Mummy-teacher
I think one of the most difficult thing about homeschooling is how do you do it most professionally with the personal touch that only you can have as the mother of your children. How you deal with a difficult child in the home should not be any different than in the Montessori classroom or whatever school of thought you hold on to and in the most Islamic environment that they deserve. I struggle with it everyday and not a week pass by where I wonder whether a professional teacher can do it better.
I especially marvel at teachers who deal with great compassion and intelligence,sprites and upstarts, believing in their ideal of a caring learning environment. Sadly, most schools here do not hold on to a uniting philosophy or ideology of what is education but instead practice curriculum implementation.
I had to do some major cleaning today before school. It was a beautiful rainy day and we stayed in. Ihsan finished reading his biography on Marie Curie and did a book review on it. Umayr had to be 'conditioned' into revising his continents (basically that means not letting him off not wanting to do school, contrary to popular belief, Montessori is not about letting a child do whatever he wants but freedom within discipline)Sofiyya did her objects with small movable alphabets.
We did an experiment on finding out what are the best conductors of heat together. The kids were a little difficult on doing their own work today; I had to 'encourage' them a bit and that means trying to find a hook to make them interested; no, I didn't want to share with them the chocolate truffle cake from The Royals that my husband bought for me in place of the Chocolate Decadence from Secret Recipe that I wanted as it was out of the way...LOL...
I managed to slot in time at the library and borrowed some beautiful books; one on Antoni Gaudi , one on different types of families (human, animal, plant, numbers....), one on shapes with a reference to the mooncake festival, one on different cultures and greetings around the world and one on Peter Pumpkin finding a place to call home, I think...
Is it going to be Friday already?
I especially marvel at teachers who deal with great compassion and intelligence,sprites and upstarts, believing in their ideal of a caring learning environment. Sadly, most schools here do not hold on to a uniting philosophy or ideology of what is education but instead practice curriculum implementation.
I had to do some major cleaning today before school. It was a beautiful rainy day and we stayed in. Ihsan finished reading his biography on Marie Curie and did a book review on it. Umayr had to be 'conditioned' into revising his continents (basically that means not letting him off not wanting to do school, contrary to popular belief, Montessori is not about letting a child do whatever he wants but freedom within discipline)Sofiyya did her objects with small movable alphabets.
We did an experiment on finding out what are the best conductors of heat together. The kids were a little difficult on doing their own work today; I had to 'encourage' them a bit and that means trying to find a hook to make them interested; no, I didn't want to share with them the chocolate truffle cake from The Royals that my husband bought for me in place of the Chocolate Decadence from Secret Recipe that I wanted as it was out of the way...LOL...
I managed to slot in time at the library and borrowed some beautiful books; one on Antoni Gaudi , one on different types of families (human, animal, plant, numbers....), one on shapes with a reference to the mooncake festival, one on different cultures and greetings around the world and one on Peter Pumpkin finding a place to call home, I think...
Is it going to be Friday already?
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