Memoria Press isn’t going to be anything like Ecci Romani, but I think a class covering first form would be a great introduction to Latin for both of you. It isn’t going to cover anywhere near the content of Wheelock, but it is very good at really showing the basics of how Latin works. My kids have never done a class until third form, but that was about the time they hit 7th/8th grade. I don’t think my kids were ready much younger than that for a class. I will say the Memoria Press Online classes are generally an hour and a half and are live (not self paced), but the teacher doesn’t see them so they could move around a bit. The videos are also posted after class so if she couldn’t focus that long, you can always watch the end at a different time. First form will have a grammar concept to memorize (present tense endings for example), a latin saying, 10-15 vocabulary words that will use that grammar concept, and typically 4 worksheets for the week. It also isn’t a huge undertaking for a seventh grader to get the videos and complete the material independently.

Do you already have a copy of galore park? The link in your post is for amazon.uk and says it doesn’t ship to the United States. I have no input for you, sorry, but I am interested in the responses. Which online provider did you try and what seemed to be the problem with Athenaze? My daughter used it without issues to the best of my knowledge, but my son will start this year and he is a very different student.

To be fair, it was a Roman means of execution.

I was at Costco on Wednesday and I didn’t notice any limits, but the sign out front said they were out of ground beef and fresh chicken.

I think the majority of the legislature already agreed with them. I see it more as a sign of solidarity against the blatant power grab in our state and the governor’s refusal to even talk to the legislature. She is digging up some law from 1946 to justify her extended executive power without having to work with them. Things like knives and other sharp objects tend to be concealed and I don’t know all the rules on concealed carry in Michigan, but it was said on the news that open carry is legal in the state capital. I took knitting needles on the airplane to England with no problem just last year.

My 17yo daughter works as a page at the library. Our libraries in Michigan have been closed completely since mid-March. Once the stay at home is lifted (if it ever is lifted) the library is planning on only opening at first for pickup. Not sure how it will work, but that’s the plan. I am ready. We checked out a bunch the day my daughter got the notification they were closing in an hour and the books and videos are still sitting here. The book drops are full and nothing can be returned at this point. I think we will go when reopened.

For me, I tend to buy good shoes which are expensive, but last a long time. I have a lot of shoes, but I replace heels and soles as needed and they last years. I have a hard foot to fit and when I find a pair that is comfortable I hold onto them as long as possible. I think my black boots are about 15 years old and I wear them regularly. When I started working we still had to dress up in the office, but needed steel toe shoes in the plant. Add in snow in the winter, rainy springs and it adds up. 2 pairs of snow boots, 1 pair of rain boots, 2 pairs of Dansko clogs (black and brown), 2 flat dress boots (black and brown), 2 pairs of dress shoes, black flats, 2 pairs sandals, 1 pair work boots, 1 pair slippers, 2 pairs of sneakers, and 3 pairs of minimalist shoes that I can wear barefoot in the summer instead of sandals. I am in awe of you ladies who can get by with less than 5 pairs. I think my husband has more than me. He was older when we got married and he never missed a good sale 😉. Our rehearsal dinner was a backyard affair at the house and his four sisters decorated the tables with flower planters made from some of his shoes that they snuck out of his closet.

Maybe some setting on the Fitbit of an older child? Might be more acceptable? Seriously, I can tell when my older children have had their headphones on too loud. Their voice when they take them off is way too loud. My 17 yo daughter, however, just has a habit of being too loud and I constantly have to remind her that I am in the same room and she doesn’t have to yell at me. With my husband now working from home in the dining room (no office with closed door available) so I have started giving a hand to stop kids when entering the kitchen and whisper that daddy has a meeting. It works pretty well. I am also trying to stop answering when kids call to me from a different floor. During baby and toddler days, there were strong, well understood threats of *big trouble* for one who either woke up the baby or woke up mommy during rest time 😉

Somehow I didn’t see this when you posted. Thank you so much for this link!

AAR3 was my intro to AAR. My third child had trouble with reading and I bought it for some summer work. It helped a lot, but I didn’t continue. Later, I did buy AAR4 and it had a lot of good material that I am glad we didn’t miss. My youngest started with AAR1 at 3 and he really liked it. He was an early reader and he saw his older brother do it all, he knew there were four levels, and was very clear he wanted to fill in all the sticker charts. I liked that there was lots of practice if needed, but my youngest took it quite quickly. It would have been tempting to just let him read, but there were phonics rules that I might have skipped over. It has helped me draw connections with spelling now. If your child likes it and is willing to do it, I would vote to take the plunge. It is nicely laid out and for me it was nice not to have to come up with a plan. I always have aspirations to put stuff together from items I already have to save the money only to find out that I should really have stayed the course that was working. I didn’t resell, I donated it to a friend that needed it, but it does seem to have high resale value. I second the advice to be sure to request box art. It is so cool!

My son has been doing the daily free ones on YouTube during lockdown and we paid for some back many years ago. My impression was they could really be done in most any order. He gives really good directions and my son has done some nice work despite not really being an artist. ETA: back in the day I did the classes with the kids and I even came up with some decent drawings. My artistic ability consists of stick figures and drafting.

Oh it says may, but I want to know how they came up with 40...not 35, not 50, etc. It is just airing frequently and she quotes 40 all the time so I was wondering if there was some study that someone was aware of that I can’t locate. It sends you to the state website, but I can’t find anything in regards to the numbers they are quoting, just symptoms and that sort of thing about the virus.

