I decided to return to the blog. I figure when I need encouragement I can go back and read my own words.
We are in our second week on using an online public school. It has been and will continue to be an adjustment. Alyssa is a serious student. She wants a plan and she wants to stick to it. She sits still does her work and then when everything is done she is ready to do other things. Carter is a different story. He is a boy and doesn't want to sit still and he wants to take breaks all the time. He also likes to make things up about what he is learning to make it funny.
Today I am teaching him science and it was about temperatures. He sees a picture of Anders Celsius and says, "Look it's George Washington!" I told him he was wrong so then he says, "Mommy, his hair looks like a sheep." This then started a 5 minute diversion about sheep and jokes about his hair being fluffy. We got back on the subject and took the temperatures of different things using the thermometer and how to read the thermometer and finished our lesson. If this had been Alyssa there would have been no diversion. I am learning how boys and girls learn differently and how to adapt. Everyday I get the opportunity to be patient and let each learn the way is best for them and that is something to be thankful for.
