We are redoing our bedroom and I need some window treatment ideas. We have a sliding glass door to our balcony. What would you use for an updated window treatment on this door? We’re painting a neutral, warm sand color, and I am absolutely bad with color schemes. Floor will be light oak, rug is patterned with blue background/main color.

I did not grade homework at all; I considered it practice work.

LL Bean has quality sheets that are comfy and hold up tor epeated washings.

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Nioxin worked wonders for me. If you have a wad of money to spend on shampoo, Zenagen is a higher quality shampoo with the same results, but leaves a nicer texture on the hair. Be forewarned that these shampoos won't work for about 1/3 of the people who try them, but the change was dramatic for me; it took 2-3 months to see notable progress.

I have been teaching for almost 20 years at the college level, and I have seen a huge degradation over that time span. From year to year, it's only a small amount, but from 10 years ago, 20 years ago, it's huge.

One child used History Odyssey's Ancient History Level 3 and the second child used SWB's History of the Ancient World. We were very happy with both, although the HO history is very in-depth, requires more than a credit's worth of work, and can be difficult to schedule because one day is a slight amount of work and the next day is an essay.

I mark the wrong answers, grade accordingly, and make him/her fix them for no points. If the student does not understand the wrong answers, we review then together. If there is a major not understanding issue, we re-do the unit and re-do the test. I do this whether the student got an "A" or not; we always review incorrect asnwers.

I kept the middle school work because when DD was in middle school and was not sure if she would homeschool high school, a few private schools told me they could give her credit for her high school courses done on middle school with evidence and test scores. So I hung onto them once DD had her diploma in hand. The chance we would need them was astronomically small, but hey, if that asteroid hit us, we were prepared!

I keep everything, LOL! For each child: I have a copier paper box for each year (year is labelled on top/sides of box). Everything they do in a school year goes in one box, grouped by subject, and each subject's papers are secured with a rubber band. Then I store the box in the attic. It seems like a lot to do, but it's really not; I just toss everything in the year's box and stash it in the attic. I don't have to scan, or think about, or even sort anything because everything is in the box. If I ever need *anything* for any reason, I know exactly where to find it. I discard the elementary boxes after the child completes middle school. I discarded the middle school boxes after the child completed high school (except for Algebra I and Latin for high school credit). I'll discard the high school boxes after the freshman child graduates college. The rationale behind this is that it is simple and quick, and if something ever turns up that DD needs to have evidence of something for a high school class, it's at my fingertips.

DD's school is doing this through the online portal of her large state university.

All of this. I found organic chem the most challenging course I took in my biology/chemistry major.

Thanks so much for all this info! Regarding the bolded: It's OK for me to sign as the teacher then? We did not do tests for ths class; will that be an issue? We did readings, discussions, and written assignments only in a standard high school level text.

Have the student work through Lial's College Math with flash cards for multiplication facts. It's geared toward older people who need to beef up their pre-algebra skills. It sounds like the student has a poor foundation in arithmetic to have plotzed the first semester of Algebra 1. After that, head for an Algebra 1 course.

Another vote for Henle - it's a seamless transition for a kid who has some FF Latin background.

We had the DVDs but found the curriculum explained the material well and the Saxon Teacher videos were kind of useless because they just repeated, verbatim, the examples in the book. We used Art Reed's DVDs, which were helpful in the sense that they gave alternate explanations and examples, but they are not necessary.

Ellen McHenry's Botany is actually pretty heavy-duty science. There's a crap-ton of detail in there.

Can someone point me to information on what a student has to do to be eligible to play sports in college? I know I saw some packet somewhere and it we had to register with the organization; I think it said in the junior year? Can you register early,. or must it be in the junior year? I know I have to fill out course worksheets. Who signs those, me or an outside co-op teacher that taught the class? Lots of questions and I'm not sure where to start. What are the pitfalls for us here? Oh, hell, I don't even know how one goes about marketing the student for this or how they get recruited. DS just told me this is a goal of his.

I don't mean to be fatalistic, or to promote getting the virus intentionally. Sorry if it came off that way. But I do not see it playing out any other way, given that a vaccine (if one can be found that is safe and effective) is longer away than a year.

I think I might be able to bang out more - i'm just too intimidated to try. I'll increase week by week.

I would take a look at the Pandia Press history programs.

Join a PA homeschoolers group and ask on their forums for assistance; you'll have more people to answer you there. I did that for NY when I thought we would be moving to NY

This was my son - he had no interest in the BA books because he thought the cartoonish books were silly. The kid actually opted for Saxon over BA, which surprised me; told me he wanted his math straight up, LOL..

Give her a BA workbook as a supplement and let her "plan" some of the work, choosing to work at her pace. Make sure you choose a level she can handle.

I think the following curricula generally have great teacher support/materials: Writing With Skill and Writing With Ease; Classical Academic Press' Logic/Rhetoric, writing; everything from Memoria Press, everything from Rod and Staff; Saxon math; Michael Clay Thompson English; Jacob's Geometry; Zumdahl chemistry.