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SnegurochkaL

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  1. I have a 5 years old, whose birthday is in October. Officially, he would be in K this coming fall, even though he is working on 1st grade math curriculum and will be doing 2nd grade math this coming fall. Shortly said, we consider him being a K-ner now and a K-ner next year:). He is not "officially" reading in English but learning to read in a second language, just because it is more difficult than English. I think it all will depend on your child's abilities and your preferences, if you want him to graduate earlier:)
  2. Hi, for those of you, who purchased BA 3a and 3b and using it as a supplement, do you recommend getting all 4 books or just practice books? My oldest child is almost done with her SM4 SE and Russian math and looking for something fun to do on week-ends and during the summer months. We are homeschooling all year around, so we need something fun and challenging for June:) My son is only 5, so he will not be ready for comics textbook for another year. He is finishing his 1 grade Russian math and doing SM 1 this summer, so I am primary looking for something for my 9 years old daughter, who is very good at math. Now I am thinking to purchase only practice books for her, because some material she already learnt before and it would be just a review for her. I appreciate any comments and advices.
  3. I agree, my oldest child is finishing SM 4SE and doing Russian math for 3rd grade which is harder than 4th grade SM ( 3rd grade RM is a grade or two grades ahead of 3rd grade SM). So, when I asked my child if she wanted to do Beast math as a Saturday fun math, she said "Yes!", even it ment to add more math problems to her already over-melting math pot. She did some samples and enjoyed them a lot. It didn't take her too long to do placement assignments and she didn't find it boring either. I think more math approaches I use with my kid will be more beneficial for her future.
  4. We didn't find SWP problems really challenging. We are not using SWP this year at all. Instead of it we were doing some Singapore Olympiad problems alongside with IP. I am thinking to add BA math as a supplement/enrichment for fun, just deciding if I need only practice books or both guides and books. My daughter is doing SM 4 SE this year and 3rd Grade Russian math as the core programs. She does 2-4 hours of math daily ( she is 9), so I was thinking to use BA math for Saturday fun math.
  5. I am not sure how to do it on the forum, but my child will be interested. We were hoping to participate in "Kangaroo Math Olympiad" this year, but It was not organized in our area. I guess, we can create a yahoo group. Just an idea.
  6. I don't know if it had been posted but I just wanted to let everyone know that 2 first math books (3A and 3B) are available to purchase. I received an e-mail from them and checked the web-site. Here is a link to the web-site to read more about it. http://www.beastacademy.com/ My 5 years old is not ready for 3rd grade math. He hopes they will publish 2 grade materials next year so he will be able to use it.:001_smile:
  7. MOH gives a good summary of events happened in a chronological order. We are using MOH as a spine and supplementing with SoTW and other materials.
  8. For my 9 years old I generally plan 2-4 weeks ahead for math, science, history and LA and then make corrections if we need them. Foreign languages are planned on a week base. For my 5 years old I don't really plan because it all depends on his desire to work hard or at relaxed pace. I keep track of "achievements" in a record book.
  9. I second it. My son who just turned 5 couple months ago loves Chocolate Fix and Shape by Shape from ThinkFun. We also have SET game, which he likes a lot.
  10. My children like Muzzy. We used Muzzy I and II for French. My son who was only 2, loved his Muzzy toy and wanted to watch cartoons all the time. Kids didn't care much about poor animation, they just liked the characters. My 9 years old daughter still like to watch it from time to time even she has some other French/German videos to enjoy. I would use it as a supplement to your main course/books.
  11. I agree. My kids love Benjamin Blümchen and Biene Maja, Astrid Lindgren and few others. Getting audio books in German can be a good supplement too.
  12. We love MEP and SM here. We are using IP and CWP with regular textbook and not touching workbooks at all. We enjoy MEP's puzzle-like problems and brainteasers:)
  13. I used Math Mammoth units as a supplement for our Singapore/MEP/Russian math bundle. My daughter used Clock and European Money units. Saxon has too much repetition for my oldest and would kill my son desire to do any math. I have math accelerated kids, so neither programs would be a good fit for them.
  14. I have a 9 years old who is always very good with logic and very good at math when she is in mood. She memorized a multiplication table(;, but still culculate too slow for my taste. She gets concept, figures out the logical part of the word problems but makes mistakes during a calculation process. My 4 years old is very strong at logic, but needs a lots of visual stimulation to solve simple equations. He does better when he "sees" the concept, so I am using RS math and a lot of manipulatives to reinforce his understanding of math.
  15. My oldest is using SM Standard edition (starting this year), IP and SWP, SM Olympiads problems, Russian math, LOF Fraction (for fun), Zaccaro "Primary Challenging math", MEP challenging problems. My 4.5 years old is using Miquon math, Russian math (RM), Singapore math US edition, IP and SWP, RS math partially, MEP selectively. He will be moving to "Beast Academy" math next year as a primary, but supplementing with SM IP, CWP, Olympiad assignments, RM and MEP.
