just creating :)

yes that makes sense :) Luckily the few families are dear friends that are really laid back so I doubt they would really care if I did a DVD

has anybody used See the Light Art Class... or Creating a Masterpiece? I'm worried the DVD aspect will loose some of the youngers I love the look of stuff on Deep Space Sparkle... but am at a loss on how to organize it... I need 30 lessons!

ah ok... I'll look into it a bit more!

looking it up now... how does it work for a class with varying grades????

so I'm going to be teaching the k-3rd art class at our (small) homeschool coop. I'm totally up to do it... but I honestly don't know much about art. We used artistic pursuits at home last year, I liked it ok, but I'm not thinking it's a good fit for the coop I really want something to follow rather than trying to pull a bunch of projects together as I'm not super confident in art. It also needs to be more in the dry medium realm since we will not have a sink in the room... I'm thinking pencils, pens and maybe watercolors. I'd love to cover basic art elements using various projects. I have about an hour every week. Oh my my DD (3rd grade) will be in the class and has some talent for art... so I'd love to provide something for her to be challenged with, along with keeping the couple Kindy kids engaged. Anyone have any curriculum recommendations??? :confused1:

Thank you for all the suggestions! I am going to try to use colored paper next she says she only sees the light when she is focusing on something... she draws a ton and she says she doesn't see any light when drawing on white paper with a pencil... what this means I have no idea :/

we saw our regular optometrist... so she'd need to see another eye doc then? I will look into it... the thought of paying for another exam... ughhhhhhhhhh :crying: I am slightly remember Susan Barton saying something about photocopying the student sheets onto blue paper in the training video... I will search for that tonight too. I kinda glossed over it because my DD has never complained about it until this week

My 8 year old (struggling reader, dyslexic, currently working on level 2 of barton) says there is a 'glow' around letters or words when she goes to read them. She has had her eyes examined (and I did tell the dr the reason we were having her eyes checked was because she was struggling learning to read) she says she sees a "ring of light" most of the time when she is reading from paper, or from a book... but only sometimes she sees it on the letter tiles Has anyone had experience with this type of thing?

I think what I'm going to do is this... finish AAR pre-1 and then give Barton level 1 (first few lessons) a try with him.... it'll be a good way to solidify the phonemic awareness and test out barton with him. So I'll keep level 1 for now... but looking at the cost of all the levels has me nervous... so selling may be a must, worst case is I'd sell and re-buy then sell it again.... still cheaper than the private tutoring option of $700 a month

ok thanks!!!! We had an eval done at a tutoring center... which she had dyslexic tendencies/markers... but they can't give a full diagnosis and right NOW the full diagnosis is not something we are going to pursue. Maybe in the future thought.

my gut is saying he doesn't need it... he is just barely 5, knows all the letters and is learning the sounds now... my DD when she was this age was working on the same program just could NOT keep the letters straight and could not remember the sounds. He may end up struggling but I'm not seeing any signs right now. but then if I'm keeping barton... and we already have AAR... I need to decide hahaha I think I will finish AARpre1 as he really wants to complete it... I guess I can just decide from there what does NT mean? My DD (the one we suspect dyslexia) did level 1 in a few weeks, I have a suspicion she will progress through 2 fairly quick... my guess is level 3 will be our hang up.

ok ok... I will hold on to it... for a bit at least :) so should I just do barton with my 5 year old? or wait till (if) he seems like he needs more help. We are currently in AAR pre-1, he seems to be doing well with it.

With the wonderful encouragement I got on this board a few weeks ago, I bought Barton level 1 and we just completed it today :hurray: my daughter breezed through it (which I kinda expected since we had been using AAR for a few years and they are similar) and I learned a TON... teaching training while boring was very eye opening and I'm SO glad I went for it... hoping this will be what DD needs to make reading "click" anyhow my question... do I sell level 1 now? I already have level 2 and I'd love to (need to) re-coup the money spent... but should I be so quick to ship it off? I have 2 younger sons, should I use barton with them? And WHERE would I sell it?

ok... will hold off...I should probably just click the buy button at Barton :001_unsure: