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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child Math / Re: Memorizing Math Facts
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on: July 18, 2011, 04:03:19 AM
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I'll have to give that a try. I had forgotten about Funbrain! My older girls have played on that website before on and off. Thanks for reminding me! If anything I think she'll like playing the games , and she learn something from them.
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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child to Read / Re: How to get them to read loud and clear
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on: July 17, 2011, 08:50:28 PM
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I have this same issue and my daughter is almost 5! Has nothing to do with speech. She speaks very well and very clear.
Just she'll start to mumble her words as she's reading and I was wondering , what in the world to do. I'll let her read that way and eventually she starts to get louder, as she reads.
When we get a new book I like her to read it to me at least once out loud so if there are unfamiliar words that we can address that. After that I let her go ahead and read to herself if she wants.
I haven't found a magic bullet yet to get her to stop. I'll have to look at the one link someone posted. But I would think at this age I need to get her to stop mumbling her words or skipping words. I'm sure she's speed reading but after she reads it I just go back and reread when she read. I don't tell her its wrong or anything. If someone is home I tell her, read loud enough so Daddy can hear. He can't hear you, Daddy wants to hear the story too, and she'll get louder. So I found that to be a bit helpful. , But if we're alone she'll revert to mumbling.
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EARLY LEARNING / Homeschooling / Re: Does hands-on activities improve acedemics?
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on: July 17, 2011, 08:13:44 PM
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I haven't read the whole article yet. But absolutely. Especially if you have a hands on learner.
My oldest learns best doing things like Lapbooking, crafts, cooking(math) ,etc.
When she attended school this year they did an assignment making a poster board with facts about the United States flag. You could tell her poster from the whole bunch. She created small books with information and glued them to the board. Making it look like an open lapbook. I had no knowledge of it until we went to the teacher conference that she even made it and she did it herself. Her teacher was so impressed she got the highest grade out of her class for it.
My 2nd daughter isn't quite a hands on learner but when we've done lapbooks for certain topics it actually helps her remember. We did our first lapbook about 4 yrs ago. It was on Greek mythology. She had a tough time remembering who was who in the stories so our 1st lapbook was this. Just this year, 4 yrs later at school they studied the stars and their teacher was talking about the constellations and the stories of the Greek mythology. I saw her teacher that day and she stopped me and told me how impressed she was at K's knowledge of it she was curious as to how I got her to remember. So I shared with her our lapbook we made. She was really impressed for sure. But just by making something it helped my daughter tremendously to remember a difficult or, to some kids, boring topic.
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EARLY LEARNING / Early Learning - General Discussions / Re: How often do i need to flash card?
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on: July 09, 2011, 04:01:42 AM
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Well it depends on the age of the child.
I think its something like 10 cards, 3 times a day
Then after 5 days start retiring one to two cards at a time.
Something like that.
But to be honest I have found that there is no real special formula.
With a little one I would flash the same cards for at least 5 days.
For a child that is about the ages of 2 and above you can get away with flashing the same cards for around 2 - 5 days. The older they are and the more words they know you can start replacing new words daily.
My 4yr old will learn new words by the end of the day now. But in the beginning we had to follow the 5 days at first.
As for review. Smaller children won't need it. I say children ages 3 and up do. Otherwise they forget what they've learned.
Of course every child's "mileage' may vary. Meaning every child is different. I've seen little ones pick up words very quickly and other little ones that need longer time to learn to read words.
I've seen older children pick up words quickly and some that need much longer time to pick up words than my daughter does. Neither is right or wrong. The important part is that you have fun doing it. That's the only important part.
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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child - Other Topics / Re: pls help with my son's strange behaviour
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on: July 09, 2011, 03:55:15 AM
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Not sure about the sleeping thing. Other then have you had his iron checked? You get pretty sleepy if your anemic.
As for boys touching their genitals. Well, I wonder if that ever ends? LOL
He may have found that what he's doing is feeling good to him.
That is something though that you need to tell him that he needs to do in private and not in front of anyone.
Boys seem to discover themselves pretty early on. I like to call it discovering their second brain, because even when they die their" weekie" is the last to go. LOL
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EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child Math / Re: Memorizing Math Facts
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on: July 09, 2011, 03:49:07 AM
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that's a pretty neat gadget for timing. That looks like something that would be useful in our home.
As for bribery. I think that's what I'm going to have to use.
I know I bring out the flashcards and let Maggie write her answers on the dry erase board. She loves writing on it so I figured I'd just let her do what she loves to get her to do what I want. LOL
I do need to get back on track a bit with her math. My oldest were away at camp for a week so I took the opportunity to clean so I stopped doing math with Maggie. I'm most sure I will have to start over. But that's okay.
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