Our days have naturally begun to evolve.
Despite popular opinion we felt no need to take an 'unschooling' season. We have easily adapted into a pattern of work that suits us.
Our basic schedule looks like this at the moment:
1. Eye exercises (10mins)
2. Mathematics (up to 30mins sometimes longer)
3. English can take many forms : read aloud, self reading, comprehension, copy work, poetry or grammar / language worksheets.
We have touched on other sciences this week which have included:
History - Reading Modern Day Hero series (Anne Frank) and discussing the Holocaust.
Geography - using our world map to locate all the countries involved in WW2
Science - introduction to electricity, building a circuit, conductors and understanding how traffic lights work.
We have looked at basic capacity measures while baking as well as estimations.
What have I learnt this week?
Watching her reading about Anne Frank has show me how much she loves to learn about people - their experiences, achievements, challenges and circumstances. With this knowledge I will begin to look at history/geography and science through the eyes of people who lived in the eras we plan to study.
I have also seen the capacity for retaining information is directly proportional to their interest in the subject.
Yay Mel. I bet you're learning too? Might be quite fun to learn what I learnt at school again. How much time do you spend prepping for each day? Happy for you guys :-)
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ReplyDeleteI am very curious as to how your other children are finding this. As in are they really curious what you two are doing, are they leaning more towards want to learn at home too. Do they just think she is on holiday and gets to stay home each day?? Or are they still really happy with the decisions they have made?