"What your First Grader Needs to Know"??
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 4:32 pm
I've been reading everything I can get my hands on lately to prepare to teach my dd at home. She's 6.
I've purchased some (cheap) workbooks at Wally World for practice with reading and math (the two big complaints in ps), although I'm tailoring what I'm teaching to how my dd learns, so it's definitely not exactly what the ps wants her learning or how. Even though we are just in the 'tutoring' stage with dd, I can see the progress she's making even on her schoolwork.
I bought "What your First Grader Needs to Know" today as a guideline, and honestly I'm a bit concerned. The reading section, though short, suggests teaching words that aren't sight words as sight words. The math section is REALLY scary, asking me to teach far more concepts than I think any child could master in just one year (addition and subtraction, addition and subtraction of 3 numbers, addition and subtraction of 2-digit numbers, money, time, greater than and lesser than, graphs, and more).
Is this book a 'setup' for using spiralling curriculum? Are people using this book as an effective jumping off point for setting up learning, or should I just return it to the store?
I suppose I had expected a more ... balanced approach, with more info on what needs to be taught when WHY. Instead, it seems to be putting forth a lot of the same failing curriculum that I want my dd away from.
I've purchased some (cheap) workbooks at Wally World for practice with reading and math (the two big complaints in ps), although I'm tailoring what I'm teaching to how my dd learns, so it's definitely not exactly what the ps wants her learning or how. Even though we are just in the 'tutoring' stage with dd, I can see the progress she's making even on her schoolwork.
I bought "What your First Grader Needs to Know" today as a guideline, and honestly I'm a bit concerned. The reading section, though short, suggests teaching words that aren't sight words as sight words. The math section is REALLY scary, asking me to teach far more concepts than I think any child could master in just one year (addition and subtraction, addition and subtraction of 3 numbers, addition and subtraction of 2-digit numbers, money, time, greater than and lesser than, graphs, and more).
Is this book a 'setup' for using spiralling curriculum? Are people using this book as an effective jumping off point for setting up learning, or should I just return it to the store?
I suppose I had expected a more ... balanced approach, with more info on what needs to be taught when WHY. Instead, it seems to be putting forth a lot of the same failing curriculum that I want my dd away from.