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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I pulled my son out of public school where he only had a 504 plan and homeschooled him this year. He was in 5th grade and this is what we used. He did the bare minimum at public school and I felt he had so many gaps even though his teacher said he was doing great.

Math: Online Pre-ALgebra course with Derick Owens
https://www.derekowens.com/samples.php?page=PA&page=PA
I decided to just have him take pre-algebra because these classes got good reviews. I sat there while he watched the videos and we discussed what he was seeing and I prompted him to solve the problems in his book. 
$58 a month

Reading: Even though he tested above grade level in reading I think he rushed through reading long multisyllabic words, so I bought the Secondary Level of Rewards Reading- a researched based program. It was $120 dollars.

Writing: IEW streaming lessons. I can't recommend this program enough. My son's writing was rambling, off-topic, had run-on sentences, etc. This drastically improved his writing.  You watch the videos- about 30 minutes a day and there are specific writing assignments. It is fantastic. We also did the Fix-It-Grammar program $169. 
https://iew.com/shop/products/structure-and-style-students-year-1-level-basic-plus-forever-streaming-or-dvd

That is all we concentrated on. Reading, writing, grammar, and math. He took breaks in between doing work. 
We did fun science experiments (dissected fish, owl pellets, made slime, etc.)
For history we listened to Story of the World and did some of the activities and watched Liberty Kids. 
When we went places we listened to audiobooks or I read to him after lunch. 
He took some art Outschool classes.  He is active in sports so it was great that we didn't have to worry about homework in the evenings. Everyday I made a checklist on the whiteboard and he would check off the activities. He loved that when he was done, he was really done for the day.

I encouraged him to read at night and told him he could stay up as late as he wanted if he was reading a book. He went to bed at night and for the first time in his life actually read books himself.

[b]It was really the best year of schooling he has ever had. [/b]He went from saying he was not smart, he sucked at school, etc. to saying he was good in math, was proud of his IEW writing assignments, etc. He was not longer stressed in school. It really was a good year for him.

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I'm the other special educator, and I just wanted to jump in and agree with this.  We started homeschooling one kid for medical reasons, which wasn't my rising 5th grader, but we enjoyed it so much that we brought the other kids home.

My 5th grader is my one kid with no special needs, and he was doing fine before I pulled him, and not stressed, but homeschool has still been better, however ideally we'd be homeschooling without covid so he'd still have other experiences like sports teams and running around the neighborhood with friends. [/quote]

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