That first week, she copied the first 3 problems of the first 5 numbered rows (out of 7 rows), and she did the rest orally. With that said, I wanted my MP3er to have as much exposure to copying as possible. I hear R&S3 is in the rework phase, so I doubt by the time my little guy reaches it he'll be reusing the student text. I think you're making the right choice for your family. (We often struggle just looking at something and getting overwhelmed at just the looks - this lesson was really a catalyst to so many other things in her behavior, that I can not even begin to describe!) (and this is why I insisted it be done, because I knew that is how she felt staring the page down.) Now, she has tangible results that sometimes something looks/feels unachieveable, but with lots of hard work, it IS possible. She actually said "I never thought I would be able to do that". The look on her face was so worth any struggle we had the previous 12 weeks. About 12 weeks into this, she finished her first fact form, in 5 min. At first, she could barely finish one page (even review) in less than 20 minutes. It may not be for you (and most people are going to reply to not even give it another thought about just writing in the book!)Īdditionally, I had my child doing 1 fact form,. This ended up being a great decision for us.
This seemingly meaningless activity I felt, will benefit the child with executive function issues later, in higher math I did use graph paper and I copied two - three rows at first myself, gradually weaning her down to copying the whole thing. She also needs to do tedious activities because I know, and remember how hard long division/higher math is. It was, in fact, a challenge to copy the problems alone! My child struggles with organizational skills (executive function) and I felt this was just a skill she needed.
It seemed prudent to do the copying when the math was easy. I am probably the odd duck and actually decided to have my child NOT write in the book. I believe at HLS they write in the book also, but I know that HLS Indy (we live near there) mentioned that they have students write in the text at the beginning of the year and then switch to notebook mid-year. I think most families do write in the book, especially in 3rd.