Full Of Hands- Our Learning Journey

Week one done and pretty good!  No arguments against school work until Friday.  That's an amazing week in this differently wired house! Monday computer lessons was at grandma's house, but reading time happened at home.... Then we got creative with giant legos and balls on how to make a house with a ball pit! Tuesday and Wednesday computer and reading time, then some more creativity with legos buildings with only a minute to build them! Thursday just a normal school day...BUT I am SO SO proud of Eli for saying that 1st grade Language Arts is too easy for him!  He wants to move up to second grade level because it's too easy.  And it is.  I wanted to encourage Eli to work at where he thinks he's comfortable to start and his recognizing it's too easy and he can move on empowers him to be challenged and that it's a good thing.   Friday was a day of unschool learning shining through.  While exercising, we ended up talking about a friend with a blister o...

 So it's been awhile since I posted.  All summer we continued with a very relaxed unschooling with focusing on time, money and other life skills. Today was our first day "back to school" if you want to call it that when we never really stopped schooling the way we planned it.  We started the day with a grocery list- he wrote what I told him (I spelled most of it for him) while I was cooking dinner.  Today was different as we made a new schedule for the new year that includes school "time" and reading time and physical activity.    Eli being differently wired does better with schedules he gets to pick and control- so hopefully we'll do well with this since he got to make it.   His schedule involves a spreadsheet with time blocks and he set alarms on his "phone" (it's a old phone with no service).   I hope this helps teach him responsibility for himself and gives him some real life practice on responsibility.  It took maybe 2 hours to...