This week is difficult.
From the last post we've had some good and bad bits.
We investigated Harvest last week as this co insided with our harvest service at church on Sunday. I gave William £10 and a calculator and told him he had to purchase as many items/canned food for our donation for the food bank project. He did well and managed to get over 20 items. We spent time looking at prices and working out expensive verses cheaper food saying that we wanted to get the most out of money. We discussed harvest, where it came from and why we help. He loved this. He made, by measuring out the ingredients, a biscuit picture that he wanted us to share together.
These were great and well received. He clearly got the point which was great.
The continuation of topics also worked well.
The bad points though:
I still haven't managed to a; organise a real trip somewhere b; done something with other home educators.
I've found this far harder than expected but, again, this is something we are working towards.
The second point is that we've had a bad start to the week. William basically shut down this morning and refused to do any work or at least take an interest in it. I don't want him to feel pressured to achieve everytime, it's one of the reasons why we home schooled, yet I also don't want him to believe that he can just decided not to do it. It has been difficult to get the balance right. So i muddled through these things set goals and said we will achieve it. We did even if it to twice as long. I just don't know if it was the right thing to do. Again, if we had other home educators around maybe i could discuss it.
We will as always endeavour.
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