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My family homeschools and I finally gave in and purchased academic workbooks for my daughter when she was two and was begging for them. She saw her big brothers working and she wanted to be like them. She started with a simple phonics workbook (she was reading independently) and the Singapore math earlybird series. She ZOOMED through the first two singapore books but got stuck when her writing skills (and perfectionism) were not enough for her to do all the writing expected in the two higher level earlybird books. The first two books only require drawing connecting lines, circling, etc. The second two want kids ot actually write legible numbers and letters, and though my dd was writing a bit (like her name) at 2.5, she wasn't satisfied with her writing in the math books. We took a break of 6-8 months or more, and then she was fine going back to them. You can look up the very reasonably priced books here:
www.singaporemath.com I also have a handy list of cool math "stories" here:
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art33626.asphttp://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art28465.asphth! Welcome to the board.
