The Not back to school blog hop is about where do you homeschool, your homeschooling classroom. For me this question has as many answers as there are homeschoolers. A day spent curled up in front of the fire in winter is just as wonderful as a day using the school desks.
Personally we have worked our way all the way around the house, outside the house and to most anywhere we go where we have to wait. Homeschooling is a journey and so it goes where we go. I do have little desks that I sometimes use. I use an excerise ball instead of chairs. That works really well for the wiggle worms!
Usually we end up at the dining room table. Large open space, lots of light. While this generally works for us under my work table is sometime used for those high sensory days when everything is just too much and too distracting.
Here are a few places that didn’t work for us. We found that sitting next to the window was much too distracting for my ADHD child. She would get caught up in watching and block everything else out. I also found that my two with low tone must have a full seat so that they don’t get exhausted.
So where do you homeschool? Did you find any spots that don’t work?
For now we have a corner of a computer room set up as a classroom with a desk, chalkboard and wall space to cover with calendars and rule cards etc. We also have a huge walk in closet that is sort of a play room which last year we used as a school area near the end of the year. My daughter also likes to use the kitchen table sometimes. We used to just pull out a child table up to the couch and do school there. She seems happy wherever we are so I haven’t found anything that won’t work for her.
My son (4 years old) attends a half day preschool for blind children, but I have been considering homeschooling. I asked a friend about homeschooling blind children and she wrote back such a wonderful response I posted it to my site:
http://www.wonderbaby.org/articles/homeschool.html
I do worry about the loss of therapy, though. Is the state still required to provide things like PT, OT, and Speech?
Amber
IDEA says that the state is required to provide special remediation and therapies for qualified individuals. Sadly in my state that is taken as only public school children. With a child with blindness your health insurance should cover therapies, even a government option. You might be better to go private. PS therapists can really push you to put your kids in school. They don’t know the laws and dish it out as THEY see schooling should be. Also as a blind person there may be some charities out there ready to help you.
Thank you for the link it is wonderful and right on. YOU are the mom and therefore the most invested in seeing your child not just make it but succeed spectacularly! Best wishes in your homeschooling journey. I will look into possible assistance and have a post about it in the near future.