Thanks everyone

DS1 is 5.5 and while we are offically starting kindy int eh fall, he is doing a lot of kindy level work know. I am unsure about "moving forward" -- there is a lot he can do pretty well but it seems if we try anything new -- he totally flubs .. so he is etierh really good at it, or can't do it at all. So does that mean he needs more pratice at step he is really good at?? or does that mean i am missing a step? Example: he likes the work sheets where you have a picture and cicrle the starting sound -- for example and is great at them -- he asks for them and we do them once a day because we need to do fine motor pencil and paper work daily for OT. but if i pull out a sheet of the same thing, but circle the end sound or the middle vowle of a CVC word -- he is totally stumped. it seems like this in all areas, either he is good for not able to do something at all. i guess i am just wondering how you determin when to move on -- how can you tell a child really 'has it'

thanks that is a great link, it makes sense

thanks so much!!!!!

i don't guess there is a link to grade school levels on your blog??

"loop" ??

Science / Nature outting a veek is a great idea -- Daddy loves hiking so actually good chance they'd get min of 2 (weather allong) but you are right i need to make it more of a routine thing. I am ready to drop things, pushing in Kindy is not want we want

thanks everyone -- I see reading / phonics and math (and Bible) daily -- Science and art each once a week. Music is a one day a week plan -- weekend with daddy. I am working on the daily grind now -- but it is hard -- Little is going to be in pre-school 2x a week (3 hours) for his ST / OT and services -- so Big and I will have that time to really dedicate to school. Science, one expereiment a week with Little there too -- choas i am sure -- Music one day a week, daddy running that, Little there for that too the crital thinking stuff might drop -- but he is used to doing 15 to 20 minutes a day of 'paper work" (mazes, dot to dot -- mostly for fine motor pratice, the topics are generally repeative for him --- ABC dot to dot for example). I see the CT work books fitting in there. Thanks for all the imput, i am so so so still sorting this all out. :D

THANKS I appercipate you takeing the time and makeing an extra effort for me

true -- but i read a good bit about it and it seems many people, college professiors and so on -- really doubt the author of the book i brought up in my first post. I'll see if the libary has it and give it a chance -- :) -- but the buddy reading it is all about PC and being PC to the determent, imo, og the Founding Fathers simply due to them being white -- not a fight i want to start -- the book just looks 'over the top PC" to me -- has anyone here read it and can give me feed back -- i am jsut a bit tired of the anti-white, anti-Christian feel that some current education is taking -- you know. Again anyone read it and vant to give me some thoughts on it. i admit i am new to all this. forgive me my blunders

thanks everyone oh and another reason for ASL -- it allows us to do more language with out being effected by the verbal challanges, delays and so on the boys have. it streches their useable voc, givens them alnerative and i feel streches they mind -- there is no way, given their lack of articualtion in English, for us to do Spainish, start latin or anything -- so it is a nice thing to have for them.

i am hopeing moms that have competed (or mostly) Kindy will be willing to share for me your routine / agenda for the day and week. I am pretty sure i have my material chosen -- http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=267669 now my thoughts turn to fitting it all into a routne. I have some rough ideas, but wanted to hear from BTDT and lived mommas about the good and the bad, so i do not reinvent a bad wheel THANKS :D:lurk5:

I could have posted this. DH read gov taxx code and criminal code all day. he CAN read but is slov and doesn't enjoy it. i have an additction and a passon. 5 yo kinda likes the idea of learning, loooves to hear stories -- but i am concerend for the fusture -- 7 or 10 or 13 and not seeing the Man of the House reading and then taking idea reading for fun is a 'girl thing'

