zarabellesmom
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I'm no help at all. My daughter turned 11 Sunday and I just saw this thread this morning and thought it might be helpful. I couldn't read through the tears after three posts.
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Our ortho recommended waiting until the baby teeth were gone and enough permanent teeth had come in ... for the most part. However, for certain issues where sooner is better, like palate expanders, he will want to forge ahead without waiting for permanent teeth to come in.
My oldest needed a first round of braces due to a cross-bite that was an immediate risk to the health of his teeth. He still had some baby teeth, but he had enough permanent teeth to move this tooth from the hard palate. After that issue was fixed, they waited for the permanent teeth to come in. When one tooth did not come in, the ortho put braces on to help make room for the tooth that would not come down. He ended up needing oral surgery to free that tooth from the bone so that it could be pulled down.
We are waiting for my oldest and she will be eleven Sunday. My youngest is seven and has a crossbite, needs a palate expander and braces across the top front to make room for her teeth to come down. What a pain!
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We took the Aristotle Leads the Way class last year from Ms. Whitson and my daughter really enjoyed it. I definitely think it was worth the money (and I've signed up for Newton Leads the Way this year). The one thing I would say is that she focuses on the history really heavily and my daughter wanted more science to go with it. Apparently a few kids felt that way after the first semester and she really went out of her way to include more hands on assignments after that. I was surprised at the number of kids who didn't do the assignments. Most of them were pretty fun and my daughter really learned a lot. She's looking forward to taking the next class. Also, you can type or use the microphone during class. Most kids type and my daughter became really frustrated with her typing abilities because she wanted to be the first to answer the questions but wasn't the most skilled keyboardist (and too shy to use the microphone). I've never seen my daughter competitive before, so that was kind of a fun experience for me.
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Wow, I'm going to homeschool hell. Everything gets recycled except standardized testing records and I've only had to do that once. When my kids finish a math workbook, which is always a happy day at our house (and math is our favorite), they dance that book straight over to recycle. I've got enough of my husband's childhood crap to store to be holding on to school work.
I guess I'm just not sentimental at all about school work. Photos of my kids, well those I hang on to as if my life depended on it.
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We did extracurricular activities at that age.. ballet and gymnastics. Two things: First, most teachers that have been around the block a few times are going to roll with the punches with that kind of behavior. Seriously, how hard is it to say, "It's not snack time, do you remember how to plie?" At age four you pretty much redirect. Second, extracurricular activities are totally unnecessary at that age. If everyone is having a good time, run with it, but it seems like it is causing you stress so I would totally let it go for a couple of years. It's amazing the amount of maturity that a child can gain in two years. And there's nothing in ballet that can't be picked up more easily by a six, seven or eight year old than by a four year old.
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Are you planning to homeschool high school? If so, I would probably give some thought to what kind of sequence you have planned for that and then back into it from there.
ETA: If not, then I would probably let your DS have a pretty good amount of input on the kind of thing he is interested in studying and then just run with that for the year.
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Depressed. But it's about him and what's best for him, not what's best for my own idea of what education should be.
This is so true. How fortunate all of you are that you are in a situation where you can support him through all this without the added burden of him having to attend school. Also that you have the clarity of mind to realize that it's not about you and your needs and wants.
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It seems like you have at least found a homeschool friendly therapist. I've been following your posts lately, though not really commenting as I have no advice. My anxious child is younger than yours so our situation is completely different. Also, her anxiety is unrelated to school stuff... Anyway, I guess what I wanted to say was that I hope he is feeling better soon. At our house we have ups and downs but gosh it seems like the downs last a long time. With my little one we finally had to resort to medication (one of the most awful decisions I've had to make as a parent BTW). She's been on her medication for a year now and just when the doctor was planning on reducing her dosage with the goal of going off entirely, she got hit with another fierce wave and her dosage had to be increased instead. Hopefully with lots of rest, beautiful summer weather, good nutrition, family support and some relaxed schooling, he'll find himself in a better place quickly.
