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Hi, I would call and ask your friend about the Core book. If she is using it, ask her when she will be able to mail it back to you. You were doing her a favor lending your books. I borrowed some books from my friend, but when she wanted them, I gave the books back.
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Hi, my son who is 4.5 will turn 5 later this year. Officially, he is a pre-Kner, but will be working on his 1st grade math and few other 1 st grade curriculum. So when I was asked at the library( summer reading program) what grade he would be going to, I answered K. They need this kind of information for statistics.
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When my oldest girl was 4, we did Galloping the Globe, which was a gentle introduction to geography.We also did maps, globes books, which were fun too.
This year we will try to do Child's Geography book with my two oldest kids. Next year I am planning to compile my own curricula studying continents. It will be like a unit study, covering several subjects. We probably start with North America and will be covering Canada, USA and Mexico. Besides traditional location, major rives, capital name, landmarks, I am going to include economical geography and historical events of the region.
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but he was one of the Other Kind. Late talker (no babbling; he tried a few words at 18 mos but was clearly infuriated by the sounds he made and that was it until he was older than two, when he began to produce beautifully formed words and developed quite a vocabulary).
But he's a very thoughtful little guy, extremely analytical, and not only absorbs information like a sponge but he puts it together to make sense of it and come to new (sometimes startling!) conclusions. He's also very empathetic, compassionate, and fairly responsible. .
:), Sounds like my son. My son didn't read at 18 months and still not really reading yet. He is a mathematician:) and wants to be an engineer.
I think it is very important to help them in their learning endeavor and nourish any desire to create. My oldest girl was a late speaker, but when she started to communicate, she flipped through several languages. She finally settled on English being her primary language ( she was confused why people didn't communicate with her in Russian or French, when she wanted to chat with strangers). I made few mistakes with her not providing enough challenging environment, so it shut her down for some time. I felt we lost few years with underachievement. She still needs to learn the basic of time management and not to be carried away by a very interesting math chapter she wants to finish before going to bed:)
We all learn from our own kids or somebody's experience.:grouphug:
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Today, my big girl asked me if she could do "Beast math". I was really surprised, because she didn't really like the look of it at all. Now she is very intrigued and upset, because of her brother teasing. She was told that she would be too "ancient" to do it in a year or so. Now I wanted to ask somebody if it would be possible to borrow your sample chapter for a short time when you are done with it. I will pay both ways shipping. I just want my daughter to feel good that she tried it before her brother did:).
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His gross motor skills far surpass what my dd possessed at that age. Love how unique they all are!
:iagree: I felt the same way when I found my 1 year son with scissors shortening his " too long" blanket. He didn't like the the way it looked. It was his first phrase he said to me when I was inquiring what he had been doing.
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I think I would not worry about your youngest child. My daughter wasn't officially reading when she was 5. I was concentrating on math and foreign languages. We started formal phonics when she was 6 and withing 2 month she learnt all basic phonograms, completely skipped reader and started reading at an appropriate level. I was holding her back with LA because her little motor skills were not ready for a long writing. We skipped printing and went straight to Cursive. So, do not worry about your son "late bloom".
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Hi, My kids asked me to look at sample of on-line textbook pages and decided that they would use it. My 9 ears old said it would be Ok( but I think she will not be using it because of her age by the time it will be released), my 3 years old said that she liked "creatures" and my son decided to vote for it also. It settled the issue of "color busy" for us.:001_smile:
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Hi, For those of you who received a sample chapter for review:
Do your kids or you like the color textbook itself?
I showed my 9 years old and my 4 years old sample pages posted on Beast academy website.
My kids told me that they didn't like the look of the textbook, because it was too " color busy". They decided they like beasts because they looked friendly. I was also told that they would rather use a workbook only.
Now I am wondering if I can just use a workbook on its own. I hope it will be two option to the textbook: color or b&w. If I had a choice, I would pick b&w edition.
