this week. Aurora made her own "flat" people:
We're going to use the flat people as we study more geography and family history. You see our geography wizardry
book in the photo, along without our newest homeschooling gadget, the Samsung Galaxy Tablet
! Mane is a strong auditory & kinesthetic learner. This is, in part, because she struggles with reading. I, in turn, have been struggling with homeschooling her because it's very time-intensive to have to read everything to her. SO, the tablet is part of the answer to easier homeschooling for us. We have Story of the World
on audio. We downloaded a FREE audio Bible from Faith Comes by Hearing. And we received, as a gift, some of the Your Story Hour
Bible Story CDs. We use Math U See for our math curriculum, and we ordered the song CD
that goes along with the curriculum. We didn't use it for adding and subtracting, but we are using it a LOT for multiplication. Mane can learn almost anything that's set to music!For English grammer, Mane has been listening to The Case of the Missing Parts of Speech, which is a musical I was in as a child and is the reason I know all my parts of speech!
We check audio books out from the library all.the.time.
We use Hooked on Phonics (HOP) for a reading curriculum. This year's HOP has a CD-ROM, and Mane both hears and sees her reading lessons and activities.
All of these things have helped take some pressure off me and moved Mane toward greater independence with her learning. Except for the Hooked on Phonics, all of these things can be uploaded to the tablet, and Mane can use them independently. As she becomes more of a reader, we'll also be using the tablet's Kindle application for e-reading.
1 comments:
You have the Missing Parts of Speech on audio?! That's as cool as having Bullfrogs & Butterflies!! Did I tell you how much my niece also loves Bullfrogs & Butterflies?
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