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Inclusion: The Death of Special Education?

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

I have not been writing much these past few days but I have been reading a lot.  And one of the conversations I notice going on out there is the endless debate about who is to blame for America’s failing public school system.  And with regard to Special Education, does Inclusion work?
Now, for those of [...]

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Learning Outside The Classroom

Friday, May 27, 2011

Art by Niki de Saint Phalle
If I had to look back on our past month or so, I would say learning outside the classroom has been our focus.  Learning about the world around us and learning about ourselves.  I mean, yes, we have been doing daily math lessons, we have been watching educational movies involving [...]

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Teaching Textbooks Love

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

I cannot begin to tell you how much I love Teaching Textbooks.
When we started this year [Grade 7], Rye would not use this program.  We tried a few sample problems from their website
http://www.teachingtextbooks.com/
and I loved it but because he is learning disabled and was used to having a live person teach him, he wanted [...]

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The Best Days

Saturday, April 2, 2011

I can’t help but think
that one day I will look back
on this time in my life
and think
these days
were some of the best days
of my life.

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Miracles Do Happen

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Apparently Rye’s talk with God the other day helped.
Last night he sat down, completely of his own free will while Don and I were watching TV in another part of the house, and wrote a 2 page, single-spaced story about himself.  No one asked him to do this.  There was no assignment he was trying [...]

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America: The Story Of Us ~ The History Channel

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

We are watching this History Channel series on the history of America now as a part of our homeschooling and I can’t even tell you how good it is.  We have just started but we are watching one episode a day to enhance our learning of American History and it is really entertaining.  It is [...]

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Homeschooling Manic Bipolar

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

The first half of our day went like this:

After which, I felt like this:
And wanted to do this:

But somehow we made it.
And we are both still here and alive.
Well, he’s now asleep.
I’m awake and still alive.
And now I’m going to work in the garden.  Hello peace and solitude.
Amen.

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Homeschool: The How And What

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

This is not our first time around on homeschooling.  We did it for over a year in the 4th-5th grade.  At the point I pulled Rye out of 4th grade, he was falling behind academically and was extremely frustrated by the school environment. Which, for us, meant nearly daily meltdowns at home.  I pulled him [...]

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