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We are starting our new school year tomorrow as well! We are having pancakes and sausage for breakfast, then doing the 3R's. Then after lunch we are going to walmart to buy groceries and SCHOOL SUPPLIES! (I really hope my local walmart has everything out, but if not, we'll get what we can and then get the rest next week.) When we get home, I'm going to let them get out the paint and do some art. We are going to have pizza or something else fun for dinner.
Have fun!
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Someday I will no longer need to schlep around a diaper bag, but I've been carrying one for almost a full decade :tongue_smilie:
:iagree: Over a decade here. On the RARE occasion that I go out without the children, it feels weird to have a purse. It just feels so tiny. :) Actually, sometimes I just grab my wallet, phone, and keys and skip the purse altogether. But then I end up carrying everything if I don't have pockets. So, after I'm done with diaper bags, I imagine I'll still use a bag of some sort.
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The earliest any of mine have potty-trained is right at 2.5 years. The latest is just over 3 years (that was my oldest child). When they are around 2, they start sitting on the potty here and there (like before a bath, for example) but I don't push it at all. At some point after 2.5, we get rid of the diapers for daytime and use cloth training pants (one ds wanted to go straight to underwear, and he did fine).
Although earlier training would be nice in some ways, it sure is a lot easier when they are old enough to get their pants up and down by themselves! Not that I haven't considered training my current toddler a bit earlier than his siblings. He is 20 months. At this point I'm planning on at least 10 more months of diapers, but if he seems really ready earlier, plans could change!
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Ooh, I just saw this on amazon the other day and put it in my cart for later. It's nice to hear that it's a good choice! Next time I place an order I'll have to get it.
Thanks for the recommendation!
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I would not buy a house that was owned by a cat breeder. Oh wait, we did that already. :tongue_smilie: We had no idea how hard it was going to be to get rid of the smell. After a few years and some major renovations (including replacing the air handler and all the ductwork, as well as the bottom half of several walls), the house was pretty nice. We were able to sell it for a profit, but it's not something we desire to do ever again!
We have also owned a home that smelled of cigarette smoke, but by painting all of the walls and ceilings and replacing the carpet, the smell was completely taken care of.
If I had to choose between a cat house and a cigarette house, I'd pick the cigarette house. The smell is MUCH easier to get rid of. (Assuming you consider buying new carpet and doing lots of painting easy! But it's still WAY easier than what we had to do to the cat house.)
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When I was in HS, the school provided the graphing calculators. They were checked out to us, and we only had to pay for them if we lost them. So, you might not need to buy one; wait and see on that. I did have to buy my own scientific calculator for chemistry, but it wasn't that expensive.
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I wish we would get rid of our TVs. Dh would never go for it though. (I know, because I've asked.) After years of dealing with antennas, he signed us up for dish, so we have a contract now. Because we are on our summer break, I've been letting the dc watch way too much TV. I'm about 95% sure we are going to start school back up on Monday (they really need the structure back), so we will go back to our "no-TV-on-school-days" policy. Dh can do what he wants, but the dc will not be watching it! I've been watching a lot of Food Network, but the novelty is starting to wear off, so I want to cut back myself, and go back to reading more.
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I personally would ditch the schedule. Give your dc a list of approved books, and let them pick which order to read them in. My dc have to read for at least 30 minutes per day. They have to finish a book before they start a new one. (Unless it is truly too difficult for them.) This is just for the school-time reading. In their free time they read quite a bit too; my oldest two dc usually have several books going at a time. Every completed book is logged; we put the list in their portfolios at the end of the year.
This is just how we do it; I do think that eliminating a schedule helps to keep the love of reading alive.
I think someone else mentioned this--- your dc might want to read the entire Narnia series after reading the first book. My dd read the entire series in the 3rd grade and loved it. You might want to give your dc the freedom to do that if desired.
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I don't sort, unless there's something new that might bleed. Then I make sure to put that item in a load with other dark items. But usually I'm just throwing items in the washer at random: clothes, towels, sheets, cloth napkins, kitchen towels, etc. I wash everything on cold, except in the winter sometimes I wash in warm since the well water is SO cold.
I've never had a problem with this method. :)
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I had sealants done as a child (even though I was not cavity-prone), and I never had a problem until I was 30. One of the sealants cracked and the tooth cracked some with it. So, I had to get my first (and only) filling. The dentist was watching at least one other molar; I guess it was wearing out too, but fortunately it's still okay right now.
My dc are not cavity-prone so far (the oldest is 10), so we are leaning towards not doing sealants at this point. We still have time to think about it though.
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Her writing style took some getting used to, but I did enjoy the book a lot. I found myself noticing "gifts" and thinking about how I would word them in a journal to sound so poetic like hers. I did start a list, but I haven't written in it in a while. Not that I'm not thankful for the gifts around me, I just get busy and don't stop to write them down!
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No. We live in a rural area. We ride our bikes around on the roads right around our house (not out on the main highway), but we could never do what that lady does. It's 50 miles roundtrip for groceries, on a highway with lots of logging trucks. The library in our small town is about 15 miles roundtrip, on that same busy highway. So, nope, we will not be giving up our van!
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Why can't they have a bike?
I'm assuming she's talking about the Amish.
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We keep them for 2 years, then toss.
