It has well and truly been an upside down week for "schooling" and I have really had to surrender our schedule to the "busy fairies" and just go with the flow. We have family staying with us from Germany at the moment and my sister had her baby!
You always hear and read about how children can just learn from living but I never really understood that until I found myself really listening to Ashlyn's questions and finding ways to naturally teach her about the things she queried. Her German cousin has been teaching her German words as they play and that in itself is worth gold to me. Breaking away mostly from our loose routine has been a struggle for me. I do think with our busy family that we need a basic structure to the day to make sure that we get things done. I am glad to feel a bit more confident about that. I feel as though we are figuring out what works for our family.
Small spanner in the works today though. Logan is home with a cough and a cold and whilst Ashlyn was working in a Maths book, he was trying to "help". I set him up with some number games on the laptop, as he requested, and momentarily I thought to myself that I could easily home school both of them! It is something we have and are discussing as we continue on this journey but we won't be making any decisions anytime soon.
This week coming will most likely be as unstructured as the last but I am prepared for it this time. I guess I better just get comfortable with that!
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