One Smart Kid

I snapped a few pictures of Joey doing his homework last night because it just made me smile to myself, just watching him while he worked and talked out the problems to himself, spun around, fliped over, bent his knees, layed down, sat up, it was so cute. So I pretended to be reviewing some pictures on the camera but really I snapped some quick shots of him. This collage of poses was less than five minutes of homework time.



When Joey was in second grade his teacher told me something at SEP that struck me as funny. she said something that has changed the way we do things with Joey forever, she said that during lessons Joey is allowed to stand instead of sit and he sometimes skips around a little bit, and he sometimes just hops on one foot just in general he fidgets, but she had found that if she allowed him to fidget and move around he retained more of the information then when he was forced to sit. She said she thought it might be because it took all of his attention to try to sit still like the other children and he couldn't listen to the information being given.

I am dislexic and I made it through the entire school system without one person questioning why I failed time and time again I thought It was because I was just stupid. So needless to say I am so very grateful for the fact that one wonderful teacher let my little Joey break out of the mold and do things his way. He has done well ever sense that SEP because I have passed on this tip to his other teachers. Joey is a brilliant kid, he does very well in school. That is not something that seems to be logical according to the information I have been given on children like Joey who have been diagnosed with ADD. I attribute it to the fact that he has had teachers who are fantastic, not just good but truely fantastic. I love our school we have amazing teachers,and I love all teachers who break out of the mold, who are more interested in giving each child an education then just getting them to hold still and be quiet until the school day is at an end.