Thanks, That would be great! :D I hope you can find this thread when you are ready :lol: I noticed it is hard to search threads on this forum and I have lost threads that I wanted to post on:tongue_smilie:

Has anyone done a lesson plan for the book "Parables of Nature"? http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=gatty&book=parables&story=_contents I just do not know how to use this book the Charlotte mason way for my 9 yr old. :confused:

Thank you! I bought Brave Writer, too and read for the lower grades writing but haven't implemented it, yet. It's missing what you are describing what this writing curriculum does. I LOVE your lesson plans and I think I will use YOUR book to spark the writing.:D

So, true. I was the same. This makes so much sense to me now. And your link to Lively Language Lessons was a God send! Thank you. Now I think I got the BIG picture of HOW to teach to my visual kid. :)

Alte Veste Academy - can you elaborate on this? Did you do this as a lesson or just discussed this on day one before explaining parts of speech? (sorry to hijack but this is sooooo recommended in Upside Down Brillance book.)

:thumbup: Yep, you belong here. I just had this happen with my 9 yrs old, in the past year. So, I am still learning around here.:tongue_smilie:

Could you elaborate more of WHAT kind of independent assignments you give? Does it include only memorization of different poems and such?

Great list! I wanted to push Swallows and Amazon Series. :D Author Ransome is a great author and his books are great. Have fun choosing your books :D

Thanks for link. This was very enlightening for me :bigear:

The Baldwin Project.........http://www.mainlesson.com/ Check out some of the titles there.

Hi, Didn't I see these stories online for free?:confused:

Hi, This is an awesome thread and a very important thread in the Accerlerated learner Board. :) Is there anyway we can request that this be a sticky and kept at the top of this forum for newbies learning about accelerated children?

Hi, I was wondering if anybody used this from Singapore. http://www.singaporemath.com/Visible_Thinking_in_Mathematics_s/214.htm I wondered how to use it, in place of the textbook and then use IP or some other way? Thanks for any input.

Oy, so I am not the only one! :lol:

We live in Carroll County!

Yeah, I am still learning. I did buy different used math curricula to see what works best and which ones he likes. I have Grade 4 planned with things I think he will like and is challenging. But, I am thinking of having him give his input more for Grade 5. I don't know......just taking it one day at a time :tongue_smilie:

We did test him, that's what brain gym is all about. That's why he is so integrated. There isn't anything that gets past him. It's actually perfectly normal to start to read at 8 yrs old. Trust me, my son does NOT have any learning diabilities. And I am not in denial or anything. He has shown again and again that he is just exceptional child. He is always way ahead of me when I want to teach something to him. I just can't keep up with him. That is what is overwhelming me. :)

Thanks for the tip. We did ENKI which has alot of sensory-integrated BRAIn exercises and the creator of the curriculum, a teacher and I were concerned at first, but soon realized that it was just him. He likes to do things in baby steps and take his time. We do alot of Brain Gym stuff, which are actually exercises for working the left and and right hemispheres of the brain. Also, the book "Smart Moves" also has brain exercies and a good reaad about that. He scooted istead of crawled so we had to do alot of cross-crawl type things for years, since he was 4 yrs old. Which is why I am stunned NOW that he is intellegent. We were concentrating on the brain exercies so much and as soon as reading kick in, everything seemed to fall into place. Thank you! I will definitely check out those books and look into other math programs. I am seeing this, too, where I use more than one thing for math stuff. Thank you, thank you!

Thank you all for some inspirating posts! :) When I am reading the book "Upside down brillance" I have actually started geting anxiety attacks and then I come down and say to myself that I am homeschooling my child because I want to follow his lead and follow his development whereever it is. This makes me laugh because this is what happened with his music ability. I was doing waldorf -inspired stuff and try to teach him the Recorder but he soon was correcting me in my music abilities that I finally asked him this what he wanted to learn. He said piano so we are doing Suzuki piano and he has outdone me in that area :lol: He is figuring out the patterns as he learns to play with both hands on the piano. This just amazes me. Thank you all again!

Hi Mandy, Can you tell me more about>>>>>> Composition- Spectrum Writing (although now I am looking at Rockets, Radar, and Robotics :glare:) Just the title Rockets, radar, and Robotics for Composition might make my son want to write more :lol:

Hi, I just realized in the last couple of months that I have an accelerated learner. Over the years, we noticed he was somewhat "different" : he gravitated to adults (altho now he loves being with kids, too), he was artistically talented, musically tanleted, etc, all showed itself in the last year. He didn't start reading until last year and he just turned 9 yrs old last week! Ever since he started reading his intellegennce has skyrocketed. So, I have been reading on this forum in the last couple of weeks and found a great book that was listed to readh here: "Upside-down Brillance" about the visual spatial learner. This fits ds to a T. The list for giftedness on page 51 of the book, fits ALL but One characteristics. He is very respectful of adults but can very politely tell him they said something that was misinformation, especially of things he likes: rocktets, space and now robots. My ds has read everything about space and space travel and has started thinking about space travel and time travel. He starts talking about space travel like Eistein did when he was a teenager. I read Eistein earlier this year because I wanted to know what made him tick and whether my son had this, too. I wasn't thinking "giftedness", yet, at that point. So, the other day he rambles about space and time travel and ends up in the same conclusion as Eistein in that we are all moving at the same time where ever we are. I know this all sounds familiar to some of you with your children but I am freaking out because I am realizing he has a different learning style and even though I loved math in school and got minor in college in Math and have a B.S. in Geology, teaching a child math is a whole different ballgame. Plus, I haven't seen this new math since I haven't been in school since 1989. Yikes! Can I really do this? And HOW do I teach him math? We are doing Grade 3 now and I have MUS beta, gamma, Miquon, MM Blue Series 1-3 and I am all confused on how to teach this basic :tongue_smilie: It sounds silly but I am really intimidated that he is so smart. Any words of encouragement is appreciated. I am going to check out the 2012-2013 thread now :)

So far, AAS has worked for us, too. I like the open and go lessons and the quick lessons each day. We are on Lesson 4 and used it the first time in the last week and he has found his Aha moments for spelling. He is starting to really pay attention to words while in the past he would glance at a word and make up a word with the first letter only!

I was JUST going to post this question, too!:lol: Here is the link: http://www.nsta.org/publications/press/mysteries.aspx

Boy, this site is dangerous :lol: I just checked out their maps both World and US and I LOVE IT!! I MUST HAVE IT:) I got the Book of centuries, used and unmarked, then I bought the timeline figures for Ancients at a homeschool convention over the weekend. Heck, I should just buy everything for history on this site :lol:

Thanks. Just reserve the book at the library. I have been reading out loud to my son since he was born :) I am interested to see what kind of benefits there are.