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Teaching elementary reading

Exploring with math

Social studies options

Sniffing out science

Teaching at the right time

Crayons, paper, glue, pencils, and Cheerios fill your days. You spend more time than you thought imaginable looking at ladybugs and subtracting with chocolate chips. (Wait! Don’t eat it yet. The math problem isn’t finished!) You must homeschool an elementary student.

Elementary students span such a wide range of processing, skills, and interests that categorizing them is hard. Some get a concept and take off, while others require slow and steady tutoring to get them over the humps. Keeping a watchful eye on your learner steers you past many a pitfall. When you know what your child is learning and how she takes in information, an occasional lack of understanding doesn’t stymie you because you see it coming.