From a Child’s Perspective
It’s Home Education Week! Blog topics are hosted by Dana @ Principled Discovery!
My children really have no concept of what “school” really is. In truth, the only school they understand is that little class they go to on Sunday morning. In fact, when my daughter was asked where she goes to school, she usually replies with, “I go to Sunday School!”
We’ve been talking about school lately, especially now that most of my daughter’s friends are now attending school. I have explained that we are teaching our children at home, so they are “homeschooled”, while the majority of her friends are going to a building called a “school”.
Fortunately, two of her closest friends are also homeschooled, so she is not totally alone in this.
Merikalyn and Nolyn are getting to the stage where they want to do school work. They ask me to help them write words and sentences. My daughter is currently flipping through her workbook and pretending to teach students (which are invisible to me). She’s teaching them about “Asleep in the Booty”. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, read this short entry from my regular blog: “Asleep in the What?”. You’ll also get a good laugh!
School is fun to them. They learned their colors while taking walks with me and pointing out “red cars” and “yellow flowers”, instead of bending over a book and pointing at blocks of hues. This is how most of our learning is done- by having wonderful conversations in which we talk about what we’re doing and what we see.
My munchkins are so young now, but it will be interesting, in several years, to hear what they think about their education and method of schooling.
20080404 10:14 pm
Your daughter’s answer is so sweet! My church doesn’t have a Sunday school, so that won’t work for us.
20080404 10:47 pm
How sweet! It was interesting to talk to my two younger children about homeschooling because they didn’t have a clue what I was talking about.