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I have pictures of mine on my blog. They should pop up as a slide show up in the left corner.
my blog addy should show up in my signature.
We use a dining room that we don't need for our table. The purple color is what the owner painted it before we moved in. We rent and I don't feel like changing the color now that the white board is up. Although I'd love it to be red.
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Ours is up.
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Growing with Grammar for my 3rd grader after FLL 3 was a bust. He loves, loves, loves it.
I like that it's written to the child so he can read the student text which includes examples and then he does the worksheet. It's to the point with a few graphics here and there but they are in black and white and not distracting. I really like the way the lessons are presented and you can't beat the price. It cost me $34 for the 3rd grade set and that is with the shipping cost.
I also like that the lady that wrote the program wrote it specifically with homeschoolers in mind and wrote a program that can be used by anyone regardless of their faith background (we're secular hsers so that was a big plus for us) She is also very quick to answer email if you have questions.
I can't wait to use the grade 1 and 2 set for my dd next year. My son now looks forward to grammar each day.
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I'm in SEVA as well.
Chesapeake to be exact.
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I have the History through the ages placement guide. Which shows where each of the figures they make is placed. I use it to see where to put them as well as anything my kids should write.
HTH
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I love the all purpose cleaner. I keep a spray bottle of it mixed up on my counter to wipe down the kitchen counters and table each day. I also used their laundry detergent and like that. I prefer their liquid instead of the powder. I love the smell of their stuff. Nice light citrus scent. I also like their glass cleaner and bathroom scrub. The only thing I really didn't like was the dishwasher powder, but I prefer liquid. I know they just came out with a dishwasher liquid and I plan to try that next time I need some.
Kel
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We are voyager fans too. In fact our dd was named Annika after the human name of 7 of 9 before she was assimilated.
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we also use Rainbow resource, home science tools.
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Oh, do I have to pick just one. I love movies with music. The Wedding Singer, Grease, Moulin Rouge, Phantom of the Opera, Calamity Jane.
As for T.V. Shows, House, Survivor, Grey's Anatomy, How I Met Your Mother are ones that I watch if they are not reruns. (thankfully House is new this week!)
Kristine
Oh how could I forget The Wedding Singer. Dh and I love that one and watch it anytime it's on. When there's nothing on to watch on weekends we'll pop in the DVD.
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and she just finished her K math but is still working at a K level for phonics. She does history and science with her 3rd grade brother but I require less.
Anyway when I had to report to the state I put her down as a Ker (here in VA we have to list grade level) because that's where she'd be had she been in PS. They wouldn't have let her start anything last year. I move her curriculum along as her pace dictates but for reporting purpose I stick with what grade the PS would consider them.
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There aren't many for that grade level. Only Native Americans and Living in a Plymouth Colony, but if you're kids like hands on crafty type things they are great.
I actually just made up something similar to the Our los Banos curriculum mentioned using History Pockets, DK's American history encyclopedia for children and lots of living books for my kids next year curriculum. They will be 1st/2nd grade and 4th grade.
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I have a new red Bosch universal which I love. It replaced my Kitchenaid Artisan which is hanging out in the cabinet just in case. I also have a nutrimill set to arrive on Tuesday (hooray I can't wait) I also have a kitchenaid food processor that I barely use, a toaster oven which I like so much more than a toaster, a black and decker blender that I don't use anymore since getting the Bosch. I also have a magic bullet blender that I don't use anymore, and a deep fryer which we use from time to time. Oh and 3 crockpots. I really big one, one medium, and one super small one for dips and such.
I have to say that the Bosch is the best appliance investment I have made.
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My all time favorite movie is
Mr. Blanding's builds his dream house. It's an old Cary Grant movie which I believe The Money Pit was based on. It's hilarious.
As for TV show I have a new favorite. A friend sent me the show Firefly on DVD recently and I love it. I sure wish it had lasted more than one season. It's kind of like Star Trek meets the Wild West which you think wouldn't mix, but it sure does.
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Some of my favorites are Tom Hanks, Daniel Radcliffe, Nathan Fillion, Harrison Ford, and Cary Grant.
I don't know that I have a favorite Actress.
