Special Needs Homeschooling

Special Needs Lapbooking Day 3

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TweetSharePin0 SharesIf today had a title it would be, The day the pre-schooler attacked! This morning my little ball of energy snuck upstairs and started her lapbooking at 6am. She told me it was morning and time to homeschool, as if that explained everything. I am going to get a motion a censor cow that moos when ever anyone goes… View Post

Special Needs Lapbooking Day 2

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TweetSharePin0 SharesToday was day 2 of our unit study on Dolphins. The kids were in the groove today. We ended up going over our normal homeschooling time by hours. I had to put one little one’s items away when they went to sleep still working on it! The kids used ALL my extra worksheets that I had printed off for the… View Post

Special Needs Lapbooking Day 1

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TweetSharePin0 SharesToday we immersed ourselves in Dolphins. Some times when I pick these units they go across so-so. Other times, like this one, everyone is really intersted from my 8th grader down to my pre-schooler. Not just kind of interested but woooh interested. Makes my life so much easier! Today we watched several videos about dolphins. The kids raided the… View Post

Lapbooking with Special Needs Kids

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TweetSharePin22 SharesLapbooking is here to stay! It’s popping up all over the homeschooling community. What exactly is lapbooking? Lapbooking is a form of journaling your child’s learning. You and your child use a file folder to create and display small booklets, circles, pictures, etc of facts your child has learned. This week we are lapbooking a Dolphin unit study from Download N Go by Amanda… View Post

Parenting and life decisions with your child on the autism spectrum

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TweetSharePin0 SharesAutism is an entire shift in your life and how you and your child interact. It’s like going from color tv to sepia. It’s still tv but everything is colored different. The early years: Having to use sign language, PECS, pictures for items they need. The early years for us were full of trying different ways to make things… View Post