I plan out all our afterschooling and prioritize and some subjects are looped. My son is in Gr.3 and used to afterschooling. Piano and flute practice every day: 15-45 minutes depends on the load on that day. Math is everyday15-30 min but mixed up with puzzles for logic (he loves them). Third language: reading and writing 15 min each and rotates, 3-4 times a week. I read during his breakfast in 3rd language stories, science, fun books. He reads before bed 15-20 min in English (first language). He does his school homework (2nd language) right after school couple days a week, the load is minimal. He plays competitive soccer 3 days a week. The top priority is school homework, 2nd is piano, 3rd is math, and after the rest on the loop. He is home at 3:00 and free to play for an hour, we start at 4:00. Dinner at 5:30-6 and he has free time. We do the rest 7-8 pm or soccer. At 8 he goes to bed. Weekends are mostly free or catch up on what we didn't have time to do during the week, plus friends and family visits, museum, concerts or outdoors.

Juggling languages is what we do. My son is almost 7: birth to 3 years old only Russian at home (both parents are native speakers), 3-5.5 Russian at home and English at school and community, 5.5- present: all languages are at home, school is French Immersion. Up until 1st grade we were balancing by concentrating on the language that starts to fall off the rails. Now with 3 languages I started rotating on monthly basis: Russian-English-Russian-French-Russian-English etc. Russian is more often as it's less used and only at home. Everyday reading and writing is in French always as it's his 1st year in French. Math is always in English, but from time-to-time I duplicate just to keep him exposed to Russian terminology, but new concepts are always in English as it's his dominant language. Writing in English can't squeeze but he writes at K level. Reading in English is his independent reading as his is reading 3-4 grade level books, got to that level during 2 years in K in school. Russian: no writing but planning to start this summer; parents read at bed time and on the weekend he reads early readers. All other things are based on rotated language: in March we have English in focus and we watch movies only in English, history, science in English. One rule: at home we speak (try our best) just Russian and it means we always stop him and ask to repeat in Russian.

Hi, ladies. Could you please explain what are you doing in these threads? Planning for the week, share and report back how you did? :)

Hi, I've started MEP with my SK son and so far so good. What are your experience with MEP? Do you still use it?