how do you do this with 3 kids at three levels. They all require parent interaction. What do the kids while waiting for you to work with them?

what is pr?

http://www.diannecraft.org/ I am seriously thinking about it with one of my daughters. I have used her ideas in the past for a previous child and it worked...It was mostly the biochemical way I used not the lesson plans. She didn;t have those yet.

I think she needs something more scripted and more spiral review with learning math concepts. She doesn;t get the whole to part and part either. Looking at Right start B and thinking that might be a better fit than the McRuffy 2. What do people think?

my 1st grade daughter soon to be 2nd grader has no problem knowing her math facts. She has that done pat. Her teachers gives her daily speed drills and she passes them. But she is getting below standards comments on areas such as skip counting, money, time, and shapes. She has a very hard time with word problems and graphing. She doesn't understand place value and gets the two mixed up. Teacher thinks she doesn;t know her left and right. She doesnt seem to have the memory to get the concepts. What is going on with her? How can she ace the speed drills? critically thinking problems are her worst nightmare such as those like carl is the tall, meg is taller than carl, john is the tallest. what curriculum for her?????? Her school was mostly paper and pencil, workbook type. So I feel we are workbooked out.

1. Do you live in a high regulation state where you'll have to report to them, test, or be monitored in any way? I live in California 2. Will the Charter school provide you materials? funds provided to buy non religious materials and services 3. Will there ever be a chance that these girls will go back to a public or private school situation? I have no idea what the future holds for my stepdaughters. I would like to homeschool them for as long as I possibly can. 4. How long each day will you have them? Will you need to give them homework? Will Homework get done if you give it to them? My stepdaughters have full residency with us. They are with me all the time except for one night every two weeks. So no homework will be assigned. My husband is at work all day and I have been the main caregiver for the last 3-4 years. I know the kids birthdays, their eye colors, their kaiser numbers, the last time they needed antibiotics, I am the only one who knows their asthma care plan and what they are allergic to. They call me mom.l 5. Do any of them have Learning Disabilities, or just strengths/weaknesses? I believe two of them have possible LD. 6. Are you going to be responsible for their extra curriculuar activities/social life, or will they only be with you for school? In other words, are you going to turn into their "school at home?" Or are you also going to be their baby sitter beyond normal school hours? Along those lines, what are you going to be required to teach them? In our house, art, music and PE are classes outside the home. I am doing everything. If we can afford the others they we can get it, or the funds from charter school can cover it. Have you discussed that with your Ex and his ex-wife? Not my ex-homeschooling my older bio kids is out of the question. We got an email stating an ok from the ex wife. On a personal level: 1. I would really look at your state information and make sure you CAN LEGALLY homeschool these girls. I believe I can. 2. I would draw up a contract of sorts saying what's expected of you and what's expected of the two actual parents of the girls. 3. THEN, and only then, I would agree to the first semester as a probationary period. Do you think an email from her is ok? She did say she wanted to increase visitations to two nights in a row but she can't even handle one night. She has had to cancel several times. Not shown up at the meeting spot. Cancelled, made excuses for one reason or another. Not contacted pediatrician regarding the girls severe asthma situation, doesn;t give them medications, have them around smokers even though they have severe asthma leaving them being hospitalized or ambulance rides to er. This is all very sticky to me. You wouldn't even be legally able to do this in my state unless you were somehow recognized as a tutoring service and were accepting payment for those services. With the way you talk about your Ex, I'm finding it hard to understand why he'd want you to homeschool his kids. It's all very odd to me. Blessings, Dorinda ETA - OH, now I understand, these are your current husband's girls. GOTCHA!!! OK, but my answers still stand. You would be able to HS them in my state, but I would still draw up contracts etc since you are the step mom. In our state both parents have to agree to homeschool, and I would just hate to see you get caught in the middle if your dh's ex changes her mind.

