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  1. That was my original thought - just something that is a "stop and think" type of barrier for awhile, rather than a permanent one. I like the painters tape on the floor thing - it isn't permanent and should delineate it for a bit. We don't have a lot of people over, and the one person I have problems with I have stepped up my firmness. It didn't go over well - i'm pretty sure she has NEVER been told no in the way I did. But stop touching my stuff. Period. In her case there is nothing off limits at her house(s), and therefore the thought of it here is strange to her. Good luck working it out - it isn't an easy task with some people.
  2. Hey, at least she was honest about the breaks! Lol! Maybe give her a total break time? Or a set time she can break ?
  3. That is what I was thinking - the younger one is getting her feelings taken into consideration, but not the older. I would casually mention to the friend that your DD was saddened to realize she wasn't going to get that "special 'tween' time" with her friend, and you were wondering if she had any suggestions on how you could help them carve a couple of hours out.
  4. Oh wait - then you need those pullout barrier things they use at Disney and banks, Sams, Home Depot.... Like this! http://amzn.com/B007WSN54G The curtains making it like a stage wouldn't work - it would be worse!!!
  5. See, my eyes glazed over reading your post.... just like every other time I try to read about them!!! :p (I own it as a personal problem!) My middle child struggles greatly with time management - so it all revolves around attempting to get her to understand and deal with what HAS to be done. I've outlined expectations so far that align with her sisters time requirements for school each week with the virtual school. I expect the same from each of them. I read someones post/blog that did a set time for subjects, and anything left became "homework" cutting into their free time. That is my goal - to visually show that there is plenty of time allotted for the subjects AND play time, but they are in control.... I think it will work well once we get everything in place (and I don't be leaving the thing on the wall... I want a big vintage looking world map there!). I think. OK. I hope.
  6. Well, i'm going "extreme" in the time slot scheduling area.... I made a huge "agenda" to hang on the wall as I'm planning. They all need to SEE it, and hopefully that will let them also see there is plenty of free-time for them if they just do the work i've asked of them. So in this case you could make something that had a 20 minute sized block for typing and such, and then like a puzzle she could fit them in to the time she has to work with... (i'm thinking this thru for myself too!). Then if she has a timer she can use it to know when it is time to move on. If you are ok with her working on math all out for 15 minutes, then taking a break, do 2-3 math blocks that way. I"m trying to upload a picture - ugh, ok, wait, it works in Firefox . So there are columns for each day on there - with Saturday and Sunday smaller for us. I'm planning for 2 basically, so they are wide enough for things to be side by side on there. I'll fill in more over the coming week... but I think I like my idea of doing the blocks on a colored piece of paper so they can move them around. My blocks, my "must do list", but their placement. Hmmm...... ETA: I just stuck them up there with a piece of painters tape and printed them so the overlaps worked without cutting. I made them up in XL! (oh, I did use legal paper - because I have like 10 reams of it!)
  7. Rather than try to loop it, can you try a week or two where you just have her work for so long at a subject then move on? Then give her a time slot to do what she didn't get done?
  8. Maybe something like the curtain wire system from Ikea would work and not be in the way too much. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60075295/
  9. Boundaries.... I watch someone that feels like she can now go anywhere in our house, and touchy-feely everything. The last trip he was here my boyfriend left some of his coins on a table. My kids won't touch them, they know better... all of a sudden i realized she was back there. ACK. Then she got into the "mommy bin" out here. :banghead: I'd be firm with the parents and try to get some sort of barrier to put up. There are long gates, or maybe even some type of pet fence panel thing. Which would be a pain. What about if there was eye hooks on the wall and you made some sort of curtain you could hook and hang when someone came by? Use some type of cording by the foot (with a 40% off coupon of course!)? Ugh. I feel your pain - and I don't even have people over!
  10. At the risk of jinxing myself yet again.... there is a chance I will be ALONE in my house for a couple of days this weekend. I was at first irked, but then I realized, I WOULD BE ALONE and might actually accomplish something!!! Either way, I'm out of time and have to accomplish something! :p The kids ever so wish we had plans today... well, better ones than what I outlined will get done! :D
  11. I have these in my RR wishlist... But kinda expensive! Totally cheaper to print my own and bind! https://www.rainbowresource.com/wldetail.php?&id=019930 The wallmart I was at tonight didn't have the cute 1/2 ones I bought either. Humph. Mine is probably out too....
  12. Yahooooo!!!!! My youngest is on target to do Connections Academy and her box of books is scheduled to arrive Thursday! I'll get to move forward with a new type of planning and sorting and hopefully everything will just FINALLY come together.
  13. I just saw these at our Dollar Tree. They were not with the regular school supplies, but in a box sitting on the bottom shelf near the teacher wall decor stuff. They were black marbled - but definitely the cheapest I've ever seen them at $1! I don't know what the line spacing was, but they had dashed middle lines, with red for the baseline. Oh wait, it said K-2 if that helps with the size.
