My daughter is taking it on Wednesday as a sophmore, so it is just a practice for her.

All three of my daughters have a My Twinn doll. The two older ones also have one matching outfit for their dolls. They are good quality, but do not look exactly like the girls. But I have mistaken them for the girls at first glance when they first received the dolls. A few years ago we had my oldest's doll retouched and added glasses to it since she now has glasses. She was still in good shape, but she had been played with. DD was 16 and no longer playing with the doll, so we had it redone (hair redone and face touched up) so it would look like new. These dolls are bigger than the AG dolls and so the doll clothes and patterns for the AG dolls don't fit. But they ar the size of real baby clothes 3-6 months. My girls enjoyed dressing their dolls in the baby clothes they actually wore as babies! HTH Linda

It might depend on the college. My son took 2 CLEP tests and while he got the credit, it did not affect his GPA. I have never heard of CLEP test being recorded as grades for any of the colleges where his friends went either. Linda

a free fun sight to practice with is emusictheory.com. I have my dd work on it about 5 minutes at a time (I try for every day but I'm not that consistent.) She is improving knowing her notes. I hope this helps. Linda

My youngest turned 8 in April. A few ideas that got her wring about literature are: 1. She would read a chapter a day and then she wrote a journal entry about the most exciting thing that happened in the chapter. I told her I wanted two sentences (if I said I said I wanted a paragraph it made her anxious), and sometimes would get a half page. At other times I got just the two sentences. At the end of the book I had her design a cover page and stapled the pages into a book. 2. I had her write a travel brochure about the setting of the book and some exciting of the exciting sights to see there. Since she loves to draw and was learning about adjectives at the same time, this turned out quite "colorful". 3. As we went through another novel, I had a separate sheet of paper for each character. We would add new information about the characters in the chapter after each chapter. We did not write this in full sentences. At the end of the novel, we discussed which characters had changed and what brought about the change. We also talked about which ones had not changed. I think this also led to a discussion of the most important characters in the story and whether the other characters were necessary and why they were in the story. We did not do any other wring with this idea, because she had just turned 7, but if I did it now I would probably have her write a few sentences about the character that changed the most. These were the only novels we did any writing on last year; she read several more. But he is young, about the age she was when we did the first suggestion. She is my fourth child and non of the others were ready for this type of discussion and writing at 7 or 8 and sometimes not even until 10. All children are different, so go at his pace. My older two are both excellent writers and have both graduated (one from college even) and neither of them could do more than put a simple sentence together at 7. My oldest did not even write well until he was 17, so he is doing just fine for 7. Linda

I just looked at the site. It has a little disclaimer that it is not associated with Babywise in fine print at the bottom of one of the pages.

I would love to go with my dd, but she is needed to watch my little one. We were going away for just one night. I do hope he makes it back.

Well my husband just called. He leaves tomorrow for a business trip. It is a company emergency. I don't know when he will be back. He will miss my oldest dd's 19th birthday. He might miss our overnight trip for our 25th anniversary. I hope it is a short trip. I want the anniversary trip. That is all.:crying:

I was a computer engineer in a government contract company that built airplanes. Some of the military airplanes that are flying today are using my software designs. But after being home for almost 23 years, the technology has passed me by, so I really don't know what I would do if I went back to work.

We have to wait a month to celebrate, because my babysitter (18yo) is in an intense summer class right now and my dh is finishing a class for his doctorate, but we will be going to a bed and breakfast in a month.:001_smile:

Have you tried to hit the mute button again? On our remote this cancels the original mute and you have sound again. I'm praying for Mighty Joe.

I remember that two of them are Frindle and Half Magic. I also remember that I thought the selection was really good, not just the latest fad that I've seen some years. My little reader chose Half Magic even though she had already read it, but she had already read most of them from the library and it was nice to get one she could own and read over..and over..and over..and over... This kid likes to read and if she likes a particular book she reads it until she can almost quote every line. She loved the selection and had a very hard time making her selection.

A 5yo is still young; much of the understanding will come later. I just read and let them ask questions and/or narrate the story for me. They don't need to understand all of it right now. I still learn new things each time I read the Bible; my understanding increases with my maturity in the faith. Learning the stories now will let you discuss it in more detail later.

