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The more I read here, the more I appreciate the NHS. DD will most likely need braces in the next year. I don't know where we'd find that sort of money, but equally I can't imagine not having the work done.

This is something that urks my DD no end. She got Spectacular Women in Space for Christmas last year, and I've ordered Super Women in Science for this year. I also try to counter by mentioning more recent women scientists as we're reading about areas in which they work, e.g. Carolyn Shoemaker when discussing astronomy, Susan Greenfield for the brain, etc.

My kids had grown out of reading picture books before we had a kindle, so I can't help with that aspect of your question, but I have a couple of other suggestions for you. The Book Depository has free worldwide postage, and if you know anyone in the UK, Ireland or Spain who can forward on a parcel for you BookPeople have some really good deals on collections of children's books.

First you need to know why you want to supplement. I use one book as the spine & then add in extra material from one or 2 other books when I think they teach something more thoroughly, when DD needs extra practice, or when there's something not covered in our primary text.

:iagree: many people in the uk might think it pretentious. Nursery is more often used to mean a commercial daycare facility.

We're paying £1.35/litre which works out to $9.82/gal.

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On a similar theme, you might also enjoy watching this video about Andre Geim: http://youtu.be/vKXhI88UQZ8

If the start of the book is so painfully easy & dull for her, move ahead past the review that always comes at the start of textbooks to the new material. If she's still unhappy once she's doing something harder I'd switch to something more mastery based, maybe Beast academy

:iagree: Putting on a DVD to watch helps it seem less of an ordeal, because it will take a long, long time.

Not crazy. I'm in the opposite position of not moving because we live close to a really good 16-18 college, even though thats several years off for my DDs.

Have you asked them what they have read? Maybe you could take 5 minutes out of the lesson to have them discuss good books they've read & would recommend to others. We haven't read any of the books you mention, but we're British, so have a different list.

:hurray: I wonder what will happen to post counts & ranks for the new board. :001_huh:

Visual Basic For Teens is going down very well here. My dd is finding it easy to follow on her own.

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If you don't want to do the secondary MEP, and since you already have AOPS prealgebra, I'd try it out & see what you both think of it in use. You can probably go to AOPS preA after MEP year 5, or as a gentle introduction to AOPS after year 6. My youngest DD used a combination of MEP y5, Singapore 5a & b, Manga High, Zaccaro's Primary Grade Challenge Math & a variety of other materials in the year before we started AOPS preA. I'm still intending to use some MEP material alongside AOPS. One of the nice things about the secondary material is that its much easier to find a specific topic if you just want to supplement with it.

MEP goes right through to age 18. ;)

If you post this over on the special needs board you'll get some helpful replies from the experts. Here on the general board it might get buried before they see it. ;)

The Cartoon Guide to Economics has really good explanations.

:iagree: but we combine this with helping the young person (male or female) to recognise the effect their behaviour has on those around them, and to consider if an apology might be needed.

Sorry for taking so long to reply! Here are some links that might help - http://blog.makezine.com/2010/05/07/observing-the-microscopic-world-usi/ http://www.instructables.com/id/Photographing-through-a-microscope-with-webcam-and/ http://www.instructables.com/id/Simple-Super-MacroMicroscope-Webcam-Conversion/ one more http://blizzard.rwic.und.edu/~nordlie/microscopy/

There are if you allow for time-last night's sky, tonight's sky, this month's skies.

You can also buy on ebay a stick on tube to attach to your mobile phone camera to use it as a digital display