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Aside from your awesome video, I just love your bookshelves. I wish everyone would always take close-up pics or videos of their bookshelves. I always find it interesting as to what others enjoy or use.
I’m now using your file system. Thank you for sharing this and all the time you put into it! My kids are enjoying this so much more! They know what to expect and don’t feel overwhelmed, it’s great!
This video inspired me to change things up a bit. My daughter has been getting frustrated as her pile gets bigger. I now have her work on a "learning pile" each day and have broken up her already-memorized cards into 6 chunks for 6 days so that she's reviewing them weekly. I hope this works :/
@Naomi Bobrick, we use this same method: learning and memorized piles. What have you found is the best indicator that a card must now be moved from the "learning" pile to the "already memorized" pile? Response time? Getting it right several days in a row? Other? Also, do you ever move cards from the Memorized pile to the Learning pile? Thank you.
@@annasipe1578 I had to change from the 6 chuncks to just a learning pile and a memorized pile. She just wasn't retaining her reviewed cards. I also lessened the amount in the learning pile. I only put 5 cards in her learning pile now, and she learns it a lot faster! Recently, she memorized them in just a couple days and she seems to be increasing her memorized pile a lot faster now. I don't look at how fast she gets through her learning pile; I just see if she gets through them without having a wrong pile before I move them to the memorized pile. I don't move cards from the memorized pile to the learning pile since she will be reviewing them daily anyways. Hope this helps!
@@nbobrick17 Thank you for sharing this. So your student now reviews the memorized pile in full 6 days a week, correct? Don't you get any push back from her like when you said she was getting frustrated as her pile was getting larger? Our student is 6.5 yo, how old is yours? I wonder if tolerance for an increasingly larger memorized pile will grow into our student as he gets a little older as months go by. Thank you.
@@annasipe1578 yes, she reviews both piles every day, 6 days a week. I was getting a little bit of push back in the beginning, but what I found was that her issue was dawdling. She would literally sit there for 2 hours doing her math facts because she would space out, and then would get discouraged because it was taking so long. What I do now is set a timer for 30 min and tell her that whatever she doesn't get through during her 30 min, she will have to do during afternoon TV time. This gives her a little more motivation with natural consequences. Plus, she can see if she can beat her time. If she still has a few cards left after the 30 min, I just let her finish it off. I'm not sure if this will work for your child, but you can tweak the amount of time on the timer, have a different natural consequence, etc. My daughter is 6.5 as well.
Hello Karen. Thanks for all of your videos. I already ordered Robinson Curriculum and today I receive the cards. I just so interested in the Math Flashcard Guide. Is it possible to buy it separately? Thanks in advance for your reply.
Sure, you can purchase it in print here www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/karen-rodriguez/our-house-homeschool-math-facts-flashcard-guide-tracker/paperback/product-1kkwd56m.html?page=1&pageSize=4
Could you do a second video on the last part of this video? I bought the accordion file and I am confused on how to rotate the flashcards and label each tab. I do think this method would help us a lot.
How many in each chunk? We have been working on the cards for over a year the purist way and my child has not made much progress. We are struggling in this area.
I teach addition first...using manipulatives followed by cards. We do 0s, 1, 2, doubles, doubles plus 1, 9s- take one back make it teen, then 8s, and the last few. Then subtraction. Then multiplication...0, 1, 2, 10, 5, 11, 3, 9, 4, 8, 6,7, 12. Then division. The children tend to learn them quicker in this order.
Hi Karen, My almost 5 year old is about to start memorizing her math flashcards that we just received in the mail. I was concerned with exactly how to go about presenting the cards to her and this video has really helped me out. I'll be ordering one of those file folders in a few days. 🙂 I was wondering how you go about young children doing several stacks a day (up to 3 a day from my understanding of this method). If my daughter felt she was done and was absolutely refusing to complete all 3 stacks that day, would you suggest that I just have her do the rest the next day? I would also try seeing if she can finish at a later time in the day to stay on track, but if that doesn't happen I would be curious to know what you would do in that situation. I know, with RC, there is a bit of forcing that needs to be implemented to get the children accustomed to the schedule and workload, but at the same time I don't want to make my daughter hate learning right at the start. We've been doing preschool-kindergarten homeschooling since she was 2 and she is now at around a grade 1 level for everything except for writing - she is just starting to get good at writing instead of just tracing. She LOVES school right now and I wouldn't want to wreck that for her by forcing anything too hard at this young age. Thanks in advance. ☺
It would be a lot to type out here but here is my course on it and I host weekly lives to answer questions like these. www.sustainablehomeschooling.com/rcforlittles
Since they are supposed to be doing this independently how do you ensure they are actually memorizing and not just skipping ahead before they’re ready? I quiz my son but I know that goes against the rules 🙈😂
If they are lying or being deceptive, that's a problem outside the scope of the curriculum. Absolute honestly is required for a self teaching method to work. They would get a cold hard dose of reality once they start Saxon 54 if they faked it and it will show up in the errors soon enough.
Can all the cards fit into that pendaflex? I like the idea and thought about just keeping the mixed up cards in the memory folders. I could just break up the card set and assign each child their part with their own pendaflex. When they come to the end of their set I would just switch sets between the children. What do you think?
I think it might be hard to keep track Of what each kid needs to review, but let me know how it goes if you try it out that way. All the cards could fit if you take out the very huge stack of super easy cards, all the +0-1’s, +1s etc
So I figured I can just pencil in each initial on the corner of each stack to indicate the child. However, if they pull out all the review for the day, how will they know which section was odd, even, day, or month when it’s time to put them back?
I'm not trying to take away from RC, but just for ease and frugality's sake, Christian Light has flash card sets and the addition and subtraction come with a pamphlet with two ways to organize. You can either organize them by the day (once a day cards plus Monday-Friday cards or alphabetically as each card has a letter). They don't go up to 8 like the RC cards but I've found +/- cards that go from 13-18. Anyway, hope that helps. :)
How does this work when they have hundred of cards accumulated? Do they ever put the easy ones away.. that would be a lot of cards a day at some point!
@@ourhouse oh yes thank you. After searching a little I found them. Idk if my husband would appreciate me spending $95 on them right now but I’ll keep them in mind for the future.
