Happy Thanksgiving to all…  May the Lord bless you and keep you safe during travel….and turkey overdose!!!  We have been having great fun this week learning about the Mayflower and the history of Thanksgiving.  Check out www.mayflowerhistory.com…  there is tons of cool info.  There are even biographies of the passengers.  Mom is learning alot too….!!! 

Now for the help…..  my son had an assignment today using the Odyssee Writer..and when he went to submit it gave him the choice of Jenny 07-08, Jenny test, or Jenny ??( something else) ….I looked in his portfolio and it is there but is not graded and there is no where that I can see to add a grade.  Can you tell me how to grade,and also who is Jenny..and does she do windows???   :o) 

Thanks again for allof your wonderful comments. I am having so much fun using T4L.  

Just a note to see what everyone is doing lesson wise for Thanksgiving?  We are new to homeschooling and I did not realize just how much info there is out there for virtually everything….aaahhhh…where do we start.  Luckily we have T4L!!!  I think it is so cool that we can access multiple grade levels that way we can sort of search for the topic that we are covering and utilize all resources.

My family is visiting this week and I have a cousin that teaches in California.  I can not wait to share time 4 learning with her.  She has a BA in education, but there you have to have a masters to teach….so she runs an after-school program for k-8.  Hopefully there will be some kids there that this program would help.  I know that she has all different degrees of learning abilities in the program….and all different degrees of parental involvement. 

I am also a little selfish….my parents are skeptical about this homeschooling thing, so maybe if she looks at the program and gives it a thumbs up they will get more ”into it.”  Don’t get me wrong…they are supportive…but ….  How do you other homeschool mom’s deal with that? 

The kids and I were talking about what we were thankful for….. I am thankful for the privlidge to teach my children, for guidance from the Lord, and for great curriculum like T4L!!!    

First off let me say WOOOHOOO to Z ( and mom) for completing the LA lessons!!!  That brings to mind a question about the LA section.  Are the extensions a part of the LA curriculum or are they just “extensions or extra practice” ?  ( Is that proper punctuation…the ” followed by the ? …  I think mom needs more grammar….aaahhhh) Also, has anyone come across the need for using the writing tool ?  I am wanting my children to do weekly writing assignments but have not seen where the writer is used?   

As you know we are new to homeschooling.  We have had the usual objections from parents…they are supporting but reluctantly. On Tuesday my son will go and take a academic assessment test given at our local university, ( the girls already took it last week during the appendix issue) ….so the girls will spend the morning with my mom.  Thanks again to T4L I will not have to worry about their school work.  Hopefully seeing how great this program is and how much fun the kids have with it my mom will be less reluctant…..   I will keep you posted!!

Thank you for all of the wonderful comments regarding my son’s surgery.  He is recovering beautifully.  I am sorry that I have been so quiet this week, as we have been running crazy.  I wanted to share something with you all and see if anyone had a similar experience….

Yesterday morning I was sleeping in…a rare delicacy.  And my daughter came in and said that she was done with her bible and handwriting and was going on to T4L.  I said honey, it is Saturday and you do not have school…but if you want to that is ok !!!  ( Who am I to discourage her…  :o)  )  I was so nervous this year about homeschooling and that they would not like it.  But I guess we are a success…( with much prayer)  Now my 7th grader is another story….. ( she is determined that she wants to go to public school to be with her friends….  It is not like we are hermits…..goodness.  We do more now than we could have imagined in public school.   They have co-op, enrichment days, choir and a FLL club, as well as 4-H….   any suggestions for a reluctant homeschooler?

Hello:  It’s me….again.    As you all know we are new to HS’ing and T4L.  Do any of you all that are using T4L as a core, use any math worksheets to supplement?  We just finished reviewing the 4th grade for my son, and now he is moving on to the 5th grade.  I looked around the parent page and found answers but not a worksheet generator or additional worksheets.  Is this necessary?  Please excuse the newbie question…I think that I am still in the stress out mode trying to make sure that they are “where they are supposed to be.” 

 Also, have any of you ever had the kids take individually administered assessment tests?  We are in Ky. and there are no testing requirements for home-schools…just wanted opinions on their validity.  I can not stress enough how much easier T4L makes record-keeping……yeah T4L!!!!!