Sounds like a news-room sound bite, doesn't it? A list of all the upcoming news stories to 'stay tuned' for. But, in this case, it is just a brief snippet of the areas I am wanting to target for each of my children.
11 yo daughter: She loves, loves, loves to read. This is a great thing. Writing, however is extremely challenging for her. Both handwriting and getting ideas down on paper are painfully difficult. Focus on showing the steps of writing so that she can do it in stages - a little at a time. We have an exercise that may help with handwriting, in addition to going over the Handwriting Without Tears program. But, when involved in thinking process of writing, handwriting just gets lost. For this, we are focusing on bilding up the working memory, which is low. We are using Brain Builder to help with that. And then there's math. Long division requires large graph paper and much patience. Little by little.
9 yo daughter: Biggest area of focus right now is reading fluency and comprehension. Having some struggles there. Spelling also needs help. Creativity is supplied in abundance.
8 yo son: Biggest area of focus right now: Reading - just beginning to come along with this now, and handwriting is very similar to 11 yo daughter's. Makes math a challenge, although he is great with math in his head. Numbers get jumbled when doing written work, and this causes trouble.
6 year old - sounding out 3 letter words and writing letters correctly. Math right now is deemed kind of fun.
1 year old - getting her to sit and enjoy books read by myself and all of the above siblings.
These are my emphasis targets for the moment. It is something I need to look at from time to time so that I can see where we need to go and figure out how to get there.