The Switch to Homeschooling

No, we are not homeschooling our children. Yes, we did in the past and, yes, we all liked it very much, but the kids are happy in their new school over here. One of the reasons we came was to support a family that has a daughter that is deaf. For the first semester, she attended the kindergarten class that I teach and had an interpreter in there. With the other interpreter and myself, also a trained interpreter, it was a good fit for the first semester. Her parents agreed that if at any time a change needed to be made, we could discuss and move forward with that plan. Well, after January, a change was needed. Their daughter needed to switch to homeschooling to get more one on one attention that I was unable to provide in the classroom with 11 other kids. 

At the beginning of February, we made the switch. The other interpreter now works with her on M/W/F in the mornings and I work with her on T/TH in the afternoons. It has been a great two weeks and she has done very well with the switch. We have already seen lots of academic progress just in these short two weeks with the one on one teaching. The other interpreter and myself are both so glad to be doing this together and also to have the support of her parents! We are using an extra room in our new house for her schooling. We have two guinea pigs and a hamster that she also loves and gets to pet when having a break. 

The other interpreter made this huge 100 chart! WOW! 

A piggie break!