I forgot the other option if you REALLY want to make him mad. You can change the setting so he can see your posts but isn't allowed to comment on them ;)

Neither - Go into your privacy settings and modify what he can see. Click on the friends only next to Posts by me. Then choose to customize and you can hide your status updates from specific people.

Definitely try the inversion. I used that to move my last little one. I was only 38 weeks when I realized that he had his head the wrong way so I had a little more time/room to move him around, but just a couple of times he moved around into the correct position.

No - If you want to replicate their board just put a smilie face sticker in the top left corner so they have a reference point of where to start their letters.

You sound like me last year. I was due with a little one in September and having a hard time making decisions about what to buy. The more I read the more I couldn't make up my mind. I finally made a list of the few things I was thinking about, turned off the computer and thought about each one and what I liked and disliked about it. Then I ordered what I had chosen and then didn't read the Kindergarten threads anymore. Everyone will tell you that this is better than that, or that you should use this over that. But it really comes down to what YOU feel like you need to teach your DD and what will work for your family with a new addition coming. Last year we planned our year to have a month off when the baby came. It ended up that we only took about 2 weeks off while we had visitors and then we jumped back into our routine since the little one slept all the time. We ended up taking the extra two weeks off later in the fall when the weather was nice and DS wasn't sleeping well and I was too tired to think. This is what I learned last year. Fun is the most important thing. Learning how your child learns is important. Your child learning is an added bonus.

If you are doing it as review I would just use the workbook especially if you still have the math mammoth pages to look back on if there is something that she needs to be taught again. We did 1a and 1b last year as our main math and I hardly used the instructors guide or the textbook. This year for 2a we are using both of them more.

My DS was the same way last year. He would throw fits about anything I gave him for copywork even if it was about his favorite things. Then one day he asked if he could tell me a sentence for him to write. From then on copywork became a breeze. He told me what he wanted to write, I wrote it down for him and then he copied it. I found that he started using other words that he wanted to be able to write on his own but didn't know how to. He would write them for his copywork and then I would find him looking through his papers to find specific words again to be able to write down in his little notebooks of drawings that he is always making.

I'm using AAS and WWE with my 1st grader. He also does some work in Explode the Code as well We take two days to do each step in AAS so I try to schedule them on the days that he is doing Narration in WWE so he doesn't have to write in both. I also allow him to do the writing for AAS on the white board since he is happier to write on that than on paper. I do make him do one set of words and sentences on paper every 4 or 5 steps so that I have something to put into my files for the year of AAS.

Was it this? from this thread? Here is another website about Mini offices for the early elementary years

My favorite to make at home is Sprite and Raspberry Vodka

My little one is in a babytrend seat and it drives me crazy! I will never buy another seat where you have to line up the buckles together to snap them into the crouch strap. It makes me crazy every time I have to put him in his seat.

We love Singapore along with Miquon. Although my son probably prefers the Singapore over Miquon, I like how the Miquon makes him think harder than the Singapore does.

We finished our first year in April. The tornados that hit Alabama caused us to end a few weeks earlier than expected but we were already done with everything I had planned for our first year. We took 5 weeks off and have now started our next year as planned.

I have a question about the Narrations in WWE1. We just started the first week and my son loves to retell stories so his narrations can be as long as the original passage. Should I let him retell the whole story and then ask him for just one part that he likes the best for me to write down or should I work with him on condensing the passage down into a sentence or two?

We have a refurbished al in one brother and love it. We are still using our original partially filled toner cartridge. The best advice I will give you about the laser printer is to read about how to trick your printer to think the toner cartridge is always full. Our cartridge was telling it was completely empty until I read online about taping the hole the sensor reads. Our supossedly empty cartridge printed a complete wwe workbook, all of Rso life, and about another 200 pages without a problem.

We just started our first week of first grade as well. DS was anxious to get back to our routine after 6 weeks off because of tornados, power outages and then a long vacation.

