Thank you all so much. Today was a rough day. We headed to the library and she had a melt down, we had to leave, it was embarassing....but I was very proud that after she stopped and calmed down she was able to recognize that her actions were inappropriate and she asked to go back and apologize. She did all by herself to. It probably didn't help that she was tired and was up from 11:30-2:30am last night. She says "I just can't turn my brain off" She was up reading and talking to me about light sources. LOL
Right now she gets very locked in, very rigid, and inflexible, so when moving to another task she loses it. This just recently started and I think there's some genetic OCD going on there along with after effects from the move. We are really working on it, but it is trying on everyone in the house.
Thank you for all the suggestions. I miss our homeschool co-op group back in PA. She was able to interact with all different ages and had been allowed to be in the older groups classes. Unfortunatly there are not a lot of kids here. We do not have a YMCA but do have a local Parks and Recreation department that has activities, although they all seem pretty age segregated without much wiggle room. I do have her enrollled starting in Jan, in a once a moth till May pottery class for 2-5 year olds, and a one month soccor thing for 3 and 4 year olds. In the summer they usually have all kinds of very neat programs, but....they all state the child must have completed K. Well she has, at home with us, and really completed 1st grade too.....but how do I convince them of that for a 4 year old (she will be 4 then)?
The girl scouts here state the child must be enrolled in K. Although she REALLY wants to do girlscouts and I quote "get lots of patches!". I am again, not sure how to approach them, as she has completed K just not at the school here. Any ideas?
Dee Dee- I am very concerned with the rudeness, and we have really been working on it, modeling, etc. She is actually very polite and interacts wonderfully with teenagers and adults...but struggels desperately with her own age kids. I see her already using academics to cope, as soon as her friend left she spent several hours immersing herself in math...it seemed like it was a life line for her and helped her deal with having played and felt frusterated with her playmate for 2 hours.
Cricket- Thank you for the links. I am checking them all out tonight. Ansley really wants to do the EPGY after looking at the demos online, so DH and I are trying to use it as an incentive to have better behavior and less melt downs.
Lucounu- Yeah, for science we are actually buying a 3rd grade textbook, have some work books and will be doing lots of science experiements. And your right, the hardest part is just not being able to even drive to a musueum or other activity to suppliment. I have to get creative>
Mich- I can ILL. I checked today. That will help alot. I am going to have to check out that book after the holidays
Thank you. I am a southern girl and I freeze LOL. But it is beautiful here. You should see the mountains and volcanic cliffs falling right into the Bering Sea. AMAZING. And yes, she LOVES poetry, that was one of the things we were reading in the middle of the night last night! LOL
Grinity- Good to "see" you again. We have found a very gifted highschooler to "keep" her every now and then and he came over for the first time last week and she LOVED him. The wrote stories and did solving for x together LOL. We also had a Christmas party the other night and one of our guest turned out to be a former montessori teacher who recognized right off DD's "uniqueness" and spent the whole evening doing math and reading with her. He promised to come over and play with her again LOL. So now I just need to find some kids in elemetary ages for her to be able to play with.
Newmom21C- I love the all winter long science experiment. WSe have already been doing lots of measuring LOL. And I think it would be good to invest in something indoor. Maybe there will be some sales after christmas. The bad thing is shipping here can be outrageous. I had to pay $70 on shipping for her $100 playmobil pyramid for Christmas! It's crazy!
Thank you all for your help
And any ideas on how to approach the Parks and Recreation on leting her in the older programs this summer and the girl scout troup would be helpful. Thanks!
