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  1. I have the same problem - I love this little app, but I can't get it to send any reports out. It's not even saving them to the photo album. :sad: Guess it's time to move on to a new system. Bummer, I really liked this one and was used to it after 3 years....
  2. My DD will be doing geometry with My Homeschool Math Class (by boardie Jann in Texas). She has really liked the Algebra 1 class she's taking this year with her.
  3. Not the PP, but: https://reg129.imperisoft.com/HomeschoolConnectionsOnline/ProgramDetail/3137313633/Registration.aspx Looks like it's full. But there are 3 options for the summer: click here and choose summer 2017, life skills, high school level. My daughter is taking the August 21-24th one as a "Welcome to High School" course, LOL. HTH!
  4. We will continue the prayers here for him and the family.
  5. You may have more luck posting over on the Learning Challenges forum. Lots of experienced parents there. We used the book "We All Can Read" as an in-home program. It worked very well for my 13 year old Stealth Dylexia student. They do have a website with an online program here. The books that the site is based on are under the "Buy Books" link. I found mine used, at a great discount.
  6. dori123 - Sorry, I've been out of town without access to computers. My daughter and I enjoyed Diagramming Sentences, but I will say that we didn't write in the book - we worked out the sentences on a whiteboard. For us, with a solid grammar background and just wanting to try diagramming, it was a good fit. I thought there was enough of each type of sentence for practice. I did notice when sometimes a sentence included a part of speech we hadn't learned to diagram yet (like a prepositional phrase), but we just left that part out. I could see how if you were not strong on grammar it may not be a good fit. This book assumes you're familiar with most parts of speech.
  7. We started with this book last year and it was very quick and easy: Diagramming Sentences We moved on to Drawing Sentences because DD liked diagramming so much.
  8. There's been some recent research on melatonin and reflux/heartburn. A quick google search brought up the following article http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/717460_5 Something in a slightly more friendly format: http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/QAA400827/Melatonin-for-Acid-Reflux.html It seems that it's not a cure-all, but there is some research backing it up. Maybe ask your doctor?
  9. Handwriting Lessons Through Literature from Barefoot Ragamuffin offers a vertical cursive that looks much nicer, IMO. My elder DD preferred it to HWT.
  10. Just curious as to how your dysgraphic child is handling the copywork - is he typing the text, or spending the time writing it out? Or are you adapting it somehow? I'm interested as I have a 7th grade dyslexic/dysgraphic as well. Sorry to hijack, OP!
  11. 1. Because I know I can give her all the accommodations/scaffolding she needs to succeed. I'm concerned that our impacted local public schools would not be able to meet her needs well enough. 2. I was homeschooling before the diagnosis, and had been for 2 years. 3. DD13, official diagnosis: disorder of written expression (in her case: stealth dyslexia and dysgraphia); SPD
  12. Some ideas for anatomy: The Blood and Guts book - offers shorter reading sections with hands-on activities. Since she likes cooking I was thinking that maybe she's like to do some more activities (which may help with grasping of concepts) It's a 4th grade reading level, but has a good amount of detail. The Body Book - more of a supplement, but really helps with seeing how the body works. But only use if she likes coloring/cutting/pasting - otherwise it's not worth the effort! The Way We Work book is very neat but it's at a higher reading level - maybe see if your library has a copy to look through? She may enjoy just going through it and looking at the pictures. Good luck no matter what you both decide to study this year!
  13. Hmmm, I ordered the TE (two different levels) from Rainbow Resource and was able to download the student guides for free. I don't think it matters where you order it from - the download instructions are on the first page of the spiral-bound TE . Unless someone else has experienced it differently?
  14. I believe the OP is talking about Classical Conversations, NOT community college. OP, you may want to cross post this on the General Ed board, or even the high school board, as you may get more feedback from there. Sorry, no direct CC experience here, but it seems you already think it would be fairly intense for your low-processing, dyslexic child. Would it be possible to tease out the parts you like (the grammar, the math drills) and add those to her schedule in some way rather than fully join CC?
  15. Ellie's right: it's probably easiest to make your own. However, there are a couple of lapbooks at Homeschoolshare (both for free) that you could use as guidelines as needed: This one has 2 different levels This one is based on the Magic Tree House reference book (but the templates look general enough that any good book from the library would do) Currclick also has several unit studies and lapbooks for knights and castles. ETA: at one point: watch first to determine if it's appropriate for your kids.
