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Watercolors and Crystals

Ingrid @ November 22, 2010 # 2 Comments

Highlights November 14 – November 20, 2010 Sunday It’s a slow day today. Kamikaze spends a few hours playing outside and then goes to friend’s house. Sweet Coco watches a DVD about kittens and then paints with watercolors. Tremendo takes advantage that Kamikaze isn’t home and enjoys full use of the PlayStation. Vic and I [...]

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There is no limit to the sky.

Ingrid @ November 14, 2010 # 2 Comments

Weekly Review November 7 – November 13, 2010 The only limits are, as always, those of vision. – James Broughton When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. – Helen Keller Sunday-Tuesday Unfortunately I didn’t make a note of [...]

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Highs and Lows: Weekly Review November 1 – November 6, 2010

Ingrid @ November 7, 2010 # No Comment Yet

This weeks high’s and lows in which we discuss an awesome day, handwriting, and assumptions made about non-verbal children: Tuesday Awesome day today. I finally put together the new picture schedule of our day for Tremendo and everything flows nicely. Tremendo’s speech therapist is really happy with his involvement today. All of today’s transitions go [...]

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Halloween 2010

Ingrid @ November 1, 2010 # No Comment Yet

What I had the good sense to keep track of last week: Sunday We loaf around the house today since we went hiking the day before and it’s chilly outside. The boys are really into pretend play revolving around Naruto. Vic goes out to get last minute costume stuff for Halloween. Kamikaze and Tremendo will [...]

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Week in review October 17, 2010 – October 23, 2010

Ingrid @ October 25, 2010 # 2 Comments

Sunday Sweet Coco and I play alone for about 30 minutes singing nursery rhymes. He enjoys Pat-a-Cake because cake is one of his favorite subjects but he absolutely loves Row Your Boat. We sit facing eachother and I pull his arms forward and back while we sing. At the third verse, “If you see an [...]

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Week in review: October 11, 2010 – October 16, 2010

Ingrid @ October 18, 2010 # 4 Comments

I’m going to try to provide weekly updates about our homeschooling in attempts to help others understand what it’s really like (some days you can get it all done and some days you can’t get any of it done) and also to help me remember our year when it’s time to write our progress reports. [...]

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Classical Education and Autism Guest Post at The Well-Trained Mind

Ingrid @ September 7, 2010 # No Comment Yet

I wrote a guest post for The Well-Trained Mind blog that details how I worked with my children to take them from having no interest in books to enjoying looking through books and being read to called, Learning from Books When Your Kids Could Care Less: Classical Education and Autism. © copyright 2010 www.renegade-scholar.com Classical [...]

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GAME OVER

Ingrid @ June 17, 2010 # 3 Comments

Tremendo wrote his first words today on the easel. I marveled at this since in the past he only wanted to write three letters: L, M, and X. Of course I had to video tape it when he started doing it again on the small chalkboard. Today after I video taped him writing he also [...]

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That time of year, Homeschooling in MA

Ingrid @ July 29, 2009 # One Comment

Right about this time of year is when a lot of Massachusetts Homeschoolers send in their letter of intent to the local school district. Basically, Massachusetts requires that parents send a letter of intent every year before the start of the school year in September stating their desire to homeschool their child and the education [...]

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Colorings

Ingrid @ July 3, 2009 # No Comment Yet

There has been a lot of coloring over here. Tremendo has started coloring and writing some letters too. The letters he’s written so far are M, L, and the first letter of his name. He really likes M and L because of Mario and Luigi. We’ve been working with Handwriting Without Tears‘ wood sticks. For [...]

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