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I have the following math routine for my oldest:
Day 1: PM Lesson, Corresponding pages from workbook(if we use one), corresponding pages in IP;
Day 2: MEP pages, covering the same studying topic ( if there is one) + CWP.
If there is nothing from MEP to match our "math needs", we do logic puzzles or work on very challenging problems.
Day 3: PM lesson, Workbook, IP
Day 4: MEP + CWP
Day 5: PM lesson, Workbook, IP
Day 6: MEP, CWP or play games.
Tuesday is our "light" homeschool day because of my daughter's skating lesson and practice.
This summer she is doing MEP as a review, so this month she has spent between 2-4 hours on math 5 times per week.
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I think the potential is inborn and the accomplishments are developed.[/QUO TE]
I agree with this!
My mom had an Uncle who could only read and write( born before WWI), but he was very mechanically gifted. He also experimented with fruit trees trying to create new hybrids of apples. I never had better apples than from my grandmother's orchid. My Great Uncle used my grandmother's garden for his scientific experiments. My Grandmother call him "Young Michurin" (a very famous Russian scientist).
I think that gens are important as well as an environment where the gifted child is living. I also think that a lot of limitation/restriction initiate creativity and make your mind to boil ( in a positive way).
The Necessity is the Mother of Invention:)
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What about foreign language? Or does that fall under verbal/reading skills?
DD's strongest areas are foreign language, science, creativity and reading./language, but she's 2-3 years ahead of her age across the board except for motor skills, where she's been on the low end of "normal" her entire life.
My DD strongest area is foreign languages, so I voted for them in Other category.
My daughter motor skills were delayed too, that is why I postponed teaching her writing until she was 6 years old.
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[Ester Maria]
American kids who lived in, say, Russia, with its school system, came back to the US and were considered "geniuses", even though they were completely average with regards to the Russian school system. Those things are due to circumstances rather than special skills.
I agree with you on this.
I think that educational standards are low in US, so kids who successfully were educated abroad or lived overseas, coming to US would be considered highly gifted.
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I am on opposite side of a "parent in love with her child". I love my kids, but I demand a lot of them academically. It is hard on kids to have 2 gifted parents with very high expectations.
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What language are you trying to learn?
Some people like RS some don't. I have a friend( she is 40) who bought 3 levels od RS German and really liked it. She used it herself. She learned a lot of vocabulary words but she can not read or do anything beyond using simple phrases to communicate.
I think, RS is an overpriced language program:(
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I have almost 4 years old boy who loves Dinosaurs. My daughter loves them too:) We are going to do a Dinosaurs lapbook this year using Homeschool share materials and few others. Three years ago I was running our VBS program " Dinosaurs in the Bible". We used AIG materials and created our own curriculum. We made a large lapbook but I can not find it right now:)
We used :"Dinosaurs by Design", " Dinosaurs of Eden", " Answeres for Kids" and few other books. If I find my VBS materials next couple days, I will send you PM with more details.
Dry bones and other fossils is a good book just to read aloud with your child.
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Hi, There is a thread, where people are commenting on MEP:
http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=197832
As for me, I do like MEP as an enrichment program which is very similar to one I went through in my elementary/middle school years. I was in a group with extending learning of math, something similar to AP classes only for middle school kids:)
I am glad that there are people who are using MEP as a core curriculum. I have a couple complains regarding wording of few problems. English is not my native language so I asked my husband who is a very mathy person to interpret the British wording to me and they were not quite clear for him either. I studied British English and my husband has a very large British vocabulary too. We ended up interpreting it our way. There were nothing in Teacher's Lesson plans regarding those particular assignments. Not a big deal:)
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Hi, I am using it as a supplement for my oldest child. I tried 1a book with my 3.5 years old, but we got stuck after first 25 pages so I moved him to a little simpler math program, something between Singapore earlybird and MEP book 1a.
My oldest was going through 1b book this summer just for an extra practice. She thinks too slow, so for her MEP was working as a mental math. She will start MEP 2A book this coming Monday and will be doing level 2 this August and part of September.
MEP is an enrichment program, so I will be doing it after I went through a particular topic in SM PM textbook and Intensive Practice book+ CWP. I found half of its problems as challenging as "More Challenging Problems" in IP books.
MEP will be a good supplement to Calvert Math or Horizon math in my opinion, or a nice summer review program.
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The Games kit comes with the RightStart Games book which will be enough to use with everything in the box. You don't need "Activities for AlAbacus" book.
I had the "MathGames" kit, but didn't keep it because I got a good deal on RS curriculum including all manipulatives for my level.
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Last year we were using Linguistic Development through Poetry Memorization from IEW and my daughter(being 7 last year ) really learned a lot. We finished level 1 and 2 and ready for more poems to learn:) We used it only for 3 months so it wasn't really a whole year of poetry, but she did her memorization 5-6 days per week. Some poems are long:) We have a complete set (a book and CDs), but we actually used only the book. In September I will ask my daughter to resite all 40 poems of Level 1 and 2 to be sure she remembers them before she goes into Level 3 of the program.