  16. Don't ever try to use Essentials in Writing then. If you think the SSL DVD is bad, you'll hate EiW. That said, my youngest LOVES the SSL DVD - both the Simian story and the opening sequences. She dislikes derivative river, but I like it and I call in my elder girl when that part is on, as she "gets" it more than the youngest does. DD7 liked it so much that we got SSL2 with the DVD and will be starting it next week. Youngest also loves Essentials in Writing. The video/audio quality doesn't bother her - she loves the teacher and the work. She actually ASKS to do a writing lesson as her first subject of the day! My elder is also trying it this year and enjoys it. For both of them it is about content rather than video quality. I think lower quality may be something to expect with DVD programs that are created for homeschoolers - those smaller companies don't always have the big bucks of powerhouse publishing companies, and it shows when it comes to DVD supplements. If you can get past that, there are some real gems out there!
  17. Two of my kids used it, one to help with SPD, one to help with a general auditory over-sensitivity. It *seemed* to help DS with his general over-sensitivity. I say *seemed* because he was a tween at the time, and with all the growing up and out of so many other things it was hard to pinpoint the Therapeutic Listening as being the thing that helped, KWIM? However, elder DD used it as a part of her regular OT program for SPD, and with it she progressed in leaps and bounds rather than the baby steps she had done previously. I specifically remember her first "breakthrough" that occurred after she had started it. Her OT had been trying to teach/train her body to skip. She just could. not. get it. She could only gallop - one side or the other (but never one after another!) After 1.5 weeks on the listening program, she want from galloping to skipping very very quickly. Like, within the space of 2 hours. It was crazy. There were other things that suddenly saw progression after we introduced the listening therapy - or she'd learn brand new things without ANY trouble. It certainly shortened the time she ended up spending in OT - after Listening Therapy was introduced, she only spent another 5 months in OT, whereas they had originally thought she's need another year AT LEAST. Ultimately, I think it's a lot like other therapies that are out there in that you don't know if it will work for your child until you try it. It definitely worked for at least one on my kids - maybe for another. I know a family who tried it and found it did nothing for their son. So, like so many different parts of OT, it may be dependent on the individual's response. If you're able to try it out for free for the two weeks, give it a try. Maybe it'll be a great fit. If not, you're not out much save for time spent on it.
  18. DD7's favorite is Odd and the Frost Giants, which I have to admit a special love for as well. And there should be a new Odd story coming out soon!
  19. I slam on my imaginary passenger-side brake in sympathy! DS17 now has his license, but wow, we had some doozies while he was learning!
  20. Here's a list of colleges that DO accept ASL as a foreign language, updated last April.
  21. Stealth dyslexia is such a tricky thing, it's difficult to say which way for sure either language would go. DD13 (stealth dyslexia, dysgraphia) started taking an introductory middle school Spanish course last year. She was very excited about it, and despite the fact that we were (and still are) working on learning to read by actually READING English words, not just memorizing the shapes of them, she excelled in Spanish. The teacher had told us from the beginning that she was going to focus on making the course very accessible to all her students - lots of games, lots of practicing out loud - but what surprised me more than anything is that DD has told me how much she likes Spanish because she can't recognize the words immediately, so she has to slowly read and sound out the word!!! :thumbup: That's not to say that we didn't have any problems at all - when it came to memorizing a passage which DD had written, it took her a lot longer than it did for any of her classmates. And taking notes in class was tricky, since DD's dysgraphia would wear her down. But over all, she learned a LOT in that class, and has requested to take the second course this year. DD also tends to mispronounce words in English, but rarely does this in Spanish - her teacher even complimented her on her oral conversations they do in class. I'm not sure why it's this way - maybe because it's a close to a fresh start as you can get in terms of reading and languages? Stealth dyslexics tend to be good "readers" (though it's mostly skimming) - so re-training tends to be with a lot of nonsense words with phonics intervention to get their brain to slow down and LOOK. AT. EACH. LETTER. It's entirely possible that your DD's enthusiasm and the difference in the written language can actually be a benefit. So I guess what I'm saying is that it IS possible for a dyslexic to learn a foreign language, and that interest can certainly be a big help in choosing which to take. I certainly don't think that's true for all dyslexics, but stealth dyslexia is kinda that weird in-between version...or as my DD calls it, "Dyslexia Lite."
  22. I will report back when we're done. In meantime, here are some earlier threads about it: http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/477325-if-you-have-used-excavating-english/ http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/323191-after-excavating-english-linguistics-related/ Sorry for the highjack, OhE!
  23. We're going to use Excavating English as part of our LA curriculum this year for DD13. It's a gentle intro to linguistics in a kid-friendly (ages 10+) format. It was written by Ellen McHenry's sister, but has the same illustrations and hand's-on activities as in McHenry's science curricula. While it doesn't go into a huge amount of detail regarding morphology and spelling, it does have that narrative aspect and talks about why certain parts of our modern English are the way they are. More of a general overview than specifics, but we'll likely follow this with some word - history books like the ones OhE listed above.
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