MP 4th Grade package! especially First Form Latin and MP science! I'm nervous, also!

Thank you. Those are good suggestions. I also thought that the first sentence sounded awkward and it should be two. I also thought there were too many commas.

WOW! Thanks for all the FAB ideas!

I've been there. It SUCKS!!! :grouphug::grouphug:

Any quick make ahead breakfast ideas? I'd really like to get my mornings started earlier and maybe even exercise in the morning. My problem is that I'm never hungry in the a.m. but if I don't eat I have no energy to exercise. I thought if I had a quick, make ahead breakfast ..... but what?? Recipes would be great, too! Thanks!

I've been looking at Zumba and Just Dance for Kinect. Is it possible to lose weight with exercise-type video games? When the weather is nice I like to walk/run outside, but during bad weather I usually don't exercise.

Thank you! I've just let writing slide for such a long time with him and I've been really worried about preparing him for college writing.

That was lesson #7 - Story Sequence, characters, conflict and climax. He was never able to do WWE or Writing Strands so I put off making him write until we started IEW a few weeks ago. He reads A LOT and has a fantastic vocabulary but hasn't been able to form cohesive paragraphs, let alone write a full paper. I have the feeling he will do much better at story writing than informative writing. I have to sit with him during the SWI and stop the video often to make sure he understands. It's been a slooooow process. Thank you for your input! I'm very used to his vivid descriptions so I think I was looking at structure more than style.

my son? He is 13 and a very reluctant writer. We just started IEW a few weeks ago and this is one assignments. I think it's full of run on sentences but I don't want to discourage him. Please, if you have the time, take a look and help me help my ds edit this paper. Thanks! The Sake Merchant and the Samurai It was a cool but cloudless day, shade cast by the falling cherry blossoms dappled the ground, and under a tree sat a Samurai, wounded at the battle of Sekigahara. A Sake merchant saw the wounded Samurai, and carefully tended his wounds. The Sake merchant was a native of Owari Province, at the time ruled by the benevolent but iron fisted Oda Nobunaga. Less than a year afterwards, the Sake merchant borrowed three-hundred thousand moon from the local gang, but could not pay them back! A week later, the leader of the gang, Shishido Baiken, became impatient with the Sake merchant, and violently sheared off his hand! The Sake merchant, fearing for his life, hastily made for the city, hoping to hire a "Yojimbo" or bodyguard. When the Sake merchant finally arrived at the city of Kiyosu, he realized with a start that he hardly had enough money to feed himself, let alone hire a Yojimbo. Depressed, he collapsed in the street, and, thus making a spectacle of himself, was noticed by Shishido Baiken and his gang. But just as they were about to kill him, the Samurai that he had saved earlier recognized the Sake merchant, and lunged at Baiken, killing him in a single stroke! The rest of the gang, having witnessed their leader be killed so easily, fled in terror. And so, by his kindness to the Samurai the Sake merchant was saved.

Maybe I'm just used to girls and know how to handle them. It's rough, but I know what to expect and what to do. And I think my ds is just very difficult. There are times when I just don't like him very much. I always love him, but "liking" is a totally different thing.

I have 5 girls, 29, 27, 23, 21 and 9. I also have one 13 yo boy. All I can say is that I MUCH prefer daughters. :D

Normally I don't care and it's not my business. I guess it's just my SIL. I think the iPod thing was just the final straw for me. She completely neglects this little boy. He failed 1st grade partly because he probably has ADHD and she won't follow through with testing and she has never helped him with his homework and doesn't even know when the bus picks him up. He's been kicked off the bus several times this year. She NEVER cooks for him. She works as a waitress 7 days a week so she doesn't have to be around him too much (she's admitted to it). She decided to have a sleepover birthday party for him, came home from work that day and fell asleep and went back to work at 6 a.m. the next morning. Her dh, who isn't the father, had to take care of all the little boys at the party. She's got a lot of problems and she won't do anything about them and because of this her son is suffering. I've tried to help but it's a very very complicated situation that would take too long to explain. You wouldn't really want to know anyways ;)

Yes, she does and I also send food over.

A 7 year old boy who has broken 4 Nintendo DS's! This is my SIL who waitresses 7 days a week so she doesn't have to take care of her child. They live in squalor and she's too cheap to pay $17/month for trash service. My dh comes from a really weird family, but this just blew my mind. We make 5x what they make and would never buy an iPod Touch for a 7yo and our dc take excellent care of ALL their things. This just really irks me.

I used SL back when I hs-ed my now 21 and 23 year old dd's and I bought it again for my 13 yo ds when he was 6-10. I loved box day and looking through all the books. We have many great SL memories. :grouphug: But, after all the bologna that's gone on with them this year it just left a very bad taste in my mouth. I won't buy from SL anymore. I bought Memoria Press's 4th grade for my dd and I really really love MP and am very pleased with their new curriculum packages ..... but box day wasn't the same. :sad:

I was just looking at Pentime but couldn't find any samples. How do you like it?

I guess it wasn't really funny. I DO care about honeybees, but I sure would like to take a flamethrower to those darn beetles! I wouldn't have roses anymore but I wouldn't have beetles either :001_smile:

I thought about using that bacteria, but our entire neighborhood uses chemicals and I doubt they think twice about it, especially the people on the golf course side. I've never seen such anti-"green" people. I thought chipmunks ate grubs and we've got dozens of them. I've never been able to plant sunflowers because the chipmunks eat the seeds EVERY darn year I plant them!

GEEZ, I said I was kidding .... "J/K" just kidding:chillpill: the bugs are safe. ALL the bugs are safe. I swear.

Too late. I sprayed the ENTIRE yard and got my neighbors to spray theirs also. J/K I've been trying to catch them in the act so I can pick them off, but I haven't found a single one. I'm still searching for a solution.

I've been trying to figure out how to cram 3 years of Memoria Press into about 1 year or so. I asked over at MP but their forum doesn't get nearly the traffic this one gets. I want to cherry pick from Classical Studies, Christian Studies and Literature. It doesn't seem feasible to do FMOG AND the Dorothy Mills Ancient Greeks study. How do I choose and how do I know how much time to allow for each thing? I'm considering the Famous Men studies, the Dorothy Mills studies, the Trojan War, The Illiad and Odyssey, and I'm sure I'm leaving something out. If you are familiar with MP please feel free to post suggestions.

After reading LCC, I decided HOD is not the direction I want to go. I sold CTC for the second and FINAL time and I bought MP's 4th grade package. I'm loving what I see!

I think I may go for the liquid Sevin.

Think someone would let me borrow some for a few days? I'd love to own them but our zoning won't allow it.

what the heck do I get rid of those pesky beetles with? My knock-out roses are beautiful but the beetles are devouring all the leaves. Any ideas?