Today is…Wednesday July 13 2011
Mommy was feeling a little slow today. Galoot just couldn’t make it until gym time, so he went for an early nap and we didn’t go to gym.
What to do instead?…
But it was educational!
We watched The Lottery and had some great discussions about needing to disagree appropriately. Giant, in response to a heated protest about letting a Chartered school take over a district school building that was being shut down, asked, “Mommy, why are those people yelling so much?” Honestly, I wasn’t to sure. It seemed like aside from space issues, anyone could enroll in the Chartered school. Why would you not want a better education for your child? We decided that it would have been better if they just talked about what they wanted their kids to be taught and figured out how to do that together. I was also struck by the families the documentary followed. All of them had parents who deeply loved and were invested in their children. They were already doing so many educational activities with their children. And their children were learning. And yet these same parents were worried that their kids would go to a school that wouldn’t teach them well, and thus they would never acheive the amazing potential they have within themselves. Umm, was I the only one thinking Homeschooling! Seriously, you’re already teaching your children their letters, numbers, and love of learning. Keep it up! They’ll be fine. Stop feeling so helpless and take that power as a parent back into your own hands and give your children the education that you want them to have! Your tenacity and desire for your children’s good education gives you better credentials than a lot of teachers out there. You will find solutions to any hesitations and concerns you have, and you will show them the power we as families and communities have when we work and learn together.
Anyway, that’s just my two bits….From a mom who watches documentaries with her kids for homeschool time…Hmmm, maybe I’m not the best reference 😉
The movie did inspire Ettin to want to “play school.”
Which, for some reason, had to involve:
Using it as more of a novelty than a bribe, I told them that to play school we had to read a story and then they could have a tic tac. So Giant read Mac and Tab (fairly smoothly too!), and Ettin found the T’s and B’s on each page:
…then they had a tic tac.
We did eventually get to our Gospel Lesson: Following the Prophet.
We talked about why people didn’t listen to the Prophet Noah (even though they should have), and what happened when they didn’t:
And we sang a few verses of “Follow the Prophet”:
And finished up with a game of upside-down tug-of-war, played like so:
