In Their Own Way (Book Review)

We recently took on home educating our boys and I decided to read this book in an attempt to help me find ways to help our "struggling learner" to reach his full potential. I also needed to find ways to help restore their “natural love for learning'”

It had me hooked from the first chapter & I’ve just finished it. 294 pages in 1 day, a new personal record for me. WOW, what an amazing source of useful information. It has helped me “see” why the system has failed our sons so miserably & why it has killed their love for learning. I “saw" many areas in which to amend my teaching strategies to better fit in with their learning styles & preferences. It has given me insight on how to restructure their next school year in a way that would make our home education journey less stressful and yet more productive…

This is an absolute MUST read for ALL parents as well as educators. I believe if all schools  implemented teaching strategies that addressed ALL learning styles in  the classrooms, schooling in our country could be revolutionized. Unfortunately regular educators care only about competence in its most traditional & bookish sense – reading, writing, science, social studies & Maths in boring text and worksheets. Students who are talented in art, music, dance, mechanical repair, computer programming, or are creative in not-traditional ways wither away & become the underachievers, learning disabled & ADHD labelled.

Parents will be able to discover where their children “fit” into the system. They will be able to determine whether the school is nurturing their children’s multiple intelligences. Textbooks (and their accompanying worksheets) structure 75% to 90% of all the learning in our schools whereas the part of the brain that thrives on lectures and worksheets probably takes up less than 1% of the total available for learning. The current “worksheet wasteland” would be transformed and instead we would have happier & less stressed children in our schools. Less children would struggle through school and end up labelled “learning disabled” or “ADD/ADHD”, instead their true gifts and abilities will be drawn out & developed. These stale teaching methods are referred to as being “brain-antagonistic” and shut down potentials rather than open them up.

" What happens to the learners in this worksheet wasteland? The truth is that most of them learn to comply and remain passive and may outwardly appear to be very successful students. Other children, unable to go along with such stale fare as they're given  daily in the classroom, begin slipping in their achievement but are able to keep up appearances to a greater or lesser degree. These are the underachievers that we keep hearing so much about. Lawrence Green in his book Children Who Underachieve, estimated that up to 50% of our nation's children are underachievers. Finally, there is a group of children totally unable to keep up with the charade, mostly because of their own unique ways of learning clash so severely with the narrow way that the schools go about educating them. This group has earned a couple of unjust lapels in recent years: learning disabled (LD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disordered (ADHD)"

"It's been said that if we taught children to speak the way we teach them to read, we'd have a nation of stutterers. This is just another way of saying that our schools are selling millions of kids short by putting them into remedial groups or writing them off as underachievers, when in reality they are disabled only by poor teaching methods. We hear so much about the learning disabled or ADD child in the news media. It's probably truer to say that these children are "worksheets disabled", "curriculum disordered", or simply "dysteachic".

The schools fail our children when they limit their teaching methods to lectures, textbooks, worksheets and tests.

They dampen the thirst for knowledge in all children by teaching them things that have little relevance to their personal lives."

Parents with children that have been labelled "learning disabled" or “ADD/ADHD” will receive insight into the reasons why your kids have been labelled and equip you with information & ideas on how to change their learning experience. It will enable you draw out their inner strengths and abilities in order to help them learn.

"ADD seems like a matter of convenience to many adults who are in charge of "round kids" who don't fit into the "square holes" of home and school. The label helps a teacher get a troublesome child out of a regular class and into a special education room, helps a parent get a drug prescription to set the problem right (instead of first considering other more fundamental changes, and even helps many students get more time to take tests and complete assignments in class. Unfortunately, though it's the child who gets saddled with the disability label and has to go through school looked upon as less normal than the other kids. Nowhere in this litany of deficit, disability, and disease is there the recognition that these children may learn very well IN THEIR OWN WAY."

After reading this book, parents will be more aware of labelling and the affects that psychological testing can have on their children. Parents will be able to make more informed decisions regarding testing, instead of willingly accepting educators’ recommendations.

