“I know our fun in the sun ends with back to school,” was the answer a child gave to “what is Labor Day”. Labor day is the holiday to honor the labor / union movements. It’s a day to celebrate…
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Sunrise or Sunset
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Teachable Moments
“We can’t both be the teacher,” one of my boys said to the other. “Sure we can, we’ll just have the stuffed animals be the kids. They’ll listen good, because they can’t talk.” Click arrow above to see our school…
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April is over, but…
This article was meant to be posted a couple weeks ago, but blogging gets pushed back when life gets complicated…and computers are broken… I had planned to share thoughts for April’s autism awareness month, and figured I’d move onto May topics,…
Posted in Autism Spectrum, Behaviors, Child Development, Curriculums, Education, Family, Health, Homeschool, Meet our Director, Mi Families, Parents, Providers, Social Skills, Special Needs, Speech Delay, Tutoring Tagged with: Adventure Academy, Homeschool, red flags, Social Skills, Spectrum, Tutoring
Happy Hearts
Last month our team worked hard encouraging others to be their own Valentine. That’s how I realized I needed to practice what I preached. But what practice would make my heart happiest? A year ago I was working just as hard, yet…
Posted in Autism Spectrum, Child Development, Education, Family, Homeschool, Meet our Director, Mi Families, Motor Skills, Parents, Providers, Social Skills, Special Needs, Tutoring, Video Tagged with: Adventure Academy, Christi Morgan, daycare, flood, happy heart, Homeschool, labels, Mi Families, remodel, Special Needs, Tutoring
Teachable Tools: Language and Literacy
While recently training a handful of teens/young adults I was surprised at how entitled they felt. I listened to their conversation about needing immediate gratification and their “stress” for selfish wants. As the discussion grew into a debate of wants…
Posted in All About Reading, Autism Spectrum, Curriculums, Education, Homeschool, Language/Literacy, Meet our Director, Mi Families, Reviews, Social Skills, Special Needs, Spelling You See, Tutoring, Video Tagged with: All About Reading, Autism Spectrum, Christi Morgan, curriculum, Education, Homeschool, Language, Literacy, Mi Families, Reviews, Social Skills, Special Needs, Spelling You See, Tutoring, video
A reason 2 homeschool
As the excitement of “back to school” wears off I hear many parents question the best plan for their children’s education. Kids in schools are coming home in tears because of a bully or frustrated at night with their homework. …
Posted in Autism Spectrum, Back2School, Homeschool, Organization, Social Skills, Special Needs, Speech Delay, Video Tagged with: Autism Spectrum, Back2School, Children's Therapy Corner, Homeschool, Organization, Social Skills, Special Needs, Speech Delay
Our Back2School Story
At some point you look through the case-history and decide to accept labels. Red flags were there the times one appeared “clumsy” and when the other stopped talking. Red flags were thrown in your face when you were the director…
Posted in Autism Spectrum, Back2School, Education, Parents, Providers, Social Skills, Special Needs, Speech Delay Tagged with: Autism Spectrum, Back2School, Education, parents, providers, Social Skills, Special Needs, Speech Delay
Summer School
When working with students to avoid the “summer slide,” I try and make “summer school” feel more like “summer camp.” Through fun themes such as “Phineas and Ferb” we work on reading, writing, math, science, social studies … We work…
Posted in Curriculums, Education, Family, Learning through Play, Mi Families, Our World, Parents, Providers, Science, Social Skills, Special Needs, Uncategorized Tagged with: CAMP, character, Education, Mi Families, NMC college for Kids, Phineas and Ferb-tastic Activities, Science, Social Studies, Special Needs, virtues
Summer Smart
Last weekend Mi Families (“my families”) asked children what holiday they were celebrating … almost every kid answered “Cherry Festival!” I think Traverse City area needs to consider that message. Still, those kids were seeing “independence” in action and many…
Posted in Education, Family, Holidays, Homeschool, Meet our Director, Mi Families, Michigan, Motor Skills, Sensory, Social Skills, Special Needs, Speech Delay Tagged with: 4th of July, Education, family, home-made T-stool, Homeschool, Mi Families, Special Needs, Summer
SAME team
There are lots of mommy and me playgroups …and clubs …and magazines and… but not enough daddy focused services, yet more and more dad’s want to be (or are) involved on that level. Mi-Dad’s express gratitude that our programs are…
Posted in Family, Holidays, Mi Families, Parents, Social Skills, Special Needs Tagged with: dads, fathers day, moms, parents, relationships, Summer, team builders
