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I agree with this. I think many homeschoolers school year round.And note that the discs are incompaitble with the newest MAC iOS update...
I do think 10 months is too short for most of us. Why not 12 months?
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Back to the drawing board for me [emoji23]
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Thank you so much, this is so helpful!I think you should probably just go with Math Mammoth, which is straightforward and cheap and just as good for most kids.
But if you go with Singapore, it's not that complex.
Textbook - introduces concepts and has some problems (think "classwork" problems)
Workbook - practices all the basic concepts
Extra Practice - for kids who need more practice before they get it, typically good for kids who are a little behind or struggling
Intensive Practice - harder problems for kids who need more challenge
Challenging Word Problems - all word problems, they're actually challenging, also good for kids who need more challenge
Home Instructor's Guide - the teacher book for you with lesson plans, etc.
It's not rocket science so you can potentially skip the HIG. Most people do some combo of 2-3 of the above books. Textbook and workbook is the most common, but if you had a kid who needed more, there's more options. Kids who get concepts fast may not need the workbook - you could do the textbook and the Intensive Practice, for example.
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Maybe look at All About Spelling. It's very gentle and you move at his pace. At the same time, its very thorough and teaches spelling rules which works well for my perfectionist.
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My oldest currently does "notebook" to start each day which has fast worksheets that cover day of the week, how to fill out a calendar, reading a clock, temperature, season, practicing place value, etc.
He's outgrowing it a little bit and I think next year I'd like to replace it. The Evan-Moor daily practice workbooks look perfect. Has anyone else used them for this?
Any other ideas for what to put into that time slot? Memory work and read aloud will continue as they always have.
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The Singapore website is really not very helpful. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what the extra workbooks are used for. Would there be plenty of practice in just the workbook?Beast can absolutely stand alone, but for the right kid. Some kids need more practice. For them, Beast might still be a good side program or supplement, or it might not.
I think you didn't really give enough information for anyone to know if Beast is the right program for your student though. And it can be hard to know. It's a really challenging program that requires a kid who is willing to be frustrated by not always being able to get the right answer right away, or possibly ever.
You don't need a million different books to do Singapore math. Some people just use the workbook. Or just use the textbook and workbook. You don't even necessarily need the Home Instructor's Guide for this age. The large number of books in Singapore is really part of its flexibility as a program. I have only rarely heard of a student who does the textbook, workbook, extra practice, intensive practice, and the challenging word problems all in one year.
However, there are other "rigorous" options in the same vein as Singapore but are laid out differently. There's Math Mammoth, which is just one worktext. There's Math in Focus, which is a Singapore math but looks more like an American textbook.
I'm with your dh though... if you think your student is going to have a knack for math, I wouldn't do TT.
My husband is dead set on trying BA one way or another so at this point I'm looking for something to pair with it / be a fallback. I'm pretty well talked out of TT and I can't see paying $120 twice for math anyway. I really like the look of math mammoth.
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It's another math question, I'm sorry.
I have a 5 year old halfway through Math U See alpha. We're all pretty much over MUS and feel like it's holding him back. When he finishes this I'd like to switch programs.
My original intention was to go to Teaching Textbooks basically only because it's so independent. That means he'd be "skipping" a second grade program and going straight to Math 3. I've heard that TT is about a grade level behind so this makes sense.
However, my husband thinks TT is not rigorous enough and we'll be doing yet another disservice to him. He likes the look of Art of Problem Solving and thus wants to start Beast Academy for 2nd grade. It certainly seems a more rigorous program. Is there enough practice in it?
My main concern with BA is that while my son has grasped math easily, he got a slower start with reading. We're still almost a year out from starting it, but I'm worried I would have to read everything to him and in comic form, wouldn't that be confusing?
Any other suggestions welcome, too. We looked at Singapore but I am so turned off by needing to buy 87 books per year for it. [emoji849] That's the only other program we've looked at.
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My 1st grader started WWE, FLL, and SotW in January. All feature quite a lot of narration, which is a new skill to my son. This is not a skill I myself am very familiar with so I feel lost trying to teach him how to do it.
I read him the passage, ask him the questions given in the manual, and then ask him to tell me what the passage was about or what happened or what he remembers. Is this wrong?
So far he can almost never tell me. He gives me one word answers or says things like, "the king." I continuously ask him leading questions such as what about the king? What did the king do? Why? And then what happened? But it's like pulling teeth and I think I might be doing it wrong?
