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Slightly scary, mysterious books to read aloud to 10yo ds...
Poke Salad Annie replied to 6packofun's topic in The Chat Board
The Three Investigators series. I loved those books at that age. -
I agree. This is priceless!
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I would love to go on a thru-hike of the AT or any other long trail, for that matter. I've hiked a good bit over the last several years, recently hiking up to the tea houses at Lake Louise and King's Throne as well. There is something so centering and peaceful about hiking, and I have grown to love the time spent doing it. A book I really enjoyed reading about the AT, and have reread recently is, Becoming Odyssa, by Jennifer Pharr Davis. If you can find it at the library, I highly recommend it. There is a forum specifically for those planning a thru-hike (whiteblaze.net), so maybe that will be of some help to you. Good luck!
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Sorry to bring up this topic so late, but I had a couple of ideas to add. Have you looked at The Boy Who Sailed Around the World Alone by Robin Graham? This is the young person's version of the book, Dove. One more thing I had in mind was anything by Jacques Cousteau. I have one of his books, The Silent World. Oh, a couple of more things..... * Our Living World of Nature, Life of the Ocean * The JASON Project
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That looks yummy! Thanks for the recipe. I have a new box of fresh mushrooms, so I'll have to try that one in the next day or so.
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Would you share your recipe, please? I have been wanting to make a vegan vegetable pot pie, and this one sounds wonderful.
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Now.....for vintage MATH!
Poke Salad Annie replied to mothergooseof4's topic in K-8 Curriculum Board
Where have the elementary SMSG texts gone? The link is no longer working for me. Anyone know? -
Tell me what good zucchini tastes like
Poke Salad Annie replied to unsinkable's topic in The Chat Board
I like to halve them, then cut into slices. To this I add sliced onions, red, yellow and green bell peppers, and tomato. I put all of the sliced veggies in a bowl, then drizzle with a little olive oil and shake on some McCormick's Garlic and Herb Salt Free seasoning, a bit of ground pepper and sea or kosher salt. I heat up a cast iron skillet grill, then add the veggies and cook until they are softening. Serve this: * over pasta with a bit of sun-dried tomato pesto * on a sandwich (ciabatta rolls are nice) with hummus and kalamata olives * on top of a salad * over polenta -
I'm making the grilled buffalo millet sandwich from the veganricha blog here, and homemade sweet potato (baked) fries. For dessert, we're having Luna and Larry's Salted Cream and Chocolate Coconut Bluss frozen dessert served with sliced strawberries. Yum!
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Plan my vacation menu for me
Poke Salad Annie replied to DawnM's topic in General Education Discussion Board
Would it be feasible to take a waffle iron (assuming you already have one, that is)? We love to have waffles for supper, and that would be something quick to mix together. It wouldn't take long to cook some sausage or bacon to go with this. You could take some add-ins to make it fun, like chocolate chips, pecans, banana, etc. We have made chicken and dumplings in the crock pot in the past. I think we left the chicken cooking in the crock pot. When we returned, I turned the heat to high, and added a can of cheap biscuits for the dumplings. Turned out great and everyone enjoyed it. What about a package of brisket in the crock pot? You could make sandwiches with it upon returning from the parks and serve chips and dips or whatever. -
Having trouble finding a grammar program
Poke Salad Annie replied to ....'s topic in Logic Stage & Middle Grade Challenges
Warriner's Grammar and Composition First or Second Course I think the answer keys can be found at Seton or a few other places for around $8. -
:iagree: Colleen said brilliantly what I would have posted here. I always try to listen to those around here who have BTDT, and I find that it really helps my perspective on things. 8 here has so much more experience than I have with homeschooling, and I tend to think of her as my Yoda. She sees what is at the end of the road, while I'm way back at the "2,986 miles to What Comes Next City" sign on the foot trail. Back to the topic at hand..... Yes, I do read out loud and talk, discuss and otherwise teach from books.
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I don't know if it's been posted earlier in this thread, or I might have missed it, but have you had your thyroid checked? I had HG for one of my pregnancies, and I thought I was losing my mind! My OB finally took the advice of another OB and tested my thyroid function. It was waaay out of whack, and once it was corrected with anti-thyroid medication, I began to feel much better. I was on a med to slow my heart rate for a while too, and that helped. But I could never really eat and keep anything down until the thyroid problem was treated. Editing.....I also had a wild reaction to Phenergan, which only made me feel worse. At one time, I was taking enough Thorazine or Compazine to knock out a horse, but it had almost no affect on me. This kind of diagnosis seems to take forever to make, and life is so miserable in the meantime.
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5 yo won't eat meat anymore:(
Poke Salad Annie replied to hsbaby's topic in General Education Discussion Board
:iagree: I keep thinking about the movie, "Chicken Run", and it bothers me to think that they can't get away from their fate. So sad. It really gets to me. -
Writing curriculum for the NON-reluctant writer?
Poke Salad Annie replied to amyable's topic in K-8 Curriculum Board
I personally like Maxwell's School Composition for that age. -
I am grammar dumb.... KISS help
Poke Salad Annie replied to paysensmom's topic in K-8 Curriculum Board
I also teach that each word wears a *hard hat* (like the yellow construction type), to get my message across. (This always gets a few guffaws from my audience. :D) They have their *job* for that sentence, though it may be different in other sentences. One example I can think of is down. Since prepositional phrases are at the forefront of the KISS program, we can spot one of those a mile away. However, we know that down is not always a preposition, so we must look at its *job* in the sentence. Which *hard hat* is it wearing in the sentence? Does it carry an object of its own? What does it tell us, and what questions does it answer? I think that's the kind of thinking you want to instill so that when you analyze the sentences in KISS, there will be less confusion and more understanding. Oh, and I absolutely agree with boscopup about reading through the whole book yourself before you start teaching. -
Do you have child memorize dates of every Pharaoh?
Poke Salad Annie replied to OrganicMom's topic in K-8 Curriculum Board
I love this. :D -
I am grammar dumb.... KISS help
Poke Salad Annie replied to paysensmom's topic in K-8 Curriculum Board
We use KISS grammar. When we started out, we used Sheldon's Language Lessons to give a background for the parts of speech and punctuation. I wouldn't advise jumping into the KISS program without that background. There are quite a few *free* programs floating around on googlebooks, if you are looking at something inexpensive. Editing..... My best advise is to make sure that the parts of speech are well understood, and that you've brushed up on your grammar skills as well. An old copy of Warriner's Grammar and Composition is nice to have around for reference. Copies of the Third Course can be found at the usual resellers online for about a dollar plus shipping. I would also go back to the very fundamentals as you are teaching parts of speech. You could start out by giving very simple sentences, such as, She cried. or Birds sang. Make sure that she understands what a noun is, and also what a verb is, then add on some easy adjectives: The yellow birds sang. or The pretty girl cried. Next you can add some adverbs, and go on from there. Once these parts of speech are understood, then I would start KISS grammar.