:crying: I am so very sorry. :grouphug:

Thanks for the tip about cutting the book into smaller chunks, Andrea! I appreciate your response. :001_smile: I love my spiral bound books, but there are just certain books I'm afraid to do this to. :001_huh:

I'm posting this in both the general forum and curriculum forum... not sure where it should go. :tongue_smilie: I like to buy used curriculum and I like to sell used curriculum. :001_smile: I have some FIAR manuals that are bound regularly (not sure what to call it?) and I have 2 of them that are spiral bound. I happen to LOVE spiral bound teacher's manuals because the book can lay flat on a table and makes it so much easier to teach out of. I'm thinking about getting the other (regularly bound) books professionally spiral bound at an office supply store. Does anyone know if this will decrease the possible value of these books? I find it very helpful, but I don't know if others would agree. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! :001_smile:

I'm posting this in both the general forum and curriculum forum... not sure where it should go. :tongue_smilie: I like to buy used curriculum and I like to sell used curriculum. :001_smile: I have some FIAR manuals that are bound regularly (not sure what to call it?) and I have 2 of them that are spiral bound. I happen to LOVE spiral bound teacher's manuals because the book can lay flat on a table and makes it so much easier to teach out of. I'm thinking about getting the other (regularly bound) books professionally spiral bound at an office supply store. Does anyone know if this will decrease the possible value of these books? I find it very helpful, but I don't know if others would agree. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! :001_smile:

I just found this one today and it looks so yummy! Can't wait to try it... Slow Cooker Chicken with Tomatoes and Artichokes

Thanks, keptwoman! :)

This. :)

Thank you for the update, Sue. :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:

You are on my heart. Just checking on you... :grouphug:

You've had a lot of great advice already. I don't have much to add except to second (or third or fourth LOL) the suggestion that diet really helps and to give you some :grouphug: :grouphug:

That's true. :) Didn't think of it that way. I'll be calling today...

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Thank you for that book rec. It's in my cart to order. Any other good books? I'm trying to get to $25 for free shipping. ;)

My son had his developmental optometrist appointment today and all is well. His vision is 20/20 (I knew this already) and his convergence, alignment, etc. are all great! For me this is good news AND bad news. The good news is obvious. The bad news is that I don't know where to go from here. The doc gave us a name of someone that can do more testing for perception disorders (dyslexia, ADHD/ADD, etc.), which is good. I guess. My son has already been Dx with Sensory Integration Dysfunction. I told the D.O. this today and he said that SID falls under perception disorders and that this other doc might be able to pinpoint more issues for us. Does this sound like something that's worth pursuing? I mean, I know my son has more issues than just the SID. But should I get them all diagnosed? I've been reading some threads here on the SN boards and I'm coming across terms like working memory and executive function. What do those mean? Any good websites/books/articles you can point me to? Working memory seems like it encompasses a lot of things. I'm just feeling kind of lost right now and could use some direction as far as getting Dx (or not), etc. :( Thanks, mamas!

I received our Latin Prep books today. I was looking through the text and it looks so fun! We were using Latin for Children Primer A previously and I'm so glad we switched! :) My daughter was bored out of her mind with LfC. :glare: I know it's a good fit for a lot of people, just not us. LOL I was wondering if anyone here has used the CD for Latin Prep? Is it necessary? I only ordered the text and the answer book (as I read a recommendation on here for doing that -- saying that the workbook was not necessary). But I couldn't find any info about ordering the CD or not.

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:lol::lol: I love this! Thanks for the laugh! I've had a rough 3 days.

I'm sorry. :grouphug: You've gotten some great advice already, so I won't add to it. ;) I hope the chickenpox goes away soon!

I haven't looked at the others that were already mentioned, but my favorite is The Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Comstock. And we follow this blog to go along with it.

