I keep thinking about planning for next year.  I just can’t make myself do it!  I need a break, I think. 
We have three more weeks of school.  Maybe I’ll be ready to plan in 4 more weeks.
My oldest will be starting Summer School classes in 2 weeks.  She is taking two classes this summer so […]

Do any of you with kids in the lower grades test your kids? I wasn’t going to when I started, but I am testing Tim all week anyway. I wanted to have something besides his work, to have in one place, that gave a sample of all our state requires him to know. He took the […]

Do your kids have problems with repetition? Tim cannot stand to repeat a lesson, or even an idea. We studied about seasons at the beginning of the month. This last quarter I’m reviewing everything he learned through the year, and this week for science it’s seasons. I had him watch a video on seasons, and […]

I have to admit that I struggled a bit with T4L at first.  Getting started was very easy.  Signing up….a breeze.  Teaching each child to log-on gave them a true feeling of independence.
Choosing the levels for each child was easy, yet a tad weird since I have a child in need of access to both […]

Until very recently, I had no idea that gifted and autism could go together, but I’m learning real quickly that they can! Tim is very scattered in his abilities, but mostly ahead of his peers. I know a lot of this is due to the therapy I’ve given him myself over the last two years, […]