Thinking Skills book for 1st grader in Beyond?
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Thinking Skills book for 1st grader in Beyond?
Next year I will have a barely 6yo 1st grader who reads and writes well, but needs more practice cutting and coloring. We used the Do it Carefully and Finding the Answers this year with LHFHG, but I think he could use some additional practice.
I think this has been asked before, but would it be helpful to use the Thinking Skills book from LHFHG along with the Beyond guide? Or, do you find there are enough of these kinds of skills used in Beyond that additional supplements are not needed?
Thanks!
I think this has been asked before, but would it be helpful to use the Thinking Skills book from LHFHG along with the Beyond guide? Or, do you find there are enough of these kinds of skills used in Beyond that additional supplements are not needed?
Thanks!
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Camden
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Re: Thinking Skills book for 1st grader in Beyond?
What I think is that the Thinking skills book is easy enough and all that you could still get it and just have it for fun
It is my current just turned 6yo's favorite part of school 


Re: Thinking Skills book for 1st grader in Beyond?
Just an FYI - We haven't used scissors very much in the 1st grade Thinking skills book (literally like 3 pages out of 106). Certainly not compared to the R&S workbooks (Finding the Answers, etc.) There is some coloring in there. My son did ARFH Book A this year so every Thursday instead of "practicing" writing the verse, he would write it on the pretty page in the back and color that page. You could use that for 1st grade with Beyond. Or, if you are going to do copywork, you could buy one of those composition books and have him color something at the top of the page. Maybe you could find a coloring page to match the history story and let him color that while you are reading to him?
HTH.
P.S. We really did like the Thinking Skills book and enjoyed it and there are some great skills in there. So it certainly would be a fun add on for your son.
HTH.
P.S. We really did like the Thinking Skills book and enjoyed it and there are some great skills in there. So it certainly would be a fun add on for your son.

Cyndi
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Re: Thinking Skills book for 1st grader in Beyond?
You could easily add the Thinking Skills Grade 1 book to Beyond if you'd enjoy that. Cutting and coloring skills are included in Beyond, but you can add more if you think that would be beneficial.
Kumon books are fun for this too!
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Julie

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Re: Thinking Skills book for 1st grader in Beyond?
Thank you everyone who has replied. Wow, that was fast!
Good to know that there isn't much cutting included in Thinking Skills. That is specifically the skill that needs the most work. Maybe I will look at other R&S workbooks or the Kumon workbooks as mentioned. Thinking Skills might be good to get just for fun, then.
Any other ideas for cutting practice?
Good to know that there isn't much cutting included in Thinking Skills. That is specifically the skill that needs the most work. Maybe I will look at other R&S workbooks or the Kumon workbooks as mentioned. Thinking Skills might be good to get just for fun, then.
Any other ideas for cutting practice?
Camden
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Re: Thinking Skills book for 1st grader in Beyond?
I second the Kumon workbooks for cutting!! My dd loves them!!
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Re: Thinking Skills book for 1st grader in Beyond?
Third the Kumon books.mommadonna wrote:I second the Kumon workbooks for cutting!! My dd loves them!!

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Re: Thinking Skills book for 1st grader in Beyond?
I'm going to get the new R&S workbooks that come after the ABC series for my dd to use with Beyond. She loves the ones used in Little Hearts. I think they are called the GHI series. I'm sure you could easily add in the thinking skills book too if you wanted.
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Re: Thinking Skills book for 1st grader in Beyond?
Thanks, ladies. I'm so glad we have this board.
I just checked out the Kumon workbooks... They look so colorful and fun! I think I will get a couple of those for both ds and dd to use next year.
I think I may use the other R&S books or Thinking Skills for my dd when she gets to LHFHG, since she did the other R&S books along with ds this year while he was doing LHFHG.
I just checked out the Kumon workbooks... They look so colorful and fun! I think I will get a couple of those for both ds and dd to use next year.
I think I may use the other R&S books or Thinking Skills for my dd when she gets to LHFHG, since she did the other R&S books along with ds this year while he was doing LHFHG.
Camden
Homeschooling mama to...
ds 1st (Beyond)
dd preschool (LHTH)
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dd preschool (LHTH)