THAT is kinda what I was thinging, nothing too indeppth i know people spend their lives looking at the topice, but it someine i feel it is necessary for me to maky myself aware of and to point out to my kids. I, personally, feeel we must also be careful not to judge people in the pasy by today's standards -- and this is true of Lit or History. JMO. anyone have any begginer historiography suggestions? Sounds like the avenuse i am looking for -- thanks for giving me a NAME for it. :thumbup: and Bill -- LOL I disagree -- but that is not the topic of this thread. civil war as purely a simple fight of slavery is a simplification at best and joke at worst. :D

thanks, I am not looking specfically at the Civil war, lol, that was an example i happen to have studied a lot living in the South :D But I jsut mean all hostory is biased by the vritter -- consider Pharoh's account vs Moses' -- it is inherent that history carry bias -- the cw is one that Dh adn I were taugh very differntly so it is easy to 'see' the conflict in educationsystem easily for us. How do you approach use of primary sources with the younger kids. For example I remember reading the federlist papers in high school and being challanged -- and I was in AP English and AP History. I don't see using that with gradeschool kids?

I have a freind reading Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History (Multicultural Education Series) and I have NO intrest in a re-vritting of History to make it more PC :glare: THAT bugs me -- BUT I do feel that a lot of standardly taugh hisstory is overly biased (everything, is, to some extent, biased) -- my hubby said last night "YES the Civil wr was fought purely over slavery" -- ohhh what a great mis-education HE had -- white Americas have done bad things -- and non-whites have done good things that have been neglected -- but ...how do you find a balance -- or have you read any good books in this vein?

care to share?

our OT homework is, so far, much bigger body stuff -- spinning and stopping, wheelbarrow walk, and so on -- she knows we are homeschooling and works with me. ASL is because we've done so much due communication disordered -- considering it for a 2nd language (functional) also it is a memeory tool. it is easier for kids to conmit to memory songs with actions, so they learn language beter with 'actuion' too -- so as part of our memory work -- Bible Versers we learn the signs but like actions to a song at VBS. Thanks for the feed back

that is me. DH is happy to be P -- but i am feeling a deeper need to me more -- the kids are too young, they'll grew where we plant them.

:lurk5: I need to come back and read -- :D

ok I think I finally have our kidy choices picked out. No daily or weekly sch set yet -- http://scribinglife.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/our-chosenkindergarten-curriculum-final/ I'd LOVE it :001_wub::001_wub: if people could read it and give me some feed back. BTDT mommas i need you -- too much, good choices? I've been at this a long time -- and i am excite but nervous too -- please? :bigear:

our family is in that shift, to a lessor degree, now. I am shifting more and more conservative (much more). currently we are searching for a church that can cope with our family (boys and SN issues); so DH and I take turns going to service and staying home with the boys -- Not sure -- it is not going to teach up our marraige, that would be very counter productive if you think about it for now I think, i read, i pray and i share with DH -- and I am trusting God to put the entire family where He wants us. I agree teh shift in question makes a big big differnce

:D gotta love a mean momma :D

I am on medication, butttttt I have been since college (not vhile preggo or the first 2 years of nurseing). so that cannot be blamed on my little guy. i power clean after bedtime -- i find keeping the house in order helps me (and him) tons. It really helps me to spend 45 mi9nutes getting the house in shape at night. I really do not have the option to have any time with out the kids. I get 45 minutes 3x a week -- to me a TON -- alone in waiting rooms when both boys have ST / OT ... and i love that time. I am behind on personal doc appt (dentist OB) because i don't get time without one of them. when my mom visits every 6 weeks i try to schdule stuff -- she does GREART with the 2 of them. I also read MY books on the sofa as they view movies and so on -- no gulit about screen time here -- or let them watch a show in the morning so i can get breakfast done and the morning started. and i totally agree on early bedtime -- mine go to bed NO LATER than 7:15 and normally at 6:30 -- I love it -- by 9 or 10 if i am lucky my night time parenting starts for night terrors, anxiety issues, and normal 3 yo needing to nurse and normal 5 yo waking up stuff -- we do NOT do evening actitivies -- i am very fustrated about the fact so so so many things are at 6 or 7 pm -- be it a church group or _____ I HATE it -- but the boys (both my classicall SN and not 'almost nuro typical") NEED to get to bed early and get in 11 hours or more of sleep.

:D:D that is so cool