I guess what I am saying.. is make it fun. What is she interested in? As an example, we have been using baking to review fractions. not sure if this is what you were looking for ...
Yes, this is the stuff I am looking for. Funny you mentioned baking, because this was one of the first tip offs for us that she may be gifted. She was doubling fractions in recipes at 4. I just want to her to be able to turn an unpleasant/undo-able(for her) assignment into a Kathleen-friendly one. Example: today her worksheet asked her to re-write a paragraph in cursive and add in the missing capital letters and punctuation. She FREAKED. My suggestion that she type it was met with scorn. It took two temper tantrums and an hour to calm down before we came up with the idea that she could just pencil in the changes to the capitals and punctuation on the existing text and forgo the re-writing (she LOVED this idea). Ideally, her teacher would come up with these ideas but we are learning that this is seldom the case. They seem to be very receptive to our ideas, but put little of their own time into coming up with interesting modifications. I am hoping that by working with her this summer, I can put together some suggestions that have worked well and pass them on to her new teacher. We are getting really tired of starting from scrath every year.
