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Sep. 13, 2005
Week 2, Monday and Tuesday
Yesterday was a mess. Joshua complained of an earache all day, up
until supper time. SO, after supper Joshua and I sat down to do a
little catch up. We managed through some worksheet pages while
Steve occupied the younger kiddos. It worked out pretty
nicely. Unfortunately our evenings are not very consistent or I
would choose to try and do some school work then, too, on a regular
basis.
I wanted to make a note here. Add another
"PLUS" or advantages to homeschooling. Your teaching time is very
flexible. If Joshua were enrolled in traditional public school he
would very likely have missed yesterday, possibly the entire day (well,
he would have been at school for maybe an hour and I would have had to
go and pick him up). He would have missed out on a day's
work. But because he is homeschooled we missed some work but were
able to do some catch up that evening and we are now fully caught up
(today, Tuesday, we worked double on a few subjects). And because
he was here and I'm his teacher I could make sure he got the material
as if he never missed it. Many times when children miss out on
lessons in public school the teacher cannot re-teach the lessons just
for that student. The student is expected to just pick up and try
to catch up, most of the work having to be done at home on his own
time. This is definitely a plus in my book! We are
completely back on track as if Joshua never missed a beat! And
this can go for any side-track whether an illness of any family member
or emergency situation or just having a really bad day (I've had a few  ).
So today, being Tuesday, we caught up with all our
material. We started drawing a Pig in DWN. We continued
working on Telling Time and Phonics review in workbooks. And we
continued our reading in The Story Of the World. Joshua was
intrigued by the stories of the Nomads and requested I continue reading
even though I had planned to stop after a few pages. So I was
able to finish the chapter. We'll move to chapter 2 on Thursday,
when I had planned to finish up chapter 1, and so we are now ahead in
this subject. That will be good when perhaps we have to slow down
for whatever reason later on!
The fun came during our lesson in Science-The Animal
Kingdom. I was very nervous about how to present this
subject. The curriculum has very little in terms of visual aids
or fun activities to capture the student's attention. So I came
up with something on my own. We made lists of living and
non-living things. Joshua got into this and we had a good
time. We then took the living things and broke them down into
Plants and Animals. Again, Joshua enjoyed this (I was so
relieved!). And once we had the Animals listed we began to
discuss Vertebrates and Invertebrates. Joshua continued to be
interested and we took it to researching some on the internet. I
found a great site that lists the various types of animals in each
catagory and showed pictures as well (very helpful as Joshua is a
visual learner).
Caleb joined in on the fun now that he had awaken
from his nap and we got into talking a lot about the backbone. We
"examined" each other's backbones and even felt for Coda's (our
dog). We looked at pictures of other animals backbones on-line (a
quick google search really didn't bring up much--to my
disappointment). But we did see the skeleton and the backbone of
a dolphin, a man, a dinosaur, and a bird.
And then for the rest of the day Caleb would walk up
to us and pull his shirt up showing his back and say, "want to see my
little bitty backbone?" Too cute!
Comments
Sep. 14, 2005 - That is so cute!
 Posted by drewsfamilytx
It sounds like you had a very productive and exciting day (at least to the kids it was exciting)!
I love the flexibility of homeschooling-- although personally I love schedules and routines and sticking to them...but we have to have a loose schedule in our house just to survive since dh's work is always at crazy times...and don't even get me started on the baby! ;-) I love that my oldest can spend lots of time with him instead of being sent off to school where he'd only have a few hours a day with the baby. How can I expect them to bond and be close if it were like that?
Keep up the good work momma! I'll have to try to break down the plants and animals like that as well-- my kids would love it!
Marsha
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Sep. 16, 2005 - Untitled Comment
 Posted by TOSPUBLISHER
Great post...and I like the DRAW WRITE NOW post below too. Thanks for sharing your days with us. So glad you are blogging here at HSB.
God Bless,
Gena Suarez, Publisher
The Old Schoolhouse Magazine
www.TheHomeschoolMagazine.com
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