If you follow our autism blog, you know that we are secular homeschoolers. However, Bu (the name by son goes by on the interwebs) recently added ABA to his therapy schedule, which means we are out of the house from 8 or 9am until about 4pm most days. Considering that Bu starts his bedtime routine at 7pm, our homeschooling has fallen by the wayside recently while we adjust to this new schedule.
Typically, our homeschool revolves around sensory or fine motor based activities with a bit of an academic spin...so for example, we might thread beads on pipe cleaner for fine motor practice, but we will count each bead, sort them by color, etc.
For this next "school year", I want to try a new approach. I am going to try a unit-based approach, so we can use a theme each week. This will hopefully keep me more organized and that will in turn mean that set up for each task should take less time, so we'll be able to do more in the limited time we have after therapies.
I have about 40 different units/themes set up on my Pinterest, so I know that every week, I can select a unit (which I've already scheduled around holidays) and print or prepare all the required stuff for the activities I've selected. I've made sure to include writing practice and sensory work in each of the units. Some of the tasks or activities might be advanced for my son, but he's constantly surprising me, so we'll never know what he's capable of until I present him with the tasks :)
I'm excited to start! I have some time to prep though, we won't be starting our curriculum until after Bu's birthday at the end of the month because we're taking him to DISNEY WORLD!!!!!! So we're looking at an early October start date.
On an unrelated note, I mentioned before that I eat GFCFSF (or try to), but in the last 3 days I've gone full paleo (except I'm #teampotato) and I want to EAT ALL THE THINGS. I'm not craving anything in particular, I'm just SO HUNGRY. ALL THE TIME.
That's today in a nutshell. I leave you with a picture of my snack, a pile of grapes...some of which have an eggplant complex ;)
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