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Like another previous poster, i would start in August so that i could take my time getting back after baby is born.I had baby in March and we started back about 4 weeks after he was born. we get more done than before the baby was born b/c when i was preggo there were days i didn't feel good or just ...

I hear ya!

Jenn D.

Just wondering what you all think. yesterday we did Storytime with IF You Lived 100 Years Ago. we put the topic in middle and then 4 boxes with ideas from what we read in each one with lines drawn back to the topic. but then the directions say "color the most important idea". I didn't really see how...

I will say that your 6.5 yr old sounds alot like my now 7.5 yr old. we are doing Beyond with him for 1st grade this year. It is perfect for him. already past the emerging readers and reading his first set of books for each of the genre Carrie has scheduled. He just started the BEta guide of Math-u-s...

Just a few cents from me. A kid does not have to go to school to get socialization. what "kind" of friends will she make at school? will it be more detrimental to her if she does not like to be with large groups? I don't think you can force that kind of thing on kids. Myself, growing up, i was very ...

I, too, say that Emerging readers sounds like the next step ,if he can read 1st grade level books. i took a few months break btwn ERs and phonics with my son to make sure he was reading at at that level and then jumped into the ERS.
They are some great books.

Jenn

My son was 6yrs and turned 7 in October for 1st grade with Beyond. He has done fine with it. there are times when we will do things orally instead of writing it down. Other than that we do it mostly as written. He finished up ERs at beginning and we have just continued on with our own reading progra...

are we supposed to reconstitute the powdered milk to make 1 cup liquid milk? i did. i also made triple thinking i would need more if using with three kids. i think we have enough for snack all week. i wish i had known about how many kids it woul d serve using the amt in original recipe. i should hav...

i deal woth the same thing with 6yr old daughter. he beats to a different drum. my husband has noticed it when i was teaching her and affirmed that i wasn't crazy and i wasn't missing something. she has gets lazy and doesn't listen. she wants to rush off to do something else and then guesses which t...

Thank you so much! Sometimes i just can't seem to put the words together even though it seems so simple just the way you explained it.
Thanks... on to finish our day.

Jenn D.

How do you explain the "why" of why you use commas to separate the year from the day when writing say October 29,2003 ? i see it is like Paranthetical phrase (looked up on internet) like somewhere that you would use parenthesis b/c you don't exactly need the info. it is extra info. How do you explai...

i wasn't sure what to do for this and my son is the one who decided. i let him interpret how it should look. what he did was draw a ribbon on red constructin paper, like if someone was giving you a prize ribbon to pin on you. a circle with the 2 bows on top and 2 rectangular parts hanging down. can ...

I am currently doing Beyond with my son for 1st grade (7 last October) LHFHG for K with daughter (turned 6 last month) and just started LHTH with 3 yr old. and have 5 week old Last week was our first week back after having had our 4th child. i was so excited to see that i could do it even with a new...

I, too, have a lefty and i have never had a problem with his fine motor skills. I let him write the letters the way he wants and there was a website that i saw once that said lefties will draw letters in a different manner but still get the same letter. it makes sense to me and my son has wonderful ...

My son, who is 7, in 1st grade, just copies a few sentences. Nothing fancy. he doesn't always finished the whole poem. He also has very nice writing. for the last few units though he wold rather copy a few sentences from a book either from story-time or his reading. i am fine with it . Actually the ...