Joe’s Word and School Starts Today

By Lynn, on August 23rd, 2007

Where in the world has summer gone???? Our school year started today and I feel so good about how much we are already getting done! We did purchase Sequential Spelling II this summer. I put in a link to one of the levels, but actually we got If It Is To Be It Is Up To Me To Do It. It is geared more for adults/older students. It’s a perfect fit for us.

Joseph has started working on his blog again: Joe’s Word. He’ll be putting in whatever strikes his fancy. He is becoming better at keyboarding just from me standing around saying, “put your fingers on the right keys.” LOL. He did Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 16 two years ago, so he knows where to put his fingers on the keyboard. It’s just a matter of making him do that as a first choice! Boys, for some reason, don’t seem to like to use all 10 fingers to type with.

He is continuing on with his timeline notebook.

things that made history

Putting in new entries whenever we come across something or someone not in there yet. For example, Edgar Allan Poe, the person we are studying right now for Language Arts/Literature.

(Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe)

In addition, we are continuing on with Algebra. Yes, we did not finish last year, and no, I am not worried about it. Joseph’s love is language arts and writing, in spite of being dyslexic, and Don McCabe, the person who wrote the Sequential Spelling program, is certainly a wonder when it comes to teaching dyslexics to read and excell at writing! Thanks to my Five In A Row friends for the recommendation!

More later. We are about to go to the library and get some more books for my voracious reader! Yaay.