Our Homeschool Room

Photography and music. These are the two things that I want to learn more of. As for music, I simply want to ‘master’ playing the guitar. I can play the piano a little bit, since I had piano lessons when I was young, but I don’t know why the piano never interested me much. It’s a pity though that my mom’s piano has been destroyed by the flood. I for sure cannot afford to invest on a piano like that, maybe I can only save up for a piano bench at GC . Anyways, back to photography and playing the guitar, hopefully soon, I will know how to handle them ‘professionally’.

After reading a book on Charlotte Mason’s homeschooling, I’ve tried to apply a few of the things I’ve learned in my homeschooling schedule. I especially like the idea of including music and art appreciation in the curriculum. I’ve actually applied that for awhile, but somehow out of my ‘disorganization’ , I forgot about it.

My plan is to get these subjects back into our schedule starting next week. I’m sure if my kids will learn to appreciate music, they will also have more interest to learn a musical instrument. As of now, I’m not sure which instrument can suit them well, but I will have to let them try it out one by one from Congas to guitar and see for themselves.

I didn’t realize until recently that I’ve already downloaded more than 500 books in my Kindle. Wow! That’s a lot of books huh? But the good news is, I got them all for free! In my Kindle, I have a folder for each of my kids and then categorized my books too. Each of my kids has more thana hundred books in their folders, not counting the Children’s Classic Literature that I placed in a different category. I also have more than a hundred books which includes a lot of recipe books, inspirational books, biographies , novels and etc. Looking at the books in my kindle is overwhelming at times. But somehow I think I’ve read more books in the last few months since I have my Kindle than the last 10 years combined. True story. So, thanks to my Kindle.

Each child is different and we have to employ different styles or ‘methods’ in teaching them. It actually took me awhile to put this into practice. Like for my 2 children, one is a natural reader and into literature while the other is not. As for the one who’s not into reading, his strength is more to ‘logical reasoning’ and ‘building stuff’. I’m sure he will know about destaco pneumatic clamps in the future more than I do.

So, with my kids’ varied strengths and interests, I cannot use the same teaching method for both and must accept each one’s strengths and weaknesses.

Yes, our homeschool finally starts this coming Monday. I would have wanted to start immediately to keep up with our lost time, but then our homeschool room is currently a mess as it has become a ‘stock room’ for awhile wherein our luggage bags and stuff from the Philippines are being kept. I couldn’t do much organizing and arranging for now because a guest is occupying my daughter’s room where we were supposed to keep all those luggage bags and other stuff.

So, homeschool seriously starts on Monday and I pray that the kids and I can ease our way through our new schedule after being on a holiday for more that 5 weeks.