Of shoes and ships and sealing wax...

Dusting off the blog after a long summer vacation while the kidlet was away at her Dad's house.

Getting back into the school routine. She's jumped right into history this year, picking up where she left off with the Sumerians and hedging into India.

Math we've spent quite a bit of time on currency. She seems to be having a hard time remembering that a dime is 10cents, thus 6 dimes is more than 6 pennies. I saw a set of realistic looking play money last time I was at Target, so I think I'm gonna pick some up. Also got her a math bingo set, and a telling time bingo set.

Her psychiatrist/therapist/whatever you want to call her is encouraging group therapy with a group called the ClueBreakers, however, the registration fee is $300 for either 6 or 8 sessions (the page is at home and I'm not) It would be other children her age learning about social interactions in a setting where they won't be made fun of. I would LOVE to get her into it, but unfortunately an upfront fee is out of my budget right now.

Her therapist has also reminded me the importance of having a written routine to follow, so we're going back to a chore chart and routine chart; Grandma is doing better about following my routine for schoolwork.

Kidlet has been wanting to watch Bridge To Terabithia so I decided to adopt the principle my freshman english teacher used. Read the book first. Still battling on that one, but until such time as she starts reading again, she doesn't get a movie.

She briefly had a computer to play educational games on. And then the processor or motherboard died in my computer, thus causing the Husband to go into another round of shell swapping, giving me Kidlet's former computer, and grabbing one of the spare mini towers, and using software to create a series of Virtual Drives on it to trick her computer into thinking it has that many CD-rom drives, and that each one has that disc in it. It is having sound card issues, and since all of her games are sound based, this is quite sub-optimal.