Please any insight or tips to help us both master this skill would be so appreciated.
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On the purchase form there is a notice that the ebook is not printable. I'm confused because there is also a kindle ebook for purchase. Can anyone confirm that the pdf is also not printable?
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Well crud. I already have the paperback that has both.
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I hope you guys don't think I'm a super weirdo for asking this and I 100% own up to being extremely type A but...
I have the SotW activity book here (and WWE is the same way) which I love but the first half is sort of teacher's guide while the second half is perforated student pages to be torn out. I don't know if I can handle the idea of tearing out the student pages and having this weird half torn out book as my manual. 😣 What do you do?
I wish it was coil bound so I could easily unbind the whole thing, alas it is not. I don't know of a way to chop off the binding so I could put the teacher's section in its own binder.
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Thank you! Another question: for those of you using Mystery Science again, are you repeating the mysteries this year or are there enough new ones that you haven't had to repeat any?
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I was planning to use Mystery Science for my first grader next year but now that I'm looking at the units in the free trial I'm not sure if there is enough content there for a full year. Or maybe I'm just seeing a very limited menu because I'm on a trial?
Basically what I see listed for ages 5-6 or 5-8 is
- Force Olympics (2 mysteries)
- Weather Watching (2 mysteries)
- Animal Secrets (2 mysteries) - locked
- Spinning Sky (2 mysteries)
- Lights & Sounds (2 mysteries)
- Animal Superpowers (2 mysteries) - locked
That's only 12 mysteries for his age range unless there are more somewhere I'm missing. That would be awfully pricey for 12 weeks of lessons,
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We're schooling year round from January to November so 1st is still a long way off for us and a lot will change just depending on how far we get this year.
Language Arts
Reading: Explode the Code 2 or 3
Grammar: First Language Lessons 1
Penmanship: Zaner-Bloser 1? We're doing K now and I don't like it but I haven't seen anything better yet.
Spelling: All About Spelling 1, yall convinced me.
Read Alouds: My list is in good shape on Goodreads.
Math
Math U See alpha and/or beta
Science
Mystery Science (thanks again!) Possibly with the Evan Moor Daily Science 1
Religion
Devotional: undecided
Catechism: Faith and Life 1
Social Studies
History: Story of the World 1
Geography: DK Geography 1 and a maps, charts, and graphs workbook
Foreign Language
Spanish: Song School Spanish
Music
Piano: My First Piano Adventures and Hoffman Academy
Art
Draw Write Now
Logic
Lollipop Logic or Mind Benders or both?
Life Skills
Cooking: working on a list of children's cookbooks
Gardening? Thinking about this.
Physical Education
Karate continuing (Hoping to achieve blue belt before end of the year)
Yoga continuing
Swim lessons continue if still not swimming proficient
Soccer season 3
Basketball season 2
Baseball?
I still have a LOT to figure out. Sorry about potato formatting, I'm mobile.
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I can't find one?
Language Arts
Reading: Explode the Code 1 or we might be on 2 by then
Grammar: First Language Lessons 1
Penmanship: Zaner-Bloser 1? We're doing K now and I don't like it but I haven't seen anything better yet.
Spelling: I don't knooowwww. Help! I'm looking at All About Spelling (this might be too involved for me, if I have to get out 42 pieces everyday I will probably slack off and not do it), Spelling Workout, and Spelling Power.
Read Alouds: working on this.
Math
Math U See alpha and/or beta
Science
Can't decide? Behold and See 1 or BJU Science 1 though I'm very turned off by the BJU price tag.
Religion
Devotional: undecided
Catechism: Faith and Life 1
Social Studies
History: Story of the World 1
Geography: DK Geography 1 and a maps, charts, and graphs workbook
Foreign Language
Spanish: Song School Spanish
Music
Piano: My First Piano Adventures? Looking at some online things too.
Art
Draw Write Now
Logic
Lollipop Logic or Mind Benders or both?
Life Skills
Cooking: working on a list of children's cookbooks
Gardening? Thinking about this.
Physical Education
Karate continuing
Yoga continuing
Soccer season 3
Basketball season 2
Baseball?
I still have a LOT to figure out. I would specifically love suggestions for science (secular or Catholic), penmanship, and spelling. [emoji16]
Geography for early elementary
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What do you use? We're using SOTW for history so he gets some map work that way. Then we're using maps, charts, and graphs book A along with a DK geography workbook. I'm not sure its sticking though.
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