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Have you tried doing his science the Writing with Ease way? Have him narrate his answer while you write it down it, ask him if he remembers what he just said, if he doesn't, read it back to him 2 or 3 times and then have him write it down.
It's taken me this long, but I just started having my son do his math on a whiteboard, he is also 9. I write the problem on the board and he works it. It has helped immensely with his focus because he is only looking at one problem at a time instead of focusing on how much more he has left to do. In the past I had to sit next to and continually refocus his attention.
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I have a perfectionist daughter as well and it has been very difficult to point out anything that might be improved upon without her bursting into tears. We seem to have arrived at a solution that is working (for now) ...
Outside of school time we talked about how we all make mistakes and that mistakes are actually an important part of learning. Then I asked her to come up with something we could both say when a mistake happens. She decided "I'm learning!" would be the "Mistake Cheer." So now when she makes a mistake and I can see that she's starting to get upset, I ask her what we can say at times like this. She cheers up right away when she says that little phrase that she created.
I don't know why it works, but I'm happy to be able to stop the tears!
I love that idea!
When my son was younger I would point out my mistakes to him and say, "Oops, oh well. I'll just fix it." Now that he is older, almost 10, mistakes in his school work don't upset him as much. He just fixes it and moves on, but he is very hard on himself in sports.
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Tricks of the Trade student notebook and You Can Teach Any Child to Spell teacher text. Has helped my son tremendously.
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Open the book roughly in the middle and with a sharp box cutter cut down the middle. You may or may not be able pull the pages off the binding, if not the use a straight edge and the box cutter.
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See, it's not the tip that breaks, it's the internal lead. So let's say I sharpen it to a nice point, then start writing with it, the lead wiggles until it falls out. It's like the inside of each pencil lead has been broken into many small pieces. All our pencils seem to end up this way :(
I've had that happen too, but it was from the pencils being used as drum sticks on edge of the table. :glare:
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Well, I think CTC has updated their Mindbenders books and combined some of them. Book 3 for grades 3 - 6 has 35 puzzles in it.
Lisa
Oh good! I did order book 3, I feel better about 35 puzzles. It shipped yesterday, so I should have it a couple days.
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Mindbenders are great but there are an unbelievably small number of puzzles per book after the Beginning book. We switched to Mindware's Grid Perplexors. Same type of puzzles but 50 puzzles per book instead of 15.
Oh when will learn to talk to the hive before I order! 15 puzzles. :glare: Well, all I can say is I don't have a lot of time in our schedule. I am planning to use it during the "take a week off" periods in Writing Strands, so I think it will still take ds almost a full year to do 15 puzzles.
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I just ordered Mind Benders book 3. I've only see the online samples, hopefully my son likes it. :tongue_smilie:
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Thanks for the heads up. I might be good for us next year! Never to early to plan. :D
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I can see your point about listening the first time. That is an important skill and I tend to get annoyed with my son if I find he wasn't listen! :glare: And I do agree that society in general doesn't expect enough from our kids.
But, I do think of it more as guiding the narration vs. correcting. To my mind if you continue to let them get overly wordy or make grammar mistakes (they instead of The Egyptians) then those mistakes will continue. I don't correct the mistake, I ask a question to get a better sentence. Kind of in the same vain as dictating them a sentence and not letting them make spelling or grammar mistakes. Like said it's a slow process and a goal to be achieved not a starting point. I don't correct everything every time! I have had plenty of notebook page narrations here too. :tongue_smilie:
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If it helps her to listen twice I think that is a great idea!
We are into our 3rd year of narrations and I'm finally starting to get short, good quality summaries from my 9-year old. The goal is to eventually get there, I would expect to start with short summaries.
Yes, I say go ahead and correct things like "they". When she starts with they just say something like, oh wait, who are "they"? If she is getting to wordy explain, and explain over again, that is too much information or we don't need to know about that, lets skip that part and talk about ____. I also had my son read the examples in the book after his narration so he could start getting an idea of a 3-5 sentence summary. Also, at that age you could ask what is one thing you remember instead of a more general tell me what happened.
