This is what I would say. As a home schooling parent I have the authority to say ' you know what we are going to skip this, or even trash this whole book' With schooling at home be that public or privet the parent is just the enforcer and has no authority to change anything.

My oldest did that when she was 4. I had never done any formal instruction on reading at all with her. I did do some things like reading nonsense words to see if she really understood phonics and she did. It was quite odd, I am dyslexic and had been researching reading curriculum from the time I was pregnant with her and then didn't' use any of it at all. I mainly got out of her way. I did try to help her find books that I thought were just above her reading level. We did lots a lots of nonfiction reading because a lot of the fiction get in to relationships and other things that aren't really developmentally on point for a 4 or 5 year old. Mine is 11 now and still reads everything.

My mom's neighborhood had a couple and there are a few houses of teachers that only give out non candy stuff and aren't connected to teal pumpkin. Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk

We get koala crate age 3 to 5 we started it when my youngest was 2.5 Kiwi crate ages 5 to 8 we have been getting this sence my oldest was 4 and we still love it. These are both from the same company as tinker crate and doodle crate that are for older ages.

This is what made me pick a&p as the curriculum we use. There is also the whole line of thinking of teaching spelling the way 'good' or 'natural' spellers learn.

I also was wondering if any one had any thing to add. I am looking at this for this fall.

I just ran across this one today. I don't know how multi sensory it is but it is free and Lutheran. http://godshand.clclutheran.org/godshand.htm

My kids are younger and so we get there koala and kiwi crates and love them. We have been getting the kiwi crates for several years and have found them better than several of the other craft crates.

And they have the whole book you can look through as a sample

The goal for my 6 year old is 6 min of playing ( violin) in good position. Occasionally this can take 30 min of messing around. For the 2 year old it is one activity and actually hitting proper position once and holding it.

I plan on getting it to help for the long thanksgiving trip, I am glad to hear that it is liked

What about Mason jars with names? They hold up to being dropped much better than glasses in my experience.

Yes my parents read to me, all the time. My mother was an elementary librarian and my grandmother was a middle school librarian. I am also dyslexic so my parents read aloud to me into highschool when they started investing in renting audio books because they really didn't want to read The Jungle, and Le Mes to me. One of my favoret memories was taking a long car trip with my family before my senior year of highschool. My mom had an advance coppy of Harry Potter. She wanted to get to enjoy the view but when ever she stopped reading we would all complain. I love being read to, my dh will do it now. I read to my girls (6 and 2) but the older one prefers to read to herself because it is faster.

We had a three day - mom has to sew to get the haloweene costumes finished - brake. We did come back more focused. Next year I think I will try to plan that one in.

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I am excited to see this. I might get it before our Thanksgiving travels.

I did well in geometry but it didn't make sence, actually most math didn't make sence for me untill I took calculus. For me calculus, where the numbers all turned in to moving pictures, is where all the memorize this in geometry was explained.

I didn't know there was a cookbook, I think I will add it to the Christmas list for my daughter. The audio recording of Redwall is also very good, it is narrated wonderfully by the author.

That is what I was thinking of doing.

I have let my daughter read Redwall, she loves them. We have not yet done Narnia or Harry Potter.

Way longer than I feel like it should. We are doing 1st and it as written takes us at least 3 to 4.5 hours. I am getting lots of push back on the copy work.

H. A. Ray ( who wrote Curious George) has two wonderful astronomy book.

I have been looking for various projections, this is great!

We are going to be useing 1st. We live in the north east so we won't start untill September when the schools do. Which is good as we just moved and haven't uncovered the school boxes yet.

I find it interesting that you learned both. I am in my mid 30's in the US and I was only taught metric units in school. They said 'by the time you are an adult this is all you will use'. In college my profs from India got so frustrated that none of us knew how many feet to a mile.