The first few chapters of SM 1 took us about a month longer than what the HIG said for my K/1st son. We pretty much just did about 20-30 mins a day of math, doing what we could each day and didn't worry about the HIG schedule. A few things that I did to help my son when he didn't want to write. - Number stamps to let him stamp his answers - although this took longer while he searched through the stamps for the correct number - Small round stickers that I had prewritten the numbers on so he had one sheet of each number. That way he could just peel off the sticker. - We did a lot of it orally - We also did a lot of practice using the mental math pages in the back while he was up moving around since he never wanted to sit still for the whole time we were trying to work on math. - Number bonds took us a long time to get down. We played a lot of the card games that they listed in the HIG and it really helped him get them memorized.

If you are going to pay to have someone do it then no. Most likely you will find that if the wall paper is that old that it will damage the drywall. Then you have the added expense of fixing that. It would be easier and cheaper to wait until you remodel and just put up new drywall. Its a lot quicker and easier to do that if you have everything else ripped out of the kitchen. I'm in the same boat as you and we have a 30 year old house with a kitchen that needs to be re done. Thankfully the previous owners took down the hideous wallpaper in the kitchen but you could tell that they had to do a lot of work to fix the walls. I'm waiting until we redo the kitchen in a few years to replace all the drywall and finally paint a color I like. We have been here 5 years and we are looking at another 3 years before we can redo the kitchen :(

We are in the Huntsville area and just got power back this morning. Thankfully all we had was some branches down. We lost our power during the morning storm and after those storms I found out that the kids had broken our battery powered radio. Thankfully a friend had power and called us when she heard them talking about another tornado coming toward us. That tornado skipped over us and landed about a mile northeast of us. Madison County has about 50% of the county powered up. The rest should come slowly over the next 24 hours. So hopefully any others in Madison county will check in soon.

We love potatoes and onions with a little butter grilled in foil packets. If we are going for all out fattening dinner we use bacon grease and butter and then throw precooked bacon in when it is done.

My 3 year old is the one whispering in his ear to climb to stool and unlock the cabinet and bring the candy to her room. Unfortunately for me the 2 year old is really good at following directions and will do whatever the 3 year old says. I found their large stash of candy in her room this morning when they came out from playing in there all sticky-faced. She's slowly realizing that she gets in trouble for telling him to do it even if she isn't the one actually doing it.

:grouphug: Screaming right along with you. My just turned 2 year old is the same way. Turn your back on him for an instant and you have a huge mess to clean up. Clean up that mess and he has destroyed another room. He also is one of those that you can't lock out of anything. Add in a 7 month old who screams if you put him down, and a 3 year old who urges the 2 year old to get into trouble and you've got the zoo I try to call my house. It's amazing that my almost 6 year old has had time to learn anything this year!

:iagree: This is me as well! Now that I found the Chipotle in Nashville I keep making excuses to make the drive up there :lol: The kids are enjoying the increased number of visits to the zoo :D .

A few things that I do for my not quite independent reader - He reads to me for 15 min during our "quiet time" - I use the time to sort through paperwork/mail and am right there to help him with words - He also spends time reading through board books, looking at I Spy books or 1001 things to spot books. He enjoys reading BOB or Nora Gaydos readers to his siblings. They are below his level, but he likes getting to read stories to them. - He also has a large selection of books on topics he likes to just flip through and look at pictures and read the bits and pieces he can read.

We do all three with my K'er. He loves the ETC workbooks, but we also do AAS and occasional copy work. The way we do it is that we do two pages of ETC everyday, one page that is just circling/x-ing and one that is writing. We use all about spelling and do it 3 times a week. That means that 1 day we review cards and go over new teaching, one day we spell with the tiles and spell on paper or if he really doesn't want to write I allow him to spell them outloud, then one day doing 3-5 phrases. So two days a week he is doing writing in both ETC and AAS (which ends up the equivalent of about 4 sentences) Then at least one other day of the week we do copywork which consists of 1 sentence that he writes twice working on his best letter formation. That is really the bulk of the pencil work that he has to do all day. For math we do a lot of it together and I will write down the answers for him if he really is fighting about writing, but as the year has gone on and wants to write more and more.