Well actually although I have not homeschooled the girls I have certainly afterschooled them a whole lot. For 3 plus hours everyday after school basically either teaching or reteaching them what they learned at school in order for them to get their homework done. It is during homework time when I realize they have no idea what they are doing. Well not the one who is above/at grade level but the other two. I have homeschooled before...I homeschool for five years my older kids so I know how to homeschool. Luckily I am familiar with some stuff. Now Singapore...I have used Singapore and it worked well for my other two bright kids but the one who struggled it was not a good fit. I have at least one child not doing well now. So she would not do well with Singapore. I was looking into either Right start or McRuffey for her-something hands on. We have been using Harcourt at school and she still is not getting place value, counting by fives, tens, 2's , money, time and I have printed loads of worksheets off the computer and nothing is working. So I have to try something totally different than workbooks for her. Singapore is a possibility for the other two but I was thinking Teaching Textbooks but looking at it they would be doing 6th grade level even though they would be going into 4th grade. Does that even seem right? Ok I am definitely using Story of the World. I am debating though this Real history Odyssey by Pandia Press and how it is different than the activity pages for story of the world. Do you know?

I had a whirlwind of a week!!! First off my ex husband caused some serious problems calling the cops (my ex is the retired deputy of the dept) on us because my teen girls (two of them) were being basic brats (they claimed we were being abusive). They were upset because I wouldn't let them go over a friends house I did not know. Now my ex husband has the teen girls (really don;t want them back here causing more drama-all the lying, screaming, yelling, cursing, crying, shoplifting, meanness gone!). I no longer have to deal with their drama (including ex's). Don;t get me wrong I love my daughters but they really went too far in their lies, allegations and manipulation. They jeopardized the safety of the other children. The cops took the 2 girls out but not the five others. Thank god my oldest who is 16yrs old said that this was all craziness what the two teens were pulling. He says they are being stupid. CPS came and saw and just could not believe what the cops did. Anyways I hope finally the ex sees the gilrs have issues and takes them to counseling and perhaps get them on meds as one of them cuts and shoplifts. They have been needing help but he has not allowed me to do anything. I homeschooled the shoplifter one for just two months and she was turning around and all of a sudden he decides to place her back to school because she wanted to go back to the very friends that told her to shoplift and that she can get away with it. My ex is the idiot. Don;t get me started. Joint custody stinks when you have to deal with a controlling idiot. Ok now the most awesome news of all!!!! As a result my husband had seen enough. He has seen how my kids turned from being homeschooled to being schooled. He now wants his own daughters to be homeschooled rather than follow the footsteps of their other siblings. But we weren;t sure what his ex would say. She has ten kids and all of her teen girls are all pregnant. She doesn;t live with any of them anymore. We got a thumbs up from her!!!!! She said the girls have been telling her how they don;t like the new school and the kids are mean and cuss. They say that since they don;t cuss they are not popular. She wants me to homeschool them. So I will be homeschooling my stepdaughters this coming school year. I can't believe it. But OH MY GOODNESS...where do I even begin...... I will be have two girls entering 4th grade and one entering second grade. One of the twins is currently do grade level if not above grade level work. The other one I believe is ok not doing as well as the other one. She has messy handwriting, and reading comprehension issues. She is the tomboy one who hates to color, write and read. She likes math and science. The one entering 2nd grade is the one who really worries me. She was behind and kind of still is. She has had a hard time with school work in general and has a poor working memory. I want to do Well trained Mind-classical education but I also like charlotte mason, montessori etc. I have been looking at curriculums and just going nuts. I will be trying to apply into a local charter school as funding is tight and we need all the financial help we can get to do this. So most of the stuff needs to be Non religious unfortunately. OH my gosh...where do i begin...help help help.

Ok right now i am having one of the twins who is not good at handwriting and writing do wwe 3rd grade. I have not ordered the fll. Which level do you think for this summer? She is working on Handwriting without tears as well because her handwriting is atrocious. she seems to have an aversion to touching any lines at all. I am finding that as well are doing the narration and dictation of wwe 3 we are focusing on handwriting.. is that ok? I guess i could have the one that is doing really well with reading, writing etc. do wwe and fll level 4?

for the soon to be second grader. I don;t have the fll for the 3 grader yet and deciding whether i should get the 3rd grade or 4th grader. she is entering 4th grade in local ps. her writing is not very good that is why i have her in wwe for 3rd grade. So for a child in local ps entering 4th grade should i get her fll 3 or 4th for summer time use to prepare her for sixth grade classical education? Also how would you use fll and wwe with a set of twins who tends to copy from each other.. I guess I would have to hide in the other room to work with each kid one at a time.

