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.
Loreene's Homeschooling 