No we don’t take special equipment and endless notebook tools, we just go. I cannot resist a trip to the beach or up the mountain or any outdoor experience… I have a feeling my kids learn more from a walk on the mountain and stopping every now and then to look around than they will ever learn by sitting at the table. Because of that I have made sure that their school work consists of a lot of reading of really fine books… we use Sonlight for a reason!!! I know my kids often read a book, till it is finished, by torchlight, I know they love a good book. Some books are so important that one simply cannot interrupt them. So that kid was somewhat late for scheduled school… in fact he only glanced up at lunch time and went straight back to reading. Just the other morning a child was curled on the couch reading Corrie Ten Boom’s, The Hiding Place. If I child is lost in a book then I consider it a giant “do not disturb button” on their heads… I know the joy of reading a book from start to finish. I know to us it may look like just a child’s game but to our children this is work and can take entire days… Something in me just cannot believe that the things my children learn by playing these kinds of games could ever be more valuable than a page of addition sums. But I cannot every replace the hours they spend together constructing complicated LEGO cities and intricate DUPLO landscapes with animals migrating… over the kitchen table and out into the yard. I can actually sit with a child during a quiet moment and help them get through their math exercises. I firmly believe that playing is far more important than workbooks. I cannot disrupt children that are playing well together and the more complicated and involved the game… the better. Se7en + 1 Distractions of a Homeschool Mother and Things I Wouldn’t Tell My Kids: In the scheme of life a lot of things are more important than school… I know, shocking truth… but here we go: I have learnt not to worry about the things that slide us from our typical school days and look at school at a week at a time or sometimes even longer. That is the point of having a rhythm to your day, something to fall back on when your day takes a turn away from your good intentions. Folks that is how organised I am… We are almost mid-way through our school year and the shelf of school material that I have yet to sort out, let alone use!!! So a couple of homeschool posts before I write about organising in March…īlessed relief, I can put off organising that shelf another week and this post on distractions let out of my keyboard… it had to be written!!! We recently posted about a typical school day, A Homeschool Day in the Life of Se7en + 1… When I began writing that post I realised that there really is no such thing as a regular day and every day is slightly different, and sometimes our days are wildly different. I choked!!! I planned to do a tour of our school… and then move onto organising about three weeks ago… But there is a shelf of chaos that I kept meaning to sort out before I did the school tour… never got to it. So I started this year with a plan to write posts about certain themes in certain months and January was to be the month of homeschooling posts… and February… well I have a fabulous friend who so persistently asks me to write about organising… that was February’s theme… and now it is the 22 February and not an organising post in sight.
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