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- Tue Mar 30, 2010 10:58 pm
- Forum: Book Basket and Independent Reading Archive
- Topic: Reading - Older child who still needs work on reading
- Replies: 46
- Views: 18795
Re: Our 2nd grader is struggling with reading
Hi Jennifer! First, I wanted to speak to this quote from near the end of your post: His brother is in MFW 1st so I could have him sit in, but I a little worried I will hurt his feelings/self esteem in doing so. Yes, I have a 3rd grader who is working extra hard on his reading and a 1st grader who is...
- Thu Mar 25, 2010 10:53 pm
- Forum: First Grade Archive
- Topic: Choosing 1st grade for an advanced reader
- Replies: 36
- Views: 18135
Re: 1st grade program for a child who is a pretty advanced r
My dd turned 7 in December during her first grade year, this year. Reading really clicked with her last spring and summer, where she just took off and started reading everything - even sounds I knew we had not "studied" in school. She is doing the 1st gr. phonics/reading/language arts and it's been ...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:37 pm
- Forum: Other Subjects Archive
- Topic: Schedule - How to fill state requirements
- Replies: 49
- Views: 24163
Re: Finishing early? What do YOU do?
We will be "finishing" our 180 required days of school - and our ECC materials - earlier this May than we ever have before. Partly because we have traveled less than in past years. Anyway, even last year, when we finished up around the same time as the other local schools we did a few more weeks of ...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:17 pm
- Forum: Kindergarten Archive
- Topic: Math - Kindergarten w/1st grade math...ok? :o)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7592
Re: 1st grade Math Workbook Help/Suggestions
Hello Shawna! Yes, the CBoM jumps in topics. I know what you mean. My son could do some of it in 1st and more in 2nd. My dd did some things in K, but can do more now in 1st. I think some of the topics like shapes or patterns are easier to do with younger kids, so you might try some of those and the ...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:59 pm
- Forum: Other Subjects Archive
- Topic: End-of-year finale, parties, celebrations
- Replies: 15
- Views: 14460
Re: Kinder Graduation
I have made certificates at the end of the year to promote each child to the next grade level. Last year we had some family members over and had a meal. Then, we had a short "program" where the kids read or recited a Bible memory verse, sang some songs we had learned, and showed their grandparents t...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:43 pm
- Forum: Choosing Curriculum Archive--For Those New to MFW
- Topic: ADVentures - NOT needed alongside older programs! (David Hazell reply)
- Replies: 42
- Views: 23357
Re: Why is Adv. only for the oldest?
Hi! We used Adv. last year when my oldest was in 2nd gr. and my dd was in K. It went great! They both really enjoyed a lot of the activities, stories, library books, songs, and learning about the basics of our country's history and geography. My younger one was able to participate a lot and my older...
- Mon Mar 15, 2010 9:31 pm
- Forum: Exploring Countries and Cultures Archive
- Topic: * Testimonies from Users - Even more!
- Replies: 63
- Views: 46338
We are learning a lot and will remember playing...
We are doing ECC this year and my children are in 1st and 3rd grades. We do the John 3:16, flag sheets, Around the World fun pages, color in our country on the map and use stickers to identify it's location on another map. We have included some sheets about currency exchange rates or unique things t...
- Sat Mar 13, 2010 2:18 pm
- Forum: Ideas - Exploring Countries and Cultures
- Topic: Weeks 23-24 India
- Replies: 19
- Views: 17845
Re: Weeks 23-24 India
We also had fun with The Story of Little Babji! We also found an audio version of stories from The Jungle Book by Jim Weiss of Great Hall Productions. He has many other recordings of all kinds of tales. The kids enjoyed hearing about Amy Carmichael in Hero Tales and in the Heroes for Young Readers s...
- Sat Mar 13, 2010 2:10 pm
- Forum: Ideas - Exploring Countries and Cultures
- Topic: Weeks 25-26 China
- Replies: 26
- Views: 30528
Re: Weeks 25-26 China
We have had fun "visiting" China over the last couple of weeks! We really enjoyed these books from the book list: Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat, The Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor , and The Warlord's Puzzle and Grandfather Tang's Story , which are both about tangrams. We have Tangoes Jr. which...
- Fri Mar 12, 2010 11:36 am
- Forum: First Grade Archive
- Topic: Writing - How to cut back
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10793
Re: Bible Notebook Summaries
I like what Trish replied! :-) My dd is in 1st gr. and we just got to the New Testament portion on Day 126 or so. She is a great writer compared to how my son was at that age, but some days she still just comes up with one good sentence and works more on the picture. Other days she writes and it alm...
- Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:10 am
- Forum: Language Arts Archive
- Topic: Writing - Encouragement for reluctant writers
- Replies: 55
- Views: 19174
Re: WS - Is this enough?
Hi Alison! My son is a bit younger, he just turned 9. You said that your son has a writing disability and I'm wondering which one because it might be part of the equation. My son is dyslexic and dysgraphic. So his dyslexia makes it very difficult for him to spell words that he wants to write and his...
- Mon Mar 01, 2010 9:02 pm
- Forum: Language Arts Archive
- Topic: Special Needs - User experiences with MFW Language Arts
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9009
Re: Writing; Have any of you tried Writing Strands 2?
I wanted to add to this post because I was just able to look at Writing Strands 2 at our state convention. The Writing Strands website says that Book 1 is all oral, in preparation for writing. Writing Strands 3 looks like it moves to writing a descriptive paragraph very quickly, but Writing Strands ...
- Sat Feb 20, 2010 7:32 pm
- Forum: Exploring Countries and Cultures Archive
- Topic: Ages - Advanced assignments?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11123
Re: ECC 2nd Edition Question...
