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[quote=Anonymous]No tutors but me and my husband feel we are educated enough to tackle the basics (I agree that I don't understand some of the schemes for solving problems but figure at this point, it is about learning and understanding the concepts).

We have done a bunch of things and have switched it up to make it interesting.  Started with Kumon and the old Jumpstart games.  Kumon was too repetitive and jumpstart games are now more play than learn. Moved on to mathsplash on the iphone and and Math Whizz (heard IXL was focused on drills).  Husband has a science background so he does manipulatives with them once a week (like base 10 blocks or practice with money).

For reading, we just read with them a lot which I think is no different than other parents.  When they were young, we did the bob books and we are now trying this Teach Your Child to Read with the younger one that is working well.  Writing, we have the older one write a short paragraph a week on a topic of his choice.

Basically, some type of extra lesson every few days plus reading at night.  The computer games are fun so they ask for them and it keeps the screen time somewhat educational!

I think our children would be fine without the lessons but we don't see that they hurt.  Both kids are ahead and if we didn't do the lessons, they would just slide back to the on-grade level learning so we feel that since they are ready and absorbing, we should keep it going.  [/quote]

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