A month-long school break and we got to get out minds busy. P's lesson at school is covering body systems as he mentioned about muscles one time and he thought that it might be a good idea to learn this in English. That gave me an inspiration to prep our winter homeschooling plan. We will be covering this along with the winter writing that I had initially planned.
So after a few days of online research, a day of writing outline, a few hours of scheduling, and a couple more for printing the materials, we are off to a good start this week. We will be doing the skeletal first, then the muscular system plus creative writing on alternate days.
We're off to a good start this week so I'm hoping we'll manage it until it's finish.
So far, the writing was pretty encouraging. P was able to deliver and squeeze out some creative juices into his writing exercises. It may not be a full story with ending per se yet but it is promising. If we get on and finish this exercises, I think this can be a good accomplishment for the winter. My other worry now is how can I teach him the other side of the coin, technical writing which can be more practical skill in the future. One thing that I got to keep in mind is a person who can see writing as a fun outlet, can be halfway to being able to write technical papers. Better than someone who doesn't like any kind of writing at all.
Fifteen minutes are all that is given for him to write for this creative writing exercises and so far, I've seen him absorbed and just continuously scribbling almost the whole time.
Recap:
Exe. 1 - He was able to write more than half that was asked but didn't manage to finish the paragraph pretty smoothly. His descriptions were pretty sound though and I got the impression that he can build his characters in the short scene well. His dialogues can also be pretty interesting.
Exe. 2 - This exercise was a bit more challenging but he was able to do it. I just had to remind him again of having a smooth finish in spite the limited time given. Hopefully he'll be able to develop his ideas well and wrap the endings well as we progress through the exercises.
On a side note on writing, we got to talking about the shoes brand "Paperplanes" last night and he got the idea of writing the company about why the name. Let's see how we'll go about that next time.
We also spent a day out yesterday starting from the library, his once-a-year Mc Do (or any fast food place), and a not-so-good one at Baskin. Why? He wasn't paying attention when it was time to choose the flavor so he ended up with choco mint which was my choice. Some boys gotta learn to pay attention!
This should wrap it up for our first week of homeschool sessions as well as the last day of the year 2015.