I don't have any suggestions for a lapbook. But my oldest son was super focused on wheels. He would spin the tires on his cars for HOURS a day. Yes..balls and wheels is exactly what he is focused on..I wonder about autism myself. I guess we won;t find out until he is older I suppose. Pediatrician suggested I call Early intervention.east bay regional center. He is very social though. Goes up to people and shows them things and wants their interaction. So I don;t know what to make of it. He was diagnosed with Autism when he was 3. He did many other things beside that, but that stands out to me. Don't want to worry you, although it's not the end of the world if it were. I love my son just the way he is ya know! __________________

in narration and copy work. They go to local ps (ugh) and I will be homeschooling them when they are 6th grade...so better prepare them for the classical education method. They will need all the practice they can get. My older kids are in public school and their writing skills are atrocious...I can't bare to read their essays. If I help them on it, their teacher will know. My writing skills were ten times better at 8th grade (I was educated in a private school) than my highschooler who is educated in the ps.

You mentioned that your son was distracted by all the colors of mcruffy. I am wondering about my daughter now who is distractable as well. she does need a lot of hands on things though. She just doesn;t understand or remember a lot of concepts. Are there a lot of hands on stuff in saxon math?

so for my 1st grade daughter who seems to struggle with remembering things in general.....which would be better for her this summer.

I have a 22 months old son who is hyperfocused on balls. He has been this way forever. In fact he doesn;t say much but ball over and over again. He likes to look at ball pictures. He can kick, catch and throw balls. I would like to make him a ball lapbook. I can;t seem to find any online. Does anyone have ideas of what to include other than pictures of the different types of balls and their names? By the way does anyone else have a child like this?.my oldest son was like this when he was a wee one. He is 16 yrs old now but a little delayed. His end all be all dream is to be a football player but he cant because he has physical disability that will not allow him to play-spinal biffida oculta and congenital spinal stenosis. Just found this out this year playing high school football. He starting experiencing pain. My 16yrs old is a Freshman and it has been a motivating thing to get him to do any kind of school work. I am not sure what we are going to do now. His heart is broken. He is currently researching online surgeons who can heal him. Anyways I hope my youngest son isn;t going to be just like his older half brother.

This must have been answered before however is the FLL combo book the same as the individual 1 and 2. I have the old combo book...bought many many years ago...

Awesome awesome ideas.. Thank you mucho!

Teaching textbooks looks like the way i will go but i was checking out their placement tests. even though they just finished 3rd grade, looks like they could start 6th grade level. huh? So by the time they are in sixth grade they would be in prealgebra? wow! that is a lot of grades to skip. science.....another nightmare.. i really want them to do a lot of hands on science type of stuff.

I just got the ok from my husband that I will begin homeschooling my stepdaughters in 6th grade (in two years). They are twins. One loves to read, write and draw and the other does not. The other one likes science. Both are girls but one is a tomboy and the other one is not. Math and science is easier for the tomboy while she struggles with reading, hand writing, writing and art. In addition I will be homeschooling an almost 4yrs old. We would be doing through a state charter school so the curriculum must be secular. Otherwise it will not pay for Christian materials. Personally I like to do a lot of hands on things like lapbooking. I like to have discussions with them. I do not like to read aloud a lot. It kills my voice. What can I do now to prepare them for the requirements of classical education? During the summers, I am having them do FLL and Writing with Ease. They are entering 4th grade. I am thinking of having them read Story of the World now for fun. I really like the Well Trained Mind but it is not hands on enough. I like projects too. I also worry that they may not be prepared for the rigorous Well Trained mind method coming in at 6th grade from a local public school. Suggestions?

