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Personally, I like the very slight vanilla flavor of Chobani, but then again, I like the flavor of plain yogurt. I used to make my own, put it over granola with a tiny sprinkling of raw sugar and called it good.
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Baby Stella by Manhattan Toy. Available in many independent toy stores and on Amazon and from lots of other online retailers.
Both of my girls received these when they turned three. My 6 year still plays with hers, and my 8 year old only recently gave hers away.
The quality is lovely, they are sweet and cuddly. They have a heft to them, too. Not a "stuffed doll" feeling.
Highly recommend!
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Oh yeah... it was GUUUUUUUD. (Not taunting you, just encouraging you to keep on trying!!!!!)
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Thanks. These are all really great ideas...
For those of you with a Fire, is there a reason you went with the more expensive Fire? Did you choose it as an iPad substitute, or simply because you wanted color?
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We are buying a Kindle for our 8 year old.
Are there ways to set up parental controls, so she doesn't inadvertently purchase something willy nilly?
If your child has a Kindle, do you link it to your own Amazon account, or do you have to set up their own account for delivery purposes?
I have Kindle on my iPad, but I know you can set up several devices on one account. But if I do that, will she be able to download items in MY cloud?
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ABSOLUTE favorite quote from this entire season thus far.
The Dowager cracks me up! Love her.:lol:
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So how are you doing your Flat Stanley project? Just sending one out? When we did ours, we printed out a bunch of blank Flat Stanleys and sent them out all over the place, to whoever was willing to take them (we had a bunch of states and even a few diff countries!) and asked people to "dress them" in a way that depicted their climate or area or region or culture in some way, and take pics of them doing things in their area like fun field trips, and then send them back to us, so we ended up with a whole collection of differently 'dressed' Flat Stanleys and fun pics emailed to us while we waited to get them back (although fair warning, some people never sent them back). That was a lot more fun than just sending one out and waiting to get it back and so on. Just a thought! :)
It isn't mine. My best friend in Washington state asked me if I would host it for her niece, who attends the Christian grade school I attended a zillion years ago. I received it a week ago, and the instructions just said to send it along to someone in another state.
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Bumping. :lurk5:
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My DD gets it. I like it a lot. Usually there are good age-appropriate articles on etiquitte, a short story, fun recipes/crafts/games, and no ads. Also a pull out section with poster, coloring sheet, cards, or something similar. She is 11 now but has enjoyed it since about age 9.
Is it ate appropriate for an 8 yo? Or interesting for that age? Almost DD8 is not into little girl stuff, and fancies herself "grown up". Trying to discourage that. Want her to grow up but not to become GROWN up IYKWIM.
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Thanks everyone!! I got a PM with an address, but perhaps she can send it on to one of you?
I love this board, I really do!!!
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Anyone not in Washington State or Virginia willing to receive a Flat Stanley?
Thanks.
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I know this is a rather broad question, but which cell phone carrier has the best coverage in the Oklahoma city area?
And if anyone says Verizon, I may cry. Very bad feelings about Verizon in the Bikebookbread home
TIA!
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I voted pinch and still taste. I think it is more of a diversion tactic :D
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They may not be in style according to HGTV, but try to live in Arizona in the summer without them, and you really, really, really won't give a flying flip what an HGTV style maven says. When we lived there, I don't believe I ever visited someone's home, old or brand new, that didn't have fans. The new construction homes all had receptacles in place (we bought a brand new home when we moved there). And yes, we had air conditioning -- very efficient, brand new, yadda yadda...
Sure those little chandaleirs are cute and stylish, but if you need a fan, get a fan. If you don't, don't.
I'm not trying to be intentionally snarky. (I don't know that I've ever been snarky on this forum, have I?) I consider our home very stylish, for its style (our furniture is all mid-century modern repro/and authentic Danish modern). Ceiling fans don't "go" with that. We could care less. :tongue_smilie:
Sorry for the am snark. maybe I'm hormonal...
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I love it now, too. I've been doing CrossFit for a while now, and I always am happy when I see it is a weights-heavy day.
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We have a greyhound which we adopted in November through a rescue agency. His full racing name was Chase Biscuit, but we just call him Chase.
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First of all, I can't reply to each and every one of you wonderful, wonderful people but I know that I appreciate each and every one of your wonderful and thoughtful responses. I feel so much better this morning than I did yesterday afternoon. DH has a calming influence as well, and was wonderful.
:grouphug::grouphug::grouphug:
So... I went ahead and bought Saxon 2 and the manipulatives. I am sure there was a cheaper way to do it than from Amazon, but I am not in a position to spend hours comparing prices, figuring out what manips we already have and buying stuff individually. If I have duplicates, so be it. Sometimes you just have to jump.
DH has also ordered me in the most loving way possible that I WILL be going to Crossfit tonight, no arguments. I will be in massive pain I the next week, but frankly it is the best pain I have ever felt, pregnancies and post C Sections aside.
Third, i do confess that I have not been spending enough one and one time with the girls. I have been hiding in plain sight on the computer. It is what I do when I get depressed. No more of that.
Thanks again, and to you PMers, I will be contacting you this afternoon. Right I need to get some other things done.
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This. Is the depression treated with meds, therapy, or both? Lack of consistency and follow through is part of depression, which feeds the homeschooling issue, which feeds the depression.
