I need some help and suggestions from those who may be more sensible than I am! Long story short, we are taking a semester in which I am tricking my child into thinking he is moving on, but he's basically reviewing and solidifying what he already knows. I've done this using some curricula I would normally choose so that his books look different, but the content isn't necessarily an entire level up. The idea is to build his confidence while allowing his maturity to catch up with his intellectual ability, if that makes sense. We just completed 5M with some minor changes.
The two caveats to this semi-level up business is that I did move him up to Elementary Greek II, and I picked up Nature's Beautiful Order. The Greek is going fine. The NBO book is something I foresee as a battle developing. We are on chapter two, so we aren't seriously invested yet. Upon further investigation, it seems most folks are using it at 7th, 8th grade as opposed to fifth going on 6th. The first chapter of workbook questions took a lot of summarizing and explaining and resummarizing and having him explain back to me. I am not of the school of thought that I shouldn't have to do that, but he is not enjoying the fact that so many of the answers aren't coming more naturally to him (very punny?).
Should I be quitter and shelf it until a more mature point in his reasoning ability? Should I lower the expectation and walk him through the questions and answers more? I fear continuing will frustrate us and not give us the full benefit of the book. I fear shelving it will send the wrong message, plus I don't have an alternative. He really wanted an animal centered nature/science book.
I'm trying to prepare him for some basic anatomy very soon, but anatomy which does not skip the repoductive bits. I was hoping to introduce some of that idea from an animal perspective as he could more easily relate to farm animals reproducing. He is an only child, and somehow he is blessed and cursed with such innocence that he quite literally believes an angel of the Lord will come upon a prospective mother and proclaim her with child! So there's that.
Obviously, we have issues.
The two caveats to this semi-level up business is that I did move him up to Elementary Greek II, and I picked up Nature's Beautiful Order. The Greek is going fine. The NBO book is something I foresee as a battle developing. We are on chapter two, so we aren't seriously invested yet. Upon further investigation, it seems most folks are using it at 7th, 8th grade as opposed to fifth going on 6th. The first chapter of workbook questions took a lot of summarizing and explaining and resummarizing and having him explain back to me. I am not of the school of thought that I shouldn't have to do that, but he is not enjoying the fact that so many of the answers aren't coming more naturally to him (very punny?).
Should I be quitter and shelf it until a more mature point in his reasoning ability? Should I lower the expectation and walk him through the questions and answers more? I fear continuing will frustrate us and not give us the full benefit of the book. I fear shelving it will send the wrong message, plus I don't have an alternative. He really wanted an animal centered nature/science book.
I'm trying to prepare him for some basic anatomy very soon, but anatomy which does not skip the repoductive bits. I was hoping to introduce some of that idea from an animal perspective as he could more easily relate to farm animals reproducing. He is an only child, and somehow he is blessed and cursed with such innocence that he quite literally believes an angel of the Lord will come upon a prospective mother and proclaim her with child! So there's that.
Obviously, we have issues.
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