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Why don't you let him pick out his own books at the library or used book store? Give him a basket. Let him picks out books he wants to read. Then you par down the books because of budget and suitability.
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Try "Set". It is cards with patterns on them. You lay out several of them. And everyone at once tries to find three cards in which everything in the three are either the same or different. When you do, you grab those cards, and replace them from the pile. The game is fairly cheap because it is just large cards. Amazing at Pattern Rec. and thinking quickly.
What is wild is that it is a thinking game in which children can regularly beat adults. The agility of their young minds is an advantage.
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One idea might be to pick a subject that your kids love and you would do anyway, but do that exclusively during the summer. It won't seem like "school", but it will free you up to maybe to 4 day weeks during the "school year".
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That is exactly what my elementary education was from when we moved in 3rd grade to 6th grade (late 70's early 80's). Including not being able to talk during lunch. Then I went to an excellent Junior High. Only thing that saved me was that I turned to reading. I probably read 4-5 hours per day while at school. I remember as an adult talking to a friend of mine that as a kid always got in trouble for reading during school. He said to me, "You didn't get in trouble?" I thought a minute and said, "They probably knew that the other option was me talking."
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Wasn't the big news that very morning before this that 22 people were knifed in China?
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I think video games are also being tossed around as a 'cause'.
What totally blows my mind about the article is that her reaction is totally upset what I would think is the obvious one.
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That article wasn't worth the time I spent speed-reading it. It was just a knee-jerk reaction.
After the horror, my first reaction was "I am so glad DD won't go to PS." I doubt I was the only one.
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...I know there are good series of math books out there for home schoolers, like Singapore and AOPS, but as a mathematician I yearn for the chance to see a really gifted kid like this read exceptional books aimed at him, i.e. he should really be in another category of learning than the usual sources.
I may be off base here, but I will risk suggesting that a future mathematician is someone with potential to do more than just excel at the usual math skills we all are somewhat familiar with. Being a good mathematician is not just being at the top of the usual scale of skills and knowledge. it means exploring in a much larger realm, it means not parroting but creating mathematics. Such students can quickly grow to appreciate math that is seldom even offered to most students even gifted ones, and they deserve to see that material, which is only available from the best authors....
Interesting idea. "Living Books" applied to math. I never would have thought of it.
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We plan on going all the way through, and then do dual enrollment when she can drive.
Although, the Dallas Science Magnet might be an option if she really wants the high school experience.
But, we have several major universities within driving distance, and I like the idea of decreasing the cost of college. The college class will be more likely to accepted for her college degree, and I remember that the actual college class was easier than my AP classes.
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If you could find a sale of college textbooks, and let him pick out a few books. I remember at that age picking out some and I really enjoyed them. I think because I selected them, and they weren't handed to me. I particularly enjoyed a college-level Logic book, LSAT prep book (loved the puzzles). I sniggered my way through Das Kapital. I read a bunch of Sociology and Pysch. books.
I actually think you'll find less to object to in college-level books. They won't be bringing out the gore in order to keep the attention of High Schoolers.
Also, for Literature, if you stick to the classics in addition to a more complex sentence structure, you won't have to pre-read since there will be complete descriptions out there.
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I had seen the phrase "toddler mouse" but I didn't know what it meant. I might look into that. Or maybe the velcro dot idea.
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A few months ago my 2-year-old requested to get on the computer. She hopped in the computer chair and looked at me with that bright shining face. My husband wasn't home that evening so I was looking for something for just the two of us to do, so I showed her Starfall. She loved it. We only ever do it when she requests it, she calls it "A B C's". She is now 2 1/3. She sits in my lap and I run the mouse basically turning our regular monitor into a touch screen. The only puzzle of the free part of Starfall that she can't do is the memory card game. I am a bit ambivalent about her being on the computer, but at the moment I am OK as long as it is a mommy activity. She is fairly bored with Starfall right now. Although, she still wants to get on. I have considered paying the money, but it seems like it quickly sets into reading books and I rather we stay on the pre-reading level, since she is 2.
What online preschool games/learning activities wouold you guys recommend? I was looking at time4learning, but I am not sure. We just have a regular PC, no tablets in the house.
