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Hi, for those of you who use/make mini-offices for your students what approach do you use: grade level or a particular subject? Thanks.
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Hi, I am trying to choose between Red Hot Root Words, book 1 and Words on the Vine books and can not decide which one I want to buy. My daughter is 8 years old and we are continue our Latin studies with Latin for Children, level A. I want to supplement it doing one of the books with my daughter as a reinforcement.
If you used either of above mentioned books, what did you like about it?
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Hi, I am just wondering if any of you who used SWR switched to AAS and why? I hear a lot of praises to AAS. What do you like about this program? Thanks.
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Hi, I haven't used RS4K yet but I already own pre-level Chemistry and Physics textbooks and all 3 books of Level I. I also got teacher's manual for level I and TM for pre-level Chemistry. You will need Teacher's Manuals! You can skip Student pages. I am going to create my own student pages or you can download them for few dollars from publisher's web-site. I am going to do pre-level Chemistry/Level 1 Chemistry as a sequence and pre-level Physics/level I Physics as a separate sequence. I am skipping pre-level Biology because we already covered its topics using different science curriculum.
We are studying Life Science now leaving Physics/Chemistry for winter months.
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Hi, I consider CWP and IP being a part of SM so I don't call them a supplement. I supplement with MEP which I consider more challenging than SM IP. I also use Russian math textbook for additional word problem and challenging assignments( more puzzle geared program). We didn't use Workbooks for SM with her, she just does IP, CWP and textbook assignments. WE are finishing 2grade math and ready to move to 3A soon.
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Hi, My daughter was using Linguistic Development through Poetry Memorization last year. She had several favorites but my 3.5 old son really loves Ooey-Gooey.
Ooey-Gooey
Ooey-Gooey was a worm,
A mighty worm was he.
He stepped upon the railroad tracks,
The train he didn't see!
Ooooey-Gooooey!
My daughter's very favorite one is My Gift by Christina Rosetti.
My Gift
What can I give Him
Poor as I am;
If I were a shepherd,
I would give Him a lamb.
If I were a wise man,
I would do my part.
But what can I give Him?
I will give my heart.
She also likes Jabberwocky, The Spider and the Fly by Mary Howitt,
The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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Hi, I would prefer SM to MM. I am planning to use MM for particular topics such as European money, British money and Canadian money, so my child will get familiar with other currency systems. I may consider using MM for grade 4-6 additionally to cover percents, ratios, fractions, but it is not definite. I prefer to use MEP as a supplement to Singapore instead of MM.
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Hi, I have an older child who is perfectionist too. I told her that is OK to make mistakes. Even such a challenging sport as figure skating didn't make a big difference for her. She is working on improvements of her skills and more positive attitude to mistakes.
When she was young I used a salt box for practicing writing letters. It helped a lot because she could erase not properly formed letters and write a new one. I also use a dry-erase board for our spelling practice.
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Our school name is SMILE (School of Mathematical Intellectuality and Linguistic Excellence).
That what we are trying to emphasize in our studies. We also love science. I think we are going to keep this name.
We haven't designed the logo for our homeschool. I have an idea for a logo, but want to see what my kids will come with in few years.
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Hi, my son who will turn 4 this year really likes Lego blocks and Clics. I am planning to expand our "Building blocks" collection and buy him more Clics blocks for Christmas.
http://www.amazon.com/Clics-RC150-Box-150-Pieces/dp/B000YIQING
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My daughter used Connections academy for 3 years. They didn't offer gifted programs for K-3, so we were doing 1 grade ahead math curriculum. We used Calvert math which was a good supplement to RS/SM PM. Last year we decided against their math program (they switched to more entertaining math which I didn't like at all. I watched a preview of several lessons on-line). My daughter was taking their social study, French/Latin, Spanish(didn't like it at all), computer science, music. She was one grade ahead in subjects so we used it instead of Gifted and Talented option:).
We used a state funded option but they took it away in January. If it was available for us we would continue with French/Latin, computer science and music. My daughter really liked her French teacher.
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Hi, I don't think I would wait. My oldest is only 8 and I don't expect her to do Algebra when she is 11. I plan on having her to do Algebra in 7 grade (and math is not her strong area of study). I did Algebra at 12 and in a public school abroad, so it is doable for regular kids not even accelerated.
I am planning on using AoPS book with my kids too. They look very good and solid to me.
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Hi, When I was thinking about a school name I wanted to use the abbreviation (first letters of words). My husband wanted the "Veritas Homeschool" name but I was against it. I also have funny feelings calling my homeschool "Academy" so I went through several names and found one I am comfortable with. As a result of my pros and contras, our school name is SMILE (School of Mathematical Intellectuality and Linguistic Excellence). I put our school name on report cards twice per year for my daughter to bring to the Credit Union which reward her for every "A" she has earned.
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Hi, Here is the link to the site with suggestions regarding combining lapbook and notebook pages.
http://homeschoolwithindexcards.com/NotebookingandLapbooking.html
P.S.My yahoo account couldn't handle the attached file so i will try again today:(
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I am going to do SWI A alongside with CW Aesop 1a this year with my 3rd grader. We will start with SWI A for first 6 month, then we will continue with CW Aesop and do Ancient History thematic lessons to reinforce information learned in SWI A. Next summer/fall we are going to work with "Fables, Myths and Fairy tales" book reinforcing more of SWI A ( CW Aesop is dealing with Fables too).
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Hi, I usually tell my child do assigned papers on her own and skip the one she has problems with. After she is done with her easy problems I encourage her to go back to "difficult" assignments and try to think again. If she hits the wall, we are looking into things together. When she understands the mechanism " how to solve it?", she does another similar to "analyzed one" on her own.
