Dyslexia Games (for mom!)

I have always enjoyed watching the kids work in the Dyslexia Games series B and C. Every time they complete a puzzle, I want to also work on a puzzle. (This post uses affiliate links. When you use my affiliate links, I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you for supporting my site!) I recently received a DIY pocket journal just for me that had a few pages from the Dyslexia Games series. I thought, now I could just print these for myself since I enjoy them so much. So that is what I did.

The Thinking Tree--A Rose Academy Review

We have found a fun way to do school around here. When our box of homeschool journals and coloring books arrived for us to review, it felt like Christmas! The Thinking Tree (Dyslexia Games) offers Do-It-Yourself homeschool journals. Each day the student completes a given number of pages. The first page is where the student records the current date. The following pages instruct the students to work through each school subject: spelling, reading, math, etc. My kids are still completing their Math-U-See lessons, but when they come to a math work page in their journals they draw and write several math problems as a review. (This post contains affiliate links. When you purchase items using my affiliate links, I earn a percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. Thank you for supporting my homeschooling and creative efforts!)

Lexi is completing one of the reading time pages in the Do It Yourself Homeschool Journal & Delight Directed Learning Handbook . The instructions say to read for 15 minutes from each of 4 books and then draw and write about what they learned. This is an excellent form of written narration and I really like this approach to reading/literature. I like the freedom it gives the students to choose their own literature at their own reading level. No more battles. I am thinking about making a few suggestions as there are specific titles that I would like for her to read this year.

These journals are so unique because the students are engaged in delight directed learning--the student chooses what they would like to learn about. The teacher could also assign a few specific topics if they would like. My kids chose to read and learn about several different topics: money, China, Ben Franklin, Minecraft, Abraham Lincoln, life in colonial times, and the list continues. We had a really fun trip to the library where they chose all of their books for their journals.