Break from academics

Every year I plan to "homeschool" through the summer. To me, that means doing math, spelling, and other academic studies.

For this summer, I had planned to do spelling, math and writing. However, in July when Baby Bop had his followup evaluation with the neuro-developmental specialist, I had my older two girls evaluated. Both of which had some interesting deficits.

I wasn't too surprised. My older two daughters were later readers and are terrible at spelling. My middle daughter got a 0% in Spelling Vowels on the CAT/5. This is the same kid who got 98%, 94%, 99% on Word Meaning, Multimeaning Words, and Words in Context respectively. When you spell that bad and read that well, it has got to be a mid-brain processing problem.

So, instead of studying Saxon Math and Spelling Power, all my kids are creeping and crawling, locating sounds, identifying smells, and experiencing a variety of textures.

It will be interesting to see how spelling, math and soccer go in the fall after a few months of our "therapy" routine. Another benefit is that it is easier to get Baby Bop to do his therapy when all the kids are doing it too.

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