  14. My youngest is enrolled with Florida Virtual Full Time - with Connections Academy (Public school at home). Florida has deemed that K-3 grade kids need to work 20 hours a week to meet the attendance requirement, and 4-12 is 25 hours (they do a weekly average instead of requiring each day to be the 5 hours, some states require it to be each day with no flex). Here is the quote from the handbook.... ETA: So, basically, not even the State of FL expects PS at home to take the same time as PS in the classroom! :p
  15. Thanks!!!! Now I have a reason to stay plopped in my seat right???? :D
  16. I'm up! I'm actually a morning person, that has gotten bad this summer about sleeping later. It has made me grumpy. I woke up on my own at 5:50, the alarm was set for 6:30 for my BF to get up (a total night owl. total.). I decided to just get up with him instead of laying there reading and going back to sleep. It is nice having time I know I don't have to DO anything. So, I will ease back into the practice this week and hopefully make some progress. My kids are completely mucked up on their schedules.... they will take a couple of weeks to get back into "normal". My youngest has been having insomnia and we have all been paying for it! But right now, there are 2 night-owls in the house at times, and they do their best to try to suck the rest of us over to their side! :p
  17. I would vote for the gifted school over a pull-out program. Then the 1 day program over an hour a week as posted above. The IEP process is not always easy to deal with, and your school might not have actually tested him at the start of the year - they have time frames for doing so, and have to do other stuff first (although the gifted end of the spectrum probably gets dealt with first). Our district also doesn't do "gifted" until 3rd grade. My daughter is starting Connections Academy (FLVS FT) - their 3rd grade gifted Math is to do 3rd and 4th grade math in a year, and the gifted LA is to do a lit study in addition to the normal level stuff. The test scores should just require your ex signing to have them sent over to the school - hopefully that isn't an issue for him and the end goal is - doing what is best for your child. I'd suggest reading up on various ESE laws in your state, and see if you can find out how things roll. Good luck!
  18. He is working at the 5th grade level in any areas? I tend to NOT think of grade levels with DD because they don't fit. She is at about 3rd grade in math, 5th in reading, 3-4th in grammar/writing. If she was in PS they would have sent her on to 7th grade this year. The other aspect is, because of that, she is eligible to go to school until she is 21. So, I have more years to accomplish the same goals. Which in her case is to get her as far as we can, and as functional as possible in order to hopefully have her be self-sufficient. Hopefully you find something that will click - but I encourage you to not get discouraged about him getting further behind. He is for sure on his own pace, and well, that is always an adventure itself! You will be surprised when things will click and you will jump ahead and remain frustrated when things don't go as expected (like the last round of testing for us). :grouphug: Have a hug, and some virtual chocolate!
  19. Does he have known processing issues? My daughter is the same way - she just cannot process the parts to come up with the big picture. That is something they work on in Language therapy weekly, but even with the work there is no certainly how much she will be able to "learn". She might be at her peak now, or we might have a bit more to go. For the last year her testing scores (with the SLP) have stayed flat or with some drops. You think she is getting more than she apparently is.... I always joke that if she hurts her finger today, it will take her until next week to process the pain and tell me about it ;) Love the kid dearly, but man is it frustrating at times! :D
  20. Well... I shouldn't post about great plans because the kids will be gone. It was a "dad picks them up at 6:30pm and drops them off at 10am" weekend. Now the rest of the weekend is mucked on various fronts. Time to re-group.
  21. The 36 week one? http://donnayoung.org/forms/planners/hischl.htm
  22. That would have made more sense - but the school bought them the 3" ones! It is nuts, I'll have to ask a friend what they are doing this year. They also didn't get their "supplies" until a few weeks into the year. Practical.... just like the 3" binders. I have no clue what I will do with this thing..... :p
  23. I plopped my daughter into Winning with Writing Level 3 (because the expectation there is a paragraph, not multiple like in level 4). We didn't get much done this summer, but will keep plugging away at it. I do the lessons with her, and so it is a bit more than it could me. Because some of it is simple for her - I always take it to her level. Does that make sense? For her, her working memory and processing causes her issues - we do not know how far we will get with her. Her SLP just keeps repeating topics! LOL!!! She doesn't mind doing it, which is a big plus! You might poke around on the Special Needs forum for other ideas too. Good luck - I feel your pain!
  24. Mandy it looks great!!!! And my coat closet has coats in it... i think. Maybe just camping gear. Either way, it is like 20 feet away from the front or back door. Really people???? It had to have been a total after thought! I might be imploding with a mommy-meltdown soon - but the kids should be gone most of the weekend, and I think I can attack things again. I have to go to Orlando on Monday for a Doctors appointment, so I am going to buy the bracket to hang the Besta I bought. I wish I could buy the second one, but that can't happen this week :(
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