We work on a semi structured plan. It's not even semi structured really. We do Literacy and numeracy Monday and Tuesday to a schooled routine, we follow the curriculum and sit and complete activities around conversation based on the topic. Wednesday and Thursday are free thinking and free activities based on the same topics, so apart from Monday and Tuesday mornings the rest is under the unschooled regime.
William today was just not motivated to do anything. I'm aware that this is normal and even for children in school it is difficult the first week back, but I didn't expect that it would be as tedious and difficult as it turned out to be. Now considering that the rest of the day and subsequently the week I feel that the brief aspect of the schooled of home schooling should be kept to. This is only to keep some formal routine that keeps him at the same level as his peers. Yet we took over an hour to formulate a few sentences and over 30 minutes to complete one activity sheet in numeracy, even though I only expected a low level amount of work.
On a plus side a few things have continued, sadly though, these are Williams bad habits; habits that all boys his age tend to do. I'll be writing a post on these soon.
On a plus side now though is that we have the rest of the day based on non schooling activities and even more so surrounded by arts and crafts.
And continuing with that we also have tomorrow. Which if all goes well will be our first home educators meet up, as well as, lego club and our fireworks family and neighbours party, which will promote a far further reach learning and understanding.
In the meantime I'm also going to research motivation techniques for home educators and their children.
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