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31  EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child Math / Re: Is anyone using the Doman dot cards math iPad app? on: August 03, 2012, 09:58:08 PM
I would love to use this but my I-pad is too old. Do you know of any other good apps?
32  EARLY LEARNING / Early Learning - General Discussions / Re: Results over time on: July 31, 2012, 12:18:54 AM
We did traditional Doman method. My daughter is reading now, but it is slow. The Doman program got her to recognize words(pick the correct word out of two choices) but not to really put them together to read a book. We never got to the point of reading without constantly doing cards. She reads phonetically now. I was just stating that it was not the most effective EL for us. Maybe if we had been able to continue.
Our problem has not been scheduling. We lived with relatives with no internet and none of our things. Then when we finally got a house I went through a very rough pregnancy with all kinds of complications. My health is finally better and we are starting again.
It is a shame we have such a huge gap, but we are going full blast now.
33  EARLY LEARNING / Early Learning - General Discussions / Re: Baby Refusing to stay attentive more than 2 mins on: July 30, 2012, 08:51:45 PM
  I was getting very frustrated with this. The thing that has done wonders for us -- Being excited and interested myself. If it is on the computer I watch it like it is the greatest thing. He imitates and then gets interested himself. If it is on printed flashcards I pick him up and hug him, clap, and get excited every few cards.
I am trying to train him to focus. After that, we can work on content.
  Doman talks about this in his books. Be enthusiastic, stop before they want to stop. If you only show 2 cards with the baby focused and happy, you have accomplished more than showing 10 with wandering attention.
34  EARLY LEARNING / Early Learning - General Discussions / What would you do again? on: July 30, 2012, 08:30:34 PM
I just posted some of our story and I wanted to share what we are doing for our 2nd child. We did a full program for our 1st per Doman.
Reading- I am definitely doing this again. Things I will do differently: focus on one language, use word cards without pictures as well as with, keep the font as big as possible, and get to couplets and phrases as quick as possible.
Math dots- I have seen no lasting benefits of this, but babies love it. It teaches focus and the vocabulary of math. I really think it helps develop the brain.
EK-I have seen great results, but only when done as POI with magnitudes.
Physical- This was major. The crawling, walking, running, swinging, etc. boosted our program. When we slowed down the physical program learning in general slowed.
Pitch training- This went well and didn't require all of the fancy things people buy for it.
Foreign language-This is the hardest for me. I speak German,but it is hard to run all the other programs and still do OPOL. I've not figured out a good balance.
 
35  EARLY LEARNING / Early Learning - General Discussions / Results over time on: July 30, 2012, 08:11:32 PM
  We did a full program 11-30 months. We did physical, word cards, EK, math dots plus tot school, brightly beaming resources home preschool all in two languages-German and English. What were our results?
  She did not learn to read or do math. She liked the math dots. We cycled through the program three times. She solved a few random equations but I've seen no lasting advantage. With reading, she could point to the right word most of the time but we never transitioned to actually reading. I think it took her longer to process because of the two languages.
  The most lasting effects have been from  the most unpopular programs here. Physical and EK. She is very physically fit, has good balance, can walk and run long periods of time. She got on a neighbor's bike and took off riding with no training wheels. We weren't even planning on getting her a bicycle yet.
   Most people only do bits and expect it to work. You really need to do POI. Cycling through the magnitudes over time is what cements the facts in. You do 100 or 10000 or however many bits and then cycle back through the 1st magnitude in all of them. Each time you cycle back through you build on what  they have already learned. That is what has really stuck with her.
  But here is the point of this post. We had to quit at 2 1/2 yo. Life happened and there was no way to do all this. It has been two years. We have seen a gradual slide.She went from being incredibly bright, soaking up everything to maybe above average. What I am trying to say is that if we don't do this long term the advantage gradully lessens on effect.
  We are starting again. She is very receptive. I have hopes of at least getting back to where we were.
36  EARLY LEARNING / Early Learning - General Discussions / Re: Anyone else have a husband/partner not supportive of your EL goals? on: July 30, 2012, 07:43:05 PM
Cereal boxes = cardstock
I use them for everything I don't laminate. It is too expensive. The very few things we need to use long term I cover in packing/mailing tape. It can be cheaper and the expense isn't noticed because we would normally buy it.
  Page protectors with cardboard in them can be written on with dry erase markers. I use these and dry erase poster board for our reading program. I write words out, use them for a week and then erase them to write the next week's words. If you do laminate cards, leave them blank. You can use them the same way with dry or wet erase markers.
  I've spent less than $10 on our Doman style reading program. That is for 3 years worth of words.
For regular early learning material, I have traced things off the computer in pencil or crayon to save ink. I have hand copied and hand-drawn worksheets off the internet.
  It takes ingenuity and time. Most things take money or time. I can't do much about getting more money right now but I can use my time to prepare materials. It bothers me a little bit sometimes when I don't hear about people adapting early learning to fit their circumstances. More money does not equal more learning.



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