ErinD
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Lessonpathways.com has a whole free curriculum for each grade, with experiments and lesson plans. I'm just following those for K.
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We use the units from Shining Dawn Books. They've been great. They have a ton of suggested books, poems, and activities as well as science.
We're also reviewing one for the Homeschool Crew from Homeschool Legacy that's literature based as well, and have been enjoying it very much.
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Skedtrack drove me crazy (-ier?)! This school year I've been using Scholaric.com...there's a free trial period of about a month and then it's $2 a month. I'm happy to pay the $2 to have a planner that works well, is easy to use, and isn't counterintuitive!
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I find Notebookingpages.com to be worth the money and very useful, especially since they now have the Notebooking Publisher, which my daughter loves.
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I actually have AAS1 up for sale on the forum sale board, if you're looking. This was the starter kit.
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Just a quick update (and thank you all for the comments!): I heard back from my insurance adjuster, who said that the otehr driver was clearly in the wrong, that he will notify her insurance agent that she is harrassing me, and that all the paperwork for both sides was final yesterday and nothing will be changing.
Phew. The weirdness is hopefully over...and my newly repaired vehicle looks great. :) I appreciate all the support!
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I changed my story once after an accident. It was actually a 7-vehicle accident on the freeway. We all hit a patch of ice and lost control. Two cars in front of me stopped sideways and I could not avoid hitting their left rear bumpers, but I had slowed down by then, so I just tapped them. As I was telling myself off, BOOM! I was hit from behind by a jackknifing semi's rear wheels. I was thrown into the ditch and shaken badly. One of the cars in front of me and one behind me also went in the ditch, with broken windows etc.
I jumped out of the car because I was afraid I'd pass out and die right there. I was in shock, but wasn't feeling anything yet.
So here come the cops, and I'm telling everyone that I was the person who hit the blue car. Other people said it was the semi that hit the blue car, but I insisted it was me.
After my head cleared, I realized it was most likely that the semi sent the blue car into the ditch after I tapped it and after the semi hit me. That just didn't occur to me when I was all shaken up.
So at least a day later, I called the insurance company and told them I wanted to change my story, and why. I have no idea whether they believed me or not. Ultimately they said the whole thing was an act of God and everyone had recourse only to their own insurance companies.
So if the lady was shaken up, I could understand her viewing things differently after she calmed down. I think you were right to tell your insurance company about it and let them handle it.
Under those circumstances, I think you were right to do so. But in this particular case, I had a concrete island on one side of me (left), and I was driving into a parking spot when she opened her door without looking. As I said to her yesterday evening, where was I supposed to go?
She was clearly at fault in my opinion and she agreed at the time. The inspectors looked at both cars side by side and confirmed it. I don't know what she hopes to gain. I haven't exaggerated or changed my story because I figured the cars told the story pretty accurately (her door went into the front corner of my car, smashed the lights, and left a clear door-shaped dent in the side front bumper which then buckled the whole passenger side panel on my car).
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Thanks, kebg11. I don't really know what she could do at this point. The cars are repaired, the insurance companies are settling up. I have my letter already saying I was 0% at fault. It's just weird.
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Elegantlion, that's what so weird, I told them that she's admitted fault, on the initial phone call and while she listened in while she was sitting beside me, and she confirmed the same thing when my insurance agent phoned her. I just don't get what she hopes to accomplish now.
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Thanks for the replies! I was really caught by surprise; "nice" to know I'm not the only one who's had this kind of weirdness happen!
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I mentioned that I was in a minor car accident a little over a week ago. It was just one of those things.....I was pulling into a parking spot and the woman beside me opened her door into me without looking. I ran to make sure nobody was hurt - nobody was, except for my whiplash which I only found out about later- and the first thing she said to me was "It's my fault, sorry".
I gave her a lift back to her house to get her camera (she lives closer to the store than me) along with her children. I phoned my insurance from her house and reported the accident with her sitting beside me. I drove them back to their car and waited with her in the parking lot until her mother arrived because she was clearly shaken up
I had my insurance company phone her later that day while I was on the line and confirm what happened because she started acting strange towards the time I drove her back to her car and muttering to herself about other drivers.
Both cars went to the same fixing/inspecting place, at the same time, to be inspected. I got mine back today. I also received a letter from my insurance company confirming that my liability in the accident is 0%.
An hour ago, the woman phoned my house, screaming at me that I had changed my story to cause her problems, that I had "hurt her car", that I had been speeding and that she was going to send the photos I took for her on-site to her insurance company, yadayadayada.
I stayed calm and refuted (politely) what she was saying. I also pointed out that the insurance adjusters had had the cars side by side at the repair shop. She finally screamed "you'll be paying for this!" and hung up.
I don't know what to think. My husband's calling it "revisionist history". I have notified my insurance company of the call and the tone.
Has anyone had something like this happen to them? I'm finding it really weird.
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I love it! How hilarious is that?!
I'll eat their spinach.
