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Today is our last school day this week. We're going on a field trip to the fair tomorrow... fun field trip, huh? This week went well. I'm struck more and more how my boys learn in completely different ways. I'm again amazed that my Mom has done this for 19 years with 8+ different children, different learners, different styles of teaching for each. I wasn't sure how Samuel and Beth would do while I was preoccupied w/ the boys all week, but they did well. I incorperated them into as much as I could. Samuel even colored a few times... he really liked that!! I think it made him feel like a big boy. Levi amazed me again with his reading. He took Magic Tree House #2 to bed for their quiet reading time the other night. He said he read it, but he wasn't reading aloud, so I wasn't sure how much he understood. So I had him tell me the story and he got it!! So not only is he reading, but he's reading to himself and comprehending it. *sigh* Makes him sound SO OLD! He also did great with his math this week. He completed 25 pages!! I had to make him stop every day cause he wanted to keep going. It's just simple addition & subtraction right now... an intro to $$ as well. It's easy and he grasps the concepts so quickly. James is hard for me to patiently teach. I'll be doing a bit of praying over the next 12 years over how to handle his schooling. Each day at the end of the school day we journal. I let them journal what they want, but do keep it within some paramaters. Today they had to journal about things they like. Another day it was something they learned that day.... just things like that. I also journal by writing what they learned that day. It helps me to keep a log of it all... and I'm sure it'll help when it's time to report to the state! The one thing I'm finding difficult with homeschooling is that now I have NO TIME to myself at all. I thought I had no time before, but this is bad. Instead of cleaning in the mornings now I have to do it in the afternoons, which is so dificult for me. By the time it's time to cook dinner I don't want to do anything because I'm just too tired. I've been getting up between 5:30 and 6 to do my doula studying, then the kids are up at 7, we start school between 7:30-8. We finish around 11. Chores for the kids (which is really more work for me) Then lunch... then naps for the younger 2, quiet time for the olders. I start my chores and studies. This continues until everyone is up for snack, then dinner time, then soccer twice/week or outside play time til bed time. Then up at 5:30 the next morning to start it over. |
DH took the day off so we can go, so I'm pretty excited!! Not to mention we get in FOR FREE because of the homeschool group we are a part of! 
Beth learned quite a bit just by listening. She told me today that our state park is on the yangtze river and Ping wants us to come see him. he he he. I think she wants to go to the park. 
He doesn't pay attention as well as I'd like him to, so he doesn't grasp what we're learning as quickly. I learned that we need to do Reading Made Easy first thing in the morning because by the time we're done an hour of schooling he doesn't want to pay attention. So I catered the school schedule to his needs. We start w/ the Reading and then he does his workbook. After that we do our FIAR together, which is reading a story and then a lot of hands-on learning. He thrives on that!! We finish the day off with our art project & journaling. 
Do you see any time I can have a second to myself in there? *sigh* No time to scrapbook or read for pleasure anymore. EEK. Maybe it'll get easier.... Comments
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Posted by gregorysmom
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