... I think its the climate, no not the weather but the political climate. I pretend it doesn't really have any relevance to our daily life, but it does, in a sneaky sinister unspoken way.
I have been worrying that we are achieving very little. We seem to socialise an awful lot, but education? Nope none of that happening here!
So, I took stock.
Since September 2009:
LA has taught herself to read - really read, not that faltering monotonous reading that 5 years olds often adopt for their adults, but real reading with tone and emotion, both loudly and silently.
She is working on writing - but has little interest at the moment. Well, no that's not true - she will eagerly write memos and lists.
We have explored the Stone Age using books, games, videos and visits.
We have looked at Evolution, the big bang, and various religions.
We have been to Spain and learnt a little Spanish and about air travel.
LA has been able to label all the continents and many (15) countries on our big map of the world and is able to identify these countries on different maps.
She continues to work eagerly with numbers. I'd find this difficult to describe in more detail, because she does bits and bobs of lots of different maths topics, addition, subtraction, times tables, shape, time, measuring ...
We have learnt about Guy Fawkes, Gunpowder and fireworks.
She has learnt to swim 5 metres.
As well as all the usual crafts, cooking, shopping, playing etc etc etc.
I'm feeling better now. We've done quite a lot in 2 months. I'll stop worrying.
2 comments:
It can be quite scary on a day to day basis to think there's learning going on - and I feel that regardless of the political climate. It's a huge responsibility to keep on a day to day basis I think, doing the HE thing instead of school. A hindsight roundup is pretty often a good idea.
Sounds pretty impressive to me.
I'm really struggling to teach my daughter to swim at the moment.
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