Rolling Schoolyear
I've been on a hiatus after a bout of food poisoning and my anaemia taking a toll due to my bad eating habits. We've also been gallivanting a lot; Vivocity, IMM, Science Centre, the Zoo, the Airport and the like- I get too tired to do anything plus the housework gets piled up.
Its nice to go back doing something structured again.I've decided to catch up on things that tend to get the least attention during school (which should not be that way)i.e. history, geography,physics and chemistry.
Today we did the first writings- hieroglyphics and cuneiforms of the Egyptians and the Sumers. While the younger kids play with playdoh, Ihsan wrote cuneiform sentences using a flat screwdriver and playdoh and help from his Story of the World workbook, a series which I use with a pinch of salt. Prior to that we read chapter three of the text and did the narration.
I revised the days of the week presentation with Umayr and he wrote them down in his exercise book. While he did that, Ihsan revised abbreviations of the months on his 'Writing with Ease' workbook and he then decided to read the stories from the text.
Umayr and Sofiyya had their reading sessions with Level A books from Learningatoz and I then revised the sounds of the alphabets with Sofiyya. She has forgotten 'a' and 'b' so I decided to revise them with a new letter 'n'. Apparently she picked up 'k', 'm'and 'p' from her starfall.com sessions. Oh God, I'm doing literacy again...
We had a fun time at the zoo on Monday and the Jurong East Library yesterday. In between picking up books we had lunch at Cafe Galilee and later explored the youth section of the library which I have never been to in search of Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' to pick up on a conversation I had with the kids on how Umayr can sometimes turn rebel from angel in seconds.
We amazingly came back on the train and bus ( we usually travel one of the way by taxi)It felt like a real achievement till I thought of the real expensive lunch that we had. I'll just take it as a holiday treat even though we are technically not on holiday. I'd like to think we can be on holiday and homeschooling at the same time- sort of a work-life balance.
I have just finished reading a book on homeschooling which I have forgotten to take note of by whom but it's available at Choa Chu Kang Library and one of the author's first name is Matine, the title is 'Homeschooling': ). I think in every quarter I have to read one book on a family's homeschooling experience to remind myself how great a non-institution homeschooling is and how I am doing the right thing for my kids considering our situation in Singapore now.
Matine homeschooled her kids using the unschooling method mainly and three of her kids are in good colleges- I remember at least one of them is in Brown and the other three are still between high school and elementary levels.
Its nice to go back doing something structured again.I've decided to catch up on things that tend to get the least attention during school (which should not be that way)i.e. history, geography,physics and chemistry.
Today we did the first writings- hieroglyphics and cuneiforms of the Egyptians and the Sumers. While the younger kids play with playdoh, Ihsan wrote cuneiform sentences using a flat screwdriver and playdoh and help from his Story of the World workbook, a series which I use with a pinch of salt. Prior to that we read chapter three of the text and did the narration.
I revised the days of the week presentation with Umayr and he wrote them down in his exercise book. While he did that, Ihsan revised abbreviations of the months on his 'Writing with Ease' workbook and he then decided to read the stories from the text.
Umayr and Sofiyya had their reading sessions with Level A books from Learningatoz and I then revised the sounds of the alphabets with Sofiyya. She has forgotten 'a' and 'b' so I decided to revise them with a new letter 'n'. Apparently she picked up 'k', 'm'and 'p' from her starfall.com sessions. Oh God, I'm doing literacy again...
We had a fun time at the zoo on Monday and the Jurong East Library yesterday. In between picking up books we had lunch at Cafe Galilee and later explored the youth section of the library which I have never been to in search of Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' to pick up on a conversation I had with the kids on how Umayr can sometimes turn rebel from angel in seconds.
We amazingly came back on the train and bus ( we usually travel one of the way by taxi)It felt like a real achievement till I thought of the real expensive lunch that we had. I'll just take it as a holiday treat even though we are technically not on holiday. I'd like to think we can be on holiday and homeschooling at the same time- sort of a work-life balance.
I have just finished reading a book on homeschooling which I have forgotten to take note of by whom but it's available at Choa Chu Kang Library and one of the author's first name is Matine, the title is 'Homeschooling': ). I think in every quarter I have to read one book on a family's homeschooling experience to remind myself how great a non-institution homeschooling is and how I am doing the right thing for my kids considering our situation in Singapore now.
Matine homeschooled her kids using the unschooling method mainly and three of her kids are in good colleges- I remember at least one of them is in Brown and the other three are still between high school and elementary levels.
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