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September is National School Success Month. An excellent way to plan for a successful school year is to structure your home as an environment that fosters learning.
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1. Provide a specific time for children to complete school work.
2. Set up a specific area, other than their bedroom, designated for study. It should be a quiet area that has a good source of natural light and no fluorescent lighting. However, softly playing Mozart in the background has been shown to improve learning. Have the tools your child will need close at hand including pencils, paper, dictionary, thesaurus , and any other supplies needed to complete their school work.
3. Consider utilizing Sue Patrick’s Workbox System as a way to organize your child’s work. This system encourages a child to stay on task and complete their work in a timely fashion. www.workboxsytem.com
4. Throughout your house, have positive reading materials close at hand. Consider subscribing to fun, educational magazines, daily newspaper, and a library box with books you borrowed on your most recent visit to the local library.
5. Find a a central locale for a family calendar. Be sure to request a school calendar at the beginning of the school year so you can incorporate important school activities into your family’s events. Hold teens accountable for adding their activities to the family calendar!
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Kim Ashby earned a BS in Nursing from The Catholic University of America and, when she worked outside the home, was a Certified Emergency Nurse with a special interest in trauma nursing. She lives in Raleigh, NC with her husband and three sons. The Ashbys have home schooled their children since 1999. They graduated their oldest son in May 2007. He is attending UNC Wilmington. Kim continues to home school her younger boys. Her oldest son was diagnosed with ADHD when he was in the public school system in the second grade. Her second son has cerebral palsy which has resulted in multiple/global developmental delays. Her youngest son has undiagnosed, mild auditory processing issues.
Kim has co-instructed graduate level courses at UNC Chapel Hill for ST/OT students and Early Intervention students. She is the founder and President of the Board of Directors of GIFTSNC, Inc., a home schooling special needs support group. Kim has presented workshops at a variety of state home school conferences as well as local support group parent meetings and is often a guest speaker at homeschool conferences and is found on many guest speaker lists including Balancing the Sword. She is a Steering Committee member and former Treasurer for Dayspring Home Educators in Cary, NC. She served on the Board of Directors for the Family Support Network of Wake County. She holds a North Carolina Wildlife Permit for Small Mammal Rehabilitation and enjoys working with orphaned and injured wildlife.
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." Mark Twain