School Abroad!

It would probably be fine to do this traveling stint for a year without formally educating Rafa and Eva, but I don’t think any ‘teacher parent’ could spend a year not teaching SOMEONE! So for parts of the day I’m “Mrs Mama”.

Picking and counting daisies to make a daisy chain

I’m only really purposefully covering Reading, writing and maths – the rest cover themselves with the incidentals our day brings.

Picnics with pizza of course!

Eva training the cat to go through Rafa's legs. Its reward was bread. Mmmm.

A stroll

Who needs plastic counters when we can collect our own olive counters!

Eva counting the olives to match the numbers

Rafa learning ways to make 10 - with olives

The kids made groups of 10, then counted in 10's to get 100 olives!

Each day we write a diary story of what we’ve seen on our walks or of we’ve been up to.  Rafa then writes his own story or a letter to someone and Eva practices her letters (if she feels like it!).

A serious writer!

They still need incentives!

The challenges?  Well, I have a year one class and a Kindy class…and I’m not a kindy teacher! The differences that I have instantly noticed (and have learned from) are that Eva will only sit for a few minutes and then she wants to do her own thing – and fair enough!  I need to ‘teach’ Eva without her knowing! And, that Rafa  enjoys doing whatever he is learning to do, to but enjoys the familiarity of a school style routine.  So, I’m learning to cater for two VERY different little people – and I’m loving it!  If you have any ideas – let me know!