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Courses and items for this academic year: Charlie has some high school Carnegie units under his belt, between last year and this summer: Physical Science Honors Geography Honors Algebra I Latin I 1/2 unit Intro to Engineering 1/2 unit Communication This year, he will take: Geometry Honors English I Honors Biology I (haven't decided if this will be an Honors course or not yet) Politics and Citizenship Guitar Home Economics Intro to Agriculture This is proof that you can successfully homeschool through Asperger's, multiple learning disabilities, and the across the spectrum.

Today we went back to the homeschool store and purchased a different science curriculum. I wanted something more hands-on and concrete to use with my Asperger & LD learner. We read the first lesson together and then he took the quiz for the reading portion. Tonight we did the hands-on learning activity for giving a visual learning experience for Creationism-v-Evolution/Big Bang Theory. I was excited about this activity for him due to the way the activity made the explantion of this concept so concrete for him. We discussed the impossibility of randomness for everything just exploding from nothing and landing all in such order and beauty of a perfect design. Then we discussed how there had to be the hand of a Supreme Being to create such order and perfection down to even the most minute details. There is also the later discussion that many gods could not exist to do such perfection as the universe and mankind, as they would all argue and nothing but chaos would have ensued. ...

It was a whirlwind of a day today... We were running on less than enough sleep this morning. Last night entailed reading the First Aid chapter of the Boy Scout book to the child to review with him for the CPR and AED certification training he took this morning. Finally, a little after midnight, it seemed as though even review had transpired as the child was engulfed in a meltdown. (Of course, his mother was not far behind him in having her own little meltdown as well.)  He went to bed, and I got to stay up until 3 am to grade papers for the online classes. This morning, the child mastered his pretest to qualify to stay for the CPR training. Thank goodness someone understood that he needed the test read to him due to the learning disabilities and this was provided for. :)  I love that God is on the side of those who are true to Him. Jehovah Jiereh!!  This gave me 4 hours to be able to get some stuff accomplished. I picked more blackberries before the heat of the...