I get the idea of a super spreader and if you are constantly hanging out in big groups you will naturally have the potential to infect more people than a hermit. But for a government public service advertisement say 1:40 and then they will infect others (I don’t know that they explicitly said those would each infect 40, but graphics implied it wasn’t just some rare person infecting that many) seems like something that should have some data behind it.

I have a question for you ladies about a Michigan.gov public service announcement that has been running on tv lately and I have heard our governor quote the statistic repeatedly. They say that one person with Coronavirus can infect 40 so therefore we should all stay home. I get the contagious bit, but does anyone have an idea where the 40 comes from? I can’t seem to find any support for that number, but I don’t really know the best way to search.

I was at a scrapbooking weekend event several years ago sitting next to a middle school principal and some of her teacher friends. They were talking quite freely about sending their own kids to school when they knew they were sick and not seeing the slightest problem with it. They didn’t seem to want to take the day off. I was dumbfounded.

We are actually eating out more now, but my mom is subsidizing some of it. She is stuck at home with my 90 yo father with dementia and going crazy. She is being good about staying home, but a meal delivery gives her something to look forward to. My brother brings them something on the weekend and I get something during the week. We actually didn’t eat out much at all...pizza every couple of weeks..before the stay at home because we were too busy in the evenings. Michigan allows carry out so we have been combining the trips with my daughter’s driver’s education practice hours. I am currently waiting with fingers crossed that this Mexican restaurant I found is as good as the reviews seem to indicate. It is hard to find good Mexican food in Michigan. The only thing harder is good BBQ...still looking for that. I like that places have come up with family meals that are less expensive that going to the restaurant. If they keep that up we might continue after things open up. With six people the beverages really up the cost. Our swim team has been charging a reduced rate since we can’t get pool time, but our summer activities are still on hold. I don’t know that we have too much other spending that is actually lower except for gas. We are already saving for college and I think my daughter likes the idea of staying close and living at home to keep expenses down. I really wanted her to consider out of state, but I have never been a fan of dorms in the best of times. Right now they seem to be about as appealing as a cruise ship. We look foreword to traveling again once things open up...I like experiences over stuff...and we already missed our family trip to DC. We don’t really fly anywhere except to Europe maybe every decade. We turned our last car in mid-February with about 26000 for the year. This year we are two+ months in and only about 1000...such cheap gas and nowhere to go. I don’t think we will change spending priorities long term, we are just on hold for now. I hope some of the museums can survive all these closures so we will have places to go.

But if they just stay home and get government money then who is going to drop off groceries to enable you to stay home? That is one big problem with stay at home orders is they massively favor those with options, but we can’t actually all stay home if some people don’t go out and run the grocery stores or deliver your food. So if we are honest, we might be saving our grandma, but as you say, what about the grandma who lives with the grocery worker? It isn’t straightforward which is why some of the quick judgement I hear here about others not caring about death seem rather simplistic.

If you can’t count on herd immunity then what is the point of waiting for a vaccine? Isn’t the theory that vaccines should provide herd immunity? Also, even if if covid doesn’t turn out to be a one time deal like say chicken pox, at some point it is no longer “novel” and our bodies should have some means to know how to deal with it.

Thanks...1000 makes much more sense. The original had IU with no space and I misread it. Thinking it may be close to time for new reading glasses.

Am I reading this wrong? I don’t understand your comment about 10000 IU/day as insufficient. I live in a state without a lot of sunshine all winter and I am not really into sitting out in the sun so my guess is I am low in vitamin d. Do you know if there is a way to test vitamin d at home? Oh, and when is the best time to take vitamin d?

Glad to know that you think I am an example of everything that is wrong in the world today. That is pretty brash. I could think of a few bigger things, but I am sure that wouldn’t fit into your worldview where you are the only one that has things all figured out. If you look back at your own post that I quoted you will notice that you are following credible experts who are CONSISTENT. I believe they have been very far from consistent. You also state that we are GENERATIONS away from having to worry about dying from measles. I agree, but since the first vaccine for measles wasn’t approved until 1963 it can’t be the vaccine that got us to that point. Since you said “die from measles” , death =mortality in case that big word want clear to you. I actually said that the vaccine reduced the spread or the incidence rate. Try reading what I wrote before declaring me an example of everything wrong with the world.

The “credible medical experts” were scaring us with predictions of 2.2 million deaths to get us to comply with stay at home orders until oops, sorry our model was wrong. i agree that antibiotics have helped, but while a vaccine slowed measles spread, mortality from measles was declining before a vaccine.

I received an email from the college board today with a comment that there are “no limits on scores of 3, 4, or 5”. Any one know whether there limits before? I wasn’t quite sure what they were getting at.

My husband cracked a tooth last week. When I called the dentist they told me they were only open for emergencies and that a cracked tooth was not allowed to be fixed until the Michigan governor lifts the stay at home order. If it gets infected and starts to hurt then the order would allow him to have some pain medication. She said they have patients waiting for a month with cracked teeth.

I have stainless steel, but I do get irritated with it. They are very hard to clean so they constantly have fingerprints or water stains. Back before I switched to tablets, the liquid detergent reacted with the stainless and left white drip marks that I have never been able to remove. Some stainless is magnetic, but you must make sure to get that finish if it is important to you. If I were you I would get white.