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  1. My oldest is finishing Prep for Ex. Writing this semester and I'm looking at the teachers for Exp. Writing 1 for the next year. Ms. Otto is his Grammar teacher for this semester and we like her alot but she isn't teaching Exp. Writing 1. His current Prep of Exp. Writing is Mrs. Scott and we like her too but she is also not listed for teaching Exp. Writing 1. Does anyone here have experience with the other teachers for that class, Ms. Samuelson, Ms. Strickler or Ms. Bouse?
  2. My middle son is 3rd grade this year & we are working through summer to get him 4th grade ready for fall but my youngest is in K/1st this year. The younger two haven't loved Singapore but I can't tell if its just not a right fit for those early years for us or if its them being different. My older DS did K, 1st & 3rd at a private school so whe didn't do the early levels of Singapore.
  3. I did not realize this! I'll have to look further into. I thought about having all 3 boys do the SP History course & just have older DS do a little extra assignments from me.
  4. I am working on our curriculum choices for the coming school year & I am feeling uncertain on where to go with History. I will have a 7th grader (12 yrs old this summer), 4th grader (a bit delayed in reading/spelling but we are making lots of headway with our change to LoE) & my youngest is 1st/2nd grade. All are boys. 😊 I want all to start back at Ancient times as we have already studied Middle Ages & Modern Times. My oldest 2 have been doing & loving V.P. S.P. History & Bible this year. I have been considering moving older DS to their Omnibus Course & having the younger 2 do the SP History for Old Test/Ancient Egypt but I don't feel "sold" on Omnibus as being right for ODS. I have considered switching to either Mystery of History or SOTW. But my boys LOVE anything online, especially with videos & games. I also like the idea of having at least 1 subject we can all do together. Anyone on here have experience with Omnibus? Pros/Cons? Should I consider the other two curriculum choices instead & let go the computer aspect of VP SP? My boys all hate physically writing stuff. We do it but I also don't want to force lots of writing in other subjects. I already scribe half of math for the younger boys because it's what they hate the most about schoolwork.
  5. My middle DS is having some frustrations with Singapore Primary (DS 1 did just fine with it) and I'm wondering if for the rest of this year & maybe next we should try something else. He doesn't like righting down the problems & doesn't like to do lots of problems but does them usually fine. He's in 2B now. Wondering if this might be a good curriculum to look at for that short term change up.
  6. Hi all! I have my first budding Logic stage kiddo & two more to follow in the future. We have been using Singapore Primary since the oldest was in 4th grade but we started in the middle of that school yr & I believe we started in 3B (may have even been 3A). He is now (6th grade yr) half way through 5A (a bit behind our schedule) but we have now planned what he needs to do each week to finish all level 5 by the end of May. I am trying to decide if I should have him move to Pre-Algrebra in the fall (7th grade) or if he should do level 6 in 7th grade & Pre-Algrebra in 8th. It seems to be whether 1. He's ready or not & 2. Do I want him to do Calculus 1 in HS or not. According to Brenda Barnett from Singapore Math Live he should be ready for Pre-A after SM P Level 5. https://www.singaporemathlive.com/after-singapore-mathreg-curriculum.html Has anyone had experience with this transition before? What reasons would we want to do Calculus in HS? Currently he wants to be a Police Office or Fire Fighter (both Grandfathers were Firefighters). However I know those "plans" will probably change (although he is my Mr. Steady boy).
