This
past summer, me and the girl played "school" nearly every morning for
about 30 minutes. We were practicing for preschool. We said the pledge,
the ABCs, we counted, we recited the months of the year, seasons, days of the
week and the continents and oceans. Then she practiced writing letters
and numbers. We might do a puzzle, a maze or a dot-to-dot. I bought a workbook
thing at the dollar store that we would work in sometimes. I feel the home
school parents judging me right now... I didn't know what else to do!!!! -just
kidding- Anyway, she really enjoyed it. I also, really enjoyed it. I enjoy
teaching my kids things. It turns out; I really, really, super enjoy watching
them learn things!
Someone
told me once that a home school parent had told them about how exciting it was
watching their kid learn to read. They were there- right there- when it finally
clicked with him and he got it and they did it together!
Well,
me and the girl didn't get that far with our reading skills and I didn't plan
to either, but I sort of got that experience with the number eight. Tracing numbers one
through five were easy-peasy. Then, we moved on to six through ten and things
got a little trickier. The 6 has to go the right way and so does the 9. While
you're at it, remember to write the 1 first then, the zero immediately after
for ten. She dreaded the 8. I held her hand and traced it a few times with her. It was
slow going. Sometimes she would skip over it and do it last. Sometimes she
would do it first to get it out of the way. I kept telling her how fun the 8 is
to draw. It's one single motion without lifting your pen up at all and then all
of the sudden you've made an 8 (I seriously do like to draw 8s)! Then, one day,
without warning, she got it! With no help or anything she drew the number 8! She was
so happy and admitted immediately that, yes, drawing 8s IS fun! She was so please and proud of herself she was ready
to write several more.
I
don't imagine I'll be there for every light bulb that goes off in her head, but
I will always remember this one.
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