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  1. re the gnats, I had hundreds of them at the end of last summer, horribly damaging my plants roots. A friend recommended I water my plants with chamomile tea as a way to control them and it totally cleared up my infestation. Initially, I added a little cinnamon to the water as well, but a couple of my plants didn't like it and the chamomile seems to be working well as a maintenence/preventative alone.
  2. Memorial/Awareness/Fundrasier Shirts for Chris Keith and Isaac Miller http://fosterhomeschoolclasses.blogspot.com/p/memorialawarenessfundrasier-shirts-for.html
  3. Vance's DariFree http://www.gfcf-foods.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=1814&Click=4 It has a very mild, bland flavor and smells slightly sweet, sweeter than it tastes, actually. It makes fabulous puddings and ice cream too!
  4. The Blue (not Light Blue) has worked well for us. It is arranged topically and includes instructional text. Light Blue is almost the exact same content, but arranged by grade. Golden is one page worksheets by grade with no instruction. Green is almost identical content to Golden except organized by topic rather than grade. It also does not include explanations.
  5. Interested too. HARTZ almost killed my cats so I am leery of using chem stuff on them again.
  6. My 6th and 7th graders are about 1/3 of the way through Chem III. They like it, but often double up on days because it is a light program compared to what they are used to. They have commented that they would prefer the labs had more direction. Almost everything is included so we are getting it done which was always a challenge with other programs where I had to pull it together. I would not consider this a 1 yearhigh school level program as written.
  7. Math Mammoth and Life of Fred. Sometimes Singapore for the word problems. We started with Miquon & Singapore. I like Singapore but my children both eventually struggled. For a while one kept using it while the other switched to MM. Then the one using Singapore switched to MUS. Then the one using MM asked to switch to MUS as well and made HUGE leaps forward. At times they hit a point where they are struggling with MUS and we go back to some of the MM Blue to get mastery of the topics. They prefer MUS and it seems to be working well as a spine. It is just not always enough imo. Sometimes they just need concepts explained a different way. Sometimes MUS doesn't cover concepts when when I think it should or in as much depth as I would prefer. We use LOF too, but just for fun. We do it together and I've purposely kept LOF slightly behind where they are otherwise. We are moving into Algebra now so figuring out all over again what to use!
  8. We used them more when my kids were younger. The little books were a good way to ease my kids into taking notes, writing down their narrations, doing research etc. Somehow the little books make the writing seem more manageable or less intimidating to them. They are a lot of work. I cut most of them out (greatly prefered straight sided that I could do with my papercutter!). Eventually we switched to notebooking with pretty pages broken up with picture blocks etc and now they do well with plain paper.
  9. We started with binders but my kids and I find them difficult to write in, I find them bulky and awkward and I can't tell you how many of those little reinforcing donut stickers we have gone through. I recieved a comb bind machine for Christmas after 3 years of asking and it is FABULOUS. We absolutely prefer having things bound to binders. My daughter likes keeping her books as is, my son asks to have the spines chopped and pages bound. He needs it to lay flat. I find things get done more that I can grab bound books rather than loose paper or binders. I have not had any problems comb binding items that were previously 3 hole punched. I've picked altered versions of books used over original bindings because I find them easier to use. I think that is a personal preference thing.
  10. I see someone else already suggested Lial's, it was the first I thought of too. http://www.amazon.co...l/dp/032157270X Something that is going to cover your bases but move at a faster pace for an older student. I have friends who are very happy with JUMP. I've used Math Mammoth Blue series quite a bit to reinforce topics my children struggled with. My kids LOVED Timez Attack. They still play for fun sometimes. It is basically glorified flashcards, but sometimes that is what you need. Getting those facts down cold really helped everything else progress more smoothly for us. I regret listening to the people who told me not to stress it, that the facts would come in time, let them have cheatsheets etc. For one kid it did, my other used the sheets like a crutch and it held him back.
  11. We have been told dust mite allergy is often correlated with shellfish allergy as well.
  12. Have you seen this article? Mother of all Food Allergies http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476%2803%2900273-7/fulltext I read it when it was first published and it was such a relief to know there were other kids out there like mine and Drs who would take us seriously. My now teen is still elemental formula dependant. I know you have insurance issues but if something goes through, Dr. James Franciosi (Who Worked with Dr. Putnam who wrote the above article) recently moved down to Florida. We saw him for a while - he was amazing. http://findaprovider.nemours.org/Search/Profile/64878
  13. We did it with 8-14 year olds. It took 1hr from set up to clean up. It was part of a 4 class series so that hour was dissecting the pellet, building/gluing skeletons on black paper and identifying the skeletons. The local CC hosts a science fair every year aimed at 5-12 year olds and one of the activities they have is owl pellet dissection. The kids probably spend about 10-20 min pulling apart the pellet, but they are mostly on their own with just a guide sheet. The local science museum did it as a 45 min class and they included children down to 5. IIRC, the younger ones needed more help identifying what they were looking for.
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