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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not exactly sure what you mean by supplement, but here is what we do for a family with 3 elementary aged kids (5, 7, 10)

1. We read as a family, everyone has independent reading time daily, but then we also read books as a family (we are currently reading Charlotte's Web). It allows us to both introduce a love of reading and books to our kids and also gives us a common experience to talk about. We go the library at least biweekly.

2. Each of our children takes music lessons, language lessons and a sport/physical activity. All three children take Spanish lessons, 2 take piano lessons, 1 takes violin lessons, they play tennis, basketball, and swimming. Our oldest recently started weekly chess sessions with my FIL.

3. We go to museums, plays, exhibits, etc. often. At least once a month we have a family outing to some type of experience like this. We make sure to talk to our kids about these experiences as well. We do research and/or look up additional information that they express interest in. For example, we went to the Air and Space Museum and our 7 year old became fascinated with how tiny Earth is in comparison to other things in the universe. He has learned the sizes and distances from the sun of all of the planets in our solar system as well as information about other galaxies, etc. We have spent hours helping him research information on different aspects of space and the history of space exploration.

4. If they hear about or learn something in school and they have questions or seem really interested in it, or if we feel like the information they are given is just surface or inadequate... we take it further and learn more about it. It may be that we just get a book on that subject or it leads us to an event or a movie or something else entirely. We want to encourage them to learn about everything.

I am sure that this will change as they get older, but it works for us for now[/quote]

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