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Hi, I highly recommend bringing cozy socks/slippers you can use. Hospitals keep their rooms quite cold so you wouldn't want your feet be cold. I had all my kids delivered in one hospital in a private delivery/recovery room with a bath, which I finally used last year:)
Is your husband or any close friend going to be there with you?
You can bring some fresh or canned fruits/ juice with you. I did.
I always used their "nightgown", but brought my own cozy robe to wear over it. Good movie, favourite music or audiobook will be handy too. Good luck!
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Hi, My daughter was taking classes through Connection Academy few years ago and we had no restriction at all. It is not free in MO anymore, otherwise we would keep Foreign Languages enrollment. What state are you in?
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I get my news from http://www.drudgereport.com/.
I don't watch TV at all, just Olympics as an exception.
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I looked through Building Language and I think it is a very good introduction to "Beginning Language knowledge" course. I had such subject in my college as a part of my linguistics studies. My only wish I have would be MCT "building a bridge" to French language instead of Spanish. My daughter dislikes Spanish, so I might need to add a part related to French which she adores.
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hi, I am reposting my question to get more attention to it.
When will you start using Literature books? I was thinking, I would start after going through Grammar Island book at least. What are you suggesting?:confused:
How will your schedule look like?
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I like it very much!:)
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I think we will read aloud together, at least 1 book or half of it. Then we might take turns deciding who will read next.
I have a question.
When will you start using Literature books? I was thinking, I would start after going through Grammar Island book at least. What are you suggesting?:confused:
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There's just way too much junk out there these days (and I do mean JUNK!) that I don't think a 5 or even 15 year old should be reading. My kids are also sensitive. I've heard so many times, "my 6 year old has read all the Harry Potter books", blah, blah, blah... you know what? That's great, but my kids haven't read those and won't read those until they're mentally and emotionally ready.
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My kids will not read Harry Potter books; my husband and I do not think they are any good. It is better to stick with the classics. My daughter is very sensitive too, so dragons, monsters, witchcraft is not for her.
We do like to read books from Yesterday's classic
http://www.yesterdaysclassics.com/
There are a lot of titles at The Baldwin online children's literature project at http://www.mainlesson.com/
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My kids really like( especially my 4.5 years old son) stories by Thornton W. Burgess. " The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse" is their favourite.:)
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My son who is 4.5 years old had problems similar to this one, but only with the numbers under 10. I told him that when somebody is reading from page 1 through page 5, page 1 was included also, because nobody skipped it. It seems to me helped him to understand the concept. Also, he wanted to double check his calculation by counting pages and was very satisfied with the result.:)
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My daughter has been using MEP last 2 years and she really likes it. Some of the puzzles we found more challenging than Singapore IP books were offering. We skipped 1a level because it was too simple for my child and started with 1b. We use it as a supplement to SM and Russian math. We use MEP for variety reason, one of which is an earlier introduction of the metric system.
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Hi, If any of you had used Andrew Er's Mathematics worksheets book, was your child able to complete Diagnostic test withing allotted 40 minutes? My daughter was taking one as a review for Singapore Primary Math 3 and was able to complete only half of the assignments withing 40 minutes. Test had 20 assignments, half of them were word problems, one fourth were simple, the rest were similar to IP challenging problems. Thanks.
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We do poetry memorization here and consider it being important. My daughter memorized few long poems and it was fun to listen to her reciting 40 poems withing almost 2 hours (she did level 1 and 2 of IEW poetry memorization course). I think learning poetry helps to develop a rich vocabulary.
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I wish more schools would encourage and recognize academic achievement like this junior high does instead of viewing it as something *geeky* kids do. Schools acknowledge achievement in sports, which is great, but they shouldn't ignore or discourage the academic achievements. Not saying this specifically to you, Bill, but I feel so many schools unfortunately have created an atmosphere where academic achievement is considered something almost shameful, something to be hidden.
:iagree: A month ago my husband went to his high school re-union and whole family went along. It was an interesting experience for me to see a typical high school in US, because I was educated abroad. I saw all kinds of sports trophies and sports achievement recognition and almost non of the academic ones. We finally saw a trophy for taking a 4th place in Mathcount competition as a team:tongue_smilie:. It was almost hidden and it took me some time to figure out what it was for.:confused:
On a contrary, my school had several "recognition boards" where the portraits of the best school students were presented. Kids felt honored seeing their portraits as a recognition of their achievements in different fields such as math, physics, chemistry, biology etc. Most of those kids were participating at different level olympiads individually and as a team. Team achievements were based on a summary of individual results of participants, so everyone had a chance to compete.:auto:
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Hi, I don't have very high opinion about Horizon math. I don't consider it is challenging. Singapore + Miquon might be a good option for your bright child. Miquon will let him to explore math and Singapore will challenge him:001_smile:
My daughter was not a good artist 2 years ago and I didn't have enough time to teach her drawing. We used CW Primers which incorporated art study with a requirement to copy of several masterpieces of a particular author. Just by doing it, she learnt a lot about perspective, composition etc and her artistic performance has improved a lot.
