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Maths Week!
9:02 PM, May. 6, 2008
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Well, I have a confession to make. You see, school didn't go so well once I hit the morning sickness. And being a first year homeschool mum, this worried me. A lot. But I kept reminding myself that we started school early, so we were at least a month ahead, and she has already gotten far ahead in her favourite subjects anyway. The only subject that really worried me was math.For math we are using Prof B's maths. It is EXCELLENT! I honestly cannot recommend it enough. But Jasmine has found this last lesson a little trying. Then we had a couple of weeks' break. So today I announced that we would get back into formal schooling with 'maths week'. For this week, we will only do maths. We will do it in two short sessions a day, so she will not be spending a long time at it. And we started by keeping it light and easy, and revising things she needed, both from an earlier lesson (her basic addition facts) and the current lesson that she was stuck on. She did amazingly well, and loved it, and didn't mind in the least that we did maths twice. This morning she used the chart to count from one to one hundred, and this evening she used the chart to count from one hundred to two hundred. And complained when I wouldn't let her continue! And this from the girl who hated counting to big numbers just a few weeks ago! And after looking at the lessons in the book I see that she's almost halfway through them anyway; and being in Australia we don't hit the halfway mark of the school year until June. I'm certain she will do better when we get back to addition and subtraction sums, she loves doing the 'written math', it's just the counting she's had problems with. Honestly, I think a little break and a different approach sometimes works well. Next week we will add in her other subjects, but as I said she's on track with them anyway. I think we'll need to use the library heavily at the end of the year to supplement her work when the bookwork is done. Our main problem has been that most English curricula assume that year one students will spend the first half of the year learning to read, and Jasmine was reading well above grade level when she joined. I'm sure next year she'll slow down a bit. So yes. I'm just really pleased. I thought I had been failing in something, and instead it looks like it has worked out for the better. Leave a Comment { Last Page } { Page 40 of 209 } { Next Page } |
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