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  1. Are there any printables for the Apologia Biology (2nd Ed.) module summaries? I need to use the text for other children and do not want my son to write his answers in the book. Thanks!
  2. Thanks Janet. Shamefully, dictation is something I never gave a lot of priority to in the early years. Maybe I should have! I'll check out that book. ETA: For anyone interested, here is a link to the book.
  3. My 15 yo son needs help with spelling. He scored low according to his expectations (average for everyone else) on his standardized test. We are heading into 10th grade in the fall. At this level I don't know where to begin to help get him up to speed and increase his confidence in spelling. Any suggestions?
  4. Just call teaching textbooks. They will walk you through the problem over the phone.
  5. I am curious about the time involved as well. Considering it for my 3rd and 6th grader.
  6. Thanks everyone for your remarks. I tried real hard not to take any of them personally. I knew I was putting myself out there when I posted this. :) I do want to say, when I used the word "normal" I really should have said just your basic scissors that you buy at walmart or staples, of course made for right hands. Sorry, I may have offended some of you with using that term. Why have I not bought him lefty scissors before now, because it really hasn't been an issue for him, I never knew lefty scissors existed until recently and I'm just your basic terrible mom. :tongue_smilie: Thank you for the links and for the tips. We'll try the lefty scissors as well as cutting downward as one poster suggested. And it has been encouraging to know that even with the right tools some of you lefties still have challenges cutting. Thanks again.
  7. My almost 10 year is left-handed. His writing is fine, but he cannot cut w/scissors without the paper ending up all jagged and withrough edges. The scissors that say for both left and right hand do not work for him. I haven't purchased a pair specifically for left hand because 1) I can't find any locally and 2) I feel like he should really know how to use a normal pair. I mean when he goes to church (or to work one day), they normal fiskars scissors. Has anyone had this problem? I am right-handed and I was able to teach him how to tie his shoes, but I just don't know how to teach him how to cut. Am I stressing over nothing?
  8. Oh thanks, we'll see how it goes. Thanks! Thanks for you encouragement. I was starting to feel quite inadequate.
  9. Thanks. I was just googling, trying to weed through and find something that actually teaches me so that I can teach my son. Love the simplicity of the examples in the link you gave me, but still feel like I'm studying a foreign language and not english! Feeling overwhelmed... :confused:
  10. At the risk of sounding like an absolute moron, I never did sentence diagramming in school. My children have never had it in their LA curriculum either. I just received CLE's Language Arts 7 for my 8th grader. It looks great, but Lesson 2 has stumped me with diagramming. Please help! I'm sure there are books out there, but if you know of a good online resource I could use to familiarize myself with this technique I'd so much appreciate it. I really want to get going on this. Thanks!
  11. If your order is over $100, call customer service and they'll give you a code for free shipping. You have to wait about 10 minutes to use it.
  12. This was the law that got laid down after the incident! :)
  13. This is good. We did this when we were actually testing in the spring, but I can see the value all year.
  14. I finally have everyone occupied with school, starting later than what I would prefer, but we're started. Life is good. Suddenly, the door bell rings. Dog barks and heads for the door. Four out of five of my children drop what they are doing and head for the door. My 3 year old opens it before I get there. A salesman wanting to give me a "free gift" is on the porch. I tell him we're schooling, I'm not interested, etc. At that moment, my dog sees a neighbor walking her dog. Within seconds, it sounds like an illegal dog fight in front of my house. My neighbor is yelling. My kids are yelling. And I'm now yelling for the 5th child to come get the dog because she listens to him and not me. As the chaos diminishes I notice that salesman as quietly disappeared as quickly as he appeared. I immediately laid down the law with my kids about what to do/not do when the door bell rings if we are schooling. But I'm thinking I need to put a sign on the door for pesky salespeople/neighbors. I really don't like the typical "no soliciting" sign because I really need something that would work for neighbors and their kids as well. Does anyone else put anything on their door during school hours to turn away visitors/solicitors? What does your sign say?
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  16. Thanks ladies! I was beginning to feel I was the only one seeing my post! :001_smile:
  17. I got the error, but then checked my email and had a link to my currclick account which had a new download link. Yay, free planner!
  18. One more thing - should we be doing daily grams too. The book says yes. Will it be too much?
  19. I just received Easy Grammar 6 Teacher Text (the big purple one). I didn't order the workbook because I read somewhere on here that I really didn't need too. I think I might now though. Anyway, I've glanced at the first few pages and there is a prepositional bingo card on page 4 and then a blank card on page 5. I can't find anywhere how to use these. I mean I know how to play bingo, but what is up with the blank card? Are there instructions for this in the workbook? Or am I just missing it in the teacher text? :confused: Thanks! Disclaimer: I am sleep deprived right now!
  20. This happened to me once. I had tried to get an appt. with the salon owner/manager but he wasn't taking any new clients so I went with one of his "girls," after my cut ended up being lopsided I called the salon and asked to come back for my hair to be fixed, but that I would prefer that the owner make the correction. He did. Of course no charge. I loved the cut and he ended up cutting my hair for the next 3 years until we moved.
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