"And yet, when these children enter school, virtually all the focus of teachers and parents gets placed upon their "disability". It reminds me of the story about the animals who decided to create a school for climbing, flying, running, swimming and digging. They couldn't agree on which subject was most important, so they said all the students had to take the same curriculum. The rabbit was an expert in running but almost drowned in swimming class. The experience shocked her so much that she never could run as well after that. The eagle was a whiz at flying, of course, but when he showed up for digging class, he was so inadequate to the task that he got assigned to a digging remediation program. It took up so much of his time that he soon forgot how to fly. And so on with the other animals. The animals no longer had the opportunity to shine in their areas of expertise because all were forced to do things that did not respect their individual nature. In much the same way, we're doing that with our children, neglecting their gifts and talents while at the same time forcing them to waste hours of time in boring inappropriate remediation groups and special classes. Eagles are meant to fly!"

In short there are 8 different kinds of intelligence and we need to teach all relevant to our children in order to help them reach their full potential.

1. Linguistic ~ Word Smart / ability to use words effectively
2. Logical-Mathematical ~ Number Smart / capacity to work well with numbers and / or be adept at logic or reasoning
3. Spatial ~ Picture Smart / ability to visualise pictures in one’s head or to create them in some two- or three dimensional form
4. Body-kinaesthetic ~ Body Smart / using the whole body & hands
5. Musical ~ Music Smart / capacity to carry a tune, remember musical melodies, have good sense of rhythm or simply enjoy music
6. Interpersonal ~ People Smart / ability to understand and work with other people
7. Intrapersonal ~ Self Smart / self-understanding & knowing who you are, what you’re good at & what you’re not good at
8. Naturalist ~ Nature Smart / ability to identify the natural forms around us

Address all these styles & your children are bound to succeed

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KONOS 5 D’s of Learning motivate through FUN:

DO Children love hands-on. A wise teacher uses the five senses as an ally, capitalizing on the child’s God given curiosity and interest.

DISCOVER Hands-on increases opportunities for children to figure out their own answers, thus developing their critical thinking.

DRAMATIZE Children remember, NOT merely cover, the things they dramatize whether it is a starfish, an explorer, a poem, or an atom.

DIALOGUE Parents, NOT textbooks, are the best teachers. KONOS teaches parents how to dialogue with children to reinforce learning .

DRILL After immersion in a topic, NOW it is time to drill and wrap-up to crystallize concepts and information.

Brain Dominance

~ in addition to Learning Styles, is a key to learning & life success!

When we removed Misha, our struggling 2nd grader from private school in August 2010, because he was struggling in school in spite of being a very clever child that could memorise books like a parrot & yet wasn’t able to read, he had already lost all his self-confidence & hated school. At that stage I had absolutely no knowledge about learning styles or even brain dominance.

Thanks to Tannie Hettie, our eldest’s Grade R teacher at Hettie HenPlaygroup, I discovered that his gross & fine motor skills hadn’t been addressed properly. I figured once the motorskills were addressed, his learning would improve. Although he did show huge progress with the motorskills improvement, he still had huge resistance to worksheets & workbooks, thus getting schoolwork done was still a daily struggle for us. It was only after about 8 months of homeschooling that I finally stumbled onto a website about learning styles & brain dominance.

WoW, what an eye opener that was. Finally I understood why my bright 7 year old was struggling so much with schoolwork. All the indications were there that he’s a right-brained child & hence the left-brained learning environment at school was just not working for him. He needed alternative instructions in order to retain what he was taught. In hindsight, Misha’s motor skills were only part of his problem, the other contributing factor was his learning environment. School just didn’t cater for his kinaesthetic & visual spatial learning styles & he just didn’t fit into the left-brain dominant teaching environment.

For more information on brain dominance, please check out the links below. I’ve spent the last 4 months incorporating these strategies into our school day & have since seen a huge improvement in all areas of learning. He is finally able to read & starting to slowly regain his confidence…

• How to tell why your child is struggling ~ The Right-Brained child struck in a Left-Brained curriculum.

• Left Brain, Right Brain or Whole Brain? ~ An examination into the theory of brain lateralization, learning styles and the implications for education.

• Hermann Brain Dominance Theory ~ Brain dominance information page.

• Right Brain / Left Brain Inventory ~ An inventory of the different ways the right brain and left brain process information.

• Is Your Child Right-Brained Oriented? ~ The Homeschool Mom

• Learning Styles ~ This web-site contains information on how Hemispheric Dominance (Left of Right Brain Dominance) influences learning styles.