  16. My 4.5 years old is gifted in math/logic and science. He does good with foreign languages also. When my oldest one was 6, she was accelerated 2 years ahead in math; now she is just at a "grade" level but we are doing it with a "deep and broad" approach,supplementing with Olympiad assignments, logical puzzles etc.
  17. I suggest looking at Prufrock Press materials for gifted kids. http://www.prufrock.com/showproducts.cfm?Step=1&FullCat=97 I am using Logic Safari and Logic Lift-off with my kids.
  18. I do speak/read some Japanese not as fluent as I would like to be, but I can teach him at home later on. Public school setting is something I am not quiet happy about. I have an accelerated/gifted son who would be bored if something is below his level. I am looking at some option without a definite decision making at this point. He still have 1 more year before he goes anywhere. He already has some exposure to Japanese language by watching cartoons/ reading alouds etc. We are considering him going to German language school on Saturdays in a couple of years, so he can not attend some Japanese classes in a different than an Immersion school location. I have a close friend who lives in Japan, so he could chat with my friend's daughters through Skype or some other sources. That is exactly what I feel about it.
  19. Thanks a lot for your reply. I haven't made my mind yet. My husband is opposed to public schools at all. I agree with him, but an immersion school is something different. My son will be bored to death in a regular school, but subjects taught in a different language could be more amusing to him. I do not want to live my child there more than a couple of years, and I can continue to teach him at home later on. He wants to be an engineer so he decided to study language of the country which "produce" a lot of innovations so Japanese was his choice ( besides Russian and German:). He is only "4". My daughter wished she would be taught everything in French:), but she wasn't qualified when the school was established(we were living outside the covered area),and now she would need to "catch" up following the younger students.
  20. Hi, I am homeschooling my kids, but there is an opportunity to send my K/1 grader to an Immersion school in our area. It is a public school, which I am not happy about, but it gives an opportunity to be surrounded by a foreign language from the beginning. I am thinking about Japanese vs Chinese, in favor of Japanese because we have a lot of Japanese children movies, books/ study materials and I studied Japanese before. He is already surrounded by Russian, going to German K and learning some French along side with Latin and Greek this year. So, adding 1 more new language will be not a such big deal. He is academically working on 1 grade curriculum this year. If you sent your child to an immersion school, how long did he/she study there? What was your experience with it?
  21. I don't have a straight answer but I think it also will depend on a child. How does your child handle a conversation with a stranger and how is your son willing to work with him. My daughter was not shy at age of 3 and could communicate with strangers in different languages. I would have no problems testing her. My son,who is 4,5, is a different case. He is shy and would not show what he knows. It is very seldom he will actually cooperate with a stranger. My husband asked him very simple math problems and my son was fooling around and convinced my husband that he didn't understand the concept by giving wrong answers. I knew my son was teasing his dad, but I couldn't convinced my husband. We homeschool so I am not in a need to send my kids to a "special" gifted class, so I didn't proceed with testing.
  22. I can refer only to my daughter's last year schedule. We did math/ logic 6 days per week: 4 days of math and 2 days of logic. During math days we usually studied a chapter(a whole chapter or a part of it), did all reviews for day 1, next day we did IP, corresponding with previously learnt topic. We didn't use workbooks, at least during last year. We did 1/2 of CWP book after we finished A textbook, and did the second part after part B had been done. My daughter also used " Andrew's R" worksheets and topical tests. Singapore is not the only one math curriculum we use, so she does study a lot of math.
  23. Thanks for posting. ;) The case of a Korean mother and her daughter using Korean Hangul and Chinese characters is not unusual. High level Korean uses both. I was working in S.Korean company and half of our business correspondence books were bilingual: Korean with Hangul and Chinese characters and English. If you know characters you can pretty much read chinese newspapers; I haven't tried myself, but was told by some south korean people.
  24. :iagree: My oldest daughter is required to do load of work I assigned to her. We need to count time for state, so at the end of the day I try to count how much time was spent on particular subjects. Once I goofed and gave my daughter a folder with math assignments which had about 70 problems, half of which were challenging/extra difficult similar to SM IP. It took 7 hours for my child to finish math and half of the time I was complaining that it took her so long. She made few mistakes completing 95% correctly and was still upset that not all of them were correct. It took me an hour to check her work:(. I wanted to give her a break for next 2 days, but we ended up doing a regular load, but doubling on subjects we skipped during a "math day". My son who will be 5 in few months has his "assignments folders" which he needs to do, so he might take few little breaks, but trying to finish them withing a week. Since he is still young , he has weekly assignments for such subjects as math, logic, reading.
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