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  1. Thank you all, I will look into your suggestions and links, we have started gymnastics and he loves it!
  2. Thank you all, this has been very encouraging, i haven't thought about excercise breaks, just getting up and walking around the room is always full of spins, rolls, and jumps. He does say he likes rewards but seems to quickly forget they are available so they don't seem to help. He loves silly stories, I had been told of Life of Fred as a supplement as well. Do any of you have tips or strategies on just helping him to focus and get self control? He cries about not wanting to act like a baby and wanting friends and has struggled to make friends his age. He wants to do better and be like his siblings, who tend to get frustrated with him.
  3. Thank you all, I am not concerned w the label, just that he gets what he needs, maybe I am expecting to much from him to work independently, but I also need to be able to step away to help the other two. I will check out your suggestions. Lots to learn in this homeschooling thing 😉
  4. Thank you, no he has not been diagnosed and I am not going to have him diagnosed, although the medical and school professionals we have been around have said he could be, I don't use the term around him but used it so you all would understand. This is our first year homeschooling, his teachers were not able to get much out of him in school and he spent most of his time sitting out or in the office, or just not working. He is well above grade level in reading and he did 3rd grade grammar and spelling with no problems, he is very creative and detailed in writing. He is probably most gifted in math, he breaks numbers up in his head naturally like MM teaches. He struggles with any copy work, having to look back and forth to write, being told two or more things at once, he writes letters and numbers backwards often, but the main issue is focus, staying in his seat, staying on task, he is distracted by everything, even his pencil, he often will forget what he is doing mid task. He is very compliant and rarely obstinate. But math and copy work seem to be what he gets distracted worst in.
  5. I am looking for a math program for my 7 year old. He has some issues with focus especially in math. We have been using Math Mammoth and he is working at the 3rd grade level, he has no trouble understanding the math and often gets it instantly or just does the problems easily in his head. The problem is we spend lots of frustrated hours just complete assignments Bc his focus is all over the place. I have tried reducing the workload, covering all but one problem, rewards, things like that but still I have to stand right over him to keep him on task and math takes forever to do. It's not the math it's his focus. I have downloaded samples of teaching textbooks and he seems to focus much better being presented with one problem at a time, and being able to type the answers. But I am concerned about the reviews I have heard about teaching textbooks for children who are gifted in math. Does anyone have any suggestions as to curriculum here? I also have a struggling 6th grader and gifted 4th grader so eliminating some struggle and frustration for my adhd son will allow me to help them too. So my concern is how to help my son focus on his work without slowing his learning down there. I have read about moving them up a grade in TT but will it be too slow after that? Does anyone have experience w TT or other programs that may help?
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