My dd is 4 and I've been amazed at the stuff she is teaching herself and the questions she is asking. She is so curious and asks stuff I never even stop to think about. What kind of bird is that? What does it eat? What does it use to make a nest? Will it come back and re-use the nest? Will the Daddy bird help build the nest? Will he help feed the babies? On and on and on......
She is teaching herslef to read and write becasue she wants to write cards to her Nana. She asks me what everything spells...and how to spell things all day. I never even thought we would be doing this at this point! And as she learns the letters she is also going to a sign language book we have and looking up how to sign the letter. This is totally on her own- no prompting. I wouldn't even think of doing all this. I would think it's too much. But she's so happy and curious and makes it all look so easy.
I'm realizing that I don't really need to even figure out what to teach her and when becasue she already has this natural flow and this great wonder and curosity that is going to show us the way.
Now in the car yesterday and again today she started playing, "how can you make 5, 8, 2, 9, etc." She would hold up say all five fingers on one hand and say to me "see this is five" then she'd hold up 3 on one hand and 2 on the other and say, "look Mama, this is 5 too!!!" and count them as to prove it to me. She likes seeing how many different ways she can discover to make a number in this way. She is totally learning math!!! And she's discovering it herself!! I just don't think it would be the same if I was telling her it was time to learn numbers as if I was teaching her something she needs to know. The way it is now is like she's sharing her discovery with me!! So cute!
This is just so exciting. Unschooling rocks!
She is teaching herslef to read and write becasue she wants to write cards to her Nana. She asks me what everything spells...and how to spell things all day. I never even thought we would be doing this at this point! And as she learns the letters she is also going to a sign language book we have and looking up how to sign the letter. This is totally on her own- no prompting. I wouldn't even think of doing all this. I would think it's too much. But she's so happy and curious and makes it all look so easy.
I'm realizing that I don't really need to even figure out what to teach her and when becasue she already has this natural flow and this great wonder and curosity that is going to show us the way.
Now in the car yesterday and again today she started playing, "how can you make 5, 8, 2, 9, etc." She would hold up say all five fingers on one hand and say to me "see this is five" then she'd hold up 3 on one hand and 2 on the other and say, "look Mama, this is 5 too!!!" and count them as to prove it to me. She likes seeing how many different ways she can discover to make a number in this way. She is totally learning math!!! And she's discovering it herself!! I just don't think it would be the same if I was telling her it was time to learn numbers as if I was teaching her something she needs to know. The way it is now is like she's sharing her discovery with me!! So cute!
This is just so exciting. Unschooling rocks!
What could be better?
Congrats on seeing it all come together.
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