Today Fox and I spent almost 2 hours on math. On 12 problems. Am I the only one (besides obviously Fox 
What am I doing wrong!?
Here are the day’s doings:
Lee:
Bible: Reading (Acts 11); Verse (Colossians 3:1-2); Mark Commentary
Math: Life of Fred Beginning Algebra (Lessons 81)
History/Geography: A Man for All Seasons; Heritage History Classical Curriculum (reading Margaret Anjou)
Language Arts: Excellence in Literature (read The Ransom of Red Chief); Westward Ho!; How to Read a Book (we finally finished part 1 chapter 1)
Foreign Language: First Form Latin (grammar); Hey Andrew! Teach Me Some Greek (Level 4)
Gov’t/Economics/Civics/Logic: Utopia
Science: Biology (chapter 6 vocab, review)
Composer Study/Hymn: Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
Fox:
Bible: Reading (Luke 9); Verse (Proverbs 6:16-21)
Math: Algebra the Easy Way (pages 56-57, assigned problems plus 2 from yesterday)
History/Geography: Heritage History Classical Curriculum (reading Cyrus the Great)
Language Arts: 30 minutes reading (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow); Hobbit (rest of chapter 13)
Foreign Language: First Form Latin (grammar)
Gov’t/Economics/Civics/Logic: Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? (rest of chapter 13); The Fallacy Detective (Lesson 3- opposing viewpoints)
Science: Murche’s (Lesson 25, vocab)
Composer Study/Hymn: Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
We received Artistic Pursuits in the mail today for review. Exciting! It will be for Lee. We will start it Monday
Hmmm the struggle is with Fred, eh? We've not used that particular level with anyone yet, but I definitely think it's a teaching style that works for certain kids. My first two are wordy types that like endless pages of babble between the problems, and so far Fred has been a good fit. BUT I don't think that my girls will do as well. They seem to need more of that drill til it sticks approach, but they're young, so who knows. T started LOF Trig and we found some serious Saxon gappage, so he backed up to Advanced Algebra (Fred) and has only had two days that something hit a wall. I just don't know if I feel like Fred is stand alone or not.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure that LoF is *the* problem- lack of attention and retention are the problem. We are using Algebra the Easy Way right now and from one day to the next (even after 20 problems) he doesn't recall the concept.
ReplyDeletePutting it down as an algebraic expression (or what exactly is being asked in a word problem) are the biggest issues right now.
Otherwise we really like LoF but (until Beg. Alg.) I wouldn't say it is a stand alone- but many do use it as such.