Beauty of Homeschooling
I sometimes think that homeschooling is a sanctuary where I can shape my children's life to my ideal vision, away from the harsh reality of this world and of schooling itself. When you scratch the surface of our very efficient and visionary system, it can be rudely ugly that you want to dig a hole and bury yourself or run very far away.Ignorance can truly sometimes be bliss.
Today I finally settled on 'The Rainforest' as a theme, courtesy of Raihanah who's helping to organise some sessions on the rainforest for our homeschooling kids. I do really get carried away at times and tend to reject 'ordinary' themes and before I realise it, it's been a few weeks and my lessons have been disorganised.
I realised I have a book called ' A Walk in the Rainforest', an alphabetical illustration with short snippets of what you can find in the rainforest. What's more amazing is that it came out of a high school project of this teenager which I think is a good inspiration for the kids.
During circle, I used the the map of the rainforest work the kids did yesterday during our sharing session and referred it to the book which had a beautiful illustrated map of the rainforests of the world. We talked about what rainforests are like and some of the animals and plants which we can find there.
Raihanah read a story too during that session that revolved around the kapok tree and coincidentally, it was one of the items in the book. So we got to talking about it and after that we did a diorama of the rainforest which Raihanah prepared for us.
Umayr however, had a bicycle accident that tore the skin of two of his right toes during outdoors. It was pretty bloody (and screamy) and I had to 'stroller' him home. He's fine now and is already climbing the hall walls. He got to be the king for the day, hitting the remote with his three hour special access to TV and was carried around for the earlier part of the day.
Ihsan and Sofiyya of course got distracted. I did articles 'a' and 'an'lesson with Ihsan and used the words from ' A Walk in the Rainforest' for the nouns while Sofiyya worked on the book 'Places Where Animals Live' from www.readinga-z.com,pasting pictures of animals to their proper habitats on the book after I read it to her. I eased the rules for today and they got a weekday pass to TV too. I'm getting lax.
Today I finally settled on 'The Rainforest' as a theme, courtesy of Raihanah who's helping to organise some sessions on the rainforest for our homeschooling kids. I do really get carried away at times and tend to reject 'ordinary' themes and before I realise it, it's been a few weeks and my lessons have been disorganised.
I realised I have a book called ' A Walk in the Rainforest', an alphabetical illustration with short snippets of what you can find in the rainforest. What's more amazing is that it came out of a high school project of this teenager which I think is a good inspiration for the kids.
During circle, I used the the map of the rainforest work the kids did yesterday during our sharing session and referred it to the book which had a beautiful illustrated map of the rainforests of the world. We talked about what rainforests are like and some of the animals and plants which we can find there.
Raihanah read a story too during that session that revolved around the kapok tree and coincidentally, it was one of the items in the book. So we got to talking about it and after that we did a diorama of the rainforest which Raihanah prepared for us.
Umayr however, had a bicycle accident that tore the skin of two of his right toes during outdoors. It was pretty bloody (and screamy) and I had to 'stroller' him home. He's fine now and is already climbing the hall walls. He got to be the king for the day, hitting the remote with his three hour special access to TV and was carried around for the earlier part of the day.
Ihsan and Sofiyya of course got distracted. I did articles 'a' and 'an'lesson with Ihsan and used the words from ' A Walk in the Rainforest' for the nouns while Sofiyya worked on the book 'Places Where Animals Live' from www.readinga-z.com,pasting pictures of animals to their proper habitats on the book after I read it to her. I eased the rules for today and they got a weekday pass to TV too. I'm getting lax.
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