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FROM: kraus12@...
DATE: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 16:42:05 -0000
SUBJECT: Re: I need some help... from someone new to unschooling (ideas to
encourage)
From: "Jacquie Krauskopf" <kraus12@...>
Subject: Re: I need some help... from someone new to unschooling (ideas to
encourage)
I have a single son who is 5 years old. I had planned the first 8
weeks of his kindergarten but then after the first day of making him
sit down and learn and him and I both being miserable we moved on to
do our own thing.
My son is really into dinosaurs. So we use this love for dinosaurs
for his learning. We encourage him to count his dinos . He groups
them into catergories. He knows what a carnivore is and a herbavore.
I have read countless books to him and that lead to furthure
questions and more books. He now knows what an astroid is.
He has a great sense of geogrqaphy from looking at the maps of
where the dinosaurs lived and where the fossils are found. He knows
about skeltons now because I read him a book on skeltons in people.
We have done some measurement- like footprints.
He does worksheets (he likes them- i think because it gives him a
great sense of acomplishment)
We also do most of our reading before we go to bed. I cannot tell
you the number of times that he refuses to do any reading all day
then suddenly wants to read at night. Some people are sharpest at
night and if my son is one of them, how would he acomplish much
schoolwork during th day?
From this I would take each of your older child's interests
seperately. Get books on that interest. Encourage him/her to ask
questions. This will lead to more books or experiments.
We also started a wall caterpilliar. I made a face for a
caterpilliar from small paperplates. I taped it to the wall and made
another plate with the number 1 and the word one on it. We counted to
one. Yes he can count more than that but I still wanted to start at
one. Each day we add another number and count to the number and stop.
I was shocked to, one day on the way out the door to go to the park,
he stopped me telling me we cannot go because we have to add a new
number on the wall! We are now up to 25 and we do this daily.
What does your 8 year old play? Does she play with her barbies?
does he play with his cars? Does she put all the Barbie shoes in a
box or pile together? Maybe he has a pile of cars with vans in one
pile and cars in another? Maybe he plays with the matchbox size cars
together sometimes and the bigger Tonka trucks together at other
times, if so, they are doing math! If you play cars with him or
Barbies with her, ask for specific items. "Honey I need the vans
now." or the high heeled shoes, or whatever. They are grouping
objects.
We went for a walk at the park last night. We let Jonah ride his
scooter. My husband told him: "Go the lightpost number two which is
the 2nd one, and wait for us. This taught him to follow directions,
and the numbers being used as 1st, 2nd ect. and best of all he loved
it! I went home and put it in the book I am writing in.
The video games your children play- they are learning! If it is
not some skill to it then why is my son better than me at it?
Think of the family games you have. For instance we have hungry
hungry hippo. Here he needs to count the numbers of marbles each of
us have after the hippos gobble them up to determine the winner. He
is doing Math. We also do the letter of the week and I get all the
books I can find on the subjects with that letter. Last week we
learned about Christopher Columbus, cats, crickets, cows. I figure
this opens his world to find other interests. if the book is making
him miserable we do not read it. We get lots of different books
audios and videos from the library- I cannot stress the library
enough. We go to three different library's a week and I fill the huge
book bag fully.
Talk to your children- tell them things. We read both non-fiction
and fiction and so I taught him the difference of the two.
Pokeman cards. Have your children write a story about Pokeman- if
they cannot write then you dictate it. Count the cards. Do they have
numbers? Put them in numural order. What number comes after...?
Before? Make a pokeman cake and have them help you measure things-
lots of math here! I admit we are not to Pokeman yet. Can they be
divided into catergories? Do they divide them up between themselves?
Can they be bought for money somehow? Can they be used to
measurements? How many Pokeman cards long is Adams bed? Is there any
geography in Pokeman? Show them a map where Pokeman is from. If it is
fiction place, then make their own map or drawing of what the place
might look like.
Have them help with groceries at the grocery store. Count things
aloud in front of them, do math problems aloud so they see you do
them. Spell the words of signs you see aloud so they see you
spelling. When reading, if the word is repeated say : This word
says "Go" so what does this word say: and point to he other word that
says go.
I am new to this line of thought, but believe me it works. It
truly is unbelieveable, but it does work.
If you do like my ideas and want to e-mail me for more ideas on a
more personal level I will be happy to help you on a more custom
level.
kraus12@...
I hope this helps!
Jacquie
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different moderators deleted one as a duplicate (but deleted different ones).