Left Brain vs. Right Brain

Left brain	Right brain
Analytical, led by logic	Intuitive, led by feelings
Logical	Emotional
Verbal, focusing on words, symbols, numbers	Visual, focusing on images, patterns
Work up to the whole step by step, focusing on details, information organized	See the whole (big picture) first, then the details
Highly Organized	Organization ends to be lacking (Random)
Orderly and predictable	Spontaneous and flexible
Like making lists and planning ahead	Free association (Impulsive)
Few gestures when speaking	Many gestures
Logical	Creative
Sequential	Skipping around
Specifics	Main idea
Work independently	Cooperation in groups
Observation	Touching and feeling actual objects (sensory input)
Names	Faces
Literal	Contextual
Words	Pictures
Symbolic	Concrete
Process ideas sequentially, step by step	Process ideas simultaneously
Words used to remember things, remember names rather than faces	'Mind photos' used to remember things, writing things down or illustrating them helps you remember
Make logical deductions from information	Make lateral connections from information
Likely to follow rules without questioning them	Like to know why you're doing something or why rules exist (reasons)
Good at keeping track of time	No sense of time
Spelling and mathematical formula easily memorized	May have trouble with spelling and finding words to express yourself
Plan ahead	Trouble prioritizing, so often late, impulsive
Likely read an instruction manual before trying	Unlikely to read instruction manual before trying
Listen to what is being said	Listen to how something is being said
Likely to believe you're not creative, need to be willing to try and take risks to develop your potential	Likely to think you're naturally creative, but need to apply yourself to develop your potential

In addition to the characteristics above, ask yourself these questions to determine whether your child has characteristics of a right-brain orientation:

1. Does your child struggle to memorize facts?
2. Is your child spontaneous, rarely planning ahead?
3. Does your child like to discuss and talk while learning?
4. Does your child struggle to “show all work”?
5. Does your child prefer a relaxed, non-traditional school environment (such as lying on the floor)?
6. Does your child figure things out without much evidence?
7. Does your child struggle with self-discipline, and tend to act impulsively?
8. Does your child skip problems when doing math?
9. Does your child struggle with doing work in workbooks?
10. Does your child like to do hands-on, interactive projects?
11. Does your child enjoy mechanical, technical, or “put it together” types of pursuits?
12. Does your child lose track of time easily, or often underestimate how much time he has?
13. Does your child question rules regularly?
14. Does your child learn complex concepts easily but struggle with easy skills?
15. Is your child imaginative and creative?
16. Does your child find answers without knowing how he got them?
17. Is your child dramatic and demonstrative?
18. Is your child sensitive to emotions and attitudes of others?
19. Does your child have a good photographic memory?
20. Does your child work well with noise, music, or activity in the background?
21. Does your child develop unusual solutions to problems?
22. Does your child prefer pictures, charts, and graphs to written words?
23. Does your child enjoy fantasy-based and/or mystery books over biographies?
24. Does your child have to “see” a word in his mind to be able to spell it?
25. Does your child skip over directions and immediately “jump in” to assigned work?
26. Is your child able to brainstorm many options to potential problems?
27. Does your child have a good sense of rhythm or an aptitude for music?
28. Does your child have a good sense of humour?
29. Does your child like to move around while doing schoolwork?
30. Does your child often want you to “get to the point”, and get bored with long descriptions or details?
31. Does your child like to doodle while he works, or enjoy drawing or colouring?
32. Does your child learn whole words easily, but struggle with phonics?
33. Does your child have a good sense of direction, and is he able to read maps well?
34. Does your child enjoy taking risks?
35. Does your child tend to procrastinate, and wait until the last minute?
36. Does your child seem to daydream often?
37. Does your child enjoy listening to music while doing work?
38. Does your child struggle to keep his desk and room organized?
39. Does your child enjoy computer-oriented games or learning?
40. Does your child learn better by demonstration than explanation?

If the answer to many of these questions is “yes”, you may have a child with right-brain characteristics!