  7. We have been talking and considering placing them back in a local private school in the Fall and he wants to still be able to integrate into their 4th grade class if we do that. However, after meeting with the school last week and talking with them I'm less inclinded to place my kids there and just to continue our home education. For what it's worth I'm a 2nd generation "homeschooler" and so is my husband. Adding that to say it seems more "normal" for us to continue to home educated that to find a school system for them to attend. However, I personally have health struggles and have wondered if it might be "better" for my health to no longer have the bulk of teaching 3 boys in 3 grades on my plate. So, for some reason I am unable to see your signature information but interestly I did just pick up the 4th ED of Spalding's "Writing Road to Reading" while I was at my local homeschool curriculum resale shop. I was there for a couple of hrs looking through several phononics/l.a. curriculum choices and that one caught my attention as something that I wanted to study further. I spent a good bit of last weekend reading the first part of it. Then I can across Logic of English and what has drawn me to it is the abiltiy to do the online lessons and basically "outsource" that subject for both my younger boys. He may be. Although I haven't noticed any glaring moments with me. He really struggles with changes to rules. So if he is learning to read or spelling a word that "breaks" the initial "rule" he learn he basically gets mad and says "that's stupid" or "it breaks the rule so it can't be right". Which is why I'm liking how WRW and LoE teach alll the possible "sounds" a phonogram can make from the beginning. I myself struggle with Dyslexia and learning to read when I was younger was hard. Even as an adult I can switch words around in my verbal sentences like telling my husband "we are going to Christmas for Aunt Sam's". After my last surgery that involved being "put under" I relapsed into spelling some basic words backwards and some of my letters.
  8. It has been a long while since I've asked for some guidance with my middle son. He is currently supposed to be in "3rd grade". Aftering attending our local christian school for Kindergarten he was brought home along with his older brother and we started to homeschool. During his "1st grade" yr at home we had several struggles and after reaching out on this forum I took him to a Developmental Optomitrist in our area. He did have convergense and eye teaming issues. We set aside alot of his phonics/reading work during that time and focused on doing the therapy sessions with our eye dr. Last yr during his 2nd grade yr we finished up AAR 1 and Spelling w/o A along with SM Standards 1a/1b. This yr he has started and gone through 1/3 of AAR 2 which has seemed tedious to us. He has finished up SM 2a. However, slightly into Spelling w/o B I have noticed he is really struggling with spelling and having meltdowns over it. He also does VP SP Bible and History but does need help reading the questions. He is smart and can usually guess most words correctly if he knows context but if you pulled the words out and put them on a flash card he still struggles. I am trying to figure out what to do with him on phonics/reading/spelling. He also wants to be "caught up" enought to be in 4th grade in the fall. I have been looking at having him do the LoE Essentials courses online. What other "holes" do we need to fill in order for him to track into 4th grade?
  9. Happy Tuesday all! I've tried a few searches and scanning through the social boards list and haven't found anything so I thought I would ask here. I'm looking for fellow homeschooling parents that are also living with chronis illnesses to possibly chat, commiserate and uplift along our journeys. I myself am an Adult living with Congential Heart Defects as well as an Autoimmune Disease. I may be facing another Open Heart Surgery down the road not to mention the daily ups and downs of energy issues, significant body pains and brain fog. I have three boys ages 11 yrs (6th Grade), 8 yrs (3rd Grade) and 6 yrs (Kindergartern). If there isn't a current group or board woud anyone be interested in starting one? 🙂
  10. He has always grasped Math well. He has also done some playing around with Beast Academy Online but we kept SM as our official curriculum. We haven't been doing the extra Word Problem book this last year. But I can add that back in.
  11. Hi all! My oldest is starting into 6th grade this year. I am trying to plan out not so much this year but how that will transfer down the road to where we want to end up in high school. Currently he is working in SM Standards Edition 5A. We may be a little behind due to our tranisition from a private school in 4th grade to a short 6 wks in the "public school online" world to me pulling him back into purely "homeschooled". 🙂 I have been working towards finishing 6A with him by the end of sixth grade. I know I would like to transition him to AOPS Pre-Algebra down the road. What I haven't figured out is if there is something I need to do with him between finishing SM 6B and starting AOPS Pre-Algebra. I also plan to have him take that through WTMA online. Has anyone on here done this transition before? Any thing I should be including? If not can I have him do 5A/5B for 6th grade, 6A/6B for 7th and then Pre-Algebra for 8th or is that putting him behind? Thanks!
  12. So if I have curriculum questions to ask on the WTMF Board when do I submit those onto the "Middle School" board?
  13. I feel embarrassed to be asking this, however I don't know what 6th grade is "classified" as. Our local school has the 6th grade in with 7th & 8th "Junior High" building but several of the curriculums I use has 6th grade as Elementary. It doesn't really affect my choices for my son. I'm just a confused & curious second generation homeschooling Mom. 😁
  14. I'm planning to start with these at home tests from here and see what I can notice and go from there. https://www.retainedneonatalreflexes.com.au/test-at-hom/
  15. We have started using a finger guard at night. We did it for about a week and thought he was good. However, once I realized he was doing it again deep in the night a week or so back we have pulled it back out and will do it for a solid 2 months of nights again to see if that will help. Plus testing/treating for any retained reflexes.
