Grinity, those are some very good ideas which I wil be sure to borrow. DS struggles with his daily routine too. I had dismissed them as laziness before.
Everything from getting up on time to getting to the bus stop needs me pushing him. As you suggested I need to get a schedule down and enforce it everyday.
Its funny how you mentioned the multiplication tables - he had a hard time memorizing them but managed to clear the 3rd grade requirement this year.
As for the VCI - The psychologist specifically made it a point to showe me why his Verbal score was low. There is a section where the child is supposed to describe a picture in writing and ofcourse as I expected DS choose to write the least amount of words required.There were 3 blank lines for each picture and he hardly filled one line. He does the samething at school.His teacher has to ask him to redo it then he does a good job. I am not sure if its him just being lazy and trying to skate by with the least amount of work.
Another thing is that English is not our first language so though we speak English at home now our vocabulary is not as good as native english speakers. I mean we tend to use simple english words at home. Maybe these factor affected the score or maybe not. Also he qualified for the School Gifted Reading program based on his ITBS scores.
His top three irritations I would say are
1> Taking a lot of time to complete tasks. For example He knows he has to get to the bus stop at 8 but he will still take his own sweet time to sip on his milk or read a book even if its 7:55. I have to yell at him to hurry up. But I have to say he can be quick when he wants to - on field trip day last week he was ready at 7:30 ;-) so I guess he needs motivation.
2> He says school is boring.Everything about school is "stupid"(his favorite word) these days. Last month he begged me to homeschool him. Suprisingly he doesnt consider math as his favorite subject. I am talking to a math tutor who is a math professor and works with gifted kids. He is a gifted person too and he said he was slow himself so he understands DS. Hopefully DS will like him when he meets him next week. This might give him the enrichment he needs and bring back the love of learning.
We are also switching him to a new school that promises to focus on STEM. He is excited about that since they have clubs like Lego FLL. He wasnt too thrilled tho when he learnt that they have 2 periods of math each day.
3> He hates doing anything physical. Tried soccer and hated it. Swimming was fine until his coach moved him to a swim team now he hates it and considers it too hard.I am not sure how to cover this area because he definetly needs the excercise but is not sporty.
He loves building stuff like Legos. He assembles kits that are meant for teenagers in a few hours. He loves doing puzzles does not stop until he is done with it. Currently he is building a train set meant for age 14+. And ofcourse video games which he can play for hours if I let him.
Thank you for all your help.