She is in a ps that uses Harcourt Math. Anyways for some reason maybe due to classroom size or whatever, she needs more hands on in order to get the concepts. She doesn;t always get the concepts. And keeps getting paper back saying Not Meeting Standards. Sometimes even with the hands on stuff she is unable to apply it to the paper. I am not sure what is going on with her. She is in 1 st grade and will be in 2nd grade. This year has been extremely painful with lots of tears. I am wondering if i should focus on 1st grade stuff over the summer or start working on 2nd grade stuff so the school year will be less painful. I would like to use something similar to the school districts curriculum but more hands on ish.

Compare and Contrast !! Thanks a bunch... Also Ordinary Teachers Reading Book vs McGuffy

as an afterschooling resource?

Check out McRuffy website...has math, spelling, phonics http://www.mcruffy.com/

Ok well I am going to work on some afterschooling plans.... My 16yrs old....well he won;t learn from me anymore My 14yrs old-same with the 16 yrs old My 13 yrs old-same with the 16 yrs old HOWEVER they may join us if they see the other kids (two 9yrs old, 7yrs old and 1yrs old) having fun. Anyways, I have decided on lapbooking as our afterschooling plans...I will use Hands of A Child. Every month, each kid get to work on their lapbook of their choice. For my 7yrs old who is struggling in school still I will do Phonics Pathways and First Language Lesson. I would like to do Writing with Ease with her as well. What would be a good math program that goes slow to work on during the summer? Math Mammoth or McGuffey-has anyone used McGuffey as an afterschooling resource. I am wondering if I should do the first grade level since she struggled with the year or what?

This is my own personal experience with my kids and observation: When my kids started going to public school after homeschooling they said they were getting dumber. They were about 1-2 yrs ahead in school when they started and had an absolute love for learning. Now after several years of being in school now, they are not working up to their potential. Getting d's and f;s and say school is boring and the only thing they like about it is the social stuff and for my son PE. Now my kids have been angry at me because they say I didn;t teach them the important things when they were homeschooled. They are mad that I didn;t teach them the bad words and what they meant and all of the sexual innuendos and all the words for homosexual. They were stupid and made fun of because of not knowing these things. I apologized and said well they weren't in the standard curriculum for k, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5 grade. However, I have noted as well as been told that when my kids first attended school they were very well behaved, respectful, seemed to have a lot of practical life skills, have good common sense, smart, talented, polite compared to their classmates. I don;t hear this anymore. It is now about not paying attention in class, talking in class, not working up to their potential, not being respectful, argumentative, more focused on the drama etc My kids never cared what they wore when they were homeschooled. Now they have to wear namebrand stuff. They girls spend hours grooming themselves and applying make up. THere is just so much peer pressure. When they homeschooled they rarely fought. Now they fight amongst each other all the time. When they homeschooled they played with all ages of kids and spoke to adults confidently. Now they only speak to kids their own ages making fun of older and younger kids and do not have much respect for adults. They want to watch R rated movies and they do unfortunately at friends houses. You try to find out about other parents but you really don;t know them until it is often too late. They come off as being strict or careful but often times they are really hands off with their kids. Or they over spoil their kids and give them whatever they want. I don;t see this much with homeschooled kids. My kids are not helpful with chores like other homeschooled teens i have seen and met. Let's see: at this point, one preteen got into cutting when a friend got into it she was also caught shoplifting because she heard others got away with it, she is also the same one who stays home from school at least once a month to get away from all the social drama because she is popular and is currently being used by other kids as a stepping stone, another teen has been depressed because he feels rejected by the nonChristians at the school and excluded and tried to hang himself at his dads house, another preteen was threatened recently and was told that this boy was going to kill her, shoot and send her to hell because she didn;t say thank you when he opened the door for her and he had a homemade air soft gun rigged at home. The scary thing is that the schools these kids go to are really good schools in good neighborhoods. The blue ribbon schools. Now I will say there are some good things about peer pressure from being at school.... One child never spoke much to anyone when she was homeschooled.She was shy. Now she talks all the time. One child cried a lot when we were homeschooling, now he doesnt cry much because he was called a crybaby. One child refused to read and would cry when I worked with her but since she started school and saw all the other kids sit down and work she has now learned to read, write and do math. Two of my kids were not very active physically, they are now more physically active. My kids say their birthdays are more fun now. I am sure I can think of more things but here are some pros and cons to start.