The Joy of learning !! Just out of having fun..... I am on a second year journey of homeschooling... It was very difficult for me to allow for the free flow of learning. I am a product of the public school system... The traditional learning of the institution. It worked for me, I adjusted and adapted to this particular environment. I flourished!
However, I noticed that my desire for learning was ignited in college. I never really enjoyed school in the elementary and secondary years. I was an A student, but never was super excited for school.
So when I was a freshman in college, It was like a new door opened to me. The joy of majoring in what interested me!! It caused a roller coaster of love for knowledge. Soon, I was taking my general education requirements but I did not perceive them as boring or not applicable. My perspective changed. I viewed it as stepping stones for what I loved studying.
Therefore, as I homeschool my children.. I am learning to embrace the desire of my children’s interest in a particular subject. Then tailoring all subjects around it and including all five subjects in a particular theme.
I love the passion I see when my children light up... So to keep that fire going, I have decided that this is our direction. If my children are interested in lizards (as they are right now and my youngest loves rocks), I will find a way to incorporate all five subjects in some form or fashion.. Maybe we will do multiplication and division facts with lizards, and counting with rocks lol.
The methods of teaching my children has changed since the first year of homeschooling. My children have taught me that learning is not just done in a classroom. It is something that happens everyday. Furthermore, the desire for learning will continue to burn if fanned.
Learning is a lifelong process and it should not stop in the classroom.
"These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates." Deut 6:6-9
I read this scripture every morning when I awake....God's word is clear on teaching (whether you homeschool or not). He is commanding and encouraging us with the importance of always teaching our children the goodness of God, regardless of location. His word is so powerful and full of love for humanity, it is not just to be taught one or two days a week. It is to be taught through out the day, every day. This is how adeqaute learning takes place. I apply this scripture in our daily spiritual life as well as homeschool.
Learning is all the time and when filled with the love of God's word it penetrates down to the very core of your child to one day produce fruit in their life.
Organic Girly
