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Special Needs Blog Week in Review – May 13 -19, 2012

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Each and every week, the Special Needs Blog Week in Review gives you a brief description of all the blogs that appeared here in the past seven days. This is a quick way to find the blogs that you wanted to read, but, didn’t have time for when they first appeared. What did you miss this week? The Special Needs Podcast Roundup went up on May 14, 2012. This week, I’d like to point out an episode of The Coffee Klatch. It is called “Bright Not Broken – Twice Exceptional Kids”. This is the first part of a series they … Continue reading →

“Hey Mom, I LIKE Gifted School!”

My eight-year-old son has embarked on his new journey into the gifted “spectrum” program in our school district. At first, he was very reluctant. He has several good friends who live within walking distance of our home who he liked to play with at school. Leaving those buddies behind was a little hard to face. “I don’t think I want to go to gifted school,” he said. Several readers urged me to have him attend anyway, because of the marvelous educational opportunity he had been given. Finally, somewhat hesitantly, he determined to give it a try. One drawback has been … Continue reading →

Some More Thoughts on Homeschooling More Than One

I was asked recently on another blog about home schooling more than one child. While it has been covered in the home schooling blog before, I thought I’d share some insight on home schooling five, and some practical tips on how we manage. Although I think most who normally read this blog know this, by way of reintroduction, I have five kids. While I still maintain that preschool is optional, most of my younger children want to at least read every day. So I will say that I’m home schooling three preschoolers, one gifted first grader and one third grader. … Continue reading →

Yesterday Was My First Day of Homeschooling. . .

. . .all five of my children. For those of you who don’t know, I have a 3rd grader, a “sort of” 1st grader, and three preschoolers. Until recently, I had provided minimal instruction to the preschoolers mostly because I really feel strongly that they learn best through play. In fact I’ve written several articles on how I don’t do a specified curriculum with them and how I don’t believe in early childhood education (a formal one that is). However, my children don’t agree with me. Up until yesterday, I called the older children to the table and my oldest … Continue reading →

Homeschooling Week in Review Feb 10-Feb 16 2007

This past week on the families.com homeschooling blog, we talked about finances, responsibilities, and giftedness, truths and misconceptions. Here is the week in review for Feb 10 – Feb 16 2007. Feb 10, 2007 Why homeschool? Especially if you are a single parent, Asks Michelle Thorne. In this blog post, she gives us her reasons. How do you get them to complete their assignments on time, is another question of the day. While this is not a problem unique to homeschoolers, the suggested solutions are definitely handy for homeschoolers. Finally, my word of the day, Sacrifice describes the things a … Continue reading →

Magnet Schools: Pros and Cons

My daughter will begin kindergarten next year. In my school district I have the option of enrolling her in a magnet program. The magnet schools in this area are designed to attract students to lower income areas, a way of natural desegregation. In order for this to be successful, the magnet schools have additional programs and resources available to them. It has worked well for my school district. One of the positive aspects of the magnet schools is that they offer specific programs that are tailored towards the arts or the sciences. They offer programs specifically for gifted students or … Continue reading →

The Survival Guide for Parents of Gifted Kids

Do you have a child who’s gifted and don’t know what to do with them? Join the club. It’s great having a gifted child but sometimes you really don’t know how to handle their gift. In The Survival Guide for Parents of Gifted Kids, the author lists eight gripes of parents with gifted kids. I can relate to most of them. (1) No one really explains what having a gifted child is all about. (2) Some parents don’t like having their child labeled. (3) Many gifted kids have unique problems and relatives and others adults don’t truly understand just how … Continue reading →

The Education Blog in Review: Nov. 6 through Nov. 19

Since our great education blogger, Kaye Siders, left us at the end of October, the Education blog has been missing some reviews. The day before yesterday, I had written the first Education in review since the end of October. Make sure you check those out if you need to catch up! Thanks to Sherry Holetsky who told us about Edline in Does Your Child’s School Offer Edline? I didn’t know about it, and like she points out, it sounds like a great way to keep on top of your child’s progress. Myra Turner talked to us a little about Kindergartners … Continue reading →

My Favorite Color is Colorful

When Andrea was here, she used to write a series about reasons why she was glad she home schooled. I don’t want to steal her series. . .but this is one of my reasons why I’m glad I home school. It allows my children to think outside of the box. . .way outside of the box. My four year old, who by the way is not officially home schooling, was recently asked her favorite color. Her reply? Colorful. “But,” said the adult in charge, “which one of those colors is your favorite? Do you like pink, or maybe purple?” “No. … Continue reading →

Teaching All Children

Most schools have special programs or teachers to help those students who struggle. My school is also fortunate to have a teacher to facilitate those students who go beyond excelling. We have an in-house teacher that works with a select group of gifted upper grade students. My district has a gifted class in a central location that serves all of the schools in the county. Students in second grade and above are allowed to attend if certain criteria are met. These programs are wonderful and I am glad that we have them. However, classroom teachers should also be doing their … Continue reading →