My twenty cents keeps moving!
Aug. 20, 2006
I Need Your Ideas
My
8 year old dd is finishing her schoolwork and asking for more.
She works fast, and she loves her work. I try to keep pace
between her and my son, but he is slower and his work is harder.
Some subjects they do together (Latin, history and science) but other
than that, she zips through her stuff and asks what's next. I
can't always work with her because I have 3 other kids to work
with. What are somethings I can give her to do while she is
waiting for me to be able to work with her? Sometimes I give her
free time or she plays math games on the computer (she is learning
multiplication.)
She is an avid reader and zips through 7-10 books per week (Box Car
Children and things like that.) She is reading above grade level
but her writing skills are a little weak, as are her spelling
skills. (We are doing Spelling Power and Writing Strands, but
both are teacher involved.) She is slightly ahead in math, but
not more than half a year. I have noticed that she hasn't had
much geography so I am thinking about something like this. (although its not in my budget right now)
How do you do scripture memorization? We so a little, but
we don't have a great plan. Maybe I could use the verses she
writes in ARFH.
Anyway I thought maybe some of you would have some good ideas. {I need cheap or free}
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Aug. 21, 2006 - Here are some ideas.
 Posted by homeschoolingmommaof4
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Here are some things I have the kids do. The first one is map puzzles. It is a free download and my kids like playing it. http://www.yourchildlearns.com/owlmouse.htm
Here is another one the kids like to play. Hidden picture multiplication.
http://www.aplusmath.com/games/picture/MultPicture.html
I also have several other games that they can play online listed on my blog. There are games for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, nouns, adjectives, and verbs. There are also some things for scripture memorization listed under Bible for kids
What I usually do is copy and paste the links into a word document and have my children go to the sites from the doc. That way I don’t have to tell them what to do next and I don’t have to worry about them seeing something questionable on the web. I also have books on hand like puzzlemania and a hidden pictures book. I like them to do things that exercise those brain muscles. Something else I have done is give them a topic from something we are working on like knights. Then I have them go through old magazines and try and find pictures that relate to the topic and make a collage. I also have them do some independent research and write interesting facts about that down. I make a book out of several sheets of construction paper stapled together to write the facts in. They draw illustrations or collect things to put on the pages with the fact. We’ve also made up a story, like last year I had them pretend they were King Tut’s friend and they spent the day together. They would then write a simple story about their day and draw or cut out pictures to illustrate. This was more for fun so I let spelling and stuff slide.
That’s all I can think of right now. Hope that helps.
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