That will streamline it quite a bit, thanks!

I was going to have him (5th) go through to create his spelling notebook since he's never done it before. You'd still do looseleaf paper? I have plenty of that so it's save me having to get something else. I'll go with the 60 page wide ruled ones for the girls. Thanks, Ellie!

I'm not buying them from Spalding beceause the shipping is just crazy (it's almost $10 to ship some comp books). So, now I'm wondering what to get when I head out into the world of composition books. Most of the loss leaders in the stores are 100 pages wide ruled or college ruled. Office Depot, though has sewn comp books from Roaring Spring that have as few as 20 pages, some that have 40 pages, and some that have 60 pages right on up to the standard 100 pages. The Roaring Spring comp books either come in split line (in three different widths labeled as grade 1, 2, or 3) or wide ruled. So, WRTR says 5/8" for 1-2 and 3/8" for 3rd and older. For my 5th grader who just needs a spot of touch-up, I'm going to get the wide rule 50 sheet. That's easy. For my Ker and my 2nd grader, the 5/8" is (I think) the Grade 1 book, but it's split line. My K and 2nd grader are just using dry erase boards right now as we're working through teaching/reviewing manuscript handwriting. In the meantime I'd like to get their comp books.

Mead maybe has, but Pacon makes them (Nasco has then for $2.50 ea) and when I was at Staples yetserday they had a Staples brand one. I think Office Max/Office Depot has their own brand, too. Ds was in public school one year. We just bought the supplies on the list. I didn't want the teacher to have to buy it out of her own pocket. I'd really rather we spent less on administration and testing so things like Kleenex and copy paper could be purchased by the school, but I doubt that's going to happen. So, here we are. Until things change, this is the state of things. In a private school situation, I would just assume the issue is keeping tuition from going up further like Joanne mentioned.

The problem is that coconut flour has no structure on its own. Straight coconut flour baking usually requires quite a few eggs to provide the structure that gluten would provide. I know there are some recipes out there on a few vegan websites, but imo, coconut flour is nowhere near as popular among vegans. So, rather than search for egg substitute ideas (there are lots) to use in your existing recipes, I'd search for new recipes - like "egg free coconut flour brownies" or "egg free coconut flour paleo bread" or "vegan coconut flour cookies" or whatever strikes your fancy. You'd probably have better luck making those recipes paleo rather than the other way around.

That can definitely make it harder. It was 50 something this morning and my route is relatively flat. I went on Sunday around noon with my dh and that was a completely different feel to the run.

We have them. I don't brush my tortillas with oil, though. Love them! As for the taco plates...are they like these? http://5newsonline.com/2014/07/09/walmart-orders-one-million-taco-plates-from-local-inventor/

W4D1 is done. I was really apprehensive about the 5min runs, but they weren't really that bad. The 3min runs now fly by. Go figure.

Did you go see a podiatrist? If not, that would be my next step. They have some that have a sports focus.

We loved them both. :)

Oh, I tried Evernote, too, but I could never really get the hang of it. The organization and note creation is not nearly as simple or intuitive ad OneNote is. I agree that the organization being so kuch like a paper binder really is what makes it work so well for me. I needed something that I could use without having to rearrange my brain.

I'm going to Hake next year (16/17). If that helps you any. ;) Not that it necessarily would. I have no opinions on the writing, though. I was going to do it at grade level for ds who would be 6th then. I have no evidence for why - just that that seemed to be the feeling I got from people here and from the Saxon website. Hmm....Saxon makes me think of Doctor Who. That must be a sign. You should totally do it. :lol:

The only reason why I mentioned it is because I'm fairly certain I read about "Voyages Through Time" from their list. It's been awhile, though.

I finally finished W3. Dh even went with us. It was fun. :0)

The "Voyages Through Time" linked up thread is more narrative and less blurby, if that helps. We used it in grammar stage as a read aloud, but I still think it's a great book. Does the Charlie's Playhouse book list have any that might also hit on dinosaurs?

My order history goes all the way back to 1999. It was like opening a time capsule.

39 in the last 6 mos 56 in 2014 It feels like more than that, though.

I think if you have such strong feelings about it then yes, it's time to walk away. That you can't understand where other people or coming from or can't understand why they find an issue with it does not, however, mean that it's a waste of time in the general sense or bizarre. And again, just because your family may not have a problem does not make it ok. It's a great deal more complex than that. It's not a joke.

FLL1 and 2 are pretty gentle and there are a few things that students maybe memorized in levels 1 & 2 that should be memorized in FLL3, but it's totally do-able. Ds had little grammar instruction and went with FLL3 in 3rd grade. It worked just fine. We both enjoy it quite a bit.

FLL3 I don't know anything about Easy Grammar so I can't help there, sorry.

I used to use Skedtrack. OLLY was not intuitive and too complicated. I never cared for Scholaric, either. I use OneNote on my Mac and access my plans during the week on my iPad. Ds can also see what he's supposed to do each day on OneNot from the kids' iPad. OneNote won't automatically reschedule anything, but I can do little checkboxes. I have one notebook per school year. Within that notebook I have a tab for each child which has a page for each week. I also have a tab for each subject that I need more detailed plans for. I can make a link to those tabs within each child's tab on the appropriate day/week. OneNote is the first thing that's really worked exactly the way I need it to. The Mac version of OneNote doesn't have the same capability as the Windows version which is unfortunate. A lot of the things other people are able to do with OneNote for their homeschool won't work in the Mac version. It's a bummer, but it still does enough to make it worthwhile for me. I planned out HO and RSO this year and then copied those tabs into a new notebook that functions as my master file. That way when a younger child hits the subject when they get there, I can copy the tab into that school year and not have to do it all over again.

They were an amazing price! So worth me not having to conquer book binding. I'm thinking of going back and buying whatever is left today.

I had to Google it and I guess it kind of makes sense. She doesn't know if you might have a Staph infection or MRSA and that might warrant gloves. When it comes to health care workers, though, the WHO puts gloves in the "not indicated" unless it's under contact precautions. Dusting, sweeping, windows, etc don't necessarily have those kinds of risks. I'm not saying that I'd do it, just that it's probably not completely outside of what's reasonable. I think that gloves make people feel safer than maybe they really are. The only time I wear gloves is when I'm changing sheets and the kids have just thrown up all over the bed. Maybe it doesn't make me any safer? All I know is that when I do, I can usually avoid catching whatever it is that they have (even though I wash my hands like crazy when they are sick).

Thanks for posting this and the coupon code. :thumbup1: I ended up buying a different case of paper (brighter white and heavier weight) that the same coupon worked for and came in under $30 which is less than the paper deal I got last year. I've moved to OfficeMax for everything else these days because our local Staples is disappointing, but Staples still has the best deals on paper.

Blank books at Target in the dollar section. They were $3 for a 3-pack of hardcovers, a 3-pack of taller softcovers, or an 8-pack of wider/shorter book. My dd's been after me to help her make her own books and this way I don't have to learn book binding! Otherwise, just some mechanical pencils (1.3mm for the lower elementary, .7mm for ds), some thin markers, some loose-leaf graph paper, glue sticks, and page protectors, I also had to buy a new stapler to replace the nice metal swingline one my kids broke, a new tape dispenser to replace the one the kids broke, and some of the Crayola twistable colored pencils.