As I'm watching the Today show this morning they had a segment on it about boys in school and how our education system is failing them. Hear is my two cents worth on that.. Number one boys learn completely different than girls do if our "fabulous" public school system understood this boys would not be so "left behind". They've taken away recess which boys need to release energy in order to sit for eight hours. In my own experience in homeschooling my boys they can sit and focus good for an hour at most before they start to get ants in their pants and start day dreaming. I've learned that boys need to just run every hour or so for just 10-15 min. even. Sometimes they don't even need to run just a break to build with the lego's or blocks for awhile helps them focus so much better when it's time to resume school. Number two I've learned is that boys can't just sit and learn from a textbook they need hands on learning as well. My boys and I have made brownies or cookies before and used it as our math lesson for the day. It's amazing while cooking or baking how many math skills you can really use. I am through and through a text book queen when it comes to homeschooling I need it for my own piece of mind but once a week I try and keep things fun like this. These are just some thoughts I had on homeschooling my boys as I watched this segment this morning. It makes me all the more thankful that we're homeschooling our boys. I pray they grow up to be God fearing men who love to serve the Lord and I thank the Lord that he's given them to us to raise up.
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I couldn't agree more!
I get ants in the pants after about an hour of not moving and I'm old. Hands on school is the best way teach kids, and just let them be kids, they just figure stuff out. That's the only reason I'm dragging the old Saxon math back out;)
I kind of know what you are saying. She is not near as active or "wild" as the little boy I watch. I can not even imagine trying to sit him down and teach him. Hopefully Ambry will be able to sit a little better. I am definitely the type to like to get things done all at once and be done with it. I will probably have to rethink that though. :)
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