Deaf Plus Homeschool

Geometric solids have him going more more more. 

Come it in chaos. Data being transmuted into information, and knowledge. Communication being born out of meaning. 

This is a chatter box, we use it right now for finger spelling, numbers and choosing what to work on. 

As odd as it may seem, today, I had my proverbial ass, handed to me, by verbs.  Teaching kiddo... well SLP said start working on verbs, so I dug into kiddos Zettles to find verbs... I had to look up what a verb was, then a list... then commence building. Then fell down a rabbit hole, now he has a book on some parts of grammar, a book filled with only verbs and one very tired mamma.  I think that counts as studying for me too. 

Brave and True : a poem from the Waldorf Method : copywork, written english languagemodel, cultural exposure and ethics Montessori Inspired: self correcting 1 to 1 : ASL to English Letters, ABC order,  left to right wrapping social studies: world habitats, art, copying images, reading comprehension, exposure,  Cultural studies: exposure,  corporate identification, economics, geography, history, vocabulary, color psychology, language acquisition, matching, connections, mapping, building future copywork and Zettelkasten for personal PKM(Personal knowledge management). _____________ Mom win! Finished the school day early. 

This coming weeks school work is set. I have a floor again after almost 6 weeks of wading through the aftermath of kiddo self medicating on Benhadryl (it's now in a locked safe with all of the other meds). Time for me to study. 

Today I put 80% of kiddos school supplies in the garage. It is available and easy to get to, now I can almost see the floor again.  I am still buried in paper but it is getting much much easier.  Kiddo went to the farmers market with me. He made his bed and helped with laundry. He did a lot of paper modeling today. No handwriting practice, but a lot of signs.  He had a pretty bad headache for part of the day but the rest of his day seemed good. 

After exploring some polymer clay, kiddo mocked up yesterday's speech class.  He made up pictures on paper and showed them to me, signing, "sign". So we "played" speech. It was cool. But, you try differentiating all the different kinds of buses in sign language.   😜😄🤪😄🤣 Kiddo did dishes today.  In general it was a very good day. 

Speech Language Pathology is an interesting field. I can see the appeal and the challenge. I can also see how some kids are scary and others are tear jerkers. Still others a a pure joy to work with.  Perhaps it has to do with the patients/clients desire to communicate verses their ability/inability to see a positive outcome even if/when they try there best.  Yet, observing from an anthropological perspective or attaching outcomes and statistics one has to wonder: when/where the child begins and the practice becomes child's play.  Kiddo had speech today, we made it into the actual clinic, rather than the playground. The rain may have helped with that a bit... I sat in front of the door so kiddo would attend, the proff and student worked with kiddo. He is a challenge to work with, but once you get his attention and cooperation, he will work...  He said one of the games was "trash"...  But he counted 1-to-1 to ten. I was on the verge of "momma cry" happ