Magellan Learning Center

10/10/2026

Notes the students leave to other classes

10/08/2026

The littles of us had some laminated mini pages publications donated this week and they had so much fun practicing their reading on the jokes section! A time was had!

10/07/2026

If your child has received a dyslexia diagnosis—or you suspect dyslexia and you’re trying to understand what that really means—please know this:

**Dyslexia is so much more than flipping b’s and d’s.**

Yes, letter reversals can happen. But dyslexia is a language-based learning difference that can affect decoding, spelling, sound-symbol connections, reading fluency, and the ability to quickly retrieve and manipulate the sounds in words.

And one of the biggest misconceptions I hear is:

**“They just need to read more.”**

For many dyslexic students, more reading alone does not fix the underlying problem.

Imagine being handed a code you don’t fully understand and being told that if you just look at it longer, read it slower, and practice it more, eventually you’ll get it.

That’s incredibly frustrating.

Dyslexic students need to be explicitly taught **how our language works**—how to hear and manipulate sounds, connect those sounds to letters and letter combinations, break unfamiliar words into manageable pieces, recognize spelling patterns, and approach a word systematically instead of guessing.

And guessing is a BIG one.

When a child has struggled with reading for years, they often become incredibly good at compensating. They use the first letter. They look at the picture. They use context. They memorize words. They guess what would make sense.

Sometimes they become so good at compensating that adults don’t realize how much they’re struggling.

But if they still cannot independently break down an unfamiliar word, the underlying difficulty is still there—even if they’ve completed a reading intervention program or managed to keep up academically.

That is one of the reasons I use the **Barton Reading & Spelling System at Magellan Learning Center.**

Barton is explicit, systematic, multisensory, and structured. We aren't asking students to simply “try harder” at something that hasn't worked for them.

**We teach them a better way to do it.**

Because a struggling reader doesn't need more opportunities to struggle.

They need the tools to understand what to do when reading gets hard. ❤️

If you have a child with dyslexia—or a child who is bright, capable, and still struggling to read or spell the way you think they should—I encourage you to learn more about what dyslexia actually looks like.

This video is a great place to start:

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10/07/2026

Videos for high school Algebra are only 5 minutes long and only used to differentiate instruction. Not in place of it. The rest of our 30 minutes is spent in real instructional time, and making sure the information is gaining momentum. Students have ample chance for team work and for individualized work. So proud of our high schoolers this year! Some big things happening in these pictures right here.

10/07/2026

This is what homeschooling can look like. ❤️

Our homeschoolers got to step outside the classroom and visit the Amazon Distribution Center—learning firsthand how a massive operation works while spending the day with friends.

Homeschooling isn’t about keeping kids away from the world. It’s about giving them more opportunities to go out and experience it.

We’re building friendships, curiosity, confidence, independence, and strong values along the way.

And we’re pretty proud of the young people they’re becoming. ❤️

— Crosby Explorers Homeschool Group & Magellan Learning Center

09/25/2026

All the places Eddie has been this week! It's hard being the class pet.

09/24/2026

Microscope Day at Magellan Learning Center! 🦋🪶

One of my favorite things about having our own little nature center right inside Magellan is that science doesn’t have to stay in a textbook.

When the microscopes come out, our students can head over to the nature center, grab feathers, butterflies, insects, plants, and other specimens, and take a closer look at the world around them. 🔍

There’s something pretty amazing about watching kids discover that an ordinary feather isn’t so ordinary once you put it under a microscope.

I think it’s safe to say microscope day was a hit. 😂

Hands-on learning is the best kind of learning. ❤️

09/23/2026

Thank you to all who came out to our See You At The Pole 2026 for Crosby Explorers Homeschool Group! What a blessing it is to be able to live in a country where we have the freedom to meet this way to pray for our communities.

09/23/2026

Prime numbers are better with a team! 🧠➗

08/31/2026

Magellan classes will be closed tomorrow due to inclement weather Tuesday, September 1, 2026.