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Maeintx

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  1. Phonics4free has some snakes and ladder type games that you can print for various levels.
  2. My son's best friend tried to commit suicide this summer. Thank you for this. I needed to read that. To the OP- I am so very sorry.
  3. I've been here almost 8 years and I still dislike all the things you listed, but I'm not sure it will ever grow on me. I live near Tomball too. We have to drive for everything, which is something I really get tired of, but definitely the neighborhood makes all the difference. Houston has so many choices for home school families. That I love!
  4. We have a utility that has right away too. Two years ago they came in to replace underground pipelines. We only border a small section on an odd angle since we are at the back of the culdesac. Technically none of the pipeline is on our property. They let us know they were coming, they took down the fences, they rebuilt the fences. They even paid for a weekend away for all the families that bordered the pipeline for that weekend because they were testing and pressurizing the line with water. It probably varies from state to state.
  5. This is our life exactly! We have boxes of the 70s and 80s Dr. Who video tapes in our attic. Dh even knitted himself a Dr. Who scarf when he was 14. He grew up watching them on PBS. When we started dating I had to learn to sit through them because he found out he could buy them on VHS and started collecting. Since he is the youngest, he got all his little nephews hooked on the original series. Then our 4 boys. The boxes have been loved on- some more than others, especially any that have Daleks on the cover. And then when they came back out, it was too late. I was hooked as well. Tom Baker is his favorite doctor and Sarah Jane his fav companion but he also has another fav.- Tiegan? And the latest doctor is his least fav as well.
  6. I did a review of our light first week. I am going to try to do weekly reviews this year too. Blog: Enriched
  7. We love it! We have the book and CD. I read here- I think- about someone that had their kids illustrate the poems. So, after we listen to the current poem and are working on the memorization parts, I will have them draw the poem. It has been a huge success. I had cardstock spiral bound into little notebooks at Office Depot for their drawings. They each designed their cover. We will continue it this next year.
  8. Not a series but just a 2-hour special, great for the older kids Going Medieval
  9. Can you do this? We are considering doing it right now too, just waiting on a couple more details in our somewhat crazy life at the moment. Paying back ourselves seems better than paying interest on the debt, but dh is researching some more to really weigh the benefits.
  10. We shop a lot at the Mom and Pop type store in our town but the biggest reason is they employ our teenage son. We spend a bit more on our groceries but they are flexible with his college schedule and are willing to change his hours each semester accordingly, give him extra hours over holidays and summer, etc. He plans on quitting come Fall, but we have another teen that will hopefully be able to work there next summer. So for now, we shop there as much as possible. We do shop the chain store too..Costco and HEB.
  11. I don't know if you can find this used but I've heard it works great to supplement Sonlight's earlier cores, there is a year 1 and a year 1. http://www.handleonthearts.com/cart/handson-history-year-2-p-44.html
  12. Thank you- I have the new IG and found it in the back under Scope and Sequence. Not quite what I had in mind but it will work out just the same.
  13. Well.. it would help if I looked there first, huh?? I must have missed that page. Thank you for pointing it out. I will go check!
  14. Is there some place that has the weeks broken down into the historical time period you're reading about/studying? i.e. years? I'd like a schedule that has these weeks with the dates so I can coordinate and plan history pockets and hands-on activities before we start in the Fall. Core D- American History 1 I can do it myself but thought I'd ask in case someone has already done it.
  15. Yes- this is correct. Dh's grandmother gave us that picture for our first apartment back in 1989. I think the other poster was probably correct- probably something from a home show.
  16. We use our dining room table but I purchased smaller tri-fold poster boards at Walmart. They decorated them with some pockets and other printables, stickers, etc. Ours are for the 50 States, Capitals, other facts, U.S. Map. When I need them to focus more, we use them to create an individual "cubby" area on the table.
  17. Our dining room is the main room you walk into when you open our front door, but it is also the only place we really can do school. We do float around a lot but this is where we store everything. I've made a couple of changes since last summer but overall this is our way of trying to hide the clutter. All our pencils/pens/markers/scissors/glue sticks, etc. are now in a Pampered Chef Tool Turnabout instead of the picture box.
  18. Gives me hope for my quirky kid! Agreeing it is a big deal and something to definitely rejoice about!
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