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I am looking for wisdom. I have been homeschooling my son since Dec. he is 9 years old and delayed a bit. Previously he was in a school that has 9 children. We pick the curriculum that is being used for each child, it is like being in an old school house setting. Hi, I posted this on another board and they all told me that I should post over here. They were very helpful but they felt like you all could help me more. Below is the first post and the second section is my response to some of the questions. Thank so much. Currently I am using Saxon Math 3, First Language Lessons, Writing with Ease, Explode the Code, Handwriting without Tears , All About Spelling. I have also been using A Beka Language 2 and Letters and Sounds. As you can see it is alot, I feel like it is too much. I guess the reason I continued using the A Beka was because I thought it has a good base for phonics. I love Writing with Ease and First Language Lessons but I did not know if I should keep going with this list of work. I am tied up in knots when I think of what to do. I want what is best for him, I need wisdom and wish someone could tell me what they think would be the best scenario. I know that is hard as I am the one that knows my child but was not sure if anyone else is in a similar situation. As you can see I am not great at getting my words out on paper but hopefully someone out here has some wisdom. Thank you It might help narrow down: How is his reading? Reading is very good, he is currently reading a 4th grade book with A Beka. How is his handwriting? Handwriting is getting better. We just finished book 2 and are now starting book three which is cursive but not your normal cursive that is very loopy. This is much more like the Australian cursive. Can he remember how to form his letters? Yes he can remember to form his letters. Is he beginning to write his letters without thinking about how it should be written? I believe so. When he writes a sentence for a worksheet in Abeka he may ask me how to spell a couple words but he does pretty well. How is his spelling? His spelling is doing pretty well as long as he gets plenty of time to go over them each day. What level of AAS are you using? We are on level 3 of All About Spelling How is he doing with the dictation section? Dictation for Writing with Ease has been very difficult. I was doing it with him up to about week 15 or so but felt like we were not getting anywhere. I would have to repeat many times and I felt like it was frustrating for him to have to spend so much time on writing one or two sentences. It does look like you have a lot of repetition and overlap in language arts that could be pared down, does he seem to be learning with any of these curriculum? He does seem to be learing, he loves the poems in First Language Lessons and does a good job remembering what a noun is , verb is etc. Are you happy with Saxon for math? Saxon Math has been okay. He does well with the first sheet for the most part but the drill sheets can be overwhelming, once he gets started he can get going with it and is able to answer questions. We use a table with the numbers 0 through 20 and this has helped alot. Then he can put his finger on 5 and count up 4 and get to 9 etc. Does he seem to be learning and retaining from this program? I think he retains much but when it comes to the fractions and things it is harder. I think that since they do not spend much time on it, it is hard to learn it. As far as OT they work on many things, reflexes, helping him process, for instance talking about how to make and obstacle course, then doing the obstacle course and at the end talking through what he did. they do excercises as well and work on handwriting. We live overseas as we are full time volunteers for a charity. So we have the OT come to us which has been a huge blessing to our family. We used to go once a week for 45 minutes and that was terrible as it takes quite a bit of time getting from point a to b. So much faster where we lived in the US. Thank you all for your help. I will definitely post this in the other group as well. Blessings. -
I am looking for wisdom. I have been homeschooling my son since Dec. he is 9 years old and delayed a bit. Previously he was in a school that has 9 children. We pick the curriculum that is being used for each child, it is like being in an old school house setting. Currently I am using Saxon Math 3, First Language Lessons, Writing with Ease, Explode the Code, Handwriting without Tears , All About Spelling. I have also been using A Beka Language 2 and Letters and Sounds. As you can see it is alot, I feel like it is too much. I guess the reason I continued using the A Beka was because I thought it has a good base for phonics. I love Writing with Ease and First Language Lessons but I did not know if I should keep going with this list of work. I am tied up in knots when I think of what to do. I want what is best for him, I need wisdom and wish someone could tell me what they think would be the best scenario. I know that is hard as I am the one that knows my child but was not sure if anyone else is in a similar situation. As you can see I am not great at getting my words out on paper but hopefully someone out here has some wisdom. Thank you
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I need some advice as to how to do writing with my newly 9 year old DS. He has ADHD and dyspraxia which I realize challenge him in doing writing work (double whammy- attention to his thoughts long enough to finish writing the words and the muscle tone/control of handwriting). We've done WWE 1 and 2, IEW through writing a paragraph, and now BJU English. The WWE just got so repetitive (for both of us), he had total freak-outs with IEW when we reached the time and intensity of combining multiple paragraphs for storytelling so our most recent effort was BJU English. I thought that would be a gentler product because of the back and forth between writing and grammar. Awesome, we don't have to do writing everyday. Today was our first day in a writing lesson of actually moving thoughts to paper and it wasn't pretty. It was 5 sentences! His paragraph draft probably totaled no more than 20 words as he made them as simple as he possibly could. Example, in explaining how to play "Hide and Seek," he wrote...."Then, the seeker seeks." We've already started typing in hopes that maybe it's the actual hand on pencil on paper that's causing the frustration. I just feel so tired of the ongoing battle. He HAS to do writing, right? At third grade, I really don't think this is too much to ask but I trust the collective wisdom of the group. Any suggestions?
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How did you modify it? Did you use the same material for copywork & dictation as for narration? If you also added in typing from dictation, how did you schedule it? Tell me all about it please! ETA I really hate to use the word 'behind', but couldn't think how else to fit into the title to describe a large discrepancy between writing & verbal ability!
