My ds, 6th grade, uses Saxon (we call it Hake) Grammar and he likes it. I really liked it, verging on loving it, until my dd started using Easy Grammar. Everything is explained in Easy Grammar in terms that are so much easier to follow. Next year, everyone is going to use Easy Grammar.

My son was using Hake Grammar and I really liked it until I started using Easy Grammar with my dd. I will be using Easy Grammar from now on. It's wonderful and it makes grammar so much easier. =)

Thank you Sue. I am at Bright Ideas checking out all of their stuff right now. Unfortunately, this is my first time"seeing" MOH and I think that I'm in love........lol. Again, thank your help.

I'm looking for a science curriculum that is very similar to All American History, except of course, it would be science. My son will be going into 7th grade next year. Does anyone have a suggestion?

I'm so sorry. I can only imagine how you feel. I am starting to wonder if I should feel this way too. On a different note, I think that we are neighbors. I was getting ready to enroll my 9 year old dd into the HEArts program for the spring semester!

It is totally amazing! I'm so glad that I am doing this!

I have not posted here in several months because of time restraints, but I try to pop in and read a few threads now and then. Today I was reading a thread and all of the sudden........I was hit........with a realization............... I can teach what I want I can teach when I want I can teach where I want I can teach how I want WOW!! Homeschooling has been going beautifully. We've been in the middle of a construction and it's still going beautifully. My son made a comment the other day that he kind of likes homeschooling and that he learns more but that it is easier to absorb!! It's one of those great moments in life when the clouds clear and the sun peaks through! Just wanted to share!

I love my expedit!! It holds so much more than my other bookshelves. And it holds tall things!! =D

Hello. I am assigning my son additional work as extra credit. I do not know how to apply the work. For example: He is using worldy wise for vocabulary. I made an agreement when I purchased wordly wise that since he HATES the 5th day of wordly wise so much that he would not be required to do it. We are only a 4 day school anyways. But, if he did it, I would assign him extra credit. Problem is, I don't know how to use his paper as extra credit. If he gets a 100 on the page, what would I do. Do you average it in to the other grades? Use the points on lower grades? I would like all ideas. (he is 6th grade). and my mind is slow right now, examples are good,:lol:

I don't have a 5th grader but I do have a 4th and 6th grader. We have only been schooling this week, but so far our schedule is working out well. 8am--wake up 9am--start school--chemistry together as family 9:30--vocabulary 10:00 writing and grammar 10:45 math 11:45-12:15 start eating lunch, pretty lax on this 12:30-12:45 back to school--begin history 1:30-1:45 depending on how long history takes, then he begins Latin 2:00 Geography 3:00 clean up homeschool room and do quick chores 5:30 leave for soccer 8:00-8:30 home from soccer etc. etc It has not been consistent. His work does not take him very long to complete. He works ahead on some, chats with his aunt, etc. The school day could technically be completed in 3 hours for him, but I encourage him to work as long as he can.

art? homeschool fitness class? I've heard alot about lego classes, but have not looked into them. track??

((((Texasmama))))I am so sorry for your loss. My mother died a few weeks ago. (July 15th) I have actually posted quite abit about her on my facebook wall, have wrote to her in her facebook messages, and on her wall. I now talk aloud to her (myself). I miss her so much. I cannot ever talk to her again. She was my best friend. I too, do not expect a reply when I post. Sometimes I update my little daily status and when my heart is crying, mourning, frustrated because I can't ever talk to her again, I post. It's kind of a relief. It's kind of a way for me to get it out. It does mean alot to me when someone does reply back to me, but I have 200 something friends and I happy if I get just one reply. =) OP: I understood what you were saying and I did not think that you were judging your friend. I was thinking that you just did not know how to respond. I think that just sending a hug, prayers, an I love you girl would be appropriate if you are comfortable with that....if not, that's okay too.

