Geek Squad stole my laptop

Well, actually I gave it to them, and they shipped it off to… Seattle? I’m not sure where it goes when they need to do work on it, but I know it leaves our locale. I haven’t been blogging because 1.) I don’t have my laptop, and because of this 2.) I have

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Visual Schedules for Special Needs Kids

My son uses a visual schedule for his morning routine. It works, somewhat, but when the OT gave it to me I didn’t realize we were supposed to cut the cards apart so that I could put them in the order that is needed for each day. Some days are better than others,

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Where is your homeschool going?

I belong to Menus4Moms, and in my email newsletter today there was a link to this great website. Design Your Homeschool is a site that will walk you, step by step, through setting up your homeschool with a concrete set of goals and choosing curriculum. I wish I’d seen this site 11 years

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Pencil grips & penmanship

My 5 year old son has trouble holding a pencil. He brings his ring and middle fingers forward, in front of his pointer finger. I’ve tried our usual “Hold up the flag” trick with him, but he just brings his fingers over the tape and it doesn’t work. As a result, his grip

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One last push for organization

Okay, I’m desperate. I need to get myself organized again!! I’ve wasted the summer (it feels like it anyway) and now I need to get busy. I do have 80% of our assignments entered into HomeSchool Tracker. That’s something!

Now, I need to organize our meal routines, and our household

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