I’ve never heard of the Building Thinking Skills, and from the previews online it looks like the stuff my three year old son absolutely loves to do. I think I’m going to get the first one for him to work through. He’s in book C from Explode the Code, and just started Math With Confidence K (we finished the preschool level from Kate Snow). He’s been using Easy Peasy for kindergarten math and phonics for a few months and he wants more. He’s throwing me for a loop when it comes to the “plans” I had for when he’d start using these resources. So I’m trying to find things to satiate his desire for learning!
Haha, yes. Last year both of mine didn't follow to my plan. One went way faster and one slower than I had counted on. But having a plan still helps me even if I have to change it later on. It's wonderful that your little guy is loving this stage of learning!
My daughter LOVED Explode the Code! I hope yours does too. 😊 We used First Language lessons and really liked it. I wish we hadn’t changed after that! I will likely use it for my next two. 😊
@@journeyinthehome BJU English 2. I had always intended to use BJU in 2nd grade so FLL was just something I thought would be good to give her a head start. But my daughter hated Writing and Grammar and now we are using a more Charlotte Mason style. Oddly enough all of the grammar that she has totally down now are things she learned in FLL. 🥰
I have a 2nd grader next year who hasn’t finished 1st grade as I wanted this year to be her 1st grade year!!! I have dyslexic kids so we finish the phonics curriculum as it seems help them!!! We do loads of readers!!! We love phonics for spelling!!! My younger kids love TGTB handwriting but I can’t see any big differences in what I saw!!! We love 1st language lessons!!! We love MWC!!! I don’t mind it’s hands on but my kids do the workbook independently apart from the parts that require me!!! We taught our older kids map skills later on and my younger kids from kindergarten and I can’t see any problems starting early!!! We just didn’t do it!!!
Since it's something she'll be able to do semi-independently and it's mostly stuff she's already covered to some extent in her reading program, I plan to have her do 2 pages a day, probably every day. I'm hoping it's something that she can do while I work with my other daughter.
Have you used any of these? If so, what did you think?
I’ve never heard of the Building Thinking Skills, and from the previews online it looks like the stuff my three year old son absolutely loves to do. I think I’m going to get the first one for him to work through. He’s in book C from Explode the Code, and just started Math With Confidence K (we finished the preschool level from Kate Snow). He’s been using Easy Peasy for kindergarten math and phonics for a few months and he wants more. He’s throwing me for a loop when it comes to the “plans” I had for when he’d start using these resources. So I’m trying to find things to satiate his desire for learning!
Haha, yes. Last year both of mine didn't follow to my plan. One went way faster and one slower than I had counted on. But having a plan still helps me even if I have to change it later on. It's wonderful that your little guy is loving this stage of learning!
My daughter LOVED Explode the Code! I hope yours does too. 😊
We used First Language lessons and really liked it. I wish we hadn’t changed after that! I will likely use it for my next two. 😊
Thanks! What did you guys change to after First Language Lessons?
@@journeyinthehome BJU English 2. I had always intended to use BJU in 2nd grade so FLL was just something I thought would be good to give her a head start. But my daughter hated Writing and Grammar and now we are using a more Charlotte Mason style. Oddly enough all of the grammar that she has totally down now are things she learned in FLL. 🥰
I have a 2nd grader next year who hasn’t finished 1st grade as I wanted this year to be her 1st grade year!!! I have dyslexic kids so we finish the phonics curriculum as it seems help them!!! We do loads of readers!!! We love phonics for spelling!!! My younger kids love TGTB handwriting but I can’t see any big differences in what I saw!!! We love 1st language lessons!!! We love MWC!!! I don’t mind it’s hands on but my kids do the workbook independently apart from the parts that require me!!! We taught our older kids map skills later on and my younger kids from kindergarten and I can’t see any problems starting early!!! We just didn’t do it!!!
Yeah, I could see how you'd want to complete a phonics curriculum all the way to the end with a struggling reader to really cement it.
Sounds like a great line up!
Thanks! I'm really looking forward to using it all. :)
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How often are you gonna do explode the code?
Since it's something she'll be able to do semi-independently and it's mostly stuff she's already covered to some extent in her reading program, I plan to have her do 2 pages a day, probably every day. I'm hoping it's something that she can do while I work with my other daughter.