Fabulous learning fun

We officially re-started our letter activities this morning and F is our first letter to explore for the week.

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The file folder activities in the lapbook were interesting enough to keep K’s little hands and mind busy for almost 20 minutes. He even requested to do the worksheets from Get Ready for the Code A…I was so surprised that he could complete 9 pages in one sitting!

He went on to pretend to be a firefighter for the next 20 minutes. Used his yellow+red retro car as the firetruck, bicycle helmet as the firefighter’s helmet and his yellow umbrella as the hose. He attentively listened to instructions from ‘station control’-me, to find out where the fire was, then rode his truck fleetly from room to room to put out the ‘fire’.

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We continued with a food feast consisting of fishballs, fish and crabs for his mickey family,

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And ended off a with a short ‘freeze’ game. (If video cannot be seen here, u need to install Flash 10 and click on the 1st video on the Vimeo widget located at the right sidebar)

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Freeze! from Rachel T on Vimeo.

It was a fabulous saturday morning for me as I am extremely heartened that these activities worked out really well with K. I am so glad to see his positive response and enthusiasm for these activities and I am now truly motivated to make it his learning @ home even more meaningful in days to come.

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Chalk n clean

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According to K, scribbling with dark sugar chalk on our house’s corridor was not that riveting. It only captured his attention for about 15 minutes, them we spent the next half an hour blowing bubbles.

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The best part of this morning’s activities had to be the cleaning up. Just part of my indoctrination to make sure that I have a son that will willingly help me with household chores in the future.

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Planting roots, growing wings

I think the turning point was when he turned 2 and a half. K started being able to articulate his wants very clearly, surprising me with new words and long sentences everyday. He knows almost 95% of the alphabets, numbers 1-10, colours, shapes and can count up to 5 items. All of that he learnt during play, from the books that we read and things that we see in our everyday life at home.

The only effort on my part was through the books that I bought for him, not limiting the words that I use when I speak to him (baby language is a no-no for me) and being a little more observant about the world around us. He shows alot of curiosity about nature, about how things work, and will ask me alot of questions about what he sees around us.

John Holt was right, when he wrote about how children are learning all the time.

We can best help children learn…by making the world as far as we can, accessible to them, paying serious attention to what they do, answering their questions…and helping them explore the things that they are most interested in.” Extract from John Holt’s Learning all the time.

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My role as K’s first teacher is to help him make sense of the world around him. We will be taking little ‘baby-steps’ towards starting short homeschool sessions for the next 1 year before he starts nursery, and will explore various areas of literacy, math, science, arts and bible & social studies. Also not neglecting lots of play and outdoor exercise at all other times.

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I initially planned for him to attend some parent-accompanied playgroup programme, but after reviewing my objectives. I figured that gets enough socialisation weekly at Sunday school and during his one-to-one playdates with Seth. Besides dh is right in saying that he has at least 20 years of formal schooling, so why is there a big hurry to send him to school?

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‘Planting roots, Growing wings’ will be my new blog to document our sessions at homeschool. This blog will be the best way to review my ‘on-the-job’ training as his first teacher, and to continually challenge myself to grow and change. Afterall, I believe that being a mother and helping my child to realise his potential is the best way to realise my own.

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