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  1. Singapore Math US edition? Home instructors guide, workbook, textbook. And at this level, to be honest, I almost never bothered using the home instructors guide because it all seemed straightforward to my fairly bright kids and it was easy to implement. Note that there are two workbooks and two textbooks but they correspond with each other -- first half of the year is textbook A/workbook A, second half is textbook B/workbook B.
  2. I haven't seen the movie, but from the description, it's closer to Asimov's later robot books (e.g. "The Caves of Steel", "The Naked Sun"), while still being very far away from them. Except for the concept of the Three Laws of Robotics and the existence of someone named Dr. Susan Calvin, the stories should be entirely new.
  3. The D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths should be accessible to 3rd/4th grader, assuming his English skills are up to it. D'Aulaires' is about as comprehensive a child-friendly guide to Greek Myths as exists.
  4. Peter Spier's Christmas (Spier) How Six Found Christmas (Hyman)
  5. I haven't seen listed in your down the rabbit hole suggestions: Mary Carruthers and Jan M. Ziolkowski's "The Medieval Craft of Memory, An Anthology of Texts and Pictures", which has (with commentary, and translated) the text of a number of medieval writers' works on memorization, and Carruthers's "The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture", which is more interpretive.
  6. Some time back, Jessica @ "We Don't Need No Education" made some worksheets for Grammar-Land, available here: https://dontneednoeducation.blogspot.com/2010/01/grammar-land-worksheets.html
  7. I have a vague recollection that the ArtPac books do something like this, but they cover the whole spectrum of art, not just crayon usage. Maybe someone can chime in who has used them more recently (and gone further -- we just used the first three or so).
  8. The old duolingo tree was decent, with detailed grammar notes and explanations for each level. Unfortunately, when they redid the tree, they replaced the grammar notes/explanations with a short list of sentences. And that was it. I think that Duolingo still is an OK supplement -- the gamification they've incorporated is great as a motivator to help put in the practice. I am, in fact, using it myself, as I slowly proceed through a Latin curriculum. (I've completed the Duolingo tree, and am now just finishing up the "challenge" exercises.) But I don't think you can start Duolingo at the same time you start an actual Latin program; you want to be at least a few chapters in before you even start Duolingo-ing, because Duolingo is expecting that you'll be able to just pick up the grammar rules implicitly, and that's not going to happen.
  9. +1 to this series. I've used them for team reading with my kids, and the ones I've found have been excellent. Though it was set up as one page parent, one page child, and not mixed together. Another one-page child, one-page parent is the Ladybird "Puddle Lane" series, but the child pages are not really decodable and they more-or-less recap the parent's page. "Ant And Bee" series does child words sprinkled throughout the text, in color. Non-decodable child words, though. The stories are very enjoyable, but it isn't a good early reader, at least not in the manner in which it is intended.
  10. I have a friend who used it for her extremely dyslexic child. Generally speaking, it's a last ditch effort to remediate dyslexia, because it is so *very* expensive and takes so much time. Intensive tutoring, maybe two hours a day for weeks. She says she could've bought another house with what she spent, but on the other hand, now she has a child who can read - not super well, but enough that he's functional.
  11. Alcumus is an interesting thought. I am trying to keep him very minimal in terms of screens but, well, AoPS. I would like recommendations for #4.
  12. I'm starting this thread to just kick around some ideas. Rising 7th grader will have finished pre-Algebra in May. It seems to be going pretty well. He'll start Algebra in September. So what should I do with the summer? 1. A more intensive pre-Algebra curriculum. Something like AoPS Pre-Algebra, which is deeper and harder than what he's working on now. (I wouldn't expect him to complete this.) 2. A normal pre-Algebra curriculum, but a different one than he'd worked on, which would serve as a review/help solidify the material. Ideally something that wouldn't involve as much teaching time as #1. Math Mammoth's, maybe? R&S 8? Something just to keep in in practice. 3. A lightweight, gentle intro to Algebra, like Key to Algebra, to give him some familiarity before hitting the topic 4. Something oddball, that keeps him in the "math mode". Number theory? Cryptography? Something math puzzle-y? An old vocational math textbook?
  13. I really enjoyed "Grammar-Land: Grammar in Fun for the Children of Schoolroom-shire" , and my kids were willing to read it spontaneously. However, it is mainly focused on parts of speech, so might not really go deep enough into what you need. You can check it out on archive.org: https://archive.org/details/grammarlandorgra00nesb/page/n7/mode/2up If you like it, there are lots of physical copies available for cheap. Try to get one with the illustrations; I didn't, and regret the lack. This lady has turned the chapter questions into worksheets, and made them available for free: http://dontneednoeducation.blogspot.com/2010/01/grammar-land-worksheets.html
  14. Just to follow up, I read through part of Elementary Math for Teachers before I misplaced it, and thought it was quite good - a very detailed guide to elementary math. I certainly learned things, and would like to find it again. Another book well worth looking at is "Step-By-Step Model Drawing: Solving Word Problems the Singapore Way", which *really* made the bar modeling process much more clear. For the first part of the book, you're given set of problems that cover all the ways one might use bar models, walks you through how to solve each problems, and provides a "teaching script" to explain to your students. Second part gives you a similar set of problems to work out on your own, and then you can look in the back to see the author's solution/student explanations. See one, do one, all that's left is to teach one.
  15. Notetaking is a very useful skill and history, with its melange of dates and names, is a good place to start learning it. Handwritten notes are extremely effective -- not just for review purposes, but the simple action of taking notes helps retention. (And if you have attention issues, taking notes can be an effective way to prevent your mind from wandering. Only way I can force myself to pay attention to a zoom call is with a notebook in front of me. Ironically, right now, as I am typing this answer, there's an online conference going in the background to which I should probably instead be paying attention.)
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