My hubby is a mechanical engineer. Our son seems to be following in his interests...we focus on everything ( reading,enlgish, Etc) but.... Math and sciences are a must! I let my hubby pick the math program we use, because he is better at all that than I am. We also have Legos, Knex, Mindstorms NXT, Lego designer software, snap circuits, etc. He loves these toys! We visit lots of museums and science center to give him hands on. It helps that I have an engineer in my house, the fostering happens naturally between them. Oh, and computer skills!!!!

Hopefully this explains a lot of my issues!! :001_smile:

I am looking at doing core 5 (f) and core alt7 (w) this year. The chart above was helpful. Thank you.

I only used 1 to 3 words. I thought that too, so i tried to search with fewer words. So far I have made no connection to what I am doing wrong. Funny things is ... it works fine in the morning then in the afternoon it starts getting funny. Maybe a coincidence, or maybe it's too busy? Just a thought.

I used a hammer with the meat inside of a plastic bag, but it did kind of tear the meat up a little. I think the rolling pin idea is a good one! I do plan on buying a meat tenderizer mallet though!

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 17 bytes) in /www/welltrainedmind/forums/search.php on line 1011 It is driving me nuts!! I don't know why it is doing that. It does not do it all the time, but it does it quite a bit. Any suggestions? :confused::confused::confused1:

I am starting Sonlight new this year too. I also have a 10 year old daughter. I am going to do core 5 (f) with her not because of any reading level, but because I want her to be able to do the Eastern Hemisphere study. It looks to me that this is the only time they would get it. I have most of the books and some of them are easy reads, but some are more challenging. I also considered interest level for her age. Even though she is capable of reading at a high level, I want her to be interested in what we are learning. Good Luck with your choice!

I am using sonlight this year ( 1st Year) and I see people selling used ig manuals. How do these change over time? Do the books stay the same? Do all of them have both 4 day and five day in them? Thanks to all you sonlight users for helping to understand these things!

Spinach !!!! Big leafy spinach salads!!

We saw it a few weeks ago. My girls loved it. Great way to start conversations.

We moved twice in four months on year. It was very hard to keep up. I wouldn't worry about it. It has been two years and we are finally back on track slowly working at it. They will be ok!! Go to the library and get them some learning dvd's ! They have all sorts of them on History, English , Science etc.

I have heard of people using landscaping fabric and cutting a hole where you plant your plants.

Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons. It is not expensive, but I would use it again and again!!

Pray for the day to end so I can sleep!:) No really, I drink tea mostly.

Real natural looking makeup at 13. Mostly she just wanted mascara to make it look like she had eyelashes because her hair is so blonde.

I would do it now. The longer she does it , the harder it will be to correct her habit. By not correcting, she thinks it is correct! I think the biggest thing is the tone in which your are correcting.... make sure your are not condescending, but sweet about it.

Rainbow Resource, Home science tools, Sonlight. I agree with others...... what the heck did they do to the sonlight catalog??? Ugh.

Congrats!!!!!! Sounds wonderful!

We had rain, snow, thunder and lightning all at the same time today. Most all melted now though windy and cold! Brrrrr

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I have come to the conclusion that there is never going to be enough rope. Either something has to go, or my expectations have to change.

It seems to be more redundant than previous years. We have chosen to not do some of the book because it doubles up so much on the same day's work( which is a waste of money). I know this is because in a school environment you would give some as homework.The format of the book is totally different than the younger grades. I personally don't like it as well either. She also feels like it doesn't explain things as well as it used to. I have not ruled out using it again, but I am exploring other options.

Lego minifigs, mad libs, hair accessories, gum, coin filled eggs

Poor babies!:angelsad2:

I set the timer and tell them it need to be done in x amount of time. ..otherwise I go in and pick up anything that is left on the floor and it is mine till they earn it back at my discretion! Set the timer according to the mess so that they have ample time to have success.