Week 2 With Veer at home!
http://www.4faculty.org/includes/digdeeper/lesson4/multipleintelligences.htm
http://www.todaysteacher.com/MILearningActivities.htm
linguistic
made a book on bamboo tree...have a plant with lots of sparrows chirping all day
opposites: wide and narrow, raw and ripe
singing Hindi Rhyme....he's ready with 3 absolutely memorized
Reading a set of Books: Bruno and his life....lost, lied, shared, etc.
I am interacting in 5 language, Hindi, English, Gujarati, Marathi and Sindhi.
logical and mathematical
introduce him to shapes puzzles called tangram...on the computer
http://www.wartoft.nu/software/sebran/
counting forward and backwards
spatial devlopment
solving mazes
kinesthetic devlopment
book balancing oh head and walking forward and backward
musical devlopment
sang the song do re mi..."Sound of Music" all week long
interpersonal devlopment
greeting to incoming phone-calls
teaching grandmother to operate the DVD player
sharing
Brushing right
intrapersonal devlopment:
http://www.eltnewsletter.com/back/March2000/art52000.shtml
posted a greeting card to "Nani"
Coached him to switch from saying "mera" to "hamara"
Encouraged him to speak to a shop Assistant at Coffee Cafe Day and went for a walk in the kitchen area.
naturalistic devlopment
made an alphabet scrap book on nature
growing garden saplings
spiritual
reciting Gurbani at bed time
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[Poonam, I have posted a response on educatorslog.in]
but I thought I leave my comment here as well, so that your blog also shows activity from readers :)]
It's great that you are blogging your homeschooling experiences, Poonam. It sounds like you're having a great time, which is the most important thing.
I noticed your breakdown of activities for a day with your son. It's wonderful that you are using ideas of MI to ensure that your son gets a holistic experience everyday. I just had one concern and one suggestion I want to share -
I get the impression that you are giving a lot of structure to the learning experiences, which may be well be necessary for older children who are being homeschooled, but for children as young as 3 & 4, I would resist putting so much conscious thought and planning and structure. I would rather "go with the flow", and make the experiences joyous and rich - keeping MI (and any other "teaching methodologies") in the background rather than foreground. Homeschooling gives children more freedom to explore than schools do, and that is what should be exploited, rather than building a school-like plan for the day and duplicating it at home especially for children as young as your son.
Have you any thoughts on the Montessori way of early childhood education? If instead of MI where you perforce did activities to cater to all "intelligences", you could also try the Montessori way and just kept all kinds of playthings and manipulatives, and artifacts available and within reach of the child, it would give him opportunities to just explore and gravitate to what he enjoys doing. You could pick up Montessori materials (which incidentally includes things like tangrams, which I noticed you have used) at any educational products store. I don't know about others but in my view a Montessori or a Montessori-style early education just makes a lot of sense. It is also time-tested and widely-accepted the world over as an excellent introduction to exploratory learning for children.
These are just ideas I wanted to share, since you are eager for feedback. It should all obviously be driven by what you feel is right, and what your son enjoys doing in the course of the day.
-Shuchi Grover
That's a very encouraging feedback!
I'll read up on Montessori for sure.
With regards to the structure....i just flow during the week and then on Monday look back, and catogrize all that i did to engage MI....howzzat!
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