September 28, 2008

• ~Ideas~

  As most of you probably know. My sons 11, 9 and 7 are in public school after beginning school at a Classical school. 

  I have three shelves of material I pull out when each kid comes to me and wants to cuddle in bed and delay bedtime. I am thrilled for that time and that is when I pluck something from my three shelves. The boys have their own reading that they enjoy but these shelves are the things I want to teach them one on one.

  Shelf one- all my Orthodox Children’s books
  Shelf two- all my Classical books- classic literature, poetry, McGuffey readers, vocab books, geography books, Story of the World, Saxon Math etc…
  Shelf three- all my Greek children’s books and materials in Modern Greek- flash cards, maps, my mother’s Modern Greek primer (which is adorable!) etc..

  Today was a brilliant day! I was able to spend two hours teaching Greek to Nicholas-9 and Basil 11- during Maria~Angelica’s nap time- Fr. had Jonah at Church- so it was perfect! I pray for more days like that! 

  Tonight I was working with Basil on a project about Galileo for school when -  Jonah-7 came to me not wanting to stay in bed so I pulled out my Robert Louis Stevenson “A Children’s Garden of Versus” . All those poems have such good memories for us. He also enjoyed my 1924 edition of A.A. Milne, “When We Were  Very Young”. We were talking about this book and how it was from 1924 and Jonah wanted to know, how old I was then….  So we had a little math lesson.

  I love these little homeschool moments…even though we aren’t “technically’ homeschooling.

  Maria~Angelica and I enjoyed the Geography Songs CD in the car today, too.

  I have been thinking about any material we could watch in the van that would help impart to them the classical education they are not getting in the public school. Any ideas?

   

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