One thing I realise I love about home educating our son is that we can go where the mood and focus takes us. When MasterF gets really interested in something, he finds it hard to come away, as do I funnily enough. Equally when something is challenging, it makes us want to run and hide. Today was a classic example of this.
The morning was focused on Creative writing using a game called Unknown to give us our framework. It’s a way of setting out a story, or in this case, an episode for a TV series.
We created characters, the setting for the episode, devised five scenes and plotted the actions, outcomes and reactions along with some speech too.
MasterF was having so much fun that we spent three solid hours working on this with me mainly writing and reading out the instructions to help move through the game. I was in awe of the creativity, humour and eloquence of our lad. It was a joy to behold. The result is here if you want to have a read.
The afternoon went well in that his session on Nessy which focuses on spelling and grammar went well but Doodlemaths did not. MasterF quickly became frustrated and anxious to the point that I knew no learning would stick, so we stopped and focused on his emotions.
To be able to do this, to focus on what’s most important in that moment, change tack when I need to and not be bogged down with targets and pressure, means I hope, that he is learning and more importantly, is enjoying doing so.
