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  1. I have some wild little boys too. I finally realized that they had sensitivity to artificial colors and flavors. I put them on the feingold diet several years ago and it brought them back down to earth :O) Best wishes, :grouphug:
  2. I feel your pain. I have a 7 year old son with ADHD and he does the same thing. It makes for such a horrible day when you have to be on him all the time to get things done. If it's not one thing it's the next. He totally has the ability and is a gifted child to boot, but he has no motivation at all. SO, I put him in public school the end of January. He'd never been there before and he was SO excited to go. NOW, he's SO excited to homeschool again, lol! It wasn't all it was cracked up to be and the homework is a pain! He gets home at 3:30 and sits down to do it. He's usually not done by the time I have to get up and make supper. Then he has to work on his own. After supper it's back to homework. Sometimes until bedtime at 7:30! Then it's back up at 6:30 the next day for the bus at 7:30. He's also not any more cooperative with the homework than he was with the homeschool work. But the big difference is that now I have no idea what he's been taught and how to do their lame math worksheets. Plus my son is gifted and is now reading 2nd grade books instead of the 5th grade books he normally reads. SO, I figure by the end of the school year he'll have learned nothing above and beyond what he learned here during the first 4 months of the school year. I might as well have just ended our school year in January and threw in the towel. My advice is to revamp your program. If it's a battle you need to win, just tell him that you have done all you need to in that cursive book this year and now it's time to do other things. Get lots of books from the library and let him read a lot and work in subjects that he likes better. I know from experience, that when it's a battle of the minds, you can't give in, but you can revamp, because that still leaves you in control of what's going on :o) Best wishes with the new baby, and the rest of them :o) Jennifer Mom to 4, ages 8, 7.5, 7, and 5, ttc #5 foster Mom to 4 more, ages 12, 8, 6, and almost 2 :o) It's a crazy life, but it's my life, and I happen to like it :o)
  3. I had to spend last Summer getting foster kids up to grade so I feel your pain. I used www.superteacherworksheets.com and www.homeschoolmath.com a lot. I didn't want to spend a bunch of money on curriculum for it. I used homeschoolmath the most because it generates new worksheets with answer keys every time you refresh. I would also ask to borrow a copy of the 5th grade math book for the Summer so you know what to teach. Don't stress too much on it. As long as you cover adding with carrying, subtracting with borrowing, lots of multiplication tables, and some division, you should be ok. Most of the first few months of public school is review anyways because they all forget all the math over the Summer. Best wishes,
  4. I'm looking for a language arts curriculum for my daughter. The Well Trained Mind recommends Voyages in English. It's quite expensive, but homeschool buyers coop has it on sale until tomorrow! I'm kind of in a time crunch here, but I'm wondering if any of you use it or have used it, and did you like it or not? My daughter will be in 4th next year and I'm also thinking of it for my 3rd grade son. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks much, Jennifer Mom to 4, foster Mom to 4 more, working on TTC my #5 :o)
  5. I just printed them out at the beginning of the year, but then realized that I should've waited and just printed out a week or so at a time. I have found many pages that we have wanted to skip and it's just wasted paper. That said, I'm not as thrilled with it as I thought I would be. I've found a few mistakes, which are frustrating because my kids kill themselves trying to figure it out, only to realize it's impossible because it's wrong :o( They also can be quite vague in their instructions on things. They many times just give you the problems and you have to figure out what they're doing and then teach it to the child. I'd rather have the book show the steps and teach the child while I'm reviewing it with them. We did Calvert last year and liked it a lot better, but this is more affordable for my big family because I can reuse it. So, from now on I'll be printing only the pages we'll use and see how we do that way.
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