I printed out each chore on 3 x 5 cards like you described. They seem to help. :)

Yes, he does this with many many words. And while I find it quite endearing :001_wub: I know it's something I should actually be concerned about. :001_huh:

I have another thread going right now regarding possible dyslexia and VPD in my 9 year old son who has a Dx (so far) of SPD. Our main concern with him is his reading. He is very proficient in math, although the reading issues are beginning to cause some problems in the area of math. He is 2E. He has an appointment at a developmental optometrist on 1/6 -- next Thursday (!! Yay!!), so I'm not sure if I should even be asking this question yet or just wait until we have results from that appointment. I decided I should ask because I most likely will continue to work on his reading / phonics at home even if it does turn out that he has something going on visually and needs therapy... so either way, I'll end up asking these questions sooner or later. :tongue_smilie: Just for background, we have tried ReadingEggs, HeadSprout, and OPGtTR... all were unsuccesful. Then, I ordered All About Spelling for my daughter. After I received this program and was reading through it, I realized that it would probably be a good fit to teach my son phonics. So I scoured the internet to find out if you can teach phonics with AAS. Lo and behold... YES! Yay! So I tried to figure that out and my son has since exploded into knowing many of the phonemes and can now read CVC words. He can also read a myriad of other words, but I really don't see any rhyme to his reason. We are also using FLL orally so we can get in some grammar work even though he's not yet reading. To go back a little bit, my son has always been 'late'. With everything. He crawled late, got his first tooth late, walked late. But every time he was ready to do something, you knew he was really ready and he would take off with it. I can tell that he is really ready to read. I am fairly certain that we are not using AAS in the correct manner for a phonics program. We are taking it really slow and we are on step 4 or 5. I'll make up some spelling tests for him using word families and he does awesome. But I don't feel like we can go any further is AAS because it's a lot of spelling rules and I don't think he's there yet. I could be wrong, though. ;) Can anyone offer me anymore advice on how to use this (with specific steps) as a phonics program? (Since AAR isn't coming out for a little while.) I am also looking at printing him off some I am Sam books. I think I like those better than the Dancing Bears. I have also been thinking about the Phonics Page Lessons but haven't really been able to look at the lessons. We also have this set of Reading Rods, but haven't used it yet. Can someone please help me figure out how to incorporate all of these things to really get him going with reading? Is it all too much? Should I keep going further in AAS? Can you just tell me what to do? :tongue_smilie: I feel somewhat lost at this point. :001_unsure:

Elizabeth ~ I was thinking about doing the SB testing to determine if he truly is dyslexic. In your opinion, is it necessary?

yllek ~ Thank you for those additional book rec's. I think I checked out Overcoming Dyslexia from my library before, but I was too busy to read it before I had to return it. :001_unsure: I'll try to check it out again, though. We LOVE All About Spelling. We are currently using level one for him and in fact, I'm about to post another question regarding that, but it's a whole other topic, so I'm not even going to being that here. :tongue_smilie: There is a a Susan Barton trained dyslexic tester about an hour and a half away that I'd be willing to drive to. I'm just trying to figure out if it's necessary and if our insurance will cover it. (I haven't found anything on our insurance's website that says whether they do or not -- I think I'm just going to have to call on Monday.) What kind of testing did you do to determine that your son had motor planning and visual perception issues rather than dyslexia? My son's music teacher has implied on several occasions that my son's "issues" seem very similar to another student of her's that has visual perception disorder. And I'm really curious about that... that's one of the main reasons I made an appointment with the developmental optometrist. Well... that and the fact that he's 9 and not reading yet. Also on Monday, I'm going to try to see if my son's pediatrician recommends any speech language pathologists or OTs. I really think he needs to at least be evaluated again. I found some using Google, but I want to see if his doc prefers anyone in particular. ___________________________________________________ Angie, Thank for linking to those two Yahoo groups! I hadn't heard of those before and I will definitely be requesting a membership. I think I'm a bit of a Yahoo group junkie. :001_huh: :lol:

Thanks so much for the encouragement, OhElizabeth! It is so frustrating that so many of these symptoms overlap. When I'm reading about a "disorder" wondering if it's just another thing he has, I often say to myself, "Yeah, but that's because he's SPD, right? Or does he have this, too?" Ugh! I wonder how all the experts separate everything?