I read a lot! Rainbow Resource is a good place to look for information too. It can be really really easy to overbuy at first. I told my husband that I had about $2000 of stuff in the RR cart for first grade. He thought that was overkill :) we dropped back quite a bit from that. I was very happy with a Singapore Miquon combo. Miquon didn't make sense to me until I read the Notes to Teachers and First Grade Diary. I think I'd have done even more with Miquon in grade 1 and 2 in retrospect. I've been very happy with Singapore too. I haven't used BFSU, but it's what I would have liked to use for science. Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding. There's a yahoo group for it that's great. We read a lot of myths for social studies. I used Spelling Workout, but my son didn't retain anything. We switched to All About Spelling (AAS) in third grade and it was a much better fit and helped with phonics. We also used Getty Dubay for handwriting and Artistic Pursuits. There are homeschool classes in our area and those have been neat...zoo, state museum, art museum, historical society. Lots of read alouds. Welcome! The abbreviation sticky can be very helpful too :)

Dh and ds have finished up IT Crowd... they've now moved on to Red Dwarf. This should be fun. Thanks for heads up!

You can post what she's trying to do and see if some of us can help... When graphing, if you're in the Y= screen and you look at the top and any of the Plots are highlighted, that can cause problems with a graph not working. The MODE menu (top left key, next to 2nd) is good to check too... getting started, you'd want everything to the left highlighted. This is very basic and may not be what's causing a problem....

:iagree: Our cc uses Larson for Business Calculus and it's a really poor text, so I'd recommend avoiding that one (Larson's traditional calc text is fine IMO, but this one is just a reworking so not as well written). Check your cc for the calc they call Business Calc or similar. Trig is typically NOT a requirement (and the texts don't include trig). The MyMathLab software is available for some texts (those published by Pearson... Lial is a Pearson author) for free here. You don't have the videos for the class, but the online problems may be very useful.

It's a story. Why do so many people like action movies? Why do people like mysteries?

My personal library is divided into genres... I've got science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and romance. The classics & young adult stuff is separate for my son & for school. I really dislike Harlequins (although some of the Nora Roberts ones are readable). IF you try a romance sometime, go with Julia Quinn, Eloisa James (she has a PhD in English & works as an associate professor), possibly Mary Balogh (I'm thinking the Slightly series). I actually highlighted a couple lines from Sarah MacLean's One Good Earl Deserves a Lover that made me laugh out loud when reading it. And then bought one of her books since the library doesn't have it available yet. If you don't try any, that's fine too. There are a lot of books out there in a lot of genres that are good. I don't read horror typically. I get some of the eeeww from some mysteries (John Sanford in particular). I don't have any interest in that changing :)

I absolutely used to agree... then I got into them :) What I like about romance is the happily-ever-after. It is unrealistic - but I know how the book will end when I pick it up. We won't have a dystopian future or an ending that twists. They're popcorn books - good for cheering me up when life is a bit out of control. Some people will have comfort movies or tv shows (As Time Goes By for me). I pick up a book by an author I trust & I know I"ll have a couple of hours with characters I'll enjoy and they'll end up together at the end. No suspense... it's the journey. It's also been interesting reading romance over the last twenty years (oh my, I'm getting older) and seeing the shifts in the genre over the years - just like you can see how styles change over the years in mystery, SF, fantasy. Some authors do use euphemisms ("member" is a good one... just tosses me right out of the book) but that's changed over the years. There's much less "purple prose" nowadays :) It may just be a genre you never get into, but if you want to try one sometime, check out some of the authors mentioned - and the library is the best place to start! As for unrealistic, I had my husband read the first JD Robb book (Nora Roberts writing - futuristic police procedural mystery/romance). He only read the one & his comment was that Roarke is Batman :) Kind of accurate. Still fun escape for me!

Tag your thread with "grade level" and you'll find a lot of other threads about this topic. (I wish we could tag threads again... it'd help SO MUCH with searches!) My son has an end of August birthday with a Sept 1 start date for school in our state. We have him in the correct grade for his age. I didn't think of holding back a year when he started K - I just knew that full day would be too long. We don't have maturity issues, but we're talking about holding back a year so he can have an extra year before college. We were going to repeat this year, but we've decided to move ahead and then possibly repeat next. I don't want to repeat once he starts taking courses for high school credit, so that's our line for a firm decision. I keep going back and forth about the repeat year. The tag search will give you a lot of threads with a lot of discussion. Good luck with your decision!

Yikes! Not the way you want prom to be memorable!

There are really poorly written romances. There are also good ones. Nora Roberts is pretty good. I enjoy Susan Elizabeth Phillips. For historicals, I've just found Sarah MacLean. Julia Quinn is fun. I like Mary Balogh. Just like any genre, you've got good ones and poor ones. Styles change over time too. I'd be very leery about reading romances from the 80s. If you have an ereader, your library may have books you can check out. Makes it easy to try one and stop reading if it's dreadful (I did that last night with a book that was just unreadable). Good luck finding something you enjoy!

