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Yes, yes, yes! My daughter struggled with math. I tried everything and she just could not get it. No matter what I did she could not retrain even her basic 1-10 addition facts from year to year. I ended up bringing her into the school district and having her tested for learning disabilities as she h...

I love to have movies on hand as I suffer from chronic severe migraines and want the girls (8.5 & 11) to be able to pop in something educational that keeps them tided over long enough for my medication to kick in. We have watched and been able to have follow up on the following: History Timeblazers ...

Welcome to homeschooling! I think there are many different ways to handle discipline and you will have to find what works for you. Here is what works for us... I have a high functioning autistic daughter so we do have days where things are off and she is not in the mood for school. She can really en...

I have been seriously considering this myself. We live in NC and it is just too hot to go outside in the summer. We don't ride bikes, go to the park or do much of anything else in July or August. But the days are beautiful in the fall and spring. I heard one woman say she starts her school year righ...

Thank you so much! I like Julie's ideas for handwriting assistance during copywork and showed Charlotte all of the pictures. We then tried copying some a few lines using the idea of highlighting the spaces and she was able to do it! She really doesn't want to do handwriting instruction again as she ...

We will be starting HOD this summer. I can't seem to figure out how handwriting is handled in Beyond. My daughter is 8.5 but can not spell basic words and still reverses some letters and numbers. She also is inconsistent in her letter sizes, spacing and in keeping her words on the lines. She also ju...

Thank you all so much for sharing your experiences and thank you for sharing the link, Julie.

Jennifer

Looking at the Preparing curriculum it looks like it has almost everything. There are a few things I can't see in the samples or descriptions. I am wondering if these are things that are in the curriculum or that others have supplemented. In particular I am wondering about artist studies/art techniq...

I'm sorry it took me so long to get back to you all. Thank you so much for your wonderful insight! This has been very helpful. I can tell that having this board is also a huge advantage to this curriculum. I really appreciate you all taking the time to answer my questions.

Jennifer

Hi- I am thinking about using Preparing next year for my almost 11 year old daughter. She has high functioning autism and has drastically differing abilities in different subject areas. As such I have never been able to use packaged curriculums. There have been years when I have actually written eve...