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  1. glad you are back! It was hard for me to remember the new name :)

     

    oh, guess I should mention I have a new name...I just kept the first part of it.. It was hard to do, I remember everyone by their avatar and name, so I hated to switch both, but the photo was old and then I felt I needed to be a little bit more anon

     

    I am hoping to maybe head your direction again next year between Turkey day and Christmas. I want to see Disney all decorated for Christmas.

     

    more anon is good. I am bringing Dolphin back, but I have really made my internet life more private. I am easing up on somethings and seeing how that goes.

  2. I'm soooo confused!!!!! :tongue_smilie:

     

    Glad to see "you" again!

     

    I confuse people easily :confused1: , :laugh: !

    Anyway, I had someone making my life a little difficult. They had figured out who I was and was using it to cause drama IRL. So, I changed my name and didn't post as much (especially in the chat board). They have moved on, and I have created enough distance that if they are still lurking it won't cause drama in my real life anymore. Sometimes going quiet and giving something time really does work out. :hurray:

     

    Well then, welcome back! I love dolphins and I think your picture is funny. :) It always makes me smile. Glad whatever you had going on is resolved. That's always such a relief. :)

     

    Thanks! I felt my Northwest_Mama was just bland and not me. I am glad to be my playful, funny self here again. Now...I need to find ibby and go kill some threads...

  3. by sharing if you have bought an expensive curriculum to "fix what wasn't broken" and then realized it really wasn't needed.

    My sons were using Singapore and Life of Fred and I got really behind in correcting/checking their work. I also was having a hard time balancing working with them with all their subjects and still having time for my K'er and Preschooler. So I had them take the placement tests for Teaching Textbooks and one is now working through TT5 and the older son is working through TT Pre-Alg. I do like that they can go do math independently and the automatic grading.......BUT, now I never get around to discussing the concepts WITH them and I cannot diagnose conceptual misunderstandings as clearly as I could before. Using Singapore forced me to interact with them on the material, which I now think was a good thing.

    I'm not really sure what I was thinking.....

     

    Our first year. Not so much one expensive program, but just tons of little things that overlapped and way more than we could do in a year.

    I've done this, too.

     

    At least TT has a very high resale value.

     

    This was the other thing I was going to say. One of the things that helped me to bite the bullet and dive into TT was it's great resale value. I am still waiting to see if dd will do TT before I see, but it does seem to go quickly when people sell it.

  4. Even though I wasn't really away, just using a different name.

     

    The situation that caused me to change my name last year to Northwest_Mama has been (peacefully and calmly) resolved. I hope it does not cause to much confusion, but Dolphin is much more me! Also, I noticed over the year that there is someone with almost the same name as Northwest Mama.

     

    So "hi".

  5. If it is true that it really isn't taught in British schools, that's an interesting tidbit too. Can anyone confirm or deny this?

     

     

    I spent 8th grade (3rd form) in the UK and they did cover it. I might remember more than my English classmates as it really was an eye opener for me. I had always been taught about the American Revolution, and to see it from a different side was very interesting.

     

    It was not as important for them. The troop deployment was not what they could have sent. There were just so many other things going on for them at the time.

  6. It is late, so I might have missed this in my reading. Do you do school for 9 months or year round? We became more relaxed, while still accomplishing what I want to get done in a year by becoming year round schoolers. We do heavier terms for the Fall and Spring. Winter and Summer are "school lite" times. I find that by not having as much on my plate from Christmas-Spring Break really reduces the burn out. We do a lot of activities during this season.

     

    It is something I am still playing around with, but for instance. In the fall we are all excited and motivated, but the evenings are busy. If things aren't done during the day, we don't have time as it is soccer season. So this year we did not start history until after soccer season. I have all summer to get it done, so it wasn't a worry.

     

    Our "heavy" terms aren't as heavy as we have the summer to use as well. The extra 3 months give me the freedom to not go at as fast of a pace.

  7. ...Gently....

     

    Maybe it is time for this thread to die off. It was revived from January. I think it has gone from an information about TT thread to a how we discuss teaching textbooks.

     

    It is not going to end well, and emotions are high. Go back and read the forum guidelines. Sometimes it is better to walk away then to have the last word.

     

    We are all her to support each other after all. Why don't we go back to that. Let's just give everyone the benefit of the doubt that we were all using nice "tones" and that none of us meant to make anyone feel bad.

