Comments on: Just now catching up…

By: cZja

cZja — Sat, 14 May 2005 04:03:12 +0000

All my posts were deleted. Whahhhh! I’m just not feelin’ the love anymore.

By: cZja

cZja — Fri, 13 May 2005 03:11:37 +0000

I’m really blowing it. Sorry about the double post.

By: cZja

cZja — Fri, 13 May 2005 03:10:54 +0000

My four year old can’t even sing the alaphabet song. But he is very interested in money and presidents – the ones on the money. So he can identify all of the buildings on money, and who all of the presidents are on all our currency, coin and dollar and what wars they fought. He’s also mastering addition without even knowing it, and without having learned his numbers first. That’s what I love about home education. There is no one way to do it. It is just the constant practice of self education.
No rush. When my son’s ready to read, he will. Untill then I keep filling him with knowledge and letting his interests direct me.

By: cZja

cZja — Fri, 13 May 2005 03:10:10 +0000

I love everything about your new site look but the center justified posts.

Could you chnage that just for me? Hahahahah.

By: cZja

cZja — Fri, 13 May 2005 03:09:06 +0000

By: Difster

Difster — Thu, 12 May 2005 08:32:37 +0000

My four year old can count to 40 or 50 now and I haven’t had much time to actively work with her yet.

Neener, neener, neener.

Mine can’t count 1000 (except that she loses patience with it. She gets the concept though).

She went from being able to count to 20 up to 100 with an hours worth of work.

I wrote down 1-10 on a page. Then I wrote 10-100. Once she understood that 20 is just a 2 with a 0 at the end, it wasn’t long before she understood the sequence up to 100. The following week, after giving her a chance to let it settle in, I explained that 200 is just 20 with an extra 0.

She’s good at pattern recognition, but she’s not as advanced in adding as you said your four year old is.

By: Echo

Echo — Thu, 12 May 2005 03:56:52 +0000

Shame. My brother (six now) started school when he was five and I’d been working with him a while on reading and letter recognition… he didn’t dig it until he started to school and he somehow found it more enjoyable when he was learning with a large group of children. Unfortunately he kind of topped out there so far. It doesn’t seem like they’re helping him to learn consonant blends, really. They just need him to perform at acceptable levels in tests, which amuses me because he gets ‘at level’ grades yet does things that they can’t possibly be testing on… ~shrugs

~squawk!

By: Matildah

Matildah — Thu, 12 May 2005 01:50:44 +0000

Nothing past the alphabet in kindergarten??? And when I was a tutor for a fifth grade class (hired as a MATH tutor…*rolls eyes how much more of a government employee could I be?), the teacher was so worn out/suprised, because almost every student, practically every boy, had a “learning disability” by the time they were ten. Even better, the couple kids who weren’t “disabled” weren’t challenged at all, lest they struggled with actual learning.

By: digitalcowboy

digitalcowboy — Thu, 12 May 2005 00:09:55 +0000

Yes, JohnR. I recommended that book recently in the comments thread on another post. That book was not an eye-opener for me in the sense that I was shocked, but it changed my entire perspective because I realized for the first time that I wasn’t crazy for the hunches I had. It also put the pieces together for me and gave me the ammo I needed to back up my positions.

I was thrilled when I found out a couple of years ago that JTG had put the whole book online for free.

I was blessed by a friend with a signed prerelease copy of the book as a gift a few years ago. {/end gloat}

By: JohnR

JohnR — Wed, 11 May 2005 23:57:56 +0000

DC: you understand all this non-pedagogy is not an accident. Have you read The Undergroung history of American Education? You can read it on-line at http://www.johntaylorgatto.com.