Nifty. The shadow is what does it... still a bit off. I'd like to see what the greyscales of the other colors are... which match and which differ. (Oh dear... now I'm picturing doing it cross stitch...)

Now there's an earworm for you! :glare: :D

You get the same type of puzzles (but many many more) through Dell Logic Puzzle books. 1 star puzzles are about the MindBender puzzle complexity. You likely will need to rewrite the grids for your kids though (small in magazine). 3 star puzzles were about the difficulty of the analytic questions when I took the GRE (Graduate Record Exam) in the early 90s :) I've never completed a 4 or 5 star puzzle. Value packs are here. (I used to find the Dell books at drugstores but I haven't seen the logic ones in recent years.)

:grouphug: Hope you get good news soon.

I yelled a lot. I don't recommend it. :glare: We started using All About Spelling (AAS) and that helped my son immeasurably in sounding out words. If he's not sounding out a word correctly we can always go to the spelling board, list it with tiles, and that helps. (Of course at this stage we run out of letters... but it really is what made the difference in sounding out words... and cutting down on yelling.)

My son got hooked on Calvin at 5 too. I crocheted him a Hobbes for his 6th birthday :) He moved on to Foxtrot (after reading every Calvin book I have) and now catches some of the allusions from Foxtrot as we read literature now. It's fun to hear, "Oh! That explains this comic..." :D I think the comics increased his vocabulary too. My husband was teasing him the other night and asked him to use an impressive vocabulary word to show he had a good vocabulary (after ds was bragging about it). Ds said, "Let me ponder that..." and went to think, not realizing that "ponder" would have done it :)

We also did the exacto knife. I noticed that one bar needs taping down again. My son enjoys putting the words in jail. He also writes down reasons they're in jail on the back... and occasionally there's a jail-break.

It was showing no returns for me as well when I was looking for "House" :glare: It did come up when I searched Movies, but blech.

Post on the Accelerated Learner Board (or search there... there have been discussions about this). Hoagie's Gifted gives some good resources and ideas too. They have information about testing there too. I've tested my son each year - partially so we can both get some testing experience - and partially so I can get some verification of what I've done. I used the CAT on level in first grade and out of level in 2nd grade. 3rd grade was the ITBS on level with the CogAT. I'm not sure if I'm testing him this year at home or not. The CogAT was useful. The CAT hasn't been very useful. There are also talent searches that let your kids take out of level tests. We did the SCAT in 2nd grade through CTY and I am leaning towards doing the Explore this year through NUMATS. Hope this gives you some starting points for clarifying your questions. I think that's really your first step: what do you want to learn by testing? It sounds like you may want to see how your daughter learns and what teaching approaches will work best with her. If that's the case, an individually administered test (like WISC or the like) by someone who will then meet with you and answer questions may be best. Good luck!

No ideas, just :grouphug:

Is this a counselor she's been seeing? It may be a way you two can talk in a "safer" environment for her. It does sound like there are medication issues that need to be straightened out first though. Would it be possible for you to say you're willing to go with her but after she gets the medication adjusted correctly first? (I'd imagine that should take a month at minimum...) Good luck.

I don't know if this is quite what you're looking for, but we just watched the Nova series: Becoming Human. It's instant watch on Netflix. Really good, talking about some of the species on the hominid evolutionary branch and how the fossil record is filling in. We just finished up Oxford's World in Ancient Times Early Humans. It's been fascinating to me to see how much has been discovered just in recent years (past couple decades... since my undergrad...). I'm finding it fascinating.

I placed an order last Sunday (8/7). There were a couple of things on backorder. I got an email on Tuesday (8/9) saying what was backordered. Everything shipped today and is scheduled to be delivered this Thursday (8/18). I called today and 2 things are still on backorder. 2 things that had been backordered did make into this shipment though.

:party: Hope the interview goes well. It's great you're able to see some good going on. Hang in there! :grouphug:

We're seeing stems and words in bold in the sentences in Practice Town. We haven't memorized the words in Grammar Town though. We are doing Caesar's English and memorizing those though! The GT list has a few stems that aren't in CE. I wonder if they'll be in CE2.

