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Education is a Process, Not a Destination
Aug. 17, 2007
Notes one week in
On Spanish
I was starting to get a bit frustrated at how s-l-o-w our progress has been. We'd cover no more than half a chapter per week in Voces y Vistas. (I'm using American capitalization because that's what the textbook writers use, BTW.)
Then I looked more closely at the book and realized, that with 16 chapters and four En Camino pre-chapters, we'd still cover the entire book in less than a year and half at that rate. Since I'd be thrilled to cover it all in two years, this is nothing to sneeze at.
DS will, of course, have done NONE of the written work at that point and no reading until next year at the *earliest*, so I'm not granting a high school credit for Spanish I until he's done quite a bit more than one high school textbook.
On Granting Credit
I will grant high school credit whenever the equivalent of a high school course is completed, no matter what the age. I am not doing anything resembling testing right now, which means that if DS does accumulate enough credit, he'll get a P for pass rather than a grade.
On Violin
I hate teaching violin, oh, yes, I do. It's the only subject I loathe, and I'm putting it off today until this evening because I hate it so much. I think maybe we should move it to the first thing of the day--otherwise, I don't think I'll actually do it. Gah.
On Singing
My kid is no future opera star, that's for sure. He makes this bag-pipe like noise at first until he picks up the words, and even then, he sings like he has a mouthful of marbles. Yikes.
On Math
My little hearth thrilled today when I told DS that he either had to leave me alone and play quietly so I could work or start school and he was so excited by the idea of doing math that he chose school over playing. Math did go tremendously well--as is should, given how easy it is for him. We take a full half hour to do two days' worth of material because we repeat anything he enjoys, like today, when we had to play a memory game twice. |
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