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I totally agree, LMom. I am really thinking in 6 month periods of time with DS7. It's really hard to speculate or plan beyond that. That has definitely been my biggest lesson the past year as well.

Ditto. I'm still not 100% sure what we're doing next fall! If we figure it out before the fall, we'll be doing fairly well, I think...

Ren,
I would never say that kids in X range need the most help. So much depends on location, personality, and temperment. But yeah, Advocating for my 'invisiable' Level III has been a real ... growing experience.

The key piece of advice that I didn't have, was to keep feeding whatever 'burn to learn' your child shows, and to gently introduce topics you think your child might enjoy. I didn't want to insist that my kid work at home on "Mom Homework" because I didn't want to be a 'HotHouser' or percieved as one. Plus I was still in heavy gifted denial at that time.

Anyway, a book you may find useful for your afterschooling is
by Amy Burke and Nathan Levy, called "Not Just Schoolwork." I'm a 'non-linear' myself, and I remember getting ahold of one of Levy's books as a tween and thinking that finally I'm home!

At your daughter's stage, you will possibly have to translate, but that book could keep you both happily occupied for quite a while.

Best Wishes,
Grinity

Ha! I can totally relate. People keep ask what we're going to do next year and I'm thinking "You are so not living in the same reality as I am". We could decide to homeschool, pick a bunch of materials, and by summer they may be useless. We could pursue our GT magnet, and by fall, it may not be enough for 2nd grade, let alone beyond that. If we decide by fall what our plan is, we'll be happy!

Current plan - continue hothousing in Math so the kid learns a tiny SOMETHING this year. Although, what he's really learning is how to show work. Which I guess is important too for the long haul.

LMAO! This is a brilliant quote! I may use it, kimck! It's so right on target.

You're in a totally different reality, dude. Totally!

Last year when I signed up DS5 for Montessori K-6, people kept asking me where I would put him after that. Gee. They could have as well asked me which college he would attend.


I did this so many times, not the homeschooling part, but buying things which lasted only a few weeks and then he moved onto more difficult concepts/reading. As a matter of fact I just ordered beautiful magnetic charts which compare fractions, percentile and decimals. It hasn't come yet. Today it turned out that DS5 already understands most of it. I think it will still last a few weeks though. It does look nice, may be I could spend a few hours looking at it to get my money worth. Good that he has a younger brother, at least he will get to use it, when the time comes.

Last May I got a few things in a learning store. The cashier made a comment that it would keep us busy for the whole summer. Yeah, right. I didn't want to tell her that a few weeks tops.

At a visit to the GT school that we may (or may not...) send DS6 to part-time next year, the head of the school started talking to me about how if we were HSing part-time through high school, it's against the rules for DS6 to get a high school diploma; he has to be enrolled full-time.

I looked at her like she had 3 heads and said, "He's 6. Could we figure out what we're doing for second grade before we start worrying about high school transcripts?"



*sigh*

One day at a time, right friends?

Thanks for the book suggestion Grinity.

I posted under Ruf's book topic on some of the questions Kriston asked.

Different styles.

Ren