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Does he still need fact drill and mental math practice or does he have those skills down pat? My ten year old (finally finally finally) has all her facts solid and now just using them daily is enough practice. Same with mental math. She's pretty lazy when it comes to written work so the problem is not in getting her to do mental math, but in trying to get her to write something down! Those are the two things I would cut but I don't know your student.
I've never used MUS. Is there a lot on a page? Does it take long? Beast can be a pretty big time suck and if you are committed to doing both, you might alternate days. So maybe on MWF do Beast and one Process Skill Problem and then on TuTh do MUS and one Process Skill problem. Or the reverse.
My oldest left Math in Focus for Beast Academy entirely (outside of fact drill) and it was a great move for her. My youngest is in BA3B and continues MM as a review on the side because she seems to need more review to keep things fresh. My youngest does one page of MM2 review workbook and a little BA3 (however much she likes) and then about 15 minutes of multiplication fact practice on the computer (Reflex Math) daily. We split it up over the course of the day so it's not overwhelming. This has seemed to work pretty well for us this year.
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It probably depends on the class. My daughter types about 20 wpm and would like to be faster because the other students frequently beat her to answer the teacher's questions. (She's just a little competitive.)
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We are finished next Friday. We've gone to half days. We're working on math daily. My youngest is practicing her cursive, math facts, piano and reading. My oldest is practicing typing, japanese, piano and finishing up some assigned reading. We're still watching our morning science videos (10 minutes) and doing read aloud. We are all ready to be done done done.
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I have an almost 11 and an almost 8. We started typing last school year with Keyboarding Without Tears (what a waste of time IMO). We switched this year to typing.com. I've put it on hold for my almost 8 year old because she hasn't been making any real progress so we decided to focus our efforts elsewhere for a while. My oldest took the intermediate typing wrap up test today and tested at 19 wpm and 97% accuracy. That's after two years of about 15 minutes a day, five days a week. I'm hoping we can make some progress with it this summer. I think I was in middle school when I learned to type and it was a semester long course that lasted at least half an hour a day. I'm willing to have it take longer because I really don't want to give it half an hour daily. My oldest is taking an online class and really hates it when others beat her to the answer (and she refuses to use the microphone) so typing is becoming a real priority for her.
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ReflexMath, but its not free. i think they have a free trial though.
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Anything by Mark Kistler. He has books and an online video course. My daughter loved both from about age eight on. He's fantastic and she really improved. Plus it was just plain fun. I did quite a few of the exercises too.
ETA: He has some free stuff here: http://www.draw3d.com/
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I was wondering if someone was going to pop in and say that they had the solution manual and never used it. I was going to be all like :scared:
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Even if you can solve them, sometimes their solution is so much more elegant that it's worth seeing. I've been amazed at how they approach certain problems and found myself thinking, "gee, why didn't I think of that?" Anyway, I too took math through calculus any my husband is a math wizard and while combined we've been able to solve them all (and sometimes the we is mostly a him) I agree with the previous poster. You'd never be able to convince me to part with my solutions manual. It's worth every penny.
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Dropping in so I can check this out later. Thanks!
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Update: I pulled Jousting Armadillos out for her to look at and showed her where she would be in that book (about halfway through because of having done some of it late last school year and having done AoPS this year) and asked her if she wanted to look through it and see if she would like it better. We did the section on LCM and after, I asked her what she thought and she said she wanted to stay with AoPS. ??? Luckily BA arrived and so I thought all would be well but a day later she was crying about the difference between mean and average. Apparently it's not the particular math, it's just math. It's also funny (funny weird, not funny haha) that she can do the work but it's the why that makes her angry. How dare mean and average be two different things? It's like we are on an emotional roller coaster and there's no way off. This is an awful age. The whining, crying and anger spread from math this week to piano and writing as well. We need the school year to come to an end, fast!!!
ETA: and ballet, crying about ballet. I think I'll wander over and post on the middle school commiseration thread.
