L..........o........n.......g gap ... and History follows

Now I understand why I don't find continuity in a lot of Blogs. I experienced it now.

My daughters in the mean while have visited the Egyptians, pharaohs, Sumerians, Babylon, Indus-Valley and the Yellow-river valley which gave SILK to the World. The journey was interesting with the growth of civilization.

I had put my older daughter for "AOL" online math Program for her middle school support. http://www.stepbystepmath.aol.com/

I have introduced my daughters for creating structures with LEGO tiles. They both have done a wonderful job. My older daughter's Lego moving train and my younger one's Animal Kingdom have got certificate merits.

Today I started reading/teaching "The Story of the World" History for the Classical Child, by Susan Wise Bauer. I had bought this book a year back. I read all the three volumes I bought. It was very good.
Only now I had got a chance to start them for my Kids.
I liked the sequence of this History text (not very elaborate, very simple language and requisite information).
I remembered the way I learnt History in India.
Again and again I read only about Chandragupta Mourya, Ashoka, Harsha, the Cheras, Cholas, Pandyas, Hoyasalas, Vijayanagar, Mughals, Shershah, Allaudin Khilji, The British East India Company and all, I still don't remember who were earlier than the other.

In my 9th grade I remember reading about Confucius, Lao Tzu, Roman Empire ... and all. I neither liked nor disliked History then.

Now my views are different, it is very much necessary to be aware of silly events in the World which changed the views of the World.

Books I read .... (1)

Today I completed "Are your Lights on?" by Donald C.Gause and Gerald M.Weinberg
If someone wants to figure out "What the problem really is" this is a good read.

Teaching/Helping Grade 3 Math

I spent an hour teaching Saxon Math (Mathematics) for my third grade daughter. I like this scripted Mathematics course, because it gives a structured and systematic approach to impart Math concepts. The success of this Program I believe is slow and steady progress. Don't speeden up the lessons. I am not a teacher by profession, but I leave my comment as a parent. I am following this Math course to supplement her School curriculum since 1st grade.

I do teach Math for my older daughter in 7th grade, She started 4th grade in US. I found it difficult to get her into this Saxon approach. She is better with our conventional unstructured method.

Lessons I learnt, Match a teaching method to a student, don't force a student a method. It is only my opinion.

Let me start ....

I had a chance to read a couple of blogs today to get this BLOG started ...
http://brandautopsy.typepad.com and
http://www.nevblog.com/

Reason for blogging ???? BLOGGING