I use a combination of workbooks, DVD’s, Leap Pad, the internet, library, field trips, Hooked on Phonics, and Alex’s interests to teach. We go to the library at least weekly and get a combination of about 20 fiction and non-fiction books for Alex. We don’t have a set time for lessons, but I am working on making it a little more structured. Our lessons are generally short unless his interest lasts a long time.
Today Alex watched some educational DVD’s, and then we worked on telling time. I have a magnetic clock and use flash cards with it. After that I read 10 Henry and Mudge books. Alex worked on puzzles and listened to a CD of kid’s songs while I typed this and did some housework. Alex played with play dough and practiced using a butter knife to cut it up. While waiting for Frank to get off work we played a game running in the empty parking lot to the numbered parking spaces. I’d call out, “Where’s number 12,” then we'd race to it. I read several Bible stories to Alex. We also read the first chapter of Bill Nye the Science Guy’s Big Blue Ocean, though we didn’t have the materials needed for the experiment. We used the Hooked on Phonics CD to teach him letter sounds, (it would have been easier to teach it at the same time he learned letters.) Of course Alex also had plenty of time for play. Alex also watched part of a documentary on Japan with Frank and me, (he fell asleep about half-way through it).
If you don’t know any homeschoolers you may wonder about socialization. Alex is very social. He goes with us when we go visiting for the church so Alex is perfectly at ease talking to adults. Every time we go to the park or McDonalds’ Playland Alex makes friends with the other kids. I also take him to the library’s story time and to a play group so he can be around a lot of the same kids from week to week.
Marie-Anne
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