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I agree that he's five and it's entirely likely that he's just not ready to hold onto and apply those sounds. However...
I will share that my very math-competent boy children randomly forget how to add. Or subtract. We assume they're trying to see if our heads will actually spin around, or if it's just an idle threat. There are days, however, when math leads to fantasies of taking up drinking as a hobby.
:lol::lol::lol: :iagree:
Well, my head DID spin around (and yes, it did look scary). My body followed and went straight a bottle of wine I was saving for when having people around. Sipping some lovely burgundy right now -poor guests will have to drink tea. :D
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What is the GAPS diet?
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You have received lots of lovely advice. I wish I had heard it when my son was 5. I put my son in K PS even though he clearly wasn't ready for it. He struggled hard. He developed a negative attitude about school because of this. I should have waited one year.
I hear you. Loud and clear.
I would encourage you to read the book, "Better Late Than Early", by Dr. Raymond Moore.I will.
Thank you again folks for the help. You have saved my sanity today and maybe my marriage. Sipping wine here while dh helps ds write a congrats card. I wish I could :grouphug: all of you.
Words of wisdow. I will be reading the blogs now and chilling, and being nice to dh.
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Can I just pick up on this part of your post?
Honey, you just see that because that's the public "face". You don't know what goes on in their house, you don't know their private struggles.
You keep your eyes on what YOU are doing. Learn from other people, sure, but never, ever, EVER compare yourself. Ever. It will be your undoing every. single. time.
(fwiw, I blogged about this very subject just a few days ago. It may or may not be helpful.)
Thank you for the link to your blog. Yes. I guess this morning I saw a puddle on the floor in the kitchen and I assumed the worst. :svengo:
I also need to hug hubby because he came home from lunch and found me in a less-than-attractive mood. :ack2:
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Not by 6pm...or even.
However I am decluttering the house. I am hoping this will make cleaning easier.
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No need for prozac, he's 5. I'll give you a hint, the focused, cheerful, and motivated is an illusion. No one is that all the time, especially 5 year olds. If you read my blog it's only in the last year I'm blogging about some of my frustrations and my son is 14. I don't discuss many of his challenges with others IRL, it's just not worth it.
My son went to private school for prek and K. We wrote checks each month that ate into a large part of our budget. I'd pick him up from school and ask what he didn't that day. "I don't know" "I don't remember" were daily replies. It was irritating. I never knew his development until I contacted the teacher.
It was nice when we started homeschooling to see the learning, even if we had to repeat things over and over.
Read good books to him, snuggle on the couch, go on nature walks, and if his attention span is five minutes, then it's five minutes of seatwork. Reading and nature walks are the two things I wish we'd done more of at that age. The wonder of the world to a five year old is the things around them, not just what is in a book. Help him discover and hold that wonder, it's worth it. And keep a nice adult beverage on hand for those hellish type of days.
Thanks for the personal experience talk. Much appreciated.
I remember thinking ds would neve be potty trained. At 3 I tried and it was pretty much a disaster. Then I stepped back, chilled, waited and tried again at 3 1/2. DS was potty trained in one week. No accidents day or night. Maybe I should take the same approach to academics? :tongue_smilie:
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Thank you for the replies.
I believe you may be right. DS is so bright in science sometimes I forget he is only 5.
I think I feel pressured because in the UK the National Curriculum is very heavy on academics. I always thought this to be slightly crazy as it has proven it doesn't mean students are brighter, or more advanced than students in say, the Nordic countries, where they only start at 6 or even 7yo.
I know that if ds goes back to school they will simply put him in whatever grade he is supposed to be in and expect him to be on the same level as his peers (the UK school system does not believe in holding back -you swim or you sink). This would not be a problem if I knew we will be hs for a few years but dh is not convinced at the moment.
Edited to add: This board moves fast! I'm so glad I'm came here for advice. I was about to throw all hs books out of the window (literally) since I tried jumping out but found the window safety system too good even for me to crack (ok, don't take this literally).
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Before anything: yes, I know ds is "only" 5 but...
1- Why does he whinge so much when we do school?
2- Why do I feel he forgets his sounds so we have to redo the same phonics lesson over and over?
3- Why does it feel I'm pulling teeth everytime we sit down to do school work? He starts yawning after 5 minutes!
It is getting harder and harder to get ds to do school work. We are so far behind I don't think we can recoup time lost unless we work flat out straight through summer (and we can't because we have a trip planned to attend a family wedding).
DS will do science, and math -the rest is like pushing a large boulder up the hill, just to see it roll back time after time. I'm even keeping lessons short because of his age. What is going on???:confused: :confused:
Maybe I'm not cut out for hs? I go to the local hs meeting and every one else seems so well organised, and motivated, and focused, so cheerful and above all, on schedule! I feel I'm the runt of the litter.:glare:
Yes, I'm venting because it is easier to vent than go out in the street, get on the first bus that comes along and ...
Could any of you email me some prozac or something?
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I just had a Yoirk test for food intolerances. It turnes out I should avoid gluten it says otas are ok.
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IF you have a cell phone, is it an iPhone or not? I'm just curious to see what percentage of cell phone users here have iPhones, and I am CERTAIN these polls are an exact science. :tongue_smilie:
I voted!
I have a Nokia. It works great and it was within budget. I don't do monthly, annual contracts -just pays-as-you-go (it also keeps me within budget!).
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I tell dh to press firmly the tip of his tongue to the roof of the mouth, right behind his upper front teeth, and hold it there, and then exhale hard. It makes the tip of the tongue vibrate and a rolling "r" should come out. I speak Latin American Spanish, BTW.
