Almost Friday … PEWE, EBAY & Surprises

30. January 2009 by admin.

Well it is almost Friday …. And I certainly am ready for it.  It has been a busy week.  I have been working on the new project, selling sample PEWE items on Ebay and finding out that you never know what surprises wait for you around every corner of life.

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Never mind the surprises – but a few words on the PEWE set.  I am really excited about it and found it to be a successful tool in a very structured environment.  Unfortunately in our home it is not quite as easy to utilize.  I have a very busy household as many of you know …. So it has been with great pleasure to work with my son on using ‘his words’, sign language and some PECS style communication work.  I do use a wide variety of techniques.  The added benefit of using sign language has been the exposure of a second language to my other children that normally would have no interest in learning it (except for my daughter – she is quite good with sign and studies Spanish too).

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My preferred form of teaching reading is via a phonetics style but my overall goal is for my youngest child to experience the joy of reading – on his own that is – I did not set a time limit – I would be thrilled if it happened when he was twenty-six … and he is only nine – I am patient.  I did create a mini series of titles using my PEWE word cards and he does seem to enjoy the independence of being able to read.  I want to add several more titles to this series and when it does occur I will add the set onto Peanut Butter Crunch.  You will be the first to know about it.

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As for the Phonetics ‘style’ …. It is the Funtastic Phonetics program that I am speaking of …. In the next 2 months the weekly sets will begin appearing on PBC.  The series is essentially complete … I need to compile the data for the last few weeks … but it will not take long when I begin working on it.  I will write more on the curriculum as the posting time draws near.

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Okay … this has been a very brief posting and not a lot of technical jargon but I wanted to keep you up to date about PBC and make sure you know that you are important too!

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Have a Great Evening 

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