Journal of a Busy Mom

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Family Time Fitness Core 1 is Free!!!!

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Family Time Fitness is giving away their Core 1 fitness curriculum.

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It’s only good until March 21, 2014!
I have been teaching a kindergarten-first grade co-op class using their co-op curriculum which is very similar to Core 1 and we love it. The kids have improved so much since September and I know I can chalk it up to Family time Fitness!
Hurry!

Please let me know if you get it and how you like it!

Ligia

What is Dyslexia? Seminar

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Apart from your child having dyslexia, what do you know about it? As a parent, the more you know, the better equipped you will be to help your child manage its symptoms and create a reading and learning plan for school and future success.

Learning Ally is having  a webinar about dyslexia. I am not sure if you have to be a member. If you are unfamiliar with Learning Ally as I was up until October, Learning Ally is a national nonprofit with a defined approach to help support students with learning disabilities and their families. They provide audiobooks, kind of like audible.com. Please go to their website to see all they have to offer.

Dyslexia is a learning disability — the most common one — and there are certain interventions and accommodations that help make it manageable for your child.

  • What is dyslexia exactly?
  • Is your child broken?
  • How does dyslexia impact reading and learning?
  • What are its effects?
  • What interventions are there?
  • Where can you find the answers your child and your family need?

These questions and many more will be answered during Learning Ally’s “What Is Dyslexia?” webinar, being held on Thursday, March 27, 2014, at 12:00 noon and 3:00 p.m. Click here to get to their website.

High School Seminar Update

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I have become obsessed with planning my daughter’s high school course of study!

I attended a seminar this past weekend by Mary Schofield, author of  The High School Handbook: Junior and Senior High School at Home. It was an all day seminar of high school planning. I had read her book before so I kind of knew most of what she said, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t learn something new. So here are some tips for starting your high school journey.

  1. Find out what your state requires from homeschoolers. California allows private schools to decide their own course of stud.HSLDA and others suggest is to follow traditional high school tracks and what colleges look for. See that article here. I went to the California Department of Education to find my requirements.
  2. Decide how many credits you will require of your children. If California only requires 20 credits in science that doesn’t mean that my high schooler will only do 2 years of science. I decide what our bare minimum will be.  What I decide will be the minimum requirements for all students in our “school”.
  3. Decide what courses you will offer. Based on the credits you decided your child needs to complete, decide what courses your child will take. This is where it can change for each child. For example, my daughter will probably do several writing classes for her English Credits whereas my son, he will probably do more “Introduction to” Classes, etc.

So this is where I am at right now. I started my high school planning the minute I left the seminar. We are getting an early start on high school. She wants to start this summer so I need to have things thought out and in place by end of April!

By the way, HSLDA has a whole website dedicated to this topic! Check it out here.

Ligia