Homeschooling

Joaquin was going to something called X-Zone at school the past couple of weeks. They were supposed to go on field trips, do special activities and fun stuff while learning. Joaquin was bored. Although he would come home with a little tidbit about a continent they'd visited, a craft and sometimes a prize, he's already pretty, well, continental, so he already knows a lot about the subject. Since he was bored, Ivan said he didn't have to go anymore.

Faced with the fear that he might lose some of what he's learned during the year since he's now home all day, we got some workbooks at the bookstore over the weekend. There are tons of them, but we decided on a Harcourt Family Learning Grade 3 Math Skills book because he was already learning two digit multiplication and some division in school, among other math things. It's perfect and his dad now believes he is a genius. Whew, we got to him before he'd forgotten what he'd learned.

We also got a Grade 2 reading comprehension book with science, geography and history. His class was focusing on reading comprehension at the end of the year so I think it will help and the subjects interest him so that's a plus. The other book we got is a Kumon book of Simple Sentences about nouns and verbs for ages 5, 6 & 7. This book will help with his writing practice which he really needs.

All of the workbooks seem like good choices and they seem fun too. We're stoked. (Do people still say stoked?) Our child is gonna be a genius. Now, if I could only get him interested in music, my life would be complete.