Raising Kids of Character With Grace and Peace
Aug. 14, 2006
An Eclectic Approach
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Well, we are now facing our second week of homeschool. I've made Mondays our no school/cleaning day. The kids have mixed feelings about this, but I think it's important to prepare our home for the week. Plus it takes care of those Monday blahs for school. We are using A2 which I really like, but we're not relying solely on one curriculum. Last week I declared Wednesday to be a "no math" day. They were free to read just about all day. I did require the logging and writing about what they read, but it went great. Cameron read his Star Wars book and did Puzzlemania magazines, so he got a lot of good brain work in. Carly read some of her books. She made bracelets with string and helped with the twins. Andrew did some fun stuff in his Kindergarten workbook. I felt like it was a good school day, but the kids felt like it was more of a free day. I plan to throw those days in once a week to break up the monotony. Also I've bought materials to start doing lapbooks. I love the concept. Our first unit to do is on bees because I got it free from www.handsofachild.com (or something like that). Our history, science, and some language arts will be supplemented with these. We'll do timelines, reports, oral reports, skits and stuff like that as well. I feel good about having the spine of our learning being the A-squared. Then we can fill in with creative or "fun" hands-on stuff. That way we know what to do even if mom is not feeling "up" to the task of being creative. School with my new kindergartner is a hassle. He is my strong-willed little feller who has a hard time staying focused. I would be tempted to let him go to public school for kindergarten, but I'm afraid they'd try to put him on Ridalen (sp?). :-) Anyway, he was doing better as the week progressed. I only do a half day with him, and I have to present something different each lesson it seems. Trying to get him to write his letters or do a little copywork is rough. He may not be ready for it, and that is fine. I'm using this year to get him used to learning really - to teach him some character lessons more than his ABCs. He has a good mind though and picks stuff up quickly - when he's paying attention. The twis are another matter. I sit them down to color or watch a video on Heavy Equipment/Trucks (which they beg for and love), but they'd rather sit in my lap. Two is such a clingy age. But our schedule is working out beautifully accept for the after lunch part. We're getting there. Anyway, kids are up. I hear them downstairs. Gotta go. Talk to y'all later. |
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