and another few days go by
without me blogging. Oops. Keep meaning to but have had quite a bit on my mind lately.
Ok boring stuff first so I have a record. Wed - er… Oh bollocks. I can’t bloody remember can I? I think we’ve done reading practise and probably a bit more of maths story books. Ugh.
Alex’s reading style has been puzzling me a lot lately and I’ve been looking round the internet trying to gather ideas on how to help her read. On one of the groups I’m on I saw something about Right Brained Learners. Initially I looked into it when M was not doing great with his maths but I discounted it as I figured he could do phonics pretty well and there was other stuff I didn’t hink fitted either. I came across it again when thinking about Alex and it’s got me really thinking about learning styles and stuff. It’s kind of all spinning round in my head at the moment and I’m not sure if any of it is really applicable to my 2 but I’m thinking that in some areas at least they may be more ‘right brained’ and so have been looking for ideas and information on it. I’ve a book coming soon about it and hopefully that will help me work out some more. I’ve joined a(nother!) yahoo group on homeschooling creatively which has a wealth of ideas too. I’m always a bit wary of labels, not because of the label itself causing problems, but sometimes it’s like I think I’d actually like something that would explain why we’re not progressing in whatever (reading, maths, whatever) as it would stop me feeling like it was just me being crap at HE. So before I read too much I started writing down stuff about both A and M even if I had no idea if it was a RB thing or not so that once I did look into it, I didn’t just home in on the stuff that did fit. Don’t know if that makes sense at all. I have been doing *a lot* of thinking!! I’ll probably write some more on it once I’ve thought some more but for now that will have to do.
earn v diferently. I didn’t understand why SB did do the say the sounds ladybird, or the red nose readers, or jolly phonics or the see and read, ORT or anything! but explode the code worked well for her as it wasn’t reading - though apparently also phonics. kids huh. hope that right brained thing has some tips for you on it.
Comment by HelenHaricot — August 26, 2007 @ 10:27 am
a lot of peeps are more right than left brained, trouble is the school system is firmly set up for left brain type leraning. I can understand you not wanting to look too much into “labels” - I’m not sure how much value most of them have outside of the school system anyway - but at the same time I do think taht actually you do do a good job and it is allowed for you to look for reasons why one or other method just isn’t doing the business.
Comment by T_bird — August 26, 2007 @ 11:32 am