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  1. I'm a control freak and wouldn't want to give up control of the car. Everyone else should get an auto-pilot car though! :)
  2. Food. We have allergies which make food purchasing very costly.
  3. :grouphug: Sending good thoughts for successful surgery and quick recovery.
  4. Would he be willing to wear underwear underneath the "too big" suit? It may feel the right size if the undies make it comfier.
  5. many hugs :grouphug: to you and your dd. I am so glad to hear there is some good news.
  6. You don't need the DVD, but I found that it helped with pronunciation by hearing the word repeated a few times in context, not just in song. My Ds loved the monkey videos on the DVD and I appreciated the word root portion. I wouldn't say it was essential, but it was important enough that I bought the DVD for level 2 when we moved on to that level.
  7. Congratulations!! :party: He's such a cutie!
  8. Something like Flipboard could work for that. You choose categories of news that you want to read. I am able to get local news on mine and I also select topics like homeschooling, astronomy, education, cooking, beautiful photos, etc. If something big happens it usually shows up in at least one of my topics, but things like a bus accident in another country or doom and gloom articles don't tend to crop up in the categories I have chosen.
  9. I too am debating if AAR is worth the money for us. With ds1, I used the Reading Lesson ($20) and he learned to read in just a few months. We then went right into AAS, which has been very much worth the money. Ds2 is now 3 and we have been doing AAR pre reading over the last few months. He already knew his letters and their sounds thanks to the Leapfrog videos. He has learned rhyming from AAR and he does enjoy the craft letter pages. But could we have done that much less expensively? Yes. Ds' favourite part of AAS pre is the zebra puppet, and we bought that separately. I am leaning towards getting The Reading Lesson for him and knowing that we can get AAR if it turns out we need a much more incremental program.
  10. Thanks again! I filled it out this morning with some of the books Ds read this year for Grade 2. It looks so neat!
  11. Thank you so much!! I loved it too and plan to use yours to record our reading.
  12. This class' average age is 93. I'm sure this program kept a lot of these seniors going by giving them a goal and a purpose. The video is so sweet. I love seeing people excited about learning, and this shows that it is never too late to start! http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/elderly-education-classes-riverton-valley-view-villa-1.3635934
  13. REAL Science Odyssey Biology would probably be a good fit. The experiments are pretty easy but also fun. I like the lab sheets because they encourage the scientific method of making a hypothesis and then recording results and answering a few questions about what happened.
  14. REAL Science Odyssey has worked well for us. It is completely secular and covers many of the same topics as BFSU.
  15. I have the latest version and the text is not adjustable.
  16. I got: Score for Beast Academy: 15 Score for Math Mammoth: 6 Score for Math U See: 0 Score for Mathematical Reasoning: 9 Score for Miquon: 11 Score for RightStart: 11 Score for Saxon: 3 Score for Shiller: 9 Score for Singapore: 11 Score for Teaching Textbooks: 0 We use Beast and it works well for us. We used Miquon prior to that and it worked too.
  17. Ds got an Evo Beep Beep when he turned two. It is very sturdy and well-built. He loves it. Older Ds had an Early Rider bike when he was little. It was wood, so not what you are looking for, but it was also an excellent balance bike.
  18. You are not alone! Ds has a whole collection (at least 8) of liquid soaps so he can get the right scent at the right time. Sounds are an issue too and he has a set of those industrial type noise blocker ear coverings. The sound issues have greatly improved over the years, but the scent ones have intensified. I just keep buying him new soaps and it keeps him fairly happy.
  19. I'm interested too. I recently ordered the Homegrown Preschooler book, but it hasn't arrived yet. I would like to know how much more is in the curriculum vs the book. Are most of the activities in the book but they are more scheduled in the curriculum, or are most of the curriculum activities new?
  20. We did a hop-on-hop-off bus tour of the different districts. It was very interesting and we were able to see a lot of the city and get out when we wanted (you can get on the next tour bus that goes by).
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