I tried to resist replying to this thread with my story, but after walking away from my computer, I felt that I should tell my story. I will try to keep it short. 4 Springs breaks ago, I met my cousin at her new house. She had just closed on it that very day and had not even moved into the house yet. Her pool was a beautiful sparkling salt water pool. It was clean and warm. Instead of stopping off at the local store to buy water wings and to head to the beach as we originally planned, we swam in her pool. Seven kids, six swimming, one in my lap. 3 adults. Myself and 2 others that I would trust with my life or the life or my children and I still do. I counted heads constantly. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7......1,2,3,4,5,6,7........I was terrifed with so many kids in the pool that something could happen. I just had a "feeling" and I should have listened to it. My oldest son walked up to me and said that he was not feeling well. He looked sickly so I felt his head. He was fevered. My attention was diverted from the pool for what seemed like just seconds. My aunt and cousin were also watching the pool but I asked them to feel my son's head. Now, for at least 15 seconds, all eyes were off of the pool. Within what seemed like a minute of my son coming to me, my cousins daughter asks if my little girl (had just turned 5) knew how to swim. She was in the center of the pool in a perfect swim pose beneath the water. Panic hit me immediately. My daughter had drowned. I panicked, I had a baby in my lap. My aunt jumped in the water to pull my daughter out, my cousin jumped in to help her. They got her to the edge of the pool where I pulled her out. She tried to breath, it sounded like an awful start of a gurgle that never continued. Her lips were blue, her body as limp as a doll. I pleaded to God while screaming in my head, NO! PLEASE GOD NO!!! My cousin started CPR. My daughter started throwing up........we took her to the ER. They ran tests and said that she was fine, but that they wanted to keep her overnight for observation. We chose not to stay overnight since that were not willing to put us in a room or to feed my daughter. We left. It ends up that we were waiting for DCF to show up. Oooppps, they should have told me when I told them I was leaving. We had a doctor come to my cousin's house. Her removed my daughters IV drip and discharged her from the hospital that she had been treated in. Even so,,,,,the next day I find out that there is a warrant out for my arrest and that they wanted to put an AMBER alert out for my daughter, but did not have a car description for me. (I was in another state). They warrant was eventually dropped, but DCF now owns me and my children. ....anyway........... my point being.. This was the hardest time in my life. I would not feel comfortable dropping my child off at anyones house for a pool party ( a casual swim with just one of two other kids might not be so bad, but I would not be comfortable with a party), even if I trusted the parent. I trust my children's lives with me more than I would trust them with anyone, but look what happened while under my supervision. Mistakes happen..........they are not planned............otherwise they would probably be prevented. Do these parents know that there are only four boys total at the party? Have you told them in a subtle manner that they are allowed to drop off if they need to run errands? I wish your party well and hope that it is a fun day for everyone involved. I have often found that sometimes I dread something so much but after the fact, I usually am very pleased and happy.

Hi Lee. I did make the chair cover. I was very lucky to find two office chairs at a thrift store for about $1.75 each. One was very nice and it just needed to be lysoled and wiped down well, the other had a lot of picking in the material but the base was sturdy. That is the one I covered. It was really easy, I had two pillow shams that I don't use anymore so I recovered the bottom by justing stapling it to the bottom of chair and cutting off the excess. For the back cushion, I just folded the sham in half, and sewed up along the two sides. My dd is happy with her knew chair, I am happy with the price since my budget is very limited but we really needed two more chairs!! :D

LOL Rhondabee, that was funny.

Yeppers, there is a red shelf in the room. I love it too. =)

I went and checked out the Dickblick site and I thought that the prices were very reasonable. I may order from there if I can't find exactly what I am looking for which is : I want 1000 sheets of construction paper in various colors and sizes for cheap!! :lol: I'm going to check out jerrys artarama now. thank you for your suggestions.

I am glad that I inspired you. It took viewing the schoolrooms of others here for me to get on the ball and rearrange my room into one that I was happy to be in. Now, I just need to inspire myself enough to put away all of my extra stuff and to actually organize those bookshelves.

I love this little man. He was my great grandmothers and when she passed away, my mom got him. Now he is mine. He fits right into my eclectic world.

Thank you. Everyone here is quite sweet. =) I too have been drooling over these shelves for years, the day the Ikea flyer came in and they were dropped down in price, I ran out and bought them. I justified it by including them in my school budget. The wrap around computer desk has actually been sitting in my garage for years with stuff just being plopped on top of it and it was forgotten. One of my neighbors was getting rid of it and I never had a space for it until this room opened up. My classroom is actually my master bedroom. Well, it is used to be. I moved my dh and I into a tiny little bedroom with just enough room for our king sized bed, a dresser, and a chair. We still have to use the closet in this room, but if we didn't, oh the storage opportunities my classroom would have. I've drug some more school supplies that I have had hidden and scattered throughout the house into the room today. Yes, thank goodness for the extra shelves.

Oh wow, I would love the 6x6 shelves too. I did not even see those. But I did not go into look. I saw my shelves on sale in the ad so for the first time I ventured into Ikea. I wish that I would have had more time to explore. It was like an entirely different world in there. :tongue_smilie:

I really can't wait!!

Thank you Michelle. I appreciate your link. I'm going to look right now. =)

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