Bumping for more ideas.

Thanks! I showed her this, and she said she understands it as long as there are no zeroes in it... Still trying to come up with an exact plan while we wait for the evals (We are on a small break while we get some medical issues taken care of--not dd's issues.) Last week we played math games and it went ok. I think I'll order the Ronit Bird Dot book and do some Math Start (I think that's what they are called) books with her. I'm also looking at Arithmetic Village.

X-tra math? Kate Snow's books? Flashcards? Something else?

Thank you! I'll check into this.

She is reading at or a little above grade level. She just took off this year and now we are buddy-reading a Ramona book :) It's a little too hard for her but she LOVES it Writing has been a struggle because of her fine motor issues, but we are seeing lots of improvements with OT as far as pencil grip and hand fatigue. She does copywork daily. She spends lots of time drawing and writing her own little stories, and they are gradually becoming readable. She has really come a long way this year in many different areas :) I hate to see her struggle with math!

Thank you! I'll check into all of this!

A little background: Dd is 8 and a half. She has some fine motor delays, sensory processing issues, and motor planning difficulties. She receives therapy for all 3 weekly. We are exploring getting further evals done over the summer (possible ADHD or ASD--her Occupational Therapist says maybe mild forms of either. I hadn't really thought of Learning Disabilities until recently). For her K year for math, we did lots of hands on games. For 1st grade (last year), we started with Miquon which she HATED, bumbled around for awhile and finally had success with Kumon workbooks. (Unfortunately, it looks like she hasn't retained anything from them at all--but it did stop her from hating math) We are currently finishing up CLE Math 1st grade book 105. It was going pretty well until this book, but now she is having difficulty with many concepts. She is struggling with place value when any zeros are involved. She has been in tears several times over the past few week, saying that zero just means nothing, so it doesn't make sense to her why 13 and 130 and 103 aren't the same number. We've been spending lots and lots of time building numbers with rods, beans and cups, etc. She just doesn't seem to understand. 2 digit addition is also frustrating her. She's struggling with understanding why in a problem like 54 and 32, the 4 and 2 are added and then the 5 and 3. We have been spending lots of time here building these with rods as well and talking about the ones and tens, but we just can't move forward. She is also having trouble with more advanced patterns (triangle, square square circle triangle square square circle types of things) and with telling time when the hour hand is between 2 numbers. She can add and subtract single numbers pretty well, and we do the flashcards (almost) daily, but she is not recalling the facts without having to figure these out. I feel like we are stuck. If it were just 1 or 2 areas of difficulty, I would be fine with stopping and working on them and picking back up, but it's more than that. I'm getting nervous because she will be in third grade soon and we are stuck in the middle of first grade math. I know it is unhelpful to think like that, but that thought keeps creeping in. Advice? Obviously, we need to stop and make sure she understands these concepts, but 'm not sure EXACTLY what to do. Online games? ( suggestions please?) More Education Unboxed? Something else? Help!

Thank you! I'll check these out...

I am thinking about using The Complete Book of Animals plus a book basket plus some videos for science for dd8 and dd6 next year. I guess i could look up each animal on youtube, but I'd love suggestions for good dvds about animals! A set about different animals in a variety of habitats would be perfect! Thanks!

Really? I had no idea! Thanks so much!

Thank you so much for the detailed response! I watched the demo lesson, and I think it would work well for next year. I wish it was not so expensive or that I would at least own the DVDs to use with my other kids. I'd love to have ds do the program 3 days per week and stretch it over 2 years, but not at that cost!!

Hi! I'm thinking of using this for ds next year. I'd love to hear from anyone using this with the DVD. Can you tell me how the lessons work. Does the child read the text, watch the DVD, do any experiments, and then do the activity book? Are the experiments done on the video? How long does each lesson take? I'd love details!!! I really want to outsource science next year (I am not a science-minded person at all!). ds does not do well when I just send him off to read and do experiments on his own. I thought this might be a nice compromise.

Thanks everyone! I'm looking again at the samples at WWS1, and I think we'll either do that half-speed plus The Creative Writer or do WTM-style narrations, summaries, outlining across the curric for the first half of the year and then start WWS next January. Killgallon just looks weird to me for some reason :)

Thinking about 6th grade for ds11. At the end of this school year, he will have completed WWE1-3 and some of 4, the 3 sections of Treasured Conversations (and 1 paragraph reports in that style), and the writing exercises in Climbing to Good English 4 and half of 5. He can write terrific paragraphs from outlines he creates. He has had lots of experience with narrative-type paragraphs and will do a few expository paragraphs the rest of this year. I want to have him do WWS 1 in 7th grade. Any suggestions for what to do in 6th? He says he wants to be an author when he grows up, and he really is a good writer--once he gets started. :)

dd8 has some fine motor delays and sensory processing issues and maybe some other stuff (we are trying to figure everything out at the moment) so everything may change, but I'm thinking we'll either do HOD Bigger the complete package plus the 2nd/3rd level book pack plus CLE math 2 and ctge instead of R&S grammar OR math: CLE2 writing/grammar: some combo of WWE2, ctge2, and BW's Jot it Down phonics/spelling: Finish ETC series and then Spelling Workout C handwriting : Depends on her OT's recommendations science: WTM-style life science with dd6 (skipping human body because we're doing that this year) history: SOTW1 with activity guide with dd6 literature: classic lit for the whole family and some of SOTW 1 suggestions reading: HOD grade 2/3 book pack and narration/discussion

I would think this is my period that just happened to start rt after the procedure, but I know I ovulated late this month. In fact, when she was doing the ultrasound before the biopsy, the ultrasound tech said something like Oh look, you're ovulating today! Yes, that's what she said, a pad an hour. So far it's not that heavy, but still not any lighter. Does anyone know what the dr. will do when I go in on Monday? What can they do except say yep, you're still bleeding...??

