1) I will contact them again. My initial contact was good, but I will try to call Monday and talk to her more about what to expect, what to bring, etc. They began last Wednesday, but I only found out about it on Thursday, so our first session will be this coming Wednesday. Do you think it would be wrong to bring say 4 items, that he works on for approximately 20 minutes each? -Read Aloud (if someone is willing to listen to/help him) -Poetry copywork -Singapore Math IP workbook -Nature Notebook 2) I just got Singapore Math Intensive Problems 3A. I was thinking of him working on just a few pages out of it, mostly as review. I will need to go over the double/triple digit multiplication with him before he gets to those questions, however. 3) Good ideas and suggestions to use with Hugo. I will request that Buddy book from the library. 4) Just tried to sign up for Sumdog, but tried as a teacher, but probably needed to do so as a Parent.

Could you give an example of this with math?

Thank you for your response. I've always enjoyed reading your comments. Robby doesn't have a problem remaining calm. I am sorry I must not have written clearly enough. We go to the library so he can read to the therapy dog just as another outlet for reading aloud practice. Because he enjoyed this so much we got a family dog recently. He is now a five month old Great Pyrenees puppy. He is fantastic, but we haven't been able to do much reading aloud with our dog, Hugo, like they do at the library because Hugo gets excited and thinks it is play time when we try to do this with him. Robby has done many classes outside of the home. This summer he went to our local community college for two classes. He took another full day class at a local library presented by another community college. He has presented science fair projects and won since he was 5 years old. I just want to continue to have him read for as much as we can daily. Robby is very unique like all children. I could share with you if you'd like his WISC-V scores, but his processing speeds were at the top of the average range, but because everything else was soo soo high this is noticeably low. Before he did his testing I remember commenting to the psychologist how I worried about his speed with them addition/subtraction fact speeds. After he scored so high on the mathematical portions she said she would not worry about him memorizing these facts. I haven't forced it, but I know he could benefit from more practice here. An example, two public school brothers from our local parish were quizzing him a few Sundays ago. They asked him 7x4. After a minute Robby said 21. They laughed. I know Robby can answer this and much more. He has different ways of thinking sometimes. Instead of just rote memorization he does things like: 4X8 is 4X4 is 16 times 2 (to double 4) is 32. After thinking on this last night and this morning, I think I might have him work on his keeping--his Charlotte Mason style poetry and nature notebooks during this time. Those are tasks that he needs quiet focus and not have his little sisters interrupting him. I want him to work on these everyweek, but we don't always get to them.It could be a dedicated time for him to work on these. Copywork, scientific illustrations, art. Also I could send along a book that if they have time he could read aloud to one of the tutors. I could send along the 'assignment' and materials. Perhaps something like draw the lifecycle of the monarch as shown on page 45. Or continue work on copying Walter De La Mare's poem Some One. The thing with copywork is he could not do this for an entire hour. So if his first hour is to work on language arts I could include copywork in his poetry notebook. I just need to figure out how he could use this first hour to focus on literacy/language arts. Copying his poetry he could probably work on for 15 minutes or so before his work starts to get sloppy. The second hour could be his nature notebook or something similar.

I just read this book and I think I'd rather read this alongside Robby instead of with someone I am not too familiar with. Some sensitive subjects. Any recommendations?

My husband just said he thinks he needs to work on speed on his math facts. He can solve these, but is slow. Conceptually he is doing math beyond basic multiplication/division, but maybe I should ask for them to help him with math facts. What materials would I need to provide to do this?

Prodigy is free. It will read the questions, but is not a teaching program.

I was just going through our bookshelves and think perhaps he could read with some help The Matchlock Gun. That plus some discussion questions (maybe I could find some Bloom's Taxonomy questions online) and copywork could be good. Then for math maybe Singapore Math Challenging Word Problems or Kangeroo Math contest questions. I want to do those with him, but we frequently run out of time.

