When to Slow Down

Slow down and spend more time on a subject when it requires more concentration. For the past month, that's what I did to teach our son fractions. The only other two subjects we studied during that time were Spelling and Government. I didn't want to rush through fractions every day so I set aside Reading, Writing, & Language Arts so that he'd be able to study fractions for a couple of hours on a daily basis. We were even able to begin decimals before we began Christmas break.

We'll still be able to finish Language Arts and complete most of his reading and writing assignments this year.