Math for 6 yr old

My daughter also loves Math! After being less than impressed with Saxon, I started her on a combination of Miquon (mastery) and CLE (spiral) when she was 6. We are still loving it and she is 7 & 1/2 now. You can read more about it in my original post here… https://simplycharlottemason.com/scmforum/topic/found-our-new-math-and-some-tips-for-miquon-users-long-post/

I created a “Math Lab” in our school room which works wonderfully for us. If she struggles with a problem, I first encourage her to be a “Math Investigator” and choose from her manipulatives to see if she can find the answer. Most of the time, she gets it on her own when I remind her to do that. You can see our “Math Lab” (plus the rest of our school room) here… http://hodgepodgemodgepodge.blogspot.com/2014/10/embracing-charlotte-mason-our-2014_25.html

I think I mentioned before that I only planned to use the CLE speed drills occasionally but, she really loves doing them, so she does that every day with her CLE lesson. And since moving into 2nd grade CLE, the lessons are longer but, she only complained once on a day that she seemed extra tired. But, they put a little check list on the first page of each lesson so she does the entire lesson almost completely independently aside from dictation and fact review. She is very strong in mental math so, when she occasionally answers a word problem without showing the work or she condenses it (i.e. Jane owned two rabbis and bought two more rabbits plus 5 chickens…she put 4+5 instead of 2+2+5 (as the book showed)…I don’t mark her wrong or make her show the work if the answer was correct because I personally think that mental math is a great thing to have.

We are changing things up for the summer and doing Life of Fred just for a change of scenery.

Not to take away from the RS discussion, but I just wanted to add in that we’ve really enjoyed using Ray’s as our main math program. In my opinion, it does not require very much prep time, if any at all, but I do the whole lesson orally with each child. I ended up purchasing Ruth Beechick’s Teacher’s Guide, and to me it was worth it, as it gave me more confidence as to how to add in the extras like telling time, measuring, etc. I only use Ray’s orally and never require writing of problems for my 1st grader, as he still has to work hard to write. We’ve also supplemented with Khan Academy’s Early Math to enjoy more variety of problems relating to graphs, shapes, and so on. I plan to continue to use Ray’s for next year’s second grader and then a new first grader.

Thanks ReneeS. ☺️ The space is also the playroom so it can get quite messy. But, playing = learning too, right? ?. But, everything will be gone tomorrow when the Movers are done packing. We just relocated back to FL and we are staying in a hotel for a month. Praying our next home will have enough space to set it up about the same.

Thanks so much. So far, it’s been a wonderful experience as far as moves go. Coming back “home” makes it all the better. 🙂