Posts Tagged ‘IEP’
Cyclone has started a new semester at school. Gone are drawing and painting and general fitness and present are television production and weight-lifting. Concerning the latter, the lad has had no actual experience with lifting weights thus far at school. He and I used to lift free weights on occasion when we were homeschooling, but I think the training he will get by a professional coach will stand him in good stead.
If, of course, the coach materializes. He’s been out all week and the kids have just been killing time in his class!
However, the TV class is going much better. It is exciting for me to see how my older son lights up as he relates things he learns in this class. Homework last night was – surprise, surprise – to watch TV and take notes on the commercials. Alas for the young man who HAS to watch television for homework! Tonight, though, he is going to be making a 3-D model of a DNA strand. Or a part thereof. He and I have discussed it and will go shopping for appropriate materials this afternoon. I enjoy his sense of humor and skewed version of his school day.
Builder, though, is not as communicative. He puts a barrier between school and home that is rarely breached. I rarely hear about school; he flatly refuses to discuss it at home. The reverse is also true; his teachers hear almost nothing of what happens while he away from them.
So the yearly IEP meetings are highly enlightening for all of us! I am pleased to report that Builder is mastering many of his former educational goals and is ready for new ones. As he finishes first grade and enters second, he will have new opportunities and will undoubtedly find new ways of communicating. Already, he has made such outstanding progress!
My kudos to the ESE staff at his school. They are truly amazing people with remarkable dedication.
