Our creative butterfly
A great way to engage a child is to ask them what do they want to learn about and basically make the leaning day up around their answer, incorporating the theme in amongst the transferable skills.
Sophia loved this idea and three days flew by with her choosing her theme in the morning and us working throughout the day on her chosen topic.
Sophia was so immersed in the learning environment she actually didn't realise she was learning. After a few intense learning days she asked me when she was going to stop playing around and get back to school lessons. She was astonished to recap and realise she has been practicing all her skills every single day whilst having a massive amount of fun.
Kira joined in sporadically with a few of the activities however it became obvious that our empirical little girl did not gain as much educational information in this format as her more creative sister. This is fair enough.
During these few days I did extra work with Kira one in one, going through her current workbooks and quizzing her on her subjects, in the similar style of question and answers which she prefers. She is our natural academic daughter, blessed with hyperlexia and an amazing memory for facts, where Sophia is harder to keep attentive and focused and she is our creative butterfly.
One day Sophia chose the butterfly theme ed book from their farm collection and the lesson plan took flight.
They both took turns reading through the book, sequencing the butterfly cycle together, writing about what they had learnt.
They also had to create their own butterfly, complete unique design and name them. Sophia created a terrifying new species called the butterfly bat whilst Kira created a Kira butterfly, complete with the letters of he rname etched onto the wings. She also placed her butterfly within a scene.
They watched visits around butterfly sanctuaries on YouTube, and then Sophia wished to segway into frog cycles and she did a further hour looking into this in detail on YouTube, via Dr Bionics, whilst I worked with Kira on her workbooks.
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