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Posted: April 30 2011 at 2:54pm | IP Logged Quote UK Mum
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I am hoping that people can share with me ideas my youngest daughter. I am putting together my plans for the next school year, starting in september. She will have just turned 6 & is bright as a button, interested in everything & easily distracted : )

I also have an 8 year old, who is not an independent reader, so I need to work with her one on one for a lot of her work. I love to plan & I work with them together as much as possible, then I split my time as best I can between them, but I am looking for ideas of what other ladies do with children of this age (6) when working with another child.

September is a long time away - by then she could be reading & that I suppose would help somewhat, but please do give me some ideas!

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Posted: April 30 2011 at 3:41pm | IP Logged Quote time4tea
How about a unit studies type approach that could work with both dc, such as for example Five in A Row? They could do the read alouds, science, social studies/geography, etc. together, and then you could work with each of them separately for reading and math. There are a lot of other unit studies out there, Five in a Row is only one suggestion because it is fairly straightforward in its layout, but I don't know about availability of all of the books in the UK. I plan to do something like this with my preschooler next year and her two older sisters.

Hope this helps!

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There were two years between my two older children and I found that the younger picked up whatever the older one was learning. I don't think I ever taught the younger anything about reading that I didn't discover the child already knew.

Unit studies are a good way to teach two that are close in age but working at different levels. It worked well for us.

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I would pick things you can do together- that is my approach with my two sons (5 and 7). We are going to use Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding, Connecting with History, math games from Family Math that we can play together (plus Teaching Textbooks 3 for my older son)... pretty much everything we can do together, we will. My older son will just get a few additional things tailored more to his level (copywork, etc) and my younger son will get some phonics lessons for his level.

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