Very glad for you and your daughter. Wonderful news!

My husband and I met in high school. I was 16 (about to turn 17); he was 18. He told me he loved me after only a month or so. I told him he was confused and we were too young. He thought about it, then told me they were his feelings, I didn't have to reciprocate, but he loved me. :glare: We've been together since 1989 and married since 94. I think lots of kids use the word love for infatuation, but as a pp said, so do many adults. I never thought I'd meet the person I'd marry in high school. I did fight it for a bit... but we're good together. We also have made an effort to grow together. It isn't all rainbows and unicorns. We choose each other always and choose the marriage over our individual issues. We're lucky - and we work at it. So love from high school is possible (although I still think wildly unlikely).

I've had graphing calculators since 89. It was a Casio back then, before TI had the stranglehold they currently have. In grad school I assisted with a calculus class where they used HPs (I never saw the love) and I have a TI now. They're great for quick computation (hello matrices). When I taught trig at the cc (wow... over a decade ago), I did give tests that were part without the calculator and then part with the calculator. I also clear programs before tests. I don't like the over-reliance on technology, especially at a low math level. There is one teacher at our cc who I argue with about technology use. :D He's a great guy, a good teacher, and I'd be happy with my son taking his course. He uses the graphing calculator in all his courses. But he does seem to do it effectively: as a lab where they use real data and see how that relates to the algebra they're learning in class. I know he does one lab where data is collected with the graphing calculator (drop a ball and the calculator (through an additional tool) records the height of the ball, then see the table, graph, and analyze the data). You can set up a split-screen so you see the table and the graph at the same time. This allows you to do a ton of computations and graphs that wouldn't be possible when graphing by hand. I can definitely see the purpose of using a graphing calculator as an investigative tool. I teach a low enough level math course at the cc that I don't have time to teach the calculator as well, and I definitely prefer students not use them in my courses (low level algebra). I likely will have my son using one though when he's up to algebra or when we start exploring with statistics (there's another place the calculator is really needed).

:grouphug: You're dealing with a ton. Sometimes it can help to think what you'd say to someone else in your situation. Would you tell them they were behaving terribly, or would you say we've all been there. Hang in there and try again. I find I'm kinder to that other person than to myself on occasion. Hope you get some answers, rest, and peace this week. :grouphug:

I cook lunches when my husband's not home. My son has dairy and nut allergies, so we don't have many places he can eat out and we're still trying to find quick meals. :glare: I'm so envious of mac & cheese some days. My husband cooks when he's home. He also does all the grocery shopping. He cleans the kitchen too. Yup... I got a good one! :D

You weren't thinking of Valley Girl? :001_huh: :D

Those are both movies we own... and Full Monty quotes occur around here... We just re-watched Milagro Beanfield War today. It's American rather than British, but it has some of the same flavor. Brassed Off is a possibility. A Room With a View is a period piece but also great fun. For sitcoms: As Time Goes By is one of my favorites. Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, is another favorite here... although some may find it inappropriate :) I love the costumes. Calendar Girls (although my husband says it may be too depressing).

The Cat in Numberland by Ivar Ekeland is a picture book, but it's got a neat illustration of countably infinite sets. I think Crimson Wife recommended it. I'd check if your library has it rather than buying it though... :)

In recent years, I think all colleges have gotten a lot more closed door about who's attending. I imagine at a class that's a large lecture hall, you could pretty safely sit in (I'm thinking those classes that seat 200+ students, more at a large uni), but I know at our cc, no one who isn't currently on the roster is supposed to be in the classroom. My classes are small enough (never over 30) that I know everyone in the class. Our cc has an age restriction too. It's not clear on the website, but they don't want kids under 16 there. I'll be checking on that when my son is in hs.

:seeya: That's us! My son was a self-taught reader (although a bit later). But he absolutely refused to sound out words. All About Spelling has really worked well for him. I insisted on the tiles at the beginning to make the connection between one tile and one sound. When he mispronounces a word, we sometimes put it up on the board with the tiles and I have him sound it out. His only phonics experience has been with AAS. It's been a good fit for us. Hope you find something that works well for your son.