At the age of five learning
should be anchored in everyday living and play still. I think you will
find that if you do this and introduce lots of board, card and dice
games plus a range of different activities exploring the natural world,
how things work, an excursion into the community talking about what you
experience, you'll have a busy and full curriculum that will meet your
five year old's educational needs in a stress free way. Most children
this age love playing 'school' by doing a few pages of maths and
spelling, writing a few words on pictures that create or labels to
describe displays or things they've made, or doing educational computer
programs or apps.
Home education is a lot easier than most of
us think - we don't need to model what schools do in exactly the same
way they do it - we can make it up as we go along to suit the needs of
our individual children and our family circumstances. And once you get
into the swing of learning at home it becomes easier to identify the
maths happening in deciding what toy to buy at the shop, baking,
building a tower with construction toys; or the science in making
'magic' potions from random ingredients from the pantry or garden; or
the technology in building balsa wood models or dolls' furniture, etc.
Beverley Paine
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