Alhamdulillah, I feel very organise and motivated now with our classroom. Live is more easy. And organization is always a key to success, alhamdulillah. Now, I feel like it's worth the money that we spend. Most of our money actually got homeschool not just on resource, but the place. If I didn't homeschool kids, I don't think I will wanted to rented the house I got now. I be better off to just four bedroom terrace house which less maintenance, rented and council tax. But, as kids are 24/7 with me and I'm always had guest most of the time, we not just going to squeeze our self only but will always had more then six people in the house now and again. And as I'm always had a visitor with kids, I do need extra room as our classroom where I can just lock the door when I had a bunch of kids around in the house.
Yesterday lesson start around 10.30 am and finish around 3.30pm. Kids only stop about 45 minutes for zohr break. As of course at the age of six will have so many break as he finish his work. He also did had a break as he want in the middle of his work. I do stop him sometimes, to make sure he need to sit at least to finish one of his worksheet and go off. told him to go and watch t.v. in the family room, but may be after 10 minutes he will be back again and say that he want to study as t.v is boring! So, when ever he seems wanted to go away from learning, I will shoo him off and he will back here before I can turn my back around! He love learning alhamdulillah, but he sill a young child. he deserve to play around and develop himself in independent play, imagination and confident and lead himself around with guide from me at the back. For me, I do leave my child on their own most of the time in their learning before they reach 7 or 8. They actually lead themselves and learn how to develop independently. I don't really play with them even when PS was small and on her own. I will provide color and paper and they will usually lead themselves and do what they want. Also painting, scissor, colour paper and all art and craft stuff. All this is my compulsory shopping before school holiday when they used to go to school. They will stay in PS room in the attic,( when we was in four bedroom terrace house), and scramble and do what they want with art and craft. They lead them selves, work as a team. This is when PS learn how to organise, plan and teach and lead her other siblings.
I love art and craft for kids and love to just leave them with it. If I involve, I feel like asking them to follow what I want. Leaving them with art and craft stuff on their own, is like open their creativity and mind and opinion and confident. They learn how to express themselves and lead themselves and feel comfortable. They love it when they be able to come to me and show their work with their own way and thinking and creativity. They also learn how to tidy up after that and clean everything.
At the moment, I didn't actually organise art and craft for a long time. As I can't see any point for it. Art and craft is like kids daily life. All the art and craft resource and tools can be access any time in this house as long as they tidy up everything. Although I can actually do had to collect paper here and there. Or ended up washing paint brush and etc. The only thing is I didn't really capture it. May be I should as them to do that. I can actually see the left over of art and craft in this house everywhere when I wake up in the morning, which usually piece of paper with picture, poster, colour or an origami and all sort of art and craft. Their creativity never end, and it's always self lead, alhamdulillah.
Same as P.E. Yesterday PS was reading another homeshcool blog and she mention about we didn't actually had P.E as our subject. I ask her what P.E. actually is. And I ask her, won't you all go bicycle riding when ever weather nice, playing ball in the driveway or back garden. Go on skate board or running around even if the weather not nice outside, we still had a big space for them to run around in the house. And yes, they all very active. The only person that need P.E in this house I reckon is me!
