have you tried mother hubbard website my dd was the same but these free printables have made a real difference and she loves colouring them in and reading them :) hope it helps

i have started writing the answers for her because its too much for her to think about and this seems to work really well :)

sorry to jump in here but dd is starting sotw now, do children this young understand a timeline? as another site said no so i am confused :confused: any tips please

thanks for all your tips i am so glad this is normal, i think your right she is just playing me up, but the idea of a reward at the end and humour i will be trying, thanks again any more ideas are welcome :)

hopefully this will be my last question :) i have tried lots of different ways to teach my dd5.5 to read, but she does not like any of them, she gets bored, crys says its too hard etc etc, she knows all her letter sounds can blend 3 letter words but does not want to read!!!!!! does anyone have any suggestions for a cheap phonic reading cd rom? thanks

yes please sounds great :)

thanks for all your help, its difficult to know which way to turn :) dd is 5.5yrs and we have tried lots of different phonic programmes which she did not like, she seems okay with phonics pathways so far, but i heard other families saying they have a break from it for a few months! so will wait and see what happens. thank you all for your tips :)

oh earache is horrid, i use to get it lots, and dd1 gets it alot :( yeah were in the uk :) will log on later. hope you feel better and get some sleep

thank you i have just put it in on amazon and it comes up with lots of different levels, how do you know what level your child is at??? :confused1: thanks

i am still very new to home schooling! i keep hearing people mentioning etc can someone tell me what it is? what age to start? any general advise? sorry if this is a repeat or a silly question :blush: thanks

how far into the book did you get before you got into the rut? we are doing at the moment, after trying 100 ez lessons and jolly phonics which dd 5.5 hated.

hey all another question from us here :) i am trying to put together an art appreciation plan for a 4 year cycle, does anyone else do this? what years go together? i will bw doing 12 artists a year but how to divide them up? logically? thanks in advance x

sorry should have said she is 5.5yrs and the younger ones are ds 2.5 and dd2 is 9 months, i know she is young still but in the uk they start them young! thanks for the links it really helps :)

thanks for all your tips have a lot to google now ahhh its really hard cause i dont know how to tell what kind of learner she is, any ideas, now i sound like a really bad mum :( please forgive me i am soo new to to all this and lack of sleep from younger kiddies cimt is a free maths curriculum with teacher notes, worksheets and pictures etc abit like signapore but free from england. it is really good and we use it as a basis. will try and link it www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/projects/mep/default.htm hope it works thanks in advance for any help this is great

okay, thats great now i understand the term! we are using cimt, do children find flashcards easier or songs or worksheets and were do i get them from preferably for free!!! i ask a lot i know :( thanks for your time in reading :)

sorry to ask about maths again :( i have seen posts about maths drills, and need some tips on how to do it, its the sort of thing to do in the car with her, sorry again so here goes just a few questions???? what are maths drills? flashcards songs any suggestions and where from? is it like number bonds? aaaahhhhhh could scream

what age should we be doing poetry memorization? and what should we start with? and the same questions about logic??? sorry if this is a repeat question as you can tell i am very new to this :)

My dd1 is doing earthquakes, volcanoes, houses and homes, the water cycle and 3 countries of her choice. we are not following any particular curriculum, as we have made this up ourselves and will go with her interests.

we have made ours, we bought a piece of mdf and painted it with black board paint, and it has worked brilliant.:D

we are using phonics pathways and love it i have tried so many different reading programmes but this by far the easiest and her favourite :D

we did that as well, had to get dd1 up at 4am to watch the trampolining, and she has decided she wants to start competing!!!!

thanks these are great :001_smile: does anyone know any science curriculums that cover biology chemistry and physics, that are relatively cheap, she may be in K but i think grade 1 or 2 would be fine. any ideas are great thanks

thanks this is all great she is like that all the time can we do an experiment!!! she loves to do chemical reactions!! shame its in my kitchen when i want to cook tea :lol:

hi my dd is 5.5yrs, i know she is young to be worrying about science, but the trusth is she loves it and is like sponge at absorbing scientific facts and understanding the therory, every thing i have looked at is very basic, i am looking at doing forces, plants, human body, light, sight this year, today we have been learning about the location and pronounciation of spine, scapula, ribs, phalanges, etc, but this was the result of a massage!!! sorry to waffle on, but i want to encourage her in a subject she loves, and some workbooks for her age, she says "mummy, this is too easy are you having a laugh", so any ideas please thanks for reading

my dd is 5.5yrs and after alot of advise we have decided to put a hold on latin and concentrate on spanish as we live in the uk, and my parents are moving there in a few years it seems logical, we are putting latin on the back burner until the end of the year. also when i was in school, they said that spanish is easier to learn than french, and i must agree my dd is finding it easier, especially with dora the explorer stuff so easily available :001_smile: hope this helps a little