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a line is a line! Congratulations! :D
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I didn't read all the replies, but I recently got an iPhone after becoming increasingly irritated with my Android. It was buggy, grouchy, and had a HORRID battery life. I much prefer my iPhone.
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I checked both out of the library, and read both cover to cover. The major differences that I saw were:
Phonics Pathways is not scripted. OPG is.
OPG has built in instructions for review. PP does not.
OPG starts slower and has more time with individual consonant sounds.
PP has more practice with blending 2 and 3 letter short vowel syllables.
PP has some games included and suggestions for making reading lessons more active/kinestetic. OPG has none of that.
PP starts blends with consonants first, like ba, be, bi, no, bu. OPG starts with vowels first like ab, eb, ib, ob, ub.
I was comfortable without scripting and liked the games, so I bought PP. I am reviewing as suggested in OPG because I thought it was brilliant. I really dislike the consonant first blending in PP. But that's the only negative for me.
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We are wrapping up our row of Ping. It's been so fun! My kids already knew and loved the story, so it's been fun to read it with a new set of eyes. My favorite go-along books have been a couple of little non-fiction books from the library on Ducks and China, plus the storybook Daisy Comes Home. Daisy has so much overlap with Ping that I thought it was uncanny the first time we randomly pulled it off the library shelf and brought it home. Then I read the jacket and the author said her favorite childhood book was Ping. It's has similar themes on purpose!! Plus, it's just a darn cute book. I think we need to own it. :tongue_smilie:
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I second the suggestion to start with the books. I am using FIAR with three kids who are on the young end for vol. 1-3 and I chose a list of titles that seemed well suited to that. I plan to use FIAR for at least a couple of years, so I plan to "row" some of the more mature titles that I skipped this year in the future. I did buy all 3 volumes so that I could pick and choose. You may find that you want more than one volume.
On getting approved for the FIAR forum, since I had a hard time with that, too... They require your real name in some form. No "handles". So if you were trying to use the same name you have here, they wouldn't approve that. :glare: Hope that helps!
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We are using Five in a Row, plus the 3Rs for kinder, and having a ball! Do a forum search for FIAR or Five in a Row, and you'll see lots of discussion. There have been several recent threads.
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My son got this for his 3rd bday and adores it. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0037UT3E4
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Maybe? We are still out of power from the hurricane, so all of our routines are in turmoil. If we get power, then DH will probably want to go into the office since he missed all of last week. I'd do at least a light day of school in that case. If we have no power and DH stays home, we'll probably escape to the Y and swim.
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I bought the program after my kids knew most of their letter names and basic sounds from Letter Factory. We went straight through the UC letter section as written, but I've been doing the LC and letter sound sections together. I wanted to accelerate our pace since some of mine are ready for explicit phonics and reading, so now we do the Lizard Lou section, the Ziggy games for both the uppercase and sound, and the sound worksheet in a day. We make the coloring sheet from the LC section optional. My daughter always does it. My boys, rarely.
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I had them laminated at Office Depot and hung them Command picture hanging strips. I love them! They're so nice and calm compared to most ABC posters.
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I asked a similar question not long ago. I followed the advice, and am feeling very prepared for and excited about starting Miquon!
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We adore it! We are almost finished, and IMO the activity book pages get better as you go. The phonemic awareness games are really the meat of the program, though. They have been really helpful to all of mine. I don't think I'll have much to sell when we finish. My kids have informed me that we are KEEPING the puppet, the Zigzag Zebra book, and the posters. :D
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We are using the ETC primers with young 4yos. One of mine (the boy) is not ready to do all of the writing. I have him finger trace the letters instead of tracing them with a pencil/crayon. On all the pages where he's supposed to circle something or X the one that doesn't belong, etc, I let him mark the answer with a do-a-dot marker (bingo dotter). He LOVES that. The material is right within his ability level, and those simple changes make it easy for him to zip through. He loves it!
