Recent content by Emjay

DH says mushroom. DD says cookie. I say salami, because it's a strong smelling, tasty, meaty treat that might taste like sundried road kill lol

Each day we do a bit of copy work. I read the question, she answers it, I write down her answer, she copies it into her book. Reading is a major trigger for her tantrums and meltdowns so we only do it until she starts showing her warning signs. We do a bit of spelling each day to help with her...

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...I do all the reading and most of the writing when we do bookwork? Miss6 really doesn't like reading and when she writes I have to spell things out letter by letter. At best it takes forever and she forgets what she's writing about, at worst the stress and frustration results in tears. She...

I love this idea!!! ETA: I told DH about this and he said we should do it and for every 100g I lose he'll put in a bonus.

Me too:lol:

I'm sorry I don't have any advice either because I'm still trying to figure out how to handle Miss 6. Reading your post was bittersweet, it's a relief that I'm not the only one going through this, and it sucks too.

Miss 6 got asked by a friend of hers, "Do you know who Amelia Earhart is?... No because you're homeschooled." I asked her to tell Miss 6 who Amelia Earhart was. All she knew was she was a famous pilot. Miss 6 then asked her friend if she knew what a lithosphere is, and then launched into an...

That sucks that she had to leave her kids, I'm glad it was only for 6 months. Ok, so it's mainly English that we need to work on, everything else will get covered in revision. She's a very reluctant reader and so we have barely touched English. Any advice on how to encourage a reluctant reader?

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Thanks, I've calmed down a bit since posting. We had a slow year last year due to various issues, then we took three months off when I had baby, and we've just had 6 weeks off to move house, holidays, etc. So that's where most of my fears were coming from. TeacherMom she's nearly 7 so if she...

I wrote a long explaination and my computer had a spaz and lost all of it. So long story short, Miss 6 might have to start ps in at the end of July :cry: if we can't get off the govenment benefit. Due to various things last year Miss 6 is still doing 1st grade work, so we're trying to get that...

Is that good or bad or meh?

:lol:That's me too. We've chosen to not have Miss6 diagnosed. Some things that we've learnt about her and how to handle her... - Emotionally and behaviourally she's about three years old. We have set expectations of her but we've had to accept that she'll need prompting, possibly for...

We started back on January 7th (ps return between January 28th and February 7th here). We just jumped right in dispite complaints from Miss6. We work at a subject for 30 minutes, then change to another subject for 30 minutes, then take a 30 minute break. Home ec and art / craft being the...