Thursday, February 17, 2005
NEEDING VARIETY
I've come to the conclusion that it's impossible to use just ONE particular curriculum with Rosie - she enjoys having variety too much. As you can see from the previous post our first week of FIAR went pretty well indeed but I've now realised that although she enjoys reading and hearing the story, she gets bored with the work that goes with it. Rosie likes learning in lots of different ways - sometimes hands-on, sometimes computer work, sometimes worksheets etc.
I've decided that the best thing to do with FIAR is keep it as an occasional thing - just for a change and pretty much stick to learning in the way that we have always done in the past. We use National Curriculum based materials (from BBC Schools and Schoolsnet) for Science and History, Maths worksheets from Sacred Spiral Kids (one of the best free printable workbooks I've found), general workbooks for handwriting and French and Grade 2 spelling test words from Sacred Spiral. We also use Learning Land cd roms, Jump Ahead cd roms and Reader Rabbit cd roms. All this adds up to a pretty varied and interesting "curriculum" and one which I think she enjoys a lot more because it has so much variety in it.
On another note - we went out yesterday and spent a small fortune on her ballet outfit but she does look beautiful in it and can't wait to get back to lessons next week to show it off!
On Friday, we're off to the home-ed group. Someone is bringing in their spinning wheel and "carding" equipment so the children can have a go. I've no idea what carding is so it'll be an interesting learning experience for me too!
Oh! and finally a link! This has absolutely nothing to do with homeschooling but I have found a wonderful lady that makes AIO nappies and nappy covers etc - they are absolutely beautiful and very reasonably priced. I've just ordered a couple of covers from her - a froggy one and a duck one and I just cannot wait to see April in them - reckon she's going to look v.cute!
http://www.dippysdelights.wahmall.co.uk/shop/
I've decided that the best thing to do with FIAR is keep it as an occasional thing - just for a change and pretty much stick to learning in the way that we have always done in the past. We use National Curriculum based materials (from BBC Schools and Schoolsnet) for Science and History, Maths worksheets from Sacred Spiral Kids (one of the best free printable workbooks I've found), general workbooks for handwriting and French and Grade 2 spelling test words from Sacred Spiral. We also use Learning Land cd roms, Jump Ahead cd roms and Reader Rabbit cd roms. All this adds up to a pretty varied and interesting "curriculum" and one which I think she enjoys a lot more because it has so much variety in it.
On another note - we went out yesterday and spent a small fortune on her ballet outfit but she does look beautiful in it and can't wait to get back to lessons next week to show it off!
On Friday, we're off to the home-ed group. Someone is bringing in their spinning wheel and "carding" equipment so the children can have a go. I've no idea what carding is so it'll be an interesting learning experience for me too!
Oh! and finally a link! This has absolutely nothing to do with homeschooling but I have found a wonderful lady that makes AIO nappies and nappy covers etc - they are absolutely beautiful and very reasonably priced. I've just ordered a couple of covers from her - a froggy one and a duck one and I just cannot wait to see April in them - reckon she's going to look v.cute!
http://www.dippysdelights.wahmall.co.uk/shop/
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