Hello! I am wondering if any of you might have any book recommendations for independent reading time for my daughter who will be turning nine years old this month? She is not quite ready for full-fledged chapter books (ie, The Boxcar Children), or they just don't interest her, I'm not exactly sure. ...

Thank you so much Julie! That is very helpful!

Rachel

Hi! I am using MFW first grade with my 6 year old daughter, and we are at the point where we are doing two digit addition (week 18). It is way too hard for her! Has anyone else had experience with this? She is just not ready for this. She can identify and work with single digit numbers and manipulat...

Thanks Julie! That’s helpful!

Rachel

Thank you for the replies ladies. Julie, thanks for your response, and I wanted to answer your questions about my questions. ;) On page 66 of Drawing With Children, under "The Duplication Warm-up", it says to make yourself a master copy of blank squares. Do I create this master copy myself? And then...

Hi! I am wondering if anybody has any helpful suggestions for using Drawing with Children (first grade curriculum)? I find it to be not exactly user friendly, and very time consuming. Are you just supposed to create a master copy of empty white squares yourself? And for the exercises, am I understan...