He is using yellow overlays for reading. He also finds using colored paper easier then white. I bought his teachers yellow paper to print all his worksheets/tests/handouts on. I try to get books on my kindle so he can listen and read at the same time but buying all those books adds up. I am excited and nervous about homeschooling my kids in the fall. I will have a first grader that will still be learning to read as well as a seventh grader who will need more of my attention then most kids his age. I also have my dd who will be in fourth. I'm worried she will end up getting the short end of the stick. I keep telling myself that I will figure it all out. Thank you everyone for your help :)

Hi everyone! I posted this on the curriculum board but I think I may get more responses here. I am trying to start planning to home-school my 3 dc in the fall. I need advice on my oldest ds that will be going into 7th grade. He has dysgraphia and convergence insufficiency. He has multiple accommodations at school. Most of the teachers have been great about them. All but his English teacher. The one subject he struggles the most in. He needs a lot of help to get him where he needs to be. It has just come to my attention that he doesn't understand all of the parts of speech. I'm not sure how he has managed to hide that this long but he has. The child can't even begin to diagram a sentence. Obviously that will have to be worked on. He also struggles with writing because of the dysgraphia. The visual issues make reading hard so he is getting it from both sides. He also has problems with capitalization and punctuation. I'm not sure if that goes with the dysgraphia or not. He can tell you all of the rules for both but when he writes he doesn't use either. It doesn't matter if he is writing by hand or typing. He doesn't even capitalize his own name. I will ask him to edit his work and will even ask him if he sees something wrong with his name and he honestly doesn't see it. He is very self-conscious about it and is constantly getting down on himself over all of these problems. I think I can help him with some one on one attention. I just don't know where to start. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you. ETA: He has not had VT. The closest provider (the one who diagnosed him) is two hours away. Between the gas and cost of the VT we just can't afford it. I really wish we could because I believe it would help him

No the closest provider(The one who diagnosed him) is two hours away. Between the gas and cost of the VT we just can't afford it. I truly wish we could because I believe it would help him :(

No the closest provider(The one who diagnosed him) is two hours away. Between the gas and cost of the VT we just can't afford it. I truly wish we could because I believe it would help him :(

Hi everyone! I am trying to start planning to home-school my 3 dc in the fall. I need advice on my oldest ds that will be going into 7th grade. He has dysgraphia and convergence insufficiency. He has multiple accommodations at school. Most of the teachers have been great about them. All but his English teacher. The one subject he struggles the most in. He needs a lot of help to get him where he needs to be. It has just come to my attention that he doesn't understand all of the parts of speech. I'm not sure how he has managed to hide that this long but he has. The child can't even begin to diagram a sentence. Obviously that will have to be worked on. He also struggles with writing because of the dysgraphia. The visual issues make reading hard so he is getting it from both sides. He also has problems with capitalization and punctuation. I'm not sure if that goes with the dysgraphia or not. He can tell you all of the rules for both but when he writes he doesn't use either. It doesn't matter if he is writing by hand or typing. He doesn't even capitalize his own name. I will ask him to edit his work and will even ask him if he sees something wrong with his name and he honestly doesn't see it. He is very self-conscious about it and is constantly getting down on himself over all of these problems. I think I can help him with some one on one attention. I just don't know where to start. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you.

I live in southeast Virginia on 200 acres. We have a few bald eagles here. Not to long ago I saw one Fly off with an opossum that was roadkill. They are the same size as a cat.

I am having this problem as well. I'm following for brand suggestions. I have used a permanent marker to make a mark on the toe to separate socks between kids.

I am having this problem as well. I'm following for brand suggestions. I have used a permanent marker to make a mark on the toe to separate socks between kids.

Mine was approved 5 days after being accepted. Received my refund two days after that.

My kids and I did 23andme. It is amazing! We each have close to 1k cousin matches. It is only $99 and does health as well as ancestry. Warning it may bring surprises. We have some genetic skeletons in our closet. Health and ancestors wise. My husbands Mother's family loves to talk about their American Indian heritage. I had seen pictures of these people and felt they looked more like African American. Sure enough my kids have no trace of Indian. They do have African. My daughter has the most at 5%. DH and kids are all blonde hair blue eyed. We thought it was pretty awesome to find out but not all of DH's family felt the same way :(

Well it isn't possible. But it IS possible your Dads blood type wasn't O+. I was tested as a child by the doctor and as a teen by the Red Cross. Both times I was told I was O+. When I got pregnant with my first child they tested me and said I was A+. All 3 pregnancies I've been A+. I had my genotype done (really cool dna thing with a private company) I have an A/O genotype. I have one gene for A and one for O. Could be as simple as your Dads test was wrong.

Just bought our boys bunk beds from BJ's and they came with slats. I would think they all would. What good is a bed that can't hold a mattress?

I have bought an "everyday" ring but still wear my original wedding ring on occasion. My wedding ring was my Great-Grandmothers. She died in 1928 when my grandmother was 5. It was stuck in a drawer for 75 years. When I was getting married my great-aunt asked me to try it on and I was the first girl that had hands small enough to fit it. It is a very wide 23k gold band. Inside are my Great-Grandparents initials. Obviously it is very special and irreplaceable. I wore it for about a year till I started worrying it would get messed up. I bought a new one almost exactly like it to wear everyday. I hope one day my dd or dgd will be able to wear my ring :)

I think there may be some truth to this. I cloth diapered all 3 of my dc and they all trained pretty early with minimal encouragement. Ds#1 was 26 months, dd 22 months and ds#2 24 months. Day and night. I also had a front loader with the last two and never had a problem. I would run a short cold water wash with no detergent first then a heavy duty wash with extra rinse.

