Going part time

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Registered: 04-11-2003
Going part time
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Sat, 03-17-2007 - 8:58am

I decided to send Kyle to school part time and homeschool the rest. He'll have social studies and language arts at school in the morning. I'll pick him up at 10:30. If he's feeling better after a while maybe we'll have him go a little longer. I'm thinking about maybe trying Time4Learning an online homeschool curriculum. I'll have to figure out a schedule which I'm not good at. I know he's going to need a set routine. Wish me luck.

Samantha

Samantha
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Registered: 10-03-2004
In reply to: mamahh
Sat, 03-17-2007 - 11:58am

Hey Samantha,

That sounds promising. I will also look into something like that with our neighborhood P.S. (where Malcolm has never attended) moving forward, as our other options are narrowing. The principal there is supposed to be wonderful plus a special ed expert. I know there is no formal program in the school in which Malcolm could participate, but I am wondering if a part-time solution could be worked out... I hear usually "No", but you never know unless you ask.

You know Kyle best, so I assume the schedule thing is something he needs and you know it? We found otherwise, because this is home and it is best for us to keep it "home-like" even though we do school here. We use the "unschooling" model more, let Malcolm follow his interests, work his needed curriculum in around his outside activities schedule -- we also continued with the OT, speech and counceling on his IEP, but with outside providers. And we will do schoolwork in evening and on weekend if he didn't get much in during the weekdays. We have actually found that he gets lots more done in this way than he ever did during a week at school, BTW!

We keep everything he is doing in a box (in case the DOE actually ever wants to check, unlikely...) and I was rather astounded,looking it all over, at how much we have been covering since Sept. in about an hour and a half (at most) cumulative a day!!!! Plus his therapists have been going on and on about how much better the education he is getting at home is and how much more he is making use of it in his thoughts and conversations than during any previous school....

Sara

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Registered: 04-11-2003
In reply to: mamahh
Sat, 03-17-2007 - 12:07pm

Well, silly me for worrying. Kyle approached me a few minutes ago with his schedule all planned out, lol. He wants to follow pretty much the same schedule he had at school. He also had a brilliant idea. He was in Technology for his special this term. He asked if after I pick him up from school if I drop him off at dh's computer shop and he learn technology there. I had him call his Dad and talk it over. Dh is on board. Then he wants to come home, do PE & lunch, then science & math on the computer with time4learning. I think Hannah and I will have to adjust more than Kyle. With Hannah we do more of the unschooling model as well. She does work on math with the program I bought and cursive but it doesn't take long at all. I did try to talk to Kyle about the fact that homeschooling is nice because we get to decide what schedule works best for us and pick how we learn best but he didn't really care. He has his schedule made up, lol.

Samantha

Samantha