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My oldest daughter started with RS A, moved to SM. Now we are doing 3 complete math programs (starting 4th grade next month) SM 4, MEP 4 and Russian math 3/4.
My 4.5 years old son will be doing RS A over summer, then moving to Russian math 1 and MEP 1.
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I remember when my daughter was about 4-5 years old she would agree with the statement that she was smart replying in a different language she was familiar with(french or russian, sometimes japanese). At that age, she didn't think that someone might not know other languages. People would not bother her again or would tried to figure out what language she was using.
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My daughter read Thornton Burgess books and really liked them. She also enjoyed Shoes books (Dancing Shoes, Ballet Shoes and Theater Shoes) by Noel Streatfeild, Chronicles of Narnia, American Girls series.
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I don't have any suggestions what to do, but I saw something similar in my son last year. He was 3 years old and could sit and concentrate for 2-3 hours without any interruption doing his math/logic. He was going through books too fast. Most of the time he would be waiting on my translation of his math books, because they were in Russian, or I would need to check on his oldest sister. This year he is teasing me by giving a wrong answer and looking at my reaction. Attention span reduced to 20-30 minutes without interruption. So I just accepted his "game" trying to finish this academic year.
I think it might help to switch from an abstract thinking to a practical thinking, using some math applications. When my son doesn't want to answer my question correctly, I usually ask him to think about strawberries or candies which he likes a lot.
For example you can ask your son to imagine that he needs to put apples in every 3rd bag on a table. What numbered bags will apples go into?
I hope, I was clear enough:)
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I like your daughter's story. She did a good job developing the plot and composing it. My oldest child is a creative one. She decided to write a historical adventure book something similar to Magic Tree House. She is working on a plot and a location. We are going to start Grammar Island next week and hoping it will improve her grammar skills.
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I like your daughter's poetry a lot. Great job! I think I will agree with other ladies who suggested her to continue writing about dragons. If my son was writing, it would be about penguins or trains:)
May be we need to start a thread "Children's poems", where we would post the best one written by a child (your child can choose which one he/she likes the best:))
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If you decide to do math in Spanish, you can use free MEP units which had been successfully used in Chile:)
http://www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/projects/mepres/primary/spanish/default.htm
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I suggest you look into checking MEP out. My daughter likes it a lot. It is free:)
http://www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/projects/mepres/primary/default.htm
I would recommend starting with 1b.
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We did SWR with my 6 years old and we used Cursive First program for handwriting. For spelling it took us about 30-40 minutes, sometimes longer if you administer a spelling test. Everything will depend on your schedule.
You will need a primary notebook( one for you and one for your daughter), basic phonogram cards, Spell to Write and Read, WISE Guide for Spelling.
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I personally didn't think that much about EB math. My daughter liked it so we did it. I didn't use EB with my son; we did Russian math for preK/K and will be ready for RS math A in a week (he is taking a break).
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and I just did not understand it...
I don;t know what was wrong with me.
Maybe I need to look it over again.
I don;t know.
If you are going to use RS math you will be using Miquon Lab sheets only as a supplements. When I saw an "Annotation" book to lab pages, I was confused too:), so don't feel bad at all. I like the workbooks because they teach kids to learn by "playing" with numbers. I am going to use some of the books with my daughter through summer just for fun ( something she hasn't studied yet ), so she could experiment with them.
I think you know your child better than anybody else. May be she doesn't like the names of shapes. Ask her to name them her own way. Later, associate traditional names with her "names",and eventually she will be using regular names. If I asked my 4.5 years old son to name shapes his way he would choose the folowing:
Circle- Sun
Triangle -Piece of cheese or pizza
Oval- Watermelon
Square - Block
Rectangle- Box
Trapezoid- Sofa etc
Just an idea:)
RS does a great teaching kids to understand how numbers are built before they use traditional names. I only modified it for my daughter asking her to say 2 tens and 5 instead of 2-ten and 5.
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My daughter was using "Primers" from CW a year ago and art was incorporated in one of the lessons weekly.
Primer- Autumn:
Winslow Homer "Snap the Whip", "Breezing Up","Home Sweet Home","Boys in Pasture", "Cloud Shadows", "The Fox Hunt".
