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Tiffany in Texas

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  1. I have sent a request to the representative to give me a table of contents for the videos and for information if they are different from free videos online. Click Here for Link http://www.cpo.com/home/CPOProducts/TeachingLearningSystemsTLS/MiddleSchoolLifeScience/tabid/240/Default.aspx 592-3520 Interactive DVD $99.00
  2. I really like Rex Barks by Phyllis Davenport. Tiffany 5th grade, 7th grade & Sophomore in college
  3. I really want those videos. I don't want to jump ship on my current book but I think I might be able to supplement with these videos. Has anyone watched them? Are they worth $99?
  4. I liked Sonlight Government but we had to stop half way through because of a family disturbance. I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on the matter.
  5. Foreign language is an area where you really need to be fluent if the language is to be conversational. I'm teaching Latin because we are not trying to carry on a conversation but are using it to study grammar and to be able to read (Latin) fluently. Another area where fluency seems to be very useful although not as required as foreign language is literature analysis. Again, this is an area where the teacher seems to need to be able to respond quickly to material that might not be on today's lesson. Math, science, logic, and history do not require fluency, hence the reason many of the lower levels are taught by coaches (high school) and grad students (college level). The only requirement is that you keep up. With my eldest daughter (who maxed the local universities math entrance test) I didn't have time to keep up and once I fell behind in the math I started using teaching company videos. With my son I go through every Algebra lesson with him (watching the video lecture and working the problems) and I have no doubt that I will be able to get him up to Calculus I which I will probably turn over to the local university dual credit. Tiffany 5th grader, 7th grader, and Sophomore (mechanical engineering)
  6. Me too. I don't really get going on logic stage until 6th grade so 6th-8th is great but having a logic stage board (5th - 8th) is good as well. If it was by grammar/logic/rhetoric grouping then people could get their information from whichever level their kid was at instead of grade levels.
  7. With King Arthur my kids read Lancelyn Green and I read Howard Pyle outloud. We haven't reached Robin Hood yet but we will probably do the same. My son (7th grade) said the Howard Pyle book had much more detail while the Green book was readable by my 5th grader but was less engaging.
  8. November 2010 update on Pearson publishing. I've actually had no problem getting the teachers manuals for both the Miller & Levine Biology and the Foerster's Algebra I, so I was very surprised to be denied access to the Students Online Component of Biology.com I've written a somewhat forceful but polite letter back to them asking for an explanation as I doubt there are so many of us using this curriculum that we will over burden their system. I can use just the book but I am being denied access to such a large portion of the program by missing the videos, games and quizzes. It is so hard to find a science book as a home educator that is rigorous but not creationist.
  9. My shopping adventure & comparison chart is detailed here : http://live-n-learn-at-home.blogspot.com/2010/10/microscopes.html I purchased a microscope from Amscope ( http://store.amscope.com/b580b.html ) and I'm happy with my purchase. My scope is a high end model which may not be appropriate for all families and may not represent their lower end models, but, I wanted to let everyone know that it seems well made and we are having a blast. One warning, the binocular eye piece is wonderful for one person to use but if you spend a lot of time swapping between different people then it is less useful and we ended up closing one eye a lot of time because it is too hard to reset for each person. Second warning: If you have questions then use e-mail. The sales staff is excellent but I had some difficulty getting across to the technical department on the phone that I didn't need the x20 eye piece and would rather have an extra x10 eye piece with a reticule (measuring markings). Thought we got that cleared up but I guess not because I got a x10 eye piece and a x20 eye piece but no reticule. I don't think they do a lot of substitutions on their orders. But everything else was great, shipping was fast, and nothing was broken. I was getting a really sick feeling during the first 30 minutes of us looking at prepared slides and was almost ready to start calling the help desk. We couldn't get it to focus. We just saw red blobs and gray blobs. It would almost focus and we would hit the stage stop. The instructions are horrible although the scope seems great so finally I grabbed a screwdriver and started playing with things. I found the stage stop screw and raised it by a considerable amount. Now we have to be careful not to raise the stage into our objective lens but we can focus. OH MY, it is so neat!!! We went to the yard and got bugs and worms, we poked fingers for blood and scraped mouths for cells, we went through prepared slides and spent time Googling and comparing our views to ones on line. It was great. However, my great scientist son, the cause of the new biology books ( http://biology.com/ ) that are on their way and this budget busting microscope, got a headache 10 minutes into the adventure so it was my husband, daughter, and me spending our afternoon being grossed out by microscopic ewwwy bugs.
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