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  1. We love our pop-up. We make the beds BEFORE we get there, so it is folded down with beds made (not pillows obviously) We use sheets/blankets. I always have extra blankets just in case. We also have a indoor/outdoor rug in front of the door under the awning. There is a great forum that I frequent for ideas- popupexplorer I think is what it is. Google it. :-) Have fun!
  2. We have done several. Some we loved, others were just okay. The older kids now do them independently, which is great. I use them to supplement things they are doing in their BJU history books that we use as spines. My son's favorite is the Titanic.
  3. My kids are great readers, but there is just not enough time in a life to READ every great book out there so I download books from the city library's consortium or check them out if available and the kids listen to them in the car, while they wait for piano lessons, while shopping, etc. on their MP3 players. It gives them exposure to other great literary works and it is better then a lot of things they could be listening to. It gives them things to talk to others about too because they are getting through more works then if they had to read them all. If my child didn't read much to start with I wouldn't have started that, but since they are avid readers, it is a great addition to our lives.
  4. I have joined several libraries in our county and even one an hour away to get our books. For the one in the bigger city I can reserve the books online, the ILL are free, and I got an extra card so my friend can pick them up for me if she goes there for her dr appts. and things. I have found it is cheaper for me to buy and resell a lot of the books though instead of paying the $1.25/book for the ILL in my little town if I need it for more then the one week loan period.
  5. I know at the 7th grade the 3rd ed TM has the solutions, not just the answers. I am not always able to look at dc's work and see where they went wrong, so I need the solutions to guide them in correcting their errors or to re-teach a step.
  6. To answer your question simply, YES! We did a formal Science this year and basically finished up in early April, so to finish the year I had them read a book series someone gave me. It was the "I Wonder Why" series. Like "Why do zippers have teeth" etc. There were I think 24 books? ANYWAY, they learned more reading THOSE books then anything in their formal curriculum. They are still talking about the stuff in those. So I think I could have easily just read books about things and they would have been well rounded in the sciences.
  7. Funny you asked. I read Wind in the WIllows at age 10 and HATED it. I tried to read it aloud to my kids when they were in grades 1-3 and I couldn't get through it. I quit. :glare: Bad, I know.
  8. I am planning on just doing a lesson a day in R&S with Preparing. DD will be using R&S grade 5. We have already used R&S 3 and 4.
  9. I have never heard that R&S is behind. We used it this year with 4 and 6, and it wasn't quite what I was looking for either. If you can combine them, I'd go that route.
  10. No, if it has a smell, there is no way I would eat it. I had food poisoning once from chicken and I wished I could just die. I don't want that for my family, so I am "chicken" about chicken.
  11. We use some Schwans things for lunches because DH comes home for lunch and if we've gotten to the leftovers first there isn't always enough for him. We like their egg rolls better then store bought, the garlic chicken pizza, chicken bites (like chicken nuggets but real breast meat, not formed), the veggie/potatoe blends, etc.
  12. I considered using CTC next year with my 10 year old, but also decided to wait a year and do Preparing as well, so you may want to check that book out first. We will do CTC the next year. I have found it to be a great history program.
  13. We pay $14/half hour (which always turns into 45min lessons) for each child.
  14. If it is something non-textbook-y (not BJU, Abeka, etc. that updates every 3-4 years) then I hang on to it. My FIAR, HOD, BF things will be kept forever. But my BJU things I will sell when my first 2 kids are done with them unless I happen to have found student activity books/notebooks for those editions and have saved those too. My older two children are so different though that things I used with one I don't use with the 2nd and who knows what I will use with the later 3rd child.
  15. We really liked the Critical Thinking Co. items. Math Detective and Building Thinking Skills is what we used this year. The Building THinking Skills book is for grades 4-6 so we will get a lot of use out of it for the money.
  16. I didn't read all of the posts, but I understand. My son went through similar things at that age. He did outgrow it, but he can easily slip into it from time to time. We started writing down start/end times and had to give a report to Dad. If there were many start/stop times during the day, there were consequences and privileges lost. Hang in there.
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