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  1. Hello,  I had placed on hold purchase of vocabulary cards until we had available funds, but now that we can I cannot remeber the exact name and am having trouble locating the website.  It was a box of  500 words I believe and it had a girl's name followed by "words" but I can't remeber girl's name.  Does any have a clue that you could help me out with.

     

    thank you

  2. Use BFIAR and we loved it. Just to give you an idea, when reading the Carrot Seed, we read the book once each day for five days. Sometimes we read the book 2-3 times on the same depending on what the children wanted. We created a large measuring tape out of butcher paper in the shape of a carrot to measure heights. We planted our own carrots, both seeds and sprouted carrot tops and kept a picture journal. We made hummus and ate it with carrot sticks. We measure the lenghts of different carrots using both rulers, cubes, and bears and weighed them after children made guesses. And we did a color hunt searching for items around the house that were the same color as our carrot. Hope this helps a bit. Happy reading.

  3. Welcome Liliana. I am a newbie too. I have gotten some great tips from members here though and found curriculum I would have otherwise overlooked. You might want to post this in the curriculum board so you can get more answers. I just came on this summer and this is the first time I looked at board as I am trying to get my signarture up. Welcome once again.

  4. Depends on what you mean.

     

    "I feel good" means that you are not sick. In this case "feel" is a linking verb, and "good" is a predicate adjective that describes the subject "I".

     

    "I feel well" means your sense of touch is working. In this case "feel" is an action verb describing the action of feeling something. "Well" is an adverb describing how you do the action.

     

    I heard this explaination from a presentation about grammar at a homeschool convention a few years ago. Wish I remember who the speaker was. He was funny and informative.

     

    Thank you for your explanation. You worded it so well that it seems simple now. I had been confused by thinking that "feel" could only function as a linking verb. If you ever do remember the speaker, please drop me a note to let me know his name.

     

    http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/good-versus-well.aspx

     

    Which is why I often stick to: I am fine/alright/okay thanks.

     

    Totally funny :lol:, so clever.

  5. I cannot tell you how immensely grateful I am for this information. I was extremely frustrated trying to find either this info or sample lessons on their website to no avail. I wanted to take advantage of the sale but was unsure if the program would be a good fit with such little information until now. thank you for taking the time to post this. I just love this community.

  6. Alison, you're questions makes total sense. You do teach concepts and techniques as you do the projects, but I found that the focus was learning about art history by studying various artists and the concepts and techniques are incorportated as you go. For example, when studying Van Gogh the art concept is texture and for Monet the concept is color. So if you are looking for a program that has a scope and sequence based on techniques and concepts, this was not my experience with MTM. However, I feel that MTM does a wonderful job in teaching art concepts. Students are given plenty of practise opportunity in exploring the art concept taught before they are expected to replicate the artist. Here is a link to a sample of the student exploration part of the lesson from the MTM website. Hope this helped.

     

    http://www.meetthemasters.com/how-it-works/step2/

  7. I used legos, wrote numbers and operation signs on them and then just played setting up different equations.

     

    Also used a plactic pencil case. I filled it with tiny manipulatives, a die, a set of numbers and operation signs, small pencil, and a small notebook. We would roll the die usually two times sometimes three, count out the manipulatives, match the number, add the operation signs, and then record the equation in the notebook. I would change the manipulatives to keep up interest. Some would just be stickers pasted on pieces of cardboard.

  8. I should have read through all the pages before posting. Thank you so much for contacting amazon and saving us the hassle of returning.

    :iagree:

     

    When you need an answer, the easiest thing to do is to email the seller. I did and this was the response:

     

     

     

    Yep.....to good to be true. (we have lost so many cuisenaire rods over the yrs that that would have been a great supply for it not to matter. :lol: )

  9. I just have to say that it is a headache trying to contact amazon. They bury the information extremely well. I had just spent that last twenty mins on their site locating the contact info to resolve an issue before I came across this thread. The information finally showed up after I put in a key word search for "amazon contact" in my accounts page. They resolved the issue promptly and to my satisfaction but it was frustrating finding the info to contact them. I have bookmarked that page on my computer for future reference to avoid another anger fest with my computer next time.

  10. Like others I understand the business point of view. Each individual's spending habits will determine if the fee for prime is cost effective or not. The minimum I have spent on an order was around eight dollars and my purchases tend to average within $10-$20. For me membership has been great and would gladly renew again in a heartbeat.

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