Arboreal TJ
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Letsplaymath that site is hilarious! My kids loved the bovine video, my DH was disturbed!
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Garlic works well, best crazy advice I ever got. I don't want to be the newbie explaining the garlic treatment, google can explain it.
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My 5 yr old twins don't care for Math but they are good at it. This year they breezed through MUS Primer, they are breezing through MUS Alpha too. One asked me this morning when he could be done with Math. I told him after he took his final test. He asked to take the test. I gave him the test orally and he only missed one.
How do I make this fun for them? They love word problems but they can't read well.
I'm thinking about taking a month off formal Math and starting up again with Beta after Christmas. Any ideas how to engage their minds during our break from formal instruction?
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Good question :)
I found the instructions in Lego's archive. We love Lego Education products in our house! Can't wait till my guys are old enough for Mindstorms!
http://cache.lego.com/bigdownloads/buildinginstructions/4129449.pdf
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My boys (5) finished the 100 EZ Lesson book but lacked fluency. I started them in AAS hoping it might help. They loved it so much I splurged and got AAR1. They are plowing through at a lesson a day. I wish I had started them in AAR. Reading has gone from screams of protest to "Spelling is my favorite subject." They lump reading and spelling together.
AAR is our 4th reading curriculum, it is worth it's weight in gold!
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The curriculum is expensive!
http://www.crossfitkids.com/index.php/Store/
I am trying it with my kids this year and hoping to start a mobile homeschool box, think capable of setting up at a park, next year. I am not certified but I hope to be eventually.
You could easily adapt the CrossFit kids WOD for your kids. The curriculum provides info on teaching technique and uses a gradual progression building up to more complicated elements.
CrossFit is such a wonderful sport but sadly it's insanely expensive. My hope is to start a nonprofit homeschool box and open it up to the masses. My major hurdle is certification costs :( I've been slowly acquiring or making child size equipment. My 2 yr old does some phenomenal PVC squats :). My 5 year olds play on rings hung from a door jam pull-up bar when we review Math facts or they just need to get their wiggles out.
I looked at putting my kids in the local CrossFit kids class but for the cost the 6 week program I could buy the curriculum and enough child specific equipment to WOD my kids at home for several years.
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This is a nice find! I'm new to the boards and beyond excited to see some crossfitters! I wod 3 times a week in my garage gym with a friend. I use CrossFit elementary curriculum with my twin kindergarteners. I often do the CrossFit kids WOD :)
We are not strictly paleo. Meal planning is a challenge, there isn't a lot of paleo that is quick.
I am tall, squats, specifically overhead squats are very humbling!
Nice to "meet" all of you.
Math help
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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Doppelt do you have any of the Mortensen Math books? I was looking at Ramone's blog and it's interesting. I like the approach, it appears Demme and Ramone had the same teacher. Ramone's blog has an infomercial feel to it, reading it makes me feel like I'm watching Billy Mays selling ShamWow :)
If I can get past the feeling that I'm being duped by an excellent salesman will I be happy with the content? I'd really like to see more but I'm not ready to pay to see more KWIM?