Tam101
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I can't say enough about Star Spangaled States from Knowledge Quest. My son loved it! We also have a board game called Great States that is fun.
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My ds8 spends on average 3 hours a day on seat work, but after adding in all the extras sports/PE, piano-lessons-practice-recitals, all-day field trips, cooking projects, book club, chess club, independent reading, educational DVD's...ect by the end of the year our daily average is approaching 6 hours a day.
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oh yes! My ds8 was doing a series of practice problems for math today, after doing about five of them perfectly he suddenly couldn't figure out what to do next and couldn't figure out 10 x 5. *sigh* That's when I know I've over done the practice with him. He tends to get worse not better. We'll see if he can remember it tomorrow.
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We didn't try to read everything, but there were a few books my son wanted to read after doing the exercises.
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You could have him copy onto bigger handwriting paper and sit with him to make sure his form is correct. The donnayoung site has printable handwriting paper in differant sizes.
I've noticed that my son, 3rd grade, is rushing through anything he has to write and it's quiet sloppy. If I tell him to slow down and write neatly he can. Even with his sloppy writing I see he has devolped a more consistant letter size this year over what he was capable of last year.
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Since I'm only teaching one child I let the name thing slide most of the time, but if I tell to put his name on something he does it willingly. I do make sure everything is dated. It helps if I get behind in my record keeping. Half the time I date, half the time I tell him to date it.
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My son is doing FLL3, WWE3 and STOW2 (We did US history and geography in 1st grade). I wouldn't worry about lining them up.
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Today we started math (hardest first), because he didn't finish it yesterday when it was saved for last. I think we stumbled on to something this morning. At 9am he was able to get his math done in record time. :glare:
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No, but you have made it quite clear why these people would feel misunderstood & rejected by others in a religious setting.
I think I may have been misunderstood and maybe I misunderstood you. I can't imagine someone going into a religious setting and being rejected because they are smart. If that is the case I would run from that church and find one more welcoming. Everyone of faith has at some point questioned their faith. Maybe your question is one not of being gifted, but of just being a thinking person?
The person I was picturing in my first post was someone I know that holds no qualms about telling people that he is smarter, more talented and better read then average. (Keep in mind this an almost 50 year old whose crowning achievement is working in a retail music store.) He instantly looks down on anyone with faith as being intellectually void.
disclaimer:I'm not a regular church goer, but I am a believer. And I don't claim to be gifted or know anyone that is. I don't claim to be a good speller either. :lol:
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I don't think the two need to be in conflict with each other. There are a lot of people walking around that "think" they are brilliant and smarter then faith based set and look down on them, but I don't belive their intellect is actually any higher. I just think they are snobs! Gifted is a term that is thrown around a lot these days, but the true genius’ are very few.
Hope I didn't just insult you! :)
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Okay, this might seem "rigid," but I promise, it's not. Last year we did a "loosely based schedule," and it worked pretty good for us - I would like to take one baby step forward on the "scheduling" end of things this year, for the girls. So, what am I missing? Will this work? (I know it's not exactly WTM-style; I'm meshing WTM with my own personality & situation.)
I have twins in 2nd, a K-5-er who tags along nicely, and an ankle-biter 8 months old
9:00 -10:00 math: Singapore 2A & 2B
10:00 - 11:00 history: Story of the World 1 (we're about half-way through; I'd like to finish and get through about half of SOTW 2, if possible)
11:00 - 11:30 grammar (& poetry memorization) & writing (alternating cursive & manuscript Reason for Writing, letter writing, history narrations, and writing from dictation)
11:30 - 12:30 BREAK
12:30 LUNCH
1:30 - 3:00 Quiet Time - reading (also my break time) - history books, pleasure reading, some writing (if they don't finish in the morning)
3:00 - 3:30 elective (Spanish, science, music, on a rotation) - we are doing La Clase Divertida, and a customized mixture for science and music)
Will this work? Any ideas to add / subtract? I am not sure about Bible - they do AWANA, and we learn verses together; I'm hesitant to add anything else in as I don't want it to be a "class."
(Fridays are our home school co-op, so this will only be 4x/week.)