I just got the Kindle Fire that was on sale cyber Monday. Text to speech works on all the books I have so far. My kids love it. Especially my ds11 who has a visual processing disorder. The voice is female and while you can tell it's a computer it's one of the best ones I've heard.

I had a spinal fusion earlier this year.

:iagree: We aren't old enough yet but there is tournaments where its set up like a camp where the boys bunk together and the coaches chaperone. It actually sounds like fun and the places that do that are pretty strict and controlled from what I've heard.

My ds11 has played travel ball for 3 years now. We go far enough to need to stay in a hotel 3-4 times a year (he plays March-July & Sept-Nov) When they travel each family gets their own room. The boys don't normally stay in each others rooms just for the simple fact that they need to get a good nights sleep and that's not happening with a sleepover. They could play up to 4 games a day. They definitely need to be well rested for that. I seriously doubt that a coach is going to go to a big tourney that requires travel and quite a bit of $ and let the boys spend it partying. I wouldn't worry about your son being the only one. Although I would worry about the team if he was! The boys normally spend their free time together, meals, pool and maybe a movie in the hotel. We have a 9pm in your own room curfew on our team. It really is a fun experience for everyone (providing the parents get along....that's another story lol) I wouldn't worry about him being singled out. He should have a blast playing travel ball and should learn a lot on and off the field:001_smile:

I personally haven't used it but my kids used it up until now in Catholic School. Dd through second and ds through fifth grade. They both made good grades (A&B). They also did very well on the Tera Nova standardized test (88 percentile & 91 percentile in math). All that being said when I gave them the placement test for MM they completely bombed it. I mean like tears by the second page. Oldest ds wrote DO NOT KNOW!!!! on most of the test. I'm going back and doing the second half of second and fifth with them. I know some math programs are advanced but I don't think MM is. I think they just had gaps. Maybe if you took it to whole way it would fill everything in. I also heard that they recommend using calculators a lot and my kids denied using them first time I asked but then dd said they used them sometimes so they could do multiplication and division early:glare: The school better be glad I didn't find out about that while they were in school.

I'm going through the same thing. This is our first year homeschooling and I have one starting K and a new middle schooler. I also have one going in third. They were all excited to start homeschooling.....till today. My oldest ds was talking to his friends who are preparing to start middle school and he started getting jealous. He was pretty down today and it made me feel really bad. I know we are doing what's best. We are zoned for a absolutely terrible inner city middle school. It has it's own police department! We live in the country and we don't have enough kids out here so they bus them over an hour to the city. They were in a small Catholic school, but I got injured at work last year and we can't afford it this year. On top of all that I'm 99% sure he has an LD. Something along the lines of dysgraphia/dyslexia. He is in the middle of being tested now so we well hopefully know soon what we are dealing with. I know I can give him a lot more help at home then they would give him at school. Now to convince ds that this will be better. I'd love to come up with some special first day of school ideas. I love the backpack full of supplies as a present, but we have most of our supplies already. Do they really need backpacks? I'm clueless:lol:

Are you going during the week or weekend? If the weekend I would probably try to get there early but during the week I've never had a problem. I didn't get there till 11am yesterday and there was plenty of parking. There is also a fairly clean public restroom right by the beach. Important when you a staying re all day :)

I went yesterday and parked at the public parking garage on the corner of 30th&Atlantic. Its right in front of the 31st stage and the huge king Neptune statue. Its also the parking for the Hilton. Its $10. Have fun!

I'm in Suffolk :)

I'm out in backwoods Suffolk. AKA tick country. Nice.......

I had an anterior spinal fusion for a ruptured disc L5-S1 in Feb. They went in through my abdomen to access my spine. Then they removed the disc, and put a piece of doughnut shaped "space age plastic" in it's place as well as a bone growth stimulator. He then put a metal cage over the two vertebrae and secured it with 4 screws. I'm a nurse and injured myself rolling a patient over. I had severe back, hip and leg pain. I tried PT for over 9 months no help. When they did the surgery they found the two bones were sitting in each other, no disc between them and 3 nerves were compressed. He says I would have ended up with paralysis and/or incontinence eventually. I'm not going to lie the recovery was he**. I had severe pain inin my abdomen, my back and my left leg. I also had issues with not being able to feel the urge to urinate for two weeks. The leg and bathroom issues were from the nerves that had been pinched trying to heal. I have had seven surgeries including 2 c-sections and one completely natural birth. Those didn't even compare to this. I had to limit my sitting for 3 months although it is still uncomfortable to sit for more then 30 min. I also couldn't bend at the waist,or twist for 3 months. No lifting more then 10 lbs for 6 months. After all these restrictions I'm having major muscle weakness and pain so they are doing PT with me again to try to help with the pain. They also discovered from the MRI that I have a birth defect that caused me to be more susceptible to injury. The surgery corrected the defect. They now think my oldest ds has it as well . I'm still out of work and will probably never go back to doing what I was. It's all in Gods plan though because now I'm staying home to hs my dc. I know this all sounds terrible but I think it's pretty different then what you are fading done. Plus it's just one of those things that happened and I had to deal with. The alternative was worse. I hope you have an easier time of it. They say I won't be "fully recovered" till next Feb since it takes that long for the bones to grow together. Hopefully by then my story will be better. Good luck and I pray they can get you on the road to recovery :)