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    Grammar and long term planning

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    We are using FLL this year and will use it again next year for grade 2. I know there is a second FLL book that covers 3/4th. I would like to use R & S at some point. When would be a good time to switch from FLL to R & S? I am just wondering what others have done and how it has worked.

    Help!! Reading and my ds 7

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    How do you know if you need to get your child tested or if there is some type of LD we are dealing with? Our oldest, ds 7, is making me question if there is an issue.

     

    He is very bright and articulate. He is a strong chess player and plays the piano very well for his age. He seems to be rather "mathy" but he still needs to read.

     

    He was very slow to start reading and is now coming along but it seems like he should be moving faster. He would rather guess at words than just actually read them. He is about 60 lessons into 100 EZ Lessons. Should I just say progress is progress and be happy with that??

     

    We have been inconsistent with school in the past and I think this could be a lot of it, because he certainly does better with lots of structure (I see this now in hindsight). I just don't know at what point you say "we need to test". We are in a good routine now and are very consistent with our lessons.

     

    We have had a rather difficult morning and I am very frustrated. I keep coming up against this wall in him. He was like this with every developmental milestone so far. I just don't know if this is one more case of him just not doing things until he wants to.

     

    I am so frustrated!! Thank you for listening!!

    Please help me with science!!

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    Thank you everyone. I think I am going to go get one of those easy experiment books and then just do some kits for the rest of the year. We have struggled so with this program that I am happy to be done with it and move on to something different. I am also going to look at RR at getting some kits. In the last couple of weeks we have made rock candy, finished an ant farm, and started a worm farm. They really love that kind of stuff and I think they are so young...by that I mean, they spend what I think is a lot of time in the books so science being "fun" at this point is important.

     

    Again, thank you everyone for the great advice!!

    Please help me with science!!

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    I am so frustrated with science and am ready to change even though we are in the middle of the year. We have used the Apologia Elementary Astronomy for about half the book. We just can't do that any more. My kids want lots of details and it is boring them to tears. I was thinking of Lyrical Science but I am afraid that is too much with no real experiments just lots of memorization. The boys are very science minded and I would say are above their grade level which is K and 1st.

     

    The boys LOVE science and want LOTS but I need to temper that with other subjects. I see the focus more on math and language but they also want to do some neat science "stuff". What can I do to get us through the rest of the year?

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