What’s the Deal?
October 28, 2009 at 3:51 pm | In Homeschooling, Kids, Writing | Leave a CommentOur Great Depression study went on for weeks. I had dreaded the New Deal because it involves a lot of explanation. We have been doing our learning in the living room lately, and that particular morning that I started going over the New Deal, I was also rushing because I had a doctor’s appointment at 9 a.m.
Two of the kids were not paying full attention, and I just snapped. I had planned on doing the lesson with them because the New Deal, as I said, requires some explanation. But as it went, I ended up telling them to write a report on it from their own research and understanding. All the information was there, they just had to learn it themselves. And I left for my doctor’s appointment.
Suffice it to say, they did do that impromptu assignment, alhamdulillah, with no complaints. H was done first, as always, this boy likes to finish his work ASAP just so he could get it over with. His report was pretty good. Then came S’ report. Much better. Well, I can’t really compare the two because they are at different levels. With N though, it came much later. It required her to write, rewrite, and I had to show her again and again. I have always been struggling teaching her because as it is, I don’t really know how to teach her effectively. I have a different learning style and this affects my teaching. She is more hands on and even though she loves creative writing, she doesn’t really like rules, so when it comes to writing reports or the like, it’s really something to deal with.
But alhamdulillah she finally did finish her report, past the deadline, but at least she finished it alhamdulillah. They didn’t want me putting their reports on the blog, so even though I really want to, for memory and easy, referable documenting purposes, I guess I’ll respect their wishes.
Overall, the writing report steps I had prepared before helped them in writing their reports as they referred to it throughout the process. Though, I did realize that those needed some major corrections on my part.
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