Falling Through the Cracks By the upper grades, many special needs students have developed compensation strategies that allow them to ‘get by.’ Often, in schools, these strategies allow the student to be passed to the next grade, though they may not have the basic skills necessary to perform well at this higher level. According to … Read more
What does the last Monday in May mean to your family? However you choose to usher it in, here’s an offering of ways to remember Memorial Day with history, activities and other resources. According to a report by ngl.org, “only 28% of Americans understood the true meaning of Memorial Day. It’s important that we do … Read more
Education Through Summer Activity “Life is learning and learning is life.” I know many home school families try hard to live this philosophy. I find this is particularly easy to do during the summertime. Why? Because our family is busy living and learning. Counting up the days of scheduled activity vs. the unscheduled days, we … Read more
A few years ago we had some health issues that came up. School got put on hold while we tried to adjust to a new way of life. When everything calmed down, I realized that we were going to need to adjust our school schedule now. We ended up working through the summer. This was … Read more
My oldest son has lost his love of learning. When he started reading at a very young age, we piled on the books and programs. We wanted to encourage this advanced learner…. Little did we know we would also kind of squash his love of learning. My child refused to learn. He wasn’t going to … Read more