We have had the windows open all day, we apparently have a skunk in the back yard. The kids room smelled horrid at bedtime! We have been out to look at possums a few time this summer. We had an owl in the tree outside the back door a.few night ago. Nothing to exciting.

That was on my first list too. As well as buying from a street vendor. I got my hot dog and a knock off purse in high school. My sister always guided us, bit we went to the most amazing Two restraunt in Chealsea. I have no clue what it was called.

Make sure there are no school field trips at the natural history museum. We went the Tues before Thanksgiving and there. were a ton of field trip groups. It was miserable! MoMA and Metropolitan museums were great too. You can get a city pass that lets you into a lot of museums and activities as for one fee. It is great if you have a few days and you want to see a lot.

Rockefeller Center and the Christmas display Windows in the shopping around there. Central Park, the zoo is cool. A good show. Mary Poppins was awesome if it is still open. Wicked was amazing as well. The Rockets Christmas Spectacular or the New York Ballet are also top on my list. There is just so much! Do you want touristy or cultural or shopping? I have been 5 times for 3-5 days each time and still never saw everything I wanted to see. And now my sister moved to St Louis :( No more free lodging. It is beautiful at Christmas!

We are enjoying R&S this year. It is super easy to teach. We do most of it orally. As DS gets older, we will start writing more of it. Level 2 is very repetitive, bit I am doing it with my 6 to and it is not too much. It seems perfect for his learning style.

I love OK. I grew up in North Okc, my parents are still here, just in Edmond now. I do not do a CC community. I loved the set up for the memory work. It is a three year cycle, each child repeats it twice. The history timeline is done every year. I did not want to use it as a full curriculum. And I am already in a co-op. I wanted more of a fun once a wek situation for my kids. It is more social than cc would be. We started with cycle 1 this year because we are on Ancients and doing Biology. The memory work fit nicely from cycle 1. I am not super strict about the memorization this year. We get as much as we can. He is doing great with the timeline. CC can be a full curriculum, you just add math. I added grammar and science, merging CC and WTM plans. If you want to get a good feel for the philosophy behind cc, read The Core, by Leigh Bortins. She founded the company. I was as inspired by her book as by WTM. It does not lay everything out in Tue same way, but it has some great ideas. Where in OK are you?

Either Christian content or Classical Conversations. The second is a classical curriculum. We are.doing Foundations at home. It is prepared memorywork. It covers history, science, Latin, grammar, math, Bible, and geography. We don't go to a group, we use it as supplementary work at home. If you have more specific questions, I woyld love to help you out.

Not from this board. I do have a couple of studio owner friends that I talk business with. I dont really have a hsing mama friend yet. I did just get started and I have only been on Tue boars for a few months....

Lots of coloring sheets. Her own set of "girl" legos (they are pink). White board and markers and water colors. Some days, Netflix in my bed ;)

I would also suggest finding a good music exploration type of program. Hold off on piano until 5 or 6. If you do get a keyboard, make sure they are full size, weighted keys. We have 76 keys at the studio for our beginning students and full 88 keys for the intermediate and advanced students. But they need to be true weight and size of a traditional piano.

Both DS6 and DD almost 4, love dance. I agree with one PP, keep am eye on choreography. Some teachers don't seem to care of moves are appropriate or not. If she loves hip hop, she should still take a ballet class and maybe a jazz later. All of my hip hop instructors have wanted the kids in ballet as well. It makes a huge difference.

Went to a wedding and birthday party in Arkansas about 10 days ago. We go there 3-4 time a year to see my grandparents and extended family. We also go to Missouri once a year.

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We use the CutePDF printer. You make something, and hit print. It is great!

Merchant of Venice! There is just so much to it. There are great topics for conversation and it is full of contrasting moments. My co-op class has had a blast reading it aloud. There are several famous speeches too. Portia's "the quality of mercy," and Shylock's "if you prickly us do we not bleed" are two off the top of my head. This is my favorite of Shakespeare's plays!

I hope you have a safe and quick delivery. With DD, I did grande plies in 2nd (big squats with my feet apart). I could feel her move down everytime. I was a strange sensation, but I think it really helped get her moving.

This is where we live. You also have Star Gymnastics owned by former Olympic Coach Steve Nunno. Housing prices are good, and we have a Target at the end of our street.

I have never heard a theatre degree called "non-academic." My theatre degree and master's were full of history and literature studies as well as acting, directing, and stagecraft (which included math - trig can be incredibly helpful in setting angles of lighting equipment for a light plot. My classes were very academic. To the OP, if the college degree your child wants only requires college algebra, I would take PreCalc her senior year. You could select an "easier PreCalc program for next year and do a more rigorous program the next year. List them as Advanced Mathematical Concepts and PreCalc instead of two years of PreCalc on the resume.

I was one of those bride's ;) She does not need them. I hate pantyhose, my mom always made me wear them when I was younger. Let her be comfortable.

I have not found Singapore to be hard to teach. A few minutes on the text and then DS can do the problems. I do have to sit by home to get the work done some days, but we are working toward more independence on the workbook. You could at least pick that up with your 7 yo. If your older student is doing well, stick with it for now. You have a program for the 5 yo that is working as well. So it sounds like you just need something for the 7yo. If you Luke SM, go with that.

DH did not ask my Dad, but Dad did walk me down the aisle. (He was upset while watching the video....the q-tip, me, blocked him in his big moment.) He forgot to kiss me before he sat down :). DH's dad performed the ceremony.

I am using R&S 2 with my 6yo, I have 3 and it seems to cover the same topics with less repetition. I would think you could skip ahead.

I went to OSU, so I have to add "Go Pokes!" :)

I have a similar problem. I am teaching a Shakespeare class. We read aloud every class. I have one student who has very poor read aloud skills. He did read ahead this past week amd that helped him a little. I hope that by doing weekly read alouds his skills will improve. Are their learning disabilities? Read aloud level can be vastly different from silent reading level. If the kids never read aloud at home, they will have trouble in class. Could you gently suggest they practice reading aloud at home?

We generally get the 100% whole grain wheat, but we like the honey wheat too.