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The Categorlal Series is a lot of fun.
If he likes workbooks, my son loves CLE language arts (Mennonite) but he also loves spectrum workbooks. It didn't take much to learn grammar. We just used lots of examples and pointed out grammar as we buddy read. So neither have been unnecessary, just done for fun.
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I remember reading an American book and it mentioned the dad giving the kids a swat on the fanny. Now that means girl parts in Australia! And much more inappropriate.
I don't think pu(ss)y is used as widely in America as it is in Australia. My mum says pussy cat to my American son.
Oh and willy wetting or wet Willy's don't sound nearly so dirty in the US because willy isn't often referred to as a boy part.
Oh and I also discovered that American's do not know what cock horses are. As in ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross.
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10, 5, 2,
Then 15 and 25. Maybe add 100 and 1000 etc for place value
10, 5 and 25 are important with money in the US.
5 and 15 are important with time.
Time and money are usually covered before multiplication.
I think 4 is easier than 3 if they have mastered 2s. And then 3, 6, 7,8,9,11,12
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Mortensen Math.
Check out Crewton Ramone.
http://www.crewtonramoneshouseofmath.com/mortensen-math.html
http://www.montessorialbum.com/montessori/index.php?title=Mortensen_Math
Also read lots of living math books. Start with a simple series of books like the ones by Stuart Murphy.
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Kenyon College! Great college. Maybe not Stem enough. There might not be enough around here. But it is 1 hour to a capital city. 8 hours from DC, Chicago, NYC. So lots of options for over night trips. But we live in beautiful country.
Honestly I have heard that Chicago has many great options. But Cincinnati/Hamilton area in Ohio has some amazing public schools.
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My kid (4 y.o) is pretty passive. But if he does react it is a shove. Just because it is easiest. I don't like it. But sometimes the 2 year old I watch can be a bit more aggressive. He is a slap, open handed or hit with an object anywhere kind of guy. When he was little it was often over the head or across the face just because it was easiest to access. I don't know how much he learnt. He was surrounded by a few men who used to think they had to teach him to punch and be rough. But I think a lot of it was just his more temperamental nature. He had gotten better as he has gotten older.
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My issues with dictionaries is that the print is so fine it turns my son off. He does have a very good 2 set picture dictionary but he now needs one that is more advanced.
I loved my little heinemann dictionary when I was in school.
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I have a friend that has had one a month since her daughter started preschool 3 months ago. SHE doesn't like the fundraising but I think she handles it well. She just posts a status on Facebook saying her daughter has a fundraiser selling such and such. If anyone is interested they can PM her.
No pressure and people know about it.
I know people that are always seeking out Girl Scout cookies. So I think people do want to know. But they don't want to be badgered. And many people want to support schools ans clubs.
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I do feel that crossing the midline is a little overrated as an explanation for sooo many things.
None of mine crawled. I didn't crawl. We all pulled ourselves up one day and off we went, walking at 9 months. Has it has any appreciable effect on our lives ? No.
Crawling isn't the only way to cross the midline. Running cross patterned, riding a bike. Many day to day activities. My son didn't crawl much either. But he naturally did other activities that compensated.
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Oh, it's just about hand strength? Not core strength or coordination or opposite movements or anything? In that case, pshaw. Lots of ways to work on or demonstrate that.
ETA: If it's really just about the hand strength, I'd rather put my kids to work on learning to give me a shoulder massage. That'll help their hand strength... and my stress levels. ;)
I like that idea!
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I didn't get my pen license until the end of 6th grade! I still have terrible handwriting.I always had nice handwriting (boast: I was first in my school class to be awarded my Pen License!) and never mastered monkey bars. As Regentrude said, monkey bars is gross motor and penmanship is fine motor. Are you sure this "advice" isn't just meaning that kids should have ample time to exercise and play outside rather than being pushed into too much academics too soon?
However my boast, I was one of 2 that could do the monkey bars in 1st grade!
The reason for the monkey bars is just that it increases hand strength. It is just one of many recommended activities. Playing with play dough, clothes pins, beads, lacing are others.
So sure it helps! It doesn't hurt. But it is not a necessity.
http://movingsmartblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/m-is-for-monkeybars-getting-ready-for.html
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My next quesadilla is going to be an hexaflexagon!
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Yeah my kiwi friends all say e,i and a a little differently to me but their o is the same. Unless it is one of their Nouri names in which case it might say anything from P to w! :)
Orange here in Australia is O as in ON. We say O-Ranj definitely not OR-Ranj.
Or aw-rinj like some do in the US.
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I absolutely love this book!
How does a cow go to sleep? Tell me now, how does a cow go to sleep?
A cow lies down on the soft sweet hay in the barn at the end of a day. That is how a cow goes to sleep moo moo. That is how a cow goes to sleep.
Then it goes through all the animals.
It has been a few years since I read this book so I am not sure it I got that entirely accurate. But it makes me want to pull it out and read it to my son tonight.
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ROFL at the 1-star reviews!
Fraud! Lol.
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As an Aussie in Ohio i certainly understands where you are coming from with vowel sounds.
An Australian o sounds more like the way a VIRGINIAN would say the vowel sound in caught or naught or ought. At least I think that applies to NOVA and the southern more rural areas. To an Aussie how a Virginian says orange is with an aw sound. Aw-rinj.
