Gratefulmom just posted somethings about LanguageSmarts, which I hadn't heard of. I am trying to bring together a more comprehensive, and not so piecemeal language arts curriculum together now that we are really starting school. All of myDS5's friends (but one) are going to K; and we are staying home. DS5 is doing Time4Learning online for most of his language arts, adding some workbook in from My Father's World because it was a first-glance, good piecemeal fit with T4L. He still really likes T4L because it is on the computer, of course; but my DS is also a wholethinker and can't deal with long-drawn out curriculum, once and got-it. But, he also has to tie in one more thing to just seeing it to help him remember it for some things. Can you tell me more about LanguageSmarts? Thank you!!!
More info...he is almost done with the 1st grade in T4L - we are not consistent at this point whatsoever....but that will be changing next week. I am looking forward to see how fast he will learn now, once we have a REAL school schedule at home. We just discussed that "next week, we start real school at home" with details of what we need to do every day. And he said happily "ok.":) He is reading at 2nd grade because he doesn't like to practice. He is a perfectionist to some degree and does not like it when he comes upon a new word. He guesses a bunch before actually trying to sound it out. He strongly dislikes phonics because his prefers to memorize words. He makes me under(finger)line [is there a word made up for this yet?] every word as I read to him at night. He does have over 700 sight words though. If he sees the same new word in two places, he has it.
We use RightStart Math for Math, which is great for now.
Any other ideas would be great. He is very VSL; and he doesn't mind writing. He however will not write, or type something unless he spells it correctly. He likes to type stories on the computer, or write them on paper (for fun); but is constantly yelling to me in the other room "how do you spell...?" Guessing, with later correcting is out of the question....phonics again!(argh)
Thank you!
Last edited by Mom0405; 07/29/10 08:36 PM.
