"Thank goodness I was never sent to school, it would have rubbed off some of the originality" - Beatrix Potter http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BagbyBunch/ en-us Homeschool Blogger Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:40:00 -0500 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:40:00 -0500 I am selling everything in sets and I have pictures if anyone needs to see them. If you aren't local to DFW and can't pick them up, I am willing to ship. Please email me at ckobagby@yahoo.com if you are interested! Bob Jones Bible Truths 6 (3rd edition) $30 Teacher book- great used condition Student workbook- written in to page 55, pages 56-408 unwritten Tests- smudge on cover, brand new Tests answer key- brand new still in plastic wrap Bob Jones Life Science 7 (2nd edition) $20 Student Text-great condition Student workbook- a little wrinkled at the back due to water, but no pages stuck together Bob Jones Heritage Studies 6 (2nd edition) $15 Teacher book-great used condition Student text-stains, writing and some torn pages 2 Test answer keys Student workbook-written in to page 30 Bob Jones Science 6 (2nd edition) $20 Teacher book- great used condition, small scribble on cover Student text- great condition Student workbook-in a binder, written up to page 19 Lifepac Grade 5 Science teach book-$3 Bob Jones Reading 6 (2nd edition) $40 Teachers books 1 & 2-great used condition Teaching visual flip chart Teacher's book for student workbook-great used condition Student text-great used condition Student workbook- written in pencil up to page 18 worn copy of Arby Jenkins Mighty Mustang ABC Scripture Songs Memory Book & CD $5 Book has water damage and some torn pages from trying to pull pages back apart. CD has never been played. Living Joyfully with Children by Win & Bill Sweet $2 Autograph and dedication inside Preschool, Kindergarten and 1st grade workbooks $20 for all Preschool Ultimate Skill Builder (360 pgs)-couple of pages with crayon Preschool Plus Ultimate Skill Builder (360 pgs) paint marks on outside binding Harcourt Practice Language Arts (102 pgs) pages 1-50 missing Grade 1 Language Arts (160 pgs)-paint on cover, no writing inside The Big Get Ready for Kindergarten Book (320 pgs)some crayon inside Rhyming Words Game with CD ABC & number flashcards http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BagbyBunch/567759/ Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:40:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BagbyBunch/567759/ Okay...so I never get on here and blog about anything so I have decided to stop. Instead of keeping my homeschool blog seperate from my everyday blog, I decided to just do one. From now on you can visit me here.....   The Bagby Bunch   God bless everyone and have a happy, safe summer! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BagbyBunch/540752/ Fri, 30 May 2008 21:37:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BagbyBunch/540752/ Someone just sent me this link aboout a remarkable young lady in Plano, Texas. Dallas Morning News. I printed it because she is definitely an inspiration for me!! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BagbyBunch/503762/ Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:23:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BagbyBunch/503762/ I just found an awesome website and thought that I would share. It's Handwriting For Kids. I woke up this morning and decided that it would be best to be able to create my own manuscript worksheets for the girl's. I wasn't sure if there was a website that would let me do it and with the help of Google, I found Handwriting for Kids.   You can print up your own sheets with the words you choose, plus they have several sheets geared towards left-handed children. Emma is left-handed and so that should be a big help for her.   Hope everyone is doing well and hopefully I will start posting here more. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BagbyBunch/503756/ Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:11:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BagbyBunch/503756/ It's been a long time since I've been on here. Just busy I guess. Nothing really to blog about because we haven't been doing anything too exciting and no cool craft projects. I look forward to Monday and doing school.   Anthony is about to switch math books. He has been struggling with the one's we have been using. And off the top of my head I can't remember the name of them! All of the workbooks have been placed in a 3 ring binder so it's not like I can glance over at the front cover. Anyway, I am switching him to Bob Jones 6th grade. And we are starting it from the beginning. He can move along faster if he needs to but I want to make sure he has mastered the basic concepts first. I have a feeling that his 6th grade year is going to end with him having math in "summer school".   