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Time to buy the Rubik's Cube 4 x 4. My son was so excited to start work on that one once he solved the 3 x 3.

That's cool! Even with a how-to tutorial, I haven't been able to solve the Rubik's Cube. I was pretty happy as a kid to solve the pyramid, though.

For my brag...my 7 year old just completed his 3rd and 4th grade final exams. He earned a 97.5% on both (missed 1 problem on each) even though we only officially did half of each year's curriculum. That means he's passed three years of math this year. He's been teaching himself everything fractions and decimals which are the core components of his 5th and 6th grade math curriculum. He's anxious to get to algebra. LOL

Rockets are so much fun!!

The multi-stage rockets are awesome to build!!

I know your right! And she's been begging me for it, but none of the stores have them! I'll have to get it online.

I know this is pretty small biccies on this site - but where else can I say it! - we discovered yesterday that DSjustturnedfive can read his own story books. There's a library reward program that offers tattoos and stickers for books read, so he sat down and read it out to us. I knew he knew some words, but not to the extent of "luckily he had glue in his back-pack" eg. DS6 obviously feels a little under pressure - so he sat down at breakfast this morning and read out Captain Underpants. He didn't get every word, but then I would have fallen over if he'd managed 'orthopaedic'. So why did this only happen yesterday/today? Sometimes (reasonably often?) I feel like just flopping my head down on the desk and giving up. My children are driving me crazy.

I'm very excited and encouraged.

My DS7 who grade skipped from 3 to 4 eleven weeks ago has just received his first report card. He had a bit of a time transitioning and has struggled with the organisation and self-management.

His report shows he is performing at the 'expected' level for year 4 across the board!! (Even in Italian, which he is 12 months behind in).
The teacher was restricted in her grading because he had not completed many tasks (is rapidly improving this too). He also received lovely comments from the teacher and principal too.

I'm especially proud because he didn't just skip - he skipped into a 4/5 class of gifted children (high output, no revision etc).

Yay for my DS.
(I love that I can come here and brag).

Thanks

DS5 (close enough since he's almost 5) is really into math. I decided to get him a workbook recently since he is so into it and I was asked by his psychologist to "expose him" to more math. So I got him the 2A singapore mathbook. I asked him to go through it from start to finish and not skip all around. I went to look at it a week later and he says "uh oh mom...I just wanted to say that I skipped to excercise 62" He went to the end of the book and did the work. Apparently the book is way to easy for him. I even skipped to different parts of it and showed him word problems involving multiplication and said "look, this one is more difficult" and he read it quickly and answered it. So now he has gone to 2B, which I think is pretty easy for him too. He is really into factors and fractions lately. And when I was so excited that he finally liked a cartoon on TV, I found out it was about Math (cyberchase). LOL. He keeps things interesting.

DD2 talks constantly now in sentences. She corrected my grammer the other day. she saw a boy as we were driving and she said "I see the boy" As we passed I repeated "you see the boy?" and she said "no...I SAW the boy" yikes. Looks like I am in for some fun with her as well. AND she just turned 2 and has recently decided to potty train herself. It's quite bizarre because we haven't been doing anything other then showing her a potty and giving her pullups. In fact, I had been wanting her to hold off until I can potty train her this summer as I will be home with her, but she didn't want to wait. She loves to go on the potty and hates to get wet now (she especially loves to get an m&m each time she goes).

Tory - great news! That is such a relief, I'm sure

Shellymos - has your son checked out 'crashbox'? It is pretty fun for quick math puzzles, verbal puzzles, etc. (tv show on hbo)

I will have to check that out Chris, I don't know lots of things that are on TV so that is helpful. I think we tried out Cyberchase because I heard someone else on here say there kids liked it (although I didn't know it had to do with Math). He also apparently has watched the local homework help show when he is waiting for us to pick him up. LOL, that would be so incredibly boring to me, but whatever floats your boat. ; )

DD13 got published in our paper, out of 1000's of entries!