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Teach Your Monster to Read
Progressive Phonics
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Search your library for counting to twenty books. DS likes "Lets count it out Jesse bear" and "Twenty trucks in the middle of the street."
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Slache, you were the one considering doing RS games and possibly the Activities book alongside Miquon, correct? Did you make a decision about that? What has you considering another program as well?
Have you looked at MEP? I've been looking at it and it looks very systematic, which is what I think is lacking from a RS games/Miquon blend. Right now I'm planning on going through MEP Reception to ease my boy into structured math, then start Miquon Orange with...something systematic. Possibly continue MEP or start Ray's.
I don't know much about Ray's, but I was under the impression its a harder program, that the first grade level really should be first grade, unlike what people say about Miquon Orange. Anyway, I was just curious as to what specific niche you are looking to fill with Ray's or SU if you are also going with Miquon and RS games/activities.
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The Activities book isn't only activities to use with the abacus. Like waa510 said, it was what the scripted curriculum grew from. It has a description of a math skill or topic, gives details on how to teach and practice that, and tells you when to progress to the next thing. Some of the activities include tally cards, finger counting, etc,...not just mental math strategies involving the abacus.
I have only used the very beginning so far with my three year old. I too liked what I heard about mental math and RS. But with such a youngster I wanted something I could use as a guide for teaching math in the course of free play, rather than in a structured way.
I plan to continue doing that, play RS games (which we use like any other family game time, not as designated math time), continue Education Unboxed, then start Miquon when he is ready for structured math lessons. The Activities book I believe will continue to be valuable as a source of ideas for introducing and practicing new concepts in ways different from Miquon. I hope anyway.
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I am doing that but with German. May I ask why you are doing so with Latin? The only benefit I can see of starting Latin so young is a head start on memorization, but then you'd have to keep reviewing for many years before you'd get to the main benefits of Latin.
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We don't have a routine yet, but I'm planning on starting one this coming week. It would be just a few minutes of handwriting and piano since those are skill based requiring regular practice, and everything else I already have integrated into our day naturally.
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Oh, we did ASL was DS was younger. It was very helpful. We even learned that he could read more than we thought right around when he turned two because he started doing a mix of oral and ASL reading.
But if he won't get on board with ASL and you think he might be able to read or has some beginning skills, try having letter magnets or simple word cards or charts handy, like on the wall. Before he was very verbal DS use to point to charts or get a letter from his magnets to give us clues as to what he was trying to say. Even now when he can talk like a normal three year old, but with bad pronunciation, he will make each sound in a word individually when he can't say them together when we can't guess what he is saying. 100 Easy Lessons is a reading instruction book, but the beginning exercises in sounding out and blending has really helped DS with his speech.
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With my new three year old, I use guides or spines rather than anything scripted. I know what the next concept in each subject he needs to learn is, then look for or create opportunities to teach that during play. I have Right Start Activities for the Al Abacus, BFSU, Artistic Pursuits, Usborne World History, German for Children, and 52 Weeks of Family German. I do the same thing with spelling and reading but I've been rotating texts from the library. I haven't decided on one reference to purchase yet.
I'm going to try our first structured lessons next week. I've decided to only do structured for handwriting and piano since those are skills that would really benefit from systematic practice. I have Faber's My First Piano Adventures and for handwriting I found a website that looks sufficient.
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Just about the only time I get to really concentrate is when I'm nursing my baby in the middle of the night. I'm studying German (pretty much a total beginner) and then teaching my preschooler vocabulary through conversation and games. So I'm looking for resources that can be used on a tablet without sound.
I'm currently using Anki flashcards and Duolingo. Both are good for vocabulary but don't include explicit grammar instruction. I've tried out a few other apps with the same results. I do have a textbook, use you tube videos, library videos, CDs, etc for some grammar, listening, and pronunciation practice, but I can't always squeeze this stuff into my day.
Any and all suggestions of any kind are welcome. I am particularly looking for ways to learn and practice German grammar on a tablet though.
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We practice foreign language at mealtimes. I bought a table top easel at Joanns which holds a letter size dry erase board perfectly. I use that to write the words and phrases we are practicing that week.
