Every time I talk to my cousin Robin about her homeschooling experience, I get inspired. Not that I actually want to follow through with the discipline of homeschooling my children...but the thought of creatively teaching my kids without being controlled by state tests and principals looking over my shoulder is very appealing. Plus, it would be great for Isaac to have even more of a background before starting Kindergarten (he'll still be four years old on the first day of school...his birthday is day two!) So, I think I'm going to try a mini-version of home school. I guess it could be considered "home summer school."
Here's how I envision this working for us: The kids pick a new theme every week. Then, during the week, we do as many of the following as we can incorporating the topic (let's pretend our topic for this week is "hamsters" because Isaac is really into hamsters right now):
- Check out books at the library (on hamsters)
- Print out coloring pages (or cut out of magazines) to make a thematic poster (about hamsters)
- Keep a journal about what we learn (about hamsters)
- Go on a "field trip" to see one in person (pet store: to see the hamsters)
- Watch a video (pre-screened YouTube video on hamsters maybe?)
- Pretend we are one ("yay, we're hamsters!")
- Print out the word and practice letters and letter sounds (H-A-M-S-T-E-R)
- Use pictures of the topic to do counting and math skills (what's 2 hamsters plus 1 hamster?)
squeak!
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