Even a BAD Homeschool day can be GOOD
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 at 12:16PM The past couple of days I've been battling a humongous migraine.... it is absolutely no fun. Yesterday I was good until the afternoon, and I was fine to let the kids read, play Legos, and watch Christmas movies while I rested. When I woke up feeling bad this morning I knew they couldn't just fend for themselves all day, so we had to get creative!
The kids did their math laying in my bed while I loosely supervised. Grammar, First Language Lessons and some read alouds were accomplished this way, too. The fable in First Language Lessons was "A Bundle of Sticks" -- amazing how I used the lesson later when the kids were playing a game to illustrate getting along. If you want to show the same to your children, have them watch this little video I found:
I came downstairs a while later and found the kids playing a game together - and as I sat and listened to them I realized what a great time they were having, and the math concepts they had to use to play the game (since there are some missing pieces and they needed to make sure they each had an equal amount!). When they argued (as they will inevitably do, I referred back to The Bundle of Sticks Fable.... perfect moment! So, I contend that even on a BAD day of homeschool, we will accomplish more than a day in public school.
We love the game, Mr. Mouth! It really takes a lot of skills to get those little flies in the frog's mouth.
I love the intent look on my little guy's face.... he really enjoyed this game.
So, the big lessons for today in our homeschool were:
- it's good to take care of mommy (Miss B brought me tea and toast this morning)
- we can change our routine and it's OK
- learning to get along with your sibling makes your family stronger
- we are lucky to have each other and so blessed to be able to educate at home
This post is linked to Teach Me Tuesday, at a Bokros Kind of Life, and also to the Hip Homeschool Hop. Check out these two blogs today for some great ideas!
Reader Comments (6)
Hi Mary!
I'm stopping by from the Hip Homeschool Hop, I'm just below you on the Linky list. I'm sorry you have not been feeling well, but what a wonderful post you have here, despite feeling bad! Thanks for the video too, I'll be showing it to my kids today!
I hope you start feeling better soon!
I already follow you on GFC and Facebook :)
Have a blessed day!
Tracy at "A Slice of Smith Life"
http://www.asliceofsmithlife.blogspot.com
As someone who has had their share of migraines, I know they can really put you out of commission! That you can still find a way to keep your kids busy and doing a few lessons is impressive.
Hope you get to feeling better and good luck keeping the kids busy!
Enjoyed this post! Stopping by from HHH. I'm so bad with being flexible but it's one of the things that has drawn me to homeschooling. I'm a very structured person and when something throws our homeschooling time off my first instinct is to think " ok. let's just not do it today because it's not going to be a perfect day".
But every day and every hour is a learning experience at home. There are so many teachable moments!
Hope you start feeling better. Migraines are a beast!
Mary! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING!! Some people would hesitate to share about their bad days, but we can learn so much from each other by sharing the good and the bad! LOVE your lessons learned at the end! As always...thank you for linking up on Teach Me Tuesday!
Maggie
Yes! Yes they can! those bad homeschool days are better than any good public school day we ever had..
and my boys have gotten good at getting their own food and work done- I have chronic migraines. My youngest brings me toast and tea, too..... even if they are not learning as much 'school'- they are still learning very important things!
Take care.
(stopping by from the Hop, )
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