I give DD things to fidget with, and gum, and let her stretch on the floor. Currently, I'm trying to tailor history and science to things she is interested in, and some subjects are done cyclically, like focusing on music theory and ear training for a couple of months, then art for a couple, and so on. I need some ideas for teaching or curriculum that can help. But I NEED her to learn certain things, like how to express herself clearly, how to do math, how to spell. LOL.) I don't want her answer to "What is your favorite part of school?" to be "When it's over." I want it to be enjoyable at least some of the time. (I could just send her to the local PS for that. I don't want school stuff to be drudgery. I've thought about paring everything down to just grammar, writing and math, but I know that was suck ALL the fun out of her schoolwork. She can talk coherently and at length about things she really likes, but if it's something she doesn't, she gets this nearly "nobody is home" look and says "I don't know." She asks if she can read more books for schoolwork, but nearly every time I ask her something about her reading (What did you read about? or What was your favorite part?, etc), I get "I don't know" or "I don't remember." I'm afraid people are going to think she's stupid. I'm frustrated because I know she should know this. She also really loves working with others although she CAN work alone, she prefers not to. Songs and humor help too, especially since as soon as she becomes a little frustrated, her brain switches off. Things with a video and/or hands-on component are helpful. ![]() She loves being able to move and talk, play games and read. This doesn't include all the time we're going over things and she goes off on a tangent talking about her friend's new bike, or how the swallows flutter like ribbons through the sky, as she stares out the window instead of doing her math. The thought of 119 lessons of this (but with even more complex stuff) makes me weep. It's not that she hasn't been exposed to it, she's been through FLL4, plus some other programs, but I had to go over it with her 8 times before she could say it back to me, and this is only lesson 7 in her grammar book. I was literally in tears earlier, trying to get her to tell me the definition of a sentence. She can focus and remember very well when it's a topic she's interested in, but if it's not, I may as well be trying to talk to her in Greek, backwards. I'm 99% sure DD11 has ADHD, and although she's really smart, possibly gifted, she has issues focusing and memorizing things (like she still doesn't have all of her times tables memorized, though she's gotten faster at calculating the answers, and of the 15 poems she had "memorized" last year, she remembers one).
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