Arboreal TJ
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Your son sounds like my boys. AAR is our 4th try at a reading curriculum and it's working! We tried osmosis :-p and Bob Books, 100 EZ Lessons and Funnix before biting the bullet for AAR. I actually started with AAS, my boys loved it so much I started them over at day 1 with AAR 1 with no regrets.
We are currently on AAR2 doing AAS1, it is working well. I have my boys spell with the letter tiles, handwriting is an issue in our house too.
To answer your questions
1. You could adapt AAS to teach reading but I wouldn't try with a slow learner, AAR has been perfect for my slow guys.
2. It would not be overkill to use both at the same time. If we aren't covering new material in AAR I use that day to review the AAR fluency sheet and do AAS. We review AAS key cards everyday but we only work on new spelling material on light AAR days.
3. Yes, if I had it to do all over again I would finish AAR1 then do AAR2 with AAS1.
Hope that helps.
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I've been looking too, with no luck. Hopefully someone will chime in. There seems to be a crisis of quality in the science kit supply industry. Every time I get excited about a kit it turns out to be cheap plastic equipment packaged in a fancy box.
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I pulled all the fluency sheets out and spiral bound them with the cover from the activity book. For some strange reason my kids like reading from the fluency "book" better than the fluency "sheet."
We never do the entire sheet in one sitting, I'd have an out right mutany!
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My boys struggled with days of the week and months of the year when we started Fred. I started "memory work" each school day to work on these. I used the cards from our calendar to review days of the week every morning, eventually I gave them the cards all mixed up and told them to organize. We repeated the process with months. It worked well.
We do squats, hold plank, hang from a pull up bar or other physical activity while doing memory work orally, it keeps things fun and us fit. We love Fred!
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For those who have used SSL1 - is the Teacher Edition worth having too?
I'm curious too! The description for the Teacher's manual says it includes the student text, could I make it work just buying the TM and CD?
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I bought the basic kit and added the boxes later. Boxes are worth the cost IMHO, as long as shipping is free. I ordered from Rainbow Resource, FYi
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Another vote for Pentime!
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<surname> Institute of Chaos, decreasing entropy since 2012!
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When my kids started throwing Math tantrums I stopped everything but Fred, after a few weeks I tossed in some Xtramath (free online fact mastery) and just today we started up MEP below their level. If MEP causes tantrums again we'll go back to just LoF and xtramath.
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Our tentative plan for 1st:
AAR
AAS
FLL1
WWE1
SOTW1
BFSU
Artistic Pursuits Book 1/Draw Squad
BSGFAA/TGS
Pentime cursive
MEP/LOF/CWP
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I've got CWP1, all the answers are in the back or at least they seem to be...
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I supplemented Alpha with CWP1, there is some basic multiplication and division in CWP1 but nothing my kids can't handle using the blocks and a little guidance. CWP is far superior to the word problems we've encountered in MUS. I don't think you can go wrong if you start with CWP2 or higher, CWP1 might be too easy for your kids.
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Awesomeness with a cherry on top!
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Bumping for you.
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It depends on the child. When my DD was 2.5 she was begging to do school so we started AAR Pre1. It was slow glowing at first but it's clicking now. She may be ready for AAR1 next Fall at age 3.5. My boys started AAR1 just before they turned 6, they didn't do the Pre1. My boys would NOT have done well with AAR1 if we had started much earlier.
I don't think you can go wrong with the Pre1 as long as you don't have expectations. I wouldn't start AAR1 until the child can identify letters and most of their sounds.
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Not crazy at all! My boy/boy twins are my oldest but I totally understand the energy output at that age!
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We started with some sight words, switched to 100EZ Lessons, there was some Bob Books and Funnix mixed in, we finally landed on AAR. I can not sing enough praise to Marie Rippel!
Anyway, yes my boys mix up b/d along with the/and all the time. I blame the/and on the few weeks of sight words, so glad we jumped ship on sight words.
FWIW we recently finished AAR1, I bought AAR2 but planned to give my boys a few weeks off new material, they BEGGED to start the frog book.
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DD just turned 3, she begs for school. I started giving her 5-10 min of appeasement school a day. At a young 3 DD knows more than her brothers did starting K at an old 5.
AAR Pre-1
MUS Primer
Tagging along with her brothers for Science, Art, History and Read Alouds
I will avoid handwriting as long as I can, when she begs for it we'll do Pentime cursive. She's a lefty and I hate, for lack of a stronger word, teaching handwriting.
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Timeline of Classics might be something to look at. IEW recently added it to their lineup with an ebook option.
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We make change Crewton Ramone style. Quick, easy and my severely normal 6 yr olds can do it with ease.
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I have never been in a brick and mortar store that sells homeschool curricula.
Online stores I love:
Rainbow Resource
Exodus Books
Amazon
when all else fails I order from the publisher
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As long as my total was under $50 they offered media mail, over $50 media mail wasn't an option. Hmm it makes fiscal sense to place two orders....
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I'm drooling over it...thankfully my kids are way too young to indulge :-)
I preordered "A Child's First Book of American History" today along with a few other books. A few minutes after I received a confirmation e-mail I received another e-mail adjusting the invoice to reflect free shipping! No idea why they did that but it was a nice surprise! I'm falling in love with all things Beautiful Feet!
What do you supplement MUS with?
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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I use MUS to teach concepts and reinforce with their drill pages. MEP is our spine. LoF is a fun supplement and CWP nicely rounds things out. We've completed Primer and Alpha, I have no intention of using the student texts for any other levels, IMHO the word problems are weak and the worksheets are simple to recreate.