Stephen King's book On Writing is really good. He agrees with you on "said" and on adverbs. For those of you looking for a book with some additional info on writing, this one is neat since at the end he includes a first draft of a chapter of his and his editing marks on it with an explanation of why he changed what he did.

I'll show my son stuff that comes up much much later in math and if he can handle it, I'll let him do it. I really strongly dislike (hate, abhor) the texts that have students write the answer to a division problem as the quotient with a remainder. It can cause problems later on (polynomial division). It also is nasty because you learn addition, subtraction, and multiplication as operations where you do something with two numbers, you get a single number as answer, but all of a sudden, when dividing, you get two numbers as an answer, not just one. That's not true. You get one number as an answer - it just often isn't in the same set of numbers (rational instead of integer). I do make my son use the remainder notation for a few problems, so he's exposed to it (especially due to standardized tests) but I prefer him to write answers as mixed numbers. Miquon does an excellent job of introducing division like this.

He's got a dairy allergy so butter would be very bad. Many of the suggestions here wouldn't work for us due to the allergies we've got.

We saw a dietician for my son recently. Her suggestion was to add margarine to everything. :glare: My son has nut and dairy allergies so we don't have some options for foods. We have started having him drink more juice rather than water. Hope you find some good solutions.

I'm so sorry. :grouphug:

Singapore. I like how it introduces concepts (generally) and I love the solid foundation with word problems. If you use the IP and CWP, it's really great.

Oh, I think my husband would be thrilled if my desk were that clean.

I haven't noticed anything Randian. It seems like a straightforward diagramming book. Sister bernadette's bark king dog is neat, but Rex Barks shows how to diagram much more explicitly.

Rex Barks It gives the info on how to diagram and you can then diagram the practice sentences from MCT.

We did The Hobbit as a family read-aloud when my son was 7. After we finished, he wanted to pick up LoTR. I let him & he read the series on his own. After he finished reading the books, we tried to show him the movies, but he got too cranky with how they messed up the characters and the storyline that we couldn't even finish Fellowship. We're not going to even attempt to show him the Harry Potter movies. :lol:

You'll have a number line in front of you anytime you draw one :) I see them as a great tool for learning basic facts at first. My son was in a private kindergarten and when the teacher was showing them the number line, one child asked what was to the left of zero. She said not to worry about that now. My son spoke up and said, "Oh, those are the negatives: negative one, negative two, ... " I teach math... hadn't realized he'd picked that one up at the time :) I don't see number lines as essential at an early age, but familiarity with them will be useful. Any real number can be represented on a number line (an important concept). The number lines are used when graphing on a coordinate plane, so getting used to plotting points on a number line is a good thing. When solving linear inequalities, you use a number line to graph the solution set (and the graph is really useful for writing the solution set using interval notation).

Hope he was seen in time and recovers well. My father-in-law had a heart attack yesterday. He had 3 stents put in and was released today. I'm hopeful that he can make enough lifestyle changes that he can live a long while still. Hope your co-worker's husband can have a similar outcome.

:iagree: And if you read on what people in universities generally think about education degrees... it isn't good. I have a graduate degree where half my courses were in education. They were the largest waste of time. I'm sure that some schools have good education programs. Many many education programs just aren't going to be worth much though. Major in something that there's a shortage of (any STEM field is great). You can teach - and get paid - while getting certified. But get a degree that's going to be worth something. Education really isn't it in my experience.

I have our Latin CD on it so that's how we do our chants. I've also got solutions manuals as pdfs on the iPad.

I've just placed my order for math for next year. We'll start in July. My books arrive Wednesday. :blush:

I agree that it's fine to do the narration without the questions if he's able to. We're doing WWE 3 and in the later lessons (think it starts in Week 21?) you do skip the questions. So you're just ahead of the game :)

Thanks. We're looking to go in the spring, so info is good :)

Not very. I'd expect the same names and the same time period but that's about it.

Easy Spirit.

Actually, I've seen it happen before - and with no note. They usually do it with spam but it's happened with other posts.

I asked dh's opinion and he said neither...get an iPad. :glare: His logic is that it's easy for quick gaming, games are cheap, and it's multiple-purpose. Depending on how you see using the system, he does have a point. We use the iPad far more than either system.

We have both. I vote Kinect. No need for controllers is nice! Fruit Ninja looks cool for the Kinect. There are also dance games for it and it's much nicer not using a floor mat.

Yup. And he knows where I keep our medical notebooks with all records.

Did not know that was today, but just back from dinner with a friend that I finished off with a chocolate martini and a chocolate cake. Yum!

I used to feel like that. Then my son snapped my very old copy of The Fellowship of the Ring in half while reading it. I've also done a LOT of sneezing from some of my older books while reading aloud. Now, I'm pretty happy reading off the iPad :) Lot less dusty! Most of the B&N books can be downloaded through Project Gutenberg for free. They also put a number of the B&N versions for free download every so often and cycle through what's available. However, I saw a couple of typos in Alice in Wonderland. :glare: