I love having the narration passages selected for me. Sure, I could do it myself, but I would never get around to it! :tongue_smilie: The big lines are a problem for dd. When we start WWE 2 next week, I'll have her write on different paper. It is funny to read that so many kids like the pictures. Dd really dislikes them. She says it "ruins the story" to see the picture differently than she pictured it. :001_huh: She says that Pollyanna looked nothing like that in her mind, and now her image is ruined because she can only picture the line drawing. :lol: Drama queen!

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Wow! Great job!

I love them both, but for different reasons. :001_smile:

She did a wonderful job. I love her personified stones. :lol:

Your son sounds like a natural with math. I don't think you could mess him up. ;) There is a lot more than computation in Miquon. My dd finds it to be fun.

Absolutely! He'd even watch something cheesy, just to sit with me. He is sweet like that. :001_wub:

:iagree: The games Laura posted look fun. I'll have to try those with #2.

Neat! This summer, we saw the rings and moons of Saturn. It was very cool!

Vivienne looks pretty

It usually happens right away. I agree about trying water or oil too.

My newly turned 8yo enjoys: Half Magic series Little House books Mrs. Piggle Wiggle Childhood of Famous Americans series of biographies Betsy series (Haywood) Betsy-Tacy series

There are samples of Miquon that would help you pick the right levels. My dd is only in Primary 2a, but I'll share how I combine the two. Singapore is our primary curriculum and we chug along until we hit a brick wall. That is when I switch to Miquon.:lol: We play around with it for a few weeks, and then go back to Singapore. By then, she is usually ready to master what seemed too hard before. When she finishes a Singapore book, or is seeming bored by it, we switch to Miquon for a bit. She has done fractions and multiplication with Miquon, so that will be a piece of cake when we get to it in Singapore in a few weeks. I do know there is a chart online that lines up Miquon pages with Singapore pages. That system just didn't seem to work for dd. She never wanted "more of the same". She likes variety.

That is a great list of activities! Thanks for sharing.

I also felt sort of like I was wasting our time with WWE 1. Dd hadn't seemed ready for the next level, but there was no challenge in what she was doing. I skipped ahead to lesson 24. We'll finish off the rest of the lessons and then will move on to WWE 2.

:iagree: It is good for me to read this!

roast, potatoes and carrots

My DD liked the A to Z mysteries. She also liked: Cam Jansen Encyclopedia Brown Sheltie Pony Pals Betsy series by Carolyn Haywood They aren't fine literature by any stretch of the imagination, but they filled a need for a while.

These are my two. It is handy you typed them out, because I couldn't have done it without spell check. :tongue_smilie: I recently mastered separate, because the "r" separates 2 "a"s.

Betsy series by Carolyn Haywood Betsy Tacy Catwings Jenny Linsky series Cam Jansen Brambly Hedge Winnie the Pooh

I second No Flying in the House. My 4yo wanted her own copy to keep forever. She also liked the Catwings series. She also adores fairy tales. She can't get enough of them, really. It doesn't match the genre you are looking for, but she also really loves the Little House on the Prairie series.

boy or girl? My 2nd grade dd has recently enjoyed hearing Pollyanna, The Light Princess, The Little Princess, and the Little House series.

Can he push sounds together orally? Both of my girls played numerous rounds of the push-it-together or pull-it-apart game while we were in the car. I think it helps when they are reading on their own. Also, I remember giving older dd flashcards with some of the words that I wanted her to say quickly: cat, Sam, sad, etc. Seeing them this way, out of the context of the book, seemed to help. It took a very short time (under a week?) before she caught on and would just say the easy words in her books.

I just put the whole file card box in the cabinet. It would be easy to pull out for review, but I've never done so.