For when you come back, could you find someone to come babysit for a few hours in the mornings for a couple of weeks? Or just load up on movies and let the kids veg for a week :tongue_smilie: Oh, one other thing I thought of, that I'm going to try and do at the end of this summer, is going away for a day or two. I don't know if you're religious, and I don't know if it matters, but I've found a few monastaries/hermitages around me, where you can pay like 50 bucks and stay alone in a little cabin for a day and night....it sounds so heavenly. Some of them will provide meals, too. I'm going to do that for a day or weekend, to recharge before school starts this fall. That probably won't recharge you from a month away, but it might help!

I would just start school a month late and use that time to relax. They will be learning so much anyway, that it's not like the time will be wasted. Or they could even just read during that month off, so they're still learning something. I'm a huge introvert so I understand the draining-ness of that much time away. But that would be such a bummer to miss out on that opportunity.

If conventions were just about homeschooling and not about having to conform to a certain standard of christianity, this wouldn't even be an issue.

We've been using MCT and also Keepers Of The Flame, also from rfwp, to give the kids some 'fun' assignments and to give some more practice wth the info from MCT.

ok, that makes more sense.....but the thing is, and this is why I started looking back into some of these basic things, is when my oldest reads, she won't remember anything, unless I make her narrate or do worksheets or something. Which leads to 'why bother reading it' and me letting her take it easy for a couple days :tongue_smilie: and then cracking down and making her read again, and then her not knowing what she's reading........:tongue_smilie: and me finally seeing how important the basic grammar skills are. sigh. Maybe if I just have her orally narrate from everything and not do dictation/copywork for every subject every day, if that would help, without overwhelming her with writing.

So I've been reading a bunch of posts on getting back to the basics and making sure the foundations of copywork, narration, dicatation are there....great posts from Nan in Mass, ty you so much! So then I watched the PHP videos of SWB doing dictation with her son, and :svengo: So I'm wondering if I understand this right. You're supposed to do narration, copywork, and dictation in a few subjects, right? I'm going to start doing it in literature, science, and using McGuffey's readers. And that dictation video took like 15 minutes, at least. And she's standing over him for most of it. :svengo: So that's like 45 minutes just for dictation, and that's not counting sitting and watching their handwriting for copywork......times 2 kids! Is that really how long that's going to take??? :001_huh: No wonder I stopped doing it a long time ago :tongue_smilie:

I only have the TM and it works fine; I either make up worksheets, or just write them down in a notebook beforehand for her to do.

yeah, if you just refresh it, it makes new ones. It does the same thing for math and other english, which is so nice!

dang, none of these are for the Droid :glare:

I use this website a lot - Worksheet Works. Here are their Preposition worksheets

:iagree: I've done both; reading the indepth definitions and having her read it, b/c when I was reading it to her, and discussing, she still wasn't absorbing it. So then I thought I'd have her read it and talk about it, but still the same thing. I've been looking up montessori games and grammar stuff today, so I think I'm going to adapt some of that to go with CE and see if that helps her.

For my dd, when we do diagramming,, or picking out certain parts of speech/sentence, she does them in different colors. Different lines in diagramming were different colors, and if she was picking out all adverbs in a sentence, they'd be one color, verbs another, etc. That seems to help some.

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I'm wondering if you have any ideas or have run into this at all. We're doing CE with a very very strong VSL, and it isn't sinking in with her. For the vocab words themselves, she is making flashcards, and instead of just writing the word on one side, she draws a picture with it, and is able to learn the definition that way. But all the other stuff in the book isn't sticking. She couldn't tell me any other definitions or variations of definitions of a vocab word; just the one word definition that is listed at the beginning of the chapter. If I wanted her to just learn a list of vocab words, I could do that on my own, and wouldn't need to buy a book. I'm at a loss as to figure out how to get the rest of the lesson to stick with her; the long definitions/explanations in the vocab section, the advanced word section, etc....She reads it and then can't remember anything she's read, and it's very frustrating for both of us. Any ideas?

What a tough, awful situation. :sad::( It sounds like her sister has a problem with more than just OP, tho, if her other sister is cut off, and their mom is afraid to be cut off, too. What a sad thing to deal with tho. :grouphug:

I'm thinking about having my 8 and 10 yo grow something in the garden to sell at our local farmer's market this summer, but wasn't sure how complicated it is to sell. I looked up our local one and their form and stuff, and it seemed simple - just pay for your space and show up to sell. I'm not sure how much they'd need to grow, or if there's anything else that I can't think of that would make it more complicated.

hlee is her username here on the board. The Missional Mom is the book. I remember when she came on here last summer asking if there were any Missional Moms on here! I saw the book mentioned on a blog post this morning - Missional Families, Missional Moms She even has a website about being a missional mom. I'm so excited to read it and have another resource available for help and inspiration!

I found some nice posters from posterrevolution.com The kids even spent their own money to get a few to hang in their rooms!

Phyllis Tickle has a great set of books out called The Divine Hours. She is Episcopalian I believe, and uses the Book of Common Prayer in hers. (I got the BoCP for Christmas and I'm so excited!) I like hers because she lays it out so easily; you just open the book to that day and do the prayers/readings for that hour.

What's interesting to me is that this kind of thing is said in the evangelical/protestant churches, but it doesn't seem to work out that well in practice. Why is it that it seems to work in EO?

Michael Hyatt is EO???? That's so cool. I read his blog and love it...even though it's kind of businessy. It's kind of a neat look into the book industry...and he seems so normal for a CEO, lol. That's so cool. I'm really drawn to the EO church too. I think some of it is just my spirituality style, and really liking the mystical aspects. I really like the Episcopal church too, with all the liturgy.

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hey neat, that's close to where I live; that's my CBS channel! She had quite a drive to get back to the hospital, too. what a cool story!

I don't understand why the cop would allow her to sign the citation against him. Why couldn't the cop say 'this isn't an arresting matter?' why would he let her make a citizens arrest against a 13 yo??? How insane.

Adblock is an add-on you have to get. if you go up to Tools, add-ons, you should be able to search for it and install it. After it's installed, you need to add a few subscriptions to it. 'options, filter, add filter subscription'. I've read that the 2 english, 2 french, and the german one are the ones to get...those are what we have and we never see any ads.