This morning something beautiful happened. It was something I had hoped for.
After so many months of fighting and bad attitudes about school lessons, more specifically math, Abigail was at the table at 9 in the morning, uninvited, to work on her lesson.
It feels so good when you find that fit for a child. There is so much satisfaction in seeing a child willingly come to learn when for so long she has fought.
I had come to realize that Abigail is like me: a visual learner. She needs color, art, pictures, and so much more in order to be drawn into the realm of learning a new subject. When I took a peek into a friend's school curriculum, I was drawn into it as well. I really was good...and beautiful, just as the name says. The Good and The beautiful. Not only does she want to do her math, but she also wants to do her handwriting. Why? Because it is pleasing to the eye. Some kids need that. It is so hard to remember that not every child is the same and they aren't all from the same cookie cutter so-to-speak.
The child like Abigail would fall behind in the classroom. She is really smart! But the approach she needs is not typical.
I am so thankful for a little more peace in the day.
It’s great there are so many curriculums and types out there!! Yay for Abigail getting her work done! We are doing some master books for Annaliese. She just needs different than Maegan. Took me a long time to get over that mentality and now I just buy what works!
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DeleteLOL - Dad!!! Sarena, it really is a great feeling when something finally fits. The other two are perfectly fine with boring printed pages.
DeleteNO! I haven’t been on wow in a little bit! I’m prepping all the crafts for VBS at church. It starts Monday. There are 100 kiddos. So I’m swamped. I’ll log in tomorrow for sure. I don’t have my nephews and get a break haha
DeleteAs a retired teacher, I know that most children benefit from visual as well as tactile. There are those who just come by the love for math naturally (like me lol) but most kids benefit by learning through as many modalities as possible. Eventually they might settle into one or two that work best for them, but our brains are just all wired differently. When it comes to math, tactile and visual are most often more successful.
ReplyDeleteI've never taught anything other than language, but it seems to me that geometry is the subject most agreeable to be taught visually.
ReplyDeleteProbably true in older grades. In younger grades, the visual is practical for most areas of math. Who is this?
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