Was worried about the whole letter joining bit , but decided that it would be a good thing to know for quicker writing at the end, so far it's coming along steadily and un-evenfully, I'd say!
Sunday 18 December 2016
Home Schooling, Early Years: Some Free-Flow Learning
I'm not particularly into teaching to learn (only) from the world around you.
Sure, I recognise the aesthetically appealing argument, yet my intuition sending me no thumbs up about it. Perhaps it's the result of seeing our teen go total 'Minecraft is all I want, all I want is Minecraft...mmm, no programming or doing graphics is a bit boring, mum, it's not what I'm into' , for a couple of years, and then, overnight it was a bit like 'Minecraft? What Minecraft?' There are other examples. Perhaps school was to blame.
We are lucky, O seems to like structure. He does have days when it's just plain to see that anything I'm trying to teach him just going over his head. That's ok, we just cut the lesson short and move on with the day, if I managed my own 'braindead days' better, I suppose I'd try to teach him how to, but forget it. Braindead days are what makes us human, by mere suggesting that we do have brain that's not dead rest of the time.
Anyway, days' like these only happen about 10% of a time in our Home Schooling, at a stretch. Otherwise, it's just a routine for him: 'When are we doing 'staudiing' ?' 'Can I do numbers with sticks?' 'What book are we reading? Oh, not the same! Can we read another one now? ' That kind of thing. It's nice to see him laying out lego letters and calling the names out just for fun, in his spare time.
Sure, I recognise the aesthetically appealing argument, yet my intuition sending me no thumbs up about it. Perhaps it's the result of seeing our teen go total 'Minecraft is all I want, all I want is Minecraft...mmm, no programming or doing graphics is a bit boring, mum, it's not what I'm into' , for a couple of years, and then, overnight it was a bit like 'Minecraft? What Minecraft?' There are other examples. Perhaps school was to blame.
We are lucky, O seems to like structure. He does have days when it's just plain to see that anything I'm trying to teach him just going over his head. That's ok, we just cut the lesson short and move on with the day, if I managed my own 'braindead days' better, I suppose I'd try to teach him how to, but forget it. Braindead days are what makes us human, by mere suggesting that we do have brain that's not dead rest of the time.
Anyway, days' like these only happen about 10% of a time in our Home Schooling, at a stretch. Otherwise, it's just a routine for him: 'When are we doing 'staudiing' ?' 'Can I do numbers with sticks?' 'What book are we reading? Oh, not the same! Can we read another one now? ' That kind of thing. It's nice to see him laying out lego letters and calling the names out just for fun, in his spare time.
O's dad is quite organic, on the other hand. He gets O to help him with online shopping while reading words or at least sounding out letters. I suspect if we did it with him every day, it would be just a way to study for him by now, but as an occasional activity, O takes great pride in reading this and that of the 'grown up' stuff.
He used to be able to get a game download for the weekend treat, just by reading 'Sonic' ( Just like Jo-Jo gets a small sweet every time he asks for potty) but, now , those days are gone. He needs to work much harder than that!
This brings me to the hilarious 'Behaviour Chart' dear dad put in place today, surprisingly swiftly, in a matter of minutes, here's the organised man for you! It goes by points and Oliver's sarcasm, for example, counts a 'Bad Behaviour' on a par with answering back or saying that he's too tired to tidy his lego, so , basically doesn't earn him any good 'points' to add to the scale. I guess we'll be adding up those points at some of our 'Numbers' lessons! Interested to see the graph , too.
Monday 12 December 2016
Home Schooling, Early Years: NUMBERS, Deduction
A couple of weeks ago we started our deductions, which turned out much easier than anticipated. He just picks out the bigger number, which, when it's '-', is always at the front, he knows, and takes the second number in sticks , out of it.
The counting STICKS and CARDS rule in our HE house, more so than books, at this point, lol.
On a whole, I think, O is much more ready to do his reading and writing, even though, ironically , 'Numbers' is his favourite subject still!
Sunday 11 December 2016
Home Schooling, Early Years: READING, Friday Reading is a Piece of Cake!
Reading at the end of the week. by now O would have read this book 3-4 times.
Home Schooling , Early Years: READING, Beginning the Book on Monday
We tend to go through one phonics book a week, of whatever stage Oliver is in. At the moment we are half way through 2nd stage, the green level of Songbirds.
The blogger doesn't seem to want to let me download a longer vid, but this is pretty much how it goes. By the end of the week O is always dying to start a new book, though he probably realises that starting a new book is difficult, much more so than continuing with the old one! But he always wants a new one, nevertheless!
The blogger doesn't seem to want to let me download a longer vid, but this is pretty much how it goes. By the end of the week O is always dying to start a new book, though he probably realises that starting a new book is difficult, much more so than continuing with the old one! But he always wants a new one, nevertheless!
Friday 2 December 2016
Home Schooling, Early Years: READING: Phonics , Recognising More Words.
Another new book, from the beginning of the week. I must admit, we really get on with the phonics. O has started recognising words like 'and' , 'the' and 'I am' so out they go, in come 'said' , and the concepts of two consonants together as in 'mi-lk' and 'chi-ps' as well as , of course a very useful to recognise 'ing'. Trying, also, to crack the harder , multi-sailable words like 'Doctor', too. Ollie seems to forget 'Doc' by the time he got to 'tor' and vice versa, lol.
Thursday 1 December 2016
Home Schooling, Early Years: Writing the Letter to Santa , Joining Letters Compulsory
We started to prepare to write the present request to Santa. Oliver was very keen to start on this and tried very hard. He's not really ready to join letters or write long words yet, in my opinion, but it's a shame not to capitalise on such festive opportunity, especially seeing that he's very interested is very proud of his work on finishing.
I'm trying to talk him through the commonalities that there are in joining letters, as, I think , in a long run it will help him to write quicker and clearer and will, also stop the need to unlearn later. It's amazing how quickly a child can fall into useless wrong patterns with his writing, for no apparent reason!
This is, actually, the first vaguely 'classic' things we've done in our HE.
There are times O just tells me 'I'm not doing studying' ( which is not an option as it's part of our routine, but I do tend to leave it for a bit and come back to it, if he's determined). However, as often he actually asks me if he can do 'Studying'. It's so cute, and very dear. The fact that children, at this young an age are already very keen learners, does resonate here.
I'm trying to talk him through the commonalities that there are in joining letters, as, I think , in a long run it will help him to write quicker and clearer and will, also stop the need to unlearn later. It's amazing how quickly a child can fall into useless wrong patterns with his writing, for no apparent reason!
This is, actually, the first vaguely 'classic' things we've done in our HE.
There are times O just tells me 'I'm not doing studying' ( which is not an option as it's part of our routine, but I do tend to leave it for a bit and come back to it, if he's determined). However, as often he actually asks me if he can do 'Studying'. It's so cute, and very dear. The fact that children, at this young an age are already very keen learners, does resonate here.
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