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Hi! I'm looking for some (appropriate) humor genre suggestions for my 13yo son at an approximate 8th grade reading level. Most of the suggestions I have found have inappropriate topics or bad language. Any suggestions? TIA!

This is our family blog, but since beginning homeschool I've started blogging about that too. You can find it here: http://thebeazhive.blogspot.com/ All of the homeschool posts are tagged with "Busy Beaz Academy". Great idea, Daisy! I'm in the process of compliling all the blogs & sites I love too t...

I'm only 5 days late, but here is the link to our blog: http://thebeazhive.blogspot.com/2009/09 ... weeks.html I forgot about taking pictures as the kids were doing stuff, so I'm going to do better with that this week. I love seeing how everyone else is doing!

Not only did our first day go bad last week, our entire WEEK was a disaster. Yes, we got some work done, but it was only 1 1/2 days worth of plans in 5 days!!! :o I spent weeks working on a schedule for it to fall apart in a matter of hours. I was feeling guilty about not sending my kids to ps (over...

Thank you so much ladies! Your words have been such an encouragement to me. I managed to pull myself together yesterday, and do some of what they would have done at ps. Rules, schedules, overview of curriculum, etc. I kept thinking I needed ALL my materials, but realized after reading Julie's post, ...

It's the first day of ps, and I feel overwhelmingly guilty. I've sort of felt guilty ever since we decided to keep them home this year, but today its more. I keep wanting to pack them up and race to the school before it's too late! I wanted to start HOD last week to sort of avoid this feeling to som...

I haven't posted my schedule yet because until I get my books I won't know for sure if this will work. Plus, I planned to not do school on Fridays due to storytime at the library, but can see that with Bigger, I really need to. So it needs some tweaking. Besides, I don't really know how to post it!!...

I'm probably not the best person to answer this, but here's what I did. I used the program placement chart in my catalog (i'm sure there's one online, too though) that lists the different subjects & what's covered in each subject. You choose which one best describes your child, and then pick the pro...

Well, this will be our first full year of HS (did about 1/2 yr. back in K & PK), and our first time with HOD. I'm ordering everything on Friday, so depending how long it takes to get here, we will start on August 10th or 17th, so I have some time to plan. I love to plan! We will be doing Bigger for ...

Thank you Julie! I really appreciate this, it was very helpful. I love to plan stuff out, although I'm not so good at following through. That's why we picked HOD for our first real year of homeschooling. I appreciate your encouragement!!

I can't make my order until DH gets paid next week :( , but I will be using BHFHG & DITHOR, with different LA and Math programs for ds9 & dd7.5. I'm planning on using workboxes, so I'm trying to set up schedule strips and such, but have a couple questions. I also have dd3.5 & ds 1.5, so I need to kn...