Life is a Highway - it’s the journey, not the destination

Ok, I have an associates thing and have a search box in the side panel. I’ll try and remember to put proper links in so if people buy stuff I can get a percentage. Anything I make will be ploughed back into buying fab books that I can then share with my friends I know they so love me for doing it.

Eventually I might do a page with some book recommendations on them but I feel like crud today so I’ve probably done too much already today.

I thought that since I’m back on the blog ring I should just do a little post about who we are for anyone new visiting.

M is 8 and is mostly interested in cars and WW2, A is 7 and interested in animals. We’ve home educated since birth apart from a term for M in a Montessori nursery when he was 3. I’ve dabbled in lots of various teaching styles such as Montessori, FIAR, and Charlotte Mason and at the moment have stuck with CM albeit fairly loosely.

Both my 2 have been late readers. M has only in the last 6 months or so been at the stage of reading simple chapter books. I still think I’ve pushed him more than I should have done though but he was always able to decode phonics and so we kept at it. A is much different and really struggles with phonics. She cannot decipher anything without visual clues so our learning to read journey with her has been much different. I think she may be dyslexic or have some dyslexic traits too so that’s always been there. I’ve since done lots of reading on Creative Learners or Right Brained learners and believe that’s a style we fit with. I joined a yahoo group about it all and have tried to approach our learning from another angle.

Actually for the last little while that’s not been strictly true as we’ve been a bit too much workbook orientated, but I’m trying to get back into that way of thinking more.

We try to learn through living, through reading books about interesting people or things. I try to follow my children’s lead when it comes to something they are interested in. Mostly I want them to learn at their own pace, which is just as valid as a pace that someone invented as ‘normal’.