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We're in the NOLA 'burbs. I'd be fairly confident that no conference will be held here on Wednesday/Thursday if the current track holds. :tongue_smilie:
We're waiting and seeing, but are probably going to take the opportunity to go visit grandparents further inland.
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My twins could have done it orally at 3.5, but it's still too much writing for them (at 4). I do a lot of it with them, or cross out the parts that are handwriting practice and have them do the parts that are phonics practice.
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The dry erase will come off, but depending on how long it sat there in the first place, the brand of marker and laminator, the mood of the laminating spirits, it won't just wipe away and you'll have to scrub it off.
The Vis-a-vis pens will just wash off with a wet wipe unless the ink has been sitting for days and days, in which case I've had to scrub a tiny bit a couple of times or have seen a slight impression of the color.
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This has been my experience, too. I usually have the kids use a dry erase marker, but I tend to reach for vis-a-vis for myself.
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I wish I would have felt more comfortable waiting and using it for 3rd-6th grades (or let those first couple years drag on longer). I really feel like the steps in difficulty that SOTW 3 and especially 4 take would have been great for my kids a couple years later. We did pretty good on 1-3 (with one boy in 1st -3rd, and the other in K-2nd), but 4 did not work out for us. We didn't do much history that year, though I tried to hit the american History chapters. I am not requiring any history for my current 1st grader.
This is very encouraging, since it's my plan! Nice to read validation of my long-range goals. :D I'm planning to do FIAR for K&1, a year of US history for 2nd, and then start a 4 year cycle in 3rd.
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I saw this on several of the blogs in my reader this morning. What parts of it are "can't miss"? I haven't heard of most of them. And while that many ebooks for $25 certainly looks awesome, I don't know enough about what's being offered to get excited. Sell me!
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I no longer have the outside identifying packaging for my Sam's ones, but they're the box that is ~200 for ~$20. They are thinner than the Scotch ones, but for the vast majority of school stuff for my kids, that is absolutely fine.
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I'm calling this our official start, but really, it won't be any different, as we've been schooling light all summer. We are adding one more thing today, so I picked today to be the beginning, picture day, etc. I'm excited!
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let her do the ETC primers! My just-turned-4yos LOVE them! After that maybe start phonics and the regular ETC books. I bet she'll be ready!
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i am partial to the animated version because it is from my own childhood. both movies are great though. i say rent them both.
:iagree: I voted for the older one, but they're both wonderful! One of my all-time favorite books.
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My kids are currently doing both AAR pre-level 1 and ETC A. Mine don't seem bothered or confused in the least about talking about one letter in AAR and another in their ETC book. We didn't start ETC until we had gotten through the first 1/3 of AAR and were working on lower case letters, though, so we didn't have the overlap of working with both upper and lowercase letters simultaneously. I do have both AAR letter posters hanging, though, so that we can compare the upper and lowercase versions at any point. That seems to help. They're all learning a lot, really fast! I think ETC has been really good for reinforcing letter sounds and helping us toward reading readiness. We're almost finished with A, and will be doing B and C for sure.
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We are using Phonics Pathways and Explode the Code.
Show me your timelines (on the wall, in a book, any timeline!)
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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I don't have one at home yet but when I taught at a classical private school, I had one in my classroom. I plan to do roughly the same thing when we start a chronological history study in a few years. I cut a pretty color of poster board (it took several) into ~6" wide strips and stapled them up around the wall sort of like a wallpaper border, but lower down so it was easier to see. I printed numbers for the dates (every few hundred years? can't recall--it's been a decade!) and put those up, evenly spaced. Then every week when we had a new topic in history, or whenever we encountered something else we wanted on a timeline (composer or artist we were studying, etc), I handed a kid a 3x5 blank notecard and they drew a picture illustrating the topic. I would write in sharpie the name and date under their illustration and tape it up on the timeline. By year's end, it looked awesome! Totally personal, customized, and representative of what all we had studied!