That doesn't sound rigid to me at all. I, personal, would add spelling into your morning routine. 2.5 is plenty of time to get all that done. I think you'll find math and SOTW won't take a full hour. Also, I wouldn't be set on the times. I would suggest setting school hours from 9-11:30 and plan on doing those subjects in which ever order you or the kids feel like. You might also find out that 3pm time period gets swept away. I would move it to after lunch and then have quiet time.
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I don't think gender will make a differance at all in how they get along and you really can't change the way it turns out anyway! Wishing for one or another because you think or feel it will better for your oldest isn't going to help and will only set you up for disapointment. I would suggest putting the whole notion aside and just love both your babies and teach them to love and respect each other.
btw, my kids (same dad) are 12 years apart, boy and girl and love each more then anything!
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After some research, we got this Thumler's Tumbler brand. It's worked perfectly! No leaks, no problems. It is noisy, but they all are. We keep ours in the garage.
I got ours from Michael's w/ a coupon, so it ended up being cheaper than some of the toy quality tumblers.
Have fun! My kids love ours!
yvonne
We have this one too and it works great! I've one like the Smithsonian one before and the quality isn't that great.
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I make up a little first day worksheet.
I'm glad you said that! I forgot about doing our first day worksheet. I love comparing the answers from year to year.
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I asked my son what he wanted to do to celebrate the first day and he said he wanted to go for ice cream. Easy enough! :tongue_smilie: Tomorrow is our first day, so after dinner we'll walk to Baskin Robbins. We have a club card and get cones for a buck on Monday's. :001_smile:
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I've never done it, but i know you take it into Kinko's to have it done.
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Gosh, it seems like I saw something recently, but I didn't pay attention to it because my son actually does better with word problems. I did a quick search and found this, lots of information I only skimmed over it.
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Can I just recommend the Peace Hill Press MP3 "Teaching Students to Work Independently" ?
I thought it was very good. And I realized I had been expecting a little too much too soon. Very reassuring to think about the long term, too.
Thanks, I'll check that out.
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When people say independently, do they mean working independently or learning independently?
I mean working. I expect to give instruction and be available for questions, but I would like to be able to leave him with a math page and have him continue his work while I do something like prepare lunch. At this point he can't manage to get through more then one problem if I leave the room.:glare:
It sounds like 5th grade is a good goal for us to reach. I'm glad I asked it will help with my patients this year!:D
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I actually asked on Peace Hill Press on their facebook page when they announced the new book. They said if you have the old book you really don't need the new one, it was just re-written to be easier to use with the Writing With Ease curriculum. It sounds like they took out a lot of the overlapping stuff.
This is what I understand too. I was able to combine FLL 1/2 with WWE easily enough. I dropped the extra dictation and skipped the story narrations if we had already done it that day with either WWE or SOTW.
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I believe it's Sep 7th and they run until June 10th. I'm starting on Aug 9th and hope to be done by the end of May.
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I found it easier to use Notepad and create a CVS(comma value something) to create the activities and then import it. Also check the import from world feature and see if anyone has shared plans for your courses. Doing it all by hand in Skedtracker is tedious! I've shared STOW-Middle Ages, FFL 3, WWE 3. WWE 3 could file be used for other levels.
Do watch the videos they are helpful and short.
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Spin off thread.
What age do you expect, or do kids start to, work more independantly? My son is 8 and still needs me to remind him to stay on task and he will even tell me that he can focus better with me in the room.
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I have made an observation. My children seem to work faster if I stay in what I think of as "teacher mode". By "teacher mode", I mean, facilitating work with their siblings, correcting work, sitting as my desk, checking in on them periodically, etc. If I try to switch to "mom mode", doing laundry, dishes, cooking, cleaning, etc., they begin to dawdle and are more likely to get off task. Is this a weird quirk with my children, or is this typical? Do I need to wait until school is over for the day before I begin housework? Will they outgrow this when they are all working more independently?
Same, my son even tells me that he works better when I'm in the room.
Just face it: science is a PITA ;)
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This is why I had my son take a science class the last two years. I didn't want to deal with all of that. Lord help me I'm doing science this year. So far our project list hasn't been too bad, but we are still on unit one. :glare: