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    5th Grade Planning

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    I see second and fourth, but how about a fifth grade planning thread? I could really use some good ideas.

     

    So far:

     

    Math: Don't know. We'll finish up Beast Academy in the next couple weeks and I'm not sure where to go from there. I might just pass time in Zaccaro Upper Elementary Challenge Math and start next year in AoPS pre-algebra.

     

    Science: CPO Life Science

     

    History: Don't know. We'll finish up SOTW this year and I'm not sure where we will go from there. I've bought Human Odyssey, so I guess we will try that.

     

    Language Arts: Apples and Pears, Literature from the Mensa Kids list, CAP Writing and Rhetoric, IEW Fix It

     

    Lots of dance and piano.

     

    What else? What are you doing? Maybe it will give me some good ideas.

     

    Teresa

    How quickly plans change, huh?

     

    This week we are starting Jousting Armadillos, so I guess we will just continue with that next year. Finished SOTW too.

     

    New plan:

     

    Math: Jousting Armadillos, then Crocodiles and Coconuts

    History: OUP Ancients Just started this and we love it!

    Spelling: Apples and Pears

    Writing: CAP W&R, IEW Fix-It

    Science: CPO Life

    Then company dance and music.

    Reading lots of quality literature...and some just for fun stuff too.

    That's it...for now. ;)

    When did you first suspect?

    in Accelerated Learner Board

    Posted

    My oldest was a 4lb. premie and was on time with most milestones but a late talker. We took a baby sign language class around 9 months. By her first birthday, she had more than 300 signs. She used signs creatively too. Daddy went to "worm" because she didn't know the sign for work. He cooked outside on the "gorilla". Our neighbors lived in the "pig" house (a very very big house). When she did decide to talk,her first words were Mom, Dad, spatula and strawberry. She spoke in sentences within the week. I didn't really know she was gifted till we started homeschooling, though. She sped through 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade Singapore math before April of her 1st grade year. Still, math facts remained a real problem, as well as letter reversals. I was concerned. I had her tested and whoa. She's 2E with strenghts in a variety of areas, but a real weakness in working memory and processing speed (which I hear is not unusual). I hate to compare kids, but her public school Gateway program friend has schooled with us occasionally and just can't keep up.

     

    My second daughter, I have not had tested. She doesn't really seem to have any problem areas so the $4000 in testing seems like a crazy expense to merely satisfy curiousity. She was a very early talker, sentences at 15 months and early with all her milestones really. She's moving along in math much like her sister did but seems to lack her sister's weaknesses. Difference between a premie and a baby who didn't leave the womb till 2 weeks late?

     

    Teresa

     

    What do you have your kids do for math over the summer?

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    I always say we are going to continue with math over the summer and then we don't. Then the new school year comes and I really regret not staying on top of it because we have to backtrack so much. My oldest has a lot of difficulty with math fact retrieval alone. This year both will continue with fact practice and they will both do about 20 minutes of their current math program. I'm really really going to go through with it this year.

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