Yes he should be able to do Right Start B after doing Signapore Essentials.

I am relieved to hear your update. I was worried when you did not post for a few days.

Red wagon tutorials said some really messed up things about people with different political beliefs and said they would refuse to teach children whose parents were of a different belief systems. They delete comments where people talked about it. Regardless of ones beliefs I would not use a discriminating business even if it was the other way around.

Being out of work for more months has a cost too. I would not expect money for relocation if my dh was out of work. If the cost of living for the new area is reasonable the 10% cut s no big deal especially with a high salary already.

When ds was 5 I took him for an exam with a COVD because his fine motor was delayed. They said he was fine but he had some retained reflexes which I was surprised by but I crossed that off the list. He has been asking for an eye exam and was going with me for my monthly appointment with dd. The vision therapist tested him in a few areas the other day as an initial part of an exam before the doctor sees him and he tested low in 6 out of 7 areas they tested.

My dd does those type of things in school with her OT. I think midline crossing stuff or even bal a vis is fine for school.

I saw that placement test and I did not think ds was ready because he did not know the strategies it was calling for but he does have a good grasp on place value and is very good at multi digit adding and subtracting. He does it all in his head. I am not sure if he would like it or find it frustrating.

I agree that it sounds like she cannot just be left with a curriculum. I have one that is having a hard time in math. It has not worked to have her work independently so I know I need to work one on one in math at least to work in concepts and practice before she does. It sounds like she could maybe benefit from Ronit Bird.

This looks cool but the lowest level is pre algebra and she is working through a 4th grade curriculum and struggling. I would like something like that for lower levels.

My 6 year old really likes doing dot to dots. I like her to do mazes too but she still needs supervision for them because she rushes and will color out of the line if I am not with her and it is a vision therapy activity we do. If they were good at drawing maybe draw write now or drawing along with YouTube videos. My 6 year old cannot do that yet but she is weak in fine motor. Dover has some cool coloring books and there is this Peterson field guide coloring book where you take a sticker of the bird and color it from the sticker.

She is in my thoughts. I am dirty she us going through that. I hope reason will prevail.

I have been thinking about you.

I am considering MiF for my oldest but she will have to be placed behind grade level. I am hoping to at least catch up a little and if not at least have her able to do Algebra in 9th.

You have a much higher budget then us even unemployed so it hard for me to advise. I guess it would depend on how quickly you think your dh could get a job and how amazing these lessons were. That is a lot of money for 4 lessons. Do these four lessons get kids swimming? None of the lessons my kids had would be catastrophic for my kids to lose out in four lessons but maybe these are especially good. I did post a really good YouTube video series that worked for me when lots of lessons did not for one of my kids.

Signapore does not teach left to right when there is borrowing but I teach it that way. I feel they can handle problems in their head better and it helps with seeing the place value. It is easier to me now.

Yea I know. I found the one where it is learn to swim in 3 steps first with bubbling, floating then swimming and just used that one and it worked. Then I discovered all the other videos looking for other learning to swim videos. He seems to have one for each of the strokes and the front crawl one I watched so far was good. I am consider getting his package but there seems to be plenty of info in just the YouTube videos so I am going to just go off of the videos for now in the order of strokes mentioned on the website. Then he has other videos with kids swimming. I think those will be good to show my kids so they see actual kids who were not swimming swimming with his instruction. I am really excited to have found these and to have success when I tried lessons and other things that did not work.

I say creek but I do know people who say crick.

I really like the swim to fly video series in YouTube. They sell a download pack to but the video online seems to give a lot of instruction too. It was hard to find the time and budget for swim lessons and they were not working. In one day I finally got my oldest swimming by watching a video. I think it will take longer for my other two because they are more nervous. I myself never really learned anything besides swimming underwater and treading water with the doggy paddle and I think these will help me. Has anyone else taught kids to swim by using YouTube videos?

Another victory! Just found her on top of a swinging rope ladder we have that she never attempted before.

When I first heard it I definitely thought it was woo. They vision therapy place said ds had them and gave me these shaking exercises to do but I was really skeptical about how exercises like that could help and just did not take the time. I heard it described here sometimes and started thinking of giving it a better effort with my youngest who has motor coordination delays. It is taking her a long time to move on from some of the exercises but I am noticing slow progress. The teacher said that she is doing much better copying from the board and with handwriting. She seems to have more stamina. This weekend we were taking a walk through a snowy place with hills and uneven ground and she usually would be lagging way behind wanting to hold my hand because it was hard to walk and this time she was right there with all the other kids keeping up. So when it seems she still seems more uncoordinated then the others her age in martial arts there are improvements in coordination. I would be interested to see if her Beery results have improved. I know this is just anecdote of course. I believe it can help for the coordination and handwriting type stuff but not allergies or immune system stuff.

I do not use paper plates regularly. I did not use disposable diapers except for certain occasions like camping. I keep paper towels around but mostly for stuff I really do not want to use cloth to clean up. We mostly use cloth. I did use disposable wipes. I try to limit disposable products as much as I can but I do use them on occasion.

It does introduce those concepts earlier then typical 3rd grade curriculum.

There definitely is a difference in approaches. A conceptual program really teaches the why of what is happening and has a bigger emphasis on really understanding what is happening when you are doing a problem so you can visualize it by either being strong on mental math tricks, place value, subitizing and visualizing a problem by seeing what the numbers are doing. It might show things concretely first with manipulatives especially in ways that are not just counting them up. A procedural math teaches algorithms for solving problems and spends less time on the why and they have more memorizing with facts.They both teach concepts but with emphasis on different aspects when teaching. Things like Signapore, Miquon, Beast Academy MEP, Right Start would be more conceptual while Rod and Staff, Saxon are more procedural.

I did not look at the early years but looked over year 2-4 and used parts if it. I really like the multiple ways they teach to solve the problems, how lessons do teach place value well and how they do teach for conceptual understanding. It is a spiral conceptual program and I do feel the spiral was not too tight. I also like how there is not a lot of worksheet work for each lesson. I do feel it can use more concrete work with manipulatives at those levels and since a lot of the lesson was in the lesson plan part not the worksheet it is hard to move faster through if that was needed. The lessons were on the long side. It is written for a whole class which was not too hard to adapt except there were times where I wondered if they should work all the examples or not. I am thinking of using year 2 for my youngest next year because I feel a spiral similar to that with no more then one worksheet would work well for her but I will use rods and hundreds flats to show concepts first.

Oh my goodness. I am so sorry. I really hope you are able to find lyme treatment and it works. You have nothing to lose by trying it.