Printing homework

Matthew struggles with unstructured work in general, even though he can quite happily sit down with a blank paper and write an amazing story, song or poem. He has even been described as a Bard already by people who have never met him, just taken a liking to his story and work online.

I do a lot of printing from educational sites that provide printable worksheets. There are links to several good quality educational sites from our website at Aspergers & Home Education click "view my free links" from there. You can also read my story in full about Matthew's experience of school and his "Terror Tower" story that stunned us all.


Back to printing, I use a system called continuous ink which saves me over 95% on inkjet printing costs, never have to change a cartridge and can print in high quality without running out in the middle of a print run. If you home educate or have a child with high homework amounts, print lots of photo's or even work from home (don't let all the men get the glory here girls) then you can print all those flyers at very low cost too. Click here to see continuous ink.


This method of using printed worksheets and often comb binding sets of work into books soon produced what seemed to Matthew, an enormous pile of work. Often something simple like a number puzzle or word search would challenge his thinking sufficiently on a lesser accademic day, while themed sets of work would provide an accomplishment of around ten pages of work on a better concentration span.

At one time, we were struggling with maths, changing from times to add to subtraction or division was challenging no matter how many times we tried, so we set up ten pages of each type od sum, graduating in difficulty. Matthew had ten days (two school weeks) to do a page of each type of sum. We called this a "Maths Blast". It was very tough, but worth it on the last day. His self worth at completing a 40 page book in ten days was amazing. The work sheets can be found in our links page as mentioned above. A site called Maths by Subject.

Meanwhile, my apologies for there not being a post for a while, but I have been busy with business and also my Daughter Heidi has seen so much improvement in her little brother, she realised that Home Education was a better option after all. She loves the freedom of home education and has learned so many valuable lessons socially by being with the family again instead of in her room doing homework that she has already become a much happier and confident young lady.