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and it's even uncomfortable to be a francophone in Quebec who doesn't mind speaking English, who raises her kids bilingually with no fear of them losing their French identity. And yet to be judged like a separatist crazy whenever I
leave the province.
I never thought about it from that perspective. I wonder if QC francophones will be targeted at border crossings and airport security checkpoints elsewhere?
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Sorry, my bad. It's the same ord in French for both positions, and I never pay attention. I should, I know. But they're just the same thingin my mind, just at different levels, by virtue of being the same word in my native language. No political sub-meaning was intended. We simply have a provincial "premier ministre" and a federal "premier ministre"
I'm very tempted to move too, but I'm staying to take care of my parents, and to allow my husband to take care of his mom. Plus my ancestors plowed this land, dammit! But I really don't like what's happening. Thankfully it's a minority government, and it won't last long. I'm just hoping the next one won't be a majority
No, MY bad. I didn't think to translate it in my head first. My apologies.
I don't think this government will last long, either. I'll be really interested to see her "solution" for the university tuition nonsense.....she promised to cancel the tuition hike in her first 100 days in office, but that just hits the taxpayers harder, so hard to see how she plans to make it all balance.
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Doctor's diagnosis: whiplash. I now have an appointment with a chiropractor and some happy blue pills. The side benefit of the pills is that apparently they knock you right out. As a lifetime insomniac, I can't begin to tell you how happy that makes me. :)
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I feel for you. I was in a weird parking lot accident a little over a week ago where the other driver opened her car door as I was pulling into a spot. Her version to the insurance company was "she hit me in the parking lot". They saw right through it once they saw the cars, but man.....
Hope everyone is ok from yours? Nobody hurt?
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My province just electe its first female Prime Minister. In lots of parts in our world, she would be a target just for being female.
But no... Not where I live, her gender is barely mentioned, She's a target because she speaks the majority's language???
I will be praying for the one dead - a technician, and one critically injured.
Strange, strange, world.....
Cleo, I'm coming at this from a different perspective, so here are my 2 cents as a Quebec anglophone.
First off, she's the premier, not the prime minister. Canada only has one prime minister. Quebec is still part of Canada the last time I checked.
Second, she's not a target because she speaks the majority language, she's a target because she is blatantly racist against those who don't have it as their first language. The things she has said lead those of us who struggled to learn French rather than being lucky enough to grow up fluently bilingual feel that she will make our lives a living hell.
Third, totally agree with you about the shooting. I don't agree with the woman's politics, so I am leaving, not killing people. There's no justification for the violence that happened last night and I hope they throw the book at him.
Still friends, I hope. :tongue_smilie:
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Thanks for asking BlueRidge. Unfortunately, the nutbar won. We plan to be out of here as soon as the house sells, if we can sell it now.
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Thanks! I managed to get an appointment with my doctor for tomorrow. You have to have a referral here to get in to see a chiropractor, so hoping he'll send me. I have barely slept the last couple of days for the pain.
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I was in a minor car accident last week - someone opened their car door forcefully as I was pulling into a parking lot and essentially took out the whole front corner of my car on the passenger side. Nobody was hurt, which was a big relief to me.
However, my upper back has been killing me all week and the last two days has progressed to my neck and migraines so severe that I can't read, sleep, or do anything.
My husband thinks it's whiplash. Has anyone here had it? Could I have whiplash from such a small collision? I'm trying to get hold of my doctor but figured I'd ask Dr. Hive for an opinion too.
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If they were members of the Homeschool Crew, they probably had a specific date range in which they could publish the review. (I'm a Crew member this year). That might explain why the dates are all the same.
ETA: I got distracted by a hungry child and forgot to say that we really like this program. My youngest is almost through AAR Pre-1 and asks for it daily. My middle child is working her way through AAS and finds it fun too.
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I'm a former Ontarian myself, AmyOnTheFarm, and I agree wholeheartedly. They want to separate? Then it all separates.
However, my main concern at the moment is for my family's safety and removal of our basic rights, not to mention arriving back in Ontario and having to live in an unwinterized cottage if we had to walk away from an unsaleable house.
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Last time I was 5 minutes from downtown Montreal. This time I'm about 45 minutes away, in the suburbs near a rural area, but the stories from people I know are coming from all over the place.
I think that it's bringing out the worst in the nuttier people, but each of us who experiences it would assume it's an isolated incident until we hear from the other. I mean, who doesn't encounter a nut once in a while, right?
It's a real shame, too. I have been here for almost 22 years now and I have loved it here for the most part. Except around these elections and votes I have had very few problems.
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25.9. I'm kind of relieved, actually; after all the weight I gained over the last couple of years I was expecting it to be much worse.
crate size for border collie?
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We had a Border Collie when I was a kid. I still miss her.
I wouldn't recommend a crate. Most border collies are very intelligent and high-energy dogs and when they feel bored or trapped they get naughty.
Ours, when we left her alone as a puppy once, ate/squeezed through the crate bars, ate her bedding, jumped 5 feet over a barrier, and pooped all over the play room. Suffice to say that after that we built her a run across the basement to play in!