I am thinking about Supergirl, but I watch a lot of comic based tv and movies.

I required my 2nd grader to read at least 30 minutes and sometimes twice that of assigned reading, some combination of science and literature usually. He also reads things he chooses to read on his own, so I don't make that part of school.

We spent a week at the beach with my parents 5 years ago. Oh, and my parents, my son, and I spent the night in a hotel an hour from home a couple of years ago.

Disney World, which would be travel for other people, books (but we usually buy those used, so it takes a lot less spare money), eating out. Usually, I end up spending spare money on necessities that aren't in the budget, like clothes for me.

My mother made mine, so I wanted to keep it. I am divorced from that marriage, so mom sold it at a garage sale 20 years after I wore it.

Unitarianism and Universalism both have their origins in Christianity, but really aren't anymore. Some UUs are Christian, many are not.

I like ice cream. I like chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, and neapolitan. I also like chocolate chip, mint chocolate chip, and chocolate chip cookie dough. I like Cherry Garcia and Publix's black jack cherry. I wish Chunky Monkey was plain banana or at least didn't have the walnuts. I love banana ice cream and don't like nuts or peanuts in ice cream. The best ever were the old Dove pints with ganache on top. Almost any of those flavors were great. I miss them, the new Dove not quite pints aren't good.

I have never been fond of my name, it feels terribly serious to me. I was named for my grandmother and I am happy to have that connection now, but didn't like it when I was a child. I also have great admiration for at least one famous person with my name, but as a child it was either are you blind and deaf or you definitely aren't the most beautiful woman in the world.

I am part of two groups. One is explicitly inclusive and anyone is welcome, including public school online and correspondence school. The other is fairly inclusive and includes those using the online public school and any method of schooling.

Kathy Jo wrote English Lessons Through Literature, Reading Lessons Through Literature, Handwriting Lessons Through Literature, Wayfarers, and a few other things. Her husband is writing something called Quark Chronicles for science.

I pronounce July with a schwa sound instead of a long u. In theory I agree that it should be oo or yoo, but it sounds funny to me that way.

My son read a variety of library books while he was learning to read. We used OPGTTR for phonics. We did not start spelling until we were finished, but we were done in 1st grade. I don't know what the recommendation is. We are using AAS for spelling.

We have been doing earth science/geology this year with library books and some videos. I got lots of ideas from a variety of threads here as well as just grabbing whatever I found on the topic at the library. Some parts of geology are going to mention the age of the earth as billions of years. My son likes the Seymour Simon books on a variety of science topics, especially one called Rock Hounds. We do not have naturally occurring rocks in our area.

I think that commas are difficult for some people. I used to edit other students' papers in college.

We will read something, but I read aloud to DS almost every day. He has been asking for The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but I am not sure.

I imagine that if I pack away toys after DS is done with them, I won't be able to find them when needed.

In your example, I probably would not subdivide into minute categories. Sports would be one line item in the budget for planning, as would groceries. As far as separating curricula from other children's activities, it would depend on how you want to track it or if you feel you are spending too much in a specific area and want it to have its own category so it can't easily borrow from another. I usually have broad budget categories, but will record the details as I spend in each.

My DH likes to use them for himself. We wouldn't hesitate to have our son read them if he wanted an overview of a new topic when he is older.

I have always heard and used hard g's in Genghis. G is not alway soft before e or i in English (even the AAS rule says sometimes) and Genghis is not an English word. I have no idea what is correct. The activity book mentioned Peking in one of the question, too, but otherwise used Beijing and our copy of SOTW says Beijing.

We are reading The Silver Chair as the fourth book in The Chronicles of Narnia. I plan to skip the last battle. For school, we are reading The Canterbury Tales by Geraldine McCaughrean, Shaping the Earth, and Lives of Extraordinary Women. We have two poetry books going right now, Now We Are Six which DS is reading to me and Samuel Taylor Coleridge from the Poetry for Young People series.

I think living books is meant to refer to not using textbooks, rather than whether the books are fiction or non-fiction. They can be either.

Go to the playground after school and on days school is not in session.

I honestly prefer individual picture book versions of fairy tales rather than anthologies, but I don't buy, I use the library. Jan Brett, K.Y. Craft, Paul Galdone, and Paul Zelinsky are authors with books we have enjoyed, but there are many more.

We listen to Classics for Kids (free at www.classicsforkids.com) and listen to more music by the composer (cds or youtube) and read a biography (usually from the Getting to Know the World's Greatest Composers series).

I haven't seen those, we are using Lamb's Tales of Shakespeare. The preview of Garfield's Shakespeare Stories looks good to me.