I worked hard enough to make my parents happy. I was expected to do well, but not honors course well. I rarely applied myself, never studied. As long as I showed up to class and paid attention, I learned enough to carry a B in most classes. I scored above average on the SATs, but didn't study for it. I was teased badly in school, and most days I had to force myself to go. Math was REALLY hard for me. I went to college because it's what was expected of me, but didn't finish because I didn't care for it. Now as a HS mom, I can't wait to get to certain subjects and learn things I didn't bother to learn in school.

My DS will be 6 in November. Going by the public schools here, he wouldn't have started K until this year, and I chose to wait. Mostly because he's been in intensive speech since 3 years old, and I wanted to focus on that for another year. The plan worked, as he was dropped to once a week speech last month, and will be done with speech by September :hurray: AAS1 Singapore Essential A&B HWOT K R&S ABC Series FIAR/Literature units occasionally Tagging along with his big brother who's doing HOD Bigger this year We'll also have co-op, park days, and I'm hoping to get him into a sport We're going to spend the summer working on handwriting, as he's very behind. I'm hoping to have him caught up enough by August where he can do some writing, and then I'll probably add more to his Kindergarten schedule.

Thank you everyone, I appreciate the help!

Hello all, I'm hoping to find some advice on where to start with my soon to be 6 year old/kindergartner. He has Apraxia of Speech. At 2.8 he had 5 approximations. Now at 5.7, he is almost age appropriate speech wise and was recently dropped to once a week speech therapy. A few months ago he started asking me how to spell random words. A couple months ago I realized he was able to read anything in front of him. He sounds out words he doesn't know, and self corrects if he initially reads a word incorrectly. I pulled out The Reading Lesson, which I used to teach my older son to read, and he flew through the first few lessons. I flipped to the very end, and he can read the last lessons easily. My question is, what should I do with him? I've never done phonics with him. He does have a few phonics apps on the iPad, but nothing that was ever used regularly. I did the AAR1 pretest with him, and he was able to tell me all of the letters with single sounds, and some of the letters with multiple sounds. Should I do phonics with him even though he's reading well? He is completely different from when my older son learned to read, so I'm a little lost on what I should be focusing on. He is very behind in handwriting, something we're just now starting to really work on. I'm thinking anything we do will have to be light on handwriting, at least for awhile. Also, he struggles with attention, so any lessons we do need to be on the shorter side.