s homeschool parents, The first is AOL at school:
there are many options for http://www.aolatschool.com. There
teaching our children. I is an amazing amount of
have found the variety out there information, links to complete
to actually be overwhelming, but online textbooks and more. This
few resources actually meet my is where I go when he finds a
needs. My son is gifted, but has topic of interest and he wants to
ADHD. As a clinician and a know more. (Remember when we had
professor, I hated seeing him to get our parents to take us to
struggle in school. Each day he the library?) One of the benefits
would tell me he had "Carnitors" here is that it is FREE! The
(T-Rex's for the rest of us) in textbooks range from kindergarten
his tummy. After meeting with his all the way through high school
teacher several times, it became and cover most topics.
clear that the school was
unable/unwilling to meet his The second resource I found
needs to my satisfaction. Kids serves as the foundation for our
with ADD/ADHD need a place with homeschooling curriculum:
few distractions, short bursts of http://www.time4learning.com.
learning followed by physical Time4Learning provides a
activity, structure and learning multimedia, interactive
materials tailored to how they experience for kids covering all
learn and learning times basic subject areas. For children
scheduled around when they learn with ADD/ADHD, you can break it
best. down into snippets of 10 minute
lessons. Additionally, many of
After spending several months and the lessons combine subjects.
several hours each day creating That is, the "Language Arts"
his lessons piece-meal, I found a lessons are often on topics of
couple of wonderful resources. health, science and history. This
helps ease my mind considerably,
because I can know he is learning A third resource is
educational material when he http://www.education-world.com/.
reads. (Many of the so called This site has TONS of ideas,
reading books from his public printable worksheets and
school were no more than See Spot activities. Since kids with
Run). The other advantage with ADD/ADHD have difficulty
Time4Learning is that they set switching tasks, it is often
your child up at his/her grade preferable to have one "subject"
level. per day and present it in a
variety of formats (reading about
As I said, despite the ADHD, my it, watching a movie about it,
son is gifted. He is set up to do applying it).
2nd grade work (he is in first
grade), but he can progress as Other resources include:
fast as he can and still master
the material, or he can have Discovery School:
easy/review days and do http://school.discovery.com/
grade-level work. For parents,
you can create an assignment book ABC Teach:
that links Time4Learning http://www.abcteach.com/
assignments to the skills they
were supposed to learn. I use FunBrain:
this to record his grades for the http://www.funbrain.com/
school board to review each year.
I have found customer service to SuperKids:
be very receptive to suggestions, http://www.superkids.com/
they are regularly adding new
features and their customer Everything4Kids:
support is prompt and courteous. http://www.kapili.com/topiclist.h
tml (This is geared to the older One suggestion is to set kid's
or advanced student) profiles up with icons on their
desktops to only the 5-10 sites
KidsKnowIt: they are supposed to go to. My
http://www.kidsknowit.com/ children will often stay on the
coputer for hours if they can.
These last resources do not have Children with ADD get overwhelmed
a syllabus or curriculum, but if they have too many choices and
they are FUN. For the child with things to look at. This helps
ADD/ADHD this is especially limit their distractions.
important. Some days they are too
stressed, tired or focused on Sean went from a child who would
something else to concentrate on look at a page in a book and say
"the basics." As long as this "Far too many words" to a child
does not happen too often, it is who reads to me and asks "Was I
fine to let your child do an reading fluently Mommy?" I have
off-topic educational activity gotten the time back in my day to
that he or she is interested in. start working part-time again.
In our house it is usually Between these all of these
wildlife resources most any child and/or
(http://www.enature.com), homeschool family can find what
dinosaurs(KidsKnowIt) or space they are looking for.
(NASA).
About the Author:
Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes currently runs an online private practice Dr-Is-In and All CEUs, an online continuing education site, and St. Luke's an action-oriented, online church
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