Really homeschool will be year round for us. Christmas break was almost unbearable because of how boring it was!! I couldn't wait to get back to school to give the kid's something to do.   Emma has started Speech at school and she's supposed to goes twice a week. Don't know how much that will help. It's only 30 minutes twice a week. I guess any learning time is beneficial. She has actually only gone once because of the MLK holiday and then on Wednesday she had a doctor's appointment because she said that her ear was hurting her. It was nothing but I'm glad we had her checked out.   She is doing a lot better with her alphabet and learning sounds. She does not want to learn to read. If anyone has suggestions on how to make reading time more pleasant for her, please let me know. I believe she is dyslexic. The Diagnostician at the school said that she wasn't old enough yet for them to make that diagnosis but that Emma probably was. Good enough for me. She doesn't care much for writing either. It is so hard to stay positive and upbeat when the child is shutting down and refusing to do her work. Then I get mad and force her and she agrees to it. Ahh!!   Sara on the other hand demands more and more work. BUT she doesn't want to follow directions! She is 5 now and I realize that I spend so much time working with Emma that I don't do as much with Sara. Talk about a guilt trip! I bought this Leap Frog fridge letter thing the other day. It has alphabet letters that stick to the fridge and you put them in the base and it sings a little song telling you the name of the letter and the letter sound. It also does the entire alphabet. The girl's LOVE it!!!   Well I know at least a couple of people read my blog so I need to ask some advice!!!!   We are using Bob Jones 6th grade for Anthony. For those unfamiliar with it, basically the child has so many pages to read, then the teacher asks questions from her book and then you can have a conversation about it (or just the questions, either way) and then there are maybe one or two worksheets to do.   The problem I have is scheduling. I have tried it with just me and Anthony doing all of his schoolwork first and then do school with the girls. Which is tiresome because the girl's only have a little of work to do together and then they both have their own thing and I have to go back and forth helping them both. Plus I am just sitting there bored as all heck waiting for him to finish his reading.   I have also tried it where I do school for all three at the same time. The problem with that is sure enough I will be in the middle of helping the girl's and Anthony will finish up his reading and be waiting for his questions, or done with the subject ready to move on, and I can't help him right then because I'm helping the girls. Then Anthony will seize that opportunity to do nothing or bug me to get on the computer for just a minute (no no no). And he won't stop after I've said no, so then he gets into trouble and loses his computer time completely. Then he has an attitude for the rest of school.   AND it is frustrating because he is 11 years old and capable of looking into his assignment book and moving on if he needs to. He has his own little book and it tells him exactly what to do. I am so tired of having to baby him about it! And every chance he gets he asks to take a break. But if I let him, he won't go back to doing his work. So he doesn't get any breaks because of it.   I am soooo mad right now thinking about it. I shouldn't have to waste so much energy on it. He complains that I give him too much work! Go ahead and go back to regular school then. Go sit in a desk from 8-3! Of course he doesn't want that!   Deep breath.....   so any advice would be appreciated. Thanks   http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BagbyBunch/468654/ Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:47:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BagbyBunch/468654/ ASHLAND, Ore. - Even in death, Chet Fitch is a card. Fitch, known for his sense of humor, died in October at age 88 but gave his friends and family a start recently: Christmas cards, 34 of them, began arriving -- written in his hand with a return address of "Heaven." The greeting read: "I asked Big Guy if I could sneak back and send some cards. At first he said no; but at my insistence he finally said, 'Oh well, what the heaven, go ahead but don't (tarry) there.' Wish I could tell you about things here but words cannot explain. "Better get back as Big Guy said he stretched a point to let me in the first time, so I had better not press my luck. I'll probably be seeing you (some sooner than you think). Wishing you a very Merry Christmas. Chet Fitch" A friend for nearly 25 years, Debbie Hansen Bernard said, "All I could think was, 'You little stinker.'" "It was amazing," she said. "Just so Chet, always wanting to get the last laugh." The mailing was a joke Fitch worked on for two decades with his barber, Patty Dean, 57. She told the Ashland Daily Tidings this week that he kept updating the mailing list and giving her extra money when postal rates went up. This fall, she said, Fitch looked up to her from the chair. "You must be getting tired of waiting to mail those cards," he told her. "I think you'll probably be able to mail them this year." He died a week later. