Has anyone used On Cloud Nine yet? It’s the Lindamood Bell program for Math. Janis, have you used this yet? How was it?
The kit that my school ordered just arrived, but I’ll use it next week because my kids are still on the word imaging in Visualizing/Verbalizing. OCN says that the students should be on the sentence by sentence imaging in the V/V program before OCN can be introduced.
Re: On Cloud Nine esp. to Janis
Hey, I’m glad to know that you’re on line, too :lol:
I have been very busy trying to squeeze in all the LMB programs in the limited time that I spend with my students that I hardly visit this BB anymore.
Anyway, I think that V/V is the easiest program to study in the LMB, so you won’t have any problem with it. It works well too and my students (6-8 y/o) love it. It can easily be applied to writing, too, esp descriptive writing. In my inclusion time, my students apply it when their teacher asks them to describe their favorite pet etc… They use the structure words from V/V.
I’ll let you know what happens with OCN. I’m not so sure about its success because I haven’t heard anything about it yet from actual users.
Re: On Cloud Nine esp. to Janis
My new client sounds pretty perfect for V/V and OCN so I am planning on using them. I haven’t taken the workshops but I am not claiming to (with the family). She has the problem of nothing sticking with her. I’ll report back later.
—des
Maricel,
No, I read in the manual to the point where it told me the child needed to be at the sentence by sentence level of V/V first! So my student who needs math is completely on hold until I can get her that far into V/V. And right now I am taking her through Phono-Graphix, so I was waiting until we got into that a little more before starting V/V. I have to study the V/V manual as I go.
I have ordered some materials to go with On Cloud Nine, though. I found some Unifix products at http://www.didaxinc.com/ . And I ordered some flash cards from Trend Enterprises that are very similar to the OCN ones but less expensive. My special ed. dept. has not given me a penny for materials, unfortunately. I did call Lindamood Bell to ask if they knew when the math workbooks would be published and they said that they do not know yet. So I think I am going to order workbooks (K-3) that go with Stern Structural Arithmetic which has a similar manipulative concept basis:
http://www.sternmath.com/
But the Stern manipulatives are much higher than Unifix, so I am sticking with Unifix since that is what OCN uses.
So you will likely start OCN before me, Maricel! So please come back and tell me how it’s going!
Janis