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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Zero. She's reading, writing, and drawing, but anything beyond that is not really happening. (Rising 1st grader)

What studying do you mean?[/quote]

DS is a beginner reader. He likes being read to but hates practicing reading. He gets frustrated that he can't read most of the big words. At the same time, he hates the BOB type books too. It is frustrating for all of us. Considering getting him a reading tutor.

I also have various workbooks that he seems to hate doing. I am not trying to get him to do hours of work, maybe 10-20 minutes per day. He has been legitimately sick a few days but he makes so many excuses.[/quote]

He needs a break. Read to him. Read to him some more. Take the pressure off. He's going to get it.  Don't worry about the workbooks and stuff. Give him some paint or stickers and let him have some actual fun. It is summertime!

To answer the original question, he reads a lot, but otherwise no official work![/quote]

Oh yeah, converting money to local currency.

OP here. I used to be very worried about his reading but he tests very well. Although he can't read the questions themselves, he gets most answers correct.

I guess we do a lot of experiential learning. We spent two weeks in Europe, have done road trips and have gone to multiple museums. We go to the library every week. He enjoys books on animals and the usual boy stuff like Ninjago and star Wars. I think we spend too much time at the pool and beach. 6yo did learn how to swim this summer.[/quote]

So is he passively sitting around with headphones plugged into electronics or is he part of the process of calculating how many miles you will travel that day and converting them (math), locating cities on maps (geography), determining topography, studying landforms and rocks (geology),  Planning the itinerery for the day (critical thinking, ELA), learning words from the language (foreign languages), learning about the history of the country and customs (history and social studies), I could go on....
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