IEW Pals Video

I found this video very helpful in explaining what and how IEW Pals work.I’ll advise you that it’s about an hour long but it’s worth watching it all the way through.

IEW PALS

Institute of Excellence Writing(IEW) is a multi sensory and award winning program that is used in both public schools and homeschools.The public school books from what I understand is common core aligned while the homeschool books are not.Majority of homeschoolers will not use Common core alignment materials. Some do but again it’s individual preferences on the parent’s part.It does look intense and like a lot of work but if you watch some videos on it, it really isn’t and if you need to you can always break the lessons into several days or weeks. This is a mastery program that goes wherever your child is at. There is no behind in the program and I love the director of the program has actually acknowledged it himself. I will be purchasing it for my daughter to see how it works for her. With undiagnosed ADHD it should work and it covers all areas of language arts including writing so it seems to cover more than everything I want in a program. We’ll see how it goes once I get my hands on it. Has anyone used the program? Let me know!

Welcome Back

It’s been a long time since I last posted to this blog but we are still homeschooling and so much has happened.My daughter is now 7 almost 8 and diagnosed with autism, language disorder, odd(oppositional defiant disorder),sensory processing disorder,gross/fine motor delays and so much more but she is not vaccinated which some of the more woke moms who homeschool will know about the dangers of shots but that’s not for this blog.

Much of our curriculum still follow a mastery approach. I am not sure I posted about it on here but if I didn’t we do mastery. When I “grade” my daughter there are certain things I use so:Some are M which is for mastery,I is Introduced a new skill/concept,P is progress. Now if I circle something it means one of two things that she did it on her own or she got it wrong intentionally or just not focusing. One thing I have found helpful aside a bunch of hands on manipulatives/games etc is keep the lessons short. Charlotte Mason approach is wonderful for this especially if you have a potential ADD/ADHD child. The lessons are just 5 minutes. Some curriculum that we’ve used that meet Charlotte Mason approach in length of a lesson is Queen’s Homeschool, Learning Language Arts Through Literature,Masterbooks,Apologia(we haven’t used yet) are all excellent. However other curriculum such as the typical textbook approach can be modified as well just doing 1-2 pages per session as child tolerates. I also make my own worksheets.We do as much as she will tolerate for as short as 5- 10+ minutes if I am able to then it’s break/reward time such as electronics/Mom time then we resume after say 10,15 minutes. I will do another post tomorrow to discuss our current Curriculum and what we will be using next.