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My son typically remembers his sentences. One time his sentence had a list of items in it and he wrote them in a different order, but the items were all there. I let that go. I would also let it go if, like you said, it is only one or two words and the sentence has been improved.
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I used the Mellisa and Doug Magnetic Calendar when my son was younger. It has weather magnets that you can either put on the day or, what we did, is change them out and put them at the top of the calendar every morning. Of course here in the NW the rain magnet got the most use! ;)
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Without knowing it, he gives me more and more confidence by never questioning or doubting that I can homeschool. He never expects me to have the house perfectly clean or supper on the table by a certain time. For this I am extremely grateful.
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My DH helps with the financial part of the curriculum. That's all he does, and that works for me :D
:iagree: He is also very involved with our son's team sport activities, making sure chores are done, and baths are taken.
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My laser printer is out of toner and I had to order the cartridge because no one in town seems to carry it. :glare: I didn't want to put off starting school just because I couldn't print MM, so I've been writing the problems on a whiteboard. My son has been working through his math in record time. Why didn't I do this sooner? He says he always wants to do math on the whiteboard. I hope this magic lasts all year. :D But somehow I think the novelty will eventually wear off.
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I started seeing a change at about 8 1/2. I've had others tell me 4th grade was when focus starts to get better and by 5th they are in a good groove.
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First day 4th grade! It went well for us. We jumped right back into our routine. :001_smile: We completed everything except Latin, because we had to take a break and run to a dentist apt I had forgotten about. What was I thinking scheduling that on the first day school! Well, it was a short appointment, ds just had to get sealants on his back teeth so we were in and out. Got home in time to finish school just as the neighbor kids were knocking on the door.
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My son read all the Junie B books! He loved them. Others I didn't see named, Flat Stanley, Nate the Great, Shiloh Trilogy.
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I was a C student with a lot of problems at home. My mind was everywhere but on my studies. I was in survival mode, had almost no accountability, and I cared way too much about my social life... sigh. A lot of what ifs, if you know what I mean.
:iagree: except for having problems at home. Life at home was easy, maybe to easy. As long as I got my chores done, was home by midnight and didn't fail a class no one questioned me. Since those were the goals set for me those were the goals I met. D's were frowned upon, but it was a pass, so I just got glare with a do better next time. Mostly made C's, with A's in electives, B's in math because I liked math, you did the work and you were either right or wrong, I liked that structure. Writing, history, science, social studies....:tongue_smilie:
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Starting tomorrow as well! I don't have math ready, but hopefully that won't take me to long. We are just going to whiteboard a review of last year for the first couple days.
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I have the workbook and am looking at it now. We haven't started yet, so I can't say definitively, but I don't think there is anything you couldn't do on paper or a whiteboard. The workbook would save prep time for you though. For example, there is a lesson on prepositions that has 42 sentences printed out. That would be a lot whiteboard writing, but you could do it on a whiteboard have the kids come up one at time and circle the prep. If you do buy the workbook I would go with pdf. With the hard copy you would still have to copy and print 3 additional copies. I think the pdf would be more convenient.
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I think my kids are doomed when it comes to cursive. I never got past the M and N when I was in school, as a result, to this day I don't write in cursive! My 21 year old struggles to read cursive hand and my MIL has taken it upon herself to teach my son cursive. :tongue_smilie: Hopefully she'll succeed! I sign my name Tammy with a cursive T, some squiggly lines and and Y! :lol:
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I'm surprised Australasia is even on your globe.
Rosie
Actually, Oceania is on our globe, I found Australasia in a wildlife puzzle book that divides the wildlife by continent. Since then my son insists that Australasia is a continent. Oh the confusion! But I believe I have it figured out now and can set him straight. :lol:
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You might think about getting WWE textbook. It a great program for reluctant writers and you can use the techniques with science and history, so it doesn't take up a lot of extra time in your schedule.