  16. Actually no that is my oldest son doing ortho intervention right now. But the finger sucker is destined to be at the ortho's next year. He just wants us to wait until he's at least 8 yrs old before he will eval us.
  17. Some things I will add about this DS#2...he still sucks his pointer finger most nights. It's actually deep into the night not while he is falling asleep and goodness the suction is SO hard to break. He also started having "Night Terrors" very early in life. The first one was the day he turned 5 WEEKS old. It took me a minute or two to realize what was happening but I'd seen it before in my friend's daughter. She was older 2 yrs old but since I'd witnessed more than one of hers it helped clue me in on what is going on. Of course I talked right away with the Dr he was seeing and the subsitquent 2 different Dr's my son has seen over the years for a Pedi/Primary care. So far no one has been too concerned by them. I learned early that nap interruptions in the day, transition periods (i.e from 3 naps a day to 2) and being hot at night seem to trigger them. He still has them now and they are more intense but less frequent that when he was younger.
  18. We settled a few things this weekend about our travels for this calendar year and how we will approach the VT & Ortho issues. I spoke with the Ortho this morning and he is not due back until a few weeks after we return in Aug and we will be staying close to home base until his palate expander is out in early Nov. There shouldn't be any problems while we are on the road but if one arises we will find a local Ortho or Dentist to assist. I'll steer clear of Brain Balance. It was just something that popped up in m Google search and my brain connected it with a client's daughter worked at the Tulsa one. I'll have to bring up the ENT stuff with our Pedi on Thursday and see if she would recommend seeing one. He is still struggling with the **wonderful** Oklahoma allergy symptoms. On 6/16/2019 at 11:42 AM, PeterPan said: I am pretty sure the Audiologist ran a test that used "background noise" during his testing last summer. She was extremely nice and explained each of the test and what she was looking for. I'll check the records to make sure. I can also ask the O.D. on Wednesday what caused her to recommend the APD eval. She knows he had a ear check with an Audiologist last summer so it could be just from that. As far as what I've decided to do for now is this. I talked with the VT office this morning. We are going to do 4 therapy sessions (2 this week and 2 next) before we head out on a nice long trip. Husband needs to be back in Aug for a work conference and we are going to stay around for a for months to finish up any VT needs, get the bottom 4 brackets on at the Ortho, my Echo and yearly Cardi check and decide if we want to keep or rent out our current "home base". This well give us time to see how we like work/schooling on the road. This also gives me 4 sessions to feel for how we like this VT offices and the homework to do on the road. I plan to test all 3 boys for Retained Reflexes of the next couple of days. The VT Office is just going to bill me for the first 4 sessions, the light therapy rental and the backpack of at home therapy items. This will allow me to submit the therapy bill to my Insurance to see if they'll cover it or not. Since we are not doing school this summer with middle son I think we can handle any retained reflex exercises and the VT homework. Of course, I may need to tweak that as we go. 🙂
  19. Oh I wish!! Our smaller town house only has a very shallow 1970's tub. I miss my big deep jetted tub.
  20. I think I got you confused on my boys. DS#1 has the SPD & ADHD diagnoses from a Developmental Pediatrician from two years ago and did some OT therapy for a season. We haven't done anything specific with him sense 2nd grade (he is finishing up 4th grade now). Interestingly he is my "mouther" that likes to chew or mouth on things and it still hasn't gone completely away. My DS#2 is the one I've been asking about recently who had the VT eval this past week. He has never had an OT eval or any diagnosis done. Only thing I've had checked prior to the VT eval was his hearing and of course his eyes by a Pediatric Ophthalmologist. DS#3 is an easy go lucky just turned 5 yr old that I haven't even begun to work "school work" with.
