dakarimom5 Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 I just had to come and post what a great schooling day we had today. I pulled my ds out of school because he has the language arts skills of a 2nd grader. We have been trying to get sentence writing to "click" in his mind all year. He knows all the mechanics and rules but to get a good sentence, forget a paragraph, out of him was like pulling my own teeth. Last night I was brainstorming about what I could do to help him and I was thinking about his strengths. He is my math guy. We are doing pre algebra right now and he solves the problems in his head!! So I thought I might try setting LA up like math. I assigned each part of the sentence a letter a=article, b=nouns, and so on. Then I started with the basics...b+c (noun + verb). We got all the way up to a+b+c+d+e....article, noun, verb, adverb and adjective. He did it!! And the best part...he even gave me a paragraph!! I cried!! So now I'm going to assign all the different parts of a sentence a letter and write out some equations!! We might actually get to 7th grade level LA by the end of the year!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C_l_e_0..Q_c Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 You're brilliant!!!! I have a mathy guy too, and he also hates writing. I never thought about this approach... I ended up paying him 5cents a word, but in increment of 50 words. So whenever he reached between 45 and 48 words, he had to work hard to fit in those extra words to reach 50. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt_Uhura Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 :party: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dina in Oklahoma Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 Inspiring!!! Congrats to you and your son!!!:party: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 Awesome!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanceXToo Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 What a great example of homeschooling being a great way to teach your children according to their particular learning styles, instead of with a "one sized fits all" type of curriculum/education! Good for you guys! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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