A timeless week

We have been working without the clock the past week or so. I'm not sure whether it's got to do with our only working clock breaking down or because of the lecture I heard about children not being made to stick to time schedules.

Our only clock now is our body and the world around us.

Fancy that, so hairy fairy, anyway, the week has generally been wonderful. It's amazing how I can pass the days so quickly and not get so many lessons done.

I'd go like, what? the boys spent the whole morning wrapping boxes and doing their multiplication and addition lists only and its lunchtime?

Wow, this is not going to be easy. I have to let go of my Singaporean- stuck- to- schedule syndrome. Breath in- breath out.....I can do this.

Just yesterday, we were about to leave for lunch after the boys had their first TV time for the week ( we have cut it down to one hour during the weekday and one hour on Saturday when the TV is not under the control of mummy since we are at granny's), when Umayr sat down to count the string of beads he was playing with, Ihsan sat down at the table reading his dinosaur book (why can't he read fiction? I fall asleep reading all those encyclopaedic stuff with weird names) and Sofiyya was working on her knobbed cylinders.

I had to fight between hunger and such a beautiful Montessori moment when Umayr was distracted by me taking off my scarf, me having decided to stay home and hungry. Darn! I broke the moment....

Some amazing stuff happened this week though, Sofiyya seems to know some symbols and sounds of the alphabet and Umayr now knows all his beginning sounds. How do I 'scaffold' this?
I have to get some life out of Ihsan, he's stuck in the dinosaur age. I have to amaze him to go beyond....which reminds me of extensions to the Great lessons not made, including some Great Lessons not done.....

Hence this is my very humble ( and few) lesson plans for next week

Umayr

Pink Object Box
Seguin Board/Hundred Chain
Parts of a leaf nomenclature

Sofiyya

Finding out which letters she knows and working on those she doesn't
Geometric exercises under Sensorial
Putting on clothes

Ihsan

Extensions to the first and second great lessons
The third great lesson
the dot game

All

Social grace- Taking turns
Remembering Allah the Merciful
Clay Play
Peeling a carrot