It's certainly gotten me thinking about some of the words and ideas in Hallel and I'm singing them to myself as the day goes on. (The gratitude and joy lasted all through the morning giggles and fizzled out a bit as the two youngest started bickering, teasing each other, physically fighting and I eventually separated them. I was wondering about the juxtaposition of "This is the day that Gd made, we will rejoice and be happy on it" with "Please, Hashem, save me!" but I think I got my own personal interpretation. And things eventually chilled out again.)
Elazar opened up his story that he works on sporadically. Today he corrected all of his spelling using a combination of the right click option and asking me how to spell a lot of different words. He focused on capitalizing proper names and beginning of sentences. He also stopped frequently to move around and then went back.
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| I don't know if one of those giant balls that classrooms are incorporating to sit on would do the job |
Unschooling is pretty cool because there is a huge difference in his spelling and grasp of sentence structure in just a few months. He corrected all of his "creative spelling" to standard spelling and Jack was reading his story over his shoulder. My job in all this was to be around and answer his questions, and to enjoy his story. I know I always marvel about how effortless unschooling seems. In truth, it probably has a similar amount of parental involvement. I do feel like I frequently answer questions about how to spell things, and he physically pulled me over to the computer so I could check his work. I much prefer him yanking me to do his work as opposed to me trying to get him to do it.
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