Renoir "Boating the Seine", "Girl with Watering Can", "Two Young Girls at the Piano", "Le Grands Boulevard", "Two Sisters", "Flowers in a Vase".
Primer-Winter
Van Gogh "The Starry Night", "The Harvest, Arles", "Cypresses and Stars","Bridge at Arles", "Bedroom at Arles",
"Vase with Sunflowers".
Jean-Francios Millet "The Angelus","The Gleaners", "Woman Baking Bread","Haystacks:Autumn", "Spring", "The Sower".
Primer-Spring
Pieter Bruegel the Elder " Landscape with the Fall of Icarus", "Tower of Babel", "Children's Games", "Hunters in a Snow", "Peasant Wedding", "The Harvesters".
Mary Cassatt "Children on the Shore","The Boating Party", "In the Garden", "Young Mother Sewing", "Breakfast in Bed", "Summertime".
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My daughter and I just started it a week ago. She is going to be a 4th grader this fall so we will see how will it go for her. Even she hasn't studied multiplication/division of fraction formally, I already explained these topics to her. It might take her longer to conquer "fractions" than it took me(I was nearly 11), but we are going to try. It is a very simple topic to study comparing to Calculus:)
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RS B start talking about parallel lines in Lesson 21, so you really will be fine in level B. Some people just buy level B for very young kids and go slowly.
Is your daughter a visual learner or kinetic? May be try to point at vertexes of a box on one side and ask your daughter to count them, then ask her to touch sides. May be it will help her to make a cube model, she would see. It will come to her. My daughter was driving me crazy, when she could not see the quantity of 5 without counting. She was 3,5 years old and I tried almost everything which didn't help, of course. And then something finally clicked in her mind:)
You were also suggested to use Miquon which might not be a bad idea. Workbooks are cheap, but they have a lot of neat activities for kids to do, which reinforce different topics. For example, the Orange book( 1st book ) talk about skip counting and shapes. I think it will be very useful for your child. RS does not have many practice papers to do, so supplementing with Miquon will give your daughter a good variety of assignments.
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RS A is good for very young children. If I were you, I would get Level B. Level B start from the beginning, moves faster and covers much more materials than A.
When you asking about shapes, do you mean solids?
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RS level A spends a lot of time on part of whole/whole and it is very step by step program which gives a good foundation in math. RS math is lacking of word problems but many people supplement with CWP.
My daughter when she was 4-5 y.old spent a lot of her play time working on her logic problems. We did Mind Benders from Critical Thinking company and few others.
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My daughter was using Maps,Globes,Graphs workbooks last couple years. She really enjoyed them.
The different levels focus on the following: Level A – pictures, looking at pictures from above, maps from pictures, sides/compass directions on a map, symbols and keys, and globes.
Level B – landforms and water, maps and map keys, directions, globes, continents and oceans, boundaries, and map labels.
Level C – directions and map keys, distance and scale, resource maps, landform maps, route maps, grids, latitude, longitude, and graphs.
Level D – directions and legends, intermediate directions, grids, distance scale, route maps, relief maps, latitude, longitude, and graphs.
Level E – directions, symbols and legends, scale and distance, route maps, physical maps, special purpose maps, grids, latitude, longitude, the earth and sun, time zones, and graphs.
Level F – globes, symbols and directions, scale and distance, route maps, relief and elevation, latitude and longitude, climate maps, combining maps, comparing maps, time zones, projections, and graphs.
http://rainbowresource.com/searchspring.php?q=Maps%2CGlobes%2CGraphs#/?q=mapsglobesgraph&page=1
I know, it is not exactly what you are looking for but I thought I would mention.
Does your daughter like board games? There are few good one out. Where is in the world Carmen San Diego? Top Secret Adventure and another done by National Geographic(I think it is "Passport to Destination").
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I have everything for LFC A, but the reader. Is this very essential to have a reader? Can I supplement with something else? Thanks.
