Does Rod and Staff review things from past lessons? She does not like a bunch of different stuff going on in her work sheets but...she does need some review every once in a while or she forgets. Thanks, Penny

Hi, I need help. My 5th grade daughter is currently going to a school that uses ACE curriculum. She is doing OK with it now that i am reteaching the material after school... except for the math. The kids in the class are all on sperate books and the teacher is usually working with the special needs kids more than the others.(my girl ends up having to try to do it alone) She is required to do 10 pages per day. There are way too many topics going on at one time for her. I used to homeschool her and we would have to go over the material a million times for it to really sink in. If/when I try to use material like Math Mammoth/Singapore/MIF it ends in explosive tears and frustration no matter how slow I take it. She says that she hates it. I have tried the education unboxed videos and games. It goes beyond "we all have to do things we don't like." The only curriculum she liked was Saxon K but...I was so worried about "conceptual understanding" that I sold it and switched to MM..then Singapore.. then back to MM.. and then tried MIF before she was put in the school. I used the HIGS/TM. I have never really had trouble teaching the material. My youngest daughter loves MM/SM/Miquon combo. I don't know what to do. She will not be going to that school next year. I will likely homeschool again. I would take her out of the school now but i would still have to pay tuition. I would like to purchase something to use now and continue to use next year. ( that I can stick with for the long haul) I am sick of curriculum hopping.(when we homeschooled) What curriculum do you recommend for kids that need to take it slow? Thanks, Penny

Thanks for the replies. She does ask and sometimes begs to be homeschooled again. I do remind her of how hard it was last year to get her to do her work. She cries and says that she wishes that she would have cooperated. I was a fight each and every day to get her to do her work. Some days it would take two hours for her to complete a couple of math worksheets. Everything was a drama queen moment. :scared: She has calmed down a bit since then. It just gets difficult scrounging for money to cover tuition payments. My husbands comments often how I sometimes work til 7:30pm teaching her what she should have done in class. I certainly don't mind helping her.(That is why I homeschooled to begin with.) I will just keep trucking along since our relationship has improved. It is worth the cost of tuition. Sincerely, Penny

Hi, I used to frequent the forum in the past as I was home schooling my girls. I still homeschool my youngest(now 6), but this year my oldest(10) is attending a private school. The school uses Ace Paces for all subjects. Mondays and Thursdays consist of Math, Science, and English. Tuesdays and Wednesdays cover Social Studies, Creative Writing, and Word Building. It is going so so.I find that it has too much multiple choice. I think that it is so boring she just circles random answers just to get it done! My dd used to love science and now hates it. I find that I am having to teach all subject material to her after school because the class has way too many distractions.(she is the type of kid that needs total quiet) I often wonder why I am spending money when I am still having to teach her. This kid is very demanding. When I was homeschooling her she saw me as the bad guy making her do school.( and fought me every step of the way)Now that she is in "real" school, in her eyes it seems like she sees me as "mom" now(no longer the bad guy)and let's me help with/teach the material. Go figure.... I just don't know if I should continue with the private school. On one hand she is happy to have her school friends and I am just her mom and helper.(no longer the bad guy) She loves her teacher and has great conduct grades. As long as I check her paces every night and stay on her, her grades are ok but the minute I let her school "do its job"...she brings home bad grades. The only tie she ever really loved school was when we did Konos. I just don't have the time to plan units. I just don't know what to do. Penny

I am doing a 5 a day method with my children. It is working great so far. I have the KTM set of books but I also pull from many sources.(MEP, MM and so on) My dd used to shut down at the sight of MM or MEP worksheets. Not anymore! I just cut out the sections that I want them to do and glue it to loose leaf. I think my oldest likes this so much better because the problems are not cramped together..lots of white space. I can spread a MEP lesson out instead of a lesson per day. An example of my oldest(dd9) sheets are as follows: 1) Multiplication facts 8's or 9's(I write them out and she writes the answer) 2) A section from MEP or MM 3) A word problem or two. 4) Division problems 5) Fractions or whatever she needs practice in. We add in math activities to round it all off. I get living math books from the library and KTM to spice it all up. It is nothing fancy but it works. Penny

I felt so guilty when I put away SM. I thought that using anything but "the best" would short change my kid. I am sooooo over that now. I don't have to deal with daily tears. SM works great for some kids. I was not teaching it wrong. I just needed a different approach. My dd would cry at the sight of the SM books. Don't do like I did....I was kicking a dead horse. Once a child hates math and thinks that they are aweful at math it takes a lot to get their confidence back. Penny

Most of the people I know don't use it for more than a couple of years and resell it for less than $200. That is what worries me.

I am curious to know how many people use it alone. Thanks for taking the time to answer. Penny

That is my plan. I honestly can't afford all of the extras. I may make my own readers in a word processor and let my dd illustrate. Later, I will just get some readers from the library. I do think that the AAR Readers look nice, but I just can't afford it.

My dd(5) has a leap pad 2 and loves it. She NEVER bugs me for my phone or nook tablet anymore. She has learned a lot of things from playing the games. Penny

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I would just get loose leaf paper and write out the problems. This way you can decide how many problems to work on. Give her lots of space.(I make my dd's math sheets and I used to be funny about using a spreadsheet to make it all professional. I was making it way more complicated than it needed to be.) My dd loves this approach. or I would just make a copy of the pages.(although I much prefer to write it out myself.)