{"id":388,"date":"2006-08-09T13:22:09","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T20:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=388"},"modified":"2006-08-09T13:22:09","modified_gmt":"2006-08-09T20:22:09","slug":"mia-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=388","title":{"rendered":"MIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been missing in action…and it’s hard to start up again!\u00c2\u00a0 While I was gone – Eric worked his butt off on that tent trailer…someone gave us another one (going to use for parts) and a van to haul it with!! PTL!<\/p>\n

I had a birthday of signifcance \ud83d\ude09 and my mom rented a house at the beach for all of us to stay together at the Beach.\u00c2\u00a0 My mom and my family were there for the whole 7 days, my brother and his family came for about 4 days and my sister and her kids for about 3 days.\u00c2\u00a0 We missed my BIL who could not get away from work.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve got pics to share – but that will have to be another day!<\/p>\n

I’m working on getting organized for our new year of homeschooling J2 (J1 and J3 will attend the school where Eric teachs 4th grade – J1 will be in 5th grade this year and J3 is doing K). One area I want to work on with J2 this year is independence.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d like to move away from me sitting beside him as he goes through each lesson.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d like him to gain the confidence to realize he can do this!\u00c2\u00a0 (He’s a slow learner and had many challenges)<\/p>\n

One thing I’ve done is moved us away from the dining room table and created a work station for him.\u00c2\u00a0 And, I’m considering an assignment sheet\/book that we can review and then refer to for daily assignments (for instance, Monday – Math: Lesson 12).\u00c2\u00a0 He’ll still need me to read certain parts to him but I really want him to realize he knows more than he thinks he does.<\/p>\n

Does anyone have any suggestions, ideas?\u00c2\u00a0 If it helps, my son is going to be 10 in about two weeks and doing 3rd grade work – except on language arts and then we are working at a 1st\/2nd grade level.<\/p>\n

Oh!\u00c2\u00a0 One more thing before I go – I’m having an Usborne Book party online<\/a>!!\u00c2\u00a0 If you don’t know about these books, you need to check it out<\/a>!\u00c2\u00a0 If you are like me and drool over these books everytime you see them, well, go see what specials Tricia is sharing with us this month!!\u00c2\u00a0 The Eshow will last only until August 17th – so don’t put it off!\u00c2\u00a0 If you order you will help me be able to afford the Ancient History book I want! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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