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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not op, what can working parents with low energy level do at home for a gifted 4th grader & a dyslexia 1st grader? I may have 1 hour energy max./day on weekdays and maybe 2 hours/day  max. for weekends. I am exhausted, so that is the most I could contribute. The gifted child is in CES, but it is still too easy. They have enough outdoor exercise time, and I want to introduce stem (especially science) to the gifted one, and find a fun way to working on phonics and reading with the dyslexia one. [/quote]

My kid also went to CES!  There are lots of great non fiction books on science themes that your kid can read which will get them thinking.  Also, we loved magazines like Ask at that age.  Does your kid do scouts?  The outdoorsy stuff really lends itself to a lot of science.  My son has a ces friend that didn’t start scouts until 6th grade—after 5th grade Boy Scouts has very little parental involvement.  For vacation, think about thinks like snorkeling or national parks (Yellowstone is great for science, as is the Grand Canyon — the visitor centers have so much science!).   Encourage your kid to plant a vegetable garden.  Maybe get an aquarium and check out some books on how to have one (I admit I did not love this, as we could not keep them alive).  Snapcircuits are really fun.  If you go on your a buy nothing group, neighbors might have some they can hand down.  You can often find books with easy science experiments at the public library or used book stores or on buy nothing.  [/quote]

Pp here. Thank you for other suggestions.  The 4th grader is in team sports and scouts. We have a fish tank but 100 percent being taken care by DH. I want him to go into robotics related but our ES does not have any clubs or resources. Do you know any? [/quote]

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