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I really like the Magic School Bus lesson plan. It's free and written by a homeschooling mom who turned each video into an expanded lesson. (All the videos are available on Nextflix streaming, I believe.) I didn't do the lesson plans, but I have a friend who did and they really liked them. http://www.homeschoolbelle.blogspot.com/2013/08/free-science-plans-using-magic-school.html

Yes, you should do both, and yes, you can skip the copywork in FLL. I just wrote a blog post about an alternative way to use them, beginning FLL before starting WWE. Here's the post if you're interested in more http://sceleratusclassicalacademy.blogspot.com/2014/05/writing-with-ease-1.html?m=1

Both, and I did not notice a difference between brand name and generic. It gave me insomnia and I dealt with that for a very long time, even after I stopped taking it.

For those interested in giving the DORA (which I really liked) to younger kids, I made a blog post with some tips and information. http://sceleratusclassicalacademy.blogspot.com/2014/02/dora-reveiw.html

And at high school age, too! I don't know what I'm going to do when we get there. Graduate them at the same time?

Mine are 2.4 years apart, but are doing most of the same school work, if that's the area you're looking at.

WHAT?! They're still relatively new!

What is her learning style? Ds7 is a kinetic learner so we I made up some different activities for him that helped with telling time. http://sceleratusclassicalacademy.blogspot.com/2014/02/learning-time-kinetic-way.html

lol, what timing! I just posted a blog post about WWE1 today about common questions about it and....none of these were ones I answered. :tongue_smilie: I agree with PPs, so I won't repeat, but if you'd like a look at a week's worth of work looks like, I've got pictures on blog post.

HOLD THE PHONE! She kept your baby INSIDE (hidden from plain sight!) feed her when she doesn't know if she had food allergies while you were frantically searching!?!??! NO!!!! You find a baby in your house, you take them to every single house until you find their parent!!!!! :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

I was married 2 years and a new mother.at 20. I would have been offended and hurt at having something like that kept from me. I'm just now finding out some truths about my childhood at 28 and I'm pissed that no one told me before now. I deserved to know. She does, too.

All of my fears are completely rational and justified, thank you very much! :P

If you'd like a look at FLL1, I've been blogging about using it and the things I added to make it better for my kinetic learner. http://sceleratusclassicalacademy.blogspot.com/search/label/FLL%201?m=0

I went to a church where a formerly semi-professional opera singer was leading services every other week. He preformed the song when he was supposed to be leading. It was VERY difficult to follow, be engaged in what was supposed to be worship. So I completely understand how distracting and taking away from what worship is SUPPOSED to be is like. (He openly admitted that he preformed rather than led and refused to do it any other way.) Eventually I volunteered to be put in the rotation, so it was less of him, and eventually a heart condition ended his performances.

You can count me in! And I can host a guest post, too, if anyone needs it. Winter gets first dibs. ;)

Oh! You reminded me of Orson Scott Card's Enchanted which is Sleeping Beauty + Time Travel + Baba Yaga. I loved it.

Psyche in a Dress by Francesca Lia Block was kind of weird to me. I purchased it without having ever read it before because I need a few extra dollars to bring my Amazon purchase to $25. It's described as stories of greek gods in modern times, but it's even more disfunctional than I expected. But some people like that sort of thing. Beauty by Nancy Butcher is a Snow White retelling that goes very much away for the original but does a great job talking about the obsession of Beauty and Youth and I liked it a lot. Beastly by Alex Flinn (yes, the book the movie is based on.) I watched the movie first with a friend, then got the book. Then watched the movie again and yelled at it. ;) But I really like it. (Beauty and the Beast from the Beast's perspective, set in modern times, with teenagers. Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix. Cinderella after the Ball, but before the Wedding. I love this version and don't care it's for younger people. Ella Enchanted (Cinderella, only SO MUCH BETTER) and Fairest (Snow White) by Gail Carson Levine. I also like her short fairy tale retelling series, The Princess Tales. Spindle's End (Sleeping Beauty) and Beauty (Beauty and the Beast) by Robin McKinly Spinners (Rumpelstiltskin) and Zel (Rapunzel) by Donna Jo Napoli-these are REALLY, REALLY good. Zel retains quite a bit of the original's darkness, and gets into the mother-daughter type relationship they have. Scarlet Moon by Debbie Viguie (Red Ridding Hood) WARNING! This book got me pregnant with child #2. Okay, not really, but it is a romantic story. And it has some darkness. And , *SPOILER* Werewolves and Knights from the Crusade. Just about anything from the Once Upon a Time series (not the TV show.) They use various authors, but they retell ALL of the classics in different ways. I own.....several of them.

This is me, too! I "collect" (which sounds better than "purchase obsessivly") re-tellings and novelizations of fairytales. :D Robin McKinley's Beauty is my favorite Beauty and the Beast version. :001_wub:

Beauty and the Beast and Diamonds and Frogs. D&F has such a sense of Justice that really apeals to me. Unless you're reading Gail Levine's version, The Fairy's Mistake, which is silly.

Praying for you.

*ahem* I believe you mean NERDS. :P

:smilielol5: :smilielol5: :smilielol5: :smilielol5: :smilielol5: Loved the story!!

So, then what are you doing hanging out with a pack of thousands of women on this board? I'm out of likes, so ^^^LIKE!

I've started adding </sarcasm> after online sarcastic comments.