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    Working alone- what can I expect at each grade level?

    in General Education Discussion Board

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    DS 10

     

    Daily: we take turns reading ~ LOF(he does work on whiteboard), Science, Hist., Health, Music, Art, Grammar Town, Poetry Book, and a free read right now is Milton Hershey.

     

    Independent work: Handwriting, Health w/s-quizzes-tests, History Scribe Music and artist notebook pages, Art work, Abeka readers, Map Trek, Hist. Lapbooks, Science lapbooks, Logic, Building Thinking Skills, Reading Detective.

     

    Together: I always go over the teacher portion of the lessons with him then assign the work. Lessons for: LLATL, AAS, MM, Abeka Reading ?, Math Detective, IEW A, Science experiments.

     

    DS likes to piddle- so I have to keep coming into the classroom and tell him "wow! thats great look you are almost finished." Otherwise he would sit all day just doing math.

     

    I expect a child to be able to work completely independent by 8th grade.

    Speech issues and writing skills

    in K-8 Writing Workshop

    Posted

    With DS his speech issues have effected his phonics, spelling, narrating, and writing. This year he finished formal speech and OT(his muscles were underdeveloped so he also had handwriting issues) That being said he is behind his peers and we are struggling to bring him up to speed. Today, I am discourage to as what writing program to use - we went back to IEW A and will write the rough draft for Prince and the Pea. Time will tell how it goes. We just finished Level 3 ASS and it is helping but, it is slow and steady.

     

    I would get her tested -

     

    Oh afterthought if anyone has any thoughts on a better writing program for a struggling child please post.

     

    Thanks

    How much time does your 10 yr. old spend on each subject ?

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    Thank you for all your responses ~ with the new year I am trying to figure out if we need to readjust our time - it always seems that compared to other home educators in our area we spend more time on school. But looking over the responses here it seems that we are pretty much on target.

     

    Also,

    If your ds has a problem with a subject do you add more time and subtract time from other subjects or just add time ?

    Overwhelmed by homeschooling drawbacks

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    You take them with you and use everything as a learning experience. You pack a back pack with snacks, school work or fun things to do and they learn patience and real life lessons. And when they do well I always gave mine a bonus picnic lunch at the park and play time. Really before you know it your children are grown and you missed out on the special times.

    Six Flags 2012-2013 Read to Succeed Six Hour Reading Club

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    Dear :

     

    On behalf of Six Flags, I would like to thank you for your past participation in our Read to Succeed Six Hour Reading Club and provide you with some detail about our upcoming 2012-2013 program. In this electronic world that we live in, reading has become more important than ever. We plan to continue to do our part by offering you and your elementary school students free tickets to Six Flags when they participate in the Read to Succeed program.

     

    Beginning October 9th, you will be able to register online for Read to Succeed at sixflags.com/read.Based on feedback we've received from teachers and school program coordinators, we are making a few improvements to the program that I think you will appreciate including a smoother registration process and better communication when it comes to ticket delivery tracking. We will also be doing more to stay in touch with you throughout the duration of the program.

    We will send you another note on or before October 9th when the new Read to Succeed online registration form is ready to go.

    Thank you again for your participation in Read to Succeed!

    Sincerely,

    The Six Flags Read to Succeed Team

    Shaky penmanship

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted

    Suzanne,

     

    A good OT can make all the difference in the world. Ds 9 was DX with low muscle tone and an issue with crossing mid-line - by looking at him you would have never guessed it, but he had so much trouble with handwriting. It would take him 2 1/2 hours to write 10 sentences and that was him hard at it. They worked on his core, hand, pincher grip and crossing the mid line 5 months for 1 hour a week and then we did and still do home exercises. Wow it made such a big difference he can now write 10 sentence in less than 10 minutes and without his hand hurting him :)

     

    Pray your OT visit will go well.

    Math ? Has anyone ever had their child

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

    Posted

    Are you sure they really don't know them? I would have described my DD this way-she seemed to be able to do simple operations in context with no trouble, but not in isolation. Then she did a time-dependent math competition, and answered over 800 simple operations questions in 50 minutes, up to multiple digits with regrouping. She knew them-she just didn't want to do the worksheets, so she stalled on them and played dumb! Grrrrr.....

     

     

    Good point - this is something I never thought of. He does not like to write.

     

    Thank you

    Math ? Has anyone ever had their child

    in K-8 Curriculum Board

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    Similarly, both my kids will sometimes do calculations for things in their heads really quickly and intuitively, sometimes with somewhat big numbers. But other times, I'll be like, "What's 8+5?" and they'll stare at me like I'm from another planet for a minute then have to count it on their fingers. So... yeah.

     

     

    This is what DS does we use Math Mammoth for our main math program and it has seemed to help. We do LOF oral, today he added 2 and 3 digit numbers in his head :glare: Also, after we finish our MM. for 1/2 hr. we do a daily math basket ~ 1- games, 2-hands-on,3-Logic, 4-fractions, 5-money,lego,vocabulary.

     

    So should I just take a :chillpill: pill and see what the next 6 months bring :confused:

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