exercise clean cat litter box school clean kitchen make packing list for tomorrow pack pick up last part of my mom's Mother's Day gift prep for nonprofit meeting - go to bank to make a deposit make sure kids are bathed/showered this afternoon before we go out

Whenever she is interested. M is only seven, so hopefully we have a 4-6 more years... I started at 11.

Simple and consistent is best for us! And I learned a lot about space/planets and the Middle Ages. I love homeschooling!

Last night I did the grocery shopping and read 24/30 pages I wanted to read in my book. School was not finished and packing list was not written. Today!

to do: school (still not much happening; at least chores are done and kids are playing nicely w/out screen time) read at least 30 pages from my current book finish packing list for this weekend grocery shopping done: worked on accounting stuff for nonprofit morning coffee with WTM forums :-) swept hallway made kids lunch swept and mopped master bedroom floor swept and mopped dining room and family room cleared off dining table dusted j's room finished Mother's Day gifts exercised cleaned both bathrooms laundry

one bathroom cleaned exercising done school started just about finished with Mother's Day gifts It's been a tough morning week with the boy, so getting this much accomplished is pretty good. Trying soooo hard to be patient with my grumpy guy.

Can I join? to do: laundry clean both bathrooms exercise school read at least 30 pages from my current book finish up Mother's Day gifts finish packing list for this weekend done: worked on accounting stuff for nonprofit morning coffee with WTM forums :-) It's only 7AM here...

Same with my daughter. Now my son is just about at this point, and I'm so tempted to give it up at the end of the year. However, I remember how proud my daughter was when she finished the whole book! We'll keep chugging along...

Like the OP, I never had mine soldered. I wanted to be able to wear them separately. When we backpacked for a couple of months in Africa and Europe, I left my diamond engagement ring at home and only wore my wedding band. Most of the time I wear them at the same time. I was married in CA eleven years ago. I don't think my mom has here soldered either...

Math Mammoth

OneNote. Next year will be our fourth year. I've tried Scholaric, Homeschool Helper, and Word documents. Oh, and a basic teacher's planner. I only plan 6-7 weeks at a time though, and I'm not going to be planning the first Learning Period of 2015-16 until the beginning of August. I've learned that planning way ahead of time (for me, anyway) doesn't work. Also, we work best as a back-to-basics family. I discovered that early this school year, and it's made things so much simpler. So there isn't much to plan. There's more work for me to do after each week and after each Learning period is over. Before each Learning Period: 1. I estimate how many/print out Math Mammoth pages, estimate/tear out Explode the Code pages, etc. I put them in a file folder for whichever week of the Learning Period we plan on using them. 2. I create a page in OneNote for each week (there's a tab for each Learning Period). 3. I create a new blank Reading List for that LP so I can keep track of all the read alouds, independent reading, and audiobooks and which subjects they might cover. I look at my master book list to see which books would be good to read for that LP and kind of try to plan out when they'll be read. Reading is a huge part of our homeschool, so this step is important. Before each week: 1. I put the papers from that week's file folder into the kids' school boxes, along with their current independent reading book. 2. I fill out their My Student Log Books with lesson/page numbers so that they can check things off every day. At the end of the week: 1. I take a picture of the Log Book page and insert it into the OneNote page I had made for that week. 2. I add what we did for Memory Work, what we read, and which Duolingo lessons we covered to the OneNote page. 3. I take any work that I want to save as samples for our education coordinator and put it in my Work Samples file folder for that Learning Period. At the end of each Learning Period: 1. I go through the work samples file folder and make sure I have a good representation of what we did. 2. I print out the Reading List.

I plan 6-8 weeks at a time. I get all M's MM printed out, EtC pages torn out, TC pages printed, and Spanish pages printed. I put them in file folders labeled Week 1, Week 2, etc. On Friday afternoons I put the next week's work into her clear plastic file box (both kids have a "school box"). Each day she knows the whole week's work is in her school box along with her Student Log book, which gives details like which pages to do which day. Throughout the week I collect her finished work in that week's file folder. On Friday I go through those finished papers and decide what I want to keep for myself and what to keep for our educational coordinator (homeschool charter). I put those things in a file labeled work samples. At the end of the 6-8 weeks, I give that folder to our EC at our meeting. Everything else gets tossed unless it's something super special. Her writing is in a composition book. That I keep. I make copies for our EC if I want to give him something from there. I take a picture of her Student Log book and put it along with any extras in OneNote as a record of what we did that week.

:001_tt1: I've been using a bullet journal type method with OneNote, but this makes me want to return to paper... It's so beautiful!

I always say I don't know how retired people can be bored - there's so much to do and learn!

Yes! I'm working on becoming fluent in Spanish, but I'd also love to learn French, Italian, and German someday. Maybe Arabic... I'm not so successfully teaching myself to play the fiddle... I want to learn to dance better... I love geography... I need to learn bookkeeping for our new nonprofit... And I love to read! So not enough time in the day!

I tried Mr. Q with M in kindergarten. It was okay, but I think she would have got more out of it a year or two later. Now, with j, we play outside, ask questions and look for answers at the library or Internet, read books like Let's Read and Find Out Science and books by Gail Gibbons, watch Magic School Bus episodes, watch documentaries we find on Netflix, and do any interesting experiments we find out about. Actually that's what I'm doing with both kids for now. I don't think we'll do a formal science until at least middle school.

Duolingo requires a bit of typing, less if you use an iPad. Since Dd is still learning typing, I do all the typing for her. I even fix her spelling. We practice weak skills often. I've been surprised this year at how much she's retained. She's seven. (We do Spanish) We do one Duolingo lesson or review plus one worksheet from the Complete Book of Spanish a day.

Oops! I just realized that this thread was on the Learning Challenges subforum. I'm sorry! I always just look at the New Content.

So far I'm liking Clue (lol, it's only been a few hours :) ). I think it was P. tracker that I had used last, and the ads were bothering me. Otherwise it was fine. I can't remember the name of the one I used before that, but I had to stop using it because after the new year last year it stopped recording things correctly.

Thank you everyone! I'm trying out Clue right now. I'll see how it goes and report back. :-)

Anyone have a good recommendation for an app to track periods? I've tried a few, but only the free ones which always seem to mess up on me or have tons of ads.

We are also happy MM users for all the reasons here.

I agree. Dh had this same problem until he stopped putting sugar in his coffee (and having the donuts with it). At first he thought it was the caffeine but then realized it was the sugar. I love my coffee with a tablespoon of heavy whipping cream and no sugar. It might sound weird, but everyone I know who's tried it has liked it. Sometimes I sprinkle some cinnamon on top.

This has been an interesting read! I'm between six and seven.