A Love of School
Posted on August 18, 2010 - Filed Under Homeschool, Kids | 6 Comments
Dante spent the entire day yesterday asking, “Can we have school? I want school.”
The reason?
Spiders.
We’re doing a unit study on spiders right now and my little guy is a tad obsessed (hence the theme). It’s been so much fun! I got some plastic bugs and spiders, printed off some activity sheets and a anatomical drawing of a spider. While the kids aren’t writing yet, they sure are thrilled to learn!
We read about the life cycle of spiders, looked for spider nests and webs, tested the webs with our fingers to see how sticky they are . . . and we’re not done! We’ve still got spider gliders to make, a paper mache spider and some pom pom spiders, plus learning more spider facts. Dorian is learning to read some spider words and both of them are counting spider cutouts!
I’ll have some pictures later, but here’s a totally unrelated one of Dorian’s worksheet. Note the little face in the lower right . . . he adds little touches like this to ALL his schoolwork!
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That is great that they love school…it makes teaching so much more fun. Enjoy your spider study.
Kimmie
mama to 8
one homemade and 7 adopted
Mine started school this week and I am thrilled because they both are very excited about their new teachers! Honor adores all critters, bugs too. She’d appreciate spider lessons. We found a little worm in our broccoli yesterday. Honor adopted him, set him up happily in a little habitat, and he went with her to 2nd grade today
(His name is Broccoli, btw)
What a great homeschooling mum you are!
Spiders… very cool! This makes me excited about homeschooling!
Are you going to homeschool, too, Shelley? That’s great! By the time your guys are ready, I should have a few more tips to share.
Are you going to teach them to type? It is ridiculously easy. I homeschooled my daughter and bought an electric typewriter at a garage sale, set it up on her little table, and started out with the first two letters, and she practiced typing them using the correct fingers. Next day we added two more and she practiced the four letters in sequence, using the correct fingers. In a couple weeks she was typing the entire alphabet using the correct fingers.
Today she types like the wind.