Left Brain vs. Right-Brain Functions

Left Brain Functions	Right Brain Functions
Uses logic	Uses feeling
Detail oriented	“Big pictures” oriented
Facts rule	Imaginations rules
Words and language	Symbols and images
Present and past	Present and future
Math and science	Philosophy and religion
Order/pattern perception	Spatial perception
Knows object name	Knows object function
Reality based	Fantasy based
Forms strategies	Presents possibilities
Practical	Impetuous
Safe	Risk taking

Skills Associated with Hemispheric Specialization

Left Hemisphere	Right Hemisphere
Handwriting	Haptic awareness
Symbols	Spatial relationships
Language	Shapes and patterns
Reading	Mathematical computation
Phonics	Colour sensitivity
Locating details and fact	Singing and music
Talking and reciting	Art expression
Following directions	Creativity
Listening	Visualization
Auditory Association	Feelings and emotions

Modes of Consciousness

Left Hemisphere	Right Hemisphere
Linear ~ Linear means part-to-whole. The left-brained person takes little pieces, lines them up, arranges them in logical order, and arrives at a convergent conclusion.	Holistic ~ The right-brained person thinks whole-to-part, holistically. The child with a dominant right hemisphere starts with the answer, a total concept, or perceives the whole pattern and discovers a divergent conclusion.
Symbolic ~ The right-brained person thinks whole-to-part, holistically.	Concrete ~ The child with a dominant right hemisphere starts with the answer, a total concept, or perceives the whole pattern and discovers a divergent conclusion.
Sequential ~ The left brain approaches life sequentially.	Random ~ The right brain floats randomly through life’s experiences.
Logical ~ The Logical person knows exactly where he gets his answers. He starts out with a little piece of information and logically works toward an end result.	Intuitive ~ Right-brained children are intuitive; they are not logical. They pull the answers right out of the air. They can give you the answer to a long-division problem but they may not be able to work through the sequential steps.
Reality-based ~ Left-hemispheric children can deal with reality, with the way thing are. Left-hemispheric children are very much affected by the environment and will adjust to it. If something is presented to them they will shift and react. If something is not there for left-hemispheric children, it doesn’t exist for them.	Fantasy-oriented ~ Right-hemispheric children will try to change the environment, to make it shift and react to meet their needs in any way they know how. They deal with fantasy, with imagery, with imagination.
Temporal ~ Left-hemispheric children have a sense of time.	Non-temporal ~ Right-hemispheric children have very little sense of time. They simply do not comprehend when you set time limits. They cannot think in any terms except the here and now.

Brain Dominance Tests:

• Brain Dominance Test (Online Test)
• Hemispheric Dominance Inventory Test
• Lumosity
• Left-Brain / Right Brain Quiz for Teens

Right-Brain Teaching Tips:

• Improving Academic Success with Right-Brain Learning Methods by Lori Enomoto
• Right-Brained Math from The HomeSchool Mom
• More Right-Brained Math Ideas from The HomeSchool Mom
• Right-Brained Reading from the HomeSchool Mom
• Right-brained Reading Strategies from the HomeSchool Mom
• Right-brained Reading Strategies, Part 2 from the HomeSchool Mom

Left Brain, Right Brain: Perspectives From Cognitive Neuroscience (Series of Books in Psychology) by Sally P. Springer

Right-Brained Children in a Left-Brained World: Unlocking the Potential of Your ADD Child by Jeffrey Freed

Making Right Brained Learners Scientists Using Right Brained Strategies by Leo Hernandez

Right Brain Math: A Fun, Easy, Visual Approach to Math by Thomas Biesanz

The Right Side Of Learning: Effective Study Skills For Attention Deficit, Dyslexia, And Creative Right-Brained Thinking by Melanie West

 

Please visit this page frequently as I will be posting regular updates as I find more resources.

Learning Styles

~ the key to learning & life success!

Learning Styles, in my experience/opinion, are the essence of effective learning. When learning is addressed in the correct learning style, it’s hard to forget what has been learnt. I have witnessed the effects of addressing learning styles first hand with my kinaesthetic third grader.

When we removed Misha, our struggling 2nd grader from private school in August 2010, because he was struggling in school in spite of being a very clever child that could memorise books like a parrot & yet wasn’t able to read & by then, had lost all his self-confidence & hated school. At that stage I had absolutely no knowledge about learning styles or brain dominance. Thanks to Tannie Hettie, our eldest’s Grade R teacher at Hettie Hen Playgroup, I discovered that his gross & fine motor skills hadn’t been addressed properly.

I figured once the motorskills were addressed, his learning would improve. Although he did show huge progress with the motorskills improvement, he still had huge resistance to worksheets & workbooks, thus getting schoolwork done was still a daily struggle for us. It was only after about 8 months of homeschooling that I finally stumbled onto a website about learning styles & brain dominance.

