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Posted: April 14 2008 at 8:36am | IP Logged Quote Martha
I have a soon to be 4 yr old that is very ready for Kindergarten math. (There were actual tears over wanting to do more in math last week!)

I'm interested in reviews of:
Oakmeadow
OLOV

I am NOT wanting a DVD/cd type of program.

Other suggestions?

I had been happy with MCP math for my younger ones up to now, but he's zipping right through that!

I hesitate on Oakmeadow. I'd like insights there. Sample pages on either would be great.

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Posted: April 14 2008 at 9:41am | IP Logged Quote MarilynW
My just 4 year old is the same - every morning "what is my work today mom?"!!! (unlike the older siblings )

I have been doing Singapore Kindergarten Earlybird Math 1A, and some of the School Zone workbooks(numbers, join the dots, mazes). Also the MCP Phonics and much of my own languge stuff printed off the internet (alpabuddies etc)

Check out Horizon Math K - that is what we are moving too next. I think Alpha-Omega has 20% off this month - I need to go check it out.

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Posted: April 15 2008 at 5:04pm | IP Logged Quote Leonie
I had quite a few eager beavers who loved colourful maths workbooks. We went to educational supply stores and picked out a few.

We also liked the Bob Jones Kindergarten mathh book - centred round Farmer John I think it is. I know the argument against using BJUP so understand if you don't want to go there, but the workbook and hands on activites were fun.

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Posted: April 15 2008 at 5:27pm | IP Logged Quote folklaur
The Oak Meadow website has samples online. IMO, they are very gentle in the younger grades. Also, I think they are about a grade behind most other curriculum. I like their younger grades a lot. I have no experience with the older grades. (I wish you lived around the corner 'cuz I would bring over my Teacher's Guide for you to look at! )

OLOV...haven't used much from them (I have used their "How Our Nation Began" 3rd grade text...) but they were VERY nice when we were putting on our curriculum fair . Their materials seem EXTREMELY reminiscent of what I used in my little Catholic elementary school growing up (in some cases, not bad, just very text-booky, ya know?)
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I see this post is a few weeks old, but just in case it's helpful, my 3 kindergarteners have been using Horizons K Math, and they have absolutely loved it, and have learned SO much this year. It is more advanced than for the average kindergartener (as all of Horizons is). I know this math curriculum is also one of the best and highly recommended according to Cathy Duffy(?)Review.
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Posted: May 06 2008 at 1:52pm | IP Logged Quote folklaur
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Horizons K Math,


Oh, yes, I should have said that. My K-er uses Horizons, too. Very colorful, also. Sonlight does a pretty good review of it (pros / cons) in their catalog, just to get an idea what it is like (they also have the placement tests for it on their site.)
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