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http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/1775605?utm_source=Houzz&utm_campaign=u74&utm_medium=email&utm_content=gallery0
600sf is, perhaps, too small for a homeschooling family, though.
This little house is much, much bigger than many, many houses in the UK! I'd buy it in a second.
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Our bodies = biodegrade.
Our soul/life force = energy transformation.
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Some of the things we covered, in light of prospective children and a shared household, were:
- children's citizenships - as well as whether and under what circumstances those may be changed, eliminated, or gained;
- children's language and culture of education - spelled it out black on white which language and culture take priority, what happens when we live abroad, under what circumstances children would attend international schools rather than local schools depending on the location where we might live;
- where do we meet in terms of religious practice and how do we raise our children as regards that.
:iagree:also:
- Money: where it is kept and how it is to be spent.
- Family obligations: pretty much to the last detail who takes care of what.
- Telly: I wanted to be free to watch a certain soap and not have dh make fun of me.
I think this is it. I don't see any of this as strictly "cross-cultural" but as things most couples should discuss before getting married.
- children's citizenships - as well as whether and under what circumstances those may be changed, eliminated, or gained;
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We met online. We just exchanged emails for months before I ever sent a picture. Then we were on the phone exchanging calls for a few more months before agreeing to meet in person. We met and four days later he proposed...and the rest is history!
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I'm using Word Mastery/Blend Phonics with my 5yo, along with McGuffey's Eclectic Primer. No bells or whistles but they get the job done.
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Nope. In the end I didn't get simply because she will not sell the cd to international customers. I emailed Donna, posted a comment on her page, and I never got a reply from anyone. I even suggested she offers the file as a download (you know,like startwrite, HST, etc). I don't have anyone in the US who could get it for me and send it to the Gulf, so...:glare:
If you go to Donna's website it says the CD is out of stock.
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Every Friday we go out for Friday Brunch and pool (Friday here is like Sunday -church day). The children get to play together and we grown up exchange gossip and news. At some point during the week we go for a grilled Lebanese dinner. Yes, I can grill something at home but it doesn't come out the same, and our little town in the UK doesn't feature a single Lebanese restaurant so...
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My son (6 yo) does great when he is working in his handwriting workbook and the letters look pretty much like the example. However, when he writes on his own or does copywork the letters look like how he wants them to look. I know we are supposed to tell them to correct them but I've been bad and haven't done that as much as I should. If I have him re-write everything as he goes, I'm afraid he will lose his train of thought when he is writing a story or letter or that he will get frustrated with his schoolwork because it's going to take 10 times as long to get stuff done. It's not that his handwriting looks bad, it just doesn't look like the model and we are working on Italics so it's important that his letters look like those shown for when we go to the connecting letters. I always write using the correct Italics model but pretty much everything he reads is different than the way he writes which is probably one of the reasons he writes like he does.
Do I just start correcting now and deal with the fact that we may not get as much done for a week or two? Do I have him re-do some of his stuff (say 50%) as we go and work up to more?
Ugh. This is my own fault but I'm not sure how to fix it!
Maybe going back to basics would be a good idea. Go back to italic print and review letter formation, and move on from there. Then I would follow the CM approach and have him do copywork, and keep the lessons short, say about 5-10 minutes, but stick with it every day. Ask him to copy a model as closely as he can. I firmly believe in muscle training, so even if you have to watch your son like a hawk for a while in the end his "hand" will know what to do. I'm no expert, this is just MHO.
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which one is best to get? Or should I get both? collecting references for science. I have the Kingfisher HIstory Encyclopedia and I have the Usborne Internet Linked Children's encyclopedia.
any advice on which I should get? usborne has lots of First Encyclopedia of...
The science curriculum I'm using for my 5yo uses Urborne's First Encyclopedia of Science. We fint it ok but a bit elementary. We always have to supplement it with Kingfisher.
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Or the time there was an earthquake and the house shook (I nearly keeled over with freight), or the time when the power and water were cut off because the company mistook us for another family who was due to move out of the building...
...and of course we all get sick when DH goes away on business trips...which reminds me dh is away today. :001_huh:
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What an inspiration! Love the white, the clean look, and the easy to clean flooring...and of course the big smiles on the children.
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I started out by making copies but after a bit I realised it was a hassle: scanning, making a file, then printing. Now I just use the workbooks. The only exception is handwriting where I make extra copies of copywork when ds needs extra practice.
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DS doesn't have an opinion yet. And no,I didn't detect an 'snarky' tones in your post. :)If he doesn't mind them, then I wouldn't even worry about it.He's 5. You can tell him not to run, but he'll forget a lot of times, and if he's going to slip and fall in the time it takes you to remind him not to run, then the socks might be just the thing for now.
(ETA: I hope that comes across clearly. I see that what I wrote could be read with a snarky tone, but I assure you it was not written with one!)
If it works for you and for him, then who cares what anyone else is doing?
My kids only wear water shoes when they're swimming in a pond, but I see other kids wearing them at the pool occasionally and wouldn't think of it as being overprotective.My 6 year old has run on the pooldeck a few times and ended up on his butt. Kids fall, and I wouldn't worry more about him falling on the pool deck, especially if you're around.
I know, I know. I've registered ds for a full week of swimming lessons. I am hoping he will be more confident around water, and also learn tiles are slippery.:tongue_smilie:
we dropped it because--poll
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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Singapore Earlybird series. Too many cute colours and fluff. DS was easily distracted by this. Got Singapore Essential Math which is in black and white and now ds can focus on the math -not the pretty pictures.
BFSU - I dropped it because I have no idea how to structure it -too complex for mum, I need something more open and go.