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16  EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child Math / Re: Kitchen Table Math on: October 26, 2010, 07:11:32 AM
The link I provided also has excerpts from the book.
17  EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child - Other Topics / Re: Art genius on: October 26, 2010, 06:58:10 AM
Wow, what a rare and special individual.

I will be curious to know what happens as she grows.

Will she work with a mentor or go to an art academy someplace steeped in the painting craft like Italy?
Will she ever bore of her work?
Will she ever need to know other skills like math if she is so special in one field?

And her intense spirituality - it's uncanny!

Thanks for posting.

mom2ross
18  EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child Math / Indian Math Online on: October 25, 2010, 11:24:54 PM
Just came across this site:

http://www.indianmathonline.com/

...after reading this article:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/03/indian-math-tutors-math-deficient-americans/

I was so focused on how math is taught in China and Singapore, that I forgot about researching options from India, where there is so much computer science strength.

Seems to start at the 1st grade level though :-(

mom2ross
19  EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child Math / Junior Kumon beginning at age 3 on: October 23, 2010, 12:16:37 AM
Has anyone had any experience with Junior Kumon classes which the website claims can begin at age 3?

20  EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child Math / Kitchen Table Math on: October 22, 2010, 11:36:07 PM
Came across a website called The Art of Problem Solving which provides resources and textbooks for advanced math students in preparing for contests and such.

They offer one preschool/kindergarten level book which I'll link to here:

http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Store/viewitem.php?item=ktm:1

Has anyone purchased or used this?

mom2ross
21  BrillKids Software / Little Reader - General Discussion / Re: Little Reader suggestions - Help us improve Little Reader! on: October 20, 2010, 07:05:36 AM
Hi there.

This is a good thread!

Just to piggyback on Extreme Bartending Dad, I have long fantasized about completely overhauling the Custom Settings dialog because it is so overwhelming and confusing. Of course, the settings aren't going to be simple if you want so much freedom and flexibility, but there has got to be a way to simplify the UI and the whole process for customizing. I've got the settings the way I like them now, and don't visit that dialog much, but it's just not optimized at all right now. That is a huge request of mine. If I had more time I'd offer up designs myself.

I also had the same request when we first started to have an automatic pointer running under the word instead of me having to do it, so yay!

I love the idea of a video clip showing the mouth pronunciation. With our boy we place his hands on our throats and under our chins to feel the vibration of the word, and that usually gets him pronouncing the word correctly.

Something that Starfall.com games have is sounding out of basic words to help with reading. Like "mmm-aaa-ttt" "mat". My boy can pronounce many many words if I sound out each letter, but visual identification is still hard for him. Needless to say I'm pretty certain he's an auditory learner! Would be nice if some of the LR curriculum did this.

I wish we could buy or download numbers 1 through 100 in several language and just load them into LM. I'd download several languages if they were available!

More later.

mom2ross



22  EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child Math / NSF awards $2 million to research Russian Math Curriculum on: October 20, 2010, 06:50:02 AM
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2010/09/2_million_nsf_grant_to_study_r.html

Interesting research subject!

mom2ross
23  EARLY LEARNING / Early Learning - General Discussions / Re: Early learning ideas for four month old on: October 04, 2010, 07:21:43 AM
The one piece of advice that I could give for a baby that young, besides starting with the word and dots flashing is to talk to your child ALL THE TIME.

Read out loud to them, describe everything you are doing to them, everything you see, talk as you change them, bathe them, etc.
Just talk all the time.
Lack of verbal stimulation is proven to be detrimental, so lay it on real thick.
That's what many books advise, anyway. My favorite books are Bright from the Start and Magic Trees of the Mind.
They both have summaries of activities to do with babies at that age and older.

The other thing I would advise is to avoid institutional day care until a bit later, if you can.
Keep them as close to home or at someone else's home as possible.

Sounds like you're eager!
24  Products Marketplace / Product Discussions and Reviews / Re: Inexpensive laminating machines? on: September 29, 2010, 09:11:59 AM
Happy to report that the Scotch laminator arrived and i successfully placed the first 8 of DadDude's Flesch cards into one large laminating pouch and the roller sucked them up and laminated them all! I just cut them out when it was done.

Looking forward to laminating more stuff!

mom2ross
25  EARLY LEARNING / Teaching Your Child - Signing, Speaking, Languages / Re: My little boy only wants to watch Leap Frog's Letter Factory! on: September 28, 2010, 06:43:19 AM
What a funny thread, because my boy is attached to this particular video too.
He asks for Tad and asks about Professor Quiqley.

We moved about 6 weeks ago and he didn't adjust so great to his new surroundings, so LF really soothed him because it was familiar.
Before we moved he had watched it only a handful of times when he was about 14 months and then knew all his letters after that!

He hasn't tired of it yet - he's obsessed with this one and only DVD.

We'll try Math Circus and see if he likes that and if the pace is slow enough.

My experience with Word Factory is that it is much too fast paced!
It is like a rock video compared to Letter Factory's easy going pace. We don't watch it...this is really my main issue with TV watching...the pace is too frenetic...if the video is paced well, or better yet paced at the speed of real life (like images of animals at the zoo), then it's OK.



26  Products Marketplace / Second-Hand Sell + Swap / Wanted: Your Baby Can Read DVDs on: September 27, 2010, 12:27:58 AM
I am in Northern California, hoping to get this program second-hand.

You can send me a private message.

Thanks,
mom2ross
27  Products Marketplace / Product Discussions and Reviews / Re: Finger puppets and hand puppets? on: September 26, 2010, 10:16:37 PM
We ended up getting a ten-pack of finger puppets at IKEA, but I will also check out puppetville!

Thanks.
28  Parents' Lounge / General Parenting / Re: Toys for a 2 year old on: September 26, 2010, 10:15:26 PM
Our boy is just about that age too...so this thread should be interesting.

Here is what we are into:

Play Dough
Coloring with jumbo crayons
Books books books books books
Watering plants/playing with dirt
Balls
Trucks
Simple puzzles (12 pieces max.)
Painting
Musical instruments and listening to music
Pretending to do handy jobs around the house (improvising with screwdrivers, etc.)
Wooden train tracks and trains
Letters and numbers fun
Finger puppets and hand puppets

Also, the book Magic Trees of the Mind has a good index of games/toys/activities by age and gender.

mom2ross
29  Products Marketplace / Product Discussions and Reviews / Re: Inexpensive laminating machines? on: September 22, 2010, 04:09:54 AM
NadiaD, I just bought the Scotch laminator you recommended, can't wait to receive it!
I guess I'll get a few different sizes of pouches to accommodate both small flash cards and larger pages of materials.
30  Products Marketplace / Product Discussions and Reviews / Re: Inexpensive laminating machines? on: September 21, 2010, 07:04:01 PM
If you buy the larger laminate pouches (e.g. 9 x 11.5 inches), can you laminate several small things in the pouch and cut them into smaller cards, or is it best to buy pouches similar in size to the item you are trying to laminate?
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