Well the stomach bug has been visiting my house this week…gotta love that !!! But through all of the sickness we still managed to log on and complete our lessons.  My third grader has been pretty behind in math in several areas, and I have been struggling with finding the right curriculum for her.  She does great on several topics but still counts on her fingers all the time and has trouble with place value.  She has been doing the second grade math as a review but a week or so ago began the third grade section.  T4L has been such a blessing. ( she is the one that announced in the bathroom about the lines of symmetry)  All week last week she was running around announcing that she “got them all right…I got 100″  This has been such a big boost to her.  She still needs work with addition and subtraction facts but I found these video’s …my 7th grader says they are “lame” called Can Do Kids, they are this family of kids doing exercises to the math facts.  There is one for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.   Hey…Math and PE too, you can not beat that.  I think that we will use those several times a week for practice….  My only question is why they have to wait to do the sit ups until the 12 fact family, when you are already tired ???  The kids got a big kick out of Old mom trying to do sit ups….
 

Hello all….  First I want to thank you all of the Math post ideas.  And…

As you all know we are new to homeschooling so naturally I am doubting myself .  Tonight I was taking a bath….( without the toddler…a rare luxury) and reading The Well-Trained mind.  I was looking at all of the things that I needed to cover, and frankly getting a bit depressed and worried that I was not doing enough.  When in barged my 3rd grade daughter and announced that the squares in the tiles on the floor have 4 possible lines of symmetry.  She then went on to talk about how many a circle, triangle and rectangle have.  I asked her where she learned that ( I knew the answer) and she said…Time 4 Learning of course!!  The Lord works in mysterious ways to encourage us…..he uses a small child…and time4learning!  

Hello:  It’s me….again.    As you all know we are new to HS’ing and T4L.  Do any of you all that are using T4L as a core, use any math worksheets to supplement?  We just finished reviewing the 4th grade for my son, and now he is moving on to the 5th grade.  I looked around the parent page and found answers but not a worksheet generator or additional worksheets.  Is this necessary?  Please excuse the newbie question…I think that I am still in the stress out mode trying to make sure that they are “where they are supposed to be.” 

 Also, have any of you ever had the kids take individually administered assessment tests?  We are in Ky. and there are no testing requirements for home-schools…just wanted opinions on their validity.  I can not stress enough how much easier T4L makes record-keeping……yeah T4L!!!!!  

Hello:

Just a quick post to introduce myself and my family.  I am a first year homeschooling mom of 4.  We found Time4learning after most of our curriculum for this year was already purchased so we are using it as a supplement for this year.  I have one DD in 7th grade, who is going on 25 and another in 3rd grade who is going on 18….. I also have a DS in 5th grade and a toddler who rules the roost!!! 

The kids , and mom, love time4learning and I look forward to meeting and fellow-shipping with all of you.  Just wanted to share a little story.  Last week we were on a fall break of sorts and my DD 3rd grade got up and turned her computer on.  My husband asked her what she was doing and she said that she was doing her Time4learning.  He reminded her that she was on break and she said that she knew but it was fun and she wanted to do it anyway.   Yippie !!!!!

Momto4