Has anyone used this? Opinions? I'm looking for a supplemental vocabulary program for my 7 year old.

Ours is in the living and dining area, which is our homeschool space. Right now it isn't a problem, but I could see how multiple children practicing through the day could be distracting. I might revisit when my younger boys start playing.

Well, I shall go against the grain... 20-30 minutes per day is not necessarily too long for a 5 year old. If your child is capable of paying attention to a television show for that long, they are certainly capable of spending the same amount of time engrossed in a musical instrument. The key is that they enjoy their time with it. If they don't enjoy it, then yes, that would be too long. My 6 year old plays piano and is learning with a Suzuki teacher. He practices every day. Each practices lasts for about 15-30 minutes, and the length isn't important so much as what he accomplishes. He has a set list of about 9 pieces right now, and he works through the list twice. After that he is free to play whatever songs he wishes. We worked our way up to this, adding pieces over time and then deciding to go through the list twice once he became good at all of them. For us the key was that he consider the time fun. :hurray: I sit with him and we do it together with me encouraging him. He sees it as bonding time for us. The entire time isn't necessarily productive, as he does like to fiddle the keys or make a joke or chew his fingers thinking before jumping into a song, but as others said, having a list of tasks to accomplish keep him moving forward and focused.

I taught my 6 year old this trick, but he already knew his doubles math facts. So we really used it more as a way to help him remember math facts for the non-doubles. If I remember right, we used a number line and a pile of cheerios.

I feel you need to take a common sense approach when dealing with the beliefs of others. I constantly encounter this with my children, be it from Egyptian Gods or Native American spirits, or Christianity. Do we really want to completely shelter our children from a world view or make them think that ALL people think a certain way? I often say, "They believe/d..." It doesn't mean I believe or expect my children to believe. Our children are smart enough to know the difference. I personally didn't care for Paddle to the Sea, but I also don't think it would be hard to read to your child with the disclaimer that some people believed something different from you.

My son is an excellent natural speller, but I wanted to make sure he learns and frequently reviews rules with progressively harder words. Someone recommended Spelling Power to me a few months back, and we love it so far. There is a placement test. It takes 15 minutes per day and one book can get you through high school. I don't really count it as writing practice, though I do expect his words to be written neatly.

My first grader dragged a bit with 1A and 1B (which we are wrapping up now). I ended up pushing through and going much faster than the HIG suggested. We don't do all the problems when it is obvious that he gets it. Sometimes we do just the workbook or just orally do the textbook. That said, I agree you should push through, but maybe try picking up the pace a bit?

Thank you so much for linking this! It looks like a great supplement for us.

I often say, "Some people believe..." but for the most part I avoid creationist or YE materials because we are not Christian and accept what science currently tells us. We are currently studying myths and Gods of the ancient world, which has provided a wonderful opportunity for us to compare modern religious beliefs with those of the past. We do it all with respect for the beliefs of others.

My boys loved Winnie-the-Pooh. We're enjoying The Phantom Tollbooth right now.

I know you want something that isn't teacher-intensive, but we used flash cards for about 5 minutes a day for a couple of weeks and that was all he needed to get them down.

I wanted Adventures to work for my son in K, but it just didn't. Oh well! I have found he learns and retains the most through relaxed reading about events in history and watching age appropriate documentaries. Right now we are doing SOTW in first, just reading not the activity guide, and lots of library books. He loves it! I plan to focus lightly on American history books from the library this summer.

I can pinch to zoom in and out. I love my fire for web surfing and reading pdfs.

She wrote The Bluest Eye, a common high school literature selection that riles up parents due to the subject content of incest and rape.

My son loves to play with sand that we keep in a baking pan with a lid. Sometimes he will make structures with popsicle sticks or marshmallows and toothpicks.

I consider it a supplement. Often I will read from it while my son plays with sand or colors. I've also had him read sections aloud to me. I mainly look at the literature, history, and arts and music sections right now.

For 1a and 1b I used the Standard edition and the Extra Practice for Primary 1 book. Maybe this is what you're looking for? ETA: I mean, maybe the Extra Practice for your child's grade level is what you're looking for since you use STD and not US?

You don't need prime or audible for whispersync. It will connect wirelessly to your amazon account to access your books and apps (and bookmarks, notes, etc) and sync. I use Freetime, a free amazon app of parental controls for the kindle. You can set limits on apps and block the web or purchasing. It's awesome. Super kid friendly. I lock my son's kindle down tightly.

My copy of WTM is on Kindle. I love it! It is easy for me to hop around as I need and search for specific words or sections. ETA I just realized you asked about TWM which I am not familiar with, but either way I love my books on Kindle for the reasons above. :)

I really like the one by Milo Winter.

I love my Kindle Fire and use it for school every single day! I think it depends on you and the type of school you are doing as to whether or not it is useful. PP, thanks for the list of app! I am going to check them all out. I have mainly been using it to read to DS and have him read with me (as the school aspect, I use it for many other things on my own).

Mango does have Latin! Pretty cool! Through Mango I have access to 45 different languages. I have only used it for basic Spanish so far, but I have browsed other languages and I really like it. ETA: Here's the list of everything included Arabic (Levantine) Chinese (Cantonese) Chinese (Mandarin) Croatian Czech Danish Dari Dutch Farsi (Persian) Finnish French French (Canadian) German Greek Greek (Ancient) Greek (Koine) Haitian Creole Hawaiian Hebrew Biblical Hebrew Hindi Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Korean Latin Norwegian Pashto Pirate Polish Portuguese (Brazil) Russian Slovak Spanish (Latin America) Spanish (Spain) Swedish Tagalog Tamil Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese

Ask your Librarian for the "easy reader" or "ABC reader" books. Chances are they are in a special section. Most publishers who publish these types of books (think I Can Read series) assign levels to help you determine difficulty for your reader.

LOL, thanks! This gives me hope that it was just a bad disc in our case. Amazon is awesome and replacing it no problem!

I really hope it is a fluke. I am going to try an exchange and hopefully it will work better. I'd love to hear if anyone else from the preorder is having issues, though!