Thank you for your prayers. I know they helped.

The meeting went great. The vice principal, Mr. Dvorak, and his staff were warm and welcoming and I think everything went just fine, only I had the wrong MONDAY! I was a week early; it was scheduled for the 25th. Still Mr. Dvorak was able to put together an impromptu meeting and Quinn will hopefully start speech therapy sometime in November. Anyway I’m still blushing, mortified even. I know they were all thinking, “Blonde! And she homeschools her kids???!!!!” LOL

I went home to recheck the calendar and I do see why I made the mistake. Since I had filled in the 25th with “Boys” meaning I’m watching my sister, Honey’s, twin sons on that day, I wrote the meeting with the school in the space above, on the 18th. Though I now remember discussing on the phone, when setting up the appointment, that I would be watching the boys on that day so I had to have an early meeting, I guess subconsciously I just wanted the meeting to be over and done with so I just took the visual cue from the calendar. Anyway, I’m blaming it on stressing about the meeting (I’m really not good around strangers) and short term memory loss. Now I can get on to more important things like creating lapbooks with Quinn and helping the twins start their fall ecojournals. *smile*

Speaking of lapbooks…Quinn did not like the autumn theme unit that I had planned so I’ve been trying to come up with different enriching learning ideas. I ran across the concept of lapbooking and since looking at books and having Momma read books to him is one of his favorite things to do I’ve decided to incorporate some of Montessori’s life skills suggestions (of which we’ve already been working on) into an “I Can Do It” lapbook for him. I’ll take photos of him washing his hands, brushing his teeth, etc. Maybe include a photo or two of his brothers doing it as well and we’ll put together a lapbook for him to look at.

To incorporate religion and because I’m still determined to do something along the lines of an Autumn theme, I thought that I would take from Charlotte Mason’s idea of Nature Journaling and create a Creation lapbook. I thought we could take a picture of Mr. Squirrel, who likes to climb the tree just outside of our kitchen sliding glass door, and then take some nature walks around the neighborhood and to local parks to add leaves, acorns and other things. Add a few pages of Quinn’s drawings, some autumn-y poems or some lines from one of his books, and a sticker or two and we’ll be set!

If the idea goes as well as I’m hoping I should have a whole library of them. Since Quinn is not at a “school” age where I can show actual written school work this will hopefully work very well come annual review time. I’m hoping to be able to get out today and buy the supplies needed. I’ll take photos as soon as we finish.

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Mom Brag: Sean made Manager of the Week last week at UPS!!! I’m so proud. *smile*

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Autumn Delight

Crunchy leaves; a coolness in the air;
Rich deep colors and branches so bare.
Clear starry skies; a harvest moon bright;
Pumpkins, haystacks and scarecrow’s delight!
~by Teri Anderson~