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  1. My ds who is eight after paging through the book and reading the first chapter of Great Expectations announced to us that he thinks he would enjoy reading Dickens. Do you think it is too early for him to understand the book, should I just let him read and see how far he gets? I am sure that the book could be read and understood at different levels, but still not sure if I should let him read this independently or for us to work on this together.

  2. This is very helpful, thank you!

     

    At that age, I like short, fun lessons from the white board and a lot of games.

     

    Blend phonics is free online and easy to do from the white board.

     

    Here is a good games thread, but I would not do the sight word games. I have tutored too many remedial students who had problems from doing sight words as wholes. A good phonics program will teach most of them phonetically. You can teach all but 5 of the 220 sight words phonetically if you add in a few rules and patterns, my sight word page shows how.

     

    http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=205315&highlight=Mona+games+game

  3. My 5 year old loves math, enjoys learning to write, but the moment we start to work on reading he acts like I am torturing him. We are using Hooked on Phonics. He knows the sounds associated with each letter, so I know that he has the foundation to keep moving on. But how do we get over this constant struggle?

  4. I missed seeing a name for the photo. Is it on another link on the site ?

     

    No you did not miss it, that is the file name of the picture file. If you right click the picture to save it on your computer, you will see the original file name.

  5. My ds loves oatmeal, but lucky for me he eats other things as well. I do a lot of different variations for him. He only loves the old fashioned oatmeal. I make it with milk (protein) and fruit. Sometimes I add yogurt after it is cooked. I always use honey, sometimes I add nuts or ground flaxseed. I have come up with at least 10 different variations for him. I have added even peanut butter and jelly to oatmeal (per his request).

    Definitely no reason to worry, you can make oatmeal very nutritious.

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