HTH.
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My son was smitten with Ramona.
He also loves Heidi so much that he named our dog after her.
He also really liked Alice in Wonderland and Dorothy from the Wizard of. Oz, even though they are more fantasy like.
A Little Princess and The Secret Garden were good choices also.
My son has a thing for girl protagonists. I have yet to find a book with a boy protagonist that he has loved so much. Sadly he wouldn't get into Henry Huggins or any other Beverly Cleary books.
Other books that many kids seem to love are books written by Roald Dahl. He might like Matilda or even sweet Charley from the Chocolate factory.
Oh he did like the antics in Mr Popper's Penguins and the hilarity in Mrs Piggle Wiggle.
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I did recommend this book but I had completely forgotten about the mushrooms! The king died by eating a bad one. My son would not touch a mushroom for a very long time.But it also could be scary for a child who gets scared by things.
I had a fear of mushrooms for some time because someone in a Babar book got sick from one. (and I suppose a child inclined to fears might worry about other foods too) Otherwise, I recall loving Babar books. My ds had a Babar yoga book that he liked. But he liked more realistic and cozy things like Little House on the Prairie type books much better.
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Sounds like my boy. He too was distraught over Curious George. He could not handle the naughty monkey. But he did okay when I read Babar. The mother gets shot by hunters.He actually doesn't care about death. He doesn't understand why people find it sad or scary...it is other people's emotions surrounding the death that he can't deal with. At the beginning of that chapter, I just stated matter of factly who had died and then skipped past all the mourning. He was actually much more concerned about the hair dying than the actual dying.
Wendy
But I certainly understand the need for very plain books. Farm like stories were good. As are very ordinary events in a child's day
One morning in Maine by Robery McCloskey was much better received here than Blueberries for Sal.
My son also likes the books by Virginia Lee Burton.
Little House makes sweet picture books that my son did well with also. Little House in the Big Woods was good because it was basically an instruction manual. There are things to skip. But you can pre read those. I wouldn't go beyond the first book though.
There is this amazing book farmyard tales. The stories are so simple and boring but my son and I have gone through it many times over. He almost wore the book out. I had to tape the spine back together. This book was a huge stepping stone for getting my son to read more picture books.
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Book-Farmyard-Tales-Usbourne/dp/0794509029
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I highly recommend the free www.readingbear.org. It demonstrates the blending in several ways in word families.
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Yup Alcott's Little Women.I believe Little Women is.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/102
has Little Women, as well as 8 Cousins, Old Fashioned Girl, and so on.
Or do you mean Little House??
My son loved Understood Betsy, that one was a surprise for me. We also enjoyed Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Growing up I loved Anne of Green Gables, and Little Women.
My son also enjoyed The Princess and the Goblin and The Princess and the Curdie. The Light Princess was also a hit, as was Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (that one surprised me as well).
Milo Winter's version of Aesop is my favorite, but I've mostly read modern versions, if there is a better public domain version I'd love to hear about it.
For more adult novels, I could go on all day :).
Yes Five Little Peppers and. How they Grew. I loved that as a kid.
I love Little Women. I related to Jo very much. I was not a girly girl. I like the sequels where she had a school for boys so much and I really wanted to open something like that myself. It was always a dream. Not just for boys. Just for children in general.Most of the Anne books have been public domain, but one is not? All the Alcott books are PD? And there will be no more public domain books in the USA until at least 2019, right?
Korrale, do you LIKE these books? PERSONALLY do you ENJOY them? These are lower on my list to read myself, as it seems like people universally recommend them. I'd like to hear from people I admire and trust that they have read the book recently and PERSONALLY suggest it. Please, any PD books you are reading with your little man right now, I'd love a short review from you.
I don't want to add books that people don't actually enjoy, but we all have labeled as "good for you".
I want someone to be able to buy a mom in crisis a Kindle, load it with the books, and have the mom and children ENJOY themselves. If a mom and children have lost EVERYTHING in a flood/fire and are now all cramped into one bedroom of a grumpy mother-in-law's house, I don't want them subjected to "good for you" but unenjoyable.
As noted about I loved The Five Little Peppers but I have not read that since I was a kid.
Recently my son and I both read Heidi. I would add that to a list. My son loved it so much that when he got a puppy recent he named her Adelheid, but we call her Heidi.
We also loved A Little Princess and A Secret Garden.
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I think Anne of Green Gabels became public domain this year.
Are all The Little Women books in there?
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We love CLE the lessons are short. But they are rigorous in a gentle way. It doesn't make sense until you start doing CLE. I know you mentioned secular, CLE is religious. But we are secular and it is too good for me not to make it work. And honestly there isn't too much religious stuff. Maybe a little in the story problems. And at the beginning of first grade it did mention 1 god. But there is nothing preachy.
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My son does not care for dinosaurs. But he learnt quite a bit reading the first Magic Tree House Book Dinosaurs before Dark and the accompanying Fact Tracker. We will watch Walking with Dinosaurs this week.
Awkward Moments in Vintage Books: Make me Laugh
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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Probably used more in QLD. it means being given a lot of flack, or taking a beating. Usuallg when there is bad press about something they are copping a pasting. Or if someone is getting beaten in a sport.