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I have 8 years public school teaching experience; 3 years were in a rural-ish regional vocational school, 1 year was in a well-to-do suburban high school, and 4 in a regional vocation school that was 85% minority. I mainly taught inclusion-level 10th grade math. I spent one year teaching freshman physics out of my certification on a waiver. DH is also a public high school teacher; he teaches physics and astronomy. I have been out of work since DS5 was born. My license will expire this summer, and I am trying to figure out what classes I need to renew. Barring any extenuating circumstances, I would like to stay home for a minimum of two more years (though I *may* have homeschool plans typed out for the next 18 :lol: ). I hope to some day go back to my last voc school - I loved working with those kids. Also, I need 2 more years to be vested in my pension...

Thanks, all. I'm making my goals for my 5yr old for kindergarten next year and wanted to make sure that I wasn't just focusing on academic stuff. Of course, I'm not going to be upset if he can't tie his shoes or spell his last name by the end of K, but I need things to aim for or he will just play Legos all year!

Toilet plungers and cleaning supplies!

What non-academic things should a child know and be able to do at the end of kindergarten? I'm thinking along the lines of: know their phone number, tie their shoes, make a sandwich, etc. What else?

We have 5 sets for each kid (because boys' tshirts & boxers come in packages of 5). They re-wear Thursday night's pjs on Friday (Thursday is when their laundry gets washed) and Tuesday night's pjs on Wednesday night. We have warm weather and cold weather sets.

I second the Bullet Journal. I use a smaller journal for myself, and am going to buy a larger journal to plan for next year. (This year I used a regular teacher's planner, like I used when I was teaching high school. It worked okay, but I would like to add some other things and a BuJo will be better for this.)

This is me... I've tried this before, only to find myself in the middle of a spending spree later in the month! Gah!

I have a 21yr old son and then boys 8, 5, 3, and 7months, for a gap of 13.5yrs between boys #1 and #2. The 21 yr old has not yet moved out (no college yet, he went to work out of high school). Honestly, as he spends so much time out of the house for work, friends, etc, I don't think it will be that big of a deal (for the little boys) when he moves out completely. It might even be more exciting, as we will hope to have a regular visiting time to his place; I think the kids would really enjoy this. Good luck, mama!

The last few months were very spendy here and one of our tenants isn't paying his rent so I really need to 'no spend' June (and, maybe, July). I've tried to do this multiple times before and have never really felt successful. Does anyone have any tips or helpful ideas that get you through a 'no spend' month? Anyone else need to 'no spend' this month? FWIW, my pantry, fridge & freezer are fairly well stocked, so I'm going to try to keep the grocery spending to $400 for bread, dairy, eggs, fresh fruits/veggies, and probably a bit of meat towards the end of the month. We have 7 people - 3 adults, 3 young kids, and a baby who has just started solids. (I usually spend $750+ on food.) I am also in desperate need of thermal curtains for my bedroom, so I will buy those if/when I find them. The only other non-food expense I can foresee this month is Father's Day.

Thanks very much, all. Yesterday was a hard day.

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That's awesome, thanks!

I'm not one to usually ask for prayers, but... We thought that, after several completely uneventful years and a clean EEG just last month, that DS21 was out of the woods with his epilepsy. As of this morning, that is no longer the case. :crying: This is especially hard because he is going to have to put his newfound personal freedom (license, car, etc) on hold for the next 6 months. I'm heartbroken for him.

Latin is the one thing that I'm absolutely clueless about. After lots of reading, I've narrowed it down to Latin for Children Primer A (Classical Academic Press) or Little Latin Reader Primers A & B (Catholic Heritage Curricula). Ack! I can't decide! FWIW, we are Catholic and are planning to memorize some Latin prayers next year, and DH would like to take DS8 to a Latin mass during the year.

The public high school is 0.8 miles, door-to-door, from my house. DS21 used to walk and was *still* tardy almost every day of his senior year. The grammar (k-8) school for my district (the city has 4) is next door to the HS, so it is 1.0 mile to the lower school (k-4) doors. FWIW, we have 1 public high school, 4 public grammar schools, 1 Catholic grammar, 1 Catholic HS, and 1 Islamic grammar school in a city of @49k people.

I opened up DS8's SM grade 2 CWP to the 1st chapter (addition & subtraction) and chose the first problem on the page: 8. Faith and Annie have 520 beads altogether. Faith has 230 beads. If Annie loses 74 beads, how many beads does she have left?

We did the CWP for level 2 during the year, along with the texts. I do have all the level 3 books for next year already, but I wasn't planning to start them until September. If we run out of math games (or if that idea goes sideways too quickly), I may pull that out to work on. Thanks for the idea!

It's being shipped USPS economy mail from CA to MA. The publisher specifically states "2 to 3 weeks." I just looked and my last order came in 12 days. Keeping my fingers crossed!

He did!

Wait, is that a thing that really exists? Wow. I'm pretty jealous that people can just go to a homeschool book store! We are probably going to play some math-y games and maybe work on his speed on his math facts. Keeping my fingers crossed that the books come sooner, rather than later!

DS8 started Beast Academy 3A at the beginning of the month, after finishing Singapore 2A&B. I had originally only ordered the first book, in case he didn't like it. Turns out, he loves it, so I ordered the rest of the level 3 books this past Monday, as I knew it would take 2-3 weeks for the cheaper shipping. Well, he just finished the book this morning! :ohmy: (I didn't realize how far along he was in the book/workbook.) Now, we have to come up with something else to do for math until the other books arrive. He is not going to be happy with me - he want's to start the next book right now! Boo! :cursing: </rant> [Edited to add that he did the workbook, too. D'oh!]

DS8 is finishing his first year home (2nd grade). He did Singapore 2A&B, and finished in April. We started Beast Academy 3A at the beginning of the month, and he is nearly finished. He *loves* BA, so he will continue with Beast Academy during the summer, hopefully finishing 3B and starting 3C by the end of August. I am planning to use Singapore 3A&B as his primary text next fall and continue to let him work through BA as he pleases. I will buy the 2nd grade texts as they are released, but I probably won't buy the workbooks (unless he ask).

This sounds just like my DS21! If a large bill comes in (dental, eeg, whatever...), we help him by paying a portion of it. We are moving to less and less of this, to wean him off and get him completely responsible for his own bills.

These chickens aren't organic, just 'organically-fed". This was just the first place that I found semi-local. I'm going to keep looking. Thanks!