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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Homeschooling is not for everyone.  We tried it and found it too isolating.  And still hard to find peers to share common interests.  School for Tomorrow is probably the closest you can come to homeschooling and still be in a school.

OP I was also going to suggest that you have your daughter practice printing at home a lot.  Handwriting without Tears has very inexpensive workbooks.  Another idea is that you dictate from a favorite book and she prints a few sentences daily.  The reward for good effort (for such a boring task) could be that you then spend x minutes discussing the book, or read together after the printing.  You will be encouraged to get your daugther into keyboarding, which I have had mixed feelings about for my very fine-motor challenged son (gifted with special needs).  I resisted the advice because I knew his printing would only get worse and the fact of the matter is your child will be relying on printing on many in school assignments and all quizzes and tests.  Also these kids think very fast and get frustrated when their slow and labored printing can't keep up.  So I recommend really working on printing and any fine motor activities as much as possible.  And gross motor for that matter (foundation for fine motor).  There are threads on activity ideas on this thread and the special needs thread for fine motor stuff. [/quote]

OP here. Thank you for this. I will get the workbooks and try out your suggestions. [/quote]

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