We are up to the letter M. For this letter, we have;
food items that start with M
the state of Michigan
comparing Michigan and Mississippi and giving three reasons why he would rather live in one than the other
math problems dealing with money
and finally, listing at least 5 Mickey Mouse movies.
In addition to items regarding the letters, each week they have to list 2 or 3 goals, then evaluate how they did on them at the end of the week.
Getting #3 to do this is usually quite a chore. I do the foot work for it, then give it to him to put together. I found out the hard way that if we don't do it this way, he won't do it. He just does not care enough about his grades to do the info gathering process. With his ADHD, I have a hard enough time getting him to work on it once he has the info. Since I don't want him repeating the 3rd grade next year, I am willing to hold the bull whip over him in this manner.
#1 & #2 also suffer from this apathetic view on school work. Their hands are also held through doing all their homework.
The positive aspect of this is, if this continues through all their years of school, I will have a complete refreshment of English, History, Math and whatever other subjects they take! (I intentionally eliminated Science as that is the one subject that we don't have too many problems in getting them to keep up with on their own!)