Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Day 1 on a schedule

I just finished my first scripture/Faith in God/Cub block of time with Will. It went OK. We sat down and looked through the first part of Faith in God and he picked his first activity of creating a pedigree chart and doing some family history. He made his chart and we still have to work on a family group sheet (still need to figure that one out) and pick a family story to share and discuss how temple work blesses families. He also picked a scout project to create a healthy habit chart.
The great thing is these are things I would have picked for him and he picked them on his own!!!
The bad thing is the amount of distraction we had. I let the little kids watch PBS but Will kept wanting to watch and the kids still kept coming in for different things and getting into his work. Next time I think I might try giving the little kids a project of their own, my worry is that they will still be very distracting and interrupting a lot and these are projects that require Will and I discussing things. The only thing about doing it without TV is that Will will be more focused, I hope anyway.

I also had a big Trio set of blocks and pulled that out for "school" time. The kids loved it and all stayed pretty focused on it. When the little kids got bored with the blocks I told them they could just choose another toy from their toys to play with. Ian followed Will, Cadey and Viv played with the dolls. I felt that time was a great success. I hope I can pull enough items to keep them excited and happy for this school time.

Will and I read more of How to Eat Fried Worms. The main theme is betting, lying, cheating and friendship. Will picked up on the characters telling a lie but he didn't come up with why they would lie, (to win a bet). I guess it is good he wouldn't think of that. I asked if he thought it was fair that they would lie so that Billy wouldn't eat all the worms and thus lose the bet, which made him realize why they were lying. I don't want to feed him too much. Not sure how to go about discussing. Do I give more time, what do I say if he says, "I don't know?"

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