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  1. After four years of using Singapore Standards w/CWP, I ~think~ I am ready to make the switch to Math Mammoth, which I have been using as a supplement (blue series.)

     

    I ordered the light blue series and am almost getting excited about making the decision to switch. I will add in a Kindergartner to with my 2nd and 5th graders and am hoping to really simplify life. I love math and always did well.

     

    Thoughts? Inspirations?

  2. I feel for you.....

     

    I would go back to Singapore 1B and get the basics down.

     

    Mammoth Math is very inexpensive and works really well with Singapore. You could easily do Singapore lessons WITH her, and then let her do Math Mammoth on her own.

     

    It will be a challenge at first for her worrying about doing 1st or 2nd grade level work. But it sounds like it is what needs to happen. No need to sugar coat it, JUST DO IT.

  3. In our second year of homeschooling, my first grader wanted to go to PS. I let her. In three months she came to me and asked when she could do homeschool again. So we took her out.

     

    It is tough, very tough. It get easier though. The more you prepare, forgive yourself, and pray, it is SOOO worth it!!

  4. My kids are 9, 6, 4, 2. We did SOTW 2 all together this year. They all colored while I read.

     

    Next year we will do SOTW 3. It is already so challenging for me doing all the other subjects with each child individually that I NEED history and science done as a family all together to keep my sanity. :tongue_smilie:

  5. Thank you! This is just what I needed to read today!!! I was working with my husband in the yard this weekend when he told me that he was worried because I kept getting distracted and couldn't "focus" to finish a job. He said I kept wondering off....... Well, I really was working, but I guess I was doing exactly that A. A. A. D. thing. I really think it is a stay-at-home/homeschooling mom thing with WAY too many things to ever get done be the end of the day, too many projects, etc.

    This really gave me a good life. I am going to copy it and send to my husband. He will really enjoy it.

  6. For FLL 2 and WWE 2 we used a compostion notebook for all the WWE narration, copywork, and dictation. In the same notebook we did all the copywork from FLL 2. Yes, we did copywork from both.

     

    I hated the huge lines in WWE and the compostion notebook worked really well for us.

  7. 1150 square foot house with 4 girls.

     

    Count your blessings.

     

    We saw an old TINY shack close to our house and were told that 12 children grew up in it. My oldest always reminds me it could be worse...

     

    Pick one closet, cabinet, bookshelf every week and re-organize it.

     

    Or you can just do what I do and scream: "Everybody stop what you are doing and get this chaos picked up NOW before I go CRAZY!!"

     

    You just have to be really innovative with space.

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