How many reps can we give in a day? Sometimes I think of giving approval to a post or person, but I have several windows open at once and want to "save" my rep, just in case. Then I forget to go back. :blush:

That sounds fascinating! Do take it to a university and have it checked out. We found an ax head in our yard while digging for landscaping last summer. We had the opportunity to attend a regional artifacts program a few weeks ago so I tucked the ax head in my purse to take along. As we browsed the tables, we came upon a man with a large variety of iron ax heads so I asked if he could look at ours. We became mini-celebrities at that moment. Men from other tables were peeking over shoulders and pressing in to look at the ax head. It's pre-Civil War used by settlers when they would have first entered our area of the state, around the time we achieved statehood. :) We had to tell a few of them that "No", we didn't want to sell it. ;)

Thank you. :)

Tammie, I could have written your first paragraph. :) For whatever reason, TT finally convinced my daughter that she is capable of doing math. I set down a basic format and we haven't veered from it. I want to make sure she is doing consistent, accurate work. View the Lecture Work the practice problems on paper Input the answers and view Solution for each one Work the problem set on paper Input the answers If a problem is wrong, come to me and I walk her through it (allowing for her to still make errors) Input the answer again and view Solution for each one, regardless of whether it was right the second time On regular problems (aside from True/False) the CD gives her two chances to answer correctly. Because I work with her the first time it is wrong, but I give her the opportunity to still answer incorrectly, she has a couple of 95% grades. Usually these errors are simple mistakes, but if I don't allow her to make them she will not learn to be careful and accurate in her thinking.

What is the projected price for MOH3, purchased new? We were given a copy of MOH1 and are about to purchase 2, but I will rethink this decision before making an investment if future volumes will be financial strains.

I have a child who has similar issues with long division. She knows her facts but the structure of the problem hasn't quite sunk in yet. She misses a basic step here and there and it's usually the same error each time. My approach has been to shore up her confidence with simpler problems. I sit right with her and we talk through the steps in the problem. Then she does a larger problem and we talk through the steps again. She's getting there. It just seems to be a little bump in the road that she'll overcome with some patience and consistency. I do know that I can't just leave her to her math assignments until this is mastered. My experience in tutoring shows that plowing ahead when such a simple thing is lacking is just a set up for a greater failure.

Yes, it's called a tam or mortar board. :) There are a variety of tams, with differing numbers of sides.

We just made this decision within the last two weeks. The Bluedorn's site specifically says that The Fallacy Detective comes first. :) We are intending to supplement weekly Fallacy Detective lessons with other brain exercises including oral discussion, Sudoku puzzles, Mind Benders' books and whatever else I can come up with.

Welcome! :)

Oh dear. :001_huh: I understand! Our son is 4.5 and has been in glasses since age two. He's done very well with them up until the pair he got a month ago. Three times ... three times! ... he has taken them off and allowed his younger sister to mangle them. We've been able to get them somewhat back to normal, I believe, but they won't survive another episode. They are weak and close to snapping.

Now that would be wonderful. The city we visit most often has a large university. I will try to find out if they have any sort of sale. Thank you for the tip. A nearby town is having a book sale for the area homeschool families and they said they'll have a tent full of 25 cent books. It's close to the point in pregnancy when we tend not to travel but my husband came across the email notification today and declared he would go alone if I couldn't attend.

There is a Free Trial button near the top of the main page. :)

Thank you. I'll try there. :)

Thank you, Jane. :) I don't believe I've ever seen this book at a used book sale. There are a few coming up soon in our area and if Baby delays his arrival long enough, perhaps I'll have a chance to get a copy. Otherwise I'll look online.

Wonderful, Dawn! I already knew of a few of these sites, but I've now added a few new links to our collection.

LOL!! I was going to guess Hong Kong Sooey. ;)

Thank you for posting this link, Dawn. :)

I figured someone would say that. :001_tt2: He had evidence, though. There was a note in the suitcase explaining that it had been inspected. He was thoroughly grossed out himself. And, for the record, my husband has a frightening aversion to bright red nails and would never go near someone who had them. They disgust him almost as much when they're still attached as when one turns up in his dirty laundry. LOL

Scroll to the bottom of any forum page and you will see the legend. :) This doesn't work in threads, though.

Many ladies have made the excellent point that you are sacrificing your family's freedom and routine in agreeing to this. I talked about homeschooling my foster nephew. At the time, I had only one child and she was a toddler. The nephew's schooling in no way affected my ability to teach her.

My husband's suitcase was inspected at some point during his return trip from Mexico last year. When I emptied the suitcase to do the laundry, I found a long, red, fake fingernail that had been lost in his things. Gag!

We've never cleaned any of our finds. If there is tissue or hair attached, we are more careful about handling it until it's been around a while. That sounds gross when I type it out, I imagine. We have friends who bury their skeletal finds in anthills. Apparently the ants clean them very nicely and leave them sparkling white. They live in the south, though, and I'm not sure Northern ants will do the same job.

We had over 8" of snowfall yesterday. I'm glad I'm not in Gurnee. I will admit that it looks nice. It's fluffy and covered all the ugly, dirty snow. I just want it gone!!!

My son is 4.5 years old. He draws when his older siblings draw and color. He pulls books off the shelf, including textbooks and "coffee table" books that are heavy on good photography. He sits in with the middle children (ages 7 & 9) when they do their math lessons and pretends to answer the questions. He is part of everything that the older children do and hears what they hear. Our 2.5 year old does the same thing. She draws and colors, she "reads" books regardless of their age level. A few days ago she sat on a stack of encyclopedias while she held another encyclopedia. She spent more time struggling to keep the heavy thing on her lap than she did looking at the pictures. She tells us what the letters are in words. She sits in on the math lessons mentioned above and has recently answered a number of simple addition questions correctly. We don't do a lot of individual studies in the early ages. Everyone is tossed together and discussions are shared. There are no books off-limits to any child (other than a few on a high shelf that are just for parents). They have free access to everything and are encouraged to participate. For us, this is the ideal way to educate our young children. It works similarly to the concept of the one-room schoolhouse. The younger children can't help but pick up information that many would consider out of their grasp.

The legal issues depend upon the state that you live in. I homeschooled my foster nephew in his 9th grade year. It began by me tutoring him after his day in public school. Each afternoon we would discuss his school day and then we'd work together on Saxon Algebra. He was failing miserably. He had the typical teacher's observation applied to him: Is capable but refuses to do the work. After just a few days, I realized he understood all the operations involved in solving the problems. He knew exactly what he needed to do. He was still getting nearly every problem wrong, though. I watched closely and found he did not know his multiplication facts! It was a bit embarrassing for him to sit at my table and be drilled daily with flash cards but within a week he was getting 90%+ on every lesson. It was then that the Algebra teacher accused me of giving him the answers to his work. They could not believe the stark improvement and assumed he was cheating. Because of other issues with what the school was "teaching" (asking how one would choose to commit suicide, encouraging students to write their own epitaph, passing out questionnaires about weapons in their homes), my brother asked if I would homeschool this young man. My husband and I didn't hesitate in saying "Yes!". It was a hard road at first, because this young man had few tools for learning. He couldn't write a simple paper and didn't know that copying from the encyclopedia is unacceptable. There is more but I've prattled on long enough. So, yes, it is often legal and yes, it will be a challenge but there are very great rewards both for you and for your new student!