Knights Becoming and a Lady in Waiting

Ooh, I Get It!

I'm working on what we'll be studying next year.  Technically, I'll still only have Prince Berryboy (1DS6) doing schooling, but Prince Derryboy (2DS4) has started reading and doing basic math and he sooo badly wants to "do school" that we'll do something informal.  That means we have to include Prince Dannyboy (3DS2) in some of it.  Whee!

I've been trying to figure out why The Well-Trained Mind, Story of the World, and First Language Lessons don't work very well for our family.  They are great curricula... but they don't work for our family.  I took a test with my oldest on learning styles and it's now very clear: we are both kinesthetic, then reading/ writing, then visual.  We have almost NO auditory learning skill at all.

Well, duh!  All those lovely curricula are dependant on an auditory learning style!

I am so... relieved.  Okay, I'm a little bummed to have spent money on these books and to not be able to use the latter two... but I'm glad I did it now and we're done with it.

I could just DANCE, even though I'll have to figure out a better way to do grammar next year without spending more money (we've decided to do geography for a year with no history, so that's at least no biggie). 

I think I will dance... thunk, clunk... SMASH!!  (Okay, I'm not that kind of kinesthetic!)

decisions, decisions...

5:30 PM, May. 8, 2006 .. Posted by tallenmomof5

If I "know" you from the FIAR board I'll look like an idiot for asking this, ;) but have you thought of Before Five in a Row for the younger boys so they can do "school" too? I think that's what we'll be doing with the littles here next year.
Blessings,
Trish

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5:56 PM, May. 8, 2006 .. Posted by chickadee

where did you take the learning style test? i'm interested in that.

my two cents

5:57 PM, May. 8, 2006 .. Posted by MuckFootMom

BerryBoy is your oldest and is six?

My advice - relax! Grammar and all that stuff can wait. Read together, play together, work on Bible and chores and obedience, and grow into the rest ...

Have you read the Bluedorn's 10 Things to do before 10?

Kim :-)