Where have we been? Not in the school room! We took a mid-session break and went to Orlando, FL for a week. Of course the excitement was so high there wasn’t much accomplished in terms of school work the week before or after our trip. But I have come to embrace the belief that “learning happens everywhere”. So here are some examples. Practical Life DJ learned to drive a car at Lego driving school and he received a drivers license….
A new curriculum that we have added this year is the book Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding, Volumn 1, Grades K-2. This will be the core of our science studies for the next few years. At first I thought DJ was still too young for it but after reading a few reviews and scanning the table of contents, I realized we had already done some of the lessons through our Montessori work (living vs nonliving, plant vs animal, land &…
DJ started taking TaeKwonDo just before his 4th birthday last year. He started off enthusiastically. He’s has a lot of great experiences but he also struggled quite a bit. I would say looking back that DJ’s theme of his 4th year was railing against the rules. He wanted the world to go HIS way and following adult instruction was not in his game plan. I am so very grateful that he had the structure of his TKD class during this…