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Hi,
I tried to review old posts but didn’t find anything asking exactly what I was looking for so I apologize if this is a duplicate question. As we started our first year we are slowing down as I’m realizing some things. My dd6 with special needs is not actually 6…she varies across the board with age. i wasn’t starting her at 6 but more along the prek/K areas. I’m realizing that she’s very visual and if we’re reading a book with pics and it’s not showing she gets confused. I’m going to work up to those books at a slower pace for her. My question is about moving forward in time to come. For example, with history from what I’ve seen SCM mod1 it appears to be mostly reading with narration. How do you work with a visual learner? Is this where lapbooking would work? Any other ideas on working with a visual learner – in any subject? Thanks for your time.
Is your daughter a visual learner or a visual-spatial learner?
History has been a problem for us for the last year and a half, but I think I have some things figured out. My son is 7 and was diagnosed on the autism spectrum with developmental delays. He is a very visual learner as well. He has only just started reading and is still struggling with math. This is why I love homeschooling and being able to work at his pace. For history I start out by asking what he remembers from last time, then read the reading for that day and narrate. On fridays we do lapbooks to reinforce what we have learned. When he gets older we will do notebooks. I had to start very slowly only reading 2 sentances at a time. He can now do about a pragraph. Sometimes I am not sure how much he is learning but when asked later he does remember. It takes time, but it is worth it to go slow and at your childs pace.
My dd has an auditory processing disorder and one of the ways she takes information in and organizing her thoughts is visual aids, or something to give her clues to what we are reading about. To aid in her retention when there is no pictures, I found coloring sheets or allowed her to draw a picture of what we were reading. It has worked wonderfully well. Lapbooking/notebooking activities are really good for re-inforcing the concepts if you don’t turn it into busywork – and that can be a pretty fine line sometimes. Sonya also suggests writing the names of characters or important events on a page and let them listen in the story for that person/event. That helps us too.
Sheraz has some good ideas as well. When we first started out we tried using pictures durring the reading but it became to much of a distraction. I do still use pictures, but only at the end of a reading if my ds has asked about something and couldn’t understand when I tried to explain it. I just wanted to point out that it could become a distraction rather than helpful. I also forgot that I had revised my idea to lapbook/notebook after a subject rather than every week. Fore instance now we are learning about Ancient Greece. When we are done with our readings about the trojan war and horse, we will make a few entries into our lapbook about Ancient Greece and keep adding to it as we learn more subjects. This may not be how it is supposed to be done but I figure it will be more efficent to only have one book with a few things about each subject that he makes as he goes. When we are done he will have a lapbook to look back on with tidbits of info we learned along the way that will hopefully reignite what he learned. I’m not sure I explained that well but I hope you get the idea. HTH.
I never get to email so I apologize for my delay in responsding to your wonderful ideas.
Mrs. K, I don’t know the difference between the visual vs visual-spatial. Can you tell me where I can learn more?
Sheraz and Ruth, the coloring doesn’t work as she is just becoming open to coloring and she can’t draw; just scribbles. And it is distracting to her.
Ruth, I like your idea about the lapbooking. I’m still new to understanding lapbooks which I thought were something to create around a particular subject. Are you saying you combine subjects into 1 lapbook? Could you explain a little more and tell me where you go for your lapbooking resources? I think what I’ll need to do is read the story and then explain it again as we’re putting together the lapbook. I’m okay with that as I can see her looking back through the lapbook. I know they can be tedious and I want to avoid that…just get the point across vs scrapbooking. Also, were you saying you would read only 2 sentences of history and then lapbook? I guess I would write the info into our book as she is not writing yet. I feel so confused so I aplogize I’m all over the place.
Thanks for your time.
My DD loves visuals, and while we can do some schooling without them, they help to keep her attention and to focus on the reading. For Bible we use a flannel set. It makes a huge difference!
I believe one can be a visual learner but not necessarily a visual-spatial learner. Here is an article that is pretty detailed. It was very helpful for me when we recently discovered that our 15yo is a visual-spatial learner.
http://www.visualspatial.org/files/appenda.pdf
Hope that helps!
Hi everyone,
I asked this very same question a couple of years ago and I’m happy to tell you that my visual-spatial learner is thriving with a CM education. He is now eight and the best thing we’ve found to help him (from the visualspatial.org site that Mrs. K referred to earlier) is to allow him to manipulate some clay (we use Crayola’s Model Magic Modeling Clay) during the read-alouds. This allows him to focus while listening to what is being read.
SCM’s “Delightful Reading” and CM’s method for teaching reading have also been great for him.
HTH,
Richele
Many times, my daughter will draw when we’re doing a read-aloud. She has also worked with modeling clay when we read together. She draws very well and does an awesome job making clay models. In fact, one year for Christmas, she made our family Christmas ornaments out of modeling clay.
Also, we just recently switched to MEP math, which is supposed to work well for visual-spatial learners. My daughter is doing really well with it. I am also using MEP with my youngest who is kindergarten level. MEP starts with a Reception year. It’s very visually-oriented and hands-on. You might consider trying the Reception year and see how your daughter does.
Here’s the link: http://www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/projects/mepres/primary/default.htm#reception
For the Reception year, there are lesson plans for you to use and then the copymasters are what you use with the student.
Hope that helps!
Mrsmccardell, to answer some of your questions:No, I don’t combine all subjects into 1 lapbook. Just one overall subject, for now Ancient Greece. With in the lapbook I will have all the verious things we have learned. For now Troy, then after we have learned about say the olympics we will add that. I don’t know a whole lot about lapbooking either but I’m not thinking that others would do a little at a time wiht the books. from what I have seen they seem to be done at one time, not stretched out like I am doing. Again not really sure how others do lapbook, but that is what I am planning on doing. I mostly will just be pulling pictures and maps off the internet to print out and glue into the lapbook and make a few minibooks. As for the 2 sentances, no that was refering to narrating. I would read 2 sentences then have ds narrate then read 2 more and so on until our 15 min was up. Then the next day when we went to do history again I would ask what he remembers from yesterday then go on with our reading for the day. I plan on doing the lapbooking once we have completed a subject within our time era. So once we finish reading all about Troy then we will add in a map, a picture of Helen, and a picture of the horse that when you lift up will show the army inside. And yes, I will be doing most of the writing since my son is not good with hadwriting either. I do have him do some copywork in some other notebooks we have. This is just how I am doing things. I am sure others do things a lot differently. I am not using any kind of curriculum for history except the All Through The Ages guide.
Check out youtube for some informational videos on lapbooks. HTH.
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