Re: [Unschooling-Discussion] Digest Number 3896
Alan & Brenda Leonard
8/9/03 04:32:
son shopping at cool stores of all sorts and see what HE wanted. Throw out
the catalogues, and buy what interests your family. Go to a game store at a
big mall, the kind where they have lots of games out, and try them out. See
what they like.
And put at least half of what you think you might want to spend aside.
You'll need it son enough.
vistas, whatever.
Go shopping. (See above.) Have fun playing with all the toys and games and
stuff that's out in the stores. Decide if you'd enjoy doing any of this
stuff. Dig through all the stuff at Salvation Army and see if there's
anything good there. (My cousin was thrilled to find a brand new fry daddy
there yesterday! She's learning to fry donuts tonight.) Go home and play
with all your new stuff.
Go to the video store. Rent movies. Rent games. Go to your friends
houses. Borrow their videos, games, and computer programs. Decide if any
of these interest you enough to buy.
phonics teaching aides on the market, and I haven't seen a one that can do
anything I can't do. The biggest pieces of the reading puzzle are readiness
and desire. If they desire, but aren't ready, at least you are human enough
to understand and support them during their frustration. If they are ready,
surely you can help them with the sounds letters make, and help them with
words that don't make the sum of their sounds (such as light, tortilla, and
the). If you read to them and with them, reading is associated with love,
human touch, and patience.
Go to the library and pick out great stories to read together. Read them
big thick books like Harry Potter so they know the stories that other kids
their age know. Spend some of that money you have at the bookstore.
I think you're the person who has said before that your foster sons weren't
allowed to be hs'ed yet. Congrats on getting this far. I'm sure you're
going to enjoy having all six of them there with you this year.
brenda
> If you were just beginning to unschool, knowing what you knowNothing. I don't need anything to unschool at the moment. But I'd take my
> now, and you had some money to spend of fun, cool stuff, what would you buy?
>
son shopping at cool stores of all sorts and see what HE wanted. Throw out
the catalogues, and buy what interests your family. Go to a game store at a
big mall, the kind where they have lots of games out, and try them out. See
what they like.
And put at least half of what you think you might want to spend aside.
You'll need it son enough.
> Also, what would you do for a while?Play tourist in your own town. Go see all the sights. Zoo, museums, scenic
vistas, whatever.
Go shopping. (See above.) Have fun playing with all the toys and games and
stuff that's out in the stores. Decide if you'd enjoy doing any of this
stuff. Dig through all the stuff at Salvation Army and see if there's
anything good there. (My cousin was thrilled to find a brand new fry daddy
there yesterday! She's learning to fry donuts tonight.) Go home and play
with all your new stuff.
Go to the video store. Rent movies. Rent games. Go to your friends
houses. Borrow their videos, games, and computer programs. Decide if any
of these interest you enough to buy.
> Would you take a good while and see what everyone wants to do?Never a bad idea!
> 2 of my boys can barely read, and it means a LOT to them to be able to. IfI'd read to them and with them. There are lots of computer games and
> learning to read is what a child REALLY wants, would any of you get some sort
> of aides or maybe computer games to help them with this? Would you just read
> a lot to them?
phonics teaching aides on the market, and I haven't seen a one that can do
anything I can't do. The biggest pieces of the reading puzzle are readiness
and desire. If they desire, but aren't ready, at least you are human enough
to understand and support them during their frustration. If they are ready,
surely you can help them with the sounds letters make, and help them with
words that don't make the sum of their sounds (such as light, tortilla, and
the). If you read to them and with them, reading is associated with love,
human touch, and patience.
Go to the library and pick out great stories to read together. Read them
big thick books like Harry Potter so they know the stories that other kids
their age know. Spend some of that money you have at the bookstore.
I think you're the person who has said before that your foster sons weren't
allowed to be hs'ed yet. Congrats on getting this far. I'm sure you're
going to enjoy having all six of them there with you this year.
brenda
Julie Solich
<< If you read to them and with them, reading is associated with love,
human touch, and patience.
