-=> Quoting Barb Luongo to Regina Finan <=-
 BL> Hi Regina!
 
 -=> Regina Finan said this to All on 28 Sep 96  22:12:12<=-
 
 RF> I just remembered another question.  How many hours do some of you
 RF> teach? We have school 6 days a week.  M-F  9-3:15 and S 9:30-12.  Is
 BL> Will just turned 14 and is taking courses that are in 8th through 10th
 BL> grades.
 BL> I let him choose 4 core subjects to do assignments in Monday through
 BL> Friday. He can take as long as he needs with each one, as long as he
 BL> understands it. It usually doesn't take very long. He also has other
 BL> things that aren't from the textbooks that we apply to school -
 BL> reading, computer, piano lessons and a few other things.
 BL> I think the sooner I let him do his 4 subjects, the better he is at
 BL> sitting and focusing.
 
 Jonathon wrote 4 reports yesterday.  They weren't big things, but they
 were on dinosaurs.  He drew a picture and wrote a few lines about it.
 He read it in front of us all.  That is good for him as he is language
 deficit.  He has a hard time expressing himself and so this was a big
 accomplishment for him.  Especially since he had to answer questions on
 his own afterwards.  I assigned one report and he did 4 on his own.  I'm
 really proud to see his motivation growing. He didn't really do the report
 the way I wanted it, but I let it go.  The fact that he was so motivated
 (which is something that died last year in formal school) I was very
 pleased.  Plus he did it all by himself.  He is very dependent on me, my
 fault, from all the years he was in school.  All I got to say is he is on
 the road.  Now the other two.............I'm working on it!
 Regina
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