You've got quite the scientific child. ...7 at once, oh dear... :lol:

Love it! We live in the area and go (to the museum) every couple of months. Money is tight right now, but we plan to get the year round passes to the village next year or so. The majority of my vivid childhood history-related memories go back to that place.

No idea, but we love our lodge cast iron!

I would probably start by googling "2nd grade book report" to try to find some examples (you might not be able to find anything though). Then, discuss the book together, trying to get her to tell you about it (i.e. oral book report). Then try to get her to write it on paper. It might help if you follow some sort of structure - Sentence 1 - Introduce the title of the book. Sentence 2 - Tell what happened in the book or the setting. Sentence 3 - tell 1 thing you liked about the book. So you might end up with something like: I read The Diary of Jane. Jane is a girl who lived in England. She did a lot of fun stuff like ride horses and play hide and seek. or I read the Diary of Jane. Jane was an English girl who liked to play hide and seek a lot. I liked the part where she got to talk to her horses about her wish to go to school. She could do three or four sentences, depends on what she wants to write. 5 is kind of a lot at that age - the writing tends to get repetitive after a while. I tell my students ( I teach 3rd graders) that it doesn't matter how many sentences they write, as long as they include all of the necessary info and it's neither a run-on or too choppy. 3 sentences is what I look for from them though. http://kids.usa.gov/articles/book-report/index.shtml Since she's just starting out, just have her include a few elements from that page.

Where do you usually buy berries?

I cook with it (or olive oil) whenever I would use vegetable oil (I don't use vegetable oil anymore). Whether I use coconut oil or olive oil depends on which one is easier to reach/open, lol I use it on my hair to detangle and on my face/body as a moisturizer. I also use it with equal parts of baking soda and cornstartch + a little bit of essential oil as a deodorant.

For some reason, I was reading "ant eater." I was like "how cool!" :lol:

Could you try using google docs to open it? Maybe if you email the file to yourself?

Yep :)

For educational purposes, yes. For an art class, no. That is my educated opinion - some traditional families might get upset that you would be asking that of them, while some less religious (for lack of a better word) families might have absolutely no problem with any kind of animate drawings. If the family has a problem with it, they would probably let you know. ETA: As a teacher in a very strict Islamic school, I would assign the same project if the curriculum warranted it.

This is an embassy? I'd guess on the property grounds?

whatever you do, don't do an image search that leads you to think that it is a mealworm, leading you to an image search for "meal worm bites" Yuck!

You reminded me that I need a globe.

And ((((hugs)))) cause I've worked with kids like this before, and gosh it can be so hard!!!

I think you should definitely let mom know. Start with the positives that this kid brings then address your concerns in a positive way ...if he prepared for class and looked over the material outside of class he could learn so much and wouldn't have such a negative opinion of himself, or enquire about how he does in his other subjects. Some kids really just don't like certain subjects, but it concerns me that he is letting himself think that he is stupid just because he doesn't understand/know the material. If he's not paying attention or studying, how COULD he know the material? you know? I mean, he's not even letting himself have a chance at "being smart"

OR, move either the bed or the dresser to cover some of the shelves? If you move the bed to cover some of the shelves, the girls could store their favorite books or toys right next to their sleeping area and even use that shelf to hold a glass of water for night time. The hidden shelves could hold off-season clothing or toys that are rarely used.

Thanks for this thread, DancerMom! We're in a similar predicament with our language from back home, and I had only thought to get school texts in reading/writing/grammar and a few living books.

Legit - I personally took it when I was in High School, as a public schooler. Just about all of my teacher's students took it. It was pretty easy for me, but I was quite a bit ahead of my peers in Spanish. It was a really cool experience, though I'm not sure its worth $75 (we paid $5 each and registered through our teacher - maybe you could find a spanish teacher to add your child to his/her class for the exam?)

Eh? to Zed: A Canadian ABeCeDarium by Kevin Major might be fun to take a look at

I think another poster already said this, but try incorporating learning into normal activities. Don't let on that you're doing school though. You might want to google and add a few unschooling ideas to your day.

I agree with discussion being best. If you want some written work, you could do side projects like, write a letter to one of the characters, write about/draw gift ideas for one of/all of the characters, writing a letter to the author. I'm not a fan of short summaries. Similar writing activities that focus on a much deeper skill set could include logging inferences, cause and effect relationships, personal connections to the text, keeping a log of questions that the text makes you think about, a log of interesting phrases or words that your child may want to adopt in her usual speech, etc.

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Murgh Cholay, yum!

I think she probably meant the do not call list, without knowing what it was called?

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