I do "push" my bright/gifted child by reminding her that it is time to study instead of being consumed by an exciting book. My daughter doesn't like timed assignments, so we are trying to work on this part.
Even very young kids need to be challenged. They love it. When my 2 years old daughter saw her oldest siblings skating she wanted to try, but was afraid of ice. We made her to go there with us and now she doesn't want to leave it when we are done skating. She was challenged; first being quite unhappy and screaming, but now she cries when she is not allowed to skate. :lol:
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Hi, I think you need to let him exploring more things in early years. He needs to be challenged otherwise he will loose his interest to study. Does he like logic books/puzzles? I would supplement with those. I would suggest adding some more challenging math problems to your study which you can find in MEP or Singapore math Intensive practice.
MEP website:
http://www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/projects/mepres/primary/default.htm
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Hi, You have a "wonder" child.:001_smile: I don't have any hands-on curriculum suggestions, but my kids love lapbooks, so we try to use them in our studies. We usually use several free ones and build one big lapbook covering a particular topic. My kids are fascinate with mummies, so they are going to mummify something this year and turn it in a science fair project.:confused:
"Life" science curriculum prom Pandia Press is very hands-on. My kids enjoyed it a lot.
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Have you seen the material from MEGSSS and IMACS or met any of the teachers? Unfortunately, I don't know the difference between the two, but it's great that you have both available to you.
Thanks for joining the discussion:)
I haven't really seen the materials yet. My daughter took the aptitude test and on the basis of which we are planning our study next year. She is primary interested in computer classes, but still too young for them. My husband and I are very good at math, so we will be able to help her with math if we decide to get just EM books for personal use. At this point I am trying to add some additional math topics such as "binaries" to our already full math curriculum. My daughter stumbled on binary topic during the test, so we know we need to add it on.
IMACS is having an Open House in our area in August/September, so I might consider going there and checking it out.
We are hoping to participate in Kangaroo Olympiad and possibly IMACS next year.
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I know about the EM texts and MEGSSS courses. I don't know about IMACS courses :)
If I were in St Louis, I'd be looking into the MEGSSS program there.
I live in St. Louis County, so I could do either IMACS or MEGSSS courses. My child is only 9 and will be doing primary SM and Russian math/MEP this year, so she is not ready for middle school math. We were actually looking into computer/robotics classes for her to take in a year or so and trying to plan ahead. I didn't look into MEGSSS classes yet, but was just curious about the difference between them.
What is better for math: on-line class or a regular class? For computer/ robotics course, I would choose a regular class setting with hands-on "assignments".
Any ideas/suggestions/ comments regarding this topic? Thanks for your input.
P.S. IMACS allows students as young as Kindergarten to take their classes.
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There is a new writing curriculum with DVD and worksheets which had been recently released.
http://www.essentialsinwriting.com
I never used it but I thought I would mention it.
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We didn't do any diagramming in Russia. We studied syntax and punctuation of sentences. Syntax of the sentence I find more efficient than diagramming itself. We used arrows to show relationship between words and word combination.
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If any of you had enrolled your child in IMACS courses which did you prefer: on-line or regular classes? What is the difference? What did you like/dislike about them?
If your child took a free aptitude test, what age he/she did it?
My child who just turned 9 took the test few days ago. We received the result and were suggested to consider eIMACS courses in about 2 years when my daughter would be a little older.
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I find it very easy to use as a supplement. We do all of the assignments and only once referred to TM ( assignment's wording wasn't clear enough to understand). My child did them independently (5 sheets of assignments per day for MEP 2/3). MEP 4 might be more challenging. It is very helpful for us because we use metric system in Russian math all the time.
What math is your gifted child using?
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We will try SM and EPGY combination for my 4th grader this year. In the past we had SM text, IP, CWP, Olympiad assignments from SM, MEP and Russian math ( Peterson's math). We are going to continue with Russian math for 4th grade and use only challenging problems from MEP.