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I do feel it is pretty open and go and has a lot of built in review. I spend about one night(two at the most) prepping all the materials when we start a new level(whether its a child moving up a level or a new level we haven't done yet). Then in the morning I review the lessons to make sure I know what we are covering that day/get out any other materials I might need. I try and save the cut out things or the stapled things from the activity book for each lesson so that when the next child uses that level I don't have to redo them. I usually do the cutting out/stapling the day of( or night before IF I remember!) Otherwise I do it when they are all doing something independent. If I was super organized I would spend about a week in the summer getting ALL of that prepped. As far as time its about 20 minutes sometimes longer depending on how the lesson is going. I have one child that some of it is review so we don't do all the activities and we get more done/spend a little more time because there is more stamina there then some of the younger ones where 20 minutes is about all they can handle. I do try and have them do parts of the review pages in the evening to someone other then me just for practice but that doesn't always happen so we try and cover it as part of the lesson. We do not currently use AAS although I do have the first two levels on my shelf. It is very much a one on one program especially if you have kids on different levels but if you do it by time instead of looking at it as you have to finish a lesson a day it is much easier to get done with multiple children if that makes sense. Hope that helps!

I like All About Reading. I have 3 children in 3 different levels. We used OPGTR and LOE Foundations previously. AAR has lots of built in review. It is pretty open and go once you get set up at the beginning. We work for a set amount of time, mark our place and pick up there the next time we have a lesson. I wish we would have started with it instead of floundering around on other programs.

Still waiting here too! Do they come UPS or USPS??

Are you sure that you selected USA at the top right? When I did that it says they are printed on demand in the US.

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What about math minutes? http://www.creativeteaching.com/content/search.aspx?SearchTerm=Math%20minutes

MerryAtHope I will try your suggestions! Calming Tea- we don't have problems with the blankness of apples and pears(that's our spelling too). We have tried the work for x amt and then get a break. Hasn't worked for him. I can sit next to him and redirect but he still will sit and avoid it as long as he can. For some reason it's just math but if I have him teach me he knows it! I have seen the colored lens thing before and may need to look more into that idea thanks!

How long is too long to scribe for math? My 3rd grader(9yo) completely shuts down when presented a workbook page of problems to solve on his own. We have struggled with this all year. I had hoped that he would become more independent as I have 2 others younger then him to teach as well. He will sit ALL day and not write a thing but if I have him "teach" it to me(I even make mistakes and he corrects me) and I write we are done in no time and he usually gets everything right. The only thing he will write is when its Beast Academy(he willingly went back and corrected things and sat for an hour actually working math one day in BA). We did some singapore this year(finished 2B) but then I panicked and went to CLE 200/300 because I thought he was missing things(and thought it would increase his independence HA!) and we had BA for fun(he loves the comics). I am thinking of picking singapore back up where we left off and still scribing for him and maybe buddy math with him to see if he will write more and then continuing with BA since he enjoys it. I don't mind doing it on a white board either but how long is too long to continue scribing/doing it together? Will he eventually do the practice problems on his own? He would avoid writing for every subject if possible but does his spelling, WWE and written narrations without too much extra complaint it just seems to be the math that causes the most issues.

Just bought(about a month or so ago) an Epson WF-3640. I had debated a laser and a color printer but went with this after comparing number of pages and prices on ink. It has auto document feeder, duplex printing, scanning, and copying. It is wireless, prints from ipad,phone,etc. Has two trays to hold paper. The black ink I got with it does 2200 pages and I am pretty sure that the ink was under $60 for epson ink and I know there is cheaper ink on amazon that isn't name brand. I paid about $275 for the printer, extra high yield black ink and the high yield color ink(3 colors bought individually). So far I love it!

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I treat it as two different subjects. For WWE if he doesn't know how to spell a word I would have him ask and you give him the spelling(that's what we do here during dictation). We use apples and pears for spelling and have seen improvement but I still have to help with spelling during WWE. We also do story writing by dictation and then use it as our copy work.