I was really excited when I found these books. We were using the regular spiral notebooks that we took all that time to recovered, but the lines were a bit confusing for them. When I seen this notebook, I knew we would be better off.
So where did I find this little gem, you ask! The Dollar Tree! Can you believe it! You never know what you are going to find. This is working out nicely for handwriting. We have 2 notebooks for the first grader, one for handwriting and another to write the date in every day. I just picked another one up for the kindergartener.
We are still having adjusting pains to figure out what we need to be doing. I am really needing something that is effective and not overly time consuming for mommy or kids, because this momma does not want to constantly be after them. I hate to keep sharing our “new” plan.
On my previous post, I shared the whole curriculum books from the warehouse store. My only fear is the public school system has taken say fifth grade work and simplified it to be introduced in fourth and then more so to be shown in third and then so on until it is in first grade. So it seems as though there is so much introduction for so many years that when it is time for it to be taught, it feels more like a review and the child is bored and never really got to the lesson.
My fear and as I read those books, is that they are introducing things a lot earlier than I really want. I would hate to be introducing the structure of writing and hinder the love and desire to express themselves in writing.
I guess before I can really layout my curriculum, I really need to figure out the goals we have for first and kindergarten. I read the new state guidelines and really for more over amount of education, you really have to go to decoding school on how to implement all that taught thinking they plan to do.
Any suggestions?
~trish
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