Aug. 4, 2007
~~Mistakes are Opportunities to Learn~~
Posted in school n stuff
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the first full week of school went off without to many problems....sarah cried with spelling EVERY SINGLE DAY....now how did that happen?....she is such a perfectionist if she doesn't get things correct she gets frustrated and then here comes the waterworks....I have got to figure a way out to get her to realize that mistakes are ok.......they aren't the end of the world.
so I made our new motto up and wrote it on the board.....it reads "mistakes are opportunities to learn"...we chanted this over & over....did it do any good? not that i see yet, but we are still working on it...
on the good side
they all really like the hands of a child OK state history...and I have a few more HOAC books they are REALLY looking forward to...they all are LOVING doing devotions,character words, spelling, grammar & geography together each day....except for the whole tears thing with sarah but it is simply the fact that her bro & sis are older than her and have "gotten " the spelling faster than she has..but she likes doing it all together.
I think I will give them this week the same work load except for I'm gonna add music appreciation to our daily things we are doing together then next Monday I will add regular history & science into the mix....yes that means we will be doing 2 history's at once....but that is ok, they can handle it...lol
I didn't get many complaints at all about having to do school work again..in fact I even got a few "hey this is fun comments out of them"
they all really enjoyed doing the character word of the week too ,this week was punctuality...they had to memorize its spelling & defination and try to abide by it...they did pretty good...although I'm thinking charater word of the week is gonna be hard now, maybe I need to make it charater word of every 2 weeks ...are there that many character words for me to come up with to have one every week?
the girls are both enjoying their handwriting books....they have a competion going as to who can do it the neatest.
now i just hope next week goes as well....actually better
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