I got mine here: http://www.heinemann.com/products/E00223.aspx And thanks, all, for the feedback on my daughter's sentences! I'd still love to see more of what your kids are coming up with :)

Mine's in my sig.

Either "Sentence Composing For Elementary School" or "Story Grammar for Elementary School." I really don't think it matters which one you start with, as far as I know. And I'm not sure if it's been determined yet which one is "easier." I planned on finishing one and then going on to the other if we liked the first one well enough. This one ("Sentence Composing") is a little tough for my 10 y/o 5th grader when it comes to writing her own imitation sentences, which she's only done once so far (today), but the stuff leading up to it, she's done very well with. So I'll keep seeing how it goes as we continue with the book. Then I figured that next year, in 6th grade, I'd get the other elementary school book, "Story Grammar," and then the following year I'd likely start the "middle school" series. It does definitely seem that the "elementary school" ones are good for LATE elementary school, not early elementary school!

Ah. Sorry. That must stink! :(

Are you able to send paypal payments to someone in the U.S.? Maybe someone in the U.S. would order the book for you (if you paid for it in advance), and then maybe they'd be able to ship it to you in a way that costs less than the $30+ the company wants?

Are you sure she meant curriculum kind of thing? If somebody said they needed to "know what to do" to homeschool I would assume they meant steps they needed to take to make homeschooling legal/official, not how/what they should teach.

Yes, definitely. I saw The Running Man many years ago, but also read the short story by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman). Very similar concept! Both enjoyable stories (well, you know what I mean by "enjoyable" lol...maybe entertaining would have been a better word).

Sorry I can't help, I only have the one book, and we've only been working on it since last week, so I'm not sure which would be considered easier!

It depends on what the lesson is. I've only done like 6 lessons so far and I haven't timed them specifically. But up until today I don't think we spent more than maybe 10-15 minutes on a lesson. Today's was a little longer as she needed a bit more time to think and was writing out more sentences than usual and I was giving her a bit more help than usual. So based on the few I've done so far, I want to say anywhere from 10-30 minutes depending on what you're doing...? Maybe someone else who has been doing it longer/gotten farther can answer better. (And sorry guys, I didn't mean to make you all spend money haha!)

Yep, this. I HAVE to sleep with something covering me, but it's too hot for a blanket in the summer, so we use a top sheet instead. The rest of the year, no!

Anyone have some first attempts, or some particularly inspired sentences, that they'd like to share? My 10 y/o daughter just got to the point in "Sentence Composing for Elementary School" where she had to write her own imitation sentences. I have to admit, she did hem and haw and act a bit nervous about doing this. She said it was "hard," she said she didn't know what to put, she took kind of a long time to come up with ideas, she needed a bit of guidance to make sure she was arranging things properly and here and there she needed a suggestion as to what word she could add in to make it flow more like the original... ...but in the end she did it, and I thought she did well, especially for her very first attempts! Here's what we've got. First there was a model sentence, then there were lists of three sentence parts to "unscramble" to imitate the model, and then my daughter had to come up with her own sentence, imitating the model/s: Model One: "Four dolphins, swimming side by side, were pushing the raft through the water." Unscrambled Sentence: "Baby chimpanzees, tumbling over each other, were playing tug-of-war with a banana." My daughter's imitation sentence: "Little penguins, sliding over the ice, were falling into the ocean below." Model Two: "They parted the bushes on the bank and peered out over the water." Unscrambled Sentence: "The horses rounded the corner of the track and raced back toward the starting gate." My daughter's imitation sentence: "The baby broke her toy by the rug and cried out to her mama." Model Three: "The third girl, holding her own mirror, used an eyebrow pencil to give herself a heavy brow." Unscrambled Sentence: "The high school students, renewing the school's agricultural field, used the tractor to give the soil a good tilling." My daughter's imitation sentence: "The black cat, catching a mouse, used its sharp teeth to dig into the mouse's fat belly." Model Four: "Alan and Tom and Joe leaned on their shovels under a tree in the apple orchard, watching the worms they had dug squirming on a flat rock." Unscrambled Sentence: "Lions and tigers and bears roamed through the forest in the frightful land of Dorothy's imagination, prowling the territory they had traveled, searching for a fresh victim." My daughter's imitation sentence: "Mother and father and son sat on the couch in front of the window in the living room, watching the football game they had turned on, cheering the home team." Again, I did have to give guidance with this. I had to keep showing her how to break the sentence down a part at a time, saying things like, "look, they are starting with three subjects. Now you come up with three subjects. Ok, see, now they have this- can you come up with something similar-" and basically going through the parts with her. I assume eventually she'll be able to do it on her own. How's it going with you guys?

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Aw. I'm sorry. That's so hard. But you are making the right decision. :grouphug:

Cute! :D

Good luck with it, and with the competition! :)

I've never heard it in real life. I've never heard anything negative said against homeschooling in my real life. I've seen it occasionally on message board/forums or in responses to articles and so on, but I tend to avoid those types of things online because, seriously, who needs the drama. (If it's written just to bash. If it's a honest question or something, asked with an open mind, I don't mind answering).

I used Oak Meadow for 4th grade and really loved it. Here's a sample week (including a few pictures) from one week of our Oak Meadow 4th grade curriculum: http://nancextoo.livejournal.com/126472.html I loved Oak Meadow enough that we are now doing Oak Meadow 5 for 5th grade- and will be doing Oak Meadow 6 next year and so on.

:lol: I WILL open the cans, but I DO hold the can pretty far away from me and sort of turn my head to the side and flinch a little, too. haha!

Confession: I just watched Eclipse. And I want to be on both teams.

Oh I don't know, I like a lot of different ones... but one pair that comes to mind is that I always like Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler together.

Never. Ever.

But the real question is: Sammy Hagar, or David Lee Roth?

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I don't personally consider age 6 too old to bring into a different gender's restroom/locker room with a parent. I DO consider 6 too young to send into a changing room alone. I think the suggestion you made to your husband was a good one. But if he's really against that, I agree that he should contact pool staff and ask them about it. They might be able to either suggest a place, or offer to let a staff member take her into the women's changing room for you or some such.

I love that series. Jamie. :001_wub: