Duplicate post.

Duplicate post.

Definitely Tim if I can only choose one.

I am teaching a co-op class this term on examining history using primary source documents. In addition to the Stanford website already mentioned, I have found a great deal of material on the websites for the National Archives, Library of Congress, the British National Archives, and Digital Public Library of America. I have also found amazing resources for educators on museum websites -- pretty much any era that has a museum has primary source materials for teachers to use in advance of field trips. This spring I have used interesting lessons from the Tenement Museum in NY and the National WWII Museum in New Orleans.

I could be wrong, but I think for the 1970 CAT, Level 3 is the test used for grades 4 - 6, and the test is just normed differently for each grade.

Silver Blaze is one of my favorites, plus it has the famous "dog barking in the night" exchange. It is hard to narrow down other favorites, but The Speckled Band is a great closed room mystery, and I think The Yellow Face is good for showing the human side of Holmes.

I am finding several 28s on the site linked by the OP (the second link in the first post).

We finally got our results. I think this is around the same time they have come in the past, but once all of you started posting I got antsy about where ours could be. :laugh: DS got a gold for his first NME, and is totally thrilled. DD missed one, so she got a silver, to add to the bronze and gold she had from the past couple of years. Both are very pleased, and DS already wants to start studying for next year now that he knows there is a section on Norse myths, which he really enjoys.

My DD is 9 and working through Lial's Introductory Algebra. We didn't start terribly early, and we didn't skip anything, we just kept moving ahead as she finished levels. We started with Singapore EB when she was 4, continued through using SM US edition, adding in CWP and some MEP. When we finished Primary Math, she spent a year playing around with various things -- MM Integers, LoF fractions/decimals, Challenge Math, and various inexpensive workbooks on algebraic reasoning and word problems. I finally decided to just go ahead and start algebra. Now, my DD would never tell you that she likes math, and doesn't seem to think that she is particularly good at it. She doesn't do well with drawn-out lessons and balks at writing pages of problems, so we usually only work on math for no more than an hour, 4 days a week. I think that if she went to school she would realize that math is something that comes naturally for her, but she doesn't have much basis for comparison at the moment.

We didn't get around to picking up the mail today! I will have to head to the post office as soon as they open tomorrow (our village doesn't have home delivery, very aggravating at times). This was Ds's first time taking the NME, and he is really hoping for a medal.

Hex bugs are nice, especially if you can get a good deal on one of the habitat sets. For Lego fans I really like the DK Lego reference books (Ideas Book, character encyclopedias, Brickmaster books, etc.).

We have had success using Evan-Moor's Daily Paragraph Editing books to cement those skills.

We are on spring break, and the local schools are closed for a snow day.

We have 183 days in for the school year, so we are already done with the required days. We usually do 215 - 220, so we will be off next week for spring break, then wind up the year in late May.

:iagree: What looked like typical issues with making transitions when my DS was a toddler turned out to have a lot to do with this issue. By the time he was school age, he was becoming aware of how hard it was to get back into things that had been interrupted, which often led him to either give up completely on re-engaging with what he had been pulled away from or lashing out at whoever had broken his focus -- neither approach resulting in much learning getting accomplished. I found lots of helpful info in this book.

I have a lot started indoors, but winter is really holding on here, I haven't been able to direct-sow my peas and radishes as I had planned. I am hoping that by next week I can get those in, and start my tomatoes and cape gooseberries inside. Already started indoors are hot and sweet peppers, 2 types of eggplant, 2 types of cabbage, 3 types of lettuce, beets, chard, 2 types of onion, leeks, cauliflower, and broccoli. Last year we had great success with beans, so I have planned to put in lots of those this year, as well as a whole separate patch for pumpkins and various winter squashes.

We started the Oz books at that age.

Have you read The Door In the Wall yet? It was a huge hit here.

I have never offered any incentives aside from more trips to the library or bookstore. The kids have always earned some small prizes during the library's summer reading program, but the final prize of the summer is actually a certificate for $10 worth of books. :D

Both of my dc are this way, ds incredibly so. We have shifted a ton of our work to read-alouds. I have been using nonfiction works meant for adults to cover history and science, and it is amazing what they retain and what rabbit trails we end up following. I feel that they are gaining deeper knowledge of the subject matter than they did when we used more of a traditional curriculum and projects approach. In general terms of slowing them down, I have basically put ds in a holding pattern for a few subjects -- I haven't introduced any new math concepts in a couple of months and he is basically only doing his spelling and grammar as handwriting practice since the work itself is not a challenge. I felt that he needed some extra down time as well as to work on attention to detail, plus dd started algebra and really made some leaps with her writing, so I shifted some time and attention where I felt it was more needed.

Pine needle mulch for lettuce.

We had bunless burgers topped with guacamole, sauteed mushrooms, rice, pineapple-citrus salad, and a green salad.

:grouphug:

Do you have curry powder? I often cube eggplants and toss them in the crockpot with a can of diced tomatoes, tons of curry powder, and whatever other veggies I have (usually peppers). I let the whole thing cook and add a generous amount of butter or olive oil. This is great hot, and I also eat it cold with hard boiled egg mixed in.

DD is 9, and her favorite recent gifts have been a small loom and science kits for making soap and perfume.