Are you all renting, buying or getting someplace else this video? Do I have to buy it to watch it...I know there are snippets on you tube, but I don't think you can see the whole thing, can you??

I do this very same tihng, except my kids each have a smaller binder, divided by the days of the week, and the work is hole punched and put in there every weekend for the following week. Works really well for us. Kathy

I only know about the first level (Egypt and OT)..but there were several activities per lesson. Some are very crafty and clever and some don't take as much time. One thing we did is buy the History Pockets by Evan Moore and used those along with it...and those are sort of like lapbooks type activity. Hope that helps.

for us it helps that we are about 45 miles away from any "real" place to buy things...but I did go through a short lived deal where I let my kids buy "junk" because it was their money...but now, I make them save it becasue I have told them that I am now done buying them anything they they want (only needs) unless it is Christmas or their birthday...so I tell them they have to save up to buy what they want...this has helped the kids learn how not to impulse buy. Mine have some jobs around the house that they can periodically earn money for as well as gift money.

I think it was something like $15...

what is the difference between US and standard??

I taped it...haven't watched it yet

I love this!!! Sometimes it takes something like that to make reality click. My kids do know that they don't want to go back to PS...they have been there, done that...so they know.

I can't add, but I am going to watch this thread...hoping for some guidance myself.

I would like to know this too. Thanks.

What can you who have used or still are using Singpore tell me about this program? Thanks.

not offended at all...actually we started last January, but we are still new.. thanks for your words of encouragment. We will just keep plowing away.

It's not that I am going to give into his rebellion....I just wish there was a way to get the message across that THIS NEEDS to be done and the sooner you do it, the sooner you can play....but he just pouts, crabs, puts his head on the table, slides down in his chair etc...dragging the whole thing out SOOOO LOONNGG!!!!

most days my 8 year old son is simply NOT motivated to do anything school related...any suggestions for me????

I buy some stuff from Vitacost.com

if you are doing enough school with your kids? I used to be a classroom teacher and sometimes that background is very helpful and other times...not so much...and I wonder if this is one of those times. My kids do math, spelling, grammar, phonics, handwriting each day..we try to do either science or history each day, I try have each kid read to me each day...and although we are busy all day long, I just sometimes wonder if I am doing enough. For example, I still want to fit in Latin some place, I want to do more reading with the kids (especially read to them)..I wonder if I need to be doing MORE math or MORE phonics...I know the school in our town has a reading program chunk up 1 1/2 hours of everyday...that is too much, I think...but is 15-20 minutes enough?? I just don't know...am I crazy...am I not? Oh, my kids are 9,8 and 5. Thanks.

so, I am still getting the message that if I can't seem to find a way to fit in the meeting stuff, that a different program would be better....if so, what would that be?? I didn't like MUS becasue it seemed like too much wasted paper becasue my kids didn't need all of the practice...6 sheets per lesson was too much and I couldn't get over the fact that if my kids didn't use it, then it was wasted...can't afford to buy and not use. So what do you guys suggest??

this sounds like what I am aiming to do...my problem is my kids think they need all 1:1 time and can do very little if any independently. My oldest is much more idependant than my other two. My youngest can't really read, so we do everything together, my middle can read, but refuses to do stuff on his own. It is partly a confindence thing...so I am trying to build that...but it is also laziness and having a hard time staying on task. But I guess I just need to keep working towards the goal, huh?? THANKS!!!!

What are DIVE Cd's??

Again, I have 3 kids...ages and grades 5 (K), age 8 (grade 2) and age 9 (grade 3)....and I was wondering what others with that many kids of similar ages do as far as teaching time...I mean, this: in the morning my 3 have what we call Binder work...which is phonics, math, spelling, and handwriting. I intended to sit with each child (one at a time) and help them work through their binder work...hoping that it would take about 30-45 minutes a day, per child...but it seems to take more, most days. So then, I started having the kids all sit around the diningroom table and try to do it all at the same time...but then there was so much crabbing about the noise the others were making when asking questions, reading a loud something etc. I was before having the kids each sit in different rooms, but then I was runnning around like a chicken with it's head cut off...always telling one (and sometimes two) kids to wait...this wasn't much fun either. So I was wondering how everyone else does it.

I have 3 kids...and we are using Saxon 1,2, and 3. If I did everything in each teacher's book, each day, we wouldn't have much time for anything else in our day. So, I don't do anything more than the drill sheet and the worksheet...and any teaching of the new concepts. I have read here time and time again that if you don't do everything that Saxon offfers, then you are doing the kids a disservice...BUT, my question is, how is NOT doing all of the "extras" in Saxon any different than other programs that don't offer it at all. I like the spiral of Saxon and wasn't planning on switching...but I was just wondering.

thanks...I am glad to know that this is not a request that is too "out there"...I will speak with the kid's piano teacher and see what she says. Kathy

next year all 3 of our kids will be taking piano lessons and our daughter just started accordian lessons and so next fall we will be paying $128 a month for music lessons (which is a lot for us)....so I was wondering if anybody here who gives lessons ever had a parent request lessons every other week with the teacher giving twice as many pieces to practice? or if you are a parent in our situation, ever ask to have your children take lessons every other week. I was just wondering if that is a reasonable request. What do you think?? Kathy

thanks so much. My middle child (son) is SOOOOO hard on the cheap crocs-like shoes and I was debating whether the real thing would be better...but didn't want to pay the price...now I get to find out without paying the real price....so this is the best. Luckily I was able to find acceptable colors for all 3 kids...although the choices were slim...at 9.99...how can you go wrong.

I would like to know more about this movie...can yo tell me what the basic premise is??