Posts by naismama

Just checked back in here after ages....anybody else? :)

Thanks! :)

We are returning to homeschooling after a year+.  We don't really have any homeschooling friends and it's getting lonely.  I don't really want to do any of the big homeschool groups around here; I'd just love to make some...

Thanks for the responses! So I've removed dairy. I'll see if that clears up the little bumps on her face and the itchiness overall too. And I got the antibiotics, but I never used them. She hasn't complained about her ears in days,...

A couple of months ago I took my kids (5, 3) to an allergy doc for testing. It didn't go down the way I thought it would and he basically did that pin-prick on the back thing for eight substances that are common allergens or that I...

OK, I was going to use the multi-quote feature, but there were too many good quotes I wanted to use, so I'll just send out a general "thank you"! This is such an exciting time for me considering I spent the entire spring...

My daughter just turned five and would have started kindergarten this week(!) I am trying to figure out how to proceed in her language arts, but I am not really sure what I should be doing. She is what I would call an independent and...

Kittywitty--thanks. I had thought about RightStart, but I am not sure about the whole abacus thing? With Singapore, it's not that it is colorful, perse, but that you have to process and understand what is going on in the pictures in...

I will most likely be homeschooling dd for kindergarten this year. This past year we did Singapore Math EarlyBird, and it went ok. But I think we can do better. DD has strabismus and problems with visual processing. Much of the...

So I met with the director of the school where dd is enrolled, and I specifically asked about this: Quote: Originally Posted by Tjej They may well be combining the K and 1st. That is what a tiny private school near...