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but our favorite cleaner is the Rug Doctor. They are pricey though ($700) but we've had 2 hoovers and a bissell over the last 10 years. We have had the Rug Doctor for about 2 years and I wish I would have just made the investment in the first place. I cleaned my carpet (whole room) with my last hoover and then a week later cleaned it with the new rug doctor. I was shocked over the amount of dirt that came out of the carpet. I have 2 dogs and 3 kids so it seems the carpets are always getting dirty. I give them a deep clean every couple months and then spot clean as necessary. I also used the upholstry attachment to clean the carpet in the mini van and the water came out black, I was amazed.
I think the biggest difference is that the Hoover and Bissel just don't have the suction power to get as much of the dirt and water out of the carpet. I also noticed the Rug Doctor cleaned carpets dry in about half the time that they did with the other machines. Usually in about 1 hour the carpets are dry.
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We've done math 2 with ds last year and are now doing math 1 with dd.
My son didn't need all the things to be covered in the meeting so we just did the parts he liked (mostly the money and pattern) but he didn't like showing me the money by picking coins out of a cup so I bought him some coin stamps (fronts and backs) and I made my own meeting strip in Word and he would stamp the coins needed to make that amount of money. Some days I'd make him use only the face of the coin stamps, other just the backs, and yet others I'd tell him to mix them up.
My dd is the opposite and loves everything about saxon. She was using Horizons K and dreaded it everyday. We switched to Saxon 1 and she loves it. She enjoys all of the meeting parts so even though I find it very tedious it's really helping her to go through all the repetativeness. She also likes all the coloring, so maybe you just need to weed out some of the part your dd doesn't like.
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My true passion about homeschooling came from not wanting my son to be the "new" kid every year. We're a military family and from K-2nd he would have started a new school each year. PS K was great he had a wonderful teacher with the patience of a Saint who truly loved teaching young kids. Then we moved and 1st grade was a disaster. His teacher didn't understand that he didn't go to school for K with all the other kids he didn't know all the basic rules of the school because he was new. There is much much more that was worse which lead to him crying each day and finally while my dh and I were on a trip looking for a new house (my mom was in the other state watching the kids) my dh turned to me and said "You always said you wanted to hs our kids. Do you still want to do that?" I almost fell out of my seat. I had always wanted to but thought he didn't. It was the best thing he could have said. We came home pulled our son out and haven't looked back. We've also moved twice since then and our son is only in 3rd grade, so it is definately the best decission we've ever made for the kids. They are happy and love learning.
Now as to the subjects, I came to hsing with a definate love for math, I really do love it. Coming in a close second are history and science. I still dislike LA but I'm learning to like it. I think learning to like LA for me was a matter of getting the right curriculum because now I'm learning things I never understood with my almost 4th grade son. He's just starting grammar and GWG is helping us both to understand it.
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I would use it as an artwall for the kids things as well.
I also wanted to say I love, love, love the color. I so want that for my school room which is now royal purple in color (think more eggplant) because that's what color the owners painted it and I don't know that I want to change it now that the white board has been hung (they said I could though so you never know.
I also love the bookshelves. I'd love a few like that.
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Evan-Moor Science works for kids books.
We've done the Space one last year and parts of the body one. We are starting Geology in a few weeks.
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I have Sonlight core A and it is basically just a bunch of books and the "IG" is really just a checklist of what to read. They list the books by trimester from easiest to hardest. They do offer some very simple activities like for the book "if you give a mouse a cookie" they tell you "have cookies and milk" as your activity. The superminds and teddy bear match things are not scheduled at all.
I have to say the books are pretty good my 2.5 year old loves them but the parent guide I could have done without. We really aren't using it. I just read a story out of which ever book he pulls out.
Hope this helps some
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We just moved to VA and this is what I sent in to the Chesapeake School District.
Feel free to copy any parts of it she wants.
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link should be in my signature
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here's mine
it should be in my signature
Do you buy new or hunt and peck for the cheapest prices?
in General Education Discussion Board
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I've had some really horrible luck buying used. I don't like buying something I can't see in person that's used because too many times I have gotten something that was supposed to be "like new" or "excellent used" and to me it was lucky to be called fair. I guess my idea of "excellent used" and "like new" can be very different. Luckily here in VA where I am there is actually a homeschool book store that buys and sells used curriculum. They sell some new as well but 85% of their stock is used and I can go in a look for what I need. I'll go there first this year and then what I can't find there I'll order from Rainbow resource. I know that they are the lowest price on the things I want.