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by mmschool
Tue Apr 08, 2014 4:02 am
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Need Math Help
Replies: 25
Views: 8159

Re: Need Math Help

I don't post often, but I thought I would add 2 cents here because I have looked into some of the research that has been done about math learning and it might apply here for your decision. A brief explanation: your working memory is all of the stuff that you are actively thinking about just this sec...
by mmschool
Mon Feb 10, 2014 4:20 am
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Repeating Math
Replies: 11
Views: 3364

Re: Repeating Math

One thing to consider. Right Start puts out a book that is called something like activities for the AL Abacus. It isn't a curriculum, just a series of presentations on how to use their abacus to present different math concepts. I have found it really useful. I wouldn't recommend it to everyone, beca...
by mmschool
Sat Jan 11, 2014 11:03 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Increased reading in Preparing
Replies: 25
Views: 6727

Re: Increased reading in Preparing

I guess part of this comes down to what you consider a problem! If she is a careful and comprehending reader, I would not consider slow a problem. My mother, along with all of her siblings, are slow readers. I would suggest for them it is natural, given that all of them are alike in this. They just ...
by mmschool
Fri Oct 11, 2013 10:47 am
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Getting started with combining
Replies: 3
Views: 1300

Getting started with combining

Hi, I have a friend that is having trouble knowing how to get kids going combined. The older guides seem to cover a range, but the younger guides are more targeted. How do you get the kids into groups to begin with? My friend has six kids. The eldest is in beyond and reading way above grade level. S...
by mmschool
Thu May 02, 2013 10:05 am
Forum: Main Board
Topic: DITHOR with a 1st Grader?
Replies: 5
Views: 1348

DITHOR with a 1st Grader?

My friend is thinking about switching her dd to HOD next year. She will be six and writing, maturity, and otherwise she probably fits nicely in Beyond. However, the little girl can easily read the Courage of Sarah Noble. Should I recommend that she start DITHOR as a first grader? Will it be too much...
by mmschool
Mon Apr 22, 2013 10:05 am
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Screamer
Replies: 9
Views: 2681

Re: Screamer

The sleep thing has mostly cleared up. In retrospect, this is what convinced me that some kids are harder than others. Most babies have an hour or two of protest in them over learning to sleep alone. Baby Z had maybe twelve hours of protest! But, he isn't a long napper, so cutting into that time is ...
by mmschool
Mon Apr 22, 2013 6:45 am
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Screamer
Replies: 9
Views: 2681

Screamer

The baby (now almost 18 m....) was born...loud. He is a born screamer. He shrieks and screams when he falls, when he can't find his dog-dog, when he disagrees with his brother, when he disagrees with the limits of gravity, when it is lunch time, and on it goes. He has also never been a great sleeper...
by mmschool
Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:57 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: As we move into high school, the design of the guides...
Replies: 115
Views: 22006

Re: As we move into high school, the design of the guides...

I suppose that in a world where work brings forth thorns and thistles the ideal and the realistic are never the same thing. I would still vote in favor of the familiar daily layout. It is the thing that makes HOD the most unique - bite sized pieces - compared to the piles of lists and extras and eve...
by mmschool
Thu Nov 15, 2012 8:36 am
Forum: Main Board
Topic: As we move into high school, the design of the guides...
Replies: 115
Views: 22006

Re: As we move into high school, the design of the guides...

At the moment, my dh is in graduate school, so we have a great reminder of high level requirements. In that context, I came up with this suggestion for the high school guides. I am sorry if this has already been covered, because I didn't have time to read all of the entries. I would suggest breaking...
by mmschool
Tue Jan 31, 2012 4:15 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: math help
Replies: 7
Views: 1587

Re: math help

Also, I would be interested if anyone has used the Discovering Math level yet. Is it user friendly? Can you help your student if they get stuck, even as the concepts get higher level? It is important to me to not be changing programs a lot, so I am curious how people are doing continuing in the Sing...
by mmschool
Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:48 am
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Quiet time? Need advice
Replies: 7
Views: 1652

Re: Quiet time? Need advice

My kids have given up naps pretty early as well, so we have focused on training them for quiet time. I am lucky in that my eldest, 3, the hardest to keep quiet is the only girl, so she has her own room. I think dividing people up is key. Could you give the two year old the room and move your seven y...
by mmschool
Thu Dec 08, 2011 4:46 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: When to start LHTH?
Replies: 6
Views: 1606

Re: When to start LHTH?

I started LHTH with a not quite three year old. She needed some positive attention since she was also having some discipline issues. We are planning to go through it once with the 2/3 devotional and our prefered story Bible. Then we will repeat it when she is four and her brother is two with our own...
by mmschool
Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:47 am
Forum: Main Board
Topic: After LHTH?
Replies: 10
Views: 2099

Re: After LHTH?

My eldest needed alone time with me this year, so we have been doing LHTH at 3. She will NOT be ready for anything other than preschool next year, so we plan to repeat. The games and act it out parts will be more fun with her brother tagging along next year when he is two. I plan to use a more detai...
by mmschool
Mon Nov 07, 2011 10:19 am
Forum: Main Board
Topic: follow-up for Bible Study in RTR
Replies: 12
Views: 2606

Re: follow-up for Bible Study in RTR

I don't have children old enough to really speak to teens, but I do know that it has taken me a while as an adult, to come to something that is comfortable to me in my quiet time with God. Maybe you could have a conversation with your son about what you do in quiet time with God (and maybe your husb...
by mmschool
Sat Nov 05, 2011 1:11 pm
Forum: Main Board
Topic: Why are you homeschooling?
Replies: 32
Views: 20580

Re: Why are you homeschooling?

1. I really feel that you cannot separate moral education from academic education. When public schools try to be value neutral, they either aren't really, or they are damaging the education process. 2. My husband is in the military. If we are homeschooling we can take vacation when he has them, move...