:lurk5: My 4th grade dd wants to study "the human body" this year. Anyone used Behold and See?

We used it for my 1st grade boy and like it well enough. I find the handwriting stuff excessive for this grade level. But maybe I'm just too soft? My son enjoys the "fun things" (his words) which are generally the last part of each lesson. This is a big thing coming from this boy who only seems to grunt approvals of anything not DIRECTLY related to something he wants to do at the moment. Just so you know where I'm coming from: I'm someone who is very good at making elaborate plans but rarely as good implementing said plans. I have learned I do best with planned curriculums and then tweak from there. Did you take a look at the sample page on MP's website?

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No notarized forms. No physicals. No dental exams. No shot records. Just the forms Angela OH originally linked to.

I'm pretty sure they need less sun. Paw paw trees, too. The are an "undergrowth" tree in the wild. The currant info I picked up from Edible Landscaping by Rosalind Creasy.

We have a weber something or other, gas grill. It's green, we paid about $400 for it in 2001. It just started to rust through last year - coincidentally;) the previous year we started to get lax on covering it. Still, my husband bought something or other from home deepot last summer and we plan to keep it until its really broken. Christine, who is always lurking but rarely has anything to say, except for about grills I guess. ETA: we grill all alot. You can even find us pulling the cover off in snowy weather to throw something on...

I'm looking at purchasig a microscope and have decided on a Stereo microscope first. I know Chandlermom mentioned (in a previous thread) the Barska 10-40x. So here are the questions: Do I need zoom? Or will the fixed 10..20..30 do? And the trinocular versions are tempting! Are they worth it on the stereomicroscope? My children are 9 (the nice quiet girl), 6 (the quiet middle boy who loves tiny things...especially bugs), and 4 (the wild destructive curious one). I'm leaning towards the trinocular b/c of #3. not that he can't learn to be careful, but he's just so eager his self control hasn't caught up with his impulsiveness. Plus I'm a gadget nut. Thanks.

Care to share? I just purchased Artner's Guide (b/c I had LCC 1st edition and that's our path this year)...They recommend the "everything you need to know" series as a further resource. Me? I can't handle any further resources right now and plan to go the read-through-the-landmark-series method and use Artner as the "quick facts" guide it apparently is.

Did you see they had sample pages on their website? They provide a few sample pages per grade level.

and I love it. Most of the classics are available for free. I know what I want to read and I use Amazon to "judge the book by the cover" so to speak on newer books. Though I still use my library for many books. My oldest is only 8 - and I don't have a problem letting her use it. In fact, we've discovered "The Twins" series lately - free on Gutenburg site - and she's constantly asking to use the Nook to read them. I'm not sure what stories you want to download. Many of the AO choices are in the public domain and so are out there, formatted for the ereaders, for free. Some aren't. If I were you, I'd make sure the books I wanted weree out there for download. Then, over the summer, I'd probably buy one for the older child and see how you like it and how it works for your family. Sometimes, at least for me, my theories don't always pan out in real life. All that said...and here comes the plug...I love the ereader. I love having my books at my fingertips. I love having the three or four books I'm in the middle of all in one nice package at my fingertips. Hmnn... I'm going to interrupt my plug here with a little nagging feeling I sometimes get regarding ereaders. One of the downsides, is that kids can't peruse a shelf and find (albeit judging a book by its cover) a book to read. I know technology changes, moves forward, we adapt. But I don't think my daughter would have picked up a Twins book if I didn't first hand her the Nook and say, "Read this. You'll like it." Similarly, if she hadn't already read the Mary Francis Cookbook, would she have recognized the Mary Francis knitting book on my reader and asked to read it? I don't have those answers. And that bothers me a bit. Don't forget - many of the AO titles are at the library, too. And if you do go the ereader route, I'd definitely make sure to take trips to the library. I'm just not sure the digitial bookshelf is tactile enough to encourage reading in the younger sets. How's that for a non-comittal answer?

one for the family to share? I'm going to use the file card system. I have (don't ask me why - see "addiction to office products" above) 4x6 cards for the computer. So I'll copy and paste onto the 4x6 cards. But I'm still torn between one for each child (and myself - I'm going to start learning Latin and am going to use the memory box - another reason for the cards - flashcards!). One for each kiddo could be overkill...but one for the family seems to ignore the youngest? BTW - thanks OP for this thread. I've been struggling with memory work and how to implement in our own home.

For those of you who use the box/or binder do you make one up for each child? I can see the usefulness of this - I'd like my youngest two to "get" to memorize the fun Robert Louis Stevenson Poems and not "require" them to get the states and capitals just yet (as will be on the list for my dd8). That said, I have a tendancy to overcomplicate things - especially those things that have to do with shiny new office products - and need to stay focused and grounded. Just curious.

PMing you now. We live in Ohio.

Or is it dill cream cheese? Whatever, it was delicious! really, really delicious when a friend's mom (I think she was a caterer at the time) would bring sub sandwiches with this stuff on it. Whip cream cheese. Add dill, a dash of salt, pepper, garlic, all the usual suspects.