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  1. What am I missing and why does anything more have to be so confusing.

     

     

    I believe that when you repent, the next step is baptism...not months later, but straight away:

     

    Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River. Matthew 3:6

     

    Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. Mark 16:16

     

    Between my repentance and baptism I've been sturggling, struggling, struggling. Pulled back and forth. After my baptism things changed, it's amazing! Not that I never had my doubts, but not in the same way as before

     

    Yes I believe in saved by grace, but:

     

    Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.

    Anyone who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.

    John 14:23-24

     

    Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s command is what counts.

    1 Corinthians 7:18-20

     

    I was actually surprized to read how many commands there are to keep (in the NT!!) So I believe that you are saved by grace. But I don't believe in once saved always saved.

     

    Hop this helps.

  2. Can I ask: (probably a very foolish question...from someone who didn't look much into it :tongue_smilie:) But why bother giving your child a christian education, why bother training a child in the way he should go, if in the end...it doesn't really matter: Your chosen or not... :001_huh: If we can't add to that one single thing...why bother? Why evangelize? Just trying to understand, please don't get me wrong. I myself am leaning towards the Anabaptists but have Calvinistic friends.

  3. Your son is only 3 :confused:

    Give him a break :)

     

    He is NOT developmentally ready for Place Value . Even if he is smart. CLE math 100 and Singapore 1 are for children at least 6 years old !

     

    Play with him instead and allow him to be a child.

     

    That's an advice from an experienced mama of four with a science& math degree and mathaholic too but not to the point of spoon feeding advanced math to a 3 year old.

     

    Some children don't like to play all day, some children LOVE to learn, some children want to do math on worksheets, even some 3 year olds! My 3yr old is fine with CLE LA 1 right now and loving it, instead of pulling out his toys he pulls out his workbooks. He wants to do math and he loves it, he cried today because he doesn't want to stop CLE, but he'll be fine when we find something else. He is just not all that into hands-on learning, he much rather does it on paper.

     

    - He knows his 1-10 additions

  4. MEP: Used it for Reception, it was waaay to easy. But I loved it :tongue_smilie:

     

    MM: I have the Blue series. I think it is absolutely HIDEOUS! :D I can't stand it, guess that's why we haven't tried it yet.

     

    McRuffy: I'll have a look

     

    Miquon: No, I'm not dedicated to using a TM, I wish I was.

     

    :lol: The last 2 replies: R&S is what you're looking for vs. Stick with CLE! No, that's not at all confusing!

     

    I'm off checking MM again :w00t:

  5. Wow! I'm sooo surprised to see 3 pages already!

     

    Yes DS is 3,5. He loves math, but he hit the wall with place value. After last weeks post DH and I have been discussing what to do. He loves addition and subtraction, and since last week he does quite alright with place value. We think the problem is the spiral learning. There is not enough practice to make it stick. I understand what you're saying about not needing a math curriculum at this age, but he loves it and is other than the problems we have now, really good at it. Yes he loves CLE Math, but I don't think it's the best choice for us right now, I might switch back after a year or more, though.

     

    We haven't used the Lifepac Math or the MM at all.

     

    Why we're going to try R&S? It's mastery, not colorful (distracting), it moves slooooowly, LOTS of problems.

     

    CLE's LA is spiral as well, but no problems with it at all!

     

    So...now I'll read the rest of the replies:tongue_smilie:

  6. I'm going to buy a different math curriculum :blink:

    This is a list of all the math curriculum I own (and all bought in 2010 :blushing: )

     

    Lifepac K and 1 - What was I thinking?

    MEP - Good, but doesn't work as a stand alone curriculum for us.

    MM - I should really give this a go one day.... one day

    CLE - Spiral is just not working right now

    and now I'm going to buy R&S, my first choice :svengo:

     

    Question: Do I really need the Grade 1 Teacher's Guide? I HATE teacher's guides with a passion. Saves me some money :D

  7. The TT have alot more craft ideas added in (although you don't have to do it all).

     

    Do you need a lot of supplies for these crafts, or simple things like paper, scissors, paint etc. ? I'm not good at skipping, so I'd rather buy something that doesn't contain all the 'fun' crafts, if I find them not really doable.

     

    Not doing the pockets is a good idea! I wouldn't have come up with that...

  8. Hi!

     

    Just wanted to let you know that decimal street did the trick :D He has been talking all day about the houses and castle! We watch the video as well. And have been doing some work on the white board together. We've been making a unit house, tens house and castle out of paper. He LOVED it!

  9. Thank you all for replying! I'm going to try out some of the suggestions with him. I found the decimal street video on youtube, so that is something I'm going to try with him today. I don't really want to buy a different set of blocks, and the MUS are quite expensive. I have Unifix blocks, and a Base Ten set. If these suggestions don't work, I think I'm going to try the MM place value book, as Ialready have it. And if that all doesn't help, I'll just keep moving on with CLE and skip the Place Value problems for now.

  10. We've done Reception, which was way too easy. We're now doing 1 or 2 pages a week of Year 1, it's challenging but fun. No PV yet ;)

     

    My concern is, that he might already understand place value, but that he just doesn't understand what I want from him and that by pushing him to do it this way, I'm confusing him more and more. But how can I found out if he knows what the meaning of the number 56 is?

  11. I understand what you're saying, I don't want to push him in any way, but he so desperately wants to move on with the workbooks. I've been looking at MM because it has a place value workbook, separately from addition and subtraction. Not sure if that would be a better choice for us?

  12. I think I'd keep on going - CLE does seem to have lots of place value things throughout level 1 - but maybe do each and every 2 digit problem/activity with the blocks. Or maybe you could try an abacus - give a different way to look at it.

     

    Also, can he count by tens? Yes I've been counting the RS "mathy" way :tongue_smilie: - one-ten, one-ten-one, ... , two-ten, etc - and dd4.5 can, with prompting, count by tens with ten blocks or on the abacus. Once I remind her that one block/row is one ten, she can take it from there with two-ten, etc. The RS counting does really help make place value more transparent - maybe it's another thing you could try.Wouldn't starting a different way of counting confuse him even more? I can see the value of this though. I think that way of counting makes sense. Haul out the blocks (or abacus), and once he's confirmed via counting that one 10-block is ten units (or even if he needs to confirm that *every* 10-block is ten units ), have him then count by tens instead of ones to build up that number. He's counted them, he knows each 10-block is worth ten units, so let's now count how many *tens* we have. Really work on getting the conne:tongue_smilie:ction down between ten ones and one ten. Would he agree that 10 units lined up next to one ten-block are equivalent?

    Yes, he would. So that's why I don't understand his problem,He seems to understand what I'm telling him, but as soon as I give him a problem, he's blank

     

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