Posted in Early Childhood, Journal on Apr 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Paddy and Aidan had their second game today. Paddy actually did a bit of outfielding (as opposed to daydreaming and completely missing the ball) and Aidan is getting better as catcher at keeping his eyes on the incoming ball. I had to help him today as there was no proper batter’s […]
Posted in Early Childhood, Milestones, special needs on Apr 7th, 2007 No Comments »
I can’t find the post where I talked about Aidan having trouble with the concept of “before and after”. This seems to be a favorite V-tech toy option. He has been playing quite a bit with an old V-tech number phone. One of the games is “What comes after #N? (for example, 5)” […]
Posted in Early Childhood, Journal on Mar 27th, 2007 2 Comments »
Another quick, simple work day. It has snowed continuously since last night — who would’ve thought? Feels like we’re back in January! So Aidan and Paddy’s first T ball practice was cancelled, obviously, which worked out OK. My eye feels better but I still can’t walk around much and develop a headache and blurred […]
Posted in Therapy, Early Childhood, Milestones, special needs, Journal on Mar 9th, 2007 2 Comments »
I wrote out a post for today and lost it… sigh. It’s Lent, I guess!
I’m not going to write the whole thing out again, just summarize…
Today was a light day as far as academics. Math and Latin were online drills. Sean finished the copywork and outlining activity he didn’t […]
Posted in Early Childhood, strategies, Big Picture, Journal on Mar 6th, 2007 No Comments »
I woke up quite a bit early today and since Aidan was up right afterwards, it gave me a chance to have some quiet time with him. This was nice because his 4yo brother is neck and neck with him developmentally and always wants to be in on what we are doing academically, and that […]
Posted in Therapy, Early Childhood, strategies, Big Picture, Journal on Jan 11th, 2007 1 Comment »
We woke up today and it was cold and foggy outside. By now it’s snowing and tonight it’s supposed to drop to about 6 degrees. Quite honestly, we all rather love these weather changes when we feel a bit like a frontier family in our log house, with our wood stove. Since the water heater […]
Posted in recordkeeping, Literacy and Language, Early Childhood on Dec 9th, 2006 1 Comment »
Have you read Cushla and her Books? It is about a disabled child who was read to by her parents and overcame some significant limitations through her relationship with books. The author’s depiction of Cushla’s response to different books at different developmental levels is perceptive and thought-provoking. (I think it […]
Posted in Early Childhood, Milestones, Math and Logic on Dec 4th, 2006 3 Comments »
Here he is being a youngest “Son of Willa Elder“, photo and costume courtesy of his sister.
The other big movie favorites around here recently have been:
Captains Courageous
Boys Town
It’s a Mad Mad Mad World
Arsenic and Old Lace
Bells of St Mary
Paddy has been a counting demon recently. He counts EVERYTHING, even letters in the title of a […]
Posted in Early Childhood, Thinking about Learning, special needs on Dec 1st, 2006 1 Comment »
Steph at A Room ofMyOwn writes about Natural Learning. I like what she says, and this especially resonated with me:
“…I was thinking about how children often have an intuitive sense of their own developmental needs (even if it is purely on an unconscious level). It is easy to see this in a toddler. When a […]
Posted in Early Childhood, Links on Nov 13th, 2006 No Comments »
This looks like a neat little blog:
Small Town Rowing
– one family’s adventures using FIAR.
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