Jun. 8, 2009
Scared no more...
Posted in Our Home Schooling Journey
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So it's been a looooong time since I last posted. I've been scared to post since it's been so long and the update would be huge.....I'm thinking of changing all that. I want to make changes to our home school for next year and I'd like to document it somewhere... We are coming up on the end of our 1st grade year and while they're still ahead in certain areas, I really slacked off in others. I was just lazy. I didn't want to do the same thing day in and out also. Consistent work just makes me bored. I'm praying about this character flaw for next year because our children need more structure to help their learning. So, I managed to veer away from Right Start Level A so much that we STILL have not finished the whole book. That was my text for K. Next year I'm hoping to buy the B book and all the stuff I need to add to the manipulatives. So, since we weren't following the book anymore (in places it seemed to go too slow), I just had an idea to teach them their multiplication tables. Thanks to the book they already knew how to count by 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's. All I taught them was their 3's and I used what I used to reinforce my learning when I was learning multiplication...Multiplicatoin Rock! =) I know some Moms disapprove, but for my children (who seem to be auditory learners), this helped them memorize it well. I also found Timez Attack (a free multiplication game) and Tux of Math (another free math game to download but it has addition, subtraction, mult. and division as well as fractions and other stuff) to help them out too. There's other stuff we did, but I just waned to start with that. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Blessings, Violet Blogging here, there and everywhere (incuding here). You've been reading a Schooldaze post. |
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