Teaching Word Families with Movable Letters
This year, we made progress in reading and writing. We are learning the “ock” word family these days —words like rock, sock, and block. These small steps seem easy, but they are big wins for…
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How I Taught Sight Words to My 6-Year-Old with Down Syndrome
We started our reading journey with phonics. When my daughter turned 6, I introduced sight words to enhance our reading experience. However, what didn’t work for her might be due to shuffled flashcards, vision issues,…
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Epic Road Trip to Baralacha La Pass (16,000+ ft) – A Homeschooling Family on the Road.
This year, we planned a road trip to Lahaul Spiti, and it turned out adventurous, especially for our daughter V, who had never been at an altitude above 6000 ft. As a homeschooling family, we…
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A Hands-On Way to Teach Indian States to My Child with Special Needs
Few years ago, we started using geography puzzles with pegs to improve fine motor skills and then moved to foam puzzles to challenge those tiny finger muscles. At the same time, we were exploring and…
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How I Teach My Child with Down Syndrome Word Building with Movable Alphabets
Our journey of learning letter sounds started when my child was about 4 or 5. I have been getting many questions on the videos/posts where I shared how we are practicing writing words (CVC). Once…
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Fun Games to Learn Number Recognition.
Teaching math and helping kids understand math can be hard if you’re a homeschooling parent. I always prefer hands-on activities, play-based learning, or games. These methods are better instead of using charts, books, and worksheets.…
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Hands-On Learning: Addition Skills for Kids With Down Syndrome
This year, I started teaching the concept of addition to V. As a homeschooling mom, I still feel scared when it comes to teaching math, so I always choose hands-on learning for my subjects. One…
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How We Developed Writing Skills in Our Homeschool: Tips and Techniques.
In our homeschooling journey this year, we focused a lot on tracing. This practice resulted in letter formation. It also led to writing words and numbers. I realised that I’m not yet ready to use…
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A Big Milestone: My Child with Down Syndrome Learns to Write Words.
Her love for letters and their sounds is growing day by day. A few days ago, she amazed me by writing some of her favourite words with the help of their sounds. I was speaking…
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How My Child with Down Syndrome Learned Jigsaw Puzzles: Tips and Skills That Helped Her.
Recently we moved to a 108 pieces puzzle. Looking back, it has been a challenging journey. There were lots of tears, failures, surprises, excitement, and learning. Puzzles demand a lot of attention, focus, and thinking…
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Fun DIY Activity to Teach Kids Big and Small Concepts
Planning to make your child learn about big and small concepts in a fun way? Then try this DIY activity I found online and made a few years ago for Veda. My daughter loved pompoms…
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My Child with Down Syndrome Can Read a Book Now!
After learning phonics and sight words, this girl has begun reading phonics books. Her love for reading is growing every day, so I bought her some books from a local bookstore. We started with a…
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Learning Hindi
Last year I had one goal in our Unschool/Homeschool for Veda. Reading !! Whether it’s sight words reading or Phonetic reading. Well, happy to share that we achieved it at her pace & I am…
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Geography- World Map
If you have been following us on Instagram or checking my posts, then you can tell how much we love our Geography lessons. When I say “Geography,” I mean geography for a six-year-old, where we…
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Geoboard Activities: Strengthening Little Hands
I focus a lot more on fine motor skills and problem-solving skills for V. This wooden geo board is a great activity to learn the basic shapes. You can also practice standing or slanting lines…
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Learning About Continents- Hands On Activity
Last week we introduced Continent Puzzle for hands-on learning after V started showing interest in making her world map puzzle. I bought this amazing puzzle from Imagimake, which helped V to learn about continents by…
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Knife Skills- Slicing The Playdough Activity
One activity my girl can do anytime. Yup, give her playdough and she can play with it for hours by pinching, slicing, tearing, transferring, and pulling it. That’s why I thought let’s work on knife…
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Why We Homeschool Our Child with Down Syndrome!
My child has Down Syndrome and we have been home-educating/homeschooling her since she was a baby. This means she doesn’t go to school or follow a set curriculum like other kids her age. Instead, she…
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Learning Letters & their sounds.
Investing in magnetic letters was the best thing I ever did. Veda started spending 90% of her day in front of the fridge, playing with magnetic letters and matching them with letter flashcards. Soon, she…
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Hands-On Learning: Teaching Kids About the Human Body
When I decided not to send my 6-year-old to school, I was worried about how she would learn certain subjects like math and science. But as time went on, I realized that she learns best…
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Introducing Sight Words: A New Beginning in Reading
We have been practicing phonics and CVC for the past year at home. She loves her letters and their sounds. Last month, I got a book for V from Amazon. I couldn’t find the right…
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DIY Initial Sound Cards. Rs. 200 This DIY Initial Sound Cards have 9 pages. How to use them Please checkout the video to know how we use these cards.
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