across them: Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore! and Pigs Ahoy! are wonderful picture books.
Laura
These are some of our favorites and get pulled out quite often.
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Forgot about Babe that's a good suggestion. I'll check for that one too.
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We've already done charlotte's web numerous times. Most of the other books listed are picture books we've also read many times. I haven't done the piggens book. I think the library had one about nanny piggens
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My 7.5 year old son is obsessed with pigs. We have exhausted all the picture books with pig characters at our libraries, and just finished the 6 Mercy Watson books I found there. I now need more ideas for books with pig characters.
Do you know of any good pig books!
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I just had to do this for my oldest. I found the 28-29 inch waist was easier to find at Old Navy than anywhere else.
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Nuke's wife: Are you using PH's Physical Science Concepts in Action (Kolbe)? If so, I don't remember any religious content in the TM.
Laura
That's my plan Laura, I didn't see any in the samples, but figured if it was in the plans it would be listed like in the bio sample and looks easy enough to just skip.
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Anyone that doesn't live in my house on a permanent basis is a guest. So basically my view of a guest is the same as yours. If I didn't marry you or birthed you, you're a guest.
I expect a guest to at least pick up after themselves. If they offer to help out with other things I may let them depending on my mood.
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I have no idea. I live in SE VA. I have no dealing with the PS at all, so nothing they do affects my homeschool. Although they are allowed to offer part time students, my district chooses to make it an all or nothing proposition, so we opted for Nothing.
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:iagree: I love RR for their prices and fast shipping. Plus they have a staff that is very knowledgeable about the curriculum that they sell. Try getting that with Amazon.
I almost never order from RR because I don't find their shipping fast at all. I've also called about things that are backordered (which you never know until after you order, I hate that) and have never gotten a person that wasn't beyond rude about it.
Now with amazon if it's on prime shipping I know it will be here in 2 days and every time I've interacted with their customer service it's always been pleasant and very knowledgable.
So I really think this is a YMMV situation.
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Samples are up: http://www.pandiapress.com/?page_id=20
Thanks, I checked yesterday and they weren't there. Off to check it out.
ETA: The ebooks are also available to purchase, but on their FB page they said all ebooks will be on sale (I believe 30% off) in March.
I'm not sure why but this "Try before you buy" sample is a little weird. They don't give you the first lessons, they jump right to chapter 4. I find that a little weird. If it was a basic sample I'd get it, but how do you Try a program before you buy it if that sample doesn't start at the beginning. I don't want to try a program and find out it works, but then have to back track. From what I remember none of the other "try before you buy" samples work that way.
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I'm wondering if those of you that say pink has a short i also say that the y at the end of baby is a short i, like they use in WRTR.
To me it's all an e sound. just like if I said the name of the letter e, so a long sound.
Seeing is pronounced See-eeng two long e sounds.
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Just be prepared to show proof that you are a home educator. Even though it just lists the above, information is all that is needed, my B&N requires me to show the letter I get from the state acknowledging the NOI I turned in stating I'm a home schooler. Even when my old card expired, I still have to bring in the new letter to prove I'm a homeschooler.
ETA: just wanted to add that I'm not all that broken up about amazon doing away with the 4 for 3, not much I bought qualified, and honestly the prices of books there is still better than I can get at B&N even with my discount most times.
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I actually found Glue Dots work well for lapbooks. My kids love them too. They come in lots of different sizes.
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Yep, those would work.
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I didn't use all of SICC B but the "christian content" was basically just the source texts used in some of the beginning things. Which you could easily swap out for something else. The two in SICC B I encountered were little biographical paragraphs on two men that helped start a church or something like that.
To the one that asked about SWI A not doing it all, that's true, but the other units are covered in SICCA not SWI B. SWI B covers the same units as SWI A but uses source texts with a slightly higher reading level so that kids in 6-8 don't feel it's babyish.
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The IEW progression would be for him to go into SICC-A, or you could do a level a or b theme writing like medieval history or following narnia etc.
ETA: once you've done one SWI you don't do any others, the 3 levels of those are just to help make the reading level of what they are covering more on par with their grade/age.
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Thought I'd come in to update.
First off I'm so envious of all of you that can have your kids take some classes (like art or music) at a local school. Here in our state each district gets to decide if they want to allow homeschoolers access to classes and unfortunately our district is a "We don't serve your kind" kind of district.
I've been on the hunt for mostly science and foreign language and trying to finalize my LA plans.
This is where we stand now.
Math: Teaching Textbooks Algebra 1
LA:
Composition will be WWS
Spelling: Finish up AAS
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Literature: Teaching the Classics using the following books which I got from the Reading Roadmaps book that center for lit puts out.
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Fishing in the Air
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Owl Moon
- All Places to Love
- St. George and the Dragon
- The Aeneid
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Don Quixote (abridged) or may use The Three Musketeers instead
- The Merchant of Venice
- Frankenstein
- The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Chosen
- Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
The first 4 books are picture books and are used to get them into the groove of how TTC works when studying books. I still may adjust the titles listed, or I may change all together to Literary Lessons from LotR.
Science: Intro to Physics and Chemistry from Kolbe (used secularly by skipping the religious content in the TM)
History: Modern Times using SOTW with other things to beef it up.
Foreign Language: I ended up changing my mind of First Form/Second Form Latin and will be using Latin Alive! 1.
Not sure on any electives yet, I may throw geography in as an elective, or some sort of artist or composer study as an elective.
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Literature: Teaching the Classics using the following books which I got from the Reading Roadmaps book that center for lit puts out.
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I love them. My favorite the sarcastises. A lot of pain and frustration could have been avoided in my life if I'd had those.
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I have considered my self atheist for quite a while, but the more I search the more I feel I'm similar to Mergath. I feel that yes there is something bigger than me, but it's more of an energy of the universe. I don't feel it's a all knowing, all powerful being.
We've been following the wheel of the year for a little over a year now and started that because it was a way to help my family understand why we didn't celebrate christmas (lower case because they celebrate it in a secular way, you know santa, elves all that). To use solistice is so much more than a big red suited guy delivering gifts. It's a time to celebrate that the earth has made it through another cycle and that the bleakness around us will start to turn to the beautiful regrowth of the new spring.
We don't really have any rituals as many would think of them. We celebrate yule/winter solstice by lighting a candle and spending time with family saying what we hope for in the coming year. We celebrate Ostara as a way to welcome the spring and usually take the day to go out and do something in nature and enjoy the new budding plants etc. For summer solstice we usually enjoy a family trip to one of the fun places we can really only go at that time of year, and lastly for Samhain we go all out for this as it's our favorite holiday and give thanks for all we've gotten throughout the year and wish for a speedy winter.
As you can see we don't celebrate all the times on the wheel, but we are always evolving and I'm sure will add things as we grow in our family and beliefs.
Oh and lastly although I believe there are things in this world that cause evil acts, I don't believe in Satan.
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This is how I do things when selling.
Person 1: responds to ad asking questions
I answer questions as best I can within 24 hours.
Person 2: responds to ad asking if it's available blah, blah, blah
I tell person 2, that I have another that is interested and if I don't hear from them by XX (day and time) that it's their and that I'll keep them informed.
I will email or PM Person 1 to let them know that others are interested and that I need to know their answer by XX (day and time)
I rinse and repeat for any other persons inquiring about the same item.
I'm sorry if it seems that I may be rushing person 1, but honestly I can't wait forever and lose out on a sale because person 1 is willy-nilly about if they want it.
pandia press ebooks on sale 25% off for march (and a few days of Feb)
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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I thought it was going to be 30 also, but it must have changed for this year.