The Road Less Traveled
• Jan. 24, 2008 - More Veggie Tales, etc.
My kids are torturing me with Veggie Tales "silly songs"! Just kidding- I don't really mind them. Except when they get stuck in my head for a million years. The boys' latest favorite is the bunny song. "The bunny, the bunny, oh, I ate the bunny..." It sounds disturbing, until you learn that it is about someone eating his chocolate bunny instead of dinner. My boys like to use different voices and change up the words. This evening, I was singing it while cleaning. Sick, isn't it? My three year old got upset and demanded that I allow him to sing it, instead. I obliged. "Bunny, the bunny, no, wait...block, the block, oh, I ate block/ I'm sick in my head tummy..." His older brother got him into the habit of doing this. I suppose I can give him fine arts credit for creativity?
My 6 yo's favorite subject is math. At least, it was until recently. It has become apparent that he has forgotten a few basic skills, so now it's practice, practice, practice the old stuff. He's kind of bummed out. His habit in this subject, up to this point, has been to progress quickly and move on. I'm not sure what has caused the backslide, since he had these particular skills mastered long ago. Each time I've reviewed with him since then, I have seen no loss in retention (until about a month ago). Maybe I've moved too quickly with him. At any rate, I will not have him back at his previous level until I'm certain that he has all of this back under his belt. I'm so glad that we are in a situation where we can do this! If he were having this situation in public school, he'd just be shuffled along as if it didn't matter! Thank God for homeschooling! |
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• Jan. 25, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Blessings,
Laurie