A couple weeks ago we were studying insects and bugs during science. A bit of a skeevy subject for me, I really hate creepy crawlies. But my oldest loves learning about them, and gets a kick out of watching me squirm when we look at pictures! Last week after our homeschool co-op, she was showing me what she had done that day. I was so happy to find this among her work-
It’s a trapdoor spider! Although spiders are arachnids and not insects, we included them in our learning (nice to throw in some non-insects so they can try to determine themselves if it’s a true insect or not!) During her art class at co-op they were water-coloring, and this is what she chose to do. Even when it’s a subject she’s interested in, she doesn’t always seem to be paying a lot of attention, so I was so excited to see that she really had retained new information and cared enough about what she had learned to utilize it somewhere else!
Big or small, what’s one of your favorite “proud homeschool moments?”
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My proud homeschool moment…
Over the past few weeks my daughter and I have been working very hard on some writing fundamentals. That’s not her strength – she expresses herself much better through art. And, I usually let her express what she’s learned through artistic creation, but I also recognize that she needs to develop basic writing skills.
So, we’ve been trying to learn the foundational elements of a paragraph – topic and supporting ideas progressing to topic sentence, supporting ideas, and closing sentence progressing to topic and closing sentences with three supporting sentences. We’d gotten that far, and it had been a huge struggle. So, yesterday we were ready to put it all together into paragraph form, and she was terrified!
Imagine her surprise when I put together the work she’d already done and said, “Congratulations, you’ve written a paragraph!” Her eyes lit up, and she said, “That’s it?”
Imagine my pride when she said, “I can do this! Can we do another one?”