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When I was that age, I read every Myth book I could get my hands on. They were all good. Seeing the slightly differences in the stories was interesting to me. One word of warning, though. I read one step more than I'd want my daughter to read. So, I thought I'd warn other parents.
There is a common theme where hero needs to do an impossible task. He goes to a god and gets some magical trinket that lets him complete the task. Some stories will indicate that the god could not say no to this hero. Which begs the question, what could hero have possibily done to be owed a favor by the god. I kept looking for an answer. The one step too far answered that. In that time period the rite of manhood involved an older man kidnapping an almost_man and taking him into the woods. Then teaching him how to be a man. They would hunt and fish and *ahem* other things. After that, the younger man could demand favors of the older man.
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I will try that. I think I've seen the ePub version for free on Amazon.
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My 2 1/3 year-old loves to imitate us. She will pick up my books and "read" them. I also have a e-book reader. She knows how to turn the pages in it because her godfather would let her play with the photos on his iPhone. Does anyone know of an ebook with lots of pretty Black and White illustrations? I'm not really concerned about the content. I would just like to encourage the reading imitations. I have the Nook touch that came out last year.
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We have travelled so far, but we won't in the future. I put my foot down last year and said that that was the last year at their house. I am an only child. It was a huge fuss. Dad even said that they weren't coming to our house next year. Mom's argument was that SHE had to travel on Christmas when I was a child so, I should have to travel on Christmas. I pointed out that we moved 1000 miles away from Grandparents when I was 8. What solidified it for me was that I have NO memories of a Christmas before we moved. I remember birthdays and lots of other stuff from much earlier. But Christmases were not special enough to remember before then. Probably because I was miserable and mom was stressed.
Of course, we will be moving during December. So they get one more Christmas at their house.
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What I've heard from other parents is that kids are labeled as slow if they aren't reading before first grade. So parents scramble to teach it at home otherwise their kid will lose any chance at a coveted "Gifted and Talented" spot.
Whereas, I remember being bored in first grade during the mid-70's because they just started teaching the kids to read. I was one of the spontaneous readers.
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Thank you so much for the recommendations! I'm very interested in the sonlight book list. I assume I can only order it by phone? I can't find anything about it on their website. Many of the books on the list are easily found in the library, so I can just buy the books that are harder to find, like the one about a ball of string.
I wouldn't even buy the list. The website will tell you the "included items" and you could go from there.
You could also look at the P3/4 list of books. A book you read to them at first would become a book that they read to themselves and then it could become a book that they read to you.
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This summer we went to the last day of the "Friends of the Library" sale. Each brown paper grocery sack worth of books cost $20. We got several great deals.
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Have you looked into the Math books that the Critical Thinking Company has? The ones I looked at (the early ones) are all about Math Reasoning, and they are things you son could do independently even with bad handwriting. If I remember right the first book starts at age 3.
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Oh my goodness. I feel stupid. I did NOT know that.
I'll google AAR.
Don't feel bad. I didn't either.
We are hesitant to have our 27-month old use computers yet. But, on Saturday she was sitting in the computer chair so cute, and she has been really wanting to learn to read. So, I thought we would try out Starfall.
She was so happy. She pointed at the monitor and I used the mouse. I told myself that it was like a moving book since she was in mommies lap, and I was running the mouse, and interacting with her.
The downside is that she became quite demanding to use it all the time. Even during our family time.
We plan on doing AAR-pre at her pace, but we are trying to buy another house so money is tight, so we haven't bought it yet.
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I am shopping for pre-K and K homeschooling stuff now. I really like the Singapore approach to math and planned on getting the Singapore Essentials workbooks. Then I discovered the Critical Thinking Company online and looked at their samples and fell in love. Thinking back to when I was a child, I did a lot better in school after I started to play logic games. So, the CTC stuff will be supplements. But, are the Singapore Essentials K books the exact same thing as the Math. Reasoning beginning book? I recently bought the older combined Math Reasoning book for $8, so I have it already. Experienced homeschoolers who have seen and/or used both, will the Singapore Essentials be a total duplicate?
Best home library app or software?
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ProfMom, what did you end up using?