• Oct. 18, 2008
One more tip that I forgot!
A few years ago I was talking with my aunt who has been a public school teacher for about 30 years. I was talking to her about K12 and kind of complaining about the amount of work to be done. She had a few tips but the one I remember the most is that she told me that you can do one task and conquer three different subjects.
For example: When your child does an art project you can have them do their writing assignment about their art. Then you can have them go over their writing with a fine tooth comb for grammar and usage. Say you are covering sentence structure in your GUM subject, have your child double check their sentences. This can go for history or other topics as well.
For a while when my boys were bored with the spelling program I had them make a story using all of their spelling words at least once. It was like mad libs. They loved it! Then I had them try to draw a picture to depict what they wrote about, it was a riot.
If you can kill two birds with one stone I say go for it. Three is even better!
