A_BC, hypatia  - thanks a lot!!! Just ordered and looking forward to get them asap

Sounds great!
Aangeles, any other interesting workbooks you can recommend?

I like very much the Geography books, just ordered. Thanks, aangeles

While ordering I saw 2 other interesting workbooks, i.e. Cut and Paste: Science  -  http://www.amazon.com/Cut-Paste-Science-Jodene-Smith/dp/0743937066/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344519624&sr=1-1&keywords=Cut+and+Paste%3A+Science

Read and Understand Science - http://www.amazon.com/Read-Understand-Science-Grades-1-2/dp/155799854X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344519594&sr=1-2&keywords=Read+and+Understand+Science

I would also recommend to do 2 sessions per day, one in the morning and one in the evening. And please plan the difficult pieces for the morning session. Last month we started to do the morning one and it is going very well. In the morning we always do Singapore math, numbers and in the evening – different Kumon workbooks. And, you know, my son is already used to this regime. Once I overslept myself so I had to skip this morning session in order to be at work ontime but he started to complain and insisted to do at least several exercises

Tia, difficult question, do not know answer myself. I will tell you our story. Our first lesson was when my son was 2.3. Before that I was showing him cards/posters with different music instruments, pointing to violin, also some videos on youtube. But before this lesson he did not see violin in the real life. So first lesson was the complete failure, he holded it for a bit and that's it. Ok, then I rented a small violin and then every evening we were looking for violin (hide and seek) and try to hold and play. Also again cards, stories. It took something around 2 months untill he was ready for another try of a lesson. Then it was a complete success, we were taking a lesson once a week and my son was asking every day when we are going to a next violin lesson. I never was happy before as at that time   But in one month it all disappeared, he still played a bit at home but refused to do anything with the teacher. Luckily it was Christmas holiday and our teacher was away for a month. I was again preparing him during this month and again success when we started. I think it lasted something about 1,5 months and then again the same story. I tried again in several weeks but no success so now we are in a very very long break. I am planning to start taking lessons again this month but, frankly speaking, I doubt a lot that they will be successful and not sure whether to try again or wait........

I need to renew our French books' library. Could you please recommend books you are reading with your 3-4 years old children?

Thank you, Mandabplus3 and Kerileanne99!

LANGUAGES
Actually I did not follow any method in teaching him languages. On the one side – we were reading books, then listening to children songs, was trying to memorize then, then flashcards/posters and watching cartoons while my son was eating (actually the eating time is the only time when he is watching movies/tv) and speaking to him. I was trying to divide languages by days of the week, but was not good in it. Sometimes I felt more to do one language and we were doing it, may be it was not correct, I do not know. I started with Russian and Dutch, in couple of months – English and Chinese. When he was one year old – French. And when he was 2 – Spanish. Chinese is the only one language where I used real lessons’ material and where we were doing from one lesson/level to another. We were also taken lessons via Internet (one time a week) since he was 7 months old. But I stopped it some time ago as I disappointed a bit. So I will continue myself. So now Martin understands Chinese very well, he knows a lot of poems, words/phrases. The only part is missing is speaking. I think it is my fault as I was trying not to speak to him in Chinese. The reason is that I have very strong accent in Chinese and I know that many words I am saying with wrong tone so I did not want to teach him wrong pronunciation/accent.

He is still mixing different languages, it is much better now than one year before but still. Our French nanny is saying that in the first part of the day he is telling a lot of words in Dutch but at the second part of the day he is more and more switching to French
Also one interesting thing that he never talks to me in French or even says words in French but as soon as nanny is coming he immediately starts telling her something in French. I think that he somehow knows that what’s a point to say me in French, if I do not understand a thing

Let’s hear how we progress. My plan now is to strengthen Chinese further, finally start real lessons with Spanish (at the moment we are just listening to songs and he is crasy about Whistlefritz dvds) but I need to put it to the next level. And in one year we will start Japanese.

We did not start LR English as we were doing Chinese and if I am not mistaken the same words and pictures are used in all versions so I did not want to mix them. But at the end of May we finished LR Chinese and will start English now. Actually I did not teach him to read. We did two programs for teaching reading (in different languages) but I never tested him, but I think he could not do it. But now we will start playing with alphabetical blocks (Russian and French) and I hope they will help.

Thanks for advices regarding drums and Soft Mozart. We will add them to our daily routine.