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FROM: kraus12@...
DATE: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 16:42:05 -0000
SUBJECT: Re: I need some help... from someone new to unschooling (ideas to
encourage)
From: "Jacquie Krauskopf" <kraus12@...>
Subject: Re: I need some help... from someone new to unschooling (ideas to
encourage)
I have a single son who is 5 years old. I had planned the first 8
weeks of his kindergarten but then after the first day of making him
sit down and learn and him and I both being miserable we moved on to
do our own thing.
My son is really into dinosaurs. So we use this love for dinosaurs
for his learning. We encourage him to count his dinos . He groups
them into catergories. He knows what a carnivore is and a herbavore.
I have read countless books to him and that lead to furthure
questions and more books. He now knows what an astroid is.
He has a great sense of geogrqaphy from looking at the maps of
where the dinosaurs lived and where the fossils are found. He knows
about skeltons now because I read him a book on skeltons in people.
We have done some measurement- like footprints.
He does worksheets (he likes them- i think because it gives him a
great sense of acomplishment)
We also do most of our reading before we go to bed. I cannot tell
you the number of times that he refuses to do any reading all day
then suddenly wants to read at night. Some people are sharpest at
night and if my son is one of them, how would he acomplish much
schoolwork during th day?
From this I would take each of your older child's interests
seperately. Get books on that interest. Encourage him/her to ask
questions. This will lead to more books or experiments.
We also started a wall caterpilliar. I made a face for a
caterpilliar from small paperplates. I taped it to the wall and made
another plate with the number 1 and the word one on it. We counted to
one. Yes he can count more than that but I still wanted to start at
one. Each day we add another number and count to the number and stop.
I was shocked to, one day on the way out the door to go to the park,
he stopped me telling me we cannot go because we have to add a new
number on the wall! We are now up to 25 and we do this daily.
What does your 8 year old play? Does she play with her barbies?
does he play with his cars? Does she put all the Barbie shoes in a
box or pile together? Maybe he has a pile of cars with vans in one
pile and cars in another? Maybe he plays with the matchbox size cars
together sometimes and the bigger Tonka trucks together at other
times, if so, they are doing math! If you play cars with him or
Barbies with her, ask for specific items. "Honey I need the vans
now." or the high heeled shoes, or whatever. They are grouping
objects.
We went for a walk at the park last night. We let Jonah ride his
scooter. My husband told him: "Go the lightpost number two which is
the 2nd one, and wait for us. This taught him to follow directions,
and the numbers being used as 1st, 2nd ect. and best of all he loved
it! I went home and put it in the book I am writing in.
The video games your children play- they are learning! If it is
not some skill to it then why is my son better than me at it?
Think of the family games you have. For instance we have hungry
hungry hippo. Here he needs to count the numbers of marbles each of
us have after the hippos gobble them up to determine the winner. He
is doing Math. We also do the letter of the week and I get all the
books I can find on the subjects with that letter. Last week we
learned about Christopher Columbus, cats, crickets, cows. I figure
this opens his world to find other interests. if the book is making
him miserable we do not read it. We get lots of different books
audios and videos from the library- I cannot stress the library
enough. We go to three different library's a week and I fill the huge
book bag fully.
Talk to your children- tell them things. We read both non-fiction
and fiction and so I taught him the difference of the two.
Pokeman cards. Have your children write a story about Pokeman- if
they cannot write then you dictate it. Count the cards. Do they have
numbers? Put them in numural order. What number comes after...?
Before? Make a pokeman cake and have them help you measure things-
lots of math here! I admit we are not to Pokeman yet. Can they be
divided into catergories? Do they divide them up between themselves?
Can they be bought for money somehow? Can they be used to
measurements? How many Pokeman cards long is Adams bed? Is there any
geography in Pokeman? Show them a map where Pokeman is from. If it is
fiction place, then make their own map or drawing of what the place
might look like.
Have them help with groceries at the grocery store. Count things
aloud in front of them, do math problems aloud so they see you do
them. Spell the words of signs you see aloud so they see you
spelling. When reading, if the word is repeated say : This word
says "Go" so what does this word say: and point to he other word that
says go.
I am new to this line of thought, but believe me it works. It
truly is unbelieveable, but it does work.
If you do like my ideas and want to e-mail me for more ideas on a
more personal level I will be happy to help you on a more custom
level.
kraus12@...
I hope this helps!
Jacquie
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