Delight Directed Teaching – Science

March 11, 2013 by 2 Comments

If you’ve read my blog, you know of my love for science. It’s the subject that I am most comfortable teaching, that and math.

I don’t think I could completely do delight directed teaching for the 3Rs but I am more flexible with the other subjects. I do like to have some sort of plan but I’m not overly rigid. I think if I left my son to his own devices, he’d spend his day playing video games, building with legos and listening to audio books.

He does enjoy making comic books and creative writing or typing I should say.

What is delight direct teaching?

I believe it is teaching according to what the student desires. It caters the learning experience to the student’s interests. While I try to find topics and books that my child will find interesting, I’m definitely not a delight directed teacher.

I definitely admire those who can homeschool by delight-directed teaching in all of their subjects but that just isn’t going to happen here. I do believe that you can let your children have an input into what topics they learn. [Read more...]

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Winter Lapbook Ideas

November 22, 2012 by

You can teach your little ones about the different seasons by creating a winter lapbook. I enjoy lapbooking with the children because it’s just a more creative way for your children to display their written narrations. My son is very visual learner so it really appeals to him. Eventhough he is considered middle school aged, he still enjoys lapbooking. We just place out minibooks into a notebook instead of a file folder. This makes storing it a lot easier.

For book suggestions take a look at these winter books reading list. You may decide to make a lapbook based on a book or you can design your own. [Read more...]

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