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summer kids club at quickstudylabs.com
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timberdoodle sells grade level packages and I think you can mix and match to make it fit what would be the perfect curriculum for you
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my 2nd grader can spell both "does" and "eight" but my 3rd grader can't spell either of them. It just depends on the child at this point I think.
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Nobody has mentioned paperbackswap.com yet. If you don't have your heart absolutely set on certain materials, you'd be surprised what you can pick up there. If you aren't familiar with it, you join for free and post books you are willing to swap. You search the listings and request the items that you want and they are mailed to you. All you pay is the shipping when you mail to someone else. I just received the 3rd and 5th grade editions of LLATL on there. Not my first pick for next year, but they didn't cost me anything and I'll add to them with library books from the lists on Ambleside and Sonlight.
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The printing was definitely starting to cost us (our printer goes through cartridges like crazy), so I just saved a copy of the practice books, brought it to Staples and it was so much cheaper to have them print it out for me! Also, I like having all the pages and not having to get on the computer to print off ones for the next day's lessons.
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We started this school year with Horizons 2 for my 2nd grader and Horizons 3 for my 3rd grader. They both have a knack for math and I thought a program like Horizons, with a reputation for being accelerated, would be a great fit. They both loathed it! There is so much repetition, even after they had mastered a concept, that it was just TOO MUCH! Math was taking about an hour for each child, not because it was horribly difficult, but because they would dawdle to avoid having to solve all the problems. Everything just keeps coming back over and over and over and over and over and....... (obviously we need a mastery program!:tongue_smilie:) I tried crossing out what they had already mastered, but it really bothered me to have spent the money to buy the program and then to really not be using it as it was intended. They each ended up making it through Book A for their grade levels and then we gave up. We switched to MEP in January, started them back at the beginning of their grade levels, and we're all much happier.
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Just print off the practice page and the corresponding lesson plan. Occassionally I print off some of the copy masters, but you need to read the lesson plan to decide if that's necessary. If you aren't sure about appropriate placement, scroll through the practice book pages and see what the content is like, or click on the "scheme of work" link at the top of the primary page to see the scope and sequence broken down by weeks for reception through year 6.
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We love MEP here and are using year 2 and year 3 with our children. They each have different learning styles, but both really enjoy MEP. I believe it is a complete program and can be used as it stands, with no supplementing. However, we do use games from Family Math and we also use material from livingmath.net. Sometimes we use a game instead of part of one of the practice pages. Or we do a game just for reinforcement. We also use Daily Math Practice from Evan-Moor because we have to test each year and the daily practice is short, to the point, and gives a variety of problems in a more traditional format that they might expect to see when they test.
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The biggest dislike for our family has been CLE LA. I know many people on this board use it and love it, but for us it was just too dry and repetitive.
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The answers are listed in the column on the right hand side of the lessons plans. At least, they are in Year 2 and Year 3, that's all I've used.
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I am using the grade 3 Abeka History as a spine this year with my 2nd and 3rd grader. I bought it specifically for the reason that you are interested in it: the samples looked like more of a story than a typical textbook. My plan was to add biographies and some hands on activities to it, and that worked for awhile, but I was finding that reading the 10-12 pages in the textbook ended up being redundant after the kids had read an actual biography about the person. We have ended up just using the table of contents as a guide for who to study next. We just finished up George Washington and after they had read biographies about him I opened up the textbook to the comprehension questions and they were able to answer all the questions without having actually read the material in the textbook. Actually, they were able to answer the questions in much greater detail than if they had only read the textbook! If you want something that's open and close and requires zero prep, you might want to try this as a text, but we're finding that the table of contents is all we need (we use the table of contents as a guide and pick a book from Sonlight or Ambleside). Hope this helps you!
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Language/English (includes or does not include vobaculary, reading and /or spelling): we like both Serl's Primary and Intermediate Language Lessons and Sheldon's Language Lessons
History & Geography: Evan Moor's daily geography practice, but we haven't found a history we like
Science: apologia for elementary
Foriegn Language: I interject Spanish into our conversations
Reading: Ambleside Online literature list
Spelling: Spelling Wisdom
Vocabulary: read good books from AO
Writing: there's plenty in PLL and ILL
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we try to keep it very simple, but mine are fairly young (only 2nd and 3rd grades)
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We're using Year 2 with our 2nd grader and Year 3 with our third grader, so I guess that means we're actually a year "behind" since their Year 2 would be a U.S. 1st grade and their Year 3 would be a U.S. 2nd grade (did that make sense??). We're finding that the mental math and the emphasis on actual understanding of numbers is challenging and very advanced compared to a typical U.S. math program. Something that is quite different about MEP is that students aren't introduced to column addition/subtraction until about the middle of Year 3, so a child doing MEP might not be as familiar with what most people probably consider the "correct" or standard method that is expected to solve basic arithmetic problems. So I guess it depends on what you consider to be advanced. :tongue_smilie:
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When we do testing I want to be sure that the child who is taking the test isn't going to be distracted, so I either pawn the other one off on friends, or try to test during the times when I have only one in the house because the other is at school for art, chorus, p.e., or whatever. We've only done the ITBS in previous years, but we'll do the CogAt this year with our 3rd grader as well. I'm curious how much extra time this is going to add?
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[i'd be curious to look at what the public schools require. I know a lot of states have the kids take a writing test at the end of fourth grade. I wonder what the standards for that is.
I always keep a list of our state's current standards just for my own informational purpose, so I pulled it out to check this. The expectation for a grade 4 ps student in Maine would be that they can write one good paragraph with an indented topic sentence, detail sentences that stay on topic/are relevant, a concluding sentence, and they must use proper capitalization, end punctuation, and grammar. Also, they must be able to do this for a variety of purposes (fiction, informational, directions, etc.)
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We are using MEP with my 2nd and 3rd grader and we supplement with the daily math practice books by Evan Moor. It's short and simple and it keeps them familiar with more traditional/American math. The pages are organized so that they do 5 problems everyday. Two problems are practice with basic operations, one is a word problem, and the other two are a random assortment. Last week my 3rd grader had one about finding a congruent shape and since he hasn't encountered that in MEP we did a quick mini lesson and that's how we cover any gaps.
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Hi, I mostly just lurk on here and love reading all the great ideas and suggestions, but I noticed that nobody who has posted seems to like ETC online so I just wanted to say that we absolutely love it! DD7 did initially have difficulty due to being a slow typer, but the program was revamped in maybe Nov? and the penalty for slow typing was removed. The child still has to type the word but that part isn't scored, they are only timed on how quickly they click on the right picture. Also, I do sit beside her in case there is a picture that she can't figure out, and there is a pause button on the bottom that we click on when we come to something that I need to explain more thoroughly. There is no penalty in the timed portions for pausing it. You can manipulate all the settings almost any way that you choose, so we have it set so there is no free play reward on random websites. I noticed that somebody complained about the websites it allows. My kids don't even know they exist, we keep that part turned off. The reason we like this program so much is that when they come to something that they don't get right away and need extra practice on, they are automatically bumped back a few lessons to get some extra practice. If we were doing the books, we couldn't really go back and redo lessons once they had already written the answers.
Anyway, just wanted to say that while it might not work for some, it definitely works for us!
Kirsten
Help - a 2nd grade standardized test question is driving me crazy!
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or how about "king" is the only word that isn't a vowel combination.
"oy" in royal is a special sound, "ow" in crown is a special sound, and the silent e in rule makes the long vowel sound. But I don't think a 2nd grader would pick up on that. I just asked my 3rd grader who was sitting here and he said "king" right away. When asked why he said it was the only one that ends in "ing". So what's the real answer?