Thanks everyone! So far we are doing as follows:
Aiden (6.5) has only one really focused day when he attends a HG+ homeschool gifted program. There they do all sorts of skills, projects, work etc.
Two days of the week we meet with an unschooling group and the kids play hard all day. Climb trees, build houses out of lego, sticks etc, play games, do crafts, mess with chess, science - whatever they each want to do. It's great for so many things!
He has chosen to work on three main "things", which he does every day - he does his spelling/writing (5 - 10 minutes) we have a lovely workbook that breaks it into 20 words per week and he does little exercises everyday with a test at the end of the week. Since we are using it primarily for handwriting improvement (he was so cross because he cannot read his own writing!) I don't stress too much about the spelling but am delighted that as side effects his reading and spelling confidence and skills are soaring! Then he does SEMAS (Japanese Abacus maths) - he does about 30 - 50 sums a day depending on his own goals. And he practices his violin for about 15 - 20 minutes. Screen time is split between learning and "fun" and the two often cross over. Dreambox.com, Timez attack, a typing program, his genetics videos (Brain Pop) are learning time.
He is asking for science now (hence my asking for suggestions) but I think we are going to go with superchargedscience.com - it's great for so many reasons, including that he can do it on his own without parental "interference". I think that will slot in once or twice a week, and we have just ordered the German Rosetta Stone program so that we can all learn German together.
The only time I know grade stuff is in Dreambox or from the SPG class Aiden attends on Tuesdays.
Nathan (5 this weekend) loves workbooks! He is still so little so I am really not stressed about much more than helping him set and fulfill goals to completion. He also does SEMAS and Dreambox for maths and he loves to read and do puzzles of all sorts. He loves to google stuff on volcanoes and dinosaurs and just chose a 2nd grade literacy workbook which seems a fun mix of language, creative writing etc. He does a lot of baking and work in the veggie garden too. He loves LEGO and he is getting the WeDo set for his birthday. He is also using the typing program (Timon and Pumba teach typing)
I need to do more brainpop for sure and I just joined the buyers co-op recently (got the Rosetta deal from there)
