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Learning to listen for HIS voice
Oct. 29, 2008
Playing School
Here in England each school term students get a week (or more) off for a term break. Well this week is term break for all five of my children and I thought it would be a great opportunity to show the boys what homeschool was and to basically "play school" with them. I pulled out all the old curriculum and workbooks from my older kids and have been doing reading exercises and worksheets with Gryphen while Phoenix is making books out of chipboard with word lists and doing workbook pages. Now I am not now and never have been a workbook mom but we always seem to have tons of them on our shelves so I figure now was as good a time as any to go ahead and try it out.
Gryphen loves it! He loves to sit and do the Sonlight Learn to Read program and then copy the stories into his notebook and illustrate the way he thinks they should have been illustrated. He loves the worksheets on phonics and handwriting. He loves the library and crafts.
Phoenix is his usual unsure self he wants to be a part of it but only doing things he knows he is good at. Since he is the main reason I decided to bring the boys back home this was a really good and informative lesson for me.
My DH is on a plane as I write going to Morocco for a month so yesterday I took the boys to the library to get books on Morocco and Africa in general so we could do a mini unit. Gryphen loved the library, was happy to sit and read the books we found and excited to take them home, Phoenix on the other hand was loud, didn't want to read about Africa and wouldn't sit still and kept telling the poor librarian he didn't care what she said...this is not the little boy I sent to school last year!!!
Anyways, today we are going to sit down with all the resources, coloring sheets, stories etc and make lapbooks about Morocco to be honest I am really looking forward to doing this with Gryphen but with Phoenix I kind of want to hide under a bed. I am lucky to have my older kids home this week because Chelsea will sit with us to do these lapbooks and make everything go so much smoother but when the boys start homeschool on January 5th it will be just me and the boys. How could someone with 8 years experience in homeschooling five kids at once all of a sudden be afraid of homeschooling 2 little boys????
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