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….
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Terie
October 31, 2007 | 7:47 am1
I agree on the cold issues. We have had the cold running through my house for over a week and it just seems to linger. There are six of us so when one gets it the others will too. UGH!
Momto4–counting on fingers is OK. Like Tracy said, it may just be a comfort thing. However, I sometimes need to look at my hands to figure out a number and that’s just a visualization technique for me. Some are visual learners and others are not, the focus is on effort either way.
Get better soon.
Tracy
October 29, 2007 | 11:32 pm2
I am going to look into the “can do kids” especially with winter coming. Living where we do does not mean we are trapped indoors but we still get the cold, dampness that makes going outside yucky…. (as my kids tell me) Grats to your daughter for stepping it up a notch and moving forward…. Don’t worry to much about the counting on fingers, it is probably a comfort thing more than anything else and she will outgrow it. I have found, especially with my oldest son, the more I harp on an issue the harder that he moves the other direction to “control” it himself…. Frustrating at times but we adapt and let him be and usually he works it out for himself. Sorry your family had the stomach thing, we are now deep into some kind of cold from camping and it is bringing a damper on everyone around here!