First Day of Homeschooling

[amethystrse]

All in all we had a good day. This morning I started with doing a test for phono-graphix (like phonics but different) to see where Orion is. He did pretty good except for the last part which drastically lowered his score. At least I know what areas he needs the most help with.

Then we did math...or tried to. Orion's at the point where he's ready to add and subtract two digets. I was trying to teach it to him but he was very resistant. He just didn't want to do it. He kept on saying that it wasn't the way his teacher taught him. *sigh*

So we put the math away and did language arts. I read to him a story about 6 blind men who try to see an elephant. They each touch a different part of the elephant and so they think it's something different. Anyway the moral of the story was that you should look at the whole of something instead of just part of it. We got a little philisophical about that. lol

Then we stopped for a while. I had to go meet with the homeschool liason (who tried to convince me to put him back in school) while a friend babysat.

After my friend and her son left we went back to the math and finished it. He got really good with the method I showed him.

That was it. Tomorrow we're going to the library so we can get books for history and science.

All in all it was a good day.