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You can see samples of the new grade 1 and Core D LA here and here.
I think the LA1 looks like it'd be fine for my middle son. I think it would have been a bit too much writing right away for DS1 when he was in first grade. Week 1 copywork:
- The fat rat is Pat. Is Pat fat?
- That fat cat is Nat. Pat the rat is on a mat.
Then there is creative writing focus:
Today, your children will dictate a short story about Pat
the Rat.
Then week 2 copywork ramps up:
- Pat is flat, Pat is sad, and Pat is mad! Nat is a bad cat!
- Ann had a ham, jam and a yam. Is the ham that Ann has bad?
Then week 3 copywork ramps up more:
- Matt said, “Sam the ram can pass Val the nag.†Jan said, “He can not! Val the nag can pass Sam the ram!â€
- Sam the ram, Val the nag, and Hal the cab ran. Val and Hal lap Sam.
Compare to WWE1's first day of copywork: Pa owned a pig. :lol:
I know my oldest couldn't have done that much copywork in one day in first grade. WWE1 copywork was much more developmentally appropriate for him.
My middle son doesn't have "my hand hurts" syndrome, so he might be able to handle it. I probably won't buy a reader package until he's ready for grade 2 readers though.
Not too mention that "Pa owned a pig." is infinitely more interesting to copy than a bunch of nonsense using short a sound cvc words! Love WWE.
- The fat rat is Pat. Is Pat fat?
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Thanks for sorting that out for me! You know I had never considered the MFW K5. I need to look at it at the convention. The description is adorable, and I'm wondering if it might be nice for ds this fall. He'll be newly 4. I wouldn't expect him to read anything. The activities just sound really fun and nicely organized. Sometimes knowing what you're doing next is the key to getting it done, hehe. On the reading, it would just be speech practice for us.
Thanks!
I'm using it with my 2.5 year old and he loves it. I started it thinking it would be a fun Letter of the week curriculum with a bit more depth and scripture included and had no intention of him learning to read, but he has a bit (we're on week 10). You might be surprised at what your 4 year old will pick up from it.
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Audio Memory has a States and Capitals cd that we are using. The songs sing the name of the capital before the state, ie. Dover, Deleware. They are divided by regions (Eastern, Northern, Southern, borders and Middle). Then there are also songs teaching the geographical order of the states, going along the borders and in the middle again.
We also do flashcards once in a while, but I agree that learning through a song is much less stressful and more engaging. Not that these are the most exciting songs in the world, but they work :001_smile:.
I bought this CD and my DD3.5 at the time memorized it all in a week. I love how it categorized the states by region so it was easier to think about when trying to remember afterward while looking at a map. Now, a year later, she can still retain about 80 percent of them (that's without us working on it very often). I recommend the CD. It helps. There is also a "test" track after each song in which there is music, but no words, so that you can see if it has been memorized.
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Just put it on hold, but we'll get it quickly b/c no one has it checked out:) Thanks! I love book recommendations:)
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We did Montessori math with DD for a year and a half and then moved on to Miquon and Singapore as well. I do think though if I had gone to RS would have been a better transition for my DD coming from the Montessori, and then transitioning to SM.
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But I have to say unless your 4.5 y.o. has amazing fine motor skills, she will probably need a lot of help with the circuits. Also, I think some kids have a "knack" for these and others don't. My current 5 y.o. isn't interested at all and never plays with them. OTOH, my older loved them at 5, so it really depends on the kid.
Her fine motor skills are great, definitely beyond her years. As for knack for electric circuits, I don't know if she will love it...that remains to be determined:)
Thanks everyone for the input. We're going to start with the 300. That way, if the kids don't "love" it, we'll be out less money. We can just upgrade later if it is a hit.
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DD is 4.5 . Do you recommend the regular snap circuits or the jr.? What's the main difference between the two? Which will have a longer "life"? (I just got her the miniluk starter kit and she did the entire book in one sitting and has no interest in repeating it, though she loved going through it.).
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My DD uses it as her independent work. It is often her "warm-up" or her "work on this while I work with your brother" math. It's also the math we take on vacation. (We hardly ever take a break from math.) We also use SM and RS and for those I have to be more involved, teaching and guiding first before she goes into the SM workbook, although the actual teaching time never seems to be long. Miquon is my DD's favorite part of the day. I am glad I have the books and not the PDF though. The colored aspect and the type of paper of the workbooks have a certain appeal to them.
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I am going through the same thing with my DD4.5. Up to three months ago she loved her extracurricular art/history/music program, but now cries every time I leave her there. Her brother (2.5) used to be the one to cry when I left him but now he is fine. I've been told that some kids will fluctuate with separation anxiety. My DD does stop once distracted though. It's just the initial separation that upsets her; she is fine afterward. If she weren't, I probably would pull her out.
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I read it this morning. Great post.
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It's been really helpful for me to read everyone's thoughts and opinions on RS. DD started with Earlybird and will be finishing up 1B early this summer. We've supplemented with Miquon and MM as they all had a similar approach. In an effort to slow her down a bit and help her build a strong foundation, I've decided to start RS B when we finish up 1B. We already had most of the manipulatives so it was just a matter of me buying the TM. I figured it would give her yet another way to approach some of the more basic concepts. I'm really curious to see if it will be a good fit for us (even if it is short term).
