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[quote=Anonymous]I just pulled my 4th grader out of public school at the beginning of the second quarter. This is my first time homeschooling.
This is what I have done: I pulled the grade level curriculum guides for each subject to see what was covered through 1st quarter. I did not repeat this material. Instead, I moved on to new material. With math we are using Kumon workbooks to provide practice plus he take a once per week math course and completes this work also, so I think I’m covered. If we run out of other options, I’ll have him start Khan academy to cover material for next year as well. He was already ahead in math so we are just moving forward as always. For literature and science, we are using Moving beyond the page. They provide the curriculum guides, I picked the books or topics I thought would be most important. I am not following the school guide completely but should cover more topics in more depth by the end of the year. For Social Studies, I am not following the school guide at all (in VA, 4th grade is Virginia studies). I did cover Jamestown (by reading a National Geographic book) and am doing some colonial/early US history; but intend to do more modern history (purchased a book for kids) as well, including WW2 and pair this with non-fiction and fiction reading on the same period. I did this with the Jamestown unit, he read a non-fiction and fictional book in the same period. It helped to tie things together. I also intend to cover more Native American studies, African American history and possibly study of other countries if time allows. 
Because I also work full time and can’t work from home always, I’m listening to the audiobooks while I drive to and from work at the same time he is reading the books, so we can discuss them together. On the weekends, we read aloud to each other.
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