gr8tfulCMmom – MEP question

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  • September 3, 2009 at 4:02 pm
    CJKJ
    Participant

    Hi,

    Sorry to ask this on the forum, but I saw that you were using MEP.  Could you point me to the teacher materials for this program?

    Thanks!

    Keri

    September 9, 2009 at 6:10 pm
    Kalle
    Participant

    The main website is found here:  http://www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/projects/mep/default.htm

    The practice books are the kids workbooks.   The Lesson plans are the teachers material to implement the program. You read through the lesson plan and do the activities with the kids. The lesson plans are coordinated with the pratice books. There is a yahoo group that can help you with most anything— http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mep-homeschoolers/

    Here is a website that is helpful to figuring out were to begin and what is needed:  http://ohpeacefulday.blogspot.com/2009/06/mep-101.html

    Hope this all help. The kids and I are enjoying mep so far. We are in the first year Lesson 19.

     

    September 9, 2009 at 6:34 pm
    CJKJ
    Participant

    Thanks!  I did end up finding them and printing them off.  We just started our first day today.   Hopefully all will go well!

    September 9, 2009 at 7:56 pm
    gr8tfulCMmom
    Participant

    Keri, Glad you got it figured out.  Sorry I didn’t see the original posting.  I don’t get to the forum every day and I must have missed this one when I checked back in.

    It’s an EXCELLENT math program! We’re beginning our 3rd year with it.  It’s fun, easy and my DD’s love it!  Their math skills are off the charts.

    If there’s anything else, I’ll try to do better answering.  Kalle, great website, I hadn’t seen it before. 

    Take care, Tonni

    September 9, 2009 at 9:33 pm
    Kalle
    Participant

    Yeah! I am glad to hear from a veteran MEP user. My husband has expressed disappointment in our childrens reading and math skills. My oldest two are almost 7 (next month) and five. He believes that they should read anything that he picks up for them to read and that Thomas should be multiplying numbers. I am very impressed with MEP. Math was one of my favorite subjects through high school and college. MEP does not seem to just drill the students with facts to memorize, but causes them to understand the concepts of these facts. So, initially it may seem that these addition and subraction facts are implemented slowly. However, the kids (and I) are challenged from the beginning. I am glad to hear that thier math skills are off the charts. It seems that with the approaches I am trying that my kids may seem a bit behind in the beginning, but they will retain much more by the end of the year. I guess that is the advantage of forming relationships with the materials as opposed to just memorizing, answering, moving on and forgetting. The more I have read of Charlottes philosophies the more impressed I have been by the wisdom behind them. Even though much of my family does not understand, I have a peace about this apporach to homeschooling. Sorry for rambling on.

    One last thing. The first couple of weeks I started MEP we broke the assignments into 2 days to keep them shorter. Now we are to the point where most assignments can be done in twenty minutes.

    September 10, 2009 at 12:58 am
    gr8tfulCMmom
    Participant

    I remember the first month, I was a little lost…ha!  My math skills were always very poor, so this has been wonderful for me.  I did the same thing the first few weeks, splitting it up.  It’s a different way of learning, so it took all of us a little bit to get in the flow.  I love the fact that there is virtually no drilling with MEP.  It’s very subtle and builds gradually.  Tell your husband, that by the end of Year 2, they’ll be multiplying & dividing (double digits even), doing fractions, geometry and lots of algebraic problems.  He’ll be impressed.  And you’ll be relieved, cause it all happens so effortlessly.

    And on the reading, my 9 year old is just now starting to really read.  I have another one that was reading when she was 4.  They’re all so different, but I haven’t worried too much about it.  My older one is seldom found without a book now.  I have to pry them out of her hands and make her eat at times, she’d rather read then do anything else…yay!  So just believe in the system, it all works out in the end.

    CM is lovely way to educate your family.  And I mean family, we all learn together.  It’s so enjoyable, peaceful and it never ceases to amaze me when I hear them making those connections & relationships, even as young as they are.  For example, we’re doing Module 2 History this year using the Ancient Greece Study Guide.  We’re reading through the different judges in the Old Testament and discussing the “sin cycle” the Israelites kept going through.  You’ll hear my 7-year-old saying “step 1…oh quick…step 3 or you’ll get it!”.  (Most won’t get that if you haven’t seen Sonya’s guide, but step 3 is crying out to God).  She’s been able to relate Bible (the idol worship of old) to her world today.  I love it!

    I know everyone has these kinds of stories. I would love a thread devoted to that.  Little CM moments or “connections”; where we see and hear the fruit of our labors.  I so enjoy hearing those success stories!

    Take care, Tonni

    September 10, 2009 at 3:42 pm
    havefaithplease
    Member

    Well I have to say that I am very impressed with the MEP program.  I just spent the last hour or so researching the various websites that you all had listed.  I am going to switch both my boys to this method next week.  I just need to get everything ready.  I haven’t been too impressed with the math program we’ve been using.  It’s been working, and they are doing fine. (Liberty Math through christian liberty press) But this program is just amazing.  The boys are just in 1st and 2nd grade.  After looking through the scheme of work I actually think I will just start them both off at year 1.  THey haven’t learned <,>  yet and are not up to sums greater than 11.  So we should go pretty quickly through the first few lessons.  Which will build their confidence in a new program. 

    Thanks so much for sharing this info, in a round about way!  LOL  I’m saving all the lessons ect to a cd and then will head to Staples over the weekend and get it all printed.  That should save my printer a bit of work and ink is just so expensive.  So I’ll drop off the cd to them to print and laminate what I need. 

    Blessings,

    Carrie

    September 11, 2009 at 9:25 pm
    Tanya
    Participant

    I am currently using a combination of Miquon and Ray’s (LOVE Miquon’s hands on, and I like how Ray’s has story problems and practical usage of math right from the beginning).

    However, Miquon ends after grade 3, and although we are not at the end yet (we’re a little behind in math), I am looking to the future to make some decisions about where to go after this.

    I really like what I have seen about MEP because it seems similar to Miquon.  Although there are things it covers differently (or more of, or more in depth – not sure what the right phrase is) than Miquon.

    Having said that, my question to all of you MEP users is:  Can I use a combination of MEP and Miquon together while I finish Miquon and then move to MEP once Miquon is done?  Will that be too weird?  I guess I’m wondering that if I jump into MEP right after Miquon without some “background work” it might be too much for my kids.

    Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!!

    Thanks,

    Tanya

    September 11, 2009 at 9:29 pm
    Tanya
    Participant

    I suppose I should clarify – I wouldn’t be doing the entire MEP along with Miquon; rather just filling in where I think Miquon might not cover as much…

    September 12, 2009 at 3:01 am
    gr8tfulCMmom
    Participant

    I would recommend going to the yahoo group listed above for that question.  I’m not familiar with Miquon at all, but there are some very experienced MEP users that moderate that group.  They could help with the transition.  Here is the link again just in case:  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mep-homeschoolers/

    My novice opinion thinks maybe it might be too much.  But again, check with the ladies on the MEP group, they’ll steer you right.

    Tonni

     

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