Go to the library and pick out great stories to read together. Read them
big thick books like Harry Potter so they know the stories that other kids
their age know. Spend some of that money you have at the bookstore.>>
We read a lot. Sometimes I worry that I'm getting in the way of my boys
reading because I do all the reading. I read to them for a couple of hours
at night and by the time I've finished they are fighting to stay awake. They
used to read when I was done but going to bed later has meant they don't do
that now. And of course they are just too busy playing during the day to sit
and read.
I just love reading to them and sharing favourite stories with them. And I
guess if there are only good associations with reading they will come to it
in their own time.
We finished the Goblet of Fire lsat week and didn't know what to follow it
with (still waiting on Order of the Phoenix) but have started The Hobbit and
the boys are enjoying that.
Julie
Helen Hegener (HEM-Editor@...).
human touch, and patience.
Go to the library and pick out great stories to read together. Read them
big thick books like Harry Potter so they know the stories that other kids
their age know. Spend some of that money you have at the bookstore.>>
We read a lot. Sometimes I worry that I'm getting in the way of my boys
reading because I do all the reading. I read to them for a couple of hours
at night and by the time I've finished they are fighting to stay awake. They
used to read when I was done but going to bed later has meant they don't do
that now. And of course they are just too busy playing during the day to sit
and read.
I just love reading to them and sharing favourite stories with them. And I
guess if there are only good associations with reading they will come to it
in their own time.
We finished the Goblet of Fire lsat week and didn't know what to follow it
with (still waiting on Order of the Phoenix) but have started The Hobbit and
the boys are enjoying that.
Julie
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Pamela Sorooshian
On Saturday, August 9, 2003, at 01:53 AM, Julie Solich wrote:
desire to do what adults do - it'll happen. If they don't have such a
strong imperative, because they can count on you to do their reading
for them while THEY are working on other stuff - the value of good
listening skills, for example, cannot possibly be overstated - after
all, what do you think is REALLY important in college - what do college
students spend most of their time doing? Okay, maybe partying comes
first. <g> But in-class time is spent listening to lectures. The
ability to learn audibly is incredibly important and I've really
noticed that the later readers, those who have been read to extensively
and who listen a lot to audiobooks, are fabulous listeners even when
they do read on their own. You're doing them a great huge favor by not
pushing them to read on their own, but providing them with extensive
reading through listening opportunities.
Don't be drawn in by earlier reading being better ideas. Later may very
well be far better.
-pam
> Sometimes I worry that I'm getting in the way of my boysProbably. Its okay. What will really get them reading is the innate
> reading because I do all the reading.
desire to do what adults do - it'll happen. If they don't have such a
strong imperative, because they can count on you to do their reading
for them while THEY are working on other stuff - the value of good
listening skills, for example, cannot possibly be overstated - after
all, what do you think is REALLY important in college - what do college
students spend most of their time doing? Okay, maybe partying comes
first. <g> But in-class time is spent listening to lectures. The
ability to learn audibly is incredibly important and I've really
noticed that the later readers, those who have been read to extensively
and who listen a lot to audiobooks, are fabulous listeners even when
they do read on their own. You're doing them a great huge favor by not
pushing them to read on their own, but providing them with extensive
reading through listening opportunities.
Don't be drawn in by earlier reading being better ideas. Later may very
well be far better.
-pam
Bill and Diane
Memberships! I love memberships. We have memberships to the train
museum, local children's museum, horse park. Trips to an indoor theme
park on cold winter days (not snowy--it's an hour or more away). Paper.
Fingerpaint.
:-) Diane
museum, local children's museum, horse park. Trips to an indoor theme
park on cold winter days (not snowy--it's an hour or more away). Paper.
Fingerpaint.
:-) Diane
>>If you were just beginning to unschool, knowing what you know
>>now, and you had some money to spend of fun, cool stuff, what would you buy?
>>