WoW, what an eye opener that was. Finally I understood why my bright 7 year old was struggling so much with schoolwork. All the indications were there that he’s a strong kinaesthetic learner and a right-brained child & hence the left-brained learning environment at school was just not working for him. He needed alternative instructions in order to retain what he was taught. In hindsight, Misha’s motorskills were only part of his problem, the other contributing factor was his learning environment. School just didn’t cater for his kinaesthetic learning style & he just didn’t fit into the left-brain dominant teaching environment.

“When you help your child identify and respect his own learning strengths, interests, talents, and needs, you give him roots in the gifts he was born with. When you help your child discover his dreams, passions and goals, you give him the wings of motivation and purpose for becoming an eager, self-directed learner”

~ Mariaemma Willis and Victoria Kindle Hodson

Knowing your homeschool learning style can help you save yourself and your child hours, weeks, and even years of frustration. You’ll be amazed at the difference it will make to how much more they remember when they are allowed to learn their way.

If your child is not learning the way you teach, then "teach the way they learn"…

Misha’s SmartTutor Reading Progress Report

This progress report proves how effective teaching“the way they learn” has been to our third grader’s progress in just 6 months. I am now convinced that most of his problems experienced at school resulted from his learning style not having been catered for properly.

Below are just a few of the sites I’ve found on learning styles & how to address learning in order to better retain memory.  Start off with one or all of the below tests & then gather all the information you can to help you address your child’s learning in his/her learning style.

Learning Styles:

• Linguistic intelligence ("word smart") ~ attune to the spoken and written language, verbal skills. Uses language to express oneself and also as a way to remember information. (Examples: poets & writers)

• Logical-mathematical intelligence ("number/reasoning smart") ~ is able to analyse problems logically, detect patterns, and reason deductively. (Examples: mathematicians & scientists)

• Spatial intelligence ("picture smart") ~ able to recognize and use the patterns of wide space and more confined areas. (Examples: artists, architects, surveyors, & inventors)

• Bodily-Kinaesthetic intelligence ("body smart") ~ able to recognize and use the patterns of wide space and more confined areas. (Examples: artists, architects, surveyors, & inventors)

• Musical intelligence ("music smart") ~ involves skill in the performance, composition, and appreciation of musical patterns. (Examples: singers, musicians, & composers)

• Interpersonal intelligence ("people smart") ~ concerned with the capacity to understand the intentions, motivations and desires of other people. (Examples: sales people, social directors, & travel agents)

• Intrapersonal intelligence ("self smart") ~ entails the capacity to understand oneself, to appreciate one’s feelings, fears and motivations. (entrepreneurs & therapists)

• Naturalist intelligence ("nature smart") ~ entails the ability to recognize, categorize and draw upon certain distinctions and patterns in the natural world.

Learning Style Tests:

• Accelerated Learning ~ Discover your preferred learning style
  LDPride

• How To Learn

• A SelfPortrait ~Learning Styles Online Inventory for Home Schools, Classrooms, Parenting

Info on Learning Styles:

• VARK ~ a guide to Learning Styles

• Learning Success Institute ~ testing, training — for home school & classroom success

• Learning Styles ~ Online Learning Style Assessments & Community

• Custom Homeschool Curriculum – A better way to teach and a better way to learn. Custom Homeschool Curriculum guides you in teaching how your child learns best. Here you’ll find curriculum suggestions and teaching strategies that focus on your child’s unique learning style. You’ll learn tips for teaching tough subjects like math, reading, and writing, plus ideas for those days when you seem to hit a wall.

• How to Learn

Learning Style Books:

In their own way: discovering and encouraging your child’s multiple intelligences by Thomas Armstrong ~ Read my review here

Learning Styles by Marlene D. LeFever

Discover Your Child’s Learning Style by Mariaemma Willis and Victoria Kindle Hodson

The Way They Learn by Cynthia Ulrich Tobias

VAK Self-Audit: Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Communication and Learning Styles by Brian Walsh

Practical approaches to using learning styles in higher education by Rita Stafford Dunn, Shirley A. Griggs

Visual Spatial Learners ("picture smart")

• Visual Spatial Learners by Gifted Development Center. A service of the Institute for the Study of Advanced Development.