I called and talked to the NP on call. She said it happens sometimes and if I start to feel dizzy or the bleeding becomes really heavy, I should go to the ER. Otherwise, I should call in on Monday and they'd see me. This is stressful. :( Hopefully it will be better in the morning! I think I had a may have had a strange reaction all around to this procedure because I felt fine right after it was done, but about 20 minutes later got horrible cramping and almost passed out. Weird!

Oh, I was hoping for everyone to say it was no cause for alarm! Yes, my Dr. has an on-call physician, I just didn't want to bother them if it was no big deal. I'll call. Thanks everyone!

Sorry for the TMI, but...I had an endometrial biopsy on Wednesday. My dr. said I would have "a little bit of spotting". I had some bleeding on Wed and Thur and on Friday afternoon it was heavier and today heavier still (with clots). This is not spotting!! My dr. is closed Fri afternoons and of course all weekend, so I can't call. I don't have any pain. During the procedure, the dr. said there was "a little bleed" and warned me that when I sat up, there would be some blood under me and there was. Maybe he nicked something??? If so, shouldn't he have warned me about more bleeding? Does anyone know if this is normal?

Thank you so much! You are all so supportive! :)

Thanks so much everyone!. I think we'll go ahead and get a more complete evaluation done.

Thanks for this. I will check this out. I'm open to doing whatever she needs :) What exactly is vision therapy? Wow! That's really interesting. So glad you had good people working with you! Our pediatrician referred us to the bad OT and told me to "call around" to see if any one of the places she recommended would deal with some of the other behaviors. To be fair, I dd not tell her about the attention issues or her jumbled thoughts at our last visit. After her vitamin levels were tested for the chewing of objects, our ped said it must be sensory. Nothing additional was suggested. We do have the option of getting OT services at one location only or having a complete assessment at another center that would include (I assume) screening for ASD, OCD (which runs in the family), etc I just wasn't sure she needed the complete eval. When I list all of her odd behaviors like I did in my iniiital post, it seems obvious, but day to day she seems like a happy little girl who marches to the beat of her own drum...

Thanks! She sees a pediatric ophthalmologist yearly. (She has worn glasses to address her strabismus since she was 2).

Thanks--I just cross-posted it over there. As for a broader eval--I'm not sure what type to pursue??

My daughter turned 8 in October. She has always been quirky. When she was a baby, we joked that she just barely tolerated us because she seemed very detached. She was late in gaining speech, but now her language is normal--she is a chatterbox. For several years, she has shown an age inappropriate need to chew: First all of her toy(legs and ears and wheels chewed completely off!) and now that she is older, her body (she bites her toes and there are raw areas where the skin has come off, and she gnaws on the sides of her mouth till there are swollen areas, etc.) She has been tested for pica and all vitamin deficiencies. She goes around smelling everything and seems to seek out smells that most people would find unpleasant (a dirty diaper, for example). She is a hand flapper and spends lots of her free time walking around flapping her hands and whispering or singing to herself. She can't quite explain why she's doing this, and only says that it "helps me think better". She used to have lots of problems with anxiety (extreme fear of dogs, etc) but that has gotten much better this year. Lately she is saying that she can't stop thinking "3 things at one time" or that her thoughts are going "too fast". The other day, she asked dh if there was some kind of surgery a person could get so to make a thought go away. She is extremely shy, and has a hard time expressing herself when I ask about any of these behaviors. She seems happy most of the time. She still holds her pencil in a fisted grip and often switches hands because her wrist gets tired. She is working about a year behind grade level in everything but reading--she is now reading on grade level. She has a hard time following directions and seems distracted a lot of the time. I often have to repeat my requests to her multiple times before she seems to "get it". Last winter, she had an OT eval. It was determined that she needed services. She was seen for 6 sessions (half of these were rescheduled or canceled at the last moment). After the last session, the OT told me she was putting us on a consultative basis, told me to use a pencil grip to address her handwriting issue and showed me some things on her laptop I could order from Amazon to address her sensory needs. She said she'd check in with us periodically but we never heard from her again. I have been working on hand strengthening activities with her and have made her a sensory box. I used to work in special education, but my students were all severely language delayed, so I'm a little out of my comfort zone with this. I need more direction! I'm certain she has some fine motor delays and probably some type of sensory processing issues (she is a sensory seeker for sure). We have an appointment with a different Occupational Therapist after the first of the year. Is there anything else I should be looking into? I'm wondering what I should expect from an OT? Surely more than we got the last time! Anyone have any advice? Thanks!!