The first term of homeschooling with Jet is done and partially dusted.
It has been a good learning experience for us both.
Snapshots of my learning.
#plan a more end in mind planning structure for the term so we work with the whole picture in mind. This is indeed the most tricky thing for me as I am not necessarily a big picture thinking, yet.
I sat down yesterday and planned ahead with the end in mind so that we can know where we need to get to.
# . I have gathered a far wider understanding of the history of our country. Thank you Footprints and also the beautiful Platinum Caps textbooks. ( yes I do love these!) They are designed for kids to read and so are full of colour and good information as well as excellent pictures and activities to build on.
# a renewed respect for teachers who have a classroom of kids to get much work done with.
# it has been a joy and an absolute pleasure to work with this kiddo. we are having enormous fun learning about microbes in our science group and about Barty Dias in History as well as working through some great geography lessons on South Africa.
Maths and English are simply full and exciting.
These photographs are all from our outing to the Slave Lodge in Cape Town . The art is from the wall in the section on democracy. The photograph is of a man whose heritage is from slavery. His surname gives this away. He is named after the month of one of the ships bringing slaves arrival at the Cape.
Snapshots of Jethro's learning include...
# what it feels like to be happy in learning and to enjoy school
# seeing that he actually can learn something he thought was just too difficult
# finding out his strengths and areas of "yet" for himself.
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