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The Bridge to Terebithia is a book written in and set just after the end of the Vietnam war which ends with the death of a main character. It's a good book if you're in the mood for a good cry. It's maybe not such a good book for a girl who is interested in whimsical fantasy.
Oh my... I have only seen movie previews. I thought it was much more fanciful.
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The Bridge to Terabithia?
I haven't read this one, as our library doesn't have it, so maybe someone could give an opinion. I am not even sure on the age range.
How about the Tashii books?
Pippi Longstocking or other books by Astrid Lindgren.
Nim's Island
The Book of Three.
A Wrinkle in Time?
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My son loves Alice in Wondeland. Did she read Through the Looking Glass. And the Oz books. There are so many of those.
He also liked Coraline. That is a bit controversial. I find it creepy. He did not at all. Kids look at certain things a bit differently. Might want to pre read it if you are unsure.
He likes the Half Magic books too.
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The only thing I've found and "like" is BFSU- like because of the content and basic philosophy behind it. But it is WAY too wordy and requires a lot of prep. If he were to turn it into a textbook written to the student, it'd be pretty awesome!
I want this too. Nix 70% of the test. Get to the nitty gritty. Or write something accessible to the student.
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Yes on pretty much everything you said! We try and avoid silly experiments that seldom work. I would just rather let the boy do those in his playtime.I heavily dislike dumb hands on components. I don't mean anything hands on, but meaningless busy work hands on. Dumb crap like making a weather station using paper plates and cups (no joke this is an activity in a science book I used). I would like the right amount of information. I know that's vague, but I don't want to be bogged down with a ridiculous number of concepts, but I don't want to read and read and read just to conclude I could have summed up the information in 2 pages. I want something mostly open and go that is easy to navigate. I don't want something with 100 different components. Some of the public school science programs are like this. They have workbooks, textbooks, on-line stuff, teacher manuals, extra practice books, some other books that nobody knows what they are for, testing books, challenge problem books. Why not one book?! I don't want to have to juggle 10 books. Although I also wouldn't mind a program that is a list of living books (I'm talking mostly middle school and under though).
And I hate page layouts like Usborne where there are 100 different text bubbles. I never know what to read first or second. There is never more than a sentence or two at a time so I feel like the information is not coherent. It's just this or that, but nothing beyond surface information.
And I don't want a religious science book.
As much as I love Usborne or DK books I can't deal with all the bubbles!
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I don't know the a target level but has he watched all the Eureka Physics clips available on YouTube? Maybe too young?
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We like BFSU. But we draw from many sources. I can't recommend the Peter Weatherall DVDs enough. The content is string and the tunes are catchy. My son has been watching the DVDs on and off for a few years.
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Agreed. Same here. I have no idea if there were other eyeballs looking back during silent reading time -- because I didn't take the time to look up. I'm sure I occasionally reread -- when I had nothing else to read. But considering I read all the fiction books in the 5th grade library (or had already read before I entered) during that grade -- I was doing a LOT of reading new stuff.
Ditto! I devoured books like a starving person. I was often too into the books to slow down and savour. I preferred to read the entire book in one sitting. Something I struggle with to this day. I go to bed way too late because I am absorbed in a book. Learning to read fast was the only way that I could consume all the books that I wanted to read. Sadly the list never ends.
My son is like me. He reads fast and thinks that books are meant to be read in one sitting. I have told him that he can pace himself but he would rather not because he becomes so engrossed.
I never remember peeking around in reading time in school either.
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My son (5) can read one of the first 8 Magic Tree Books in 30-45 minutes. We haven't read furthar into the series than that. He has a reading proficiency beyond that of a second grader and he does reader faster than normal. And yes I know he is genuinely reading as I have quizzed him extensively, and even tried to trick him and he will correct me.
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Lol. I saw that one coming. Still made me smile. I will have to tell him that. He likes jokes.
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My son keeps insisting that the Neutrons are the best part of his salads. I believe he means croutons.
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My son really likes math. However, being faced with a challenge, having to exert effort and doing things that are hard? Not so much. And I think for many kids there comes a time when they hit a wall in math. But they might also hit the wall in many other things in life. I don't think that means they hate.
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Skip the first light year of each grade.
Do two lessons a day. But only do 1 speed drill.... Or if there are enough facts in the review skip both speed drills in the back of the book.
Skip the review questions if you think the child has mastered them.
Do a lesson on Saturday and one on Sunday. You could be completing 12 lessons a week that way.
Currently we are completing a book in about 2 weeks. We still do everything as the review is nice. But we sometimes skip a speed drill.
