We've entered a new stage in schooling. A few days ago Autumn finished her first grade math curriculum, passed it on to Heidi, and then proceeded to teach Heidi the first lesson! And then she taught Heidi one of Heidi's reading lessons from Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons.
Heidi now has her own "schoolbag" and this entire week she has done school of some sort, right alongside Autumn. I am now officially working through Saxon 1 with Heidi. Guess we won't be waiting till August after all...but she's ready, excited, and interested -- so why not, right? That's one of the wonderful things about homeschooling. Their pace.
I was going to give Autumn a break from math for now, but seeing as she enjoys it and is still doing her other subjects till summer break, we've started Saxon 2 with Autumn now. She was SO excited when I told her we could start book 2. Cool.
* On a sidenote, after working through Saxon 1 this year, I am amazed that there is a Kindergarten level. Heidi is technically in kindergarten this fall, but Saxon 1 starts with such basic stuff that it makes sense to skip the K level (especially since I already have Saxon 1...).
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Hi Abby :) I clicked through to your blog from Melodys.
ReplyDeleteI don't introduce a formal math curriculum until my kids have mastered addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, time and money. That seems to be around 2nd or 3rd grade for us. Before that we make due with oral math drills (my boys especially seemed to like this while riding in the car) computer games, workbooks, etc. It is similar to phonics to me, until they master the basics, the rest is just fluff.
Heather