Homeschooling… there’s still hope

At the beginning of the summer, I went back into homeschooling my boys with the understanding that my husband insisted they go to school in the fall. I am tired of arguing, and the Lord had really convicted me about being submissive to my husband in everything. So, as we did school over

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Duelling Spelling Lessons, part 2

Mrs. M and I were both on staff for the See You After the Pole United rally on Wednesday night, and she told me she would call me Thursday, which she did. (The rally, by the way, was absolutely fantastic, with 809 students in attendance from 18 churches!! Worship was amazing, the speaker

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Duelling spelling lessons

Will someone please tell me why my son’s teacher assigns a list of spelling words, and then his Resource teacher assigns him an entirely different list, and they both expect him to be able to do them?? >:P I think I will talk to Mrs. B about having her use the regular class

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Training the new teacher

It turned out to be a very good thing that Mrs. R left two weeks early on maternity leave, because she had her baby yesterday morning! Mrs. M, the long-term sub, is on youth staff with me in our youth group. We talked last night for quite a while, about D1 and the

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Writing accommodations

This isn’t a post where I know what I’m talking about. I have questions for those of you working with or living with special needs kids who simply cannot write out their work reliably.

When do you start looking seriously at making an accommodation for writing?

What type of keyboard/computer/word

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