Another ? for horizons math

[A home for their hearts]

I'm looking to put my ds7 in the first grade books. I'm not sure if I should start him in the first book or the second. Is there a placement test? He can add and subtract, and can write his numbers to twenty. I would hate to put in in the first book and have it be too babyish!

[Mom2jnb]

I was able to locate the placement tests at Sonlight's website.

Alison

[A home for their hearts]

I was able to locate the placement tests at Sonlight's website.

Alison


Could you provide the link? I went to sonlight and all I could find for horizons was a reading placement test.

[Mom2jnb]

http://www.sonlight.com/placement-tests.html

Scroll down to the Horizons Readiness test.....

HTH,
Alison

[A home for their hearts]

http://www.sonlight.com/placement-tests.html

Scroll down to the Horizons Readiness test.....

HTH,
Alison

Thanks, I think this well help determine if I need to put him in level 1 or level 2. I was planning on putting him in level 1 workbook2, but I'm not sure if I should start him with workbook1 instead. I don't think that placement test will tell me that.

[momtolgd]

I switched to Horizons Math around Thanksgiving. My ds7 was finishing Singapore 1B at the time. I went ahead and started him with book 1 of 1st grade, but we've moved quickly through it. There were some things that he hadn't yet done, so I'm glad we went ahead and started with workbook 1. We are about to finish it in the next 2 weeks and will move onto workbook 2.

For the things he thought were easy, we chose whether or not to do all the problems. Many times I will do the writing for him while he gives me the answers for things that seem easy (he tends to get stressed out about too much writing, but is capable of doing so much more orally.)

It boosted his confidence to see that there were things he already knew, but at the same time it is filling in things that he hasn't done before.

Starting with book 1 worked best for us.

[Unicorn]

If you decide to go w/ Horizons, put him in Book 1, when I started my dd's on it last year for 2nd grade, I put them in year 1 book 2, and went through it quickly as well. That way he won't miss anything.