School Journal 2019-2020
7th, 4th, 32-month old, newborn : snippets, slices, slabs of moments and doings
irregular, infrequent, and incomplete thoughts & lists on learning, education, play. or sometimes just snippets of conversation with our kids amidst life, which is one of the most beautiful and wonderful ways of learning. I will possibly include older snippets and slices involving work of the past; many of which now degree hold some level of humor or eye-rolling, as many examinations or remembrances of the past tend to do.
February 2020
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A Preschooler practices writing single syllables words. Mat, Man, Rug. All letters written in all caps. He carefully sounds out rhyming words and beginning sounds for each sample. Can/Fan, Hat/Bat, Box/Fox.
OCTOBER 2019
22 Tuesday : The soul’s sunshine
Three students squeezed onto a bench at our educational headquarters; an HQ that doubles as a table for meals.
In between, a 33-month old scribbling and scrawling away on paper with a #2 pencil.
Flanking on one side, his 9-year old 4th grader big bro, diligently working his way down a reading comprehension worksheet.
Flanked on his other, his 12-year old 7th grader big sis, dutifully working her way through an ELA workbook.
To learn, to learn together, to love, to love being together, to love learning, to love learning together…this is one of my lifelong dreams to not only perpetuate, but to grow and keep eternal.
11 : Three students, two computers
Three kids work in our combo dining room-school room. A 33-month snuggles next to his 7th grade sis at the table while she does research on her Chromebook. A 4th grader sits at a 2009 iMac and researches ‘how to draw islands’ for his Geography project. We engage in some light disagreement over how much research he needs to do, considering his artistic and drawing talents are strong and he’s already quite adept at illustrating most objects, including islands. But when a child makes a case for wanting to learn more in the spirit of growth…I’m a sucker for that. The research continues.
