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My Living Book Story

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My Trip To Grandma's

My Errand Day

My Pre-Dinner Video

What other homeschoolers say about eFantasmic.

The Stale Curriculum Killer

My middle child had become incredibly bored with his normal curriculum. eFantasmic got him interested in learning again! Thanks eFantasmic!

Laura M. - Ohio


Errands The Easy Way

I had a whole day of errands to do. You know the kind of day. I was going to be in the car all day, and the kids were going to be trapped in the car with me. A few quick print outs from eFantasmic and they had fun the whole day, and even when we went into the insurance company office and they had to sit there for nearly two hours, they had their books and sheets and were happy. Now they want to know when we are going to have car day again.

Janey S. - Florida

Reading Day

We built reading day around eFantasmic curriculum. Now every Tuesday we get to lounge around in our pajamas, me on the sofa, them sprawled out all around me. We read, munch, talk about books and have the best together times ever. It's so relaxing just to be able to talk to my kids and discuss things. I am so thankful for your discussion sheets. I get to check them off as we talk about stuff, then they go right into my portfolio. My state doesn't require one, I just think of it as my scrapbook. The best part is when daddy comes home. They all jump up, and run over to show him all the stuff they did. I just wanted to thank all of you at eFantasmic and keep it coming!

Emma R. - Texas

I can’t believe how much stuff I get. I don’t know how you guys do it, but please keep doing it. My kids absolutely love your curriculum. They always ask me if there is any new stuff they can browse through. Thanks and keep going!

Sally L. - Indiana

The Trip To Grandma's

We had to go on a trip to grandma’s. I couldn’t imaging lugging all our school books with us. eFantasmic was the perfect thing. I printed out a bunch of stuff, and off we went. Normally they just watch TV at grandmas the whole time. They had fun, I was happy they kept doing school, and it was a great trip.

Jen W. - California

The Living Book Story

Dear eFantasmic,

I had my first living book experience yesterday. I never really understood the power of a living book until I walked in on my daughter. She was sitting in her room crying. When I asked her what was wrong, she explained to me that in one of the books she was reading, there was a character of a little girl traveling west in one of the Oregon Trail wagon trains. One night this little girl was asked to make soup for everyone. So she and a smaller child went and gathered vegetables for the soup.

It turned out that one of the vegatables that she put in the soup was a deadly poison and two little boys died from eating the soup. It effected my daughter so deeply, that she never forgot that story. Later when we were doing the eFantasmic curriculum, one of the questions was about that incident. It was then that my daughter told me, next time we go to one of the homeschool park days, she was to watch out for the littler kids, they are always putting things in their mouth.

So my daughter got to have a life lesson, without all the pain. That's the power of a living book. So please give us more living book curriculum!

Sandy L. - Georgia

 

Pre-Dinner With eFantasmic

I found one of the best uses for eFantasmic that I had to tell you ladies about. I call it the Pre-Dinner Video. What I do is look through your site to find the new videos you just added. I found several at my local library. One they didn't have but they were happy to order for me. Then when it's time to cook dinner my kids usually just watch TV. So instead I told them they could watch any of the videos I picked from the library.

They usually don't watch the whole video at one time. So I let them watch half an hour or so until I am done with dinner. Then by the end of the week they have watched the whole video and I can sit down with them and use the curriculum you so kindly provided me with.

I love it. They get to watch TV and I feel better they are doing something educational, and the best part of the whole thing is that at the end of the week I have sheets for my portfolio!

So make some more video curriculum! Thanks for everything and keep it up.

Mary Ann L. - Florida

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What Makes
Children Love Math?

LoveMath.jpgChildren (and us adults too) naturally "love" anything we find easy. Sure we enjoy a challenge, but the things that we understand, and tend to come easy to us, our brains naturally tell us that "we love it." So if math comes easy to your child, they will naturally "love it."


What Makes Children Hate Math?

A challenge is one thing, but frustration is a whole different animal. When your child can't understand something and makes them feel silently "stupid" then their brain will tell them that they "hate it." This doesn't have to come from a single math topic. It usually comes slowly over time.

Every child begins loving math. Why not. For a child it is something clear and logical. Children's brains love that sort of thing. But over time, that is slowly eroded.

How Does Their Love Get Eroded Over Time?

You understand that math is based on fundamentals and building blocks. If you don't understand that 1+1=2, you will be frustrated by multiplication. And then, even more furstrated by anything that's based on multiplication.

Many children have certain weaknesses in math. If those weaknesses aren't found out, and fixed, it will infect every math topic they touch from then on. Slowly over time, as topics become more complex, those weaknesses make easy concepts harder and harder.

How Can I Fix Or Prevent This Erosion?

eFatantasmic didn't create a math curriculum. There are so many great ones out there. What we did was create Math Repair Kits.

Here's how it works. If your child is having trouble with long division, then download the Long Division Repair Kit. The first thing in the kit are diagnostic worksheets. They have math problems that are the Building Block components of long division.

So as your child does these "easy" worksheets, it will expose your child's weakness that is causing them frustration with Long Division. Maybe it's subtracting 3 digit numbers they always make mistakes on. Those little mistakes destroy long division.

Once you identify the weakness, take a quick step back and work on that! Then move back to long division and watch how your child tells you "how easy long division is."

What's In Each Repair Kit

Taking Long Division as an example, you will find Diagnostic Math Worksheets for each of the Building Blocks of long division. This way, you can make sure your child understands each building block. Once you clearly identify the weakness, there are additional  worksheets to help you FIX the weakness. Plus you can always download the Repair Kit for the weakness to turn their weakness -- into their strength!

Next you will find Recipe Sheets. These are the fastest and easiest way for your child to understand a concept like Long Division. Your child will make a recipe on How To Do Long Division. This makes the process into a step-by-step recipe. By creating the recipe, your child will teach themselves how to do Long Division.

Then you will find Reverse Recipe Sheets.  No one ever takes the time to do these, but they are absolutely magical in their ability to have your child DEEPLY understand a concept. Once your child finishes their Reverse Recipe Sheet, they will understand the concept down to their bones, and as a bonus, they will be able to proof/check their own work!

Finally you will find some Long Division Workseets for your child to practice on. By the time you get to those worksheets, your child will think that Long Division is easy, and they love math!

What Math Concepts Are Covered?

Almost every one we could find! If we missed some, tell us! 

So What Do I Get?

By becoming a member of eFantasmic, you get Math Repair Kits for all kinds of math concepts, curriculum for a gigantic collection of the most colorful, interesting library books, website articles and other libray resources, plus all the Math Repair Curriculum, plus all the Complete Science Curriculum, plus the FunPacks, plus Science Grabbers, plus the Library Video Curriculum and everything else on this website all included in your membership. You get instant access to everything for FREE!

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