A Multimedia Approach to Homeschooling

[jnezmama02]

I think I've come w/ up an approach that may work for Jessie.  She loves to watch tv and learns a lot from tv.  She also loves books.  She hates sitting at the table and me telling her stuff or asking her to look at a book or to do something in a workbook. The other night, we were watching a documentary on the evolution of humans and DH and her had a conversation about what a neanderthal is and how they are like us but different too. She was really engaged in the conversation and was asking some awesome questions.  She's NOT EVEN FOUR and yet "got" quite a lot of what he was saying. 

So, this made me think, perhaps I should borrow some educational documentaries/movies from the library and then follow-up w/ books about the same topic. Of course, I'll try to follow up w/ some real world experience too...but it seems like if I try to "plan" a structured activity, she resists...it has to be a very casual thing and has to seem like it's her idea, lol!

[moogie]

sounds like a great idea to me.  i know charlie loves nature docos.  maybe try to get Jessie o choose some she might be interested in, then she'll feel even more involved in it.

[jnezmama02]

Good point, Megs. If she's in control of the topic, then she'll feel more motivated to learn about it.  I don't really care if we're learning about frogs or weather or whatever. It's more about the "process" than anything. Boy, this is starting to sound a lot more like unschooling isn't it?  I hadn't even planned unschooling necessarily, but it just seems like for her personality that might be what works best.

[moogie]

you can get Emily in on the action too, get them to choose a topic each(well in Emilys case maybe suggest a topic or get Jessica to choose one for her).  Xchooling should be fun, who knows maybe she'll start wanting to learn more and more if she has the control.