Gearing Up

We are using Sequential Spelling to help my son with his spelling struggles.  It doesn't teach spelling rules, but that will come later.  It does seem to be helping.

We continue to use Khan Academy for math.  He spends about 1/2 hour per day on that.

Sometimes we go to Time's Lighbox photo of the week.  We look at the pictures, then look up the location on the globe along with any other supporting information.

We begun Comprehensive Curriculum for the 4th grade.  Already I can see we are closing the holes of the things he somehow didn't learn that year.  Soon we will also begin using Scholastic Success with:  4th grade.

After we are done with the 4th grade review, we'll move on to do the same with 5th grade.  Hopefully we can get him caught up in a timely manner.

I am still developing the human anatomy unit study that we will work on over the summer.  For now we watch science documentaries.

For about 1/2 hour each day he reads to me.  I help him with more challenging words.  If he becomes too fatigued, I read to him for the remainder of the time.

We are currently spending about two hours per day five days per week.  I hope to gradually increase it in 1/2 hour increments until he can spend at least 30 hours per week on academics.

In addition he walks on a treadmill most mornings, plays tennis once a week, spends 41/2 hours a week in dance classes, and has just started television acting classes twice monthly.

He's a busy boy.