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I understand how you feel about very advance for her age child. I felt the same way when my 2 years old son started counting in French instead of English. He learnt counting in English at age of 3.( He picked it up from my 6 years old daughter, who was learning French). I suggest let her to do puzzles, mazes, sequence games, paint pictures whatever she likes. You can borrow books from the library for young kids dealing with math. They love it.
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Thanks for heads up. I guess, you talked me to join the group who will be using Best math later on. I just wish they would be releasing 5th grade math in a year, so my daughter could use it too. I am not a big fan of comics( if not to say more:)), but I could forget about my personal fillings, if it would benefit my children's education. Thanks again for sharing your experience with us.
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Don't think the pirate dialect is a great idea. And the font in all caps is a problem too.
I would have a issue with the pirate dialect too. Pirates are disliked by my oldest daughters:)
I want to thank everyone who is reviewing a sample chapter and posting your first impressions here.
The explanations are simple and engaging to the kid and problems are tough, really tough for kids. Rep-tiles had my head spinning for a while :) I am loving what I am seeing! I am loving the depth AoPS reaches.Can you give us an approximate example of the toughest problem from a sample chapter you were reviewing. I understand a copy right issue, so I don't ask to copy it here.
My daughter was studying Perimeter/ Area topic in 1 st grade of Russian math, so I would like to compare the levels of problems' difficulty.
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I guess I was too late to the party in requesting a sample :(
I was late too. I checked next day after it was posted, but they had enough people to test the sample chapter out. Well, I will wait for reviews.:001_smile:
I dislike comics myself, but my oldest kids including my husband love them. My son might be a good target for this "Beast math" after it will be released.
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Hi , we are still finishing up our summer schedule, which was pretty much math/logic/critical thinking, science and reading over the summer months. It was too hot to do more this summer.
I have not finalized our school schedule for my 4th grader this year, but last year our schedule looked like this:
Math - 4 times per week,
Science 2 times per week,
History- 2 times per week,
Logic/Critical thinking - 2 times per week,
LA - 5 times per week,
Art - 2 times per week
PhE - once or twice per week,
Foreign Languages: 2 times per week ( totally every day)
Being a 3rd grader my daughter did between 3-4 hours of math daily, my son being just 4 years old spent between 1-2 hours on math/logic daily.
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He has some things fundamentally wrong.
The tracking in Germany is NOT done sorting math/science people and humanities people. The tracking is done based on overall academic aptitude, and every student who ends up on the college preparation track must take math through calculus and three sciences and two foreign languages, along with history, German etc. The final exam, the Abitur, which is the ticket to attend college, contains a mandatory written mathematics exam that is open response (none of this multiple choice nonsense - they actually have to solve problems) which has to be taken by everybody who wishes to attend college.
the Abitur also mandates written testing in at least one science, Germ,an, one foreign language, as well as several oral exams.
So, while there definitely is tracking, it has nothing to do with being mathematically minded or not - if you want to major in English, you have to take, and pass exams, in calculus in high school as well.
We had a similar tracking system in Russia. Only students with grades A and B were allowed to attend high school, where A was 100% of comprehension and B was a little less. Grammar mistakes on a written math exam could bring your grade down. Once I forgot to put a period after writing my answer and received a lower grade. I was mad, but it taught me a lesson to pay attention to details.
Colleges are very specific, you could not change your major after 2 years of studies like you can do here.
The main difference in math education is that the high school math teachers have actually studied math and are proficient.:iagree: My math teacher(middle school/high school) was fair, very demanding, but brilliant.
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Hi, Have you tried G.A.Henty books.
You can read them here for free:http://www.manybooks.net/authors/hentyga.html
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Hi, Thanks for your advices. I appreciate you taking your time answering my question. I am trying to justify myself into purchasing a new copy but can not decide on it. I have tried to find a used copy of MOTH, but haven't succeeded so far.
