Executive Functioning 101: How to Teach Your Child to Clean Their Room! - Special Needs Homeschooling

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EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING SKILLS 101: How to Teach Your Child to Clean Their Room! (And Still Respect Personhood) Can’t get your child to clean their room? They might need a little help with executive functioning skills!  “Executive functioning skills” includes day-to-day skills such as working memory, flexible thinking, and self-monitoring. These skills help us organize, plan, and prioritize tasks and help keep us focused on those tasks.  And ALL of that is needed when approaching a big project like cleaning aRead More →

Organizing to Support Executive Functioning Skills for You and Your Child

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ORGANIZING TO SUPPORT EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING SKILLS for You AND Your Children! Sometimes we can ALL use a little help with executive functioning skills!  “Executive functioning skills” includes day-to-day skills such as working memory, flexible thinking, and self-monitoring. These skills help us organize, plan, and prioritize tasks and help keep us focused on those tasks.  But if you or your children have trouble in this area, there are some things you can do to help! In this video, Amy shows youRead More →

How We Study Presidential Elections in Our Homeschool

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How We Study Presidential Electionsin Our Homeschool I’ve always made it a point to study the election process with my children. In college, I majored in Communications with a minor in Political Science, so you could say that “politics” is a constant, on-going conversation at our house.  I think it’s essential that the election process is both familiar and understood before the legal voting age of 18.  So here’s what we’ve done for past elections and, while the details mightRead More →

Usborne Books and the Charlotte Mason Method - Yes or No?

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Usborne Books & Charlotte Mason?Yes or No? Can you use Usborne books in a Charlotte Mason homeschool? Are there any books that are “living books” in the Usborne catalog? Watch the video to find out!  https://youtu.be/UDTkPdInhbE Join us for aBOOK PARTY!Thursday, October 8th, @ 8:00 p.m. CDT CLICK THIS SQWEEE PARTY LINK TO RSVP! Below you’ll find a few Usborne books for each subject… but if you want the scoop on ALL THE BOOKS then join us for the BookRead More →

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Special Needs Homeschooling? You Can Do It! Do you need help homeschooling a child with special needs? Our Special Needs Consultant, Amy Bodkin, Ed.S., has been with The Plenary for one year now! In that time, she’s helped 100 children from 53 families. To celebrate this, I asked some of those families to submit videos to tell Amy just how much she means to them and how much she has helped them! See what other homeschooling families have said aboutRead More →

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HOMESCHOOLCON How to Homeschool Successfully in 2020 “What kind of education do I want for my child?” That is the question you might be asking yourself in this unusual time as you find yourself suddenly homeschooling and wondering “What is education?” Or, maybe more acurately, “What could education be?” I attempt to provide an answer to that question through the lens of a quote by Charlotte Mason: “The question is not ‘How much does the youth know?’ when he hasRead More →

Special Needs Homeschooling Online Conf 2020 - Speakers Amy Bodkin and Temple Grandin

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Special Needs Homeschooling Online Conference with Dr. Temple Grandin and Amy Bodkin, Ed.S. How do you homeschool when your child has special needs?  Your Special Needs Homeschooling Questions Answered Amy Bodkin, Ed.S., Special Needs Consultant here at CMP, will be a guest speaker at this year’s Homeschooling Special Needs Online Conference – along with Dr. Temple Grandin. Amy, who is an Autistic adult like Dr. Grandin, says the honor of speaking at the same conference brings her own journey full-circle:Read More →

Special Needs Homeschooling Developmental Approach to the Charlotte Mason Method

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Taking a Developmental Approach to Special Needs Homeschooling Using the Charlotte Mason Method What Form or grade should your child be in? How do you know where to place your child within the Charlotte Mason method? What are the steps your child needs to take next? “Every child is a PERSON, not a diagnosis.” – Amy Bodkin, Ed.S. A Developmental Approach to the Charlotte Mason Method Amy Bodkin, Ed.S., Special Needs Consultant at CMP, takes a Developmental approach to specialRead More →

The Way of the Will & The Way of the Reason - Charlotte Mason's Principles 16, 17, 18, 19

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WILL AND REASON IN A CHARLOTTE MASON EDUCATION Charlotte Mason’s Principles #16 – #19 PRINCIPLE #16 There are two guides to moral and intellectual self-management to offer to children, which we may call “the way of the will” and “the way of the reason.” PRINCIPLE #17 The way of the will: Children should be taught (a) to distinguish between “I want” and “I will.” (b) That the way to will effectively is to tum our thoughts from that which weRead More →