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I did SOTW 1 with my 2nd grader last year, so we are ready for MOH 1 this year. We are going to do few lapbooks for Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient China and Ancient Rome. I am also looking into Bright Idea Press Folderbooks ( Quarter Two: Kings and Conquerors, especially).
P.S. We are doing "Egypt Files" VBS from AiG this summer,so my child is ready to study Egypt again.
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Hi, I have an almost 4 years old boy who is very interested in learning. My oldest child is 8, so my son wants to do his study because his sister is doing hers. I don't push him, he does it when he is ready and ask for it. My son is a mathy child, so he is doing his math book (similar to Singapore Earliybird Math, but little bit more advance).
Also, he is learning a lot from his sister(French and German) just by playing together. My son didn't have any formal reading training, but he is reading some books (or pretending to read) by memorizing stories. Your child has a good start( taking in account what he already has known/ learned) so if I were you I would not worry about supplementing too much after school, unless he will be asking for it.
I don't have daily reward system. I have a dry erase board chart(for summer) where I wrote what I expect my kids to do daily including reading, studying, foreign languages, music practice, skating(this one is not an everyday activity), cleaning etc. I keep track of their assignments within a day. They need to remember to check with chart to be sure they are not missing anything. If they forget to do something, all previous records are erased and they need to start from the beginning. For example, if my daughter forgot to study her French, all her previous achievements are cancelled and her records start from zero. If they keep it up within 3 months they are going to have something special (going to the game place or something else). I just started using this kind of reward system recently. My kids got reward stickers only for getting an excellent score for tests. I also used some stamps if their work needed some improvement. I also have few stamps such as “You aced it” and let them to stamp their work if it was a great job. They love it.
When my daughter was younger I used a point system when she got points for studying her subjects. Perfect work is 5 points and some deduction if it wasn’t perfect. At the end of the week she could exchange her points into different rewards: a book, stickers etc. I have different “value” rewards to choose from (a lollipop, bubblegum, a book, a computer game so it might take her a month before she could redeem her points ( a computer game was 2000 points). It taught her to “save” points to use them for something she really wanted. I might use this system again with my younger son if dry erase board system will not work for him.
At age 4, my daughter could do 4 hours of studying per day with 5-10 minutes brakes every 45 minutes or so. She didn't attend any school.
My son can study for first 45min-1 hour without any brakes, then he needs to be reminded to keep going every 15-20 minutes. I usually spend about 2 hours with him on his math/reading assignments in general. Sometimes it might be more if we are doing some other activities.
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When my daughter was 6 I started SWR program with her. She didn't print before writing in cursive. We used salt box and sandpaper cards which I purchased. It was a great help for us. My daughter's small motor skills were not that good that is why I didn't start the program earlier. Tracing/ drawing letters using a salt box helped a lot. She prints answers to crossword puzzles but do most of her writing in cursive.
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We are doing RS math and using SM Intensive Practice/ Word problems + MEP to supplement. Our plans to go through all RS including "Geometric Approach" ( my dd like to draw/measure etc) supplementing with SM and MEP. After 6A/B SM she will be doing New Elementary Math(1through 4A) along with AoPS books. I already have NEM books so AoPS(Art of Problem Solving) books will be a good fit to complete topics in Algebra I, II, pre-calculus and calculus.
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Do I need to use L'art de Lire book 1(level1 ) with a child who had 2 years of oral French? Any recommendation on level placement. I was looking for a language placement test trying to figure out where to put my daughter in, but couldn't find anything. I am thinking of using L'art de Lire as a supplement to the Easy French level 1.
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What is the best place for purchasing L'art de Lire curriculum?
If you are using it, where did you buy it from? Thanks.
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Last year I did Astronomy with my 2nd grader who loves science. My 3 years old son who was playing around was consuming a lot of information. He answered questions much quicker than his sister, 95% of which were correct. I think if you have a gifted 5 years old, try it. She might not get all concepts so what. You can repeat again later if you want. We are going to do Zoology II this year and my son is going to participate by listening and doing lapbook projects with his sister. We are planning to make a lapbook on Animal Classification and study "Coral reef" topic this summer with several lapbooks to go.
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Not even attempting diagnosing at all, but can suggest the books, 'Unicorns are Real,' 'Stealth Dyslexia,' and 'The Gift of Dyslexia.' I AM NOT SUGGESTING ANYTHING ABOUT YOUR PARTICULAR CASE. But our DD 10 is an excellent (college level) reader, superb artist and brilliant writer, BUT STRUGGLED SEVERELY WITH SPELLING, and some math as well. Which drove us crazy...The two olders, who are both GT, one profoundly, never had that issue. The books gave us some tools to get through some minor 'synaptic blocks' that may have been occuring w/ DD10...now her spelling is much improved, and the math is fully on track again.
