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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does less scheduled also mean you don't supplement much at home? I'm not very happy with our public school, and I'm thinking of adding some work at home. Nothing major, just a page of math and spelling a few times a week, maybe 20 minutes a day.  Basically things I think he should be learning at school. Is everyone already doing this, and I just don't know...? [/quote]

I did spelling, handwriting, and got them books from the library that just happened to supplement science and history but were also fun to read. Math was fine (for my kids) once they were in advanced math starting in 3rd. Now we're in private and I don't have to do any of that except the books - because I like doing that more than because I have to - because the school is doing it.

In my circles it was probably 1/3rd of people who supplement. At least one private school parent and the rest public.[/quote]

Do you mind sharing the titles of what you used?[/quote]

For which, history and science? History was pulled from various homeschool curricula that value literature and history and I attempted to relate it to whatever the standards were that year. I literally have hundreds of books saved off in grade level lists via our library website, and I doubt anyone wants to read that here. Science started with Lets' Read and Find Out Science books and progressed to what I could find via homeschool curricula.

For handwriting I used Zaner Bloser because that's what our district uses, but they just don't prioritize it so the workbooks come home half empty. For spelling it was All About Spelling (which also sneaks in phonics).[/quote]

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