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  1. I have only seen Powerspeak and Rosetta Stone. Both I felt were too advanced for my 6 year old. So I put him in formal classes. http://www.germanschools.org/Schools/List.htmThis will tell you if there is anything near you. Good luck!
  2. My son started learning German last year. He has done well with it and we plan to continue it. The rest of the house is also learning German, so none of us are fluent... Yet. I have been looking for a grammar curriculum for him, as I am not 100% happy with LLATL that we have been using. I like the Memoria Press literature series for him, but I see they don't introduce grammar till 3rd grade, and it is tied to Latin. I wouldn't mind my son learning Latin, but I also don't want to confuse him. Has anyone had their child learn Latin and another language in the same time, and had good success? My son will be starting a 2.5 hour class (once a week) for German starting in September. I really don't want to do anything that would be bad for him or hinder his German.
  3. I am in EXACTLY your shoes! I did Singapore standards grade 1 and we are in 2a and I am feeling like it didn't go as well as I would have liked. I even stopped the program for a few months last year JUST to focus on math facts, and while he is getting it slowly, I am starting to feel he has holes in his learning. We also are skipping the mental math, but that is because my son does better with vertical math then horizontal. We have also not liked the way everything is being taught. We are going to go to Shiller Math. It is a large cost up front, but if it works, we can use it for his younger brother too. My son gets bored with the long units in Singapore, so I am hoping the spiraling will be better for him. Also my son has MASSIVE test anxiety (something I know he will have to get over, but at 6 I am not worried yet). The assessments are not set up to be like a test, they are to find holes and fix them before moving on. The criticisms I have found on the program is it jumps around a lot, and if you put your child in pubic school they may be far above their peers. Neither is a negative for me. Don't know if this helped but thought I would try. 😊
  4. I read in WTM that at this age you don't need much. Well I am pregnant now so I can do that with the newbie, but with my existing child (the near 5 year old) I didn't do that. I don't want to feel like I am overloading him at this point but I also don't want him to forget what school is. We will not be using Calvert again. It was fine for the time that we used it but I am more creative now and I think I could piece something together that I would like better. Right now I would say that he is about at second semester K as far as development and knowledge. Science his higher then that in. Math he gets concepts but forgets how to count. I know that sounds strange but honestly that is how he is. So he knows how to add and subtract, but he will skip over numbers when counting (hence getting the wrong answer for the addition and subtraction). Reading he isn't really letting us know where he is at. If he sitting down, he will read basic books, but we know when we are out and about with him, he will read far more. He will also point out things that are not normal signs that he normally sees and tell us what they say. Writing he is doing a bit on his own but isn't really good at it yet. I am debating teaching him D'nealian as that is what I learned in school. Before I found WTM I was thinking of doing a normal 1st grade with him with an emphasis on counting, writing and finishing learning to read (phonics and sight words). So basically 1st grade history, science and math and where he is at now for reading/english and writing. Now I am wondering if I should REALLY downsize that or if I should figure out a happy medium that would be somewhat downsized but not doing minimal work. I am due to give birth to his sibling this week. So I have a good month before I am ready to do anything more then just what we are doing now (encouraging reading and counting). I am just confused now. There are things I like and things I don't know what I should do and so on. I can tell that my son clearly has a desire to learn about science (his father and grandfather are both scientists/engineers) so I don't want to do anything that would hinder that. If that means that I need to give him a year to calm down from his Pre-K and K work then I will do it. If I should barrel ahead with his 1st grade work, then I will do that too. I just don't know what I should be doing and I feel like I have done a disservice to him already. :(
  5. I just found this approach and I like it. However I have a problem. My son is going to be 5 at the end of September, and I have already put him through Calvert Pre-K and K. While I do think I could take a bit of a break with him this year, I don't want him to forget all about school and have a year off (if that makes sense). I am worried that if he does have a "year off" he will not want to do school when he needs to next year. I am working with him in a more relaxed setting now but should I also be sitting down with him from time to time to help him remember what school is for? Or am I over thinking this? It wouldn't be the first time I have done that! Thank you for your help!
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