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BagbyBunch/453539/ Tue, 1 Jan 2008 15:15:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BagbyBunch/453539/ Is anyone else ready for Christmas break to be over to start school again? I am just so incredibly bored during the day! We are going to start school back on Monday. We are going to be studying about money this month and we have a field trip to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Fort Worth on the 18th.   Nothing else is new school wise. Just the same old stuff. Anthony will be starting a unit about space and stars. Mardel sells astronaut food so that should be fun to try out. I think we'll try the ice cream flavor.   I guess that's about it. Not too exciting over here. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BagbyBunch/451972/ Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:32:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BagbyBunch/451972/ So this morning me and the girls took Aaron to work. They had a blast helping him get the store ready to open and as a surprise he let them make their own mini pizzas. Emma learned how the giant can opener worked. I wish I had my camera but I wasn't expecting us to stay as long as we did. I'm counting that as a field trip. Plus we went to the post office today and so it was a double field trip day. lol http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BagbyBunch/444308/ Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:11:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BagbyBunch/444308/ Someone in my homeschool group posted this and I think it's cute! The 14 Days of Homeschooling (tune of "THE 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS") On the first day of homeschool my neighbor said to me, "Can you homeschool legally?" On the second day of homeschool my neighbor said to me, "Are they socialized, can you homeschool legally?" On the third day of homeschool my neighbor said to me, "Do you give them tests, are they socialized, can you homeschool legally?" On the fourth day of home school my neighbor said to me, "What about P.E., do you give them tests, are they socialized, can you homeschool legally?" On the fifth day of home school my neighbor said to me, "YOU ARE SO STRANGE! What about P.E., do you give them tests, are they socialized, can you homeschool legally?" On the Sixth day of home school my neighbor said to me, "How long will you homeschool, YOU 'RE SO STRANGE, what about P.E., do you give them tests, are they socialized, can you homeschool legally?" On the seventh day of home school my neighbor said to me, "Look at what they're missing, how long will you homeschool, YOU ARE SO STRANGE!, what about P.E., do you give them tests, are they socialized, do you homeschool legally?" On the eighth day of home school my neighbor said to me, "Why do you do this, look at what they're missing, how long will you home school, YOU ARE SO STRANGE, what about P.E. do you give them tests, are they socialized, do you homeschool legally?" On the ninth day of home school my neighbor said to me, "They'll miss the prom, why do you do this, look at what they're missing, how long will you home school, YOU 'RE SO STRANGE!, what about P.E., do you give them tests, are they socialized, do you homeschool legally?" On the tenth day of home school my neighbor said to me, "What about graduation, they'll miss the prom, why do you do this, look at what they're missing, how long will you home school, YOU ARE SO STRANGE!, what about P.E., do you give them tests, are they socialized, can you homeschool legally?" On the eleventh day of home school my neighbor said to me, "I could never do that, what about graduation, they'll miss the prom, why do you do this, look at what they're missing, how long will you homeschool, YOU ARE SO STRANGE, what about P.E. do you give them tests, are they socialized, can you homeschool legally?" On the twelfth day of homeschool my neighbor said to me, "Can they go to college, I could never do that, what about graduation, they'll miss the prom, why do you do this, look at what they're missing, how long will you homeschool, YOU ARE SO STRANGE, What about P.E., do you give them tests, are they socialized, can you homeschool legally?" On the thirteenth day of homeschool I thoughtfully replied: "They can go to college, yes you can do this, and they can graduate, we don't need the prom, we do it cuz we like it, they aren't missing anything, we'll homeschool forever, WE'RE NOT STRANGE!, We give them P.E., life itself's a test, they are socialized, AND WE HOMESCHOOL LEGALLY! On the fourteenth day of homeschool my neighbor said to me, "How can I get started, why didn't you tell me, where do I buy curriculum, when is the next conference, WILL PEOPLE THINK WE'RE STRANGE? I think we can do this, if you will help us, can we join P.E. and we'll homeschool legally. