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Her spelling is excellent for her age!
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If you want to add something in, you might try Blend Phonics. It's a free and very easy program to implement from Don Potter's Page. We started out with Webster's for initial blends and then moved into Blend Phonics, which was a great combination and all free... I was planning to use SWR (similar to AAS) but I didn't want to start until my DD had at least a foothold in reading already.
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Thanks so much! I think I will go ahead and get it...
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Has anyone seen or purchased this before? Just looking for reviews...
It's a historical timeline of the world in book form by National Geographic.
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There are probably more home schoolers who have successfully used Saxon than there are users of any other program. I've known some people who found that Saxon didn't work well for their kids, but no one who thought that a child who did work through Saxon would be unprepared for college math, with the exception of public school teachers who were really into the Rainforest Math model.
What is the "rainforest math" model? Just wondering...
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We have a showerboard from Lowe's as well. It was very inexpensive and we love it. We use it every day.
As for the odor of dry erase markers and lack of sensory input from them- we use dry erase crayons. They have no odor, they last a LONG time, you don't need to worry about putting caps back on them, and it does provide sensory input. You can feel it very well in your fingers as you write on the board. We do keep a small spray bottle of plain water and a rag next to the board because it's SOOO much easier to wipe it off with a tiny spray of water.
Here's a pic: http://www.givingourbest.blogspot.com/search/label/Language%20Arts
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I saw a used second grade science book by Scott Foresman publishing and was not impressed. However, I hear some of their math texts are well done. I think it's hard to make a good science textbook for that age group so science would probably be the worst subject from which to grade them.
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We did that section and I think it was really helpful for DD to get the "half past" part first. People do understand when you use the term, even if they don't use it themselves, and it's so easy for a child to pick up on half past by the way she teaches it. It was a great first start to telling time for DD.
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I would ask a lot of questions of the parents you know in that school district. The teachers aren't going to tell you what you need to know... We decided to homeschool because our daughter needed a strict, phonics-only approach to avoid dyslexic tendencies that run in our family. I talked to many moms in my neighborhood and I heard over and over again "I was worried about little XYZ but they kept telling me everything was fine until third grade, when they suddenly wanted to get XYZ tested for learning disabilities before the state testing." (The scores of learning disabled students do not count against the school.)
Anyway, my daughter's best friend went to the local kindergarten and it was sight words. The school said they used phonics but by the end of the year my child could read short chapter books and her best friend forgot every sight word she'd learned over the summer. She had to start all over again with reading.
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:iagree: We're using MEP and I really like it, but I'm strong in math and I find that I have had to think seriously about how to present some of the concepts. You can always add problems from MEP later.
Can you give more detail about this? I've been interested in pairing MEP with our Math Mammoth but the idea of it being difficult to implement scares me off a bit.
My DD does OK in Math Mammoth but the challenge pages are difficult for her. I thought MEP might give her more practice at the challenging stuff and a bit more spiral for review... and it's free, LOL. But I don't want to do it if I'm just going to get frustrated later and throw it out. I don't like jumping around with curriculum. I'm halfway to just getting Saxon out of frustration.
We did Rightstart A but the level of scripting and jumping from activity to activity was too much for us. MEP looks like it would be a nice step down from the constant activity change in RS but it would still be a bit more fun than Math Mammoth. Math Mammoth seems to be working, but I do feel like DD forgets things that we haven't gone over in a while. I'm looking for a tiny bit of spiral to go along with MM and help cement things in better.
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I think it is absolute CRAP! My son still bears the actual scars of this crap as well. This child attacked him on the bus bit into him like a freakin animal. The aid was out sick the bus driver on a highway could not just stop it took a minute.
By the time he got that brat off my boy he was in the middle of a seizure and blood was everywhere. I saw the video they suspended my baby boy from the bus for a week for pushing him off. A week of no child care for a special needs boy cost me my job. I was a single mom of 4 and I needed that job badly.
What was he suppose to do, take it? He was just 5 years old he still has scars. The public school and their zero tolerance can kiss it. I have zero tolerance of idiots. Another child who was not given their meds at school because the nurse forgot was expelled for an emotional snap when he attacked a teacher. Even though he had no prior issues and was fine on his meds. Three days he had no meds.
Because a stupid nurse forgot. I am so sick of their policies and their crap. PS is worthless now and it wasn't that great to begin with.
:grouphug::grouphug:That is so terrible. I was on the fence about the whole thing until I read your post. That really brings home how wrong things can go with zero tolerance.
