Help me before I have to write all my own worksheets.
My 5 year old DD is a typical visual-spatial kindergartener: likes to be able to color something on the page, likes pictures, likes things presented graphically, can't read and is turned off by blocks of numbers.
We're afterschooling and have been doing second grade things but she's ready to move on to either third or fourth in most areas (measurement, fractions, geometry, patterns and logic, multiplication and division). But we have a huge problem - I can't find anything pre-written that isn't a huge leap in terms of presentation style from the second grade stuff.
She will turn off completely if I try and show her that. So I've been winging it and drawing my own puzzles and games and questions. Which is exhausting and nerve-wracking (I'm not a homeschooler at heart).
I've got a couple of websites with games, and we've read (and loved) all of the Sir Cumference books, and some of the other ones by the same publisher (like A Place For Zero). For area and perimeter we're drawing pictures and tonight she did a fractions sheet I copied from a flashkids workbook and made harder. Shapes and manipulating and measuring them is a big interest at the moment. We do origami and tangrams and I'm about to prepare some tesselation activities. Help!
I'm trying to get the GATE teacher at school to help me, but it's not proving easy.
Last edited by Tallulah; 10/26/10 04:44 PM.