He is 8 (born 5/09). He was born with a congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Major delays (no eating until 2, delayed speech) and were in Missouri First Steps for therapies for a long time. He does not qualify for speech or any of those related services. Goal would just be to have more assistance. I, of course, want the best for him. He has come a long long way in the past 6 months or so with reading. He can read level 3 readers well on his own now. I don't know how to jump to the next step though into more chapter book length books. He has Wild Robot out from the library and we have been partner reading that. Also I am a homeschool mom with two other little children (5 year old and 2 year old). Perhaps this could just be another time in our day/lives that he is reading. We read occasionally to a therapy dog on Tuesday at the library. We recently got a puppy but he is not always calm enough when we try to do this at home. He reads to me daily, his sister daily, to himself daily. We listen to audiobooks/podcasts almost daily. He reads some of our evening prayers every night. Does lessons with his father 4-5 evenings a week. But if I am completely honest I don't get a lot of reading/phonics instruction with him every day. He is reading now so we will stop and discuss words. Yesterday in his Beast Academy we broke down equilateral. This could just be another time every week where he has reading time. If he did both sessions the 4 and 5 session one could be reading and the second more competition/challenging problem solving type math. Learning at home we do most of the reading aloud from his books or alongside him. We are using Ambleside Online Year 2 as our primary course work. He does a lot of prodigy math and he will have the computer read him the questions, but more and more he doesn't need it. Hopefully that helps with some more insight into our lives.

My son is 2E (Gifted/Dyslexic). He is not a non-reader and is reading beginner readers pretty well. I just became aware of a free tutoring program at a local church. Basically we would show up and they do homework and work with the student on their needed areas. I am thinking of participating. I am not sure if there is a curriculum that would work well to once a week sessions of about an hour in length. Any advice? I thought about getting a Memoria Press Literature Student Guide and book. Our first session would be next Wednesday so something that I could download and put in a binder would work best.

If this is available/or we create one collectively could this be a sticky? I can see this being helpful in future planning purposes.

Could you please elaborate? I doubt we'd be able to do any CTY summer programs just because we live in St. Louis, but Belin-Blank is in Iowa which is a lot closer than many other options.

What a great accomplishment. There is something about teaching a subject you are passionate about that makes you feel even more comfortable with a topic.

I am finally biting the bullet and buying Beast Academy this month. We've done so many other curriculum plus hours and hours of Prodigy I think we need something new for the upcoming year. I am looking at also getting a few levels of Singapore IP to do also. I am most looking forward to the Online Academy, however.

If we enroll our son we would do so with PEGS. Could you share some more information?

I am from St. Louis. Have you had your child tested? If you have the scores, PEGS is a great program (from what I've heard) and is a public fulltime PG program. My son is PG/2E with dyslexia. I am not sure we will enroll him at the moment. (We have some pressure from our family to enroll him vs. homeschooling.) They want tests scores that are no more than 12 months old with their application. https://go.lindberghschools.ws/Page/6323

This isn't a class, but rather an outside ec or prof def, but what about Toastsmasters?

I have given up on these developmental standards. They don't fit my son at all. I always knew he was bright (I believe all parents know this truth when it exists), but then there are experiences where this is evidenced early on. My son was two and found a ratchet and took apart his toddler rocking chair. He did not talk and could not eat anything orally, but could use tools properly without instruction. He has not always met all of the developmental milestones on time, but will have HUGE leaps in other areas. I think this is more an indicator than other things babies do or don't do. I am just a newbie in this area, but this is my experience thus far.

Nearing a year later... Please tell me where to begin. What do I need to buy? What videos do I need to watch? What can I use with an accelerated gifted young math student?

I tried to find a pdf like you mentioned to see if I think it would be worth buying. I did not find it, but found a neat pdf on graph theory. I ended up at amazon to look at this book and it reminds me so much of a TED Talk I once saw on infinity.

This is probably what I'd do too, but I live in the path of totality. ONLY thing is... this won't happen again in a few years--not a total one in the continental USA. The next total solar eclipse in USA will be 2024. That is a short span between total solar eclipses. The last one in the USA was 38 years ago!

I am in St. Louis. I am really surprised how little of these events are held here. Perhaps there are and I just don't know where to look.

I just tried to see what they offered online for the K-3 group and can't really see any courses.

I registered Robby for two classes at the College for Kids at St. Louis Community College. Simple enough. Story Illustration and ADD-kid-abra. Next week there is a tennis camp that I am hoping I can get the kids up and ready for before 8:30.

My son got a 155 on verbal which they said was the ceiling score adjusted for his age. He was 7 when he took the WISC-V. So maybe there are different score ceilings for different ages?

I've tried to find information for the WISC-V as well. This is what my son took in the fall.