You could write for Demand Studios. Unlike some online writing gigs, they actually pay you...every week even! Plus you get to pick your topics and do it whenever you want - no minimums. And most jobs pay 10-15 bucks - so if you work your butt off you can make some serious money. http://www.demandstudios.com/

I've had Easy Grammar Plus for over a year now - never even cracked it open. I keep asking myself if I should sell it - but you know, it's pretty hard to give up a brand new shiny curriculum! I'm sure we will get to it eventually... :001_cool:

I would have to third Spelling Power. We love it and you can adapt in many ways.

One of my wiener dogs (11 yrs) has CHF right now. He was diagnosed in May and literally I thought he was going to die that day. We put him on medication and he's like a puppy - running up and down the stairs no problems at all. But I know his time is short - I'm just glad he's still having a good time and who knows, maybe he will live several more years? Sorry for your dog, it is so hard to see them get old. :sad:

Mine have just stopped laying because I moved half the flock out of the "coop" and put them in the barn. But I always feed the extras to the big dogs. I have three that eat me out of house and home, so the eggs come in handy. Funny though, I have a hen that just went broody on a mess of Saxony eggs - so looks like we'll have fall yucklings....err duckling. :tongue_smilie:

It looks very similar to what we are doing for 8th: TT Algebra RS Japanese Spelling Power Working With Words (Vocab) Jump in Writing & Writing Strands Simple Schooling Middle School Chemistry Reading - Novels I choose with interactive literature guides BJU American Republic Artistic Pursuits high school Painter 11, Corel Draw, and ToonBoom Studio (computer graphics) My oldest hated Logic when we went through her 8th grade year so I don't feel the need to add that. I can't imagine this child would like it any better. Since we have worked so hard the previous 8 years I feel it is time for him to follow his own preferences a little more from now on - which is why we spend one entire day each week on computer stuff and art.

We used Math Wrap-Ups for all the math facts. He loved them because he was using his hands. We also used The Quarter Mile - I dot; even know if they sell that anymore it was so long ago. But he did like that, just not as much as the Wrap-Ups.

I changed my mind on doing geography this year and ordered history last week...it should arrive this week. I also added in an art course - that should be here today or tomorrow. Today is our first day, so there is no rush. Usually I have it all long before we start but, you know - things happen. Oh well! :001_smile:

Just to comment on this, and I don't know if my dog is unique or not (he's fine with kids BTW) but he will NOT tolerate discomfort in any way. Pull this dog's tail and he WILL snap - not to hurt but to warn. He has never responded to any sort of strong handedness in training - in fact I would not call it training. He agrees to go along with our rules - that's about the extent of it. I love him to death but I doubt I'd ever get another one.

Get ready for LOTS of barking, escaping, and self-righteousness! That's the best way to describe our Pyr/Anatolian mix. I love him though and he is SWEET as can be. And smart. But they do bark 24/7 and even on 3 acres of backyard he's still feels the need to roam.

This is how I am leaning too. We will begin CC when he is 16 but the first semester will be entirely online so I can monitor what he is doing and explain things along the way. In addition - it is an issue with maturity and age. While my son at age 13 is far more mature than most adults I know - he should not be expected, nor will he be allowed, to traipse around with adults all day every day for 2 years while he is still considered a child. The second semester of junior year he will attend school on campus for science and art. Then in senior year he will be on campus full time becasue all his classes will be science, math, and art - the stuff that really requires him to be there in person. I feel that is a good transition into the world of adult learning. We will be going for an art degree for the CC stuff but his dream is a computer animation degree and I feel he needs these two years in CC to illustrate to me, and the 4 year college, that he is ready and competent to move to another state and live in his own apartment (no campus housing at this school). I don't care if all of the classes transfer because this program he is looking into tailors their general ed to the kid's major - but at 500 a credit - it will be nice to shave off $10-15 thousand dollars of tuition with what he gets from CC.

I agree with good running/walking shoes and skin and hair care stuff. I am very picky about soap. Also homeschool stuff - once I decide on something the price no longer matters. I purchase stuff whenever I have the extra money even if we won't use it until next year. Books - I do shop around but generally if I want a book I get it. Computers - If I am buying a new computer I'm getting all the upgrades. :D Someone said cheese and really that is so true. Even my kids can tell the difference. Not that I like wild cheeses - I'm pretty tame in that area. Geese and ducks. When I buy geese and ducks I only get the best. Chickens not so much, but bad geese and ducks are not worth having in my opinion.

We used the Notgrass American History set. My daughter loved it and she hated everything in homeschool. Now, we did not do most of the reading just because she was very particular about her novels and just wouldn't be able to finish books she wasn't interested in - but the history program alone was worth it for us. It also has a high resale value - so you'll get a lot of your money back.

You buy them by grade level and most of them have a reader and a workbook. For K there are a few more books but luckily they are very cheap. I got mine form a company in Canada call the Joy Center for Learning. Very nice people - plus they have samples of everything. Maybe they have that everywhere now, but when we were using them it was very hard to find a sample for each level. I would definitely get the workbooks - they have a pre-reading vocabulary exercise to get them ready for the story and a post reading comprehension exercise. It is a complete reading program. Joy Center

We do a combination of reading and audiobooks for our reading program. My son could always read well, but he was not interested in it at all so I decided a few years ago to try an audio-book read-a-long for his novels and he's been a book lover ever since. I typically just purchase them on iTunes because then he can listen in the schoolroom while he's on the couch. His favorites so far have been: Alex and the Ironic Gentleman and Timothy and the Dragon's Gate both by Adrienne Kress and Jake Ransom and the Skull King's Shadow by James Rollins. The Jake Ransom audiobook was very well done and he actually told me that was the best audiobook production (with the music and sound effects in the beginning) that hes ever heard! I love it when he's excited about stuff and as I listen to his books with him (from my office in the next room) and it is great to hear him laugh out loud or get emotional (for a sad book like Where the Red Fern Grows) - it's like he is really experiencing the book. He laughed a LOT with the Adrienne Kress books!

We used Pathway Readers from first grade through 6th grade as well as the workbooks. The workbooks are wonderful in my opinion - I think you really need them. They have a pre-reading vocabulary lesson and then a post-reading comprehension lesson with an extra grammar lesson at the end. All the lessons are very to the point - my son enjoyed the series a lot and we still the vocabulary/grammar workbook - called Working with Words in the later grades, by itself. He grew out of the readers in 7th and preferred novels, but the Working with Words is actually our whole vocabulary and grammar program now.