Same here. We keep the quizzes and tests in the portfolios, plus hold on to the workbooks for 2 years. After two years, I throw away everything except the portfolios. We don't even have to keep those, but my dc like going back and looking at their old work from time to time.
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I have 3 but I really need to get some more. I recently threw out all of the ones for nursing b/c ds weaned (and they were really worn out anyway), and I'm gradually buying regular ones. Ideally I'd like to have at least 5 or 6.
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We like to camp at Ft. Wilderness. Because of our large family, we'd either need 2 hotel rooms or a suite of some kind, so it would be very expensive. At the campground, you can have up to 10 people on a site. They do have cabins for those who prefer that. The campground is very nice; they keep it very clean and there's so much to do. Sometimes we just go and camp without going into any of the parks.
ETA: October is a great time of year at Disney. Not too crowded, not too hot.
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:bigear: I am planning on purchasing this for my crew. I can't decide if I want the junior notebooking journal or the regular journal for my 4th graders.. Prolly the regular and get the junior journals for my twin gals.
Anyone buy the lab package or do with out it?
The regular journal should be fine for a 4th grader. My 3rd and 4th graders used the regular Botany journal this year. A junior version wasn't available (not sure if it's out yet now or not) so my 1st grader just listened.
When we did astronomy, we did without the lab package and it was still very easy to complete the activities. The kits are nice to have if you want absolutely everything already gathered and sorted by lesson for you. If that's the only way you'll get the activities done, then the kits are great to have. So, you'll just have to figure out what will work best for you.
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We used it when the dc were in 3rd, 2nd, and K. We really enjoyed it; I don't think we had any dislikes. We just read the book and did the activities as we came to them. It was a baby year for us, so we kept it simple. If I were to use the book with a 4th grader (and I might someday, so that my youngers have a chance to use it too!) I would definitely add the notebooking journal. We used the Botany notebooking journal this year and the dc really enjoyed it. It helped them to remember what they were learning and made a nice keepsake of the course.
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We are just getting lots of rain; the wind hasn't been too bad here. We lost power for a few hours last night, but it's back on. I'm supposed to go grocery shopping today, but I need to check the radar before deciding for sure!
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I take the cooking pots/pans straight to the table and those get passed around and everyone serves themselves. It's a lot easier than having to get up every time someone wants seconds! For children, allowing them to serve themselves teaches them portion control. We don't allow them to skip something they don't prefer, so they'll just try a little bit. For things they like, they are learning to make sure they don't get too much, since there are several other people who want to eat too! I do think doing it this way has been very helpful for when we are at potlucks at church. My dc typically eat everything they get for themselves. I see other children with loaded-up plates, and they end up throwing most of it away.
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As for when to start, I don't know. :) As for me, I'm going to take a look at CLE's Greek course for myself. I love the setup of the Light Units (my dc use it for math), and I figure a high school level course would be a good introduction to Greek. I started off trying to learn Greek using my dh's Greek textbook from seminary, but I didn't get very far. I'm thinking that the LU format will be more motivating for me. The price is good too. (clp.org in case you need a link)
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Whenever I've been around someone who is sick (whether stomach or cold/flu) I cut up raw garlic and swallow it like pills a couple of times a day. It makes me stink, but I do think it helps!
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Put some tee tree oil in shampoo and wash everyone. The tee tree oil is supposed to kill lice, it works as a preventative too.
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There was a girl with lice at VBS last week, and 2 of my children were in the same class as her. As soon as we got home that night, I put TTO, as well as oils of rosemary, eucalyptus, and lemon into coconut oil and smeared it on everyone's head (including my own) and left it for 30 minutes. We added essential oils to our shampoo for a few days until I felt like we were okay. I also added grapefruit seed extract; it's supposed to kill all stages of the life cycle. My precautions may have been a bit drastic, but the girl was at VBS with the lice for 3 days before it was caught and treated. None of us ended up with lice, though the oils can cause some itchy scalp, so we've been a bit paranoid from time to time! We sprayed the church pews and our furniture here at home with a mixture of water with those same essential oils. I did tons of laundry to wash everyone's bedding and stuffed animals. The adults can only live for 1-2 days on other surfaces, so it doesn't take long to know if you have them or not.
This is twice now that we've taken some pretty drastic precautions during VBS "just in case" one of us picked up lice from a child at church, and both times it worked. I figure it's a lot easier to kill a couple of adult lice (if we happened to pick them up) than to wait and see and end up dealing with a big infestation!
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In Apologia Botany we did an activity to understand taxonomy- shoe classification. We got every pair of shoes in the house and classified them according to use, style, color, etc. It not only helped us to understand taxonomy, but also showed us how difficult it can be to place a species properly, since some of the shoes could have gone in more than one place.
We also came up with phrases to help us remember Kingdom, Phylum, etc in the proper order.
(These activities are helpful to add on to a book or video that explains everything; obviously they aren't explaining it fully by themselves.)
Rainbow Resources lost orders last week!!!
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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I'm glad I saw this post. I placed an order on Saturday, and I honestly don't remember if I got a confirmation email or not, because I usually delete them right away. I only hang onto the shipping emails (until the package arrives). How quickly are they shipping right now? Today was only the 2nd business day since I ordered. My credit card does show a charge to RR, as pending.
I guess I'll call them tomorrow and see what's up. I even paid for priority mail for this package (it was under $50, so not free shipping anyway) because we already started our school year, and we need the books!