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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Finally, a homeschooling post!

I have mentioned that my youngest son has some trouble with spelling. He's extremely smart and creative and just like a lot of smart, creative boys, he has trouble with spelling and writing. He reads well, so it's not dyslexia. I think he would be categorized as having dysgraphia and I don't know what the spelling issue is called, maybe dys-spell-ia? Anyway. Over the years we've tried various strategies to help him compensate. He's learning to type. He's working on writing in cursive because some people say it is easier. We enrolled him in occupational therapy last year for 3 or 4 months until the therapist said that she had done all she could. We've tried Sequential Spelling which worked very well for my daughter, but did not work for him (although it is something we may come back to at some point) and we tried All About Spelling. Then, I read this article on Dianne Craft's website and I have been using her method since August and IT IS WORKING!

3 comments:

Amy said...: Very Interesting. I bookmarked her site so I can check it out more later. Thanks for sharing!!; 2:07 PM
Freakmom said...: Huh, that is so kooky it just might work. Thanks for posting. I may have Violet give it a try.; 10:28 PM
Gidget said...: Thank you or reminding me about Dianne's site! I have 2 right brained kids and we used to have the oldest spell things forward and backward while closing her eyes - I need to get back to it with the youngest.

So glad you've found something that's working - it definitely worked with our oldest!; 1:30 AM

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Homeschooling Advice.

1. Try it. You might enjoy it. It might change your life. It might not be your thing, but you won't know if you don't ever try.

2. Find out what your state (or country) requires, the bare minimum. Do this and then with the rest of it, have fun with it. It doesn't have to be all serious and it doesn't have to look like the inside of a classroom. You're at home. Relax. Play. Read. Learn together. Enjoy your kids. They grow up way too fast.

3. Don't let a written curriculum boss you around. If it works, great. If it's not working for you, throw it out. If only parts of it work, use those and throw the rest out. It's not the boss of you. When shopping for curriculum, read reviews. Try to go somewhere where you can actually hold the book in your hands and look through it. Print out a sample day or week and try and implement it or borrow it before buying. It's kind of hit and miss buying books without being able to see them.

4. Find a homeschool support group. Or two. If you can't find one in real life, find one online. Get support where ever you can.

5. Make a mess now and then. Go outside and put some mentos in coke. Make alka-seltzer rockets. Make some great art. Make a timeline and a map. Grow some borax crystals. Use levers to lift things. Make a trebuchet out of whatever you can find around the house.

6. Go on as many field trips as you can.

The point of this blog.

"there is a theme, if you read, you'll get a growing conviction that homeschooling is a lifestyle that is worthwhile, that it is extremely good for kids and families, that it promotes bonding, is a personalized education that is superior to what you can get anywhere else for your kids, is fun and can be done even if you have a 400 track mind, no math skills (thankfully my husband does though), through working, job changes, bad hair days, home remodeling, deaths, illness, surgery, broken bones and various other things and it actually makes dealing with these things easier, not harder, than it was when we were in the public schools, because homeschooling is so incredibly flexible. That's the point I've been trying to make for the last 5 years or so."

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Finally, a homeschooling post!

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