Thanks for your input!

Lucounu, I was thinking about Kumon as a supplement to everything else we are doing. DS is very much into mastery of specific tasks and will focus on one subject until he feels he knows it enough for the time being. Only then will he move on. Like with the hand writing. He obsesses about one task and will not stop. I find him in his room early morning writing and then he pretty much writes all day. This has been going on for a few weeks now so I am wondering when this phase will end. Before writing it was the game SHUTES & LADDERS. He used 7 dice instead of the spinner though and was obsessed with calculating the dice. His math skills obviously soared from doing this. So with you knowing this is how he is do you still think it might not be a good fit?

I do work with him as much as I can although with a 21 month old in the house it gets really hard...Also maybe it would switch things up a bit to have a tutor for a few hours a week instead of just working with mama IYKWIM.

Great suggestions for other educational ideas. He does love games and we do math bingo a lot and also Sorry. I will look into some additional ones. Seems though everything he does HAS TO turn into something educational. His favorite toys were always letters and numbers....:-)

Colinsmum, I am not sure he is UNhappy there just longing to learn. He does ADORE his teacher and she tries to do things with him. The thing is though that I don't think she knows how far advanced he really is. The other day she was going crazy over the fact that he wrote down what the picture he had drawn was. Like "My family at the beach"....She obviously doesn't know that he is writing the whole Jungle Book dialogue OFF TOP OF HIS HEAD including periods, exclamation points, quotes etc...and pretty much perfect spelling...Should I bring this up to her? I am not sure what else she could do for him. About the work books. He has worked on them but when I ask he says he didn't have the time. I think what is happening is that he HAS TO participate in all the activities even if he already knows them. Leaves little time for anything else. I don't want to offend anybody by asking for him to do other things making it sound like the teacher is not doing a good job. We do love her! I guess I will have to get over that fear though eventually..right...:-)

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