Do you have to dual enroll to have your child take concurrent college classes?

Wow Katy, thanks so much! That library sounds amazing! We will be out in the country, so no worries about traffic. I'll remember to avoid rush hour.

Thanks for replying. I am not interested in a HSAP, and found that the NICHE website was not helpful. Not many classical homeschoolers in Iowa?

We will be moving to Des Moines in September or October. I'd love to hear about any homeschool groups or classes in the area. I have two who will be in high school and a second grader. Main interests are music, science, and speech & debate. We don't know which town/suburb we will choose yet. Thanks!

It is down by the sale and swap link at the bottom of the main WTM forum page.

There is a good chance we will be relocating to another state. My first thought was to check in with my WTM cronies who already live in that state. However, there is sadly little activity there. The last update on the state I searched was 3 years ago. That could be such an asset here, to help new WTM followers to connect. Where else do people look to learn about homeschool groups, co-ops, and classes?

A year ago letters were mostly backwards and pretty messy. Neatness is slowly improving and I consider her writing legible. We are doing WWE 1 and though it is such a small amount of writing, she complains about the time and effort. I can look into getting an OT evaluation. If I didn't have another child with stealth dyslexia I wouldn't even have considered that she could have dyslexia, but I just see so many similarities between her and my son when he was younger. (not able to tell left and right, the way they firm letters, lack of coordination) I'm not familiar with other LDs (which is really sad considering my degree is in early childhood special ed!!) but can do some research. It sounds like we should save up for another eval. :)

I'm having a hard time figuring out my 7 year old daughter. :) My oldest son is 2E (dyslexia, dysgraphia and high IQ). My daughter struggles with writing- I've been working with her for 3 years, and she still makes letters bottom to top, and right to left, even though I ALWAYS watch her and correct her. She has no balance and can't ride a bike. I mention this because I've read these are some red flags od dyslexia. However, what has me stumped is that she is an AMAZING reader. Very intuitive, in fact. She can read just about any word, including nonsense words and words she hasn't seen before. we are still paying for DS's testing, so probably can't get her in until the fall or spring. I started her on Barton since I'm already using that with DS. Any thoughts?

My 14 year old is off the chart for visual spatial abilities. He also has dyslexia and dysgraphia, though. I am just starting to work on his 9th grade line-up for fall. I think we will use something from 'The Great Courses' and work on note taking- possibly text mapping. We've tried audio books, but he just doesn't connect well that way, and doesn't retain the info.

I would like to use SWI-C as part of English 9 for DS. We will also add literature and grammar. I was confused because their website indicates that in 9th grade one should start with SWI-C and follow with The Elegant Essay. I thought that meant that each was one semester?

Is SWI-C a semester or year long class- a half credit or full credit?

Any one else?

Thanks Manda, that was very reassuring. :001_smile:

Could you tell me more about this? Is that an app or through a website? He does have a Kindle, and received an iPad mini for Christmas. (Like I said, I have zero technological know-how!)

Yes, very helpful, Merry Gardens. I understand what you are saying- I will hold off on the typed narrations. We have not looked into any tech support yet, such as voice to text. I'm hoping to get my husband to start looking into some of that this weekend, as my son definitely got his 'tech gene' from his dad and not me. :001_rolleyes:

This sounds similar to what I have been doing. I have him type a short narration after he watches a History video. Then we go through it together. I sometimes offer grammar advice if a sentence is really awkward, but never make him change anything. He can take my advice or not. He calls me his 'editor'. For spelling mistakes, I am working on having him re-read what he wrote. Because of his strong visual spatial abilities, he can almost always tell if a word doesn't 'look right'. He can't fix it, but he can identify it which I think is good for now.

I agree it would be interesting to do a poll sometime. I'm sure results will vary greatly. My son is flying through level one. If I did it with him every day he would have finished in a week, but I'm taking days off until I get the second level ordered. I am also using it with my 6 year old daughter and husband. My daughter is a very strong reader, but I figure might as well make things easy for me. :tongue_smilie: (also I have minor concerns with her hand-writing, wondering if another 2e kid?) Why do a second phonics program when Barton should work well for her, too. I'm pretty sure my husband is dyslexic, and when we started doing more research on dyslexia, he agreed with me. He wants to go through Barton, too. I'm sure they will all go through at different paces.

Chanley, how long did it take your son to get to level 8?

Yes!! I think this is so true for him. He hates anything that resembles a book. He will pick up magazines and read those, though- anything techy. We have always done read alouds, so he has been exposed to a lot of good literature, but I like the idea of flooding him with audiobooks. I will look into learningally. Thanks for that suggestion!

Yes, very helpful! My only concern with taking a 'gap year', is that he is highly gifted. When he gets bored, he shuts down. His ed/psych therapist suggested we have him start taking college classes in a couple years. I am having a hard time figuring this out because he is the oldest, and I am just trying to learn how high school and college work for neuro-typical homeschool kids, AND figure out how on earth we can adjust things to work for him.

That was incredibly helpful, I appreciate your detailed explanation. That does make sense, I was just panicking since he is almost in high school, and we're trying to put him on a track to get into a good college. I didn't realize that the other language arts topics would be addressed in coming levels, I guess I need to go look around the website more. Is there a typing program you would recommend? He went through 'Dance Mat', but he still isn't using the correct fingers if I ask him to type a couple sentence narration. Also, how would you complete a high school transcript if he is just using Barton his 9th grade year? Would you say 'remedial English', or just call it 9th grade English?

We just started using Barton with my 8th grader following a diagnosis of dyslexia and dysgraphia. On the training DVD, Susan said that the child should not be doing any other language arts at the same time as Barton- no grammar, spelling, writing, etc. I am having a hard time abiding by that, as my son will be in high school next year and is already behind in those areas, for obvious reasons. He is almost done with level 1, and reads/spells at a 5th to 6th grade level when tested. Did you hold off on language arts while using Barton, if not, what did you do?

I have never heard of that, but will do a quick search. Thanks!

Title says it all. :thumbup1:

Great idea, I could see him excited about making YouTube videos! He loves watching videos by Bill Nye and Steve Spangler.