Get it in writing that they are willing to place her where she needs to be - K12 here (when they offered it last year) was not allowed to let the kids work where they tested and should be, ahead NOR behind. Everyone in FL works at grade level.... including my special needs daughter that was in a self-contained classroom. I would certainly suggest you take advantage of the 10 sessions that you get with your insurance. My youngest started speech at the school at age 3, it was group speech for 45 minutes a day twice a week. She finally graduated out of speech at the school at at 8.5. From age 6-8.5 she was also getting private speech for an hour a week - that included language work the school said she didn't qualify for. The majority of her speech progress was accomplished in private. I won't completely discount the PS sessions.... but well, I suggest you do the 10 private too - they will probably be more willing to help set up some home activities for you to do. Unless of course they are one on one at the school, but I doubt that!

Have you read this BLOG post yet? http://desertramblings.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/how-technology-helps-me-homeschool-while-working-full-time/ I love how she has everything pulled together!!!

My parents went with the 15" wide Billys to prevent any sagging issues. They have them very loaded and nary a problem after about 3 years or so. My wide ones aren't really overloaded.... Yet. I haven't had them long enough to know what they will do. The shelves are thicker and stronger than the cheap $25 units from office depot they replaced (that had a couple of shelves with minor sagging because of overloading. We had oak units in CA we didn't want to move. Which was a mistake given the perfect spot we had for them in this house! Oh well......

Homeschool Planet from the Co-op has it! There isa free 30 day trial available. http://www.homeschoolbuyersco-op.org/homeschool-planet-free-trial/

I got a bunch CHEAP not knowing they were going to dry up without being used. UGH. I'm going to try the ziploc - it can't hurt!

I was in the ER with a 2yo that had a concussion... during our long wait, she came out of her stupor and decided to start climbing the crash cart in the room before we realized what was happening. The doctor picked that moment to walk in and said, "well, we know how she got this!". A few months later at the doctor on call for cutting her chin open on the CHAIR RAIL in the bathroom (seriously? it stuck out like 1/2"!!!), she was running back and forth across their waiting room and kept falling and whacking her head (it was a long wait - I thought her running might hurry up the much needed stitches?!?!), they looked at her and said, "well, we see how this happened!" UGH. OP, :grouphug: It is a hard season in life.... hopefully the quiet space in the office helps, and be sure to stock up on chocolate! My parents lived with us during it and it was still hard!

I found these after you posted about them, I think they might be a bit over my DDs level at the moment, but I think the format will work for her to attempt a higher level of learning. I might have to go snag a couple of more of them!

All I can say is Mrs Walker's First grade Phonics-Reading-Spelling-Handwriting BJU Distance Learning (via DVD) class was awesome. She smiled every. single. time. the lesson had to be replayed. I self taught the first 25%, and she taught the next 75% - and we were able to move faster because she they drilled so much (DD couldn't do more than a lesson every 2 days with me with her then undiagnosed learning disabilities). Anyway, here is hoping you find THE program!!!!

Speaking of camp.... my 9yo was watching some youtubes on gymnastics last night - and there were some at a gym camp. She was all into going until.... Her: You mean I'd have to sleep there? Me: Yes Her: With strange people? Me: Yes, but I'm sure the are nice. Her: No thank you! Me: But you could be in the gym "all day" Her: ....thinking...... YES!!! Her: But the cafeteria food might not be good (they flashed to that on the video), so nope, not going. There was more - she was actually pretty funny about it! The pool almost had her wanting to go again - but the sleeping with strange people part I think was her main "no go" ;) Oh, and the food.... 2.5 years of PS lunches ruined that for her! :lol: Anyway..... things are progressing here. Life keeps interrupting. You can see the top of the project table though. I'm working at making sure when something get puts away, it actually has a home. Which is making it harder because I'm trying to really really THINK about what I keep and where. I suck at this part - but I'm determined to not just shove everything back into there without a home. Today I need to get the stuff out of my teacher end of the expedit that really should be in the "for sale" pile. (ETA: I have a friend that lives near the camp - if it ever came to be I'd actually stay there and watch her kids for the week and be close to mine. Affording a week of gym camp??? HAHAHAHAHA!)

Which one though?!?!?!?! Happy all my research paid off from someone! :p

http://www.pandiapress.com/?page_id=58 I'm telling ya, I looked at A LOT! THis was actually out of stock a lot of places, or I might have bought it. We have their older version on the wall that we could use too. BUT, I think the binder aspect will get done since the kids can each "own" their own books. I stocked up on ink last month, and I'm going to need another ream of card stock.

HA. I dunno.... I was going to copy it and make it myself with the sections I would want! (in Excel, just make the grid and change the dates as you print it on card stock) But I really wanted the kids to be able to use the timeline figures I own - so that went out the window. Although I still might do it "for me", more of an overview type of book. I think I would do the first right page the century title, the back of that the people and event section, the other right the single sided grid, blank on the back. Then repeat for the next century. [i Just downloaded the sample again. So I'd leave off the narrative section and have the people page facing the grid. I guess you could add something to the back for artifacts if you wanted.] I spent months looking at timelines. Months. The single-sided decision (thanks to a mom here!) with the Homeschool In The Woods printable solves the needing more pages and entering more "stuff". Now I just need to move the printer so it is easy to babysit while printing card stock.

