[Biggest nutritional "bangs for your buck." What are yours?]

We're vegetarians and my high nutrition favs are

1- Chickpeas and black beans (or any other kind of dried beans)

2-avocado

3- Red, yellow and green bell peppers

4-yogurt (homemade, plain)

5-pomegranates (They're grown almost through the year in India)

6- Lentils

7- Pumpkin (we use it in a curry, not in a dessert)

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There are 3 zoology books and one botany book by Apologia that give amazing amounts of detail about all sorts of animals and plants, yet are written at a level of understanding that should be easy to your child. My 5 year old loooooves to read them by herself and she reads the same sort of books your daughter is reading. There are also a lot of really simple and fun experiments throughout those books. https://apologia.securesites.net/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1 The website has a sample of each book that you can look at to read some of what's in the book.

Are these the books? http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=apologia&x=0&y=0

 

I haven't seen them around here in India. Maybe I could order them online...thanks for the tip!

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Hi Ebunny...you mentioned that you are brand new to the website here.

 

A few things I'll mention that might help.

 

Different programs, books or materials are often abbreviated here. A poster on this thread said they use "MUS". You might be sitting there thinking, "What in the world is that?"

 

MUS stands for "Math You See"- it's website is here: http://www.mathusee.com/

 

So, a lot of shorthand is used here in reference to materials if you haven't see this before.

 

Also, within the website here, you'll see different areas such as K-8 curriculum listed.

 

You might want to browse a bit there, and if you'd like to narrow down the posts which apply to the area or subject you would like to explore, do use the search function at the top navigation bar.

 

The navigation bar may be dark blue in color for you, and the search button is the third from the far left.

 

Often folks will "tag" their posts or commentary to give it a searchable feature. You can search by thread title or by the use of the word in a post.

 

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Last night I was working with my daughter who slogs through math with difficulty, and we were using Khan Academy online.

 

Have you ever seen that? It is free, self-paced, but why I mention it is because there are hierarchy fields on the website that sort of show the connections of disciplines within math in sequential order..that may or may not give you some starting points of what to explore next mathematically with your family.

 

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With the reading issues and levels she's handling, I wouldn't worry too much right now about comprehension and nuance as much as the sheer exposure of different types of reading materials. There are so many wonderful "kinds" of books from elaborate pop up, visual, reference, fiction...

 

More is better there.

 

Sounds like a great kid, keep at it!

Hi!

Thanks for the welcome..

 

Yes, I did try the Khan academy because I'd heard really good things about it. Unfortunately, DD didn't take to it. (Probably because she couldn't follow the accent..)

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forgot to mention that even though my daughter gets bored with the repeating things as well I'm using the MUS to reinforce character concepts like focus, discipline, etc. She would rather do one or 2 harder challenge type problems and does them easily but then makes mistakes on the double digit multiplication because she's bored or doesn't want to do it. I officially view math as character training.:)

 

Thanks for the MUS suggestion. :-). I'm all for variety in math.

:iagree: Math builds character.

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Some background first. We're in India and I have a 6 yr old DD who is home schooled for the past 1-2 months. We had to pull her out of school because she was extremely unhappy. After a lot of digging and discussions, we figured out it was because she was ahead of grade level(1st) and she was not challenged enough.

 

I have no idea if she's gifted, but she is very high energy and it's exhausting keeping up with her. She wants to "do" things all.the.time.

 

Ok, I'm rambling now...getting to the point, just to give you a brief idea of what she's doing right now---academically:

 

1- She loves math. Specifically Algebra. I accidently taught her algebra when she was doing a math puzzle. And she's hooked. Right now, she is done with simple algebra such as 7y=21 what is y or 3+y=3 what is y or 5y-2=10..and the word problems with variables.

We have looked at fractions, improper fractions, equalizing fractions, long division and basic arithmetic. I'm using Singapore Math (Asian edition) 3a and MEP (yr 3). She is enthusiastic and calls math fun. But I don't know if she's "mathy", iykwim.

 

2- As far as reading goes, just to give an idea.. she's reading charlotte web, secret garden, bambi and some noddy books.

 

3- She is very interested in the plant and animal kingdom so we've done a few projects regarding those. (lifecycle of a butterfly, water cycle in nature, growing a plant from a seed and keeping a idea journal)

 

There have been days when we've not done anything academically. But I try to stick to some sort of routine at least 4 days a week.

 

My challenge is specifically with regards to her math education:

 

1- How do I design a sequence for her for math, since it's all over the place right now and I'm worried she has holes in her learning.

 

2- She zones out with repetition so she barely ventures to do long division and multi digit multiplication..She does understand the concept but she lacks the focus and concentration that she shows while doing pre-alg/algebra/geometry.

 

3- Is it a case of too much too soon? I have no experience as a teacher, so I go at her pace and when she shows interest...but I wonder if she's able to master the details at the speed at which we're moving.

 

I'm a little overwhelmed, and any insight/suggestions will be appreciated. TIA