We just went in May. My family always loves this park and we go on homeschool day each May. They added several family rides last year if you do not like roller coasters. Linda

I think I am replying to the post about the creeks flooding in Ohio, but I'm really new to posting to just a single message, so if this not in the right place it should be under the Ohio River one. If this is the flash flood I'm thinking about it took place in 1990 (June 14) and the creeks were really small. The on behind my aunt and uncle's house we could walk down to and wade in. The water never was even to my knees (and I am quite short). Until the night of the flood when it wiped out my aunt and uncle's trailor and it took them days to find the bodies. My oldest daughter was just 9 months old and had had breathing problems since birth. I was flying back to the funeral from Texas with her but she started running a high fever. I could not risk fjlying with her and her getting anything serious so far from her specialist. I never got to formally say good-byr. They were like a second set of parents to me and this was like home since my dad was always traveling with the Air Force. Ok, enough of the sad memory. Flooding can be fast and cause a seemingly harmless creek to become a death trap. Linda

I agree that it is very difficult to find books that challenge but are not emotionally too much. My little one likes to re-read quite a bit so that solves the problem some. She also likes to read quite a bit of non-fiction and biographies, so that helps some. One thing I have done that she thoroughly enjoys and to have her journal the book. After each chapter, I have her write about her favorite part of the chapter. Some days I get quite a long paper and other days I get only a few sentences. But she loves to write and this lets me see where I can work on writing skills also. I actually wish I could discuss more with this child; she has great insights and will discuss for hours, but she is my youngest by far and the others are needing me for high school work. Right now getting ready for college with my older ones is taking up so much of my time that I just find books that I think she will enjoy and hand them to her. Then she follows me to the garden to talk about them.

I just wanted to say that I will have my 8yo in Saxon 5/4 starting in August. She also has just finished Saxon 3. My older child did this too and is currently going into 10th grade and into Saxon Advanced Math. The older had no problem doing this and the younger is very excited about starting the different math book. I did/will write out the problems on on paper for her the first half of the year and then transition to her doing it all herself. Just another thought.

My youngest is also a very good reader. What I do is novel studies. I find that I can challenge her more if I do a novel and talk about the characterization, the setting, the plot, the antagonist, and the protagonist. Have you ever read the book "Deconstructing Penguins"? At the same time I was going to stop her BJU reading because it really is beneath her level, but she begged for it. I do it a year ahead without the workbooks because they are really beneath her level. But we do it very fast, like an entire story or two a day (we do not break up the stories into several lessons). I actually would just stop this and just do novels, but she likes it so very much. So we read and talk about the stories, pointing out any literary items I want her to know (like foreshadowing) that she may not have been introduced to before. This is an easy way to introduce something that might be harder to explain in a longer novel. I really just let her lead the way. Hope this helps. Linda

I have been homeschooling for 18 years now. My oldest, just turned 4 when we officially started, just graduated from college and started work last week. The baby is going into the third grade, so I will be doing this for a few more years.

Robin My son just graduated with an EE degree from UTA. He only did Saxon for high school, no extra geometry course. Both his SAT and PSAT math scores were near perfect. My daughter also did well on the SAT and PSAT math sections with only Saxon and nothing else (except some SAT review books). So it is possible to do well with no additional geometry. I think it just depends on the child.

This is really a happy/sad moment for me. I started homeschooling him when he was 4 and now he is graduating from college on Saturday! He is getting a degree in EE and is graduating with honors. I'm so proud of him.:hurray: But then the following weekend we pack him up and move him about 3 hours away to his new job that he starts the following week. My only little boy is now a man! He has been on his own at college for the last few years of course, but this feels so permanent.:001_unsure:

I have used this book twice now and never needed a graphing calculator.

We do all the problems. And with the littles, we do the entire meeting every day. Yes it is long, but we do it and have seen it work.

My son went through Calculus with Saxon. We did not use the Dive CD's, just had the solution manual. He did fine in college, graduating with an EE degree in May.

We have used Saxon from Saxon 2 through Calculus (actually my oldest did not start Saxon until Algebra 2) for 2 children and are doing Algebra 2 and Saxon 3 for the third time. My oldest will graduate in May with an EE degree and only missed one on the SAT math section. I think Saxon can and does teach math. All my children, even my non-mathy ones are told they do well in math.