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Year 2014 - 2015 Curriculum choices and changed can be found here. Fall 2015 brought more changes. Little Miss is still using Sonlight and Math-U-See, and it continues to be a great fit for her and for mama. The teens are now dual enrolled at a local college, and continuing Mr. D Math at home. (Our first year of homeschooling we used AOP SOS, then switched to AOP Monarch. We used Monarch for five years. You can read more below.) *********************************************************************** Starting our homeschool journey in the Fall of 2008. Our method of homeschooling is computer-based traditional learning. I never felt the call to homeschool, and actually kicked and screamed about it before finally agreeing to give homeschooling a try. Our older children had attended a Christian school K-4th. I don't enjoy doing craft projects or science experiments with my kids, or look forward to putting together different curricula. I had never even attended a homeschool convention! English isn't my native language even, for goodness sakes!! Our main reason for homeschooling was the flexibility it would allow our traveling family, and finding a program that allows me to be more the assistant than the teacher. We started homeschooling in 5th grade using AOP Switched-On-Schoolhouse, and from 6th grade on we have used AOP Monarch with our four older children. Both are great programs. Each student has their own laptop, and while they have the same material, they each work at their own pace. The first year we weren't involved in many homeschool activities (it was all about surviving), but for half of 6th grade we attended a homeschool co-op, and also attended various other fun homeschool activities every week. We are also big on PE outside, every single day! We did some preschool work at home, but Little Miss attended local preschools (both in Florida and in New England). For K-1st Little Miss used Critical Thinking First Grade Bundle and Hooked on Phonics, and for second grade she used Dew Learning. Our motto with homeschooling is: "If we can do it, anyone can do it!!" :) Our kids sometimes talk about things they miss about going to Christian school, but so far have always come to the conclusion they'd rather be homeschooled. These past four years have definitely brought our family closer as we have traveled together and spent more time together. Sure, there have been some terrible-horrible-very-bad days, but now we have learned to close our laptops and head outside for PE or go to the library on a field trip on those days. We also love our school uniforms: pajamas on many days ;-) You can click the cartoon to view it larger.
Gaslight, American film noir, released in 1944, that centres on murder and madness in Victorian London. The cast included Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, and Angela Lansbury in her screen debut. Bergman portrayed Paula, a young woman who lives with her aunt, a famous opera singer, in London but moves to Italy after her aunt is killed during a burglary. Ten years later, following a brief courtship, she marries the pianist Gregory Anton (played by Boyer), who, unbeknownst to her, is actually the murderer. The couple returns to her aunt’s house, and a series of unexplained incidents lead Paula
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A slight entertainment: nothing offensive, nothing great. Emma Thompson stars as the title character, a magical nanny who arrives to deal with Colin Firth’s obnoxious children. She teaches them var…
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Der Brause-Klassiker. Ahoj-Brause Brause-Pulver ist der köstliche Prickelspaß für Groß und Klein. Der Inhalt der Beutel wird einfach in Wasser gegossen und schon erhalten Sie ein erfrischendes Getränk in den Geschmacksrichtungen Himbeer, Orange, Zitrone und Waldmeister. Diese Brause weckt Kindheitserinnerungen und ist auch heute noch beliebt bei Jung und Alt.
As Germany celebrates 25 years since the reunification of East and West, here are 20 things that you may not know about the country
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My tastes in comedy are fairly broad, from Radio 4 shows like The News Quiz to live stand-up. What's missing nowadays seems to be the gentle monologues of someone like Joyce Grenfell, who was doing observational comedy long before the term was invented. Of course, the life Joyce Grenfell was observing around her in the days before World War II was very different to what life is like today but her work wears incredibly well and some of her most famous sketches were recreated by Maureen Lipman on stage in around 1990 and last year on TV. The only modern comedienne I can think of who comes close to Grenfell's performance style is Victoria Wood, whose monologues, character-driven sketches and songs echo Grenfell's work. Joyce Grenfell was born Joyce Irene Phipps, in London on 10 February 1910, the daughter of Paul Phipps and his wife Nora (nee Langhorne). Her mother was American, the sister of Nancy Astor, her father an architect working for Edward Lutyens. Educated in London and at a finishing school in Paris, Joyce, stagestruck since childhood, attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art but last only one term. She married Reginald Pascoe Grenfell in 1929. A keen listener to radio, she became the radio critic for The Observer as well as earning money producing poster and card art and selling verse to Punch. She met Herbert Farjeon at a luncheon and was persuaded by her host, Stephen Potter, to perform a comic rendition based on a talk she had heard at a Women's Institute. Farjeon invited her to give the talk in his upcoming revue, which opened in 1939. Warmly reviewed, Joyce continued to create monologues and write songs, performing them on long tours, covering 14 countries, for the Entertainments National Service Association during WW2, for which she was awarded the OBE in 1946. She also appeared in numerous revues, radio shows and movies in the UK in the 1940s and 1950s, including her most famous role as a police constable in the St. Trinian's series. Although she retired from the stage in the early 1970s, she continued to be a popular star on TV and she also turned to writing, her two volumes of autobiography—Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure and In Pleasant Places—becoming bestsellers. She died on 30 November 1979 at her home in Chelsea, London, from cancer. NO COVER AVAILABLE Nanny Says, as recalled by Sir Hugh Casson and Joyce Grenfell, edited by Diana, Lady Avebury (London, Dobson, 1972) Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure (London, Macmillan, 1976) Futura 7571, 1977. Cover: photo George, Don't Do That— (London, Macmillan, 1977) Futura 1479, 1978. Cover: photo 'Stately as a galleon', and other songs and sketches, illus. John Ward (London, Macmillan, 1978) Futura 1631, 1979. Cover: photo In Pleasant Places (London, Macmillan, 1979) Futura 1906, 1980. Cover: photo Joyce, by herself and her friends, ed. Reggie Grenfell & Richard Garnett (London, Macmillan, 1980) Futura 2078, 1981. Cover: photo Futura 4761, 1991. Cover: photo An Invisible Friendship: An exchange of letters 1957-1979, with Katharine Moore (London, Macmillan, 1981) Futura 2219, 1982. Cover: photo Turn Back the Clock. Her best monologues and songs (London, Macmillan, 1983) Futura 2602, 1983. Cover: photo Darling Ma: Letters to Her Mother, 1932-1944 (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1988) Coronet 50238, 1989. Cover: design Sceptre 70736, 1997. Cover: photo The Time of My Life: Entertaining the Troops 1944-1945, edited and introduced by James Roose-Evans (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1989) Coronet 0340-52813-3, 1990, 392pp, £4.99. Cover: design NO COVER AVAILABLE Joyce and Ginne. The letters of Joyce Grenfell and Virginia Graham, ed. Janie Hampton (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1997) NO COVER AVAILABLE Hats Off: Poems and Drawings, compiled and introduced by Janie Hampton (London, John Murray, 2000) Joyce Grenfell by Janie Hampton (London, John Murray, 2002) John Murray 6490, 2003. Cover: photo NO COVER AVAILABLE Letters from Aldeburgh, ed. Janie Hampton (Crawborough, Day Books, 2006)
