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Old 06-13-2018, 06:36 AM   #22
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Default Re: Ideas for the unmotivated child

What you have access to is plenty. What he is ready for is perfectly normal tho as mentioned some of those things can point to the writing difficulty but just a learning style to work with. I might set up your list with categories that loosely cover different subjects and skills and let him choose one from each to make up the five. Math can look like playing a board game if it nvolves throwing dice and counting the spots and spaces moved. Or reading a story that teaches a math concept or identifying and counting money. He is doing great nd it sounds like if you can go with what he is ready for you will begin to enjoy HIS uique learning journey as much as your older sons. I can relate because My next youngest homeschooled son was an early to start reader and like an academic sponge at age 5 & 6. With my homeschooled daughter that age looked like dance and art and board games and being read to. She did not read at all . She is now a young adult and her fav author is Jane Austen!

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Can you print things out? I can appreciate wanting to cut back on screen time but if he is a techy wired sort of guy and he learns that way ? You might consider adding a bonus learning game time if he if he does the other categoris on the list w/o grumbles. Can you print out things? If so look for worksheets about Legos and instead of calling them math worksheet call it a Lego worksheet. There is a whole Lego curriculum ! My dd that was later to start academics turned out to be a very practical sort of learner. If she could relate to it or apply it to her life she did much better. So she loved all of the word math types of problems a lot of kids dislike intensely. If Michael had 5 balloons and gave two to Mary how many did he keep? He can do math problems using toys or fruit. I would also add tracing worksheets or tracing in a salt tray. If you scroll down to the 3rd page there are ideas there https://www.foundationyears.org.uk/w...andwriting.pdf

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