My Forbidden Island/Desert loving son (he's 7) also loves Scotland Yard, Dragonwood (he got this for Thanksgiving and we've played it a million times already), Ticket to Ride, Machi Koro,CLUE, Labyrinth and Catan Jr (we don't own the full version so I don't know the difference).

We did the same type thing. We'd shoot baskets and for every missed shot he had to answer a math problem. Killed two birds with one stone since he needed basketball practice anyhow! I need to do that again.

Was it Sleeping Queens? Clumsy Thief is cute too for adding sets to 100.

I have the Garmin Vivofit 2. I've been happy with it.

My wishlist and my kids' wishlist keeps getting longer thanks to all these game threads!

Hope everything checked out ok! I only know one person who had meningitis but she was an adult. She's fine now.

My kids have already been given (exchanged with cousins over Thanksgiving) Qwirkle, Dragonwood, and Codenames Pictures. We gave my 5-year-old nephew Rivers, Roads, and Rail. My niece we have Spot It Jr. I'm planning to get my sister Forbidden Island and Forbidden Desert. They are also getting Suspicion, Apples to Apples Jr, and Brain Games. I'm hoping to get Ticket to Ride Europe (we have the USA I've one already). I also added Sheriff of Nottingham to my wish list after another post here and just added Sleeping Queens to my boys' list. We love games, have tons and are always looking for new ones so I love these game posts! I feel like I see the same games over and over in stores. I need fresh ideas!

Thank you! Those links are great!

Thank you Paradox, adding those to my list!

The only one I know of is Montverde Academy. But I literally know nothing about it other than it is a boarding school near us. I've never been there myself. http://montverde.org

We had that happen last year. Oddly when we set out up this year some lights had returned but there is still a dark patch just not completely black anymore. And the tree has begun leaning to the left despite all attempts to fix it. We need a new one but it's not in the budget this year.

My boys keep a written narration notebook for history and science. We spent most of this year working on writing a good quality paragraph. Now they (youngest still needs lots of hand holding) are good at that I want to make the writing more interesting. Today they did a newspaper article about our SOTW reading. It was excellent. I need more ideas! So far I have thought of... Comic strip Writing from the first person perspective of someone in the lesson. That's it! I'm drawing a total creative blank. Share ideas or point me to similar posts. Thanks!

My friend swears by Evan Moor Daily Science for get it done science. I'm thinking that's what we will add soon because I'm struggling with science too.

My kids got Codenames Pictures over Thanksgiving. We have all enjoyed it and the adults even played after the kids went to bed.

I use mymonthlycycle.com I only track my period but it does have options for adding other stuff. I just ignore that.

Well...I needed to clean mine but decided it could wait. Then got a call from a friend, her daughter had fallen and broken an arm. She has 4 other kids and really needed somebody to take the others while they sat in the ER. Of course I said yes, but that meant speed cleaning! Really wish I had already cleaned.

Exciting! Hope the transition goes as smoothly as possible.

Circles but I don't cut them often.

I'm sure I've looked just like that many times. My son has severe food allergies and doesn't eat in restaurants but we still do, we just pack him food. I would/do sit down with him at a table while my husband waits in line. My son eats from a lunchbox. I'm sure we look like we're just taking a table from real customers but that's not the case.

We joke my oldest was left here by aliens and he takes vitamins to keep from turning purple. He KNOWS it is a joke. I think your scenario is kind of mean and not so obviously a joke.

I've enjoyed it but I don't race to watch it every week. I'm a few episodes behind I think.

That breaks my heart. At least he has your daughter.

I met a girl in 7th grade algebra who was homeschooled but came to middle school for math only. She was so sweet and we became friends but I remember thinking she was very sheltered. As an adult I thought it was an absolutely terrible idea and something I would never consider. Yeah. Until I had a child with life threatening food allergies to every "kid friendly" food. I was terrified to send him to Kindergarten. So I debated for a year (his pre k year which I felt no obligation to send him to preschool) before deciding I wouldn't ruin him if we only homeschooled for a year. We've homeschooled 4 years now and plan to keep going! He did go to private school for 2nd grade, his choice, but he wanted to return home after that year.

Race to the Treasure Monopoly Jr Labyrinth

You definitely don't have to read the books to do ELTL, at least not as far as we've gotten with it. The main reason to read the chapter before is to give context to the sentences pulled for grammar. At least in my opinion.