• Teach with Movies provides Lesson Plans and Learning Guides based on feature films & movies, full length and snippets (video clips), for classes in English, Social Studies, Health, Science and the Arts.

• Visual Spatial Resource

Books:

Visual-Spatial Learners by Alexandra Golon

Upside-Down Brilliance: The Visual Spatial Learner by Linda Kreger Silverman

Dreamers, Discoverers & Dynamos: How to Help the Child Who Is Bright, Bored and Having Problems in School (Formerly Titled ‘The Edison Trait’) by Lucy Jo Palladino

Kinaesthetic Learners ("body smart")

• Superlinks Accelerated Learning ~ National Reading Diagnostics Institute and Keys Learning

• Keys to Learning Success Your ADD or ADHD child may just be a Kinaesthetic Learner who could quickly go from the pain of frustration to the joy of success

• FREE Checklist For Kinaesthetic Learning Preferences ~ ADHD | ADD or Merely a Kinaesthetic Learner?

• Keys to Reading Success identifies a student’s reading level, but shows you why students are struggling and how to solve the problem in the shortest time. The fastest way to raise K-12 Students to Grade Level and Beyond in Months.

• Ricki Linksman’s Reading Instruction The Largest Reading Instruction Site Covering All 4 Learning Styles

• Off The Wall Phonics Accelerated Phonics for Kinaesthetic Learners, ADHD, ADD, or Kids Who Like to Move–Fast, Fun and Proven Games to take your child from his or her current level in reading to reading mastery (K-12, or college) in the shortest possible time.

Books:

The Fine Line Between ADHD and Kinesthetic Learnersby Ricki Linksman

The Kinesthetic Classroom: Teaching and Learning Through Movement by Michael S. Kuczala, Traci Lengel, Mike Kuczala, Regional Training Center

How to Make Learning a Moving Experience (Kinesthetics) [Action Based Learning] by Jean Blades

Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soulby Stuart Brown M.D. & Christopher Vaughan

Brain Gym Tools – Brain Gym This book; in first person story format; includes the 26 Brain Gym movements and simple instructions for how to perform them correctly. The book reaches out to all with the message that movement and learning are necessary companions. Every page contains high energy illustrations of activities recommended for people of all ages. Included are specific routines of movement for specific skills such as reading comprehension and hand eye coordination. If you know that you or your child have the ability or the information but can’t seem to call upon it at will; you’ll benefit from having a copy of Brain Gym.

Please visit this page frequently as I will be posting regular updates as I find more resources.

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4 Comments to

“Learning Styles”

1. October 28th, 2011 at 3:54 am ReplyElize vd Merwe Says:

   I looked up our learning styles and I am mostly Naturalistic with Intra- and Interpersonal a close second and third. Adam is also dominantly Naturalistic with Spatial (pictures) a close second. Kinaesthetic isn’t as high as with Rocco, who is by far kinaesthetic.

   • October 28th, 2011 at 12:58 pm ReplyPatrizia (a.k.a. Trys/Trixi) Schwartz Says:

     Thank you for stopping by. At least now you’ll know what you’re dealing with when other people try to tell you he might be “ADHD” or “ADD”. Since you have a Kinaestetic child on your hand I really reccomend you get hold of the books “In their own way: discovering and encouraging your child’s multiple intelligences” by Thomas Armstrong” and “The Fine Line Between ADHD and Kinesthetic Learners by Ricki Linksman. They include loads of ideas how to help these children & will help you with your decision making when you need to start purchasinc curricula. I consider it money very well spent because you can avoid purchasing material that won’t work for your child. Blessings Trys

2. June 29th, 2011 at 9:37 pm ReplyCarol Says:

   I thought I would throw this site out there for Learning Styleshttp://www.time4learning.com/learning-styles.shtml. I have to 2 daughters that are completely different learning styles so this a passionate subject for me. For those homeschoolers that use an online curriculum this is specailly helpful.

   • October 28th, 2011 at 1:02 pm ReplyPatrizia (a.k.a. Trys/Trixi) Schwartz Says:

     Thank you Carol, catering for Misha’s schooling seems to be a neverending challenge. I’ve recently put him onto Time4Learning, because he seemed to be bored with his other schooling. From what I’ve seen so far the lessons are collourful & interactive and fortunately he’s now happy to do some “school” again. So far so good, now to see how long it lasts before he gets bored again…