     

    I am full of hope as I say...

     

    "Bye, Bye thread!"

  8. Waves. I don't know, I just couldn't get into the forum changes. I peek in once in a while and keep in touch with some of you via Facebook! For those who don't already know I am currently 13 1/2 weeks pregnant, and after those three losses in a row, this one is going great so far! :)

     

     

     

    I am so happy for you Nancy! I was wondering the same thing. Congratulations!

  9. Just in case you scroll through at anytime.

     

    Kay,

    You have been my voice of reason and comfort many times. I will never forget you reaching out when I first started homeschooling and telling me it would be ok. I might have been just another newbie with the October panics, but you really stuck out as a guiding light at that time (and that was years ago now).

    You will be missed. You have made a mark on this earth, in the hearts of lots of people here, at work, and I am assuming elsewhere. This sure puts everything else in perspective this morning.

     

    Peace be your journey. :grouphug:

     

    Nicole

    aka Dolphin

  10. I think a lot of it is lost in the translation of the internet. You can not hear people's "tones" when you are in a forum. When I read good enough, it gets me annoyed. Usually I hear that as an insult rather than a specific con to something. I hear it from people as meaning that you are settling. Maybe, that is not how Jackie meant it.

     

    I think TT is sensitive around here because of the fact that it did go through a spell of getting really bashed, and not in nice polite ways. When that happens enough, the people who love the program jump into to defend it. It sounds like the pendulum has now swung the other direction.

     

    I like pros and cons that are polite, and don't make people feel bad for using a certain program. What is one person's dud, is another's gem.

     

    Another reason I think TT is sensitive is that for me (and I think a lot of posters on here) TT was the life raft we found in a stormy sea. For us it saved not only math, but homeschooling. When Math was going badly, everything was bad. The whole process was a fight. TT changed that. TT gave my son confidence in Math, and changed it from tears and a hated subject to one he looks forward to. It did help us catch up. We are now at level, and are using it as part of our program now. For awhile there it was our only program, and it was not good enough, it was great! Just what we needed.

     

    Now, for what is wrong with it like the OP stated. It is not the most rigorous math program out there. It is probably not the program you want if you are wanting your child to be a math superstar (unless you supplement).

     

    TT and LOF are a great combo by the way

  11. We have a house binder. I stole the idea from a good friend we once rented from. Just take any binder, divide it into sections depending on your needs, and make one of them for appliance manuals. Just slip them into page protectors and put them into the binder. :)

     

    We don't divide into sections, but we have a big binder with the cookbooks. They nice thing about this is that it has helped things sell fast on craigs list. When things break it is usually quicker to look online. When selling something it is wonderful to put includes manual with it.

  12. Sorry, I think I meant the original poster of that post. Must have had a brain fart. I was making fun of the people who obviously came here and made accounts just to sell this stuff.

     

    Thanks. It just seemed weird that it came back up randomly (not you). I was just baffled, and then when I saw your post, that mentioned the OP (me).

     

    Confusion is somewhat gone now. I don't come on the chat board very much anymore (I saw it come back up when I was looking for another post of mine). Has there been a lot of sales lately or something?

  13. Uh, yeah. Sure. How terribly convenient for the OP. *rolls eyes*

     

     

    How is the convenient for me? Just curious as to why this thread was brought back up to just be poked fun at? I thought this was a place we could come to ask questions about things we don't know about.

  14. Where are you at in your curriculum planning? Are you looking for a program that incorporates spelling or a stand alone program. My dd and I are starting with the Phonics road to reading and writing. It is supposed to be a full Language Arts Curriculum, and a lot of people on this board really like it. So I am giving it a go. It does reading, writing, grammar, spelling all in one program.

     

    Why don't you want to do AAS? It is a good program if you are looking for a stand alone spelling program. The teacher's manual is fantastic. It is teacher intensive, but to be honest, at the first grade level most everything is.

     

    The Natural Speller is a book I mentioned in another thread. That was my back up for if Phonetic Zoo did not work out (Don't be fooled by the Zoo part, this program is for older students and would not work for your first grader.) The Natural Speller is a k-12 book. It looks really good.

     

    Have you read TWTM and what they say about Spelling? They have a program they really like (as do a lot of people here).

     

    You have to see what calls to you, what your teaching style and your dd's learning style are.

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