* I wrote this post several weeks ago and finally finished it today. *
I have been reading several post on other blogs and gleaning from their post. Some of them have been on training the children with chores, managing money (rewards for chores or allowances) and treasure jars (teaching the children the importance of laying up treasure in Heaven vs. earthly treasures). My husband and I, in our efforts to change our homeschool ideas and our home, we have been re-evaluating what would work for our family. Since, Allen Jr. cannot read, we have to look for other alternatives to training him. We use a program http://www.mayer-johnson.com/products/boardmaker-software/ for making picture symbols with words, so that he can see both and we do use some sign language. We have an older program of this and several years ago we made our own chore system it has worked really well with both of the children, but now we need to change a few things and add some more in. That will have to wait, because we cannot find the main cd for this system. To replace it would be $200 +, to re-buy would be $400+, so we are going to be praying and looking for the cd over the next few weeks. I will post pictures of our boards soon.
Long, long ago in a land far away before I had my children (being funny) I used to work for Region 5 Education Service Center in the Special Education and PreSchool department as a secretary. We had a library of items, such as, boardmaker and many others. You might check with your local Service Center and see if there is library of sorts for such things... if not, they might loan you there copy anyway to help you out.
ReplyDeleteShannon, Thank you for the suggestion. My husband said, "oh yes, that might be the answer" :o) We will definitely look into that.
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