I read this earlier and it has bothered me. She wrote about what she knew, for her that might have been white children. However she does not (from what I have read from her) add this to her writings. What she wrote can be put into place for any race. Even though she lived in a time where her information of the outside world (which would be anywhere she did not travel) would have been clouded by the bigotry/sexism that was very much the norm back then, when she wrote she did not show that in her work. It is people like you who project what you think they might have been thinking that is wrong. What if CM was an Asian woman who worked with Asian children...or an African woman who worked with only African children....would the words be any different? Would the tone of her work be different? I don't think so. She was a white woman who worked with white children but the words/tone of her work do not give any indication she had a racism problem. Just because she did not specifically single out African, Asian, Latino, or any other ethic group does not mean she has a racist bent. Not everything that is written by a white person during that time is racist. Trying to find racism in everything you read has a lot to say about you.

Not for 8th, but we are using it for Algebra 2 and Geometry. This has taken my math hating ds to a teen who now says math is one of his more enjoyable subjects. TT is not an advanced math but it is solid and on level from what I can see. Why are you asking? What are you looking for in regards to info?

Anyone have this doll? Do you find it has problems with the drink/wet system? Also anyone know where I can get one?

I love this web site, http://mathlearnnc.sharpschool.com/cms/One.aspx?portalId=4507283&pageId=4993281 After picking your age group, go to week by week essentials and you get a weeks review page. It actually is enough to use for a whole week of math fun. Each week it has a game, oral work, logic, writing, and more. We used this one year as our math, added to books and some hands on math play. We notebooked math that year and dd keeps asking to do it again (maybe next year).

Ladies you convinced me. I purchased the fitbit One last night. Love the website dashboard thingy. It was extremely easy to set up. I did have trouble with the sleep mode, maybe tomorrow night I will get it to work. I held the button for the 2 sec. they say to do and the timer came on, blinking but it started counting what looked like micro seconds (so fast). I freaked and turned it off. I am very impressed with the other aspects of it though. I walked to town last night and it is slightly hilly so it took that into account and gave me several flights of steps on my dashboard. Right now I am trying to track my calories, of course yesterday hubby was home so we had several non diet items for snacks, so my calorie count looked bad,,,today I will do better. I think having the fitbit (or any other activity tracker) will be a boost to my weight loss hopes just because I feel accountable now. knowing it is recording my activity makes me want to keep moving.

Thanks Annie for the info. Have you had it long? And is it easy to set up the sync with computer stuff (I don't have a cell phone to do the apps)?

I want to get an activity tracker and have been reading about the fitbit. If you have one do you like it? Pros and cons? If you have another type what is it and why you picked it, do you like it?

This is what I do. Not sure how they are after freezing if you plan on eating them raw but they work perfectly in your cooking.

Living in a college town that has just earned the "One of the top Party Schools" title has it's interesting drawbacks, weekend drunks. At 3am one tried to enter our home thinking it was his friends. Thank God he was not aggressive, just totally blitzed. So while my husband is on the phone with the police I am talking through the glass door to this guy. I could tell he was determined to come in so I finally had to use my stern mommy voice. I told him very sternly to go sit down on the swing for five minutes and wait. He did, but came back a minute later. Again I told him very sternly his time was not up yet and go back and sit, he did but before he did her looks at me and says 'I don't like you" in a very pout-y voice. A minute or two later the police arrive and the rest of the night was quiet. Funny thing is the door he kept trying to enter is one that is sealed and has a deck box in front of it. He had to move the box to try the door. Poor kid, he really thought he was at his friends house and could not figure out what was happening.

Love the list! I got dd a large RA doll, about 30", and she still plays with her. It is the big sister doll to all her babies, her reading companion, and dance partner.

With CBD, call them and ask for free shipping. They give you a code for orders over $100.

Had this happen a few times with RR and now I shop exclusively CBD or Amazon for new items. I even can get better shipping from ebay sellers when I decide to shop used. I am with you, no excuse for the order to take 9 days to get to the shipper if everything was available. Lamp post is another seller who takes the "whenever I get around to it attitude' with orders.

We have 6 weeks under our belts so took this week off. It has been going smoothly but during this off week I plan on making some changes.

I felt they were rigorous and thorough. I have never used the DVD's though, we did the experiments which I felt were excellent (but they do require lots of lab materials).

Too funny, but if a support group is needed for those who have done this I might stay away. If I decide to go ahead I will proceed with caution.

I will finish up my mittens this week and looking for my next project. This looks fun and can be a great bring along project. I have more then enough little left over balls of yarn to get started. http://tinyowlknits.wordpress.com/the-beekeepers-quilt/

Nope. Usually when it is first mentioned in the curriculum each year I have them make a 100 chart on graph paper, then find the primes (circled in red). This paper is then kept for them to refer to if needed. By high school they usually have it memorized just from use.

I finished knitting the shrug but after seaming it I had to rip out the seam and reseam it. I found out the hard way that seaming is hard and not to be done as you would a sewn garment. Anyway, the reseaming is finished and though it is not perfect it will do. I also started a pair of mittens following a cute pattern I found on Ravelry (Mrs. Musgrove's Mittens) however by row 13 I came across an error in the pattern (easy to fix) but many more after that. Needless to say, my confidence in the pattern was gone so I frogged it and am now trying a new pattern, Thames Street Mittens. So far it seams easy but with enough interest to keep me from getting bored.

We had trouble with Astronomy too. It was just a boring subject for us and we are nature study people. I think it was the fact that most of the things we were reading in Apologia were things we could not see and experience. Most other science topics you can see up close examples of what is studied or hand on studies. With astronomy you see stars and the moon. If you are lucky you can see some planets but those look pretty much like stars to get excited about. Some things that helped us: the Jan Van Cleaves Astronomy for Every Kid book (or something like that). This has lots of easy to do experiments with at home supplies. drop the activity book and do the lapbook from A Journey through Learning. if your children are real young, pre read the Apologia and make a few notes, then get library books on the planet being studied and while they look throuh the book you can tell them neat info you got from the text. do nightly walks outside to look at the sky and keep a night sky journal, write simple things like "cloudy and cannot see the stars" "moon has a cloud floating by it" "saw the big dipper"

Never guess what we found on our lawn this morning...a cell phone. I believe we have become the cell phone whisperers. Lucky it was near a parked car. Left note on car and the owner got their phone back.

I am not sure what the difference is between scrapbooking and notebooking . This is what we do but I call it notebooking, I take pictures of all projects and activities then let them narrate what is happening to caption the picture. I also take a picture of a book or dd holding a book she just read and then write a short book review/report under it. What if they notebook but have an organizer bin full of scrapbooking supplies: fancy paper, stickers, colored brads, ribbons, decorative scissors, stencils, punches) to use to decorate their pages.

Thanks all! The owner called and should be picking it up soon.

I found a very expensive cell phone this morning on our way to the farmers market. I went back where I found it and placed a PHONE FOUND flyer. I am extremely cell phone challenged and first hate the idea of looking through the phone for owner info (if any is available) and second I would not even know where to look. Hopefully the owner will call the phone. Right now I have it sitting in a drawer in an unused room just in case they can listen in or use the camera to look around. What if they never call...what do I do with this thing? What if they think it was stolen and report it? Argh....maybe I should have just left it.