Posted in Literacy and Language, Early Childhood, Milestones on Sep 8th, 2006 No Comments »
It is interesting to watch Aidan and Paddy in the early stages of literacy.
Paddy is extremely quick and facile. After several years with Aidan, who attains milestones with difficulty and perseverance and often by indirect “compensation” routes, Paddy reminds me all over how easily things normally “click” with the preschool child.
Paddy loves to […]
Posted in Milestones, Journal on Sep 6th, 2006 No Comments »
Aidan sitting on a rocking horse: “Paddy, when you grow up you will be a Brewer. We will play T-ball next summer.”
Paddy: “When I grow up I’m going to be a skeleton. With a SWORD. ” Runs off and comes back. “When I grow up I’m […]
Posted in Math and Logic on Sep 5th, 2006 2 Comments »
I took the spring and summer completely off math hoping to get a better idea of how to do Living Math (HT JoVE at Tricotomania). I wanted to look at how math appeared in our daily lives. So I’m just going to list a few random things that happened:
Paddy counting skittles with one to […]
Posted in Plans and Ideas on Sep 5th, 2006 No Comments »
I have been trying to plan for this year and figure out the best way to do my record-keeping. Every year I seem to do it differently. For a few years I tried hard to standardize it, but realized that some variety is OK and even fits my style of doing things. […]
Posted in Milestones, Big Picture, Journal, Living and learning on Sep 4th, 2006 2 Comments »
Paddy, who is going to be four this December, is really going through a development in his imagination. He comes up to me, “Mama, I’m a kitty. You’re the mama kitty. Miaow!” Being a kitty seems to be a recurrent activity, rounding out his traditional “fighting” games where he takes […]
Posted in strategies, Links on Sep 2nd, 2006 2 Comments »
Castle of the Immaculate has some good tips on Therapist Strategies.
I have been keeping a notebook on and off since Aidan’s infancy. While he was in the hospital I would note lab results and medication schedules. When he went home I kept an informal flow chart — temps, how he acted, […]
Posted in Journal on Sep 1st, 2006 No Comments »
I realize I keep talking about “pegs” and while the concept is familiar to some, it might be a new term to others.
Here’s an old post where I talked about how I use Pegs in Planning and Scheduling.
Leonie originated the term, or at least was the one who originally brought the concept to me. Here’s […]
Posted in Big Picture, Plans and Ideas on Sep 1st, 2006 1 Comment »
Here are some sites I use to compile books for my middle scholars:
Real Learning Booklist
Mater Amabilis
Ambleside Online
Sonlight Books Arranged by Well Trained Mind Chronological Cycle
Parker Family LIst of Booklists — some of the links were broken when I last went there, but there are nice resources there. In fact, Beth’s whole site is really […]