  21. My oldest son has SPD issues and ADHD. He "army crawled" but never did the normal crawl. With DS#2 I really don't remember. It's sad. I remember he climbed alot before walking. My own brain is feeling overwhelmed trying to read and understand all of this so I must have missed or forgot that link. I appreciate you giving it again because I'd much rather attack any problems in the most thorough AND economical way. We don't mind finding the funds if it is the best option but only then, KWIM?
  22. At the time we assumed allergy fluid build up and we did a round or two of Flonaise & Clariten. He is back to sniffling alot and some chest congestion at night so I've started him back on those today. He did have SEVERAL ear infections during his first 2 + yrs. Our Dr at the time was about to send him over to the ENT to see if needed tubes but then he didn't get another one for about a year. Around that time thought was when he went from being a wonderful, easy baby to a very hard to deal with emotional child. During this same time was when I had baby boy #3. Actually 6 days after Elijah turned 2 yrs Jeremiah was born. I had all 3 via Cesarean after being in active labor. He has been a struggle since. As I am trying to read about the Retained Reflexes I see that those Brain Balance places can test for those. We do have one here in Tulsa and I have an acquaintance that works there. Would that be a decent place to look? I am hoping our pediatrician can help me with that.
  23. Would the APD have been done when he had his testing last summer with the Audiologist? I can call the office Monday and ask but the only thing that presented during that testing was the pressure on his ear drum. Here is a link from COVD for the Dr. we saw last week. http://locate.covd.org/Search/Detailed?profileId=09C26AFC-9ED8-48EA-BFF8-D501DF644D84&markerId=2&lat=36.0331952&lng=-95.9053433&address=8988-D1 S. Sheridan Tulsa%2C OK 74133&ZipCodeOrAddress=4812 South 70th East Avenue%2C Tulsa%2C OK%2C USA&SearchRadius=15&x=84&y=22
  24. After reading this yesterday I realized the boys are due for well visits (both younger boys are April babies) and went ahead and scheduled to have Middle DS have his next week with our Pediatrician so I can go over all of this and see if she thinks/can refer for an OT eval. As for the O.D, FCOVD we saw this week she outlines in the paperwork she provided us Short Term & Long Term Objections, Specific Techinques & Activites and also "Education Recommendations". The sentence prior to her "short term objectives" for Elijah it states "These are the specific objectives that I will use to monitor progress at each progress evaluation". Short term objectives listed are: Improve accommodation in each eye Reduce lag of accommodation to +0.50 Diopters Eliminate esophoria/exophoria Expand convergence and divergence fusion ranges Improve saccadic skill Long term objectives (after completing the Vision Therapy program) listed are: Ability to maintain clear, comfortable vision during reading and schoolwork Ability to maintain visual focus for extended periods of time Improvement of visually guided fine motor activities, such as writing Specific Techniques & activities to achieve the above objectives will include: Monocular (one eye at a time) activities designed to equalize the focusing and movement of each eye Binocular (both eyes together) work to improve efficiency while focusing and moving, using the two eyes together as a team Activities that integrate specific visual skills, such as focusing and eye movements, with real-world activities such as reading, writing, and observing moving objects at different distances. A combination of free-space activities, pencil/paper activities, activities using lenses of different powers and computer-based activities. Under the Education Recommendations I see she put that "A Visual Information Processing Evaluation was performed to determine how Elijah makes sense of visual information" and that "An Auditory Processing Evaluation is recommended". There is a good chance our Insurance will cover if its coded as a medical need. Our annual household portion is almost met as of yesterday and will definitely be met as I'm due for an echo this year myself and my yearly cardiology appt will apply. However I won't know for sure that it's covered until AFTER I submit the bill. I also have my oldest son going through an Orthodontic "program" right now to help expand his over crowd mouth for this adult teeth. He has a Rapid Palate Expander in THIS Monday is getting braces on the top 4 teeth. At some point he will get braces placed on the bottom 4 teeth and I have no idea how often I'll need to have him back to Tulsa for these appointments. As much as we are all ready to hit the road I am wondering if we need to keep our traveling this year to a minimum and get these items dealt with. I could definitely weave in some shorter trips and make the therapy happen all at once so we are more free to travel. Of course hubby is asking if he'll "just grow out of this". And thinks it's sketchy that the person doing the evaul is "selling" us the therapy. (Okay I'll give him that it does feel a tad off).
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