Oh. My goodness!thank you for this. I also saw that on Pinterest last night and didn't even notice that I read it upside down because that is EXACTLY how DD learns. This has been such an epiphany for me :D

:iagree: I voted two twins. Having a blow up queen would be helpful too :)

:lol: DD's reading level tests at upper high school, yet she is still to complete her first easy chapter book. Science is her thing, mathematics comes easily to her (apart from a weird problem with place value which now seems to have passed) but reading...meh, she's not really into it yet :glare:

Mmmmm Butter Chicken! Both mine love it :)

Ditto. I have K-2 hard copy & 3-5 kindle. I find the kindle sp much easier to work with :)

No, my second was slower to speak so it was less obvious. Despite having skewed version of "normal" with number 1, DD's complete sentences and head-scratching questions from 14 months stood out. Congratulations :)

:001_huh: wow, was the teacher aware of this? Perhaps he or she may have changed their tune? But I guess your child has a right to privacy regarding this information too.

I loved this :D

Ditto lol. I was satisfied with 3 ;)

Well my 6 year old said 3 but I'd be surprised if her answer is still the same when she gets to third grade age.

:iagree: We love love love dragon box here. My six year old "clocked" the original in three days of limited screen time, but we have since bought the extended versions and she is enjoying working through it when she gets a chance (which isn't often ATM).

This made me laugh. So true!

Well, I just used Lexile Analyser on a passage that DD6 read today and it came out as 1356, but yes, she would normally choose Amelia Bedelia or Frog and Toad. Literacy hasn't been one of her accelerated areas but I have suspected vision issues for a long time. Unfortunately COVD optomotrists are rare in this country and I am (still, after two years) having trouble convincing DH that we should travel a few hours and pay to see one when the numerous local optomotrists are covered by our universal health care. Her comprehension is flawless (unfortunate sometimes ;) ).

I have no idea, I hadn't noticed anything about it. Meant to have a search around today but it snowed from 7am till 1pm and we lost power from 12-4. Too much exciting fun for Mathletics today! I was just interested to hear that it seems to be linked.

So you didn't have to enter separately to her Mathletics account? I wonder if we could do the Australian one? I've not poked around much in DD's account, only in my teacher one (where the flexibility to build her a custom third grade program has been useful).

This. DD likes the plain black and white pages much better. We actually often just use the workbooks until we hit a glich, then I dig out the HIG for me. Sometimes we then use the text before going back to the wb and other times just an activity or game from the HIG clears it up.

I was thinking about this today as I cleaned our pigsty of a house, cajoling the children into helping me while DH sat at his computer all day. He had a perfectly valid reason for not helping since he was actually earning our income. I realised as I mused that when I manage to get them to consistently do the little things that make life so difficult if not done (shoes on the shelf as they come inside, clothes to be washed in the laundry, dishes to the kitchen etc) that he actually starts to follow suit. So my answer would be that we each of us has a responsibility to set a good example for the rest of the family. Daddy doesn't put his shoes on the shelf (that he made)? Put yours there & show him what it's for!

This is our approach right now (DD is six).

Fabulous!

I would take his current bow to a luthier to ask if it could be repaired (after calling his teacher).

Ooh, yes! and lol, I'm glad it's not just mine :lol:

Three for both mine - like a lot of the other posters it seems. DD may not have been quite three, I don't remember.

Yes! I do have all of those problems & I do think it is in part a homeschooling thing. Sigh. I wish it wasn't so difficult.

DH and I can both do close to this. We only own measuring cups now because a friend who was trying to cook in our kitchen pointed out that they might be a useful homeschooling tool to have (DD seems to understand fraction intuitively so they actually haven't been but anyway...). DD has the finding lost things skill, which is useful as her mini-tornado brother has the losing things skill ;)

Violin too? From your description of her day, you really do have a clone of my daughter. Scary. Meanwhile, said daughter had a meltdown today because I wouldn't accept her position that 30 is an odd number because there are three tens. I had her divide it by two and by five and she accepted that both answers were even but passionately maintained "But you're not CARING about the tens!!!" as though they would be upset if I failed to recognise there were three of them. I can only imagine how well that would have gone down in a typical classroom.