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[quote=Anonymous]Rising second grader.  Great reader who loves reading in her free time.  She is in an immersion program and completely fluent, but her Spanish reading isn't that great, mostly I think because I stopped reading to her in Spanish once she started reading in English so much and now her English reading skills have so surpassed her Spanish that she had stopped choosing Spanish and the spread was widening.  Each week, we aim to do, in this order of importance:

- 4 Spanish reading activities - about 2 full pages each, with comprehension questions.  They have completely changed it so that she now enjoys reading in Spanish instead of dreading it like before.

- 2-3 math activities - Life of Fred or addition/subtraction practice mostly.  Just to keep up skills.

- 1 chapter of story of the world, a history book, with comprehension questions.  Her school is untested in history, so I think it is a great base.  But most of all, she absolutely loves it and always begs for more.  I do it as a read aloud though, and I would rather she have more downtime and I prioritize the Spanish and math.

-a section of grammar island.  It takes about 10 minutes and has her talking about parts of speech all week long.

- 1 geography lesson - she likes them, as they are more like purposeful art projects.

We complete this about every other week, usually in a total of about 2-3 hours, sometimes on one day, if she is in the mood, and sometimes over 3 or 4 days in little segments, often while we are waiting somewhere for another activity to start.  Not a huge deal if we don't complete, but the goal is to just keep plugging along and at least do a couple Spanish reading exercises and a math exercise every week so that the concepts are solidified.[/quote]

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