School has been a recurring theme for me lately. Who would have thought? Just a couple of months ago I thought that starting school was such a non-event and everyone was making too big a deal out of it.
As you can imagine, we’ve been playing schools a lot. You may be already bored playing schools, but I’m grateful because it is one of the two ways I can get my son to tell me what is going on at school. The other way is talking for hours at night before instead of going to sleep. I prefer playing.
And we’ve been taking the school outside (more fun for everyone)!
In case you are wondering, no, they are not doing multiplication in week 3 at kindy. Someone gave us these flash cards and Big Boy was keen to get started. We were using sticks at first, but after the neighbour’s dog kept on stealing them and we kept on getting the wrong answer we switched to leaves.
What are you grateful for this week?
What games have you played outside?
Linking to Maxabella’s Grateful and the Outdoor Linky.
Hi, I'm Tat. I believe that through motherhood we're given another chance to find ourselves, grow and shine. I have three beautiful children and I learn a lot from them every day. This year I'm searching for ease in everything I do.
Hi Tat, so glad you linked up this week & now I can explore your blog, I am going to share it on my fb page & intend to spend a bit of time today getting lost in your previous posts. Thanks again for sharing, Kierna
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Fantastic idea combining schooling and nature…lov how the dog was stealing the sticks…lol
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What a great idea , I gave them the iPod the other day and we went outside to take photos of things that started with s , t and a !
Glad your boy is enjoying school.
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What great ideas for making learning happen everywhere. And it looks like fun, too! On behalf of teachers everywhere, thank you for supporting your son’s education at home—it makes a HUGE difference.
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Doing maths with leaves looks really effective! xx
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School is such a big milestone isn’t it. They (and we I guess) need time to process it and it looks like you have found a great way to do that.
I’m visiting from the grateful linkup.
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I just LOVE that “grateful” photo !!!
We’ve been enjoying the outdoors as well, now that the weather has finally decided that it’s summer.
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learning in nature sounds heavenly – love the use of leaves for math!
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