Math…. ARG

One of the major stumbling points that came up when we decided to allow P to go to public school in 8th grade was math. We knew the math was awful. I had spent two solid years, summers included, getting good math poured into her. Math never has been her strong subject. Ever. It has

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Number line hops

We used to call it ADDITION. In Everyday Math, they are having my first grader counting number line hops, with no explanation that this is a TOOL we use for illustrating addition. I recall my 8yo’s first grade math having them doing “The In-Out Rule”. There IS no such “RULE” in math… this

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Fuzzy in first grade

I volunteered to help in D2′s class on Tuesday afternoon. They were working on math. This is what I heard. “All right class, I want to teach you a new rhyme. Repeat after me, ’2, 4, 6, 8, first graders are really great.’”

That’s it. She had them repeat it twice,

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Homeschooling… there’s still hope

At the beginning of the summer, I went back into homeschooling my boys with the understanding that my husband insisted they go to school in the fall. I am tired of arguing, and the Lord had really convicted me about being submissive to my husband in everything. So, as we did school over

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Duelling Spelling Lessons, part 2

Mrs. M and I were both on staff for the See You After the Pole United rally on Wednesday night, and she told me she would call me Thursday, which she did. (The rally, by the way, was absolutely fantastic, with 809 students in attendance from 18 churches!! Worship was amazing, the speaker

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