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My serious neglect of this blog has not been intentional. There have been so many things taking place over the last few weeks that I just put it aside. Since I have devoted this blog to school and their hasn't been a lot of that going on lately it seemed a mute point. But I will give an update here... Josiah has gone to a Psychologist to see if we could figure out a better way of schooling him, among other reasons. A few things we learned are... Josiah is a gifted underachiever. He has a high comprehension level and a low processing speed. He is not getting the nutrition he needs or the proper amount of sleep. The sleep that he is getting (8hrs) is not meeting his needs. It is as though he is functioning on 4 hours of sleep. This effects his ability to learn. Some changes we've made... We have a set bedtime of 8:00. We have a new bedtime routine which begins at 6:00. I insure he sleeps (not as easy as it sounds). He has gone from lying in bed for 5 hours waiting to fall asleep to 30 min. We have changed school from six 30 min. sessions to six 10 min. sessions. We have accomplished more in our 10 min. sessions then we ever did in a 30-60 min. session. We have (yet again) started over in math. He is now doing worksheets of 0+5, 1+3, 2+4, __+6 = 9, 9+5. Tomorrow he will be adding 8. On our first day of 10 min. math he did 7 pages with 25 problems each. Today he did 3 pages of adding 9. This Friday the Psychologist will discuss a new "family" diet. I have no clue what this will entail so I have decided to let our food supply dwindle. I will be needing to shop on Saturday. My poor cupboards are looking pretty bare. Micah is still having problems with writing, focusing sitting still for more the 4 seconds, putting everything in his mouth, rubbing, and his newest venture - wearing nothing but gloves and under ware. He has a raw face from rubbing things against his lips. He had a hard time at Thanksgiving because of all the noise. We will be taking him to an Occupational Therapist on the 13th of December for these developmental issues. Zechariah has been enjoying all the extra time to play with his brothers. Tonight he tried to sleep with his big brother, because in his words, "He is so cool". Selah is having some problems with growth. She is not growing as she should. She has had some blood test done to try and find the problem, as well as, a sweat test and a urine and stool test. So far the Dr. is not sure what is going on. She did say a new word this week... Power. She is now up to 5. |
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