(hugs) What a day! I'd have locked the doors too. Good job keeping your head! I'd also be comforting myself with a lot of chocolate and probably a good cry to let out some of the terror. Glad everyone is okay.

Placement tests link. There is some review when a concept returns in a later book but there isn't much. I think you'd be okay trying to start in 3A, but I'd also really recommend giving the placement test first. I have been very happy with the Standards edition, but there has been talk about revisions due to Common Core. Check threads here and comments on the Singapore forums.

Somewhat OT... Mr. & Mrs. Smith is rated PG-13. I think the sex and violence in it is over the top enough to be R rated. So personally, I don't trust the movie ratings. I'm fine with my son seeing some R rated content due to language and nudity but I'm not okay with some stuff that's PG-13 for violence.

I haven't seen it, but I've also heard the violence level is higher in this one.

Wonderful!! I'm sure you're all incredibly relieved!

As always, it'll vary according to school. If she's looking to adjunct, it won't matter that undergrad and grad are the same school typically. I have a MAT degree and adjunct. At our cc, you need 18 graduate hours in your subject to teach. I have 21 in math, so I can teach for the math department. English is one that there is a glut of people with degrees. It is certainly possible that she'd be able to pick up a course or two at the cc, but it's highly unlikely to get hired full time in English with only a masters. I wouldn't go for a degree with the idea of using it for part time work. That'd be really pricey! She could work part time at the tutoring center at the cc....get a feel for the population and see if she might like teaching...but getting a degree to teach part time is a bit crazy.

Call or email the department chair and let them know you're available. Often positions don't get advertised.

I'm a homeschooler and I'm fine with more regulation. I want to be sure everyone is getting a decent education. How much regulation gets to be the question... So...can we move on?

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This is where it'll really vary depending on the college.

I agree with base 10 blocks. Use the blocks first. Then have him use the blocks while you do the writing. Then have him use the blocks and do the writing. Only then do you move on to the writing only.

You can't make more at Walmart for the same amount of time you're out of the house. For out of the house time, the adjunct work at the cc pays great. For total work time, it's not so great. The cc's I've worked at (2) have common syllabi for classes. The lower level classes have a departmental grading scale and departmental finals. They want some consistency. I can understand the reasoning. You'll still have politics. I teach nights and so I avoid many of those issues. Intellectual conversation.... :lol: . It'll depend on what you teach. It is adult conversation at least. I sure needed that when my son was little. I don't know if I'd do it if I didn't need the money. I like keeping my hand in - if I needed to go back to work full time ever, I've got a work history. I really enjoy helping the students I can help. I love seeing the light go on with some of them. I'm at a stage where I probably spend 3-4 hours a week outside of class doing prep and grading on average through the semester. More at the start of term. I also have my lecture notes made up and I don't need to do much revision on them. When prepping a class for the first time, it's more like 6-7 hours a week for the class. Grading time depends on the size of the class as well. You could always try teaching one or two nights and see how it goes. Aim for as few preps as possible. I'd do back-to-back classes that were the same prep. Fall semester tends to be roughest with new college students coming in. By spring more of them have figured out expected behavior. Plan on the first few weeks being exhausting. I try to take the first week of classes off with our homeschool since I'm dealing with enough paperwork and emails to keep me busy.

I'd think it means you can use his first name now. You can still choose to use last.

I use MML in my on campus classes. Students have unlimited attempts on homework to get 100% - but only until the due date (generally within one week of us covering the material in class). Some students still don't do the homework. I'm giving the final tonight, so closing out the semester. Some students have HW averages in the 30s. Very discouraging. I also give them quizzes on MML. These are practice tests - a bit tougher (more problems) than the in class tests and with the same time as the in class test. Typically students score within 10 points of their quiz score on the actual tests. I do this to encourage students to put themselves in a testing situation before the actual test. I count the highest quiz score for their grade. Ideally, this helps prevent students from freezing when they're taking the test - they're already used to seeing the questions mixed up rather than just one type at a time as in homework. When I have taught internet courses, I've kept to departmental policy which was to allow 2 attempts at the tests online at the testing center. This allowed for computer glitches as well. We do have a self-paced on campus class where students do get unlimited attempts on each test, but they cannot progress until they reach a mastery score with each homework assignment, quiz, and test. This class has a teacher in the room during class time so students can get help from a teacher if they don't understand something but they're also able to progress at their own speed. Some students have the ability to complete more than one course in a semester. So for multiple test attempts, there may be valid reasons for allowing it. There are also some teachers who just have silly policies; it could be that as well. MML does automatically generate problems, but if you redo them often enough, you will often encounter the same problem and same numbers, so it can be gamed in some ways. It's still the best way I've seen to get students to actually DO their work. And as Kiana mentioned above, that's a HUGE issue with math in particular.