A rare Saturday post, yes. I figured that after I got bogged down with real life the last few days, I owed you all an update on what’s going on.
So yesterday was the meeting with the IEP coordinator and a parent-teacher conference with his general educator. Continue reading
The program that the Monster is in – Together We Grow – is geared largely to provide the standard public pre-K experience in a classroom environment that’s also built to help children with Autism start to develop skills they’ll need in a real classroom. As such, he gets the same assignments any pre-K child in Maryland gets, including all of the homework. Continue reading
No child likes to do homework.
The Monster’s class at his public school is, for all intents and purposes, a standard pre-kindergarten environment. This means that they follow the standard pre-K curriculum here in Baltimore, and he gets homework like the other students, adapted for what he is and isn’t capable of doing. Continue reading
Yesterday was our first conference with our Monster’s teacher.
I have to admit that I don’t know what I expected going into this – this is the first time I’ve been on this side of the table. I’ve been the one that was being discussed, and I’ve been the teacher. (Yes, Hebrew school, for about four years. Don’t look so shocked.) Continue reading
I think I’ve been very good about trying to emphasize my son’s strengths as much as his weaknesses. All kids are a nice balance of pluses and minuses, and the Monster’s no exception to that rule.
So we’re about a month into the Monster’s first school year. It’s time for us to start thinking about how things are going. Continue reading
So last night was the back to school night for the Monster.
I have to admit that I wasn’t ready for this quite yet – I’d figured that we had at least a year, maybe two, before we’d be doing this… but there we were, sitting in the gym of an elementary/middle school listening to the principal and whatnot. And it felt about as weird as we expected. Continue reading
One of the things that comes with going to public preschool is homework.
This is the first time the Monster’s had homework assigned on a regular basis. This is, therefore, something unfamiliar to him and we’re still working out how best to handle it. Continue reading
Sorry for not posting as usual this weekend – I decided to take a break and spend as much of it with my family as I could, rather than worrying about blogging. 🙂
Anyway. So, I wrote last week about our disaster with bussing (see I Aim to Misbehave) on Tuesday afternoon. I was very happy, as I wrote, with the school system’s response to the issue and how they took me seriously when I complained about it. Continue reading
Today’s the last day of the Monster’s first full week at school.
After the debacle that was Tuesday, and the emotional roller coaster that was dealing with the school on Wednesday morning, I think things have actually somewhat straightened out. Continue reading