Thursday, September 27, 2007

Stacia's Play School

I'm going to steal Deja's term. It goes well with my endeavor to funschool! LOL

At our MNO on Monday our speaker, Julie, shared some of my all time favorite verses (Philippians and James). It was encouraging.

She was also practical. She shared that she puts her twin 2 yos in their high chairs during school. Jared used to sit for HOURS and play in his chair while we did school. No one else has enjoyed this idea.

Julie also shared that she lets her twins make books. THIS was an idea that had real potential. I bought a pack of .39 blank index cards. I hole punched them. I put them through one of those notebook ring things. I bought the CHEAP teacher stickers at Walmart.
Sure enough - we started to do couch school and she started fussing. She wanted up, down, a bottle and was just very noisy. I grabbed her "book" and the stickers. She spent the whole time we read peeling stickers off and putting them on cards.
We moved to writing at the table and I brought out
Here's my confession of the week: years ago I banned all crayons from our home. ALL. I was tired of finding melted crayons in the car, marks on stray cushions and walls....I did buy colored pencils.....but I went and bought crayons....and Stacia had a great time playing with them while we worked on writing. There you have it - I think my transformation from school at homer to funschooler is now complete. I let Legos back into our home. I make messes quite often in school. Maybe I still need to figure out the whole salt dough thing? I'm oh so very close to being a real funschooler. PBS emailed that I'm getting "The Relaxed Homeschooler" in the mail.....

8 comments:

Deja said...

Whoo hoo for you! I haven't even gotten OUT for stickers. Have the cards...no holes punched yet. So glad you had a few winners with Stacia today so you could work with the other kids. I imagine the other 3 were a bit jealous of Stacia's FunSchool toys LOL.

Debbie said...

Way to go! That is wonderful.

What a great idea the little book is. I'm going to "borrow" that one.

Dan enjoys sitting in the highchair...I know, he is four, but probably no bigger than Stacia. Today I gave him two very small containers of playdoh and a plastic knife and he sat for an hour cutting it into little pieces.

DeEtta @ Courageous Joy said...
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DeEtta @ Courageous Joy said...

Mom, send all stickers our way. LOL

Cynthia said...

GREAT idea! Nathan is past the toddler/noisy stage, but I bet he'd still enjoy this idea!

Jodi said...

You are funny, your transformation is almost complete. LOL

Love the little book idea.

DeEtta @ Courageous Joy said...

Almost, Jodi? What ELSE do I have to do????

berrypatch said...

Thanks for sharing this link on SHS today. I somehow missed your post the first time around. I WILL be putting one of these together for J! Even though he's now 4, I know he will LOVE this idea!!!!
:-) Cool.