Posted in special needs, Journal on Dec 30th, 2006 6 Comments »
We took Liam down to town yesterday to get his passport. We are going to Ireland this summer! and this is the last time he’ll really be home before spring, so we wanted to get him set up while he’s here. Then of course we did some shopping and errand-running. […]
Posted in strategies, Links on Dec 29th, 2006 No Comments »
I liked Unbridled Learning’s description of these.
Also about Pulses of Learning.
Posted in Books on Dec 29th, 2006 1 Comment »
Unbridled Learning has extended the deadline for the Book Discussion Carnival to January 6th. Whew! We have to drive into town today to get a passport for my college student, so I’ll bring the book with me and get a start. I’m looking forward to it!
The discussion will be on the book: And the Skylark […]
Posted in Visual Spatial Learners on Dec 23rd, 2006 4 Comments »
I have to shut down my processing on this R-B Learning thing in order to be here for my family over Christmas, but I just wanted to point to Throwing Marshmallows: Fixing Right-Brained Learners? though if you traced Cindy’s pingback you would find it anyway and probably most readers of this blog are making […]
Posted in Visual Spatial Learners on Dec 21st, 2006 2 Comments »
I was drafting out this post yesterday, but Stephanie at Throwing Marshmallows said it so much better: Putting Kids in a Box
“….. learning about the v-s learning style has drastically opened my view about how kids learn…it has expanded my options and has given me a new way of approaching learning with Jason. So […]
Posted in Literacy and Language, strategies on Dec 18th, 2006 4 Comments »
Jen of Aquinas Academy Adventures asked about late readers here and also wrote a post about her visual-spatial learner which was very interesting. She writes:
After the last couple of months of trying to teach my 7 year old in a “normal” way (ie, like I teach my oldest), I am coming to […]
Posted in Visual Spatial Learners on Dec 18th, 2006 4 Comments »
I already mentioned some of the traits of “Right Brained Learners” listed in the book “Right Brained Children in a Left Brained World”. From now on I’m going to use the term Visual-Spatial in preference to “Right Brained” because the latter term gives me such a weird mental image and it also […]
Posted in strategies, Links, Plans and Ideas on Dec 17th, 2006 No Comments »
I talked before about the Grab Bag idea which I liked but didn’t think would delight the kids unless I tweaked it a bit. Anyway, here’s the list I have so far — some of them are things for the kids to do, but others are for ME to do with […]
Posted in Visual Spatial Learners, Links, Thinking about Learning on Dec 14th, 2006 6 Comments »
Steph at A Room of My Own shares thoughts about the book Upside -Down Brilliance as it relates to her own feisty three. Stephanie at Throwing Marshmallows has listed them here along with some of Cindy’s posts, so I don’t have to : ). I thought this was a great […]
Posted in Links, Nature, Transition Years on Dec 13th, 2006 1 Comment »
I just realized that I hardly ever add anything to my lonely “Nature” category. Maybe that’s a hint that I should go outside more often. But in the meantime, perhaps some of the “Rambles” of my daughter will substitute for my lack of effort? The picture above was one of […]
