Lately we have been working on things that spark Will's interest. I had gotten some books on Vikings because I am following "What Your 3rd Grader Should Know" for curriculum and it covers Vikings. Will found the books and has been reading and creating projects from it. He made Viking apple cider and a Viking helmet as well out of paper mache. We have plans to dye a shirt using beets and create a clay cast to make a stone object of some kind. Should be interesting. Will also watched a biography on Leif Ericson and probably knows more about Vikings than I do at this point!
Will also created his own game as a scout project that he made the rules for and then put together the pieces and we played the game as a family. It's funny, Ian keeps pulling it off the shelf and playing it, so I think it was a pretty successful game.
This week Will and I had a discussion about what types of things he should be doing in school for his age. We talked about Core phase and Love of Learning from Thomas Edison Education. We talked about the different phases and how Core phase was make believe play, playing with guys, and the like. Love of Learning is where we play but learn something academic while we play like doing experiments, reading books, playing strategy games and games that teach a concept, writing stories and acting them out, etc. We talked about how at his age he should be doing more and more love of learning things during school. I think it helped because he has been asking if things he wants to do are love of learning or core phase and then choosing the love of learning things. One of those things is making different kinds of paper airplanes. This lead to airplanes and flight in general. I was excited to have a childrens biography book on the Wright Brothers. He has been avidly reading it the last two days and asking to build little things they built, spinners and such. He is currently working on a model of one of their airplanes. Very fun and exciting watching him get excited and wanting to do such fun things.
No comments:
Post a Comment