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Mary -

Good for you and DH for taking the bull by the horns! Have fun and enjoy every minute. You've got the power!

BTW, Go DD! Go - Go DD! Yes, Yes, Yes - Go DD! Am I being obnoxious, yes! But I will try to make it up to you with this little tidbit of info. Here's an online Middle School Program that both of your kids may be able to do at school in the classrooms as enrichment without radicle acceleration.

BTW - Today is DS10's first day of Middle School, first day with the skip in place, and I feel like I have the flu - really physically bad - although emotionally I feel very pleased and confident - LOL! So maybe I am comming down with something, but I do have a better insight as to why rad/acc isn't appealing than I did yesterday!


Email from salesrep at reasoning Mind:
I am truly sorry for the late response regarding individual subscriptions to Reasoning Mind (www.reasoningmind.org). We know many are anxious to test our system and see if it is something that will benefit your child(ren). Many have asked about reduced rates for families. The pricing will be $200 per year for one student, $125 per year for a second student, and $75 per year for any student after that. This price includes a year long subscription for your child, a parent/teacher account to monitor your child and his/her progress, a detailed Teacher�s Manual, unlimited email support from Reasoning Mind, and limited phone support from Reasoning Mind. Your child must take a placement test to see where we will place him/her in the RM system. After that, we will give you a two-week trial to see if this is something that you would like to work with. If you would like to continue with the program, you will then be billed.



Please let me know if you are still interested and I will get a placement test sent to you right away.



I am here to answer any questions you might have.



Best,





Amanda K. Schwerdt

Director of Tutoring

Reasoning Mind, Inc

410 Pierce St, Suite 208

Houston, Texas 77002

Office: 832-476-9241

aks@reasoningmind.org

www.reasoningmind.org


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Dear X,


Most likely we will offer our 5th grade curriculum to individual students beginning October-November 2006. This might well work for your son. Please contact us at that time, if you�ll be still interested.



Thank you for your interest in Reasoning Mind.



Best regards,



The RM Team






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Dear Reasoning Minds.org



My son is almost 10 years old, and the public school he attends has decided to allow him to "place out" of math he already knows. Is it possible for him you use your program in Beta form at home or in school to learn "more math" while he waits for the other children to catch up?

X

So Mary I think your kids would get a kick out of this program, and maybe get their intellectual cake and keep current setting for a bit longer anyway.

Love and More Love,
Trinity

Interesting - I wonder how this compares to ALEKS. (Pricing is about the same.)

DS is using ALEKS and loving it. Weird thing - DD is really truly on first grade level for math. At least for now. She has never shown an interest and we have never taught her anything beyond that level.

That may change this year though....

ALEKS starts at a 3rd grade level and goes through high school.

This looks more colorful - but not sure it is really better or just more colorful. It would be neat to have a comparison though.
Mary

I have a spam filter and you should get a message saying that. Read that and respond so that I can add you to my address list and get the email. I'll get back to you as soon as I get the email.

Mary

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Conference this morning!

She started by asking what our concerns were. She said no problem, she can ratchet the academics up. She has really been spending the time up til now trying to find out what he is capable of and how hard she can push him - how little she can push him etc. She feels confident enough that she knows his limits and can correctly target things.

She said her main concern is that he can't fold a paper airplane for anything. She wants to address this by spending more time on motor skills activities for him. We agreed that was important and told her what he does at home to work on that.

She talked about how much progress he has made on social skills and playing with other kids - how there is one kid on the playground who always sticks up for him and makes sure he gets to play.

Told me about one day when he started crying about how he didn't have any friends - how every single kid in the class came over and said that they are his friend - real Hollywood unbelievable moment - and how touching it was - said Mark stopped complaining about no friends after that.

I said something about last weekend when he played 5th grade Cluefinders for the first time in a long time. She asked if I had a problem with it when he plays 3rd grade cluefinders instead - and I said no - just that when he never does anything more challenging that I get concerned because it drags him down to never be challenged and he doesn't always see that it drags him down.

Anyway - bottom line, no major changes - but lots of comfort. This teacher really does understand our son and is really meeting his needs so well.

Third grade was the right decision this year.... not sure what will be right next year - but right now, I feel really good about this year.

Mary