When your child reads above grade level...

Since Babalu learned to read in Kindergarten (at 4!!) he has been an amazing reader for his age (and gender, little boys tend to read later than little girls). Right now he can read 5/6 grade books but he can't really do a language arts program geared towards those grades. This has been a huge challenge for me in terms of finding a good program. At the moment we are working through Sonlight's 4th grade LA curriculum and he is enjoying most of the books and being challenged by the worksheets (Sonlight has excellent books but the actual curriculum isn't a good fit for us). It gets frustrating. For next year my plan is this-

• To use a LA program geared toward his grade level/age (in this case, redoing 4th grade)
• A good portion of his English grade will be independently reading books at his level of ability with book reports. 
• These independant books will come from a pre made list that Big Daddy and I come up with. He will have to choose one at a time. We will take his tastes into account when we choose these books and the list will have more books than we intend for him to read so that he has a lot of options. 

Hopefully he enjoys this. I may actually start this sooner than August, perhaps in a couple of weeks. 

I suck at ending posts.

The End.