Thank you for your answer. I will try to read the books you recommended. I think I made a mistake pushing math on my child when she wasn't interested. My husband and I are very good in math so math was my priority choice along with foreign languages. My dd wanted to study languages so I let her. I know my child is gifted but I am not sure about the level of it. She was a late speaker but it was not unexpected in our situation. She was playing educational PC games for 6-8 years old when she was only 2. She wasn't ready to read or ready for phonics comparing to many kids of her age but my husband thought she was an underachiever because she wasn't doing the "regular things". She was so emotionally insecure ( and still is) so other than homeschool environment would not work for her. When I introduced phonograms( including 3-4 letter one) to her, she was reading withing 2 month very advance books (not early readers). She went from official non-reader to level 3 and above reader. I don't like to compare her to some kids of her age. She is different and very sensitive to criticism. Any test( IQ or giftness) she might take as criticism or a try to find out what she doesn't know). That is one of the reason I haven't tested her for giftness. She need to have more self-confidence. She is figure skating and it helps her to get over her insecurity. My child was called stupid by her peers but defended herself. She asked me why she was called stupid when there was no reason for that. She just didn't act or perform the way some kids expected her so she was rejected as a non-qualified.
I think gifted kids are more sensitive to environment that smart or regular kids. It was true in my case when I were a child or in my daughter's case.
Any opinion regarding this statement. I might be wrong:)
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I am doing "school" with my 3.5 years old because he wanted "to do school". We are doing math for advanced 3-4 years old ( foreign program), a lot of mazes, drawing, reading alound and planning to do several lapbooks with him about animals, trains etc. Also he is learning French and German from his sister who is 8. I started my daughter's school when she was 3.5 years old. We did Catering the Globe and RS math Level A/ SM Earlybird. I didn't start teaching her reading until she was in K. She was not ready for any writing before K. We did cursive without going into printing letters.
I think if your child "insists" on school, go ahead and try it. My daughter wanted to study languages, so she did. Math wasn't her favorite subject until she understood the process. Simple memorization didn't work for her.
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Hi, I heard about MusicIQ HomeSchool curriculum but don't know anybody who used it. If anybody of you used it, what do you like/dislike about it? I am looking for early curriculum. My oldest child is 8 years old and she had 1 year of music through on-line school. Thanks.
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Hi, I am just wondering about necessity to test a child for giftness. How many of you did it and what age?
I was debating with my husband who doesn't see the necessity to do so. Thanks for your input. Lena.
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I want to thank all of you for your replies. Where do you buy your curriculum. I looked around and saw only one place-directly from the author of the books. Are there any other options in US? Thanks.
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I think when both parents are gifted it doesn't necessary mean that your child is going to be gifted. My parents were not gifted academically. My dad was mechanically gifted.
Well, in my family my husband and I would be consider gifted but neither of us was tested for giftness in PS. My husband could read at age 2 before he could actually speak. We both have very high IQ.
My child started speaking late(she was almost 3) because of her 7-9 languages exposure and being bilingual. She was 2 grades ahead of her peers in math and logical thinking along with ability to speak several different languages. She was progressing so rapidly that I ended slowing her down. I had a newborn so I couldn't spend a lot of time with her as I used to do. After being bored for a year of doing "almost nothing", she lost her interest to academics except foreign languages.
I think it is important keeping them motivated and interested to try many things because usually a gifted child is the one who is advanced in more than one field.
My daughter is still a bright child but not highly motivated. Her brother is more advanced than her being at that age, so we will see what will happen there. My daughter is the one who is teaching him French and German, some math and reading. She does it instead of doing her studying. Seldom, she is studying math on her own. She has no problem with reading and writing, but struggles with spelling and math. It is so shocking for us when she was so advance in math before:(
Has anybody experience the same problem like I do with my oldest child?
Do you have a child who was academically gifted and now just doing OK in fields where he/she used to be several years ahead of his/her peers?
I hope my daughter will get more motivated in academics and will start progressing as she used to do in early childhood.
Thanks a lot.
P.S. My daughter has never attended a PS or being tested for giftness. I wanted to do it but she was too young for the test. My husband was against it. Now I wouldn't do it because she is afraid to make a mistake so all test she would be thinking about doing it perfectly.
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I have heard some homeschoolers used IEW with CW(Classical Writing). We are going to use Ancient History writing lessons with MOH I and Fables, Myths and Fairy tales lessons with Classical Writing Aesop, book A. My child is going to be in 3rd grade so I see how it will go. I will probably use SWI A with her when she is in 4th grade.
Why do you homeschool?
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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Our reasons for homeschooling are:
1. To give an exellent education compatible to education of exclusive private schools( our emphasis is on foreign languages, science and math) ;
2. To avoid negative learning environment and peers pressure;
3. To be time flexible for my daughter's skating lessons;
4. To teach our kids thinking on their own instead of being told what to think;
5. To meet our children needs;
and many others.