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There are some crossword puzzles, some math fact worksheets, a pdf for printing out flashcards that use the characters, and some sheets that let you cut out and make dice with characters on them. You roll the dice and answer the multiplication fact.
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We have gone back and forth between AoPS and LOF for this exact reason. Sometimes, AOPS is just too much for DD at that particular time, and LOF seems to provide the support she needs when she's a little overwrought.
Yes, overwrought is exactly the word.
She also thrives on conceptual learning for math, which is probably why she loved BA. However, she isn't keen on the discovery method without those Beasts along for the ride. So, I use AoPS backwards. I often go to it for the conceptual understanding rather than the discovery math. She absolutely wants to know why but she doesn't want to dig around trying to find it. I get that. Just because she's good at math doesn't mean she has to like it.
So, our BA 5B arrives today (hopefully), and it will all be review, but she's thrilled. She wants me to keep buying until it's finished, and I will. Just like I've started building up my arsenal of living math and curricula for algebra. She'll continue to be a strong math student because I'll continue to figure out the best meandering path for her. But, she'll never want to do a math competition. We're unlikely to continue to use AoPS beyond pre-algebra. And, that's okay.
When she was frustrated yesterday it was one of the first problems in the lesson. She was not at all impressed with the discovery method at that moment. She is pretty intuitive most of the time and when it didn't work the way she thought it would, she was really upset. It was clear we were done for the day because she had shut down. This morning she was still mad about yesterday so not much was accomplished. I've told her we can watch the videos first (she really likes that part) work through exercises at the front of the lesson together as the teaching part and then she can tackle the problems at the end of the lesson with less direction from me. She might consider that later when she's not still mad about being wrong (about something she's never been taught to do, good grief).
When my Dd got stuck with AoPS pre-a, we would do some work in Dolciani's pre-a book. It's a solid text but provided a break from the intensity of AoPS.
I wish I could take a look at the inside of that book. I know you can find copies pretty cheaply on amazon but I'd like to at least glance at the inside.
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Have you considered Jousting Armadillos? It is fun to do with your child. We have had some great discussions and it is lower stress. Maybe it would hit the sweet spot for a season.
LOL, I have it upstairs. I pulled it out and gave her the choice between the two originally and she chose AoPS but she might have a different opinion now. I'll bring it back down and have her take a look at it again.
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Here is the situation:
My daughter is ten (soon to be 11) and has always been a very good math student. She is still an excellent math student. We finished BA 5A awhile ago and moved on to AoPs prealgebra. She is very unhappy. She's good at it (sometimes amazingly so) but she is unhappy. It could be situational. It's closing in on the end of the school year for us and I think she is just ready to be done. She's also emotional about most things right now. It doesn't take much to set off crying, frustration and anger. She's also ADHD (and medicated no flames please, it was a tough decision). We need to continue with math over the summer because when we haven't it's amazing how hard it is to get back up to speed. She's young for pre-algebra and I'm not in a hurry to get her to Algebra so take that into consideration. But...she hates to do boring repetitive work which is why Beast Academy has worked so well for us in the past. I have BA 5B on the way (paid extra to have it here fast) but it won't take her long to get through it (because she loves it so) so what can I do after that to take us through the summer that will keep her polished on skills but not make her so angry??? I feel like I'm walking a really fine line between just challenging enough and frustrating. I really don't want her to hate math, especially since it has been her favorite subject in the past. Help me!!! Also, (conversely to most people) I'm not necessarily looking for something independent. She likes to spend math time with me and we use the white board and take turns teaching each other and try to keep things as fun as possible. Right now all she does in wallow in the floor, pout and refuse to take her turn at the board.
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We're in GA, but we're going to Ireland so we could send from there if anyone is interested.
Gentle movies for 5 - 8 year olds
in General Education Discussion Board
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Saw your post this morning and was checking out replies because I have a sensitive one too. Then stumbled across this:
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/find-the-best-movie-for-your-sensitive-kid