That said, I do think that Building Poems is do-able by a bright child who hasn't had any previous exposure to poetry analysis. Some of the information in BP *is* very advanced- it included terms covered in my high school honors English class and a few terms I'd never before seen.
The more advanced stuff I'm pretty sure went in one ear and out the other, so I'm planning doing a refresher of certain BP chapters when we hit the corresponding topics in Figuratively Speaking.
If you can't get your hands on a reasonably priced copy of MOTH, I wouldn't sweat it too much.
My daughter had a lot of experience memorizing poetry, but not analyzing it.
This year she is going to do MCT and Classical Writing together. Part of her Classical Writing curriculum envolves studying poetry : Poetry for Beginners , which is built on imitation of authors styles, writing essays, analyzing given poetry etc.
For those of you who have both or use both( MOTH and Building Poems), how much of MOTH topics are reviewed by Building Poems book?
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I missed it:( Oh, well. May be some other time.:glare:
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Our school's name is SMILE and our mascot is an owl wearing a graduation hat:)
We haven't decided on colors yet: green, yellow, blue- my oldest kids' favorite colors.
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Hi, Being in 1 st grade my daughter was using 2nd grade Calvert math book and enrichment book and they both were too simple for her. Singapore IP, Russian math and MEP had more challenging/ critical thinking assignments than Calvert.
I agree with a previous poster who said it all would depend on your child.
If you want more challenging problems, go with SM IP and CWP as supplements to your Calvert math.:D
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Hi, I need an advice on MCT Poetry. I am going to use MCT Island books with my 9 years old daughter this year. I have everything, but a Music of Hemisphere book. Is it possible to skip poetry book for Island level and do poetry with Town level? Will we miss a lot by skipping Island level poetry book.
I think we will be doing Town level this coming spring or earlier. Thanks.
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Hi, I was trying to leave a comment, but got the following message:
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I am not sure what is going on; I tried different e-mails, cleared cookies etc. O-well:(, I have tried.
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I keep the chronological order of the history, but I might use more challenging materials than the ones suggested in WTM (or I might use some of the resources used for the same time period from in the next stage).
I choose the science topic by interest. I don't follow the chronological history or SWB's order there. Ex: ds wanted to study biology this last year, so we did. Next is physics. Same reason. The year after that I'm choosing: chemistry. We also run studies concurrently. Ds is a big fan of paleontology, so he was studying that too.
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We try to give a classical flavor to our studies.
We keep chronological order of the history too. We still park in Ancient World. My kids are big fans of Ancient Egypt (my son loves mummies), so we are continue with this for some time. We use a mix of SOTW, MOH and few other on-line thematic units for History. For ours science we choose Zoology for spring/fall/summer and will be doing physics/chemistry during winter (RealScience4Kids). I beef it up with additional studies of particular topics they have a lot of interest in. My son also wants to mummify a chick:( , as a part of his biology/chemistry/history project and present it at science fair next year.
Each child is different, so what work for one, might not be suitable for another. I think, SWB gives a suggestion and you decide what to add/change in accordance with your children needs.
It is more important to follow your child's desire to learn a particular topic he/she is interested in. This will keep them going.:001_smile:
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My oldest daughter spent her K year learning her math, geography, history, science, logic/critical thinking,art, French. She wasn't ready to write yet. First grade we concentrated on reading/writing using SWR. It took less than 2 months for my child to start reading independently. She skipped readers. My son who is turning 5 later this year and officially would be in k next year, going to do math, learning to read some Russian, studying some logic, science, history and foreign languages. I am not sure if I would be formally teaching him writing this year, but his little motor skills are more advanced than his older sister ever had at his age.
How Long is Your School Day?
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Last year my 3rd grader spent 6-8h on school daily during week days and 4 hours on Saturday. My pre-Kner was using 3-4 hours on "school" stuff ( logic, math, mazes, science, history, reading alouds, foreign languages)