I have not used these, but saw them in Christian Book's home-school catalog yesterday. http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/easy_find?Ntt=teach+them+spanish&N=0&Ntk=keywords&action=Search&Ne=0&event=ESRCG&nav_search=1&cms=1

Judging from the greasy looks of my cousins...normal. :tongue_smilie:

Anyone get their free Panda Express kit yet? Unless it's in my mailbox right now, I haven't. :glare: Cutting it a bit close, if they actually want people to use it.

I don't print to a printer, but create PDFs of receipts for companies that I've or others have had issues with. Barnes & Noble had some pretty significant issues over the holidays of pulling coupons, etc. after placing an order and charging your credit card whatever they felt like. And, it was always "too late" to cancel. Customer service got you no where. Their system is such that you do not get an invoice with your order confirmation via e-mail. I always make a PDF of my receipts for orders I place with them now. Otherwise, I keep the tab/window open until I receive an e-mail confirmation that includes an invoice, order number, etc. If I don't receive one, I create a PDF.

Keven Henkes and Mo Willems! DD loves them too, but there are several whom we adore. We love Karma Wilson and Anna Dewdney too for their rhyming.

My DD is 4.5 years old working mostly at the upper kindergarten/first grade level. Generally, we do our three core subjects daily (handwriting, reading and math) and then rotate a fourth subject. Rarely, I'll add art as a fifth subject, if a couple of other subjects were short and/or light. I add it, just because she likes art and I have a hard time fitting it in. Having said that, there are a lot of art-like projects within our other fourth subject subjects. Science - 2-5 times a week (depends what we're studying) History/Social Studies - 1 time a week Math - 5 times a week Phonics/Language Arts - 5 times a week (we work on a new sight word, review our word wall and also complete a phonics lesson daily) Geography - 0 times a week, unless it fits in with another lesson/subject Spelling - 0 times a week, but there are spelling elements within her sight word and phonics lessons Critical Thinking/Logic - 0 times a week Handwriting - 5 times a week Music/PE - 0, nothing formal at this time...she just plays in her non-school time Art - 2-3 times a month, but a lot of her other curriculum has art-like elements. This is art for the sake of art...activities revolve around the seasons/holidays. She also does a very quick Kumon cutting exercise every Tuesday and Thursday. This will fall off our schedule after she completes the book in a couple of weeks. We also have literature and Bible stories that we fit in wherever we can.

Uhm, hmm. Really? Yeah, no...wouldn't allow that to happen to my DD. And, we have a lot of dentistry in our future, as she had to have three permanent tooth buds removed by a doctor as a baby as part of an in-patient surgical tumor removal (rare disease). She will eventually end up with implants. Imagine yourself wrapped up in a sheet. How would you feel? That just seems like abuse to me. My mind is boggled really.

Really cute, but way too expensive. Would have to be about a $1 per sticker for me to invest. I'd rather put money toward a durable toy. Super cute, though. I enjoyed looking through them. :001_smile:

Yeah! DD will be so excited. Thanks, again. :D

Awesome...thanks! Any whales eating seals or animals mating...anything like that?

Ok, that's not a bad idea...not a bad idea at all. Maybe I could copy the workbook stories and then highlight her parts to be sure she gets the new words. Thanks for the advice! :001_smile:

Good one...thanks! We will actually touch upon dinosaurs within the next couple of months. She's never seen any Dinosaur Train, so I think this might be a good fit.

My DD loves this kind of thing, particularly anything dealing with the ocean, but I have to be careful with blood and gore, and reproduction (actual scenes of mating).

DD's just about finished with HOP Kindergarten. While she has done really well with it, she's not a fluent reader yet. I do see glimmers some days, but we're not there yet. I already have HOP: First Grade. While I don't think she would have a problem with the new blends, word endings, etc., the reading portion of the first grade program is quite lengthy by the end. Actually, even the beginning stories are a good bit longer. I just don't think she would have the stamina to sound out so much. I hate to hold her back because she really is doing well and I want to start blends, but I'm not sure what else to do. Thinking about reviewing with ETC and re-reading all the of little HOP books while we wait for that magic click. Anyone tread water after HOP: Kindergarten? If so, what did you do?

Is there a lot of writing with his phonics program or just a little? You could use letter stamps or stickers, if it's not too terribly much. Otherwise, he could use Scrabble tiles or magnetic letters on a cookie sheet or anything like that. We do most of our practicing on the chalkboards with HWT. Do you have a copy machine? You could copy each HWT lesson so you have as many sheets of practice as you need.

Hadn't heard of this one...thanks! Any others?

I think I'm going to take the plunge and order Netflix. Just the DVD service, though, as streaming doesn't work well for us. I would like to use some educational DVDs with our science and social studies curriculum. What DVDs for K-2 should I look for? I know these... Magic School Bus Sid the Science Kid Liberty Kids Others that have been suggested... Leapfrog Beakman's World Dinosaur Train Big Cat Diary (streaming)

Yes, I had to remember it all in high school. While I sometimes like memorizing things, I don't see a practical point in memorizing this. I won't have my DD memorize for the sake of memorizing. There are better things to work on.

Normal, but we only take off for true family holidays...as in we're going somewhere to celebrate with family. Otherwise, our holidays are when DH takes vacation time.

Can anyone else get the Netflix search to work? I haven't been able to get it to work since yesterday morning...right before I posted this thread. I'm not signed up, but I don't know why that would make a difference.

I've decided to use most of the time providing her with a broad introduction to science and American History/social studies. One thing that baffles me with the WTM method is that they don't introduce American History until level/grade 4. I understand the reasoning, but there's no way I'm going to leave me DD ignorant of basic American knowledge until that time. Right now, we are studying American symbols (American flag, Statue of Liberty, bald eagle, the White House, etc.), which she is loving. We're using the social studies resource in my siggy, which she greatly enjoys. I think by giving her this broad knowledge during the in-between, I will be a lot more on board with the WTM method. I like the idea of in-depth study, but I can't see her not knowing certain things until second, third or even fourth grade.

Well, my DD is 4.5 years old and I'm home-schooling her on the kindergarten/first grade level (pretty much out of basic kindergarten-type work). I spend darn near every waking "free" moment researching, planning and putting together her lessons. She may be young, but we most definitely home-school. We have a daily structure that we follow. Having said that, some people may throw the term around to feel more special or included in a given situation.

We've used stickers and letter stamps, but that can be tediously for more than a couple of dozen letters at a time.

I can't even find a secular homeschool group around here. :glare:

Thank you, everyone...this is great information! I think I'm going to give it a whirl. :001_smile: