Originally Posted by
bluepersonality
Thank you for your input. The ideas are wonderful and I can't wait to implement them into our household.
As for the writing, the part the teacher said he was behind on (not sure how to properly explain this) was that when he wrote, he wrote like someone a grade or two below him. His vocabulary is immature. The teacher gave an example- "the dog ran out of the house and ran past the mailbox and ran down the street and ran to the park and ran to trees and..."
Before the conferences I emailed the teacher about help with math and she offered to help him every Tues & Thurs during lunch, so we often suggest he go see her, even if it's just to make sure everything is okay. I checked because he had gotten a bad enough grade he was held out of a football game, problem there was that there was only ONE quiz so far and that was his entire grade almost. She said that he grasps math fairly well, she just doesn't want to see him fall behind, and he's king of balancing between okay and falling behind.
As far as the reading, they don't seem to have homework where they are required to read, so I've been suggesting "hey why don't you read for a while today huh?" You can imagine how exciting that sounds compared to the Playstation...
Khan- yes, great idea. What about Lumosity?
Any more input on writing?