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Well, I like things to be done the "proper way". I would like to have a "school" room, but I would name it a "study center", where kids could work on their assignments or create something. I do have my own academic standards and requirements. I do give short math tests for my own records to see the progress; my child is getting used to the idea of taking them. I am voting for self discipline and being well organized. My 8 years old is working on it. She has schedule for skating and needs to be sure she is done with academics before doing her other activities. We do science and history as reading aloud activities on sofa or floor, whatever would be more comfortable. I am opposed to Standardized tests similar to the Iowa Test, which will not be very useful for a home-educated child.
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How long did it take for you to work through all of this as listed?
I think it took us about a year to go through, but we also did MEP 1b after we were done with SM1b book. We did CWP 1 as a review and it was OK.
The reason we stop using RS because it was a little too slow for us, but I like a geometry part especially:).
Originally, I was planning to continue with RS level B and we did, but we would be doing 4 math programs, so we dropped RS for now and will pick it up again doing "Geometric Approach" level.
This summer/fall I am going to do RS level A with my 4,5 years old son, who has don his pre-K/K russian math and ready to move on.
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I *think* you would be fine finishing up RS A and going right to SM 1A without buying everything for RS B. :D
I agree. If you are planning to continue with SM, there is no need to use RS B. RS A will give you a very good foundation for SM number bonds etc. Your child will move very fast through SM1 and will be ready for SM 2A.
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Hi, I did RS A when my daughter was a pre-K, partially K and then moved to SM primary 1.
Here is the schedule I had for my daughter combining RS level A ans PM and IP of SM.
- First 54 Lessons of RS Level A.
- Chapter 1 of PM 1A and Topic 1 problems of IP 1A.
- Chapter 2 of PM 1A and Topic 2 problems of IP 1A.
- Chapter 3 of PM 1A and Topic 3 problems of IP 1A.
We skipped subtraction because RS hadn't introduced it yet.
- Lesson 56 ( I skipped calculator lesson) of RS Level A.
I told my daughter she could use her abacus to check the equation so she did.
- Chapter 5 of PM 1A and Topic 5 of IP 1A .
- Lessons 57-60 of RS Level A.
- Chapter 6 (Addition up to 20) of PM 1a and Topic 6 assignments of IP 1A.
- Chapter 7 (without subtraction) of PM 1A and topic 7(without subtraction) of IP 1A.
- Lessons 61-67 of RS Level A.
- Chapter 8 (Patterns ans shapes) of PM 1A and Topic 8 assignments of IP 1A.
- Lessons 68-70 dealing with length of RS Level A.
- Chapter 9 (Length) of PM 1A and topic 9 problems of IP 1A.
- Lesson 71 of RS A
- Chapter 10 of PM 1A and Topic problems(weight) of IP 1A
- Lesson 72-77 of RS A (end of the book)
Then I went back to PM 1A and did chapter 4(subtraction within 10) along with Topic 4 assignments of IP 1A. After that we studied Chapter 7(part 2 dealing with subtraction withing 20) of PM 1A and my daughter worked through Topic 7 problems of IP 1A we had skipped earlier. After all of this she took mid-year review of IP 1A. I broke it in half (first 10 pages-regular practice-Day 1, second 10 pages- challenging problems-Day 2).
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I work as an interpreter/translator . Pretty easy to find a ( well paid ) job if you are fluent in other languages , except Spanish .
Can you recommend any reliable one? My friend was doing a lot of "trial" translations but wasn't paid anything or got a regular position. A company was praising him for an excellent job but didn't bother paying just asking to do more work. He is fluent in Russian.
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Did you considered Tatou Le Matou?
dd liked it very much, it is made as a non writing program for younger children. It is based on fairy tales. It is a nice introduction to French and the pace isn't hard. The 'workbook' is more like an activitybook with crafts and coloring.
It also contain little drama in French.
Thank you very much for posting. It looks great!
Amazing Discovery re: foreign language
in K-8 Curriculum Board
Posted · Edited by SneguochkaL
I am glad you have "re-discovered" French for your family. I like French so does my daughter:) When my daughter was 5 she started studying French and fell in love with it. One year later she had half of year Spanish and didn't like it. She was not impressed with Spanish and decided she had no interest of learning it next 10 years.
My daughter likes "Martine" books. They are her favorite.