Hi! My ds is in 3rd gr. and my dd is in 1st and she does the unit study lessons with us. We are not worrying about any "Advanced" lessons because we will come back to ECC the year that they are in 8th and 6th grades. ECC has been really neat!
Rachel

Rachel
- Fri Feb 19, 2010 10:35 pm
- Forum: Kindergarten Archive
- Topic: Reading & Unit Studies - How do these balance?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5516
Re: Really vague - Not sure what I need or how to ask for he
Hello! I remember teaching K and 1st as our "core" program a few years ago and it did feel different. Everything went with the unit study and that could be frustrating if one part was not moving along at the same pace as everything else. However, I think that it really changed in 2nd gr. and now 3rd...
- Fri Feb 19, 2010 10:00 pm
- Forum: Choosing Curriculum Archive--For Those New to MFW
- Topic: Combining K & 1st - Experiences teaching them together
- Replies: 39
- Views: 22966
Re: Teaching K and 1st Grade
Hi! I pretty much followed the plan that Lucy posted above the year my oldest was in 1st gr. We had just gone through MFWK and I didn't want to repeat all of it with his younger sister, but did the K worksheets, flashcard and alphabet song, etc. (I LOVE the K A-Z cards and the song!) She was able to...
- Fri Feb 19, 2010 2:53 pm
- Forum: Kindergarten Archive
- Topic: Handwriting (& Coloring) - Ideas for children who resist
- Replies: 26
- Views: 17790
DS doesn't like to color
DS doesn't like to color - at all. So all the picture cards and other things that are "supposed" to be colored, aren't. A note about coloring - my ds hated coloring anything at that age and still doesn't like it, but can do it when necessary. At that age I found some "Dot to Dot" markers (like Bing...
- Thu Feb 18, 2010 6:48 am
- Forum: Ideas - Exploring Countries and Cultures
- Topic: General Ideas for ECC
- Replies: 165
- Views: 135982
ECC and the Olympics
Hi! Last Friday we watched a good part of the Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics. My kids are 7 and 9 so they really don't remember watching them a few years ago. We have been working through ECC since August and it was REALLY neat when we watched the parade of athletes and they started ...
- Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:07 pm
- Forum: First Grade Archive
- Topic: Choosing 1st vs. just joining OLDER sibling
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9478
Re: Possible Placement in first grade
Hello! My dd turned 7 just before Christmas. I could have had her do MFW 1st a year prior (school year 2008-9) instead of this year because I had her do MFWK early, but I felt that she needed more time to be a Kindergartener so we did some other things last year and began MFW 1st this fall. She is r...
- Mon Feb 01, 2010 6:25 pm
- Forum: Other Subjects Archive
- Topic: Special Needs - Teaching & resources for specific needs
- Replies: 90
- Views: 36999
Re: Need help with autistic son
Hi! I don't know much about your autistic son's needs, but I'm coming at this from the angle of different learning styles and my own son's special reading and writing needs. My son also knew all of the basic consonant and short vowel sounds and some of the blends, but that's when reading and especia...
- Fri Jan 29, 2010 5:11 pm
- Forum: Choosing Curriculum Archive--For Those New to MFW
- Topic: Family - When are all my children in the same program?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8124
Re: How do I?
Hi! My kids are 2 years apart, so our situation was similar to yours. It is nice that Marie has some great posts on how to specifically work it all out. We didn't exactly follow her pattern, but we were close. We did MFWK with 5 and 3 yr old chiming in, then we did 1st gr when ds was 6 and dd was 4 ...
- Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:30 pm
- Forum: Language Arts Archive
- Topic: Special Needs - User experiences with MFW Language Arts
- Replies: 21
- Views: 9009
Writing; Have any of you tried Writing Strands 2?
Thank you for the responses! We did a couple of lessons and gave it away actually. Seemed a bit silly at the time. That has been awhile though, and I don't feel the same about Levels 3 & 4 which we use. Seems that the Level 2 subjects are better covered elsewhere in the curriculum. Tiffany, it is go...
- Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:19 pm
- Forum: Exploring Countries and Cultures Archive
- Topic: Student Sheets, Stickers, Passports - For little ones?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 13022
Re: ECC purchase questions
I think it would be fun for the 4 year old! My 1st grader enjoys this even more than my 3rd grader! Every day 1 of the "new" country, we look at our world map and see if we will be traveling over land, water, or both and then we get in our "plane" or other type of traveling vehicle (submarine, boat,...
- Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:15 pm
- Forum: Language Arts Archive
- Topic: Letter Writing
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9864
Re: Letter writing in ECC - Who?
This year we have handwritten several thank you notes and made birthday cards for cousins, grandparents, friends, etc. I just had both children try typing a short note today for the girl we sponsor who live in Haiti because friends are going to her village again soon. We might do more of that now th...
- Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:09 pm
- Forum: Ideas - Exploring Countries and Cultures
- Topic: Weeks 18-20 Kenya
- Replies: 58
- Views: 44896
Re: Weeks 18-20 Kenya
Hi! We have really enjoyed our African journey! Here are some favorites. Books: We are still reading through the David Livingstone book because these YWAM books just take us longer than scheduled, but the kids really look forward to hearing more of it. We like the book "Honey, Honey, Lion!" by Jan B...
- Mon Jan 18, 2010 7:29 am
- Forum: Choosing Curriculum Archive--For Those New to MFW
- Topic: Compare MFW to other unit studies
- Replies: 44
- Views: 24059
Re: Is ECC What We Need?
We have enjoyed using MFW for a few years. We are beginning week 20 of ECC today and my son was saying that he wants to go on a mission to Haiti or be a pilot so he can fly people there! ECC has really begun a shift in our thinking about the whole world, not just our little world, and how many peopl...