After a long vacation, I made up my mind to start homeschooling my child. I just want to put down few thoughts to educate the child at home. This would give me some direction and may benefit other parents as well. We don't have textbooks as of now. So, I am teaching her in general taking one concept at a time.Well, homeschooling can be a difficult task if the child is unwilling to learn from the parent. It happened with me on day-one. My seven-year-old daughter was reluctant to take pen and paper in hand. Like any other parent, I had to put forth my conditions. I told her I will not bake her favorite cake again...!
After few more arguments, she was ready to sit with me for 15(!) minutes.
Your child can be an obedient student at school willing to listen to her teacher, but at home, things can be different. After all, with the persistent efforts, child will cooperate with you for homeschooling.I have divided the learning in four parts as of now. Languages, Maths, Science and IT. On languages front, I asked her to write five-ten words as dictation. The words are most likely to be difficult to spell. Then she reads any story in any language and I ask her to tell me the same story. To keep her interest alive, I ask her questions and provide my critical comments on the story. This is in addition to 1-1.5 hours of bedtime reading she does. So, this is sufficient to hone language skills. As of now, I am not bothered about grammar. I guess, she will pick up grammar Basics from Reading.
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I have taught her basic mental Maths. She can do oral calculations of 2 digit numbers fairly well. So, I give her 5-10 problems to solve which she does fairly quick. I taught her division as a New Concept by explaining real life scenarios. But to carry out division on paper took some time.
We have practiced tables during summer vacations and will continue to do so as per time availability. Check out here how to teach tables differently.For seven-year-old minimum skill is to carry out arithmetic operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. I plan to take measurements and fraction activities as well.Buying science books and carrying out science experiments together will be in line. This needs some time. One science experiment per week should suffice. Discussions would follow post experiment.I want to teach my kid digital painting this year. This would be fun I guess. Typing practice with letter writing, poem writing can be done. Video editing skills can be an icing on top.Homeschooling may not take much efforts. But it is certainly not easy. Making sure to sit with the kid putting in front challenges may work. Well, ultimately we all want our children to be self-sufficient grown-ups after few years. To have various skill sets in addition to strong base would help them.These are some of my thoughts on homeschooling. As per age group the tricks may vary, but the Baseline would be same. Hope these homeschooling thoughts would help you as well to educate your child at home.if you have some inputs.. Do share through a comment.Happy Homeschooling!
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