Me/time/staying home Travel Reading aloud Lukeion

If I'm driving around and am not going to be somewhere where I can text back and forth, I'll call. Otherwise, I'd rather text. I hate talking on the phone, too.

We are headed to the northeast for most of the summer, mainly camping. One kid will do a marine biology camp at the beginning of the trip and the other will do an archaeology camp at the end of our trip, then we'll come home and collapse.

Use everything! Just start searching. There is so much out there now that everyone posts to social media. I would exhaust Google, maybe use ancestry to search the records database, find bio mom and dad on FB and see if they are already FB friends with some of the siblings (you never know).

Lukeion would definitely be a high school credit.

Margaret, I'm curious as to why you used a separate geometry program while using Saxon. I thought geometry was integrated? Did you feel it didn't do a good enough job? Thanks! Anyone else?

Wow. Very interesting perspectives. My mom saved for my college. I got married very young, while we were still in school, and we immediately qualified for grants. It would have *never* occurred to me that I was "owed" whatever else she had saved for my schooling. I felt grateful to have help at all. My parents are saving for my girls. I consider that a gift. If they don't use it for college, they can use it to travel or for a car, etc. Any money my husband and I save for their college is our money to be used as needed. If one gets a scholarship, we'll have more to help the other. They can contribute as well.

I learn about the weirdest things on this board.

We have sweet elderly neighbors who worked on us really hard when we first moved in. We even went to their church Thanksgiving dinner with them. (We thought we were being nice.) When we realized we were a "project" we just started saying, "no thank you." They got the hint. We still look out for each other and I'm glad they are in our lives. Just be honest and upfront.

We did it for one year. In fact, I spent $75 per week. My husband, myself, and my twin girls (who are not light eaters!) who were in 3rd grade at the time. We lived in Utah, where things are cheap. I shopped at WinCo. We still ate a lot of fruits and veggies. I bought almost no processed food and cooked every single day. No drinks. It's doable, but I would never want to live like that long term. We live in Florida now, where food is much more expensive and my kids are preteens. I could still do it if I had to. No more organics or grass feds and I know exactly which grocery store I'd shop at. It's in a really diverse, low-income area and they have cheap cuts of meat you can't get other places and cheaper items overall. I'd buy a lot more rice and make a lot more tortillas. It would be a big change, and not how I'd prefer to eat, but I could definitely do it.

We are off Northlake! Yeah, that's not our crowd and homeschooling takes us all over the county, so we don't feel the ritz as much as we feel other obnoxious aspects about this area. But our kids do play soccer with Tiger's! ;) Haha. Not really. We've only seen him on the field once.

I guess we could be considered the Miami area, but we are in Northern Palm Beach. If we have to be in Florida, it works. The school district is easy, lots of kids take classes at the schools. There are a million homeschoolers. Seriously. 6,000 homeschooling families in the county. There are more classes and activities than you could ever take advantage of. Tons of homeschooling groups. And, for Florida, a lot of secular homeschool families, which is important to us.

So, this actually made me curious enough to go looking. I couldn't remember from when I was teaching. http://ldaamerica.org/advocacy/lda-position-papers/right-to-an-evaluation-of-a-child-for-special-education-services/ They do have to complete an evaluation, period, and RTI isn't enough on its own. It's part of the Child Find law. When I was taking my special ed law class, there were several cases where the school refused to test (illegal) and later the child was diagnosed with a learning disability. The parents sued the school and the district was required to pay for all the special schooling, tutoring, and testing that the parents paid for over the years. So, OP, if they won't complete a comprehensive evaluation, you can let them know that you'll be making them pay for outside testing. :)

If you leave him in, you need to get an advocate who knows the law to go with you to meet with the principal. Several years ago my understanding was that once you requested testing, the school had 60 days to complete it. It wasn't at their discretion if you formally requested it.

Wow. Another ex-Mormon here. We should start a social group. ;) We've been UU but don't have a great church here, so we don't attend anywhere now. I voted atheist but on a different day I might have voted agnostic. I agree with the apathetic descriptor used by others.

A Christmas classic.

Well, I know some people think it is bland and boring, but we are loving Writing Strands for my twin 12 year old girls (also 7th grade). They are at complete opposite ends of the spectrum- one prolific writer who writes at least an hour a day on her own, and one with dysgraphia and a language disorder. My writer loves Writing Strands because the advice he gives is so clear. I told her she didn't have to do the program and she is choosing to do it because she says it helps her. My struggler is writing more than ever because the directions are so simple and clear. This is a kid who really struggles with ideas, but because he carefully walks them through the process, she is able to be tremendously successful. It is completely self-directed and has been a huge hit. It's the perfect amount of writing. FWIW, I bought Writing Strands in 3rd grade for them and we all hated it so I sold it. It just works now, I think because they are old enough to be more independent and have had a few years of WWE.

Let me also strongly recommend ski school!!! Do you happen to be in Utah? There are some great deals to be had for local kids in ski school.

Mine reads. All. The. Time. It makes me carsick even thinking about it. She'll do her math in the car, too. But, I can't really expect much more than that. It's distracting and difficult for her to write. ***Hey, dyspraxia moms! Just an FYI, we have a FB group called Dyspraxia USA Homeschoolers. Come join us!

Yep, I'm sure she just assumes it's a nickname for Jonathan. I'd clearly explain that to her. I'm sure she just doesn't know. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

You need to call your vet and ask which tick medication is most effective in your area. It really does vary by location. Frontline (flea and tick) worked really well for us in the VA countryside. Here in FL, the fleas are immune to it.

What about using dogvacay or getting a petsitter to go to their home? It might be pricey, but I've been able to find last minute arrangements before, depending on where we were living. I'm angry for you!

Yes because I have a child with special needs. Enough said.

CLE, WWE, SOTW I actually initially chose CLE because it was bare bones, thorough, and truly spiral. I didn't feel like I needed the whole package. I had plenty of supplementary and teaching materials from my classroom. I probably chose a lot of curriculum based on what I did NOT have in the classroom, or what I felt was missing. I knew where the holes were that needed to be filled. Now I tend to be more balanced because the older they get, the less experience I have with the material. (I taught first grade and kindergarten.)

This is clearly poor judgment, no matter what the reasons. Of course we are all grateful police officers put their lives on the line. That doesn't mean that every police officer should be one!