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What Real Learning activities do your children look forward to? What methods and materials do they most enjoy? Please include age/gender of children and your best guess as to why there is eager anticipation and enjoyment  .
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My three girls (12 1/2, almost 10, almost 7) look forward to any and everything that involves the artistic components on the Serendipity web site...watercolors combined with an artist study, and making wee saints or wee seasonal fairies. In fact, its fair to say they *beg* to make the wee folk. They also love when I read aloud to them.
My 4 yr old boy loves anything that involves cutting, pasting, etc. We are doing the Alphabet Path (without the cd...he will barely tolerate sitting still for the story  ) and he likes things like glueing beans on a big letter A. He also likes counting. He's funny. I can't get him to sit still for a story, but when he is glueing beans and I am reading aloud to dd 7, he will start answering the questions I ask her, before she gets a chance to answer. So I guess he's listening. Maybe the trick will be to not call it "his school" but to make sure he's in the room when I am reading aloud to anyone! 
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My son, fourteen, likes it when I suggest an activity that is "out of the ordinary" for him. He does a lot of reading and writing on his own and naturally doesn't tend towards projects..so when I suggest a project , he often really enjoys it. After the initial hesitation and not wanting to tear himself away from his own activities... 
This week, he really enjoyed the hands on botany(making a terrarium) and a project for the Exaltation of the Holy Cross ( a project he only got to yesterday!  ). His brother, sixteen, researched and made a poster on the different types of crosses on Monday. Anthony researched and made a poster and the different types of curcifixes. And seemed to really get into that project.
So, suggesting new and different projects seems to be fun - for him and me!
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My kids are all different. When my oldest was younger, he most enjoyed the time that I would read to him. Then, he enjoyed reading good books on his own. He also loved our nature hikes which we did on a regular basis.
My younger kids all enjoy our "tea time" which is mostly that time that they eat while I read out loud to them. They also like the "artsy-craftsy" things that we do, which really stretches me because I am not gifted in that area. They enjoy the nature hikes but they don't "live for them" like their older brother did. I find it sad that we don't go as often and maybe it's because they don't pester me into it like their older brother did.
My middle child is really into creating a book of centuries this year. He's found a new passion for drawing so he likes to draw the pictures that go into
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My dd10 is looking forward to "Literature for a Young Lady" - we're waiting on some of the books!
My ds7 is looking forward to the day he can be homeschooled again 
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my dd8 and ds5 love acting out or making "movies" on the camera
based on living science books
for instance we read a book about fall seeds and mice and squirrels and they filmed with my camera while retelling the book with plastic animals and leaves/acorns/seeds we had collected on a walk.
they love "live action narration", it must be genetic as we have quite a few LARPers in the family.
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My ds, 8, loves life skills. We are learning to sew now, and it's always his first choice of things to do.
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my 6 yo loves gnomes math. my almost 4 yo enjoys it, too. but the most surprising is my 9yo who will drop whatever he's doing to join us for the lesson. (he would never come over, if asked directly. (those are "too babyish" mom). He hinted today that m&m's would make great gnome gemstones!
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my 11 yodd loves literature for a young lady. We have to tweak it a bit, since we have to use library sources. When we we're looking it over she said: " I get to read Pride and Prejudice!" " I can't wait!
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My children have similar tasts to Books. My almost 10 year old dd, and my almost 8 year old dd love anything to do with art, reading, poetry. We are using several of the Serendipity books - Museum ABC for Picture Study, R is for Rhyme for Poetry, M is for Masterpiece for Art. I'm also helping to homeschool my hephews (ages 10 and 8) and they prefer Math and Science. They are all enjoying doing the activities from Story of the World 1.
My 4 year old ds enjoys painting, gluing, stapling, playdoh, drawing fire trucks, building things, etc. We do circle time, and then he can select materials. I have many Montessori materials, etc. on shelves and on trays. I read a couple of stories each day according to our weekly theme. He can usually answer academic type questions (what number is this? What color is this? What was the story about? etc.) but doesn't appear to be listening when things are being presented to him. He can't sit still AT ALL.
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What is the website address for the Serendipity web site?
Thank you!
Pam
Bookswithtea wrote:
My three girls (12 1/2, almost 10, almost 7) look forward to any and everything that involves the artistic components on the Serendipity web site...watercolors combined with an artist study, and making wee saints or wee seasonal fairies. In fact, its fair to say they *beg* to make the wee folk. They also love when I read aloud to them.
My 4 yr old boy loves anything that involves cutting, pasting, etc. We are doing the Alphabet Path (without the cd...he will barely tolerate sitting still for the story ) and he likes things like glueing beans on a big letter A. He also likes counting. He's funny. I can't get him to sit still for a story, but when he is glueing beans and I am reading aloud to dd 7, he will start answering the questions I ask her, before she gets a chance to answer. So I guess he's listening. Maybe the trick will be to not call it "his school" but to make sure he's in the room when I am reading aloud to anyone! |
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Pamella wrote:
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My dc, ages 5 (girl), 3.5 (boy), and 1.5 (girl), like hands-on activities the best. We use the extras with HWT because they think it is fun, we use Right Start, and dd uses All About Spelling. They love going outside to play or for nature study. We incorporate other subjects into nature study when we can. They love to listen to music and dance and they love to make their own music. Anything art related is lots of fun, especially if it involves painting, glue, or their new twistable crayons. We read lots of books. They have been enjoying learning about one letter a week and doing an art project with the letter. Their favorite so far was making bugs out of the letter B. They also love to play games.
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