Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 12:07 am It does not take very long to get things done. Probably about 10 minutes for bible; longer on the days they copy the verse or do a craft. Then there is usually about 5 minutes of reading for history, and sometimes a state page, which would depend on how fast your k...

Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2006 12:43 am Changing the order of units with the phonics worksheets will matter most on how well your child knows their sounds. If they know them then the order shouldn't matter that much. If they don't they might have problem with the letters they haven't learned. But do keep...

Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 5:10 pm Been there. It was not fun and just turned my daughter off to phonics. She always complained that her little sister got to do a fun kindergarten. Now we don't waste our day doing worksheets and not learning much. Now we do a little bit of everything and it sticks. I...

Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:10 pm It is enough. When I have tried to do other programs I would end up skipping stuff and skimming over subjects because we didn't have enough time to do everything. With MFW we can actually do everything and the kids love it. When they love it they learn more. I noti...

Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:29 pm You retest the missed words from yesterday first thing her next spelling lesson. It does have review tests every so often but when I get to the review tests I just start with all the words she missed. I just put a little mark next to each word she misses then I alwa...

Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:25 pm I am doing adventures and first and have a 2 year old boy. I start school as soon as everyone one sits down to breakfast. We do the read aloud, bible, memory verse, history reading. Then I have one daughter do handwriting and I do phonics with the other one. I cove...

We are doing the same thing this year. ECC with a 7 and 9 year old and an almost 3 year old. He is a boy so he was a lot more work than my girls ever where. I kept him busy with taking out toys only at school time, playdough, coloring, he loves putting stickers in books, he loves the Lauri puzzles a...

Yup. My first grader tagged along for read alouds, book basket books, did the coloring for state pages, and enjoyed the activities and did the bible. She didn't always get everything but she enjoyed it and it is much easier to have both kids doing the same thing. I usually have her just copy the not...

Ideas for slow 1st grader Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 11:20 pm Well I have a first grader girl who has half the school work of her big sister and still takes longer. She has always been this way and is in most things slow and steady. Of course today she did 4 math problems in 1 hour. - I do find that ...

The bible in Adventures has been great. I use to think it was too little but lately each day has been a new message to me and my girls. We are studying the names of Christ and it has been really good I have learned alot and so have my girls there seems to be discussion on each thing we read. We are ...

On the subject of waiting. I thought of doing k when my daughter was almost five. She has a Nov birthday. So she did a little bit of workbooks but didn't really get into it. SO we ended up doing K when she was almost 6. I am glad I waited because she is first grade and reading is still sounding out ...

Well I looked at the state science objectives for second grade for my daughter it was learning the parts of a flower and parts of tree, learning about seasons. All stuff we covered in Kindergarten. Same with my third grader -- everything she had covered -- and when I looked ahead they had covered ju...

Adventures covers a lot of differant aspects of African american history, you will cover alot of things if you read the suggested books in book basket. We have read about Rosa parks and segregation, one book was about a black man registering to vote and then their church getting burned down. It didn...

First was a great year. My girls loved having the bible reader, loved listening to bible stories and loved making their own book. My younger daugther wanted to start 1st early so that she could read the bible reader and write in book. Good short lessons and there are games in there to play with new ...

My girls were slow to get reading. What I did was review the lessons on the second day with the games listed in the back of the book. My girls' all time favorite game STILL is when I hide the cards with words on them and they have to search and find them. "Treasure Hunt." They will search for words ...

The thing that seems to help my daydreaming daughter is using a timer. It beeps every 5 minutes and sometimes that helps remind her that the time is ticking. If she has the timer she goes faster and stays on task a little more. I also use snack time and break time to motivate my kids. I set the time...

The reader looks harder because it has those big bible words but usually the kids don't have much trouble with them because they are reviewed before reading the story and the parent reads the bible story in full before the student reads the simpler story in the reader. So the child usually knows wha...

We are just finishing week 17 SO we are at the halfway point. It is the half way point for PS too so we are right on target. We listened to Farmer book on tape last summer so we are reading the long winter. The are having a Laura Ingalls party at the library based on that book so that will be fun. T...

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 4:10 pm I actually did MFW1 for second grade for my older dd and it worked really well. There is a lot of writing and I think it really was good when I did it with my older dd to do all the writing. So even if you did phonics in something else. doing the reader and the note...

My next question is: Regarding the history........does it sugarcoat history? Making Christopher Columbus out to be this holy man that was completely led by God, when in history books it says his main reason for voyage was to get riches from Asia? Yes I agree that God has a plan.......but I also kno...

Welcome to the reality of homeschooling. Here are a few things that have worked for me. The first is I took my daughter and did one on one cleaning training. I would tell her what to do and she would have to do it quickly. I would set a timer. If it wasn't done on time she would have to do an extra ...

We do Adventures and MFW1 together. We do only the phonics and biblestories from 1 and then all of Adventures. It works fine. I do cut down the amount of writing in Adventures sometimes on the notebook pages she copies the first sentence and then I write the rest.
Kris

Hi we have had the same reading struggles with my daughter. She actually ended up having some eye issues with tracking and one eye going ahead of the other and seeing the last letter of the word. She had vision therapy for 9 months and most of her dyslexia sysmptoms are gone. She has 20/20 vision an...

I would go back and make sure he know's all his sounds. The Leap Frog Videos are great for learning all the sounds and they also have one that explains about the long vowel sounds. If two vowels go walking the first one does the talking. I have had to go back with my daughter because she wasn't gett...

Just want you to know that your house sounds like my house. I ended up picking the thing that the kids had the hardest time concentrating on and doing it during baby's nap time. Keep that morning nap time as long as possible. UGh you make me remember how hard it was a year ago and how hard it was to...