On another note, we are unable to send our child to our local public middle school because it's too dangerous. However, the high school is reputed to be fine as far as safety because there is a zero tolerance policy at the high school level.
Why can't they weed out the dangerous kids without zero tolerance? The things I've heard the middle school kids have done and gotten away with is astounding.
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I went to the Writer's Weekend last weekend and my daughter took dictation from Susan at the white board (I was so nervous for her).
I was SHOCKED. It was NOT how I had been doing dictation. I had been expecting WAY too much, way too soon. My daughter, who usually struggles to remember the dictation, did so well. It restored my faith in dictation.
It took me listening to and watching SWB to understand it. We're going to keep trying, but in a much, much, much more low key way!
:iagree: I went as well- and realized I had been expecting much more from my child than is necessary for her age. I went home and redid the level 1 passage example with my daughter and it was wonderful. That seminar was worth EVERY penny!
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Does it have ideas for how to interest children in the classics? My daughter wants cartoony, action packed books with simple plots. Right now she's hooked on Rainbow Magic Fairy books. Whenever I try to interest her in more classic literature she invariably tells me it's boring.
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WRTR is a VERY similar approach. You may be able to get a copy from the library or even just purchase one (I think they're like 20) and easily ride along with the class he's taking. I think, I am no expert, but I think WRTR is what SWR is based on anyway.
Also, you can easily make your own phonogram flashcards.
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You did a good thing today. Regardless of where your hands were during the whole thing, you taught your daughter that you will make sure she is safe to the best of your ability and that she can count on you to try to protect her. Great job! Because in the end the thing you can really take away from this is that, no matter how you try to handle the situation next time, you can and will do what it takes to protect your child.
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I've heard a lot of people mention The Sentence Family as a fun way to learn grammar. It seems to be mentioned a lot in threads about MCT. I've looked at it and it does look like a lot of fun for artistic kids. If it would make you feel better to know you've tried all the MCT alternatives, maybe you could try Grammarland (the free book on google) or KISS grammar and see how that flies before you buy MCT.
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I was reviewing my copy of the Well Trained Mind the other day and I think she said once the child is reading fluently they may read aloud once or twice a week from the McGuffey reader or some other reader of your choice. Don't cite me on it, because I am often mistaken, but I think that's what I read. Maybe someone else with a copy of WTM handy can chime in... I can't go get mine or I will wake everyone up (it's early here but I couldn't sleep).
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Is it possible you might not need to use Express Scripts? I ask because over the summer we got a notice that indicated our drug benefit would no longer pay for my dh's many prescriptions locally and we had to use Express Scripts. He checked with his business and found out this was not true. I don't know if it was incorrect mailing to folks at his business or if it is routine for them to send this out to folks they are available to.
So if you haven't asked the HR folks at whoever provides the insurance, you might want to double check with them that you can't get things locally.
We had this same sort of thing happen to us. You might want to check with the pharmacy that you usually use and see if they know a way around it. We were able to get around it but I don't remember how we did it. I know we had to contact our pharmacy and our doctor for assistance...
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Yeah, I'm just driving in from Richmond. It seemed like it would take a while to even get to a hotel- by that time I could just drive 30 more minutes and be home, LOL.
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I got it but I'm having trouble getting sound. It's like it's on mute but it's not... Anyone else have this problem?
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I will be attending but I'm leaving my wiggly six year old at home...
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The big ones I've heard of that are all inclusive are Phonics Road to Reading, Writing and Spelling and Michael Clay Thompson Language Arts. Both have very good reputations on this board. I have Phonics Road Level 1 and we've learned a lot from it even though I ended up switching to something else. We might switch back when things calm down a bit at home.
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You can buy a Brainpop subscription at one time. Just get the homeschool option- 89 dollars for the year in one payment so it's not spread out. Also, AHA science is a one time 15 dollar subscription and that's a fun little thing to have around as well. Maybe the Happy Scientist? A musical instrument? Art supplies and lots of them! Oooh, you are going to have so much fun!
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I would make sure you have staples of a homeschool like a decent printer, paper cutter, laminator, etc. You'd be amazed how often you can use these things if you have them.
Yeah, and a spiral binder. A very large whiteboard. You can make these with showerboard from Lowes very inexpensively if you are so inclined. It may be 3000 but why waste it?
Hailey
Free Simple Rule Based Spelling Program
in K-8 Curriculum Board
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Thanks- this looks great! My daughter has had somewhat of a rebellion against spelling and I had decided to put it off until second grade. I think I can do something like this with her successfully... It doesn't look like it would take a lot of time each day, but doing one rule at a time looks like it might help a bit with retaining information.