Hello all…. First I want to thank you all of the Math post ideas. And…
As you all know we are new to homeschooling so naturally I am doubting myself . Tonight I was taking a bath….( without the toddler…a rare luxury) and reading The Well-Trained mind. I was looking at all of the things that I needed to cover, and frankly getting a bit depressed and worried that I was not doing enough. When in barged my 3rd grade daughter and announced that the squares in the tiles on the floor have 4 possible lines of symmetry. She then went on to talk about how many a circle, triangle and rectangle have. I asked her where she learned that ( I knew the answer) and she said…Time 4 Learning of course!! The Lord works in mysterious ways to encourage us…..he uses a small child…and time4learning! Â
Tracy
October 24, 2007 | 12:23 pm1
We have moments like that all the time. Never in our homeschooling lifetime has a curriculum been part of outside discussions, quotes or everyday life. How funny that you should share this, I just posted on a forum about this very thing.
I think it is excellent that concepts are carried and expressed throughout the day, long after school work has been completed.
I love the daily quotes about T4L in our house, I love hearing the boys discuss something and one of them reference something they learned in T4L! They are so excited because their father and I went shopping last night and got Mentos and diet coke for a science project… They can’t wait for him to get home in an hour so that they can do the project….
Just when you (we) wonder if they are “getting it?” it hits us in one way or another that they are!