Then we have discussions of whatever has held his interest that week. He's preschool age, so that's easy and nothing requiring prep. I also read aloud and at mealtimes its usually things like poetry with art, fables, fairy tales...the cultural stuff.
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I love the foreign language idea. We will be making old fashioned Valentines for grandma with paper and lace, and thanks to you we'll write the note in German now.
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Wow. I didn't know such a thing existed. My things are organized in different folders on the PC, then I have an Excel spreadsheet that I create shortcuts to various files in. Talk about old school.
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Someone mentioned the red zone for six year olds. What is that? I have no problem with the level of violence in Percy Jackson for my three year old. Should I? He's seen the movies and we've read aloud parts of the books, but we (usually he) also playacts some of the parts, like cutting off Medusa's head.
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Interested in piano? Check out My First Piano Adventures. Its really fun for preK age. If you dont have a piano I believe you can purchase little keyboards for justlearning with, not sure though. Or c rods and educationunboxed.com, plus there are free worksheets too. I cant link right now but search this site for Free c rod.
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We store on our desktop PC with backup hard drive arrays (something like that, that's DH's department). Mostly we play everything through our TV and surround sound in the living room, but we can also transfer to our phones, tablet, kindle, and burn to cds. I prefer that because we can organize the content in folders however we want and not worry about playlists.
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The games kit comes in a big box. We keep it with all our board games and other card games, so no, it didn't get forgotten here. A few times DH and I have played it just because.
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The majority of our toys are in bins in what's suppose to be the linen closet, or in bins in the office or master closet for rotating out.
One thing I have in DS's room is installed a plain curtain rod right on the wall and then hung hanging baskets from Ikea on it. Ours is meant for little random toys since we don't usually allow toys in bedrooms, but you could do rows of sturdier hanging baskets or bins this way, and it would only take wall space.
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My two year old started reading on his own. Now, at almost three, I introduced LOE phonogram cards and games so he can learn the more advanced phonograms.
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Not much, since he's just turning three this month. I do want to put him in some kind of structured activity in the middle of the year sometime, probably gymnastics.
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DS started reading on his own just before he turned two. He's almost three now and does need help with a bit more explicit instruction but since I didn't want to do anything formal or scripted with such a youngster, I decided to only use LOE phonogram cards and game book. I can't predict how things will turn out, but my intention is not to do anything formal until closer to five years old, and then something more geared towards spelling than reading. Perhaps Webster's method as linked above.
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Now that DS has been reading easy readers fluently, I've found that he does need some kind of systematic approach for some of the phonics rules. Some phonograms and rules just don't come up often enough for him to adequately internalize them from just reading. So we are now using LOE phonogram cards and game book. Since he's not even three I definitely didn't want to do anything that felt like schoolwork but instead stick with play based learning as long as possible.
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Thanks for your description. Based on what everybody has told me, I have decided to get RS A 1st ed, and the Activities for the AL Abacus book. I think that the RS pedagogy is ideal for the younger set, and I have a little one I want to be ready to teach by age 4.
I think I can adapt A and B for my 6yo son's learning style, and if I cannot, there are affordable or no-cost choices.
One person had told me that RS was for gifted children, and I didn't believe them. But I can see where that may come from, because RS does seem to demonstrate things in a concrete-to-abstract way and at a rigorous pace, that may take a few cognitive leaps for my child. But if starting at A does not work up to my son liking the program, I am not going to regret having used the program. There is just so much I like about it.
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RS did either Black Friday or Cyber Monday last year, or maybe both. I can't remember which but they definitely had something.
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I use just the Activities for the Al Abacus and the games package. The Activities book goes over the concepts that should be introduced, how to know when its mastered, and what should follow. It includes master sheets for some of the cards and charts needed. It talks about how to practice the concept with the RD materials, but also in general terms so its easy to teach the concept with other materials.
My child is very young so a lot of the time I use toys and household things we happen to be using to showcase the concepts. He likes c rods as well and doesn't much care for the abacus, and it hasn't been a problem. When we play the games we usually use a different manipulative each time: C rods, counting blocks, Legos, etc.
I also use free c rods activities books, free printable worksheets from the web, living math books, and my own ideas for play based math.
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