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  1. The only extra curricular I did was one session of swimming lessons at 6 in which I did not learn how to swim and one season of softball where I just sat in the grass and picked flowers and did not like it so I did not get signed up again. My parents just did not really have money in the budget for extra curricular activities. Softball was one of the most affordable ones out there at the time. I probably should have found something in middle school or high school and maybe the social thing would have been better but the ones from the school did not interest me or some did require money like the ski club.
  2. I have a non reader that is good at math but I had trouble finding a supplement that she could do with math at her level without reading while I am working with her older siblings and there definitely is not a curriculum I know if that she could do mostly on her own. A lot of the supplements out there were either all one type of problem or had written instructions. I use MEP and really like it but a lot of the lesson comes from the teaching book and the worksheet problems have written instruction so it is not mostly independent for us. Maybe in the lower levels it is a little different though.
  3. I am going through something similar with one of mine. Last year math went really well but then we started vision therapy and took a break and all of a sudden things are no longer easy. I am not sure if it is because the little bit of vision therapy homework and once a week office appoinment really takes a lot of mental energy and does not leave much left, the long break or both or something else. It does not help that he does not like vision therapy and there is progress and improvement but it is slow and we are not all there yet. We are working on integrating reflexes and are almost done with that based on testing them and I have not seen a dramatic difference with that but I do think it is part of the puzzle. I agree about the progression listed. I did that with my current 7 year old with Addition Facts That Stick and Subtraction Facts That Stick with some Gattegno then I used c-rods and some Education Unboxed to move from the facts to 20 to 2 digit addition and subtraction in the order listed.
  4. I used the method shown in Education Unboxed of using Cuisenaire rods and having the child splitting them up in a way that helps them solve it faster. We watch the video and then we play something like math war to have problems to practice keeping the rods available until they do not need them. At first we use the rods then they do them without. If they get something wrong after not using rods I bust them back out. I need to figure out a game for division problems
  5. I did not know she was coming out with a multiplication version. I loved the Addition and Subtraction Facts that Stick books. It really gave my youngest a solid understanding amd the ability to visualize the problems.
  6. They took a little break for the fall and started again recently. They now have different instructors that seem to be giving instructions and advice now and there is an instructor from the swim team who will make the rounds and help different levels. When that instructor helps my kids made a ton more progress in one day then they did the entire summer. She taught my youngest to float and move on to learning to swim and middle is gliding along on his back. She said he picked it up fast. He just needed a little advice. Ds is no longer complaining about lessons and how useless they are.
  7. I did review before starting but I guess I should have spent a little bit more time. I did know we would need to review but I should have done more. What is surprising is that it is not what we learned in the last year that needed reviewing as would be expected but even further back then that. I admit I am starting to panic. I feel like I can't even trust everything I thought was true. I started out patient and calm I am starting to not be so patient. I am not sure even where to go back to and how to move forward. I like the idea of two week breaks at the beginning and end of the summer. The plan was to do just a little bit of work in the morning and have the rest of the day. We started that but there was a lot of complaining and once VT started up we needed a break because that was hard enough. Then I had some health things come up. I think a two week break will give a little break to relax before a lighter schedule for the summer. There was a skill slide in spelling too but that seems to be coming back.
  8. I know it is not a good idea to take time if but for various reasons we did end up taking the summer off. I know that all kids lose skills and some in particular really lose skills but right now I am seeing this in the extreme. I have a child who went from really strong in math conceptually and doing really well especially with mental math and a little above grade level skills to getting very simple concepts wrong. Like going from doing 3 digit by 1 digit multiplication with ease even working them out mentally plus long division was conceptually solid and the process down even if there were sometimes some mistakes to getting just regular multiplication and division problems wrong and it is not just in that one area . It is almost like 2 years if skills were lost. Has this happen to anyone else? What did you do and how did it end up working out?
  9. I am finding the opposite. Last year we started the morning with handwriting, spelling and vocab and then math and it went well. This year I started with math and every problem is taking forever and being done very carelessly. I decided that was not working and switched it up.
  10. It is more about how seats puzzle together then actual width. Some sit higher or lower so they fit together better. I have managed to get three across in narrow vehicles with many different configurations of seats through the years including for babies.
