Thanks for reminding about this. I found MM and tried it the last few months of this year and I really liked it. My son really liked checking off the boxes and the easy chores... for about 3 days then I had to take over. I'm printing out my whole year now. I feel so organized!! Thanks also for the discount code.

:grouphug: Good luck with the interview. Praying for your DH.

My husband's name is constantly mispelled in crazy ways. It never seemed hard to me... Our last name though is a doozy I guess. I've spelled it our for people S.L.O.W.L.Y, always pausing after the N and enunciating "A" and they still spell and pronounce it incorrectly. My name is Sylvia... I've had Sylivia, and Slyvia, not typos, handwritten Slyvia, repeatedly in one note!!

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I am trying to sew a soccer ball for Christmas and I just realized that I don't know how to bring together multiple "points" where different pieces of fabric intersect. Here is a picture of what I ultimately need to do. (Image deleted per SWB's request of 9/10/14) My plan was to sew the black/white/white vertical threesome strips together and then join each of those side-by-side, but I have no idea how to do that. I don't know if I should not sew the first two pieces together all the way across or not. I don't understand how they should come together. I appreciate any help. Thanks

I don't know if Petit Pont is what you would have in mind but I've been looking at it for when my ds is a better reader. It can get a pricey to ship to the US as well. (I didn't notice your location though.) Its main component is a virtual reality town with activities. You can leave it at that; their home license includes only the software. But you can also purchase the additional pieces that classrooms get: the child's workbook and the teacher's manual. (I have a degree in French but I want a thorough guide for me and their teacher's manual, I thought, was perfect.) You can get it a few places but Manic-Monkey.com is the main source and you can get a few samples there but this part of their site (I think it is in Dutch) will give you links to great English samples of the workbook, teacher's manual and a downloadable sample of the virtual reality software. I hope you find something great.

Thanks - that was just the kind of direct answer I like. :001_smile:

Can anyone please tell me if there is a lot more information in these lectures than is in Part 1: Understanding the Process in WWE? Thanks for any info

I followed your link and discovered all the amazing things on your site for SOTW. Thank you so much for sharing all of it. I've never considered doing a lapbook for SOTW. I like that it appeared to be a good solid summary. What generosity to share so much of your work.

Thanks for those great pics. BTW, I liked how you stored your towels. (I can't figure out what would be wrong with it - it was functional and nice looking.) Right now mine are in my cabinet below the sinks, and they don't seem to be maximizing that space at all. I am neat but I do keep things that I shouldn't - mainly things that I think will be useful. Lately, I've decide I just don't want to do that anymore, even though oftentimes it has worked because I do remember what I have, it just isn't worth the space anymore.

The software is complete, I believe, as a program itself but Petit Pont has other materials: a teacher's guide (which looks fabulous), a student workbook and then just some other teacher materials. (I just looked and the English version has the same extra materials as Petit Pont.) If you haven't seen them, here is a link. Manic-monkey sells all three language versions. May I ask, since you hadn't seen that, did you find it at another site? I'm trying to locate all the distributors to see which ones carry which materials, as well as how many are located in the US. I think with or without the extras it looks like a great program. My concern is based on the imbalance in knowledge that I have between French and German.

I finally received a response from the Goethe Institute in London who helped to make Kleinbrucken and they wrote: "To answer the query, I'm afraid there is no plan to add to the existing material at present. I wish there was." I don't suppose any sort of email writing campaign would help? A full-scale homeschoolers onslaught? Crying, screaming, wailing... It just looks so perfect, (if you picture all the French version materials just in Deutsch) I'm so bummed. I feel like it is just so close to being my ideal. I wrote back to them with a request that it be considered but I'm not holding out much hope. I'm leaning toward buying both Petit Pont and Kleinbrucken for next year. I speak French but am only just learning German myself so I don't think I would be capable of "inserting the German" into the teacher's manual myself but maybe I would just have to try it if they come back with an absolute no.

I'm still using mine, and loving them. Mine are probably quite different though because their not really for ds, they are for me. He is only in K so I made enough boxes (basically) for three days worth of work. We have many craft-type of things that we do on a three day rotation so once I fill the boxes in they are good for 6 schooldays. I put little bright orange flags on any boxes that require a little more work for me in preparation. I've used these since the beginning of this year and this year has gone much better than our "pre-K-K" of last year. Until I started using them I hadn't realized how much time it was taking just to get out the materials for each subject and how often I was forgetting the little bit of extra prep that might be needed for something.

Thank you for posting this. We keep our house pretty clean but this could just be the little tweak that we need because I detest setting apart a special time to do the big jobs like dusting and sweeping. :)

I check in on a website called Giveaway of the Day. They have a daily free offering of software. Today it is SpellQuizzer. My ears always perk up when it is some sort of school software but I can't tell if this is useless or if the Hive can find some magical use for it. My ds is only 6 so we're not doing any spelling yet so I'm sort of clueless about spelling needs. There are reviews on the giveaway site but they're too general and mostly from people who aren't concerned about schooling issues. :lurk5:

On the website that I linked, you can definitely buy the teacher's guide and individual pupil workbooks separately. (That teacher's guide looks exactly like what I've wanted so I wouldn't want to go without it either.) So far I've found one US distributor and they only list the home license and not individual items but I haven't emailed and asked them for any further info. I'm kind of hoping that, if more people like this, together we can find more distributors or encourage more companies to carry it.

I just started a thread today on a new program that I found. If you look at the teacher's guide, which is optional, it is great for someone who knows French but also wants teacher notes written in English. It just looks great to me. Hope this helps someone.

with this program, Petit Pont. I haven't purchased it yet but I did download the demo and played with it. I also loved the look of the teacher's guide, it is just what I've been looking for. If anyone has actually used this program, please let me know what you thought of it. I have an email into this company to see if they are going to expand their materials for German (Kleinbrucken) to match those of Petit Pont. Hope this helps someone else.

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I'm so sorry. I'm sure this doesn't help how you feel, but boy it makes me mad that they are letting him go and still won't let him out of that clause. That makes no sense to me. :grouphug: I've just said a prayer for you. God bless your family.

Thanks for posting this. I really liked how, when you set up your experiments, they looked very "sciency." I don't know if that makes any sense, but the cups and trays made it look properly investigatory! Oh no, does this mean I'm a blog reader!??? I also nabbed your spreadsheet, thanks. If I decide that this is the route I'm going to take then I'll be using all the plans people have been sharing to make my own. I'm seriously NOT into re-inventing the wheel.

I'll remember that. I'm probably this type of person mainly because I've figured out that too many options makes me get the deer-in-the-headlights look and it takes me too long to plan when I have to make choices. I've learned this year to just sit down, make all the decisions ahead of time and then, my prep for each week is just gathering materials and pre-reading types of things. Much less stress for me. I agree there is too much to ever learn about it all. My degree is in history and, this is embarrassingly sappy but, book stores used to make me all bummed because I knew that, even in little tiny shops, there were far too many books; awesome stories about history etc, that I just would never have time to really dig into it all. That said, I do think there is sort of a baseline knowledge about science that can be accomplished and I think that is what I liked about Nebel's book and his goals. In your previous post, you mentioned all the things around you that you notice. That's where the difference lies. I'm too much in my own head or something to actually look. Oftentimes, I need either an assignment or someone else to alert me to things otherwise I'm always thinking about other things and too busy to notice. I've enjoyed the Outdoor Hour challenges because of this and I'm hoping that will continue with BFSU because it does seem to be so much about learning from what is actually around you.