The kids are zooming through school like pros.
I haven't actually taught Yonah how to read for quite a while. Our reading "lessons" now are simply practicing and testing his reading comprehension.
He's been doing so well, in fact, that today we went to buy some more school books. We were focusing primarily on reading as far as "real" school goes. Now that he can learn more independently and is better at following instructions, we're switching our focus to math and science.
Arabelle is also doing well. She has spent the time so far practicing drawing and identifying shapes and letters, and specifically writing her name. This last month has seen an incredible amount of improvement.
We've tested the waters with reading lessons a few times, but she wasn't ready for it yet. Recently she's begun doing the first pages of Yonah's math book and has really excelled at it. We'll be trying reading lessons again soon.
Lila is also really into the school thing, though hers can't really be called "school" yet.
All in all, it's been a whole lot of fun for all of us.
I love what Charlotte Mason had to say about education in early years: “...my object is to show that the chief function of the child--his business in the world during the first six or seven years of his life--is to find out all he can, about whatever comes under his notice, by means of his five senses...”
ReplyDeleteSo glad to see that your kids are enjoying these beginnings of academic education and loving the learning process! They'll get a happy taste of learning early, and hopefully that will effect them for the rest of their lives!
I love that quote! It pretty much sums up my homeschooling philosophy. Thanks for sharing. :-)
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