I am not sure if you are referring to the sections when there are words only.  Is that when she loses interest?  My daughter would never look at just words.  I always had to show her a picture.  That was the only was I could interest her.  I used paper flash cards and I would show her words followed by a picture and I would stick some of the math facts in between.  She also had no interest in the math portion unless it was hidden among the word/picture flash cards.

If your daughter loves pictures give her lots of them.  Have you thought of getting magnetic letter for the fridge or a board and building words with her?  My kids loved that as well.

I love these podcasts for the Read Aloud Revival.  I get so excited every time I hear one.  There are more than 20 to listen to.  I am on 13 or 14 and still moving along to hear them all.  You can check them out here http://amongstlovelythings.com/read-aloud-revival-the-podcast/

Linzy,

Did you ever get and or read the book you mentioned?  I have been wondering.

I would love to take that course.  I am so happy for you.  I do hope you follow up and share what you learned here.  I hear it is amazing.

I love that idea, Mandy!

I am still checking to see how I can do this.  I can probably have the audio interviews available on my website for anyone to listen to.  I think it would be awesome to chat with some of the amazing parents and get to know them better and hear what they are doing and what they have learned.  So, you are my first target.  I should know more by tomorrow and we can see if we can set this up.  I need to come up with the questions for you so you might know before hand what we will talk about.  All the questions that have been asked so far are definitely going to be included.

My thought was to ask you questions about your journey and save you a lot of typing.   This is what I have been thinking for awhile with lots of the moms.  We all have so many questions and would love the inspiration of just being able to chat and get a peek inside what your life is like.  What you have learned, etc...  Think about it. 

Mandy, here is a question for you.  I was wondering if you would be willing to do an interview with me?  I have been thinking about asking  many of the inspiring parents here and on Facebook if I can interview them and then share the recordings.  I need to check and see how I can do this and get it recorded so that we can make these available to everyone.  When you shared your good news with me I was thinking about this once again.  Let me know.  If anyone here knows about recording calls that would be helpful.  Thanks!

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I can see that crayon is wrong, but table is not.

You can see here.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/table?s=t

It has a long a song and is split right after the a.  I even checked my huge unabridged dictionary and that is how it shows it.

If she likes imaginative play you could teach her doll or teddy bear while she helps you.  Remove her completely from your focus and spend time teaching the toys.  I saw a video years ago that was brilliant.  The mom was showing the dad math flash cards.  She specifically was working with the dad and of course the baby was always right there wanting to be a part of it.

I love your reply, Lappy!  So much wisdom there.

Are you saying that the 2nd edition is thicker than the 3rd?

I was reading this article on The Love-Hate Relationship with Saxon Math.  In light of what has been discussed here I thought this was interesting.  What are your thoughts?  You can read the whole article here.  http://homeschoolreviews.com/forums/1/thread.aspx?id=92223

MIXING OUTDATED EDITIONS WITH NEWER ONES: There is nothing wrong with using the older out-of-print editions of John Saxon’s original math books so long as you use all of them – from Math 54 to Math 87. However, for the student to be successful in the new third edition of Algebra 1, the student has to go from the older first edition of Math 87 to the second or third edition of Algebra ½ before attempting the third edition of the Saxon Algebra 1 course.

But when you start with a first edition of the Math 54 book in the fourth grade and then move to a second or third edition of Math 65 for the fifth grade; or you move from a first or second edition of the sixth grade Math 76 book to a second or third edition of the seventh grade Math 87 book, you are subjecting the students to a frustrating challenge which in some cases does not allow them to make up the gap they encounter when they move from an academically weaker text to an academically stronger one.

The new second or third editions of the fifth grade Saxon Math 65 are stronger in academic content then the older first edition of the sixth grade Math 76 book. Moving from the former to the latter is like skipping a book and going from a fifth grade to a seventh grade textbook. Again, using the entire selection of John’s original first edition math books is okay so long as you do not attempt to go from one of the old editions to a newer edition. If you must do this, please email or call me for assistance before you make the change.

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