Making Math Fun
M-bug still struggles with place value. She often gets her tens and ones mixed up, and numbers with more than one digit in front of the comma stump her. One game that her therapist, Miss Tammy, uses...
View ArticleWe All Think Differently
I mentioned a week or so ago that the girls were doing projects for their school’s science fair. I’ll go into more detail on that next week (hopefully — it’s the last week of school, and bound to be...
View ArticleThe First Step Down the Homeschooling Road
The school year is over, and I’ve been taking a look at how our first year of homeschooling went. The girls attended a public virtual homeschool, rather than us doing traditional homeschooling. So it’s...
View ArticleIn a School Daze
Thursday, 9:43 am We started school August 20. Ever since, I’ve had numerous ideas for blog posts. I write them in my head, but they never make it to the computer, because I have no time. None. Even...
View ArticleIEP Meeting and New Homeschool Schedule
Sorry to leave you all hanging, everybody. This last week has been crazy, but good, owing in part to the IEP meeting I had at the girls’ school on the 7th, and a new homeschool schedule. You might...
View ArticleCommunicating with a Child with PDD-NOS
My daughter, M-bug, has been diagnosed with PDD-NOS, which stands for Pervasive Developmental Disorder – Not Otherwise Specified. It’s a really big name for a disorder on the austim spectrum. Children...
View ArticleGetting Behind in Life
I haven’t posted anything besides macro photos in three weeks, and that’s just because I had several weeks’ worth of macro posts in the queue. I feel like I’m getting behind in my own life, not to...
View ArticleBook Review: Square Peg by L. Todd Rose and Katherine Ellison
I recently finished reading Square Peg by L. Todd Rose, a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a man with a first-hand account of what it can be like to grow up with ADHD....
View ArticleTraditional Homeschool: Day 1
My brain hurts. We’ve moved to Texas. We made the 1704-mile trip over four days, taking a week break at my parents’ house in the middle of it. The girls and I have been in our new home for just over a...
View ArticleDay 4 Update and Curriculum Part 2
We’re on Day 4 of our first week of traditional homeschooling. Day 3 didn’t go so well. Decoder Man and I spent half the night before awake for no discernable reason, and then I finally fell asleep...
View ArticleHomeschool Curriculum Part 3: The Fun Stuff
Lest you were worried: Yes, we survived Homeschooling Week 1. I just was too tired to write about it. Actually, I got to feeling really sick at lunchtime on Friday, so we only did what we really needed...
View ArticleWe All Think Differently
I mentioned a week or so ago that the girls were doing projects for their school’s science fair. I’ll go into more detail on that next week (hopefully — it’s the last week of school, and bound to be...
View ArticleThe First Step Down the Homeschooling Road
The school year is over, and I’ve been taking a look at how our first year of homeschooling went. The girls attended a public virtual homeschool, rather than us doing traditional homeschooling. So it’s...
View ArticleIn a School Daze
Thursday, 9:43 am We started school August 20. Ever since, I’ve had numerous ideas for blog posts. I write them in my head, but they never make it to the computer, because I have no time. None. Even...
View ArticleIEP Meeting and New Homeschool Schedule
Sorry to leave you all hanging, everybody. This last week has been crazy, but good, owing in part to the IEP meeting I had at the girls’ school on the 7th, and a new homeschool schedule. You might...
View ArticleCommunicating with a Child with PDD-NOS
My daughter, M-bug, has been diagnosed with PDD-NOS, which stands for Pervasive Developmental Disorder – Not Otherwise Specified. It’s a really big name for a disorder on the austim spectrum. Children...
View ArticleGetting Behind in Life
I haven’t posted anything besides macro photos in three weeks, and that’s just because I had several weeks’ worth of macro posts in the queue. I feel like I’m getting behind in my own life, not to...
View ArticleBook Review: Square Peg by L. Todd Rose and Katherine Ellison
I recently finished reading Square Peg by L. Todd Rose, a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a man with a first-hand account of what it can be like to grow up with ADHD....
View ArticleTraditional Homeschool: Day 1
My brain hurts. We’ve moved to Texas. We made the 1704-mile trip over four days, taking a week break at my parents’ house in the middle of it. The girls and I have been in our new home for just over a...
View ArticleDay 4 Update and Curriculum Part 2
We’re on Day 4 of our first week of traditional homeschooling. Day 3 didn’t go so well. Decoder Man and I spent half the night before awake for no discernable reason, and then I finally fell asleep...
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