Singapore math is going well so far. The workbooks are really handy, and it's been review for the most part. I should know more when I actually have to teach him something I suppose. When he does do math, he generally does 2 exercises each day.
I'm using the spelling program Celeste shared with me. It was a lot of redundancy on the child's part though, and the 'tests' were cold tests, as the child had never seen the word ahead of time. This was extremely frustrating for DBall, so I've kept the actual words but devised a new program for using them. It's nothing fancy or ingenious, I just typed the words out with a long line next to them for him to write a sentence with each word. Then he will test over those words tomorrow. Since we're basically only doing 4 days/week of school, he will have two spelling tests per week.
I have found most of the Pathway Readers, with their Teacher's editions and children's workbooks. Unfortunately the issues for his grade/reading level are missing the actual readers.... so I need to write the Amish to secure them, or look for them on ebay prehaps. Fortunately there is a reading program at the library again this Summer, and they would like them to read 3 books per week. At least he won't forget how to read altogether!
He does also spend a lot of time playing with legos, which I figure couldn't hurt him much. He builds all kinds of things, including what the set was meant to build plus whatever else he thinks of. In the last few weeks he's become increasingly more cheerful, and less morose. I don't know if he was depressed or what, but he liked literally nothing, never laughed anymore, said everything was "boring", and moped around every day. I HATED it. I am SO RELIEVED he's reverting back to his original happy personality.
Okay I think that's all for the moment.
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