SummerSupplementTimePart2

Posted on Jun 11, 2005 @ 15:49 by CatherineJohnson

I've more or less firmed up (more or less firm?) Christopher's summer math program.

• Saxon Math homeschool edition 8/7 with prealgebra: everything in the book, including the Fast Facts sheets we skipped during the school year
  
• Singapore Math Primary Mathematics Book 3A, all bar model problems in text & workbook; proceeding to Book 3B if we finish
  

And, possibly, if we can swing it:

• every Singapore Math lesson on geometry we can get to, especially the chapter on nets
  
• something extra on fractions . . . possibly just extra 'fast facts' fraction sheets from Saxon
  

We are also going to try to get through Megawords Book 5 before the fall. I keep saying, my goal in life is to be doing the 6th grade book in the 6th grade, as opposed to years and years after the 6th grade is over.

update 2

Fun sites if you want to look at nets.

This one's especially over the top.

update

I just counted the Pages Left To Do in Megawords: 59, plus 6 test days, which is 65.

Not bad.

June 30, 2005 update

We are having such fun cruising through Saxon; it's like spending time with an old friend. Just a few 'I hate you's!' on Day One, and now we're sailing. This morning Christopher nagged me to get started on his math 'because I want to get it over with.'

Here's what we're doing:

• Saxon Math homeschool edition 8/7: 1 complete lesson a day, including the 'fast facts' sheets

• Primary Mathematics 3A textbook & workbook: all bar model problems, 2 each day, probably moving up to 3 or 4. (It's amazing how many of these problems he gets wrong, which makes me feel even more strongly that he needs to be able to do them. He's not 'seeing' the logic of, for instance, subtracting one abstract quantity from another abstract quantity, and I'm certain he needs to see this! I could be wrong.)

• Tomorrow we'll begin doing one Math Olympiad problem a day.

• One of our commenters likes the Primary Mathematics Intensive Practice book, so I'm going to see whether we should be doing some work from that--especially anything to do with measurement, the one section Christopher blew on his TONYSS test. (My neighbor told me today that apparently kids all over the state do poorly on measurement. yikes. I feel less incompetent as a teacher, though, knowing that.)

FreeWorksheets
TreadingWater

SummerSupplement
SummerSupplementTime
SummerSupplementTimePart3
SummerSupplementTimePart4 (resources for kids who have fallen behind)
SummerSupplementTimePart5 (resources for preventing summer regression)

SaxonPlacementTestsAndGuides
SingaporeMathPlacementTest

TeachYourChildToTypeThisSummer

and see:
LiveBloggingTheSpellingBee
HowToSpell
HowToSpellPart2
MoreSpelling
TheSaxonMathOfSpelling

BeingYourChildsFrontalLobes
GreatMomentsInWorldHistory
ProgressReport
ATeachersStory ("I like the idea of math")
BonusPreTeenPost
SundaySchool
ILikeMath
TheGoodNewsFromHere
GoodNewsBadNews
ImGoingToPlayland
ImportantQuestionFromJoanneCobaskoOfSocmm
ImportantQuestionPart2
OutsmartingTheTests
ConversationsWithKids

CoolProblemsToMakeYourKidDo
SummerProgramUpdate

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