:iagree: My daughter likes to pick out several books before she gets in bed. Sometimes she will read to her little sister. (The sad part is, sometimes she only wants to read something once or twice, then she is done with it. Thank God the library is only 3 minutes away!)

She was 3-1/2, though, when I picked out the first Dick and Jane book at the library and brought it home to "practice" with her. Before I had a chance, she started reading it out loud and only needed help with 4 words! She's now 5 (Feb. birthday) and about halfway through 1st-grade McRuffy Phonics and Reading. However, we ditched the formal reading questions long ago because she gets frustrated when I ask her the comprehension questions. It is just not challenging enough for her. So, we just use the stories for a read-aloud and call that portion done. She likes to read lots and lots of nonfictions books. She particularly likes space books and any animal or dinosaur books she can get her hands on. Next year I'm just going to concentrate on having her read and narrate books for history and science and keep getting her tons of books from the library. I have had a really hard time challenging my daughter. I'm so afraid of pushing her that I think some of my choices have held her back a little. I try to just follow her lead as far as level goes so that she remains happy and still has a thirst for knowledge. That is what I would recommend for your daughter, too. Let her keep reading and reading if she wants to. Get her lots and lots of books and let her tell you all about them when she's done. As far as a formal reading program goes, that's up to you. But for us, we're just going to keep reading and testing for comprehension on our own. Good luck!

And use the money to buy homeschool stuff for next year!

I have this for sale for $20!!! :D However, it's not a workbook, and you would have to purchase manipulatives to use for almost all of the lessons. I think it uses teddy bear counters, pattern blocks, geoboard/geobands, and linking cubes. There are masters in the back that are nice, though.

:iagree: I know a lot of kinesthetic learners listen and learn better this way. I have read about that in more than a couple different resources.

Try drugs.com or rxlist.com. I'm not sure if they have exactly what you're looking for, but they are reliable. I am a medical transcriptionist, and those are the sites that I use to confirm drug spellings, what the drugs are for, dosages, etc.

I originally started out that way, but it went out the window after the 1st chapter. Now I just explain what they don't know as we are reading.

I love your descriptions!

Here's the link for R.E.A.L. Science. This is the one we're using next year. http://www.pandiapress.com/real_science.htm

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We're getting to that point. My 4-year-old is starting to show signs of the same thing, too. :glare:

:lol::lol::lol: I think I just responded to your post about this on a different thread. :D I think I will end up getting the WWE text just for that purpose. Thanks again! My daughter is a perfectionist, too! She gets so mad if she makes a mistake that she would rather give up.

I started another thread about WWE with my 5-year-old who struggles with SOTW narrations. I'm glad you posted this. I think I will probably end up getting it to help me help her. :D

I guess the main reason I'm thinking of WWE is because I think it might help with the narrations, too. We seem to struggle with those. Any good tips for doing those? We're slowly going through SOTW volume 1.

Oh, yeah, and that one we just took back. :D

What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs? by John Morris and Ken Ham Dinosaurs By Design by Duane T. Gish, Ph.D.

I'm hoping we will get started as soon as we finish our human body study. We're doing the 1st-year cycle again, because I just loosely covered animals and the human body, and now I want to include more info and experiments. I printed out the supply list a month ago, and I've been saving things that we will need.

I am going to do this when we start Biology in a month or so!

I do! I do! I like to drink root beer and Kool-Aid out of icy mugs, and I need a straw to get the slush off the side of the cup. It's easier to drink a slush from a straw anyway. :D

However, we are going to do life science again since it will cover more than I did on my own this year.

I always feel like I'm pushing my gifted 5-year-old, but then she does something like tell me that the brontosaurus is really just the apatosaurus because the guy who found the brontosaurus skeleton didn't have a head, so he "borrowed" one from another site. Or she will learn place value in 5 minutes and then want to move on to adding 23 + 61. So then I realize that I'm not pushing her and that she really does enjoy learning. I'm also finding that a lot of our frustration during school is because she's bored, not because she doesn't get it. When I give her something more challenging, she eats it up and has a good day. If she were to be entering kindergarten this fall (as per her age) she would be so hard for a teacher to manage. She doesn't want to color and glue and learn numbers. She wants to learn something and then move on to bigger things. I guess all that is to say that I really think it is up to the parents, who know their kids the best, to determine when and how much learning should be going on. If your kids think you're too lax, you'll know it either via thier behavior or their boredom. If they are frustrated to tears by the end of a lesson, you're probably pushing them to hard. :D Try not to listen to the "experts" too much. There is always another side to the coin, and I think people are just too diverse to be put into a box like that. This is something that I have really struggled with in the past, but now I just take a deep breath and say, "Well, she's ready to move on to the next level." And then we move on. That's my 2 cents' worth. Hope it helps. :D

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Do you know when you plan to start a writing program? Or are you just playing it by ear?

We do struggle in this area a bit still, but we will continue working on it. We haven't done any narration for science, but we do some with SOTW. I'll definitely be researching ways to make this easier for her. She doesn't need me for this. She usually just asks me how to spell things, unless she is making me a "surprise" story. Then she just guesses at the spelling. Sometimes I will have her give me a story to write out for her, but usually she prefers to do this on her own. Unless I tell her to do it, of course. She's very headstrong. This is a great idea. I usually use the video function of my digital camera. If I stick to 40 seconds or less, it is usually small enough to email or put on my blog. I have had her read for me before, but I like the dictation idea, too. Thanks! She has made one wetland lapbook and she loved it. She's working on a desert one now. I think she almost has all of her mini books done for it. She really likes researching stuff. She even has the Children's Encyclopedia Britannica on the computer that she likes to use to look up animals. :D

I don't have advice, but I did want to say that I love, love, love that book! :D