You might make copywork about a math principle, you might have your kids narrate about history, you might suggest they write about a science experiment, your children might read poems about the natural world, they might drink tea and light candles to play Sudoku! Learning to give yourself fully to one thing at a time, for a time, Additionally, you will learn more in these highly focused moments because your full attention will be directed into that activity (rather than divided). The point is that as you give yourself to one experience fully, you will discover how the way you prepared, the way you executed, the methods you used for enhancing the experience actually transfer to any of your educational objectives.
Learning to do One Thing enriches the overall experience. Maybe you divide the brownies up into 1/16ths and talk about how you did that. Perhaps while you play the game, do the math page, read the living math book, you drink tea and eat some brownies. Then the morning comes and you have a math tea party. You might mosey over to the website Living Math which gives you practical ways to make math relevant. You might find a library book that shows how the concept works. You look ahead to the concepts and find games that reinforce the concept. You might find that your BW practices bleed over into other subjects.įor instance, what if you decided to really prepare for a morning of math. There will possibly be that time when you put your Brave Writer Lifestyle practices on the back burner for a day as you focus on math (for a morning! not just for two pages). Just as you’ve taken the time to really savor those literary experiences, you will want to do the same with math, science or history. In other words, if I take time for tea and poetry and it uses up most of my Tuesday, and then if I focus on copywork the next day and make that a joy and a success on Wednesday, and then Thursday, we read four chapters of the novel we are now savoring, and finally on Friday, we have a rousing good time doing a Friday Freewrite where we prepare to write, write and then share the writing with each other… when will we ever get back to math or science or history? How can you fit the “new and cool ideas” into an already full life?Ī recurring question about the “one-thing” principle is how to fit everything in if we start moving that slowly in homeschool.
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