Update: 1st day combing 3 dc in Beyond
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 2:44 pm
First, I wanted to thank everyone for the suggestions and advice re: my "epic fail" running multiple guides. I decided, after much prayer, that I just needed to do as Carrie suggested and put my ds10 in Beyond but have him continue doing math and LA at his own level. My biggest concern as Beyond not being "enough" for him. As is, it really isn't "enough" for a 5th grader IMHO. So, I spent some time on the internet over the weekend looking for ways to "beef up" the material (i.e. worksheets, extra reading, more research, etc.) in History and Science. I didn't want to use the Science in Bigger b/c I just wanted to keep everything really simple for me. I decided, instead, to just use the Usborne Science Encyclopedias that I have and have ds10 do some extra reading on each topic presented in Beyond. For example, today's science reading was about Energy. I found the topic in my First Enc. of Science book and read it to ds10. Since it also talked about the 2 different kinds of energy (kinetic and potential), I searched for some free worksheets online (and found a great one!) for him to complete. I also found a cute "game" online as well! I had him, and ds9, do the worksheets and the game. Dd6, my little over-acheiver, wanted to play, too, and she also took the index cards I wrote with the cloth-making steps and re-copied them onto her own cards and drew pictures to go with each step. It was a great science day! For history, I gathered together some books I already had on the Pilgrims, found a lapbook on sale at CurrClick and printed some maps and free notebook pages for ds10 to do to accompany each History reading. I'm excited. It didn't take a lot of time to do this (maybe an hour) and I really love having them all together! So, thanks again for the "permission" to combine. So far, so good!