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Have yet to find quad ruled books in the US with the squares big enough. I have to have my mum send then from Australia. :(
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very old thread warning -----very old thread warning -------very old thread warning
Still a very relevant thread though.
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I read the original post when it was posted. I don't reread it everytime there is more posted. I assume others are the same.
So sometimes updating an original post doesn't do much good.
And I think that this thread has run away from the original question and people have a lot of experience and opinions that they would like to share. I know I learnt a lot from this entire 3 page thread.
Personally I would teach the format. But I am me. And I would advise it.
However, you have already made a decision. And you are you, and your know your children best. There is no criticism there. Just a different strokes for, different folks thing.
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They kind of were formatted like the link below. But rather than A B C it would often be (i) (ii) and so forth. There had to be a contents and appendices page too. So finicky. I dropped a college class (without penalty) because I could not figure out how to format it. And the best response I could get was to just write a report.I never did anything with indented Roman numerals. I was a psych major. The magical number seemed to be 25 pages. They just called it a paper.
http://www.professays.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Researh-paper-outline-sample.jpg
This site compares a report and an essay.
http://www.canberra.edu.au/studyskills/writing/reports
And a sample of a report. I vaguely remember using the numbered headings too.
http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/llonline/writing/general/report/1.xml
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For me a research paper could be an essay with a million footnoted citations. Which is what I would have done in History class. Or it could be a report with all the indented Roman numerals. The latter was more common for legal studies or psychology.
I don't even know what I was doing in literature classes! In one class I reveived an A+ For good work and a D because I completely missed the mark.
Same grading teacher.
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Another thing I find confusing is that isn't an essay in the strictest sense a very specific thing? Yet it seems to get applied to various forms of writing. In school all the writing was called composition as the generic term. I don't even recall hearing the term essay all that often.
If I recall correctly (which may be wrong, I have a lot to learn before my son is older) we did either an essay or a report. I hated all that formatting with Roman numerals.
And there were many types of essays. Compare and contrast essays were very popular. And they essays all have to have a voice. Informative, persuasive or propaganda.
We also had creative writing. But that was different. Essays were done in many classes, creative writing was just part of a writing class.
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I actually had to google a five paragraph essay, and the hamburger model. I learnt it as the 3 part essay. Introduction, body, conclusion. And frankly it is exactly the same thing by the looks of it. The 5 paragraphs are not a solid given. So I agree it is not an obsolete thing.I agree with this. I guess what we're hitting is just a terminology issue. I was taught - perhaps this is unusual - that the "five paragraph essay" doesn't have to have five paragraphs. It's just a name for the basic essay structure. And that five is just a starter, so to speak.
So when people say that students should not be writing 5PEs on standardized testing, do you interpret that to simply mean that they should not feel like they need to adhere to five paragraphs specifically, not that they shouldn't use the basic structure of an intro, paragraphs with supporting/elaborating points, and conclusion?
Edit: Okay I can see that there is a little more specific to a five paragraph essay. I guess I would teach it. But I would also teach other less restrictive essay formats alongside it.
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Disclaimer: potty talk.
Conversations with James.
3 years 7 months
James: Mummy, do stars come out of my butt or what?
Me: What!?!
James: Well.... Is a star a cloud of gas or what?
Me: Yes son, a star is mostly made of hydrogen and a little bit of helium. The gas your fart is made from a different type of gas made by the bacteria in your intestines. Mostly oxygen, nitrogen, methane and a little bit of sulfur I think.
James: .....okay, so no stars. I didn't think my fart had enough force to send them far far away.
I believe he had been pondering this one for a bit.
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I actually used to write these down. They are part of my conversations with James series. I need to keep it up. They just become less precocious as they get older. I will add them here bit by bit.
Conversations with James.
3 years 5 months
James: Mummy I need chocolate.
Me: Oh you do?
James: Yes. Need to eat chocolate is the predicate. I am the subject. The predicate is what the subject does. Right?
Me: .....
James: Pwease mummy. Just a wittle bit.
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Food is always safe. Usually someone will eat it. Cookies, Hickory farm basket.
A nice tie if he wears business apparel?
Or just a generic hygiene kit with soap, shaving stuff.
Early Readers--Is this a normal phase of learning?
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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My son did the contraction thing too! I thought it was odd but apparently it is pretty common with early readers. I don't know when he stopped. But I just now realized he no longer says it.
My son reads for at least an hour a day. It is one of his favourite things. I read to him about 30 minutes. We buddy read chapters for part of that time. When he is alone he will read anything from a very very basic picture books to text books.
We often have an issue with print size of books. We use an e reader (iPad) to enlarge print so that he doesn't fatigue with smaller more clustered print.