{"id":1386,"date":"2010-07-16T06:23:46","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T13:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2010-07-16T08:01:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T15:01:41","slug":"lets-pretend-soup-that-we-arent-using-our-brain-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/?p=1386","title":{"rendered":"Lets Pretend (soup) that we aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t using our brain today"},"content":{"rendered":"

It being summer, kidlet is well aware that it is his vacation from academia.\u00c2\u00a0 He has no tolerance for map worksheets or math problems or anything that he recognizes as “school stuff”.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, I don’t want him to lose any skills from lack of use, and he really does need to work on his handwriting, as he was definitely in the bottom few in his kindergarten class for legibility.\u00c2\u00a0 So, I have had to be more creative in coming up with ways to get his handwriting practice done, reinforce accumulated knowledge, and introduce new ideas as well.\u00c2\u00a0 We write letters to out of town grandparents,\u00c2\u00a0play pirate and draw treasure maps to keep track of where we have hidden our booty, etc.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I keep thinking I need to research “unschooling”, since I envision that method of homeschooling to be about always teaching without formal materials or structured time for academia.<\/p>\n

He is still just learning about the 5 food groups so today I offered him one of our kid cookbooks (Pretend Soup<\/a>, which is geared towards preschoolers and a little young for him, but I realized today that I really don’t have any good ones for the 6-8 range; I’ll have to rectify that!), and asked him to look through it and pick out a recipe he wanted to eat with at least one food from the fruit group and one from the dairy group that we could make together this weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 (I pre-scanned and found several made with fruit and yogurt, milk, cheese or cottage cheese.)<\/p>\n

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Once he picked his recipe (Number Salad<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0– cheese in a fruit salad.\u00c2\u00a0 I think that sounds weird, but he thought it sounded divine), I asked him to make a shopping list so we could buy what we needed. As scraggly as this is, it is so much better than even a few months ago.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ll just keep plugging along at it. Anyway<\/p>\n

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He worked at it a little while and handed it to me, “I’m done!” — only the first line was on the paper at that time.\u00c2\u00a0 I said, “but I can’t read this, what does it say” and he informed me that it was secret code.\u00c2\u00a0 Upon closer inspection I realized that his super sekrit code was devised using the first and last letters of each word.\u00c2\u00a0 “Nice shorthand,” I offered, but explained that I might have a hard time figuring out what he meant when I went to the grocery with this list.\u00c2\u00a0 I might think that he wanted me to buy OnE AwesomE BandanA\u00c2\u00a0and MeaN GrasS instead of an OrangeE, ApplE, BananA, MeloN and GrapeS.\u00c2\u00a0 After pondering that he conceeded the point and re-wrote the list with actual words.<\/p>\n

In addition to the various fruits, he also included two “must have” items for his snacking needs:\u00c2\u00a0 “Pepowne” (pepperoni) and “Kota Ceese” (cottage cheese).\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

All in all, I was pretty happy with the effort.\u00c2\u00a0 He did some reading and writing while we talked about the food groups and nutrition, and he didn’t even realize he was doing “school stuff” \ud83d\ude09 So, do any of you moms out there have ‘tricks” for educating your child with work disguised as fun?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It being summer, kidlet is well aware that it is his vacation from academia.\u00c2\u00a0 He has no tolerance for map worksheets or math problems or anything that he recognizes as “school stuff”.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, I don’t want him to lose any skills from lack of use, and he really does need to work on his handwriting, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1391,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}