You should go look at the Simply Charlotte Mason Book of Centuries - the paid one. Which I considered......

May I just say how horrid it has been since my dishwasher quit working in November?????? Words cannot even begin to express how horrible it is...... (and yes, I realize that a lot of people do not have them and survive, this is the first time in my whole 44 years I have been without.... I even had one during my college years! :p )

THanks - i'm going to go at it to my RR for my DD2!!!

Very true.... but sometimes when things are set up they aren't thinking of the massive, "i will pay nothing and get it all" take on the offer. Like I said, I couldn't do it - and because I couldn't I limited it to what I could pay something for and thought I'd use this coming year. I did pick up something that I probably won't use after looking at it, but I figure it means I just paid a bit more for what I did get that is useable. Heck, I felt guilty about "only" paying $1 for a couple of things!

CAPD is Central Auditory Processing Disorder, a trained audiologist tests for it in the booth. This summary is what pushed me to push the doctors on testing. My gut knew it, but sometimes you can't convince "them" about it you know? http://www.hslda.org/strugglinglearner/sn_auditory.asp They have info for visual issues too (my DD has both, but her auditory is worse): http://www.hslda.org/strugglinglearner/sn_visual.asp My daughter was really in bad shape because of having both issues, it was no wonder she was such a late reader given these and her other issues! She has very very slow processing all across the board. I joke that when she gets hurt - she will figure it out and tell me the week after it happens! LOL!! Here is a good book on it - see if your library has it. Even if it doesn't end up fitting your daughter, you will learn some interesting things that will help you about hearing and aging! :D http://www.amazon.com/When-Brain-Cant-Hear-ebook/dp/B000FC0WOM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375035034&sr=8-1&keywords=when+the+brain+can%27t+hear

I couldn't do that...... there is no "support" shown to the publishers that were generous enough to partake in the first place when you do that - and you can be sure that some of them will not do it again. :(

A suitcase or a rolling tote. Ideally I'd do a rolling tote for each child - but that might be impacted by the space you have in a vehicle. Like, I drive a VW Beetle.... I cannot use my own suggestion! :lol: But with a weeks notice, you don't really have the need for an urgent, "gotta leave NOW" solution, or one that would be moved daily. If you have a laptop you could look into copying the MUS disks to it to view so you don't have to worry about carting the disks back and forth, a tote/plastic shoebox for the manipulative. I'm looking at potentially having one day a week of portable school.... which is a whole other set of challenges.

We apparently own one.... last year when DD2 started middle school, they bought the kids their school supplies. So, she got this 3" monstrosity that didn't fit in her backpack and was expected to cart it back and forth daily. She hated carrying both her backpack and the binder, but if she just used the binder the "stuff" would fall out that didn't go into the rings. And 3" is just too big (she was in a self-contained classroom and didn't move classes nor have a locker). I despise that binder, it was impractical. Oh, and it doesn't seem to open any better than any other 3" binders I have used! I have binders that are at least 15 years old and still doing great. They were ones we bought at work and I got some when we closed. That said, we don't use binders here like a lot of people - so my opinion doesn't count. But that 3"? YUCK.

http://homeschoolinthewoods.com/HTTA/RecordofTime.htm I bought this one on CD, and will printing it single sided. There are a bunch of freebies out there - I just have to go run and do something and can't link to them! :D

How often are you spending an hour cleaning the bathroom? Weekly? I have 3 of them.... that would be 3 hours alone on bathrooms. I am trying to figure out a schedule, but I am drawn to the doing nothing else during school time. That tends to lead toward longer days for us - because we ALL get sidetracked. Thanks all for given me stuff to ponder - I shall keep reading!

http://moneysavingmom.com/2013/07/office-max-back-to-school-deals-for-the-week-of-july-28-august-3-2013.html I Have no clue if this is a good deal on the folders, but comp books are 25 cents (limit 3) too. ****This is for Office Depot - NOT Office Max like the link says!! *****

Target seemed to have wayyyyy more of their branded supplies this year - and those were what was the decent priced stuff. Last week they did have the 6 packs of glue sticks on sale for 99 cents. That made my 9yo happy! (she had glue stick issues last year in PS) Staples limits to 2 regardless of teacher status or not now. The ink thing irks me - I only need ink about once a year, maybe twice, and the last time I needed it Staples didn't even sell it anymore. Helpful. I have a bag of cartridges.... Office Depot used to give you a ream of paper for them. That was nice..... I don't need much - although I could use a couple more of those cheap pencil sharpeners! LOL!!! I'll just wait until school starts here and see what is left....

I paid for what I got, definitely not a lot - but all that I could this week. I didn't get a lot of stuff either - just what I felt we would use over time. I also made it a point to thank the publishers on CurrClicks FB page because it was a huge blessing for me in a couple of areas. There were other things from those publishers I was interested in for the future - so I will buy them later. I was shocked when CurrClick posted on their FB page asking customers to limit their carts to 100 items or less because it was overwhelming their system. I was shocked - and figured that meant people were paying nothing :( I didn't pay under a $1 for anything I bought. But I could easily see how it could get out of hand - and I wonder if there was a limit on how much certain publishers were "donating". I saw Build Your Libraries units on there, and was interested in them - but knew we wouldn't use them "right now", so refrained and will just buy them when I'm ready.