This year we're continuing to use Math U See for our main math curriculum. Princess enjoyed it last year, but it seems we were missing a bit. This year I've linked MUS Beta with various living books and fun activities. I also added extended units on measurement, geometry, and the calendar. Living Math has an extensive list of books for almost every math subject. This was a tremendous help to me. And I don't know if this happens to just me, but I have all these fabulous manipulatives, games, and Montessori cards, but never use them quite as much. This year I linked it all together in one place. Here's the word document that links it all together. And then there's my Big Boy who loves to do what big sissy is doing. I did order the MUS primer, but will use it loosely and link a lot of living books with it. I'm finishing up the word documents and will upload when done.
2 comments:
This is a great idea - I am going to come back to that document to find the books to fill in gaps! We are also using MUS, for the first time this year for first grade (alpha). We are liking it so far... I have found that supplementing with some things at Circle Time each morning to be helpful: doing a "time of the day" and "amount of the day" (counting money) each time, and using a bean bag to toss back and forth while counting by tens, fives, twos, hundreds, thousands... we added counting by 2s with odd numbers after one of the MUS lessons mentioned odd numbers.
Erin,
We really do like MUS, but found that supplementing with various other items helpful. There were only so many workbook pages one can really do to grasp a concept. Plus I think that some kids don't acheive mastery the first time through so looping over some of those items through the year is beneficial in those circumstances.
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