New Semester

This blog is going to be about daily life of the Pedrantis and it will focus on home schooling mostly. I believe you never stop learning so to us schooling could be going places for examples...

Paola and Alexander put together their own learning list in the beginning of the school year. They wrote down what they wanted to learn this year and we will go down the list and learn about their choices. We also have regular classes but I have realized that you can take the things the children are interested in and incorporate language art, social studies, spelling etc in a fun way. It makes it more fun than studying 30 words for a spelling test. Paola and Alexander can now sit for hours with the projects and tey learn to read and process information in a fun way.

Paola wants to learn about horses so she is currently learning about famous race horses and we will post her project on this site.. This project will teach her to research a subject and to take notes about the important things as well as reading, writing, art and computer skills.

Alexander is really interested in dinosaurs. He reads many dinosaur books, take notes, make his own time line and learn about his favorite dinosaurs. Alex will also learn how to research a subject and to take notes about important things. All of a sudden writing and reading is not boring because it is about his very favorite things in the world.