  11. Neither set of grandparents have a big place with extra bedrooms but my kids have slept over when we were visiting. We just use air mattresses in other rooms. It has been fine. It is more space then tent camping. ;) For a sibling we stay with we use the basement with cots and air mattresses. I do not plan on living in a big place when my kids are grown. I do not want extra space I do not use on a day to day basis.
  12. I have never driven that long for a restaurant. That would be hours of driving for just a meal which is short. I can see doing an overnight if there was something else in the area to do. The longest I have driven for an activity where we are not staying would be 2 hours for something that is an all day thing like an amusement park. I do go to favorite local places when we are at places.
  13. I liked In and Out when I lived where they had them but the fries were not my favorite. I never had Five Guys. We have a Smashburger now and I had something from there once and the burger and the fries I had were not that good. I really like Shake Shack though. I had it at an airport terminal and it was really good. I had a veggie burger that was really good and the fries were good too. I do really like Red Robin burgers but the fries are not my favorite.
  14. That makes me feel good about placing a huge order through my charter through them. Everything I could order through them I did. I did not know they did scholarships too. That is really cool.
  15. I tandem nursed with my middle child and youngest. I cut back during the pregnancy but he did not want to give up the last nursing session. I do not think my experience is typical but he never wanted to nurse at the same time as the baby. He did not want to share during his time and he was not interested in it when she was. It was not too physically demanding because he only nursed once a day and my youngest was not an around the clock nurser as a baby like my middle child was.
  16. I am in the same boat with 3 kids. There are things that I work one in one for each kid an my youngest is not independent on anything yet. I feel like I am not getting done what needs to get done and there is not enough of me to go around to get everything accomplished. I combine what I can and do the essentials then rotate through things like science, history, grammar and writing but I do notbaccomplish as much as I want to.
  17. Barton has a screening that is good to see if they can distinguish between sounds. If he cannot pass the first part of the screening then he will need something to work on sound discrimination.
  18. Thanks for the description. I am trying to decide whether or not this would be a good level for my youngest. I am moving into year 3 math in MEP with her but she is not ready for Signapore 3rd grade yet but in some curriculums she would be 3rd grade level. She is a really good at fraction type stuff, she can multiply and divide, add and subtract 2 digit numbers in her head. She is good at breaking things down in to other things to solve them and problems written algebraically but there are things she has not been introduced to yet. We just played around with Gattegno and things they do in Education Unboxed videos last year not a formal curriculum.
  19. I just started using the swim shampoo and conditioner. It really keeps the hair from getting damaged and makes it easier to comb out. I comb it out when wet.
  20. She is struggling to link the hand gesture to the individual lesson requirement. She also does not seem to even want to stay looking at me to see the hand gestures. She seems to have a hard time putting all the steps together. I know if I gave her instructions she would get it but I know the hand gestures do have a purpose. I think she probably does have low working memory but it has never been tested. I am not sure on the processing speed. For sure on the fine motor aspects of writing that they test but she does not stall and drag out and take forever to answer or attend like my child I know has a slow processing speed. Today went a little better. Maybe when she gets used to the gestures and they will be used for a while it will get a little better. It is good to hear other kids get very upset too.
  21. There are records if there is an underground tank. When I did site assessments we always made sure there were no underground tanks for the people interested in buying property. My old employer helped in a clean up with an underground heating oil tank that leaked and it was a very costly clean up that was very involved. Then it can get listed on the EPA site.
  22. I know my blood type because it was tested at birth and in my records. I do not know my dh's or my children's. My children were not tested at birth for blood type or at least it was never told to me or put in their records.
  23. I have been feeling like this after a lesson. Lol It has been seriously trying this past week with Barton. I have been thinking of those videos and the adult she is practicing on in those videos and how that is nothing like how dd responds at all. This is trying my patience even more then I anticipated. It is rough going so far. She hates the hand gestures and making mistakes which she is doing a lot because of the hand gestures and it is hard to know what to do when they do not want to follow the directions of the gestures.
  24. I am trying to figure this out myself this school year. We also took the summer off which was a little unplanned. Now we are back at it slowly at first trying to get back to a normal schedule and I am homeschooling 3 this year. I am having trouble fitting it all in and not letting my slow poke get our day completely off track and get what we need to get accomplished but I have not been successful yet. My estimates based on last year are off for this year because it is worse with lots of just not getting and staying on task and dragging things on much longer then it should. I hope things improve.
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