Page A Day Math

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Silas and Titus have been working on their math facts and their handwriting skills at the same time using Page a Day Math Starter Kits. Page a Day Math offers digital or physical math kits that focus on fact fluency and handwriting improvement. There are several kits available - Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, and Pre-K. They also offer handwriting books, like Super Sight Words, Adorable Adjectives, and Cool Chemistry. I printed out the Division Starter Kit for Silas and the Multiplication Starter Kit and Super Sight Words Handwriting Book for Titus.

The Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division Kits each include 10-13 books, 3 math bonuses, and 2 handwriting bonuses. Each book in the kit contains copy-work for the math facts. For example, the first book in the Division Kit is called, "Dividing By One." Each page has a new fact to work on, like 1 divided by 1. Your child will trace the division fact several times, as well as some review facts. For the first few lessons, the review facts are multiplication, but after that they are the division facts your child has learned.

Each book contains different fact families. Book 1 is "Dividing By One," Book 2 is "Dividing By Two," and so on. The other books in the kits work in the same way, with each book focusing on adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing by one number.

Each Kit also contains math bonuses - printable flashcards, an assessment, and a progress tracker. The flashcards are really nicely done, color-coded, and with cute pictures of dogs. The assessment is to be used before you start the books to see where you child is and what he or she knows and doesn't know. We didn't use these before we started the books. I'm planning to use them after the boys are finished as a "quiz" to see how much they retained. The Progress Tracker is a sheet your child can use to see how many books he has finished and how many he has left. He will circle the book as he starts it.

Each Kit contains two handwriting bonus books as well. The Division Kit comes with "Adorable Adjectives" and "Silly Sight Words" in cursive.

Silas and Titus each have their books in their Summer Learning Binders and complete one page a day. It really is helping them with their math facts! Working on one new fact a day doesn't overwhelm them, and they are getting plenty of review with the other facts. It takes them around 5-10 minutes a day to complete a worksheet, so they don't complain at all. It is also something they can do independently! Titus has not learned multiplication before now, so he is really getting a great introduction to the facts. By the time he reaches multiplication in his curriculum this year, he will already know several fact families! Silas learned the multiplication and division facts this year in his math curriculum, but he really struggled with the division facts. I can see such an improvement so far in how quickly he is recalling the answers to the division and even the multiplication review facts.

The Handwriting Books are really nice and are available in print and cursive. Each book has 25 pages of practice and some blank practice pages. Each page contains words to trace and then copy, along with funny jokes and cute pictures of dogs. Titus is using the "Super Sight Words" as handwriting practice in his Summer Learning Binder. I let him use a marker or highlighter to trace the words. He doesn't mind the extra handwriting practice when he gets to use a marker to do it!

Page a Day Math is a great way to really cement the math facts your child is learning into his memory. Copywork is something I've always utilized in our homeschool, and I'm encouraged to use it for math now, too. Page a Day Math sells their physical math kits for $79.95 and the digital kits for $29.95. The handwriting books sell for $4.95 each.

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Summer Learning Binders

We have wrapped up our 2019-2020 school year,  but I really want to keep my kid's minds active over the summer. We normally spend most of our days outside, and I don't want to do a full curriculum with my kids over the summer, so I decided to make them each a Summer Learning Binder.

I got each child a 1-inch, 3-ring binder and a few dividers and am filling the binders with math worksheets, language art units, and other fun projects I thought they would enjoy. I am getting some of my units from School House Teachers, which has tons of options to choose from. Here is what is going in each child's binder.

Mercie, new 7th grader:
Fun with Fairy Tales: This course is actually for 4th-6th graders, but I've never been a stickler for grade levels! She will be reading various fairy tales and learning about the different story elements through them. She already knows most of this stuff, but it's great review and I knew she'd like reading the fairy tales in our Grimm's Fairy Tales book.

Daily Math: There are so many math topics in this course from School House Teachers! I'm going to choose all review topics because I want this to be an independent activity. I also added a package of worksheets from the Dollar Tree on charts and graphs, greatest common factor, and least common multiples, just for extra practice.

Discovering the Elements of Poetry: This is an 8 week course that talks about, well, the different elements in poetry! She loves poetry.

Physical Science Articles: These are articles with questions following on range of topics from volcanoes to matter to what the earth is made of. I got this from the Dollar Tree, and the articles are interesting to read and very well written.

Silas, new 5th grader:
Adventures in Writing: This is a writing course for elementary students. He will be writing a story about a farm animal, which is right up his alley since he loves working with our cows! It's an 8-week course, with one lesson a week.

Page a Day Math: This is actually a review product! I printed out the worksheets from the Division Kit for him to work on over the summer. It's basically copy-work for the division facts. He really needs to learn his division facts before starting 4th grade math. (He is in 5th grade everything except math.)

Multiplication and Division Word Problems: I picked this up from the Dollar Tree. There are 38 worksheets with multiplication and division word problems. He needs this practice, too!

Geography: I picked up a package of worksheets for him from the Dollar Tree on human and physical geography. He reads the articles and answers the questions. It's also very well written and interesting to read.

Titus, new 3rd grader:
Page a Day Math: This is the same as Silas's except I printed out the Multiplication Kit. He hasn't learned his multiplication facts yet, but I thought it would be a good activity to work on over the summer.

Addition and Subtraction: This is from the Dollar Tree, and it's review for him. The word problems are great reading practice, though.

Handwriting: This is also from Page a Day Math, but it's handwriting practice. He really needs this!

Sight Words for 2nd and 3rd Grade: He doesn't need the reading practice, but he does need the handwriting practice! This is from the Dollar Tree, and each page features two sight words that he will practice writing and then he'll write a sentence using each word.

They will use these binders each day for about half an hour to an hour during their quiet time. In each binder is also a book log that they will use to keep track of each book they read this summer.

We will also be working through a 7-week history unit together, which will consist of reading, games, crafts, and activities!

What do you think of Summer Learning Binders? Do you do something similar?