I'm also wondering if perfectionism is part of this picture (and can be tied to depression). Not being able to do something completely "right", for a perfectionist, often leads to not doing anything.
I teach in a school that has this option (university style). With 3 days in which you are still responsible, and at her young age, being on top of the depression is going to be essential.
I was hoping you would chime in given your counseling background Joanne. The depression is long-term chronic, family history depression. Ugh. Been on and off meds for almost 20 years. No therapy. Can anyone say "time?" double ugh. I know I need to do a lot of things including going back to my rigorous exercise which frankly, did more for my psyche than any meds ever did. (but I stay on them anyway). Frankly, I am not being a perfectionist. Here is an example of an interaction today with the math problem was as follows:
Look at the patterns and Fill in the blank:
5 1 6
4 5 9
2 ____ 3
9 ____ 9
We spent at least 10 minutes working on the 9 + 0 = 9. I pulled out the rods. Still didn't get it.
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How about picking up:
1) Miquon Orange & Red (and the instrucional books and rods)
and
2) Peggy Kaye's Game for Math
Then:
Spend 20 min a day (about one exercise) in Singapore Math
Spend 20 min a day on Miquon
Spend 20 min a day playing math games from the games book
Spend 10 min a day drilling facts using triangle flashcards or similar drill items
DO THESE MATH TASKS SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE DAY, NOT all at once.
Then, spend an hour reading (her to you, and you to her)
That's 2hr10min a day of mandatory school. Anything you add is bonus, and will have little effect on standardized testing at this age.
BTW, in VA, atleast 8 years ago, you can self-adminster standardized tests. I used the CAT test. You buy it online, administer it, then mail it in for grading, then they send you a grade report.
We're already using rods after our failed attempt at Miquon (kinder). We switched to Singapore kindergarten (I can't remember what it called) and she devoured the workbook so we stuck with it for this year? The rods seem to help but unless I tell her exactly what to do with them, she is literally clueless. I simply can not figure out what this girl's learning style is when it comes to math.
We also used a lot of kumon in kinder, and she ate it up. Are the Kumon math workbooks that you can buy in amazon and at B&N etc. the same that they use in the tutoring centers? Are they adequate as a curriculum? I really don't want to become a serial curriculum switcher, but if they worked two years ago, maybe they would work now.
I am definitely switching, regardless. I it obvious that Singapore is not working for her.
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If you're talking about Veritas, they use an accelerated Saxon schedule for math, so your third grader will actually be in 5/4. I would take the Saxon diagnostic test and see where she is right now (that's probably what Veritas will use for placement anyway).
It's a great school that I highly respect and when we started a school last year in central Texas they were very helpful and we've incorporated many of their books.
It is Veritas and regarding accellerated Saxon? now I am doubly nervous.:blink:
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The school is a unique hybrid school: 2days in class classical, 3 days home school. Utilizes WTM method for much of the curriculum. SWB is speaking there this spring. It is rigorous.
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Thanks everybody. Fortunately her reading is stellar. She was tested at fourth grade level midway through grade one. Spelling is so so, as no phonics were taught, but we are working on that as well. I think I forgot to mention that in the OP.
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Anyone??? PP?:crying:
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I know I have been MIA. To be honest, it has been a #^% of a year. I don't swear often, but I am at that point. Sickness, massive behavior problems with dd7 and my chronic depression have gotten the better of me.
So here it is, January 4, 2012 and I am in a HUGE homeschooling hole and I must dig us out.
Due to her bad PS first grade experience, I had to repeat first grade math. We are about to finish Singapore 1A (and that has even been a struggle for her... I seriously wonder what she was taught or not taught in PS!). I see no possible way that we will catch up let alone finish through Singapore 2B by June when she has to take her standardized tests for Virginia. I don't even know how, where or when I conduct those tests! I was just looking at the standards of learning (SOLs) for second grade on the Virginia website and I am about to have a panic attack. I had looked at it back last summer, but haven't revisited it since. Just another thing to make me feel like a failure. Can you tell things aren't going well? Ugh.
I have all but given up on SOTW, science and art. Instead, I have simply focused on the most basic of basics: math, grammar (FLL 1), handwriting and occasional Writing with Ease.
I honestly wouldn't be so worried if we were staying in VA, but we just found out a month ago that we are being PCSd to Oklahoma City this summer. We have decided to put our girls into private school for a number of reasons, mainly that HS truly did not work for dd7. She is beyond miserable. But the school we want to send her to has an entrance exam. Age wise, she would be entering 3rd in the fall. I am afraid she won't even qualify for entrance into 2nd, or even into the school itself.
I feel like I have so screwed up her education between last year and this... How will she recover? I feel like an absolute failure. I never dreamed I would be in this situation. I am a smart, usually organized and squared away woman. I need to get back on track fast, and barring doing schoolwork for 8 hours a day, which would be torture, I am not sure what to do. Please talk me off the proverbial ledge.
Would anyone suggest getting her set up in K12 just to catch her up? Would that even help? Has anyone been in a similar situation with half a year of homeschool nearly down the drain?
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I LURVE Pinterest! But it is seriously addictive. Here I am. It is extremely geeky and Doctor Who heavy.