Would this work for Saxon 1-3?

[JaniceO]

I bought Saxon 1 for my first grader and Saxon 3 for my third grader for next year. I want them to go through it at their pace, whether that be slow or quick.

Would it be possible to seperate the meeting from the lessons, as in do the meetings at the speed of once every day (the meetings look good and I'd like to at least start doing them and allow them the chance to drive me crazy, lol) but do multiple lessons in a day if the children can handle that? So, on day 1 we would do Lesson 1 Meeting, but Lesson 1-2, then day 2 we would do Lesson 2 Meeting, but Lesson 3-4, etc. We would finish the regular lessons way before the meetings are finished, but that's ok, with the idea that we would just buy them the next level to start working right away. It doesn't look like the meetings had a whole lot to do with the lessons, but I just skimmed it, so I don't know for sure.

[BramFam]

I bought Saxon 1 for my first grader and Saxon 3 for my third grader for next year. I want them to go through it at their pace, whether that be slow or quick.

Would it be possible to seperate the meeting from the lessons...

I'm not sure about Saxon 3, I'm currently using 1. I think you could just skip/combine meeting days. For instance if you know you are going to do Lessons 1 & 2 on the same day, then do the items mentioned in the meetings for lessons 1 & 2. For instance in Saxon 1, you do a running number line through all 130 lessons. If you do lessons 1 & 2 one day, add numbers 1 & 2 to your number line. OR if you think you will only do lesson 1 and do only the items in your meeting for this lesson, but end up doing lesson 2 also, then the next day, when you are doing the meeting for lesson 3, just add in the items you've skipped over for meeting 2.

Wow! I hope that made any bit of sense. :tongue_smilie:

The nice thing about Saxon is that you can easily combine multiple meetings because they very S-L-O-W-L-Y move forward. Actually, my ds is starting to really not like the repetitiveness (sp?) of our meetings, so I have started to condense it a lot. We basically, go over the days of the week, talk about the date today, add a graphic to our weather chart, add a number to our number line, and then I point to 5 random numbers on our 100 number chart to see if he can easily name them. He has trouble sometimes with teen numbers, so I point to at least 1 or 2 of them. He really got tired of counting everyday and since he is very comfortable with getting to 100 I let him skip it. Our "meeting" time takes no more than 5 minutes, most of the time it is only 2 or 3.

So far (we've been doing Saxon for about a month), my ds finds Saxon math very, very easy. We've only been going over things he already knows, so I can see doing more than one lesson a day, especially the first 30 or so. It starts out very basic with writing the numbers, counting to 10, left & right, ...