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  1. Is the book a workbook or a teacher copy? I can't find it locally and I'm pricing out the program for my 3 daughters.... Do I order 3x of the book or just one and they do the work in their own notebooks? Thanks!
  2. We really like Miquon as a break from the teaching-intensive RightStart. We usually do a level and then add in some Miquon for a break.
  3. Can anyone help us with a fraction problem? The instructions are to make the equation even and the problem is: 1/2 x _ = even (Miquon blue book, sheet B-16.... We're moving & I've already packed the lab sheet annotations) Is 1/2 even or odd? I can talk myself into both possibilities & a quick google search only muddied the waters. Thanks! Kelli
  4. I think if you run the problem using the back side of the abacus, it might become clearer how the trading is done mentally. After however many hours using the abacus by this point in B, my kids' mental math is like an internal abacus. So if we're stuggli with coming to an answer, we'll often close our eyes and imagine what it would look like on the abacus.
  5. Good to know, thank you both!
  6. We followed year one as planned out by Ambleside Online. It was a lovely and fun year.... so we've stayed with it for year two! We loved the book selections and didn't skip any, including the supplemental readings.
  7. Do I need the teacher's manual for Minimus Latin? I took Latin for years & years growing up so I don't need much hand holding but I want the instructions to make sense. Should I spend the $70 on it or can I get away without it? Thanks!
  8. If you find room in your budget, I'd say go with AAR or AAS. We abandoned OPGTR and ETC and have never been happier. I found ETC worked really well at the lower levels but after a book or two my girls couldn't stand another page of it. I was the one who abandoned OPGTR as I found it boring :) Either way, I hope you and your little one have a relaxing summer & that you can come back around at it with fresh enthusiasm!
  9. If I remember correctly from the "Your X Year Old" series, lying is a common thing at this developmental stage. I think their advice was to avoid situations where your child needs to lie. Of course if it is happening all the time, that would be different, but if it's just this one weekend, I'd probably ask if he'd like more sweets and then figure out how to make that happen within the context of our family values. His behavior seems more developmentally-driven than a sign of a character flaw.
  10. we haven't used a monthly service, but every few months I order a bunch of activity books from Dover Publishers. They have mazes, stencils, paper dolls, sticker books, and coloring books that my kids love. I get sticker this for my youngest and more involved ones for my older two. I usually buy along a few themes and then break them out when I need to keep people busy. They're pretty inexpensive ($1.50-$4), so a $20 or $30 investment goes a long way.
  11. I'm reading Edmund Sprunger' Helping Parents Practice, which is a Suzuki music book, but I've found it really inspiring from a homeschooling perspective. It's been interesting to read about how practice makes playing easier and then to extrapolate to other subjects.
  12. In addition to dinosaurs and fossils, we read through lots of In The Beginning: Creation Stories from Around the World and Kipling's Just So Stories. Both were a wonderful introduction to longer and more complex stories.
  13. something a bit longer would be good... seema Mine all memorized The Owl and the Pussycat. It's longer, sweet, and funny when you act it out.
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