SO excited!

Your schedule looks good to me. My only thought with it may be to be open to it not quite looking like that in real life practice b/c you know little ones do not typically think our plans are all that impt lol. I wanted to comment on RighStart…I am doing this with my 6yo & also have a 3yo. While they say it is parent-intensive, I’m not sure that it is in the way one might think with hearing that phrase. I sat down & gathered together the materials for the 1st month of lessons (we are doing 3 weeks on, 1 week off) so that I can just go to the shelf & grab the things. I read through the lesson ahead of time or just read through each part of the lesson as we go through it. For me, it is only parent-intensive in that I have to teach the lesson not just give her a worksheet yet what first grader can be given a worksheet on a concept they have not been taught & expected to figure it out especially if he/she doesn’t read well enough to read through any instruction on the worksheet (my DD can read that well but many first graders cannot)?? So, unless you go with a curriculum that has video instruction of some sort (like Math U See or Teaching Textbooks) I cannot see that you won’t have to spend time teaching that will likely not be much (if any) difference than what is required for RightStart. I’ve done some of Math Mammoth with DD (just the free worksheets offered) & it required me to spend time teaching the concept before I could give her the worksheet. Just offering that insight for you to consider. I’ve not done anything with Singapore other than read about it so cannot offer any thoughts there.

Agreeing with them about RightStart.  Hands-down, we love it – and that’s with a 9yo, 8yo, 5yo (doing 1st grade work now), and a 3yo.  I have done other worksheet-oriented math programs before switching to RightStart, and in a way they were MORE teacher-intensive because you don’t sit down and just play games with them, it requires you to actually sit there and teach.  RightStart, especially in the early years, is nearly all games, and so it doesn’t feel like I’m teaching.  We’re just playing a game, just like we do anyway.  HTH!

Oh, and like Betsy said, definitely be open to your schedule not “working” sometimes.  Babies and toddlers especially really hate when we make plans…  😉  Ha, sometimes my 9yo messes up my plans instead of the 3yo!  LOL

Just wanted to throw Christian Light Education’s Sunrise math out there.  We’ve done Math Mammoth and MUS, and CLE has been a God-send.  This year, I am going to throw in Life of Fred a couple of days a week just to put a different spin on things, but I will NOT drop CLE math.  I am changing up just about everything this year, but CLE math stays!  Have a fun year!

ditto to MUS!

Well, if you do decide on RS, I have made up a little plan for level B and C to make sure I include games – while still getting math done in the year (ideally…. I do feel it is more important to go the child’s speed… and for RS level C, 18 months or 2 years is at times normal from what I hear on the RS yahoo group.)    I play the games during math time… so I don’t need to “find time” to play them… I needed that time anyway….

LauraNthree, what if you used MUS (or Math Mammoth, I don’t know anything about that) as written, and then add in fun math games on the days when you have time? That way they’ll still get a solid math program, but it is not dependent on you and how much time you have on any given day.

I also wanted to add that I didn’t find MM to be very teacher intensive but because my son didn’t like it I had to stay right there to get him to do it.  Other than that, I really just had to go over a concept initially for a few minutes.  I think it’s a good program.