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If never used 100 ez lessons, but I did buy OPGTR at a B&N store. I'd check yours (if you have one) and see if they have it in stock. That way you can flip through it. Also, our library carries OPGTR and First Language Lessons so you might want to try that too.
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Explode the Code, Oak Meadow K, k12 phonics, and Saxon K. Of course Saxon K is working just fine for my dd.
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I read through it. Meh, not for me.
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Our library has a large shelf of books for sale and every week when we go I find something :) The books are only $.50 a piece for children's books!!!!!! I use the internet a lot too. I also budget out $ each month for school stuff in case I find something that we HAVE to have for school :)
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My dd 4 is just like your son. She will sit still for some books, but she has to be the one to pick it. I also read to her while she takes a bath. I can get her to do some things by disguising it as helping mommy. Example: Our FIAR book this week is The Story About Ping. I printed out an outline of China and asked dd if she would help me by coloring it in. As she coloring I told her that it was China and some other little tidbits.
Fat Brain Toys has some really cool hands on learning toys. I am slowly trying to build up our selection.
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When my son was that age and become frustrated we put away the more formal things for fun things. Lots and lots of games and reading books were what we did. We got 2 huge foam dice from our local educational store and played all sorts of made up games with those for math. My son is a bit competitive so he picked up money on his first go at monopoly (and beat me). Puzzles, mad libs, walks (read all the words around you). Then in a few weeks go back to your lessons and see what happens.
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Hmm... should my title have been Encyclopedia Britannica is going out of... :svengo: Oh the stress of WTM thread titles!
Yeah, it makes sense. My husband works in the music industry. You have to change with the times or the money goes bye-bye. :D But, we still have a wall of vinyl! Man I feel old. I've been thinking about thinking about buying a rotary phone...
My grandmother still has a rotary phone (yes they still use it) and a set of those encyclopedias!
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Jigsaw puzzles? Playdough? Kumon workbooks? Give her a lesson of MEP Reception then let her play with c-rods while you do maths with your elder?
Rosie
She won't do puzzles and the kumon workbooks bored her. I have tried giving her scissors to cut paper and glue but 2 minutes later she is ready for her next "project".:glare: I do not have c-rods. I'll have to look into those.
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My dd is 4 and she wants to do schoo like her big brother. We use FIAR and we do that together. The problem is when I do things like math and reading with ds she is a huge distraction. She needs hands on activities. She is not content coloring (plus she has the attention span of a gnat). Suggestions for hands on activities she can do on her own (I can supervise just not stop every 2 seconds to help her).
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Never heard of it. Must find out. My 5 yr old sounds a lot like yours. *Scampers away to find out what this magical game is.*
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Saxon Math
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One day my ds 5 didn't want to do his school work.
Me: Education is the most important thing in the world.
Ds: No, actually food and water are the most important things in the world. Without food and water I'd die. If I was dead education wouldn't be important at all. :glare:
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I'm not a great blogger, but here ya go Week 11 (we school year round). Lot's of pictures this week :)
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Those 3 and manipulatives are all we use.
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My answer to this is probably not. I normally say to him things like "If you learned to read then you wouldn't have to have me read it to you." or "You wouldn't have to wait on me to read it to you."Have you reassured him that you will continue to read to him after he learns to read? Some kids are afraid they'll lose the wonderful fun of being read to and are reluctant to read on their own for that reason.:001_huh:
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We just recently (January) switched to OPGTR from k12 phonics program. K12's phonics program seemed very advanced for my son who went into the year only knowing a few of his letter sounds. (He has had a hard time pin pointing letters sounds in the past.) It moved way too fast and it came to the point where he couldn't handle it. I slightly stumbled ontp OPGTR. I went to our B&N that told me 100 easy lesson was in stock, but when I got there it wasn't. Since I drove to the B&N across town I wasn't going to leave empty handed. I looked through what they had and felt OPGTR went slow enough and was thorough enough for my son. I like how it starts with letter sounds and moved on to she short vowel words. I REALLY like how at certain places it tells you if you child hasn't mastered the last few lessons to go back and redo them. I know that may seem like common sense, but I didn't feel that with k12 phonics. I felt pushed to keep going and he would catch up with it.
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I would do a spelling first method, AAS or SWR. We love SWR despite the learning curve in implementing it. Get him writing and the reading will follow.
We just started soaring with spelling and he hasnt had a probllem with that. *nak*
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My son is almost 6. We are going through OPGTR. We are only on lesson 36 and he pretty much refuses to try. He knows the letter sounds. We've been working on letter sounds for over a year. I know he knows them and he knows he knows them. I've tried fun little phonics readers, I've tried writing the sentences and word on the white board, and I've had him look at the book. He will do pretty much anything besides SOUND OUT THE WORDS. When I can get him to sound them out he can read!!! To get him to sound out the words is like pulling teeth. He wants to be able to look at the words, know them, and read them. I don't know what to do. He makes up excuses, he flops around in the floor/chair/couch, and will do things like put his hands over his eyes so he can't see. If I can get him to sound out a sentence he knows what he has just read. No comprehension problems. He loves for me to read to him. I think part of the problem is he knows that if there is a book he wants to read I will just read to him so there is no reason to try to read. I've actually had him say "Why do I need to read? You can just read it to me.". Suggestions please?
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We use HWT for in the fall and now we are just doing copywork. At the end of HWT book it was having my ds just do copywork. If I see where he is having issues with a letter we go back and review that letter formation and I may have him do a page of that letter for practice.
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I would. At this age you need to enrich vocabulary, read lots, and build a good knowledge base. I noticed some hands-on resources too, but I think an interactive notebook would work much better - adding coloring pages, maps, logbook elements, clipart, etc. That is a young age, and they like thrive from exposure and experience.
Oh, we would most definately be notebooking this!
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I found THIS website that has listed history books in order. It has the age range beside them also. I am thinking of checking these out from our library and using them for 1st grade history instead of SOTW1 or History Odyssey. Tell me why I should or shouldn't use this compared with SOTW and HO.
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I'll throw my stats in the ring even though my son is 5 and techically a k'er. (All of his subjects are 1st grade.) We work for 2-3 hours a day this includes FIAR+lap booking, math, science (3x wk), spelling, OPGTR+student reading, art (1x a week) and social studies(1x a week). I also read to my kids whenever they ask and always before bed, but I didnt include that in our time.
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I'd like to go to mine, but I'm not (for these reasons):
1. I've already purchased everything I need for next year
2. It's a 3 hr. drive to the convention into an unfamiliar "big" city
3. I've already purchased everything ;)
I'm pretty sure if I go, I'll start second guessing all these many hours of research/etc. I'm just going to sit tight and pretend there's no convention at all. :D
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We just started Soaring with Spelling and Vocabulary. My ds is 5 (6 in May). It's 1 page each day. A pretest on the 1st day and on day 5 a spelling test. No manipulatives needed (although we do you magnetic letters to spell the words and sidewalk chalk). We really like it and for less than $20 for 36 weeks worth of lessons I haven't found anything better.
Chapter books about magic, can you help me make a list?
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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No Such Thing As Dragons
Charlie Bone Series