That's the exact reason we purchased it. DD enjoys the lessons, but even more the games.
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You can get pretty much anything you want from Amazon, even some curriculum. It really just depends what you want. We recently bought a few logic games and some manipulatives for the light table.
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I use the library as much as I can. We usually have over 50 books at a given time out and overdue fines never have been a problem. I do get a few 15 cent fines, but I am pretty much on top of it. I wish we had the luxury to buy all the books we would like to own but we are mostly lacking in space! Where does everyone keep all those books? How do you keep track of them?
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Pre-kids I taught at a private school that used them and I loved them. They use real literature. The stories were all good and held the interest of the third grade students. Lots of classics. In fact, I discovered some classics I didn't know - like Roxaboxen for one - from Open Court Readers. They are themed based, grouping fiction, non fiction and poetry pieces around a theme (like friendship, nature, etc). The teacher's guide has questions throughout, vocabulary, and other stuff - it's been too long so I don't remember more. I didn't care for the Language Arts aspect of it (a separate workbook) because it didn't fit my teaching style and was a bit more busy-workish. The readers, though, were good.
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For those of you that use a stylus, do you also have a cover on it? We have a Trident Kraken on ours. It does a great job protecting the iPad, but I'm wondering if it would cause problems with a stylus.
We have that case too and love it.
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My hesitancy with an ipad is the whole games/apps issue. I wouldn't want to use it for those because I feel like they are time-wasters even if they are educational. i have 3 children who would LOOOOVVVEE to use an ipad all.the.time. I just don't want to fight them on another media product when I'd rather see them reading a book. Any suggestions on that one?
Beth
I was in your camp initially. But, I was quickly converted. They aren't all time wasters, really. Just as an example, my DD4 uses the Montessori Stamp game app to check her math problems in SM1b. She's already doing addition with regrouping and it has been much faster for her to move the stamp game tiles with a swipe of a finger than taking each one out of the box onto the table. My DS2.5 uses some counting apps and phonics apps when I am busy teaching DD4 and he calls that his "school work". They still spend Hours reading (or looking at books) and being read to.
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My DD (4.5) would much rather multiply than add:) She finds it easier! She flew through that section in SM1b. Enjoy!
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We did Montessori at home for preschool but, like OP, moved into more of a Classical Approach as she moved beyond the scope and sequence of the 3-6 years. She loves FLL1. We still use the grammar symbols, which I made out of craft foam, (you can see them in this blog post) to place over the words in phrases I have typed up (from FLL1). We used the grammar farm first though and moved into FLL and probably could have gone straight into FLL 2, but I wanted to make sure we hadn't missed anything so we are just about done with 1, done at lightning speed, slowing down at new things. We love that it can be done snuggled up on the couch, or outside while my daughter is on the swings (you largely just read the lesson and the child repeats definitions, although there is copywork (that we hardly ever do because we do copywork from other areas)).
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Funny you should ask - I just ordered the print version, after having tried both the pdf and the kindle e-book. This is a curriculum that you, the instructor, will be consulting a lot, and you will be flipping around in it a lot, and you will be going back and forth among threads and between the TOC and the various threads all the time - after trying to make this work both on the laptop and with the kindle, I gave up. I am really, really eager to get my print book. I love this curriculum, but it does take prep time on my part, and anything that makes it easier to implement is critical. And unless you really, really know all 4 areas of science - cold - you will be needing to refer to the manual frequently as questions come up during the activities & demos. I can't lose the thread of a great question or discussion by having to flip around in the kindle or on the laptop for the answer. I will be watching the mailbox all week . . .
:iagree:I just, just ordered the print copy an hour ago. I was spending too much time trying to make notes from the PDF and my husband told me to just buy the print book.
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We supplement SM with both the games from Rightstart and Miquon, mostly because my daughter likes things to stay fresh and new and does not like doing the same kind of thing over and over (even when it's good for her). She loves Miquon because the workbook has room for her to make up her own questions (as part of the worksheet). There is also a lot of practice of the basic facts, but in a way that is playful.
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I didn't know there was a puzzle. We have that book and enjoy the beautiful photographs. There are "flashcards" available as well, which would have worked better for us, but I didn't know about them.
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You can always just read one picture book or so that goes with the history sentence of the week so they have some background. You can fit that in at bedtime even.
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I never explicitly taught letter names to my children, just sounds; yet, over time, they learned the names anyway. Mostly from learning toys and videos like those of Leapfrog.
Writing With Ease: What level is your student using, and at which age/grade?
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We'll be starting WWE1 soon. My DD is 4.5 but loves copywork and narrations and keeps asking me when she can start copying the selections from Little House on the Prairie from the WWE 1 workbook:) Hence, I may not wait until the fall to give it to her. She would be K at PS in August, but since she's homeschooled, we don't worry about grade levels and just let her do work at her level.