Our Waldorf Homeschool Journey

Hooha! That’s all I can say at this point. What a day and we’re only half way through it. From a school point of view, it was one of those hectic, nothing gels type days. Too much excitement about a new year I think. Juliette did her first English comprehension today and read it herself and answered the questions perfectly once she understood the concept of Comprehension and I had to give her a reason why Comprehension is important.

Then we moved onto spelling, and that’s where we came unravelled. She spells fantastically. No problem. Problem came in when it came time to writing them in her new spelling book.

She’s been doing all her writing on blank paper as per the Waldorf recommendation I got a while back. Then I eased her onto normal a4 sheets – ruled. Well this year it’s important that she writes neatly and to help with this we’ve bought Irish ruled books. In other words, each letter fills each line. Well it was to my horror to discover she was suddenly willing to put the long top part of the b next to the a (just an example). Now we need to do some serious handwriting exercises! I rue the day I ever gave her blank paper to write on – should have gone with my gut feel and moved her onto lined paper in Grade 2! But too little too late. Now we try and reteach writing skills. The formation of the letters is just fine it’s purely the lines that are causing chaos!

Anyway by the time we’d moved onto Maths Vocab, in other words, the many ways of saying things: plus, increase by or minus, take away, decrease. we were both pretty frayed. It was boiling hot and still is, the kids are swimming and we’ll complete our maths later this afternoon.

It was just not happening today, StJohn revised his letters and numbers we had done so far for Grade 1, so that we can start new letters tomorrow, and we did a few counting excercies with his bean bag. Which he loved. While I was busy with Jules and spelling, he decided to launch his bean bag into the open rafters and start shouting at me, (as the dust bunnys rained down on him) it’s time to clean up here mom! AAAAArrrgghhhh! I still had breakfast dishes to wash up, never mind the damn rafters. Who goes up there anyway and if they do, well they deserve what they get, no visitor should have the cheek to sniff aound in your rafters?Surely?

Well that was just the school side of my “half day”. It was just a bizarre day. Please may I be blessed with a chilled, concentration filled day tomorrow!!Please Please Please

 Hope your Monday was great, have a splendid first week of school.

Blessings,

Sue.xx

Filed under: Homeschool on January 14th, 2008