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Raising
Special Kids is Changing to My Special Kids
Raising Special Kids site is coming down soon - by the end of the month, but don't worry, I am putting together a brand new site from Raising Special Kids - and because that brand is already in use by www.raisingspecialkids.org, I am changing my site to www.my-special-kids.com. I will have the index page up and will rewrite and post the pages as I go along, updating and adding new information and experiences. Stay tuned! Learn
See
Do
Our family
project for January is a learn see
do board where we are posting each night
in
January something that we would like to learn, to go see or do together
as a
family or for a homeschool activity during the year 2009.
Family Activity BoardThis is
our family activity board that we will
use to plan our
homeschool and
family adventures, outings and activities for the new year. In
November, we
did our
Thankful Tree (See
it here), which really was a great success and we wanted
to do something in December as well, but too many things happened all
at once,
not the
least of which, my father had his second stroke. So, January it is! Learning to ThinkWe really
wanted to design a way for our family to do something together that
would get
the kids to think. I know that seems almost like a dirty word these
days, and
just the thought of it makes my head hurt (OK –
couldn’t resist) but we want
our children to learn critical thinking skills, planning and goal
setting,
brainstorming, and just plain using the old noodle (or noggin as on
TV!) And
this is a way for us to do it all together. From this concept the Learn
See Do board was born.
Learn
This could
be anything you are interested in learning about, or how to do
something. The
example we gave is Anielei has wanted to learn her lower case letters,
and Aja
just plain wants to learn the alphabet! It
could be anything from learning how to swim
to learning how the
reduction in privatization toward the socialization of medicine impacts
freedom
of choice for Americans.
See
Where
would
you like to go and what would you like to see? So far we’ve
got Binder Park
Zoo, the Farmers Market, Beach, children’s museum and The
Teddy Bear Factory.
Sounds like fun, doesn’t it, and you know, learning should be
fun! Ideas
can be fun, educational, or even whimsical. It doesn’t have
to even be
practical. The point of Learn See Do is to get the family together each
day to
think
and communicate. Secondary is being able to use the ideas as a
framework to
plan activities for the year. These are the bonds that hold families
together
and teach our kids the importance of being and doing things together,
as well
as communication and sharing.
Filling in!
DoWhat do you want to do? What activities can we do together as a family? What are you interested in doing or learning how to do? The action portion of the exercise, but it is very easy to combine all three in this one category. We constructed our board as an open frame (like a school bulletin board) without making any separation between the Learn, See, or Do because there can be and we are encouraging overlap. Personally, I think that when families do things together and go places together that everyone learns something every time.
Family ProjectThis is our “board” project for January. The kids really enjoy it and ask about it every night. We do this just before bedtime, so the last a of the day is done together as a family. I am very interested in your input on this one, so please send me your feedback. Return
from Learn See Do to Activities
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