No problems with writing. She can fill a page in not too much time and it is neat. She loved learning cursive, etc. We already do 1/2 of the lesson each day. I will look into Spelling City again.

I'm not sure what to do with my 9yo other than using spell check and going over her writing with her, argh! She reads at grade level and has no problems writing. However, she HATES workbooks and the only program I have found that actually works for her is, of course, Apples & Pears. The OG and Spalding type programs did not help her spelling. We have tried writing most of the lessons on a whiteboard, using a pretty notebook with pretty erasable pens and colores pencils, using a drawing app, etc. She loves art and pretty things, but nothing overcomes the workbook hate. She doesn't have dyslexia, but since Apples & Pears and Dancing Bears worked so well for her are there spelling apps or computer programs that might work? I'm having to rework math as well as even the RightStart lessons with 1 workbook page are causing meltdowns. But I am finding a ton of resources for books, games, apps and websites. Not so much for spelling, especially since it is just spelling with no reading or writing issues.

Sad :( We could not live without Nutella, Ferrero Roche and Tic Tacs. We got Ferrero Roche today!

I offered to help her get her shirt off. She's 3 and how dare I try to help her, even though she is screaming because she can't do it by herself.

Ooh, rubber slip mats underneath makes sense. Then we could have a rug that would be thinner and bendable enough to fit in a washing machine. Thank you everyone!

The How to Train Your Dragon audiobook is very funny, much funnier than just reading it. The Ramona series read by Stockard Channing is also very well done.

I assume these would have to be dry cleaned even though they say machine washable? How would it fit? Are there laundromats with machines big enough to wash a 5 x 8 rug? I ask because we would like to get rid of our carpet eventually, but we live in a cold climate and might want a rug. I don't like carpet because it can't be cleaned well and wouldn't want to just exchange carpet for a rug that gets yucky. http://www.walmart.com/c/kp/machine-washable-area-rugs

We use clipboards for a lot of school papers and coloring/drawing/painting at the table. They are also portable so we can do school on the couch or take them with us in the car etc. There are cheap clipboards and pretty ones with colors or designs. You can go cheap with the brown ones from Walmart or color code them by child or subject. There are also clipboards like these that hold papers and supplies.

I teach both English and Spanish phonics at the same time. My second reader is similar to the first in that she progressed much more quickly in Spanish. So now she just chooses whatever book she wants to read to me in Spanish and she is still using a phonics program for English.

My 9yo reads to me from McGuffey every day. It takes about 10 minutes or less. She reads a story or two a day. I know you can purchase the physical books. The nice thing about the free ebooks is you could look through them before purchasing a physical copy.

This link has a subscription to Brainpop for $30: https://sites.google.com/site/kidsonlineacademy/home My kids love it and have learned a ton.

Boys Over Flowers is a very popular rom com. The actor who starred in it is also in City Hunter which is more of an action series. They are both on Netflix. We have a social group here where talk about our addiction. :)

I would also love something that at least has an engaging audio component, even if it were not the heart of the program. Video probably lends itself better for science, but an audiobook is easy to take in the car. My oldest would listen to an engaging program over and over while doing other activities like crafts and cleaning.

I want to share a notebook from my account to my dd for some school information. I created it in my account and emailed it to her to share it. Now I want her to be able to access it in the onenote app on her ipad. But it is not showing up. The app will let her make new notebooks etc, but the notebook that I shared with her is not showing up even though she is signed in with her account. It was a basic notebook with some basic documents. I also uploaded some mp3 files to my onedrive and want to share them with her just like the notebook, but the same thing is happening. They are not showing up. For what it is worth I am using onenote online not the Mac app. My mac is too old to update to Maverick so I can't use the desktop version of onenote. Suggestions?

That would be wonderful!

Praying for you all!!!

I'm a freelance translator. I have a degree in a foreign language and did some translating when my oldest was a baby. It didn't work out for long at the time because she was high needs and then I had 2 more kids. Now we are done having children and my youngest will be 3 next month. She loves to play with her older sisters and they are very willing to get her the occasional snack. It is working out for us because it hasn't cost anything to start up again, I can do it from home, I decide how much I will work and I don't have to arrange childcare or even go anywhere. One of our neighbors does medical transcription at home.

My 9yo loves it and has done several of the activities on her own. We have gotten it when it was discounted and found it to be well worth it.

Thank you!!!!!!!!

We've watched and played the games that have videos on Rightstart's website. But I can very rarely figure out how to play the other games just from reading the instructions in the book, argh! Are there any other videos that anyone else has done?

Do you have a link for being exempt from FICA withholding when not owing income tax for a period of time? I googled for more info, but only found links about students working at their school etc.

I'm using it with my 6yo even though she doesn't "need" it. It is so efficient and easy to do. We are getting so much out of the time we are spending, whereas with OPGTR it was a lot of time for less results. I dropped the cursor early with her and she really doesn't need the phonogram cards anymore either.

Premio Lazarillo: http://www.oepli.org/pag/cas/lazarillo.php These are Santillana's lists by grade level. They list which books are originally in Spanish and which are translations: http://www.santillanausa.com/catalogs/santillana-usa-k12-catalog/children-s-books-literature/literary-and-informational-text-libraries.html?SID=h47966f0bktvcifc1l3knfiaj2 Celeste 101, thanks for the other lists! If you search Barco de Vapor on Amazon a ton of results come up. Each book is assigned a color to tell which level it is.

For real?! Lol!!!

Awesome!