Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Loving this freestyle homeschooling
We are in full swing now with homeschooling and I am loving it. We did a couple of half days to get them started which is two hours and built up to four hours and they do not even know it. We are reading the Guardians of Ga'hoole books and one thing leads to the next. It started out with me reading to them for an hour then they had to draw a picture and write a brief summary on what was read. Then as a team they had to go research an owl fact having a different one each. The leader of the day has to help the other two get their owl fact on paper and they have to site their resource. No Wiki allowed!! Then the other day there was a word that none of us knew the definition to so they had to look that up as well. They also work on math apps set at their levels for half an hour each day on the kindle. They are playing games but keeping up with their math skills. I will have to figure out new ways to get harder math in there for Caleb and Riley though because they are at higher math levels than Q. Until then tho keeping their current math skills sharp is good. Yesterday was when the real fun began all they had to do was make a chart and keep track of who asked who,what,when,where and why questions. They spent all day long trying to trick the others into asking a whhh question and keeping score. Today they will make graphs off their charts and we will work on different math concepts based on that. Today they will get into trouble for asking those whh questions lol. Not real trouble but the sleeve of my sweatshirt will make contact with them as a reminder not to ask, just as the owls wings do to the owlets in the book. It wont be for long nor will I whack them hard lol I just want them to be aware of how hard it is not to ask those questions and how unfair it is to be punished for asking. Then we will touch on the constitution an human rights from that. I love how one thing can lead to the next from one book. We will also be doing life science through these books. So we have math, science, the constitution, reading, writing, communication and team work all from these books. So much more too for the boys like the drawings help with their motor skills and so on. These first few months are really a learning experience for us all but so far I am really enjoying it and when they do not know they are learning they are too lol.
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