Saturday, September 17, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Today!
I am living today one second at time.................it's a ride that I am enjoying.
...........I made a vow to allow Holy Spirit to guide my steps an leave yesterday there.... Let's just say I passed leaving Yesterday where she lay, with some of the colors flying (cheeze) !....and some moments of the day were extremely successful while "following" Holy Spirit & others were DI-F-FI-CU-LT!!! I'm living in the moment though and I'm excited to testify that I am "winning" in the following department RIGHT NOW!.
Now back to our scheduled blog!!!!!
We are embarking on a "Rock Exploration", Learning about different types of rocks, and creative ways to orchestrate them into our daily curriculum. We (I) made a KWL chart and my three oldest kiddos discussed what they already know about them. I Incorporated an engaging teaching style and allowed them to lead the way (most of ...ok ok ok ,SOME of it I'm getting there! :) ) in order to hold the interest of 5 different aged children (2 moths- 10 years of age), about igneous type rocks and investigating to see if they were either intrusive (developed beneath Earth's surface) or extrusive(developed on Earth's surface) We made up a rock game in which we used a die, marbles/ ballies (broken ones, we save parts of old hair accessories and find a later use for them), and we made mazes with the rocks with a few bridges, and serious obstacles, piling different grades of rocks on top of their opposites.You would lose a turn if you knocked any down, or touched them as you navigated your marble/ballie between the "rock" course. We roll the die to see how may times we got to move or blow (since the ballies were so light and would get stuck under the little rock bridges, our fingers wouldn't fit)....Now this was happening on our do-everything- dinning room table.
...........I made a vow to allow Holy Spirit to guide my steps an leave yesterday there.... Let's just say I passed leaving Yesterday where she lay, with some of the colors flying (cheeze) !....and some moments of the day were extremely successful while "following" Holy Spirit & others were DI-F-FI-CU-LT!!! I'm living in the moment though and I'm excited to testify that I am "winning" in the following department RIGHT NOW!.
Now back to our scheduled blog!!!!!
We are embarking on a "Rock Exploration", Learning about different types of rocks, and creative ways to orchestrate them into our daily curriculum. We (I) made a KWL chart and my three oldest kiddos discussed what they already know about them. I Incorporated an engaging teaching style and allowed them to lead the way (most of ...ok ok ok ,SOME of it I'm getting there! :) ) in order to hold the interest of 5 different aged children (2 moths- 10 years of age), about igneous type rocks and investigating to see if they were either intrusive (developed beneath Earth's surface) or extrusive(developed on Earth's surface) We made up a rock game in which we used a die, marbles/ ballies (broken ones, we save parts of old hair accessories and find a later use for them), and we made mazes with the rocks with a few bridges, and serious obstacles, piling different grades of rocks on top of their opposites.You would lose a turn if you knocked any down, or touched them as you navigated your marble/ballie between the "rock" course. We roll the die to see how may times we got to move or blow (since the ballies were so light and would get stuck under the little rock bridges, our fingers wouldn't fit)....Now this was happening on our do-everything- dinning room table.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Yes We Are!
We are having a fabulous learning day!!!!
My four year old is finally showing interest in "learning" to read,; I usually read to my youngins' before bed (if I'm not self indulged), so last night she says " Mommy will you read to me (.....I was taking to long), because "I DON'T KNOW HOW TO read by myself" , I laughed and seized the moment. I rushed to her aide and read to her, but it was very short a passage from a children's Bible, regarding Genisis2- 20(I think). in one short paragraph it summed up how God created eve! I love how straight to the point the short read is. When Tie'Leis (my lefty/Baby) asked me t read to her and stated her reason why. It motivated me to engage hr more since now she notices the importance and relevance in being "independent" .......... It worked, This morning she watched her phonics video and participated like never before ( mostly because her instructor is her 9 year old BIG sister and she is very serious about making a 1 year old and 4 year old participate and get it) . I am so excited, on so many different levels. They are not realizing how much they're gaining from all of these "mundane" lessons through life happening. Tie'Leis read a couple of simple sentences from remembrance but, You can't tell her or TieQue that the child is not a reader. as Tie'Que putts it"she just needs a little more work"! It turned me way up!. Tie'Leis is remembering some phonics, Tie'Elle is learning to pee and poop in the pot (which she independently went and used today), as well as becoming more of a self starter, she is also being taught how to use her indoor/class room voice while sitting still!!!! (all at the hands of their big sis keeping them engaged while they "play school", and enabelng Mommy to orechestarte their upcoming events & deal with the newest edition of our crew Tie'Rell Monk (born pre-maturely on time). .....HUMHMM! You can't sell me no mumbo jumbo about straight across the board education. I am witnessing genuineness at its best education occurring on an accident or unknowing basis. But I will enlighten the crew, they need to know how valuable what they are doing is, and how impressed Mommy/ Instructor of the worlds greatest learners, is!
My four year old is finally showing interest in "learning" to read,; I usually read to my youngins' before bed (if I'm not self indulged), so last night she says " Mommy will you read to me (.....I was taking to long), because "I DON'T KNOW HOW TO read by myself" , I laughed and seized the moment. I rushed to her aide and read to her, but it was very short a passage from a children's Bible, regarding Genisis2- 20(I think). in one short paragraph it summed up how God created eve! I love how straight to the point the short read is. When Tie'Leis (my lefty/Baby) asked me t read to her and stated her reason why. It motivated me to engage hr more since now she notices the importance and relevance in being "independent" .......... It worked, This morning she watched her phonics video and participated like never before ( mostly because her instructor is her 9 year old BIG sister and she is very serious about making a 1 year old and 4 year old participate and get it) . I am so excited, on so many different levels. They are not realizing how much they're gaining from all of these "mundane" lessons through life happening. Tie'Leis read a couple of simple sentences from remembrance but, You can't tell her or TieQue that the child is not a reader. as Tie'Que putts it"she just needs a little more work"! It turned me way up!. Tie'Leis is remembering some phonics, Tie'Elle is learning to pee and poop in the pot (which she independently went and used today), as well as becoming more of a self starter, she is also being taught how to use her indoor/class room voice while sitting still!!!! (all at the hands of their big sis keeping them engaged while they "play school", and enabelng Mommy to orechestarte their upcoming events & deal with the newest edition of our crew Tie'Rell Monk (born pre-maturely on time). .....HUMHMM! You can't sell me no mumbo jumbo about straight across the board education. I am witnessing genuineness at its best education occurring on an accident or unknowing basis. But I will enlighten the crew, they need to know how valuable what they are doing is, and how impressed Mommy/ Instructor of the worlds greatest learners, is!
Sunday, September 11, 2011
More Structure
So, The older Chillies are embarking on a couple of new journeys this "school" year?!............I recently added another bundle to the crew, ((cute little fella),, (I should call him Grunter, since that's most of what he does. However, his name is Tie'Rell Monk Miller, his middle name was derived from his Great Uncle Monk). I have signed the othree oldest, Tie'Sere 1, Tie'Que 9, and Tie'Leis 4 up for a lot of interesting on line "sites for uhmmmm, math games, science lessons etc. mostly because I believe that this season of our "Un-Schooling" year needs a bit of typicalness. (did I make that word up?...lol). I w't my children to not feel so discombobulated with "societies facts" that their views are a fixed on meaningless structures and volumes of un resourceful materials..So for peace sake I will engage my "Life Learners" into some spicy curriculum (mostly life) and the other part I'll label as fillers, with Unschooled methods leading the way! However it may be Learning will ALWAYS OCCUR! Later
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