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BagbyBunch/443378/ Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:52:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BagbyBunch/443378/ Dear Children, It has come to my attention that many of you are upset that folks are taking My name out of the season. Maybe you've forgotten that I wasn't actually born during this time of the year and that it was some of your predecessors who decided to celebrate My birthday on what was actually a time of pagan festival. Although I do appreciate being remembered anytime. How I personally feel about this celebration can probably be most easily understood by those of you who have been blessed with children of your own. I don't care what you call the day. If you want to celebrate My birth, just GET ALONG AND LOVE ONE ANOTHER. Now, having said that let Me go on. If it bothers you that the town in which you live doesn't allow a scene depicting My birth, then just get rid of a couple of Santas and snowmen and put in a small Nativity scene on your own front lawn. If all My followers did that there wouldn't be any need for such a scene on the town square because there would be many of them all around town. Stop worrying about the fact that people are calling the tree a holiday tree, instead of a Christmas tree. It was I who made all trees. You can remember Me anytime you see any tree. Decorate a grape vine if you wish: I actually spoke of that one in a teaching, explaining who I am in relation to you and what each of our tasks were. If you have forgotten that one, look up John 15: 1 - 8. If you want to give Me a present in remembrance of My birth here is my wish list. Choose something from it: 1. Instead of writing protest letters objecting to the way My birthday is being celebrated, write letters of love and hope to soldiers away from home. They are terribly afraid and lonely this time of year. I know, they tell Me all the time. 2. Visit someone in a nursing home. You don't have to know them personally. They just need to know that someone cares about them. 3. Instead of writing George complaining about the wording on the cards his staff sent out this year, why don't you write and tell him that you'll be praying for him and his family this year. Then follow up. It will be nice hearing from you again. 4. Instead of giving your children a lot of gifts you can't afford and they don't need, spend time with them. Tell them the story of My birth, and why I came to live with you down here. Hold them in your arms and remind them that I love them. 5. Pick someone that has hurt you in the past and forgive him or her. 6. Did you know that someone in your town will attempt to take their own life this season because they feel so alone and hopeless? Since you don't know who that person is, try giving everyone you meet a warm smile; it could make the difference. 7. Instead of nit picking about what the retailer in your town calls the holiday, be patient with the people who work there. Give them a warm smile and a kind word. Even if they aren't allowed to wish you a "Merry Christmas" that doesn't keep you from wishing them one. Then stop shopping there on Sunday. If the store didn't make so much money on that day they'd close and let their employees spend the day at home with their families 8. If you really want to make a difference, support a missionary-- especially one who takes My love and Good News to those who have never heard My name. 9. Here's a good one. There are individuals and whole families in your town who not only will have no "Christmas" tree, but neither will they have any presents to give or receive. If you don't know them, buy some food and a few gifts and give them to the Salvation Army or some other charity which believes in Me and they will make the delivery for you. 10. Finally, if you want to make a statement about your belief in and loyalty to Me, then behave like a Christian. Don't do things in secret that you wouldn't do in My presence. Let people know by your actions that you are one of mine. Don't forget; I am God and can take care of Myself. Just love Me and do what I have told you to do. I'll take care of all the rest. Check out the list above and get to work; time is short. I'll help you, but the ball is now in your court. And do have a most blessed Christmas with all those whom you love and remember : I LOVE YOU, JESUS http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BagbyBunch/435465/ Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:06:00 -0600 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/BagbyBunch/435465/