I also could recommend to read this thread - http://forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-music/violin-size-for-a-3-year-old/msg87212/?topicseen#new There are a lot of good recommendations for books, blog and detailed video lessons (which one I found extremely helpful for a mom without music education)
Hope it will help

I know this forum already for quite some time, got a lot of great ideas and bought a lot of stuff based on the recommendations.
And thought that may be I will tell a bit about us, what we are doing, where are our problems and which areas we need to improve (I always think that I am missing something, something else we need to do).

We live in Netherlands, my son Martin is 3.2 now. From the beginning I wanted to focus on languages, I searched in Internet how it can be done with small children and find out about early childhood development and all started from here  
Now Martin is speaking in 4 languages (he is still mixing them a lot but hopefully it will gone soon), i.e. Russian (I am Russian by origin), Dutch, English and French. I also teaching Chinese (I know it myself not very good but not so bad) and Spanish (started to learn myself to able to speak and teach it to him). The only language I do not know is French, not a word, but Martin stays 2 days at home with nanny and she is French. So I am just looking and preparing materials, songs, posters and so on and the rest is done by nanny   Now I think it is good time to start with alphabetical blocks, found good reviews about Uncle Goose, so now the only problem to get them

First two years we did a lot, if not, from Russian company “Umnitsa” (Doman method) and also finished Little Reader Chinese and Math. Still did not start the English version of LR, still on the list.
My son loves Kumon workbooks, he is extremely active but he can sit at least 40 minutes working on them. Just bought and started Singaporian math. And will buy RightStart, read a lot of comments/reviews, program looks great.

What else are we doing? Well, a lot of art activities, listening to music (classic, opera, children songs on different languages) and of course reading and reading. Also trying to teach chess (have an excellent book for teaching small children (in Russian)) but going a bit slow.

Music. We are doing Little Musician, excellent program and my son loves it, reading books about instruments, posters and so on. Martin is quite good in recognizing which instrument is playing (while listening to music in a car for example), knows notes. We are trying also violin, already for more than half a year but progress is zero   He know how to hold, knows string, how to play and that’s it. He could not even play a simply melody. We were taking lessons but now stopped as Martin likes playing home but not with the teacher. I do not know why, before he really likes him. I think I need to start teaching myself (have Suzuki violin books) but my problem is that I do not have musical education, musical eye and not a lot of timе. Let’see.
Last couple of weeks I was thinking and thinking about Soft Mozart, very tempting. But think that I will postpone for some time, not sure whether I will have enough time and also it is quite an investment. And also one of the reasons is that real passion of my son is not a piano but drums. He is crazy about them, but I completely do not know where to start here.

On weekends we are doing sport activities, football and judo on Saturday and swimming pool on Sunday (not lessons just swimming, playing in the water together). And also we are going for different concerts, theater performances on Sunday afternoon.

I think that ‘s it. A bit long but hopefully not very boring

Hypatia.
I was also struggling to find Singapore math with delivering to Europe (we live in Netherlands) and last week I ordered from Mathnoproblem.co.uk. They delivered fast, good packed. Shipping cost for 2 books (I ordered textbook A and B) - 9.45 pounds, quite reasonable. So I am very happy and we already started

There is a quite good set for level A for $53+ $13 shipping - http://www.ebay.com/itm/RightStart-Mathematics-Level-A-Kit-for-Home-Educators-/170881281555?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27c9516e13
I was looking for myself but could not fiind with shipping outside the States. Will keep looking
Hope this helps

Hello,

As far as I know from reading forum quite some people are using both Right Start and Singapore for teaching math. Could you please explain what is difference between them? As far as I can see there is more geometry in Right Start but this is actually the one that I spotted. Can Right Start be considered as next step after Singapore math, at least Kindergarden one? My son is 3 and we just started Singapore kindergarden A.

Thanks in advance, Jane.

Thanks, Helene
I asked as I always sceptical about big discounts. But I read a lot of good reviews and going try this program with my son.

I see that they increased the total price for the package, before it was $700 and now it is $800. So at the end it is not 50% discount
Another thing I could not get is why they are offering only 25% discount for perpetual copy? Logically they should give more discount for perpetual copy and not for months' modes because they are getting money immediately when people buy perpetual copy and only in several years the full amount when people buying in installements. So they are loosing money twice with this 25% discount.

Thank you very much for all links!
Just ordered.