It's been a busy and quite chilly Monday morning around here. Coming off a busy weekend, the house is a mess, the littles are super hyper and in addition to the usual, I have wanted to "spring clean" the boys' room for a week. Not sure I'll get to it again today. Sigh. On the upside, schooling has been productive today so I'm running with it. Emma has been struggling with putting words on paper in alphabetical order. No big surprise there, below the age of ten it can be difficult for children to work in abstracts. From birth to ten, the child's brain learns best by concrete, hands on application. So this morning I decided to come up with a better way to help Emma understand the method of ABC order. I started with some note cards in owl shapes that I had found at the Dollar Tree and wrote her sight words on them. Adding a little sight word learning to her ABC order today, killing two birds with one stone! (wink) Next I took our sentence strip paper, turned it vertically and wrote the letters of the alphabet on it. We ended up needing four strips. My owls are a little big so I didn't want to get my letters too close together. The prep was as simple as that. It cost me less than $2 to make, I simply used what I had on hand and she was very eager to try it out. We can keep the alphabet strips and use other words we come across. Tomorrow I plan to use her spelling words. There are tons of possibilities. Putting it into application was a success! She lined the sentence strips end to end in the floor, I didn't even need to help her, she quickly went to work placing all her sight word owls in ABC order and then read all her words to me. Lots more fun than just writing some words in order on paper! I'm left wondering why I didn't think of this sooner and curious if the rest of my Monday will go as smoothly. (Grin!!)
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Essential homeschooling is not about trying to mimic a classroom setting at home, expensive curriculum and stressful learning. It's setting our eyes on Christ and offering up our lives for His service. It's finding simplicity in daily living and loving each other, embracing the challenges and cherishing the moment because we know these years won't last and what we instill in our children today will determine who they will be tomorrow.