I've been struck lately by my kids' ability to naturally learn. We still do the school-ish curriculum each day, but what is really exciting to me is how God is providing a way every day for my kids to learn in order to round out their educations. From a book I found at the library called "50 Dangerous Things (you should let your children do)", to a science experiment that required an empty soda bottle to perform the experiment, every day presents new and exciting ways for my kids to learn and have fun.
Today we drank Coke out of bottles so that we could have what we needed for the experiment. ;) This morphed into the kids learning about carbon dioxide in addition to how to blow across the top of a bottle to make tones.
Just to name a few, in the last week we've learned to hammer nails into wood, went to the post office for a field trip, tried out the new indoor trampoline park, licked a 9V battery (haha!), took swim classes, gym classes, gymnastics classes, and visited a friend's farm and watched chicks hatch from eggs.
I NEVER would have believed how much the kids and I would love homeschooling. I was not a mom who took naturally to parenting, and am ashamed to say that in the early years, I was eager to escape from my duties to go have 'me' time, constantly.
What a gift it is to spend these days with my kids. Although the first year was a transition, I can honestly say, the longer I'm home with my kids, the more I love hanging out with them. What a blessing homeshooling is in our lives!
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