So far she hasn't done IP 3 or CWP 3 yet, but was doing some Olympiads problems for PM1/2 where she had difficulties. Some MEP problems gave her troubles:). She makes a lot of silly mistakes because of not reading with attention.
We do a lot of math. We normally don't do PM workbooks. She works through textbook, write her answers in her copybook and then move to IP or CWP. She also will be doing some Russian math/ MEP additionally this coming year.
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Hi, we used "Can you find me?", " Half-and-half animals", " Building Thinking Skills: hands-on-primary" and Visual Perceptual Skill Building (bb1 and 2). My daughter was very advanced in Logic so we went through 2 books of Visual Perception withing less than 6 months.
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I don't do lapbooks for every topic we are studying, but we did few recently. I don't have a lot of spare time, so I use free resources such as www.homeschoolshare.com, www.squidoo.com and look on-line for more great resources. We are going to do several lapbooks next few months such as Rainforest, Ancient China, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, Chemistry, Physics and few more.
I usually plan ahead what topics we are going to reinforce with lapbooks, have several assigned folders where I collect gathered information, have a list of materials I need to find/create; after that I do a layout to figure out how many folders I will need to use etc.
Quote:"creating mini-books for various tidbits as it makes sense and compiling them on cardstock, then combining with our various other papers to create a larger book for that topic". I agree with you. I have never done the combination lapbook/notebook myself but will try in the future.
My daughter is very creative but she is not an experienced writer( something we are going to work on this school year), so we haven't done many notebooks. The only one notebook she did was Astronomy for Apologia Science. We are probably going to use pre-made notebooks for our Apologia Science(Zoology) program, but use a lapbook approach for other science curriculum( we are using RS4K for Physics/Chemistry).
I saw one project for SOTW 1 using a lapbook/notebook approach. If you are interested I can email you the zip file. I found it on-line.
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We have never done the "santa" thing. When our kids started asking about it we just explained the reason for celebrating Christmas (the birth of Christ) and that "Santa" has no place there for us. They have all been just fine with that. We do not want to distract our kids from the real reason for celebrating Christmas so we decided early on that they would know the truth about "Santa" from the beginning.
:iagree:
We did the same, so now my 8 years old tells her brother that there is no Santa at all. He knows if he gets Christmas/New Year presents they will be from family members, not magical Santa:)
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I must be mean, but I used grading systems since my daughter was a Ker. At first, I assigned numerical grades to shapes: "5" (A +) is a "Star" (no mistakes); "4" (A) a Square ( up to 10% wrong ), "3" (B) a Triangle ( up to 25% wrong, "2" © a Circle ( up to 40 % wrong). "C" grade was bad enough to assign more shape below that point. My daughter was so glad when she earned her stars and squares.
Later I gave points instead of grades because we had a point system as a learning motivation. My daughter traded her points at the end of the week into a book, set of stickers or kept points for a month to redeem for something "BIG" (a computer game was 2000 points). I kept track of her points in my "School scheduler" where I tracked study time.
I could always transform her points into grades if I needed to. We did it twice per year for our Credit Union where kids can earn money for every A in their report card.
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All of mine are the same way.
My youngest used toilet paper for measuring the distance between different rooms of the house. She finally stopped doing it few months ago:). Now her passion is books. She reads books by taking them apart. She is our computer hacker. It takes her less than 5 minutes to mess up my husband's laptop by going around his system passwords(my husband is a computer/internet security guru, so it is not just pressing on a button to mess up his OS)
My son used to take computers apart since he was crawling( 8 month old). Once he took a motherboard from my husband's computer which was under"reconstruction". My "young engineer" crawled away with a motherboard, then came back trying to return it to the original slot(he got caught at the crime scene). My husband almost had a "heart attack". He is continuously taking things apart.
My oldest daughter is old enough to understand about cleaning the mess but she can also get carried away by scientific spirit of her siblings:)
P.S. My mother in law used to buy appliances at any garage sales for my DH since he was 3. He disassembled them. Some of them worked after he tried to fix them, some-didn't. He ended up to be an engineer by training:)
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I don't have a great suggestion but my daughter used abacus to memorize some simple addition/subtraction. She also learned " Yellow is the sun" song from RS math (addition 5+1, 5+2, 5+3, 5+4, 5+5) when she was around 3.5 years old. I refuse to use flash cards for math, she needs to understand. I know that repetition is a boring process, but it is the best way as far as I know for this age. I memorized only the multiplication table withing 10 in 2 grade myself.
There are some songs and little poetry regarding multiplication but I don't remember where I have seen them.
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My son used to do puzzles, mazes when I was teaching my oldest. He particular likes Kumon maze books. Now he wants to study like a big boy, doing his math at the same time his sister is studying. We are using program similar to Singapore Earlybird math, but with a lot of logical puzzles, critical thinking assignments and mazes. My son really enjoys it.
If your child likes mazes, I highly recommend Kumon books.
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Hi, Audio CD is on clearance from IEW website for $4.00.
http://www.excellenceinwriting.com/catalog/clearance-items
I have a DVD with "How to teach boys who'd rather be building forts all day" by Pudewa and really enjoy watching it from time to time.
Singapore vs MEP
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Hi, I actually don't use workbooks with SM. My daughter uses IP and CWP instead of them. After topic is covered by SM she works with MEP books.
We didn't do MEP 1a book because it would be too boring for her.
My daughter was done with SM1a book and then started 1b MEP book as a review. After she was done with MEP 1b book, she moved to SM 1b book and was working with 2a MEP book.If you need more details I can post our math schedule. Besides MEP and SM we will be doing Russian math for 2 grade which will be equivalent to 3Gr. US math standards.