Sometimes, this blog seems to be lacking in topics about Home Education, which is a bit of a shame really as that was the whole point!! However, LA is only 3 - so realistically it is going to be a whole lot more about life and learning, than specific to Home Ed.
Still - Here is a topic that fits the original plan (yes honestly, it does!!)
A few months ago LA decided she was going to learn to read. It started as "What does that word say Mummy?" "What about that one?"
It developed into "That word is the same as that one" and today we have a little girl who gets very frustrated when we tell her that the book she is waving about is "much too difficult" (yes I know, a very negative attitude...).
So we got some starter reading books from the library - mostly the Oxford Reading Tree and she sailed through them happily, looking for more.
I got my money out and purchased the Oxford Reading Tree and Red Nose Readers and shes so keen to read all of these, we were considering taking them away and slowly giving them back.
We haven't - as we realised that would be falling into the school trap. It would be deciding for her which words she should learn first, which when you think about it, really is a very silly idea.
So we read the "hard books" together, with LA reading the words she knows.
It does however totally reaffirm our decision